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Speaker 2: could catch up on what you missed. First thing here

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Speaker 2: is Alex Stone, because you know we've we've talked about

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Speaker 2: this from time to time as the shutdown was approaching.

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Speaker 2: In Washington, d C. Air traffic controllers now are going

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Speaker 2: through their first full week without pay, and I'm sure

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Speaker 2: they're getting very hungry. And who wants hungry angry air

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Speaker 2: traffic controllers? And for some reason, because of our stupid government,

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Speaker 2: nobody is saying, hey, why don't we pass a temporary

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Speaker 3: Well, let's talk to Alex Stone. What's going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as you mentioned, this is as we've been talking

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Speaker 2: about the shutdown for what almost a month now right

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Speaker 2: around that that they haven't been getting paid. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but their paycheck two weeks ago had a little bit

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Speaker 2: But this week now the air traffic controllers, they are

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Speaker 2: going to airports and they are handing out leaflets asking

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Speaker 2: And Mark Rausch is a controller handing out pamphlets at

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Speaker 1: We continue to come to work each and every day.

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Speaker 4: We're a proud bunch, we're a professional bunch, and we're

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Speaker 4: So we're asking the public support to help us end

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Speaker 2: And John he says, yeah, controllers are now getting second jobs,

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Speaker 3: But that that adds a.

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Speaker 2: Layer that he calls a risk into our flying system.

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Speaker 2: That they work long hours and oftentimes six days a

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Speaker 2: That they are running the skies even though they are doing.

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Speaker 3: These other jobs. He says, that is a problem.

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Speaker 4: We don't want to introduce a distraction into an air

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Speaker 1: They're like, I just ran out of money. I have

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Speaker 4: How am I going to refill my vehicle so I

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Speaker 1: How am I going to put food on table? How

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Speaker 2: So they're now putting pressure on the public at airports saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: tell them that enough is enough, that this is ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Congress is getting paid, but these Congress is getting paid.

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Speaker 2: They are getting paid, but the essential workers are not.

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Speaker 2: And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, he said on Sunday, forty

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Speaker 2: four percent of delays were because of staffing. Now as

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Speaker 2: people are calling out sick, and you know, we've talked

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Speaker 2: and it's been ramping up. But even though they are

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Speaker 2: And he now giving that message from the controllers, say.

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Speaker 5: Figure out how you guys can negotiate, have a conversation,

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Speaker 2: But definitely saying the President is not going to give

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Speaker 5: And so I don't think you're going to see the

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Speaker 2: But John, even before all of this, the FAA was

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Speaker 2: they needed to be. So that is why, even though

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Speaker 2: Most are working now six days a week. So this

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Speaker 2: handing out panthers. Nothing they negotiate here, just right a

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Speaker 2: buil to pay in the air traffic controllers. Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: don't have to do a bill that solves every problem.

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Speaker 2: Just just pay the air traffic controllers. That's an emergency situation,

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Speaker 2: and that's what the controllers are saying. TSA is saying

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Speaker 2: are different than that IRS worker. They Yeah, that is

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Speaker 2: tough that they're not getting paid, but they're not having

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Speaker 2: to go in and they're not working right now.

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Speaker 3: But if you are, it doesn't operate.

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Speaker 2: But if you are TSA or you are FAA, if

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Speaker 2: you're an air traffic controller, you're having to show up

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Speaker 2: every day, work six days a week, work extra hours,

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Speaker 2: and still not get paid. Something's got to give soon, Alex,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much. You got it, Thanks, John, Alex Stone,

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Speaker 2: ABC News here, John, Congress.

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Speaker 6: Should not be paid until they until this government shutdown

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Speaker 6: is overpay the air traffic controllers your.

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Speaker 7: Salaries, Yeah, and then you don't get paid.

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Speaker 3: They're necessary. These bozos in Congress.

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Speaker 7: Aren't necessary doing right now.

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Speaker 2: Lord, this is stupid and it doesn't matter what Trump thinks.

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Speaker 2: Congress and the Senate and they could pass a bill

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Speaker 2: and if Trump veto's it, they can override the veto.

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Speaker 3: So just pass it.

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Speaker 2: Every congress person ought to pass a bill to pay

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Speaker 2: the air traffic controllers, which idiot's not going to do

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Speaker 7: They forfeit their salaries.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they never suffer any consequences of their stupid management ever.

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Speaker 2: Just a bunch of bosos Why do you elect these people? Why?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: When we come back, you know, La is filled with garbage. No,

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Speaker 2: it's clean, it's filled with garbage. And uh, the woman

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Speaker 2: who runs the sanitation department is giving up. She's quitting.

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Speaker 2: I guess, too much garbage and she can't clean it up.

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Speaker 2: Tared Bass wants to do something before the Olympics.

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Speaker 7: It's always the Olympics. I'm tired of the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: We have the most rats in the country.

