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Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty.

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Speaker 2: four on the iHeart app. MacArthur Park We've periodically discussed

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Speaker 2: and I've seen this with my own eyes. It is

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Speaker 2: one of the most disgusting sections of the city. There

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Speaker 2: is a section of the city called Westlake, not to

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Speaker 2: be confused with Westlake Village, which is a beautiful, pristine

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Speaker 2: area north of Los Angeles. No, Westlake in the city

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Speaker 2: is filled with gang members shooting each other, selling guns

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Speaker 2: and drugs. Lots of locals using the drugs in the open,

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Speaker 2: injecting themselves with the heroin and Fenton Hill and snorting meth,

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Speaker 2: mental patient having episodes in the street. A lot of

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Speaker 2: homeless people, a lot of tents, a lot of insanity

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Speaker 2: and crime, and a lot of stolen goods. I mean

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Speaker 2: a tremendous number of goods that local vendors sell. That's

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Speaker 2: what they call them in the LA Times and the

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Speaker 2: idiot politicians. They're vendors No, they're selling stolen goods, is

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Speaker 2: what they're doing. A lot of the stuff that's taken

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Speaker 2: from your local Target or CBS or Walmart ends up

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Speaker 2: in Westlake. These illegal alien vendors sell the sell the junk,

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Speaker 2: and it's it's an intolerable place to live. There's it's

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's like the most depraved civilization you'll ever find.

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Speaker 2: Unitsus Hernandez is the dope who's the city council woman there?

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Speaker 2: And Uh, it's the same district where it Langer's Delias

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Speaker 2: and and you've heard the owner of Langers Delhi complain

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Speaker 2: about how bad it is and he's threatened to go

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Speaker 2: out of business over it. Well, we had BASS holding

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Speaker 2: a press conference today because they claim to have done

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Speaker 2: some cleanup. MacArthur Park has changed, said Bass. More police

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Speaker 2: foot patrols, more mental health outreach workers, more teams to

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Speaker 2: stop people from oding on drugs. They put fencing along

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Speaker 2: Alvarado Street to try to disrupt the all stolen goods

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Speaker 2: and the drugs and the guns sold by the vendors. Uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, staffed by all the illegal aliens.

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Speaker 2: John Alley, though manages a number of properties in Westlake

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Speaker 2: and he interrupted the news conference. We're gonna talk with

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Speaker 2: with John now. He's also been involved in sounding the

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Speaker 2: alarm on Santa Monica all these years. John Alley, how.

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Speaker 4: Are you good? Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: John Well.

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Speaker 2: I heard some of Bassi's press conference. I've read the

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Speaker 2: La Times version. They're trying to say that they've turned

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Speaker 2: a corner, that they're cleaning things up, Life's going to

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Speaker 2: get better.

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Speaker 1: What do you know?

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Speaker 4: It was very disappointing. In my phone conversation with her,

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Speaker 4: where she called me on Saturday, January fourth, before the fires,

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Speaker 4: she told me she would never have a press conference.

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Speaker 4: She did not want to acknowledge the danger there and

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Speaker 4: she would never hold a press conference because she thought

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Speaker 4: it would be a publicity stunt. And yesterday was a

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Speaker 4: publicity stunt. It was a purplicity stunt by our mayor

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Speaker 4: and by Unicus Frnandez. The two of them don't talk

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Speaker 4: and unfortunately are police chief. The fencing that's gone up

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Speaker 4: has gone up on one side of the street that

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Speaker 4: has done nothing. Karen bass did not inform first District

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Speaker 4: Council Member units Is Hernandez the fencing was going up.

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Speaker 4: She did it, and there were openings to the fencing

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Speaker 4: to get in on the street, to get into the stores.

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Speaker 4: But all that did was allow the illegal vendors and

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Speaker 4: their curtel members who control the vendors to go to

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Speaker 4: I manage. Langers is my tenant, Norm Langers is my tenant.