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Speaker 2: It just doesn't care about that that we're living with

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Speaker 2: an enormous number of friends until the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Another bozo.

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Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 3: You're in Orange County.

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Speaker 2: I know this entertainment a lot of people in Orange

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Speaker 2: order to be there, and it must be really entertaining

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Speaker 2: to listen to how Los Angeles has devolved and disintegrated

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Speaker 2: I've been to a number of third world countries. We

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Speaker 2: several dozen countries I haven't seen anything like what's in

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Speaker 2: LA and the worst parts of LA. Seriously, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: there is worse garbage pile ups, but you'd add the

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Speaker 2: garbage with the zombies and the mental patients and the

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Speaker 2: drug addicts and the broken down streets and sidewalks. I

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Speaker 2: can't think of going to a country where I saw

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Speaker 2: it saw this. And it's not even.

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Speaker 3: Driving in a bad neighborhood anymore.

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Speaker 2: You could drive in what used to be a pretty

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Speaker 2: decent area and see this, and the garbage really makes

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Speaker 2: them crazy, because that's not hard to pick up.

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Speaker 3: I grew up in a suburb.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was lower midol class, wedn't have much money. My

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Speaker 2: dad made about eleven thousand dollars a year, but everybody

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Speaker 2: was perfect, you know, the lawns were manicured, the driveways

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Speaker 2: looked nice, flowers were planted trees. I don't under you

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Speaker 2: know this, this like offends my soul here. I didn't

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Speaker 2: grow up around this. I didn't grow up and I

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Speaker 2: don't think the hell holes you know, for years ago

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Speaker 2: were like this. So who's I We actually have a

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Speaker 2: Bureau of sanitation. You can't tell Barbara Romero runs it.

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Speaker 2: Never heard of her before, but she's quitting.

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Speaker 7: Does it say how much she makes?

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Speaker 3: No, I got to go looking down.

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Speaker 2: But in the story here in the La Times, it

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Speaker 2: June twenty twenty six. They're supposed to remove ninety eight

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Speaker 2: hundred homeless encampments, like destroy them, anything that's a tent,

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Speaker 3: They're not gonna they're not gonna be able to do that.

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Speaker 2: And then what happens, You're you're gonna have this, all

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Speaker 2: this busted up debris everywhere. And then what happens when

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Speaker 2: the homeless people come in and rebuild their shelters and

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Speaker 2: drag in new tents because they don't have to pay

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Speaker 2: for any of this. It's all funded by these sicko nonprofits,

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Speaker 2: probably funded with our tax money. In fact, when you

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Speaker 2: go around you see these shelters in these tents, that's

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Speaker 2: your tax money, because the nonprofits get the money from

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Speaker 2: the government. Well, Bess Apparently it's suddenly interested in picking

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Speaker 2: up garbage because the Olympics are coming. Pisses me off.

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Speaker 2: Pisses me off some much. The Olympics have come.

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Speaker 6: And you know what's going to happen after the two

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Speaker 6: weeks when the Olympics are over, No.

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Speaker 7: One's gonna care.

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Speaker 1: Everything's going to go.

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Speaker 2: Back to crap yep Romero is pointed by Garcetti. And

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Speaker 2: it was during the Garcetti years I noticed that the

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Speaker 2: garbage and the fifth started piling up. And she will

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Speaker 2: not say why she's leaving or even if she has

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Speaker 2: another job, and Karen Bass will not comment on this.

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Speaker 2: Wonder what happened here? There are environmental groups who are

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Speaker 2: frustrated and angry that she's leaving. Why our environment is

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Speaker 2: filthy and foul? Do you know the sanitation department is

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Speaker 2: one of the largest in the city. How many employees

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Speaker 2: do you think they have?

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Speaker 7: One hundred three thousand? Where are they?

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Speaker 2: I never see any three thousand employees. Their budget is

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Speaker 2: more than four hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 3: Well, what do they do all day? What's it spent on?

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Speaker 2: You got four hundred million dollars, three thousand employees, and

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Speaker 2: And they're jacking up trash removal fees fifty six dollars

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Speaker 3: Why do they do that?

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Speaker 6: See fast food stuff everywhere, paper cups, and there's trash

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Speaker 7: People are lazy.

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Speaker 2: She wants thousands of citizens to participate in monthly cleanups.

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Speaker 1: No, you do it.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to the three thousand employees and the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to touch their syringes. I've got a

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Speaker 7: Prove it, John.

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Speaker 6: You have to be a good Angelino and do your duty.

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Speaker 6: That's your community service.

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Speaker 3: No, you pick up the garbage. We pay taxes.

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Speaker 2: We're paying taxes, and then we're paying these fifty six

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Speaker 3: Do you imagine that? Oh, you gotta pick What do

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Speaker 2: So you're gonna have millions of people sitting at home

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Speaker 2: But all I'm hearing from the business experts today is, well,

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Speaker 2: much more efficient, more productive. It's gonna save the company

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Speaker 3: As possible, and stay home from work today.