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Speaker 4: Langer Zones buildings. Many, many people in our coalition of

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Speaker 4: They can't get through them. They've been threats and by

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Speaker 4: cartel members. And I've been threatened by cartel members to

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Speaker 4: let them use the sidewalks in front. And what can

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Speaker 4: at four pm every day because of crime And the

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Speaker 4: minute he walks out, the cartel members come over and

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Speaker 4: the vendors start selling. And nobody mentioned this. Yesterday the

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Speaker 4: press conference was supposed to be in MacArthur Park on

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Speaker 4: the sidewalk, and I mentioned to Mayor Baths. I said,

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Speaker 4: had this been in MacArthur Park, you could have been killed.

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Speaker 4: Just the day before there were seven overdoses. I don't

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Speaker 4: know how many died. Two guys totally naked swimming, running

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Speaker 4: What she told me she wouldn't do, she did yesterday.

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Speaker 4: And she told me that in a phone call that

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Speaker 4: many people heard.

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Speaker 2: I have a clip. Would you play the clip so

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Speaker 4: Well, you can do that, or I can explain the

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Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, Why don't you explain the background

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 4: I'm the person who recorded it. And she called me

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Speaker 4: on a Saturday. I didn't call her and I was driving,

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Speaker 4: been checking in with her since August because it's gotten

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Speaker 4: continuously worse in that area. I didn't call her. She

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Speaker 4: stated she was sorry she didn't check in with me.

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Speaker 4: Sooner she was boarding a plane. She said to Ghana

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Speaker 4: and I said, I heard you were going. I really

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Speaker 4: wish you'd stay home. I said, they're making a big

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Speaker 4: deal about this huge deal about wins. But every night

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Speaker 4: on the sidewalks across MacArthur Park and in MacArthur Park,

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Speaker 4: there's two types of fires. There's the Ankle Heights fire,

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Speaker 4: which are used to cook mess and the others are

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Speaker 4: used to stay warm. And I said, there's going to

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Speaker 4: be a problem there, and if these fires burn buildings

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Speaker 4: and people die, it'd be very embarrassing for you mayor

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Speaker 4: to have to come back return early, and it would

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Speaker 4: be embarrassing to our city. Please don't go. She said

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Speaker 4: she had to go because she was invited by the President.

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Speaker 4: And I said, you know, I think this area of

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Speaker 4: la is more of a Third World city than Ghana,

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Speaker 4: probably all of Ghana. I recorded the call. Never done it,

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Speaker 4: and never want to do that sort of thing again,

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Speaker 4: but John I recorded it. Listening to her, I felt

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Speaker 4: my life and the safety of my tenants and their

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Speaker 4: hard working employees were in danger. There's a people that

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Speaker 4: live in a one square mile there. That's four times

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Speaker 4: the density of Manhattan. That's a lot of people. And

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Speaker 4: she was talking in whispered tones, so she was borning

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Speaker 4: a plane. I couldn't understand why she was talking. It

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Speaker 4: sounded like a hit man whisper. Yeah, it was gussy,

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Speaker 4: it was creepy, and the first part was threatening me.

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Speaker 4: It was very Chicago esque. We talked about a lot

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Speaker 4: of things. I told her I wish she wouldn't go.

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Speaker 4: She continuously asked, what's going on. I passed by there

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Speaker 4: on my way to the office. But she's never taken

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Speaker 4: me up on my requests to drive with her, whether

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Speaker 4: police escort behind, to see what's going on, just drive

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Speaker 4: down the center of the yellow median.

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Speaker 2: She doesn't know what MacArthur Park is like, seriously, nor.

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Speaker 4: Always asking me what's going on? That's it.

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Speaker 2: Now, Seriously, she doesn't know what's going on at MacArthur Park.

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Speaker 2: That's not that far from city Hall. It's the worst

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Speaker 1: I mean, what the hell are you telling me here?