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Speaker 2: And her job on the asset protection team was being eliminated,

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Speaker 3: She has ninety days to.

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Speaker 2: And here's one guy, Chris Reid, thirty three years old.

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Speaker 2: And these new tech AI jobs that are going to

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Speaker 1: Really, you know what? You know what?

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Speaker 2: The the issue is the all your competitors are going

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Speaker 6: So you're gonna have all these white collar workers working

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, to replace all the illegal aliens that we

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Speaker 2: oh one K, He sold his stocks, sold the cryptocurrency

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Speaker 2: Pokemon cards that he collected with his son to sell

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Speaker 2: why did you take this job selling toyotas? So he

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Speaker 7: This is bleak.

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Speaker 3: This is bleak. This is not good.

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Speaker 2: And I was listening to the to the you know,

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Speaker 2: going to happen to the jobs, and their raw ra

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Speaker 2: stop dead.

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Speaker 3: It's like, well down the road and create jobs.

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Speaker 2: Well, you tell Chris Reid, you know down the road

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Speaker 2: And like I said, when you're in a competitive business environment,

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Speaker 8: I'm sure people will have something to say about Karen

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Speaker 8: Bass wanting to clean up trash.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, wanting you to clean up trash.

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Speaker 2: She they have three thousand employees at the sanitation department

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Speaker 2: and it's they spend forty They spend four hundred million

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Speaker 2: dollars a year, and they're raising the trash rates from

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Speaker 2: somewhere in the thirties to the fifty six dollars. But

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Speaker 2: she wants everyone to join her and clean up LA's garbage.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the homeless people, all the vagrants and

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Speaker 2: mental patients, they get to stay in the streets and

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Speaker 2: continue to throw garbage and feces around. After you've cleaned up,

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Speaker 2: then you come back the next week and you clean

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Speaker 2: up the new syringes and garbage and feces from the

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Speaker 2: homeless people. That that's Karen Bass's plan. Because the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty eight Olympics are coming, I don't care. I hope

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Speaker 2: the whole world comes here. God forbids she's still the mayor.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the only hope to have a clean

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Speaker 2: LA if if she gets defeated for mayor. But that's

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Speaker 2: really up in the air right now, isn't it right enough?

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Speaker 2: John Manley coming on, that's just a ridiculous story here,

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Speaker 2: did you I'm going to talk more about this well

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Speaker 2: obviously next hour. John Manley from Manly, Stuart and finalde

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Speaker 2: They had a press conference today, and they say there

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Speaker 2: should be a state and federal criminal investigation of LA

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Speaker 2: County because, as you heard, there have been decades, decades

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Speaker 2: of sexual abuse going on in county detention facilities of

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Speaker 2: young young men, mostly young women. There's also been thousands

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Speaker 2: of fraudulent claims, and the county taxpayers are on the hook.

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Speaker 2: First it was four billion dollars and now LA County

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Speaker 2: has agreed to pay another eight hundred and twenty eight

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Speaker 2: million dollars on top of it, so we're talking almost

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Speaker 2: five billion dollars. Because because La County employees were sexually

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Speaker 2: abusing all these kids for many, many years, and when

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Speaker 2: this four billion dollar story broke, everybody goes, wow, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: But they're borrowing money to pay this that's not going

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Speaker 2: to be paid off till the year twenty fifty one.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people are going to be dead and

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Speaker 2: they're still going to be paying off. And I don't

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Speaker 2: understand why I'm on the hook or you're around the hook,

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Speaker 2: or anybody's on the hook for these sex perverts that

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Speaker 2: the county hired. There's something wrong here. There's something wrong.

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Speaker 2: I mean billions of dollars. Nobody investigated this for years.

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Speaker 2: And you know a lot of people in the county

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Speaker 2: know done, why do we have so many perverts in

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Speaker 2: county government? And this is what are the five wise

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Speaker 2: women who run the county into the ground, the county supervisors,

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Speaker 2: this is what they approved of till the slice.

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Speaker 3: Janis Hahn uh But what Catherine Barger, what's the other two?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Lindsey Horvath and Holly Mitchell. That's a fifth one.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows who these people are. And these five women

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Speaker 2: have just blown it's it's five billion dollars on a

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Speaker 2: bunch of creepy sexual monsters that the county employed for

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Speaker 2: many years and didn't get rid of them the first

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Speaker 2: time they had a complaint. Well, John Manly is going

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Speaker 2: to come on. They filed the first cases in the litigation.

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Speaker 2: Now his company's representing more than two hundred female survivors

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Speaker 2: who are molested as young girls. And so these are

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Speaker 2: these are these are a lot of girls. The whole

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Speaker 2: thing's outrageous. Well, and all the suffering that these kids

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Speaker 2: went through. But I mean, Santa Monica is going bankrupt

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Speaker 2: because of a pervert who molested all these boys working

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