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Speaker 4: Well, if she goes straight on Wilshire from her home

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Speaker 4: at the Mayor's mansion at Sixth and Irving, she would

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Speaker 4: downtown LA And she hasn't done that. And listening to

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Speaker 4: her in the first initial part of that conversation was,

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Speaker 4: you know, let's let's face it, it's challenging for me

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Speaker 4: to listen to threats from cartel members who control the sidewalk,

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Speaker 4: the vendors and block entry and the langers and the

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Speaker 4: other store friends I have. But it was worse listening

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Speaker 4: to her, uh tell me and uh and and the

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Speaker 4: other things that she said. You know, we we talked

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Speaker 4: she was in I guess she had some spare time.

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Speaker 4: Maybe the plane was late taking.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna have to just stop you just a minute.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, I want to play you there

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Speaker 2: was about a minute and a half of audio that

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Speaker 2: made its way around the internet, which we played originally

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Speaker 2: some weeks ago. I'm going to play it again so

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Speaker 2: people can hear what you're talking about. Some of what

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Speaker 2: you're talking about is on this audio, and some of

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Speaker 2: it's not. And I also want to go through. You

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Speaker 2: gave me a list of like bullet points of things

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Speaker 2: she has said to you and things she was unaware of,

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Speaker 2: and I just want to cover all that so people

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: John Alley, he's a business owner in MacArthur Park, and

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Speaker 2: he's saying that that was just a lot of nonsense

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Speaker 2: at Karen Bass's photo op, claiming that MacArthur Park is

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Speaker 2: getting better because of action that she's taken. Just its

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Speaker 2: rife with crime and drug addicts and mental patients, homeless people, thieves.

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Speaker 2: We're going to continue talking with businessman John Alley. John

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Speaker 2: Alley has been trying to get the city government in

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Speaker 2: La and Santa Monica, Santa Monica to clean up all

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Speaker 2: the crime and the homelessness that has plagued a lot

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Speaker 2: of business districts. He owns a number of properties in

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Speaker 2: the Westlake section of the city, like Langer's Deli, for example.

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Speaker 2: MacArthur Park is what we're talking about, overrun with the

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Speaker 1: It's bad.

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Speaker 2: And he's been constantly lobbying Karen Bass to do something,

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Speaker 2: and she's belatedly done a little bit for a photo

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Speaker 2: They all the all the bad guys just moved across

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Speaker 2: to impress the cameras. We were talking about an audio

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Speaker 2: a phone call that Bass had she was about to

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Speaker 2: board a plane to Ghana. It was John Alley who

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Speaker 2: also said, you know, the fire warnings are pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: I think that's really what jumped out at me from

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Speaker 2: your last story is that you were telling her the

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Speaker 2: fires are going to be really bad. You shouldn't go

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Speaker 2: to Ghana. It's going to be embarrassing if the fires

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Speaker 2: break out. You were worried they'd break out MacArthur Park

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Speaker 2: because of all the all the fires that homeless people

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Speaker 2: start every day. Let's play this clip here and then

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Speaker 2: we'll go on from there.

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Speaker 3: If the situation is very dangerous, and I would never do,

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Speaker 3: I will take the criticism before I do a publicity

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Speaker 3: stunt and frankly a press conference at this point in time,

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Speaker 3: which is be publicity, I think. I don't think my

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Speaker 3: neighbors and property owners, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And the residents.

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Speaker 3: I mean, forty one thousand people live within a square

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two families share one bedroom apartment.

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Speaker 3: But they want to hear that something is going to

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Speaker 3: be doneized if it's recognized exactly. But if I have

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Speaker 3: a choice between that and compromising something, I just have

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Speaker 3: to go along with it. It's not my area of expertise.

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Speaker 3: I want to make sure that you are safe and

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Speaker 3: hopefully you can read.

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Speaker 2: In between the lines.

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Speaker 4: And you've got me on the street, and you're welcome

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Speaker 4: I asked her. I said, Mayor, would you fire him?

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Speaker 4: pay and you can rehire him. But you've got to

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Speaker 1: What'd she say?

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Speaker 4: She got very very angry, very angry.

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Speaker 2: It was Williams allegedly calling in the bomb threats, and

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Speaker 4: She's not talking to her staff. She's not talking to

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Speaker 4: I said, no, Chief, it's paid.

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Speaker 4: He wasn't aware of that. And he said, well, let

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Speaker 4: I didn't even discuss it with her. I can't because

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Speaker 4: All is safe. And I said, you know, Mayor, I'm

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Speaker 4: understand is you know the use of drones. You know,

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Speaker 2: Me stop you there because I got to do Debra's news.

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Speaker 2: We'll continue this when we come back, because you have

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Speaker 2: more things that you put in your letter that I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's quite an indictment that you've put together here of

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Speaker 2: of things the way she was unaware of the fire warnings.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on here. This is all crazy.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to have Carl

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Speaker 2: who are voting. That's what ballot harvesting is about. Ballot

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Speaker 1: Legislature. We'll talk about all that coming up.

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Speaker 2: We got to continue this with John Alley, though Johnny

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Speaker 2: Alley's Businessman first had him on the show a number

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Speaker 2: of times over the Santa Monica situation where the leaders

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Speaker 2: and a lot of businesses have closed homelessness crime, you

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass held one of those fake press conferences today

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Speaker 2: down a list of things that you mentioned in your let.

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Speaker 2: You said you told her that the police were not

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Speaker 4: Exactly what I'm saying. And neither Karen Bass nor the

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Speaker 4: Out of eighty eight counties, this is the smallest one,

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Speaker 4: these firefighters are brave, fearless and dedicated. But they're going

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Speaker 4: And I saw what happened in twenty four in Santa Monica.

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Speaker 4: to be safe. That's not right. But the problem is

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Speaker 1: Why and why is this?

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Speaker 4: The police are afraid, not enough of them. It would

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Speaker 4: she wants ambassadors in that park. Why would they go

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Speaker 4: And I can't really blame.

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Speaker 1: Them, Yeah I can.

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Speaker 2: Unders you also write that you you You said to

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Speaker 4: She wouldn't accept it. She said, well, I'll drive. I

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Speaker 4: I said, you one cannot drive close to the curb.

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Speaker 2: You right that she didn't know that five people a

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Speaker 1: That's up to send that park. Yeah, seven a day

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Speaker 4: Park, just in the park.

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Speaker 2: Wow, seventy dead bodies every day in MacArthur Park.

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Speaker 4: The alleys behind the buildings across from the park, they're deadly.

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Speaker 4: they have to come back. I have to pay more.

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Speaker 4: And if you try to drive from seventh to eighth

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Speaker 4: it's that bad, I told meyerbas I said, the street lights.

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Speaker 4: And we've mentioned that to Unices Hernandez and Unices Hernanda's

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Speaker 4: she said, well, it's copper. It's the copper issue. I said,

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Speaker 4: there are poles where copper is missing, but there are

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they just don't you. She did not know. Best

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Speaker 2: And this is according to US Attorney General's Office, there's

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Speaker 4: No, And you know it's sad because I reminded her,

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Speaker 4: I said, you promised us twenty first century policing methods.

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Speaker 4: And you mentioned it again when you appointed Jim McDonald.

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Speaker 4: Where are those We don't even have drones, I said.

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Speaker 4: These crooks are on the roofs, running escaping the police

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Speaker 4: it is hernandez uh indicating that more trash is being

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Speaker 4: I just don't believe it, John, I neither do the residence.

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Speaker 1: John.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank you for coming on and going

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Speaker 2: public with this, and and I hope you keep doing this.

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Speaker 4: I did, I did. I was amused by one other

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Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead one more and then I gotta I

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Speaker 4: She said, her understanding is she doesn't have quote power

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Speaker 4: in LA that resonates with the city council. I said, no, Mayor,

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Speaker 4: you have the bully pulpit. She said she hasn't spoken

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Speaker 4: to unises Hernandez in months. But they appeared yesterday to

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Speaker 4: put on a united front, just to get ahead of

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Speaker 4: this story. That was all.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't have power, she's claiming.

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Speaker 4: I was shocked and I corrected her. I felt embarrassed

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Speaker 4: correcting a mayor.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she doesn't have a clue as to what

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Speaker 2: she's doing, not a clue, no wonder. January seventh happened.

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Speaker 2: Like it's all becoming clear now. She's completely oblivious to

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Speaker 2: what a mayor can do in Los Angeles, what a

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Speaker 2: mayor should do, what a responsibility is. She has no idea.

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Speaker 2: All right, John, we'll keep talking. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for coming on.

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Speaker 4: Oh thank you, bye bye.

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Speaker 2: All right, And maybe you think it can't get worse.

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Speaker 2: Sure it can get worse by far. The leading candidate

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Speaker 2: for governor is Kamala Harris. And we have a clip

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Speaker 2: of her appearance at I don't even know what this was,

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Speaker 2: but she was on stage and there was a guy

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Speaker 2: interviewing her, and there was a crowd there, and you

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Speaker 2: got to hear. It's a couple of minutes, and it's

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Speaker 2: at it's at her most vacuous, at her most empty.

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Speaker 2: She must be stoned or drunk every time I hear

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Speaker 2: her speak, I'm trying to figure out, all right, is

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Speaker 2: it pot?

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Speaker 1: Is she she son of some edibles. She's your neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Go talk to her, go interview or ask her what's up.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't take anything off a party tray in her

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Speaker 2: house because it's amazing how Lupi is. And she's got

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Speaker 2: on the Democratic side overwhelming support, and of course that

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Speaker 2: means she'd be governor because there's only a Democratic side

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Speaker 2: in the state.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing else.

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Speaker 2: absolutely frightening that the most popular candidate for governor for

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six is Kamala Harris. I don't know what's

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Speaker 2: wrong with a majority of the state. There's nothing in

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Speaker 2: her head and she just got beaten pretty badly by Trump,

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Speaker 2: and there is no indication that she could actually run anything.

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Speaker 2: And the most damning is all the video and audio

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Speaker 2: out there of her trying to speak spontaneously. Now she's

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Speaker 2: at some kind of event, some kind of conference. There's

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Speaker 2: a host on stage, and she's starting to give her

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Speaker 2: opinions and this is supposed to be something about AI

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Speaker 2: consumer innovation, but it begins with a Dorito's story. She

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Speaker 2: wanted to get some doritos the night of the oscars.

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Speaker 2: See if you can follow this.

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Speaker 6: So we did door dash because I wanted Dorito's.

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Speaker 7: And it was they were about the red carpet.

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Speaker 1: Part was a bum starting.

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Speaker 7: Nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store.

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Speaker 7: So it was door dash And I'm thinking about this

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Speaker 7: about so I was willing to give up whatever might

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Speaker 7: be the tracking of Karmala Harris's particular fondness for Nacho

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Speaker 7: Chi's Dorito's for the.

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Speaker 6: Sake of getting a big bag of dorito's. As I

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Speaker 6: watched the oscars. That's the consumer behavior, and that's right.

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Speaker 6: But here's the thing, at what point do we also

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Speaker 6: uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And

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Speaker 6: you can debate with me if it should be a right.

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Speaker 6: I think it should to expect that.

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Speaker 8: The innovation would also be weighted in terms of solving

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Speaker 8: their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for doritos,

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Speaker 8: but about whatever. And I know the work is happening

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Speaker 8: around the scientific discoveries, for example, to cure long standing diseases.

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Speaker 4: But I'm going to throw out.

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Speaker 6: Another one and you all again, please get back to

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Speaker 6: me an information you have. I would love it if there.

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Speaker 8: Would be an investment of resources and solving the affordable

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Speaker 8: housing issue in America, like help you with that, help

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Speaker 8: me with that.

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Speaker 6: I don't know that any big vcs are going to

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Speaker 6: fund because they're going to have to figure out where

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Speaker 6: the money is in that, but I'm telling you it

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Speaker 6: would really be helpful.

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Speaker 4: And if.

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Speaker 6: I do, and I bring up in the consumer because

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Speaker 6: I wonder how much of the trajectory of it all

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Speaker 6: the innovation is being fueled by what the consumer not

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Speaker 6: only desires in terms of again, and I'm simplifying it.

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Speaker 6: Obviously you're craving for a certain brand of potato chips,

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Speaker 6: corn chip, But what part of it is about getting

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Speaker 6: enough information in front of the consumer to know these

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Speaker 6: other really big problems you're dealing with might also be

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Speaker 6: solved by this technology and if you demand it, if

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Speaker 6: we agree that the business model is based on consumer demand,

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Speaker 6: that there might actually be more resources going into some

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Speaker 6: of those things.

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Speaker 1: That was classic, That's one of her best.

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Speaker 2: They covered a lot of territory there, from begg of

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Speaker 2: Dorito's and do Our Dash too, Housing affordability, Housing affordability

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Speaker 2: there touched on something else about a lot about consumer

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Speaker 2: innovation and choice. She's got to be stoned and she's

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Speaker 2: giggling the whole way.

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Speaker 1: I've just never heard anything like that. Now. She was

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Speaker 1: close to becoming president and she's way ahead in California

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Speaker 1: to be governor. That's is this.

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Speaker 2: The life we're gonna Are we trapped in this for

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Speaker 2: the rest of our lives?

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Speaker 1: What is it about her? Why would people vote for her?

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Speaker 2: Why are people sitting there listening to her and they're

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Speaker 2: laughing She's drunk or stoned or both. She didn't make

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Speaker 2: any sense at all. She weaves and rambles and Bob's

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Speaker 2: all over. I just don't understand. And all started with

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Speaker 2: the bag of doritos. What she apparently thought was the

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Speaker 2: funniest thing in the world, that she was ordering a

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Speaker 2: bag of Doritos.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And she supposedly is clearing out the field if she runs,

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Speaker 2: like if she runs, nobody else wants to take her on.

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Speaker 2: Although this missus potato head is back in the race,

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Speaker 2: Katie Porter.

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Speaker 8: But she said if Kamala Harris enters, she's not She's gone.

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Speaker 2: Missus potato Head is afraid of Kamala. I probably should

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Speaker 2: have took more on that. But first we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have Carl Demayo on. You see, I listened

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Speaker 2: to Kamala Harris for two minutes and it actually scrambles

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Speaker 2: my brain. Something got decoupled in my head. A connection

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Speaker 2: has been severed. I can't think.

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Speaker 1: Do you have an urge for doritos now?

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Speaker 2: I haven't urged for whatever led to her Dorito's craving.

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Speaker 2: I want some of that stuff. Carl wants to collect

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Speaker 2: a million signatures to get a constitutional amendment for a

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Speaker 2: voter ID requirement in California so we could get out

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Speaker 2: of the hell that we're living in with ballot harvesting.

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Speaker 2: Do with ballot harvesting, you can get a lot of

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Speaker 2: illegal votes from illegal aliens and others. And the way

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Speaker 2: out of this is a constitutional amendment. And because you're

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Speaker 2: not going to get this out of the legislature, those

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Speaker 2: Democrats are really happy having a super majority with all

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Speaker 2: those fake people voting or fake citizens voting. Carli Beyond

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