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Speaker 2: I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobelt

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Speaker 2: but you can listen to whatever you missed whenever you want. So.

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Speaker 2: Prop thirty six passes in November and probably people think, oh, okay,

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Speaker 2: this is great. Now the criminals are going to get arrested,

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Speaker 2: convicted and put in prison. You know, the thieves are

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Speaker 2: going to be put away because now theft is illegal

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Speaker 2: in California. And the public drug addicts, they're going to

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Speaker 2: be arrested and they're going to be given a choice.

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Speaker 2: You either go behind bars or you take drug treatment,

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Speaker 2: which is the way it used to be until Prop

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Speaker 2: forty seven. Except Gavin Newsom and the Democratic leadership in

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Speaker 2: the legislature don't want to spend any money on mental

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Speaker 2: health and drug treatment for the people that we want treated.

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Speaker 2: I mean we when we passed Prop thirty six, we agreed, yes,

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Speaker 2: we'd like these people treated if they choose that.

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Speaker 1: Newson won't do it. Neither will the Democrats.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk now with State Senator Susette Martinez

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Speaker 2: Valderis from the Lancaster Santa Clarita District.

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Speaker 1: Susette, welcome, Welcome, John.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me and for being

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Speaker 3: a voice of reason. We need, we need more voices

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Speaker 3: like you that are calling this type of these type

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Explain what's going on here, what should be done, What

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Speaker 2: was the intent of Prop thirty six, what the public expected,

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Speaker 2: you know, a certain action after we passed this thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, John, for over a decade, you've seen it.

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Speaker 3: I've seen it. The Public Safety Committee or the Anti

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Speaker 3: Public Safety Committee have passed or law after law pretty

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Speaker 3: much decriminalizing everything. We've spent a decade with policies coming

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Speaker 3: out of Sacramento that am bold in criminals. And last November,

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Speaker 3: voters made it very clear that we're sick of this,

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Speaker 3: and we overwhelmingly passed Proposition thirty six, the Homeless Drug

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Speaker 3: Addiction and Best Production Act, by seventy percent. Seventy percent

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Speaker 3: of voters said enough is enough. You know, let's get

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Speaker 3: back to safe streets. And the governor and last year's

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Speaker 3: leadership did not support Prop thirty six. And now that

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Speaker 3: we have a new legislature that's been elected after seventy

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Speaker 3: five or seventy six percent of voters said make our

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Speaker 3: budget that does not fund Proposition thirty six, and voters

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Speaker 3: were very clear. And Newsome is he says he wants

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Speaker 3: not funding the thing they asked him to do.

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Speaker 1: Has he addressed this directly?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So in January he was asked he was asked

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Speaker 3: he said that even though he opposed it, he claimed

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Speaker 3: that he was committed to implementing the terms that were

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Speaker 3: established by the voters. But again, no dollars in his

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Speaker 3: budget to fund the things that are necessary in order

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Speaker 3: to make Proposition thirty six work. Right, it's supposed to

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Speaker 3: be in funding increased workloads for officers, housing inmates, court

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Speaker 3: related workloads, and mental health services. This is money right

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Speaker 3: now that our local departments are paying out of their

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Speaker 3: local department budgets, when really the state needs to step

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Speaker 2: There was an online poll Fox twenty six news I

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Speaker 2: don't know what city that is. Ninety four percent of

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Speaker 2: lack of funding for these programs in the governor's budget.

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Speaker 2: Believe that it's a betrayal to voters that it should

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Speaker 2: If these people get arrested and charged with crimes.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know. What's also really frustrating is to fully

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Speaker 3: fund Proposition thirty six. It's roughly point zero zero five

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Speaker 3: make our communities more safe, but to two address the

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Speaker 3: It's heartbreaking. We have the resources in Sacramento to fund

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Speaker 2: And this is Gavin Newsom's middle finger, because if that's

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Speaker 2: almost three hundred billion dollars every year, and it's hard

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Speaker 1: What'd you say? It's point zero zero five percent correct, And.

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Speaker 2: Then we be able to treat all the drug addicts

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Speaker 2: They're angry and their punishment is okay, fine, no money

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Speaker 1: That's childish.

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Speaker 3: It's childish, and really, you know, I think it's at

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Speaker 3: their own peril. I you know, personally know people with

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Speaker 2: Why do you think these compassionate progressives and I've always

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Speaker 2: thought that they're fake. Why do you think they don't

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Speaker 2: to get their lives back on track. I've never understood

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Speaker 2: that They've never funded them. When we passed Prop forty seven,

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Speaker 2: they never spent it. What is it with them? Why

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Speaker 2: do they want these people to die in the streets?

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Speaker 3: You know, I can't answer that question because it's really

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Speaker 3: hard for me to relate to them when I see

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Speaker 3: I will say is it's even more frustrating when they

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Speaker 3: go splurge our hard earned taxpayer dollars on projects like

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Speaker 3: the high speed rail. Right, they have so many pet

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Speaker 3: projects that they're funding, and I would just rather than

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Speaker 3: fund people over pet projects.

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Speaker 4: See.

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Speaker 2: I have like a unifying theory about this, and it's

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Speaker 2: really connected to what's going on in Washington, whether it's

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Speaker 1: Is it all a racket?

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Speaker 2: Is it all set up just to enrich all these fake, corrupt,

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Speaker 2: criminal nonprofits. You have drug treatment nonprofits that don't work,

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Speaker 2: you have high speed rail that never gets built. But

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Speaker 2: there's all these parasites enriching themselves, and is that the

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Speaker 2: purpose of the California government, so all the parasites enriched themselves.

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Speaker 3: These are really good questions, and I do know that,

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Speaker 3: greater accountability, greater transparency, and how our moneys are being spent,

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Speaker 3: whether it's on homelessness, whether it's on high speed rail.

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Speaker 3: What I'm super excited about is now we have a

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Speaker 3: federal government that has said, wait a minute, We've given

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Speaker 3: you four billion dollars in federal funding for high speed

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Speaker 3: rail for a project that is a decade overdue and

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Speaker 3: over one hundred billion dollars over budget. What's going on here?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 3: We need immense transparency, accountability.

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Speaker 2: That's what makes me think it was it was designed

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Speaker 2: to be a racket. Otherwise they would have been shouting

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Speaker 2: about this ten years ago. And nobody does nobody in California.

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Speaker 2: Well a few people do you are now, but most

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Sacramentos ran by elitists. That's that's true, but I

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Speaker 3: think voters are fed up. And again we saw this

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Speaker 3: past November, voters said enough is enough with passing Proposition

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Speaker 3: thirty six, with flipping three seats Republicans. Republicans flipped three

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Speaker 3: to their own peril, they're going to continue to ignore

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Speaker 3: the will of the voters.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine if we had a Doze like program

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Speaker 2: in California and Sacramento what they would find from.

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Speaker 3: Your lips to God's ears, that would be amazing.

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Speaker 1: I just feel left out. I mean, the rest of

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Speaker 1: the country is rooting for it.

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Speaker 2: So it's got like over sixty percent rooting for what

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Speaker 2: Musk and Trump are doing, and this whole Doge investigation,

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Speaker 2: and it's like, well, why can't we have this here

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Speaker 2: because we needed very badly in Sacramento and in Los

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Speaker 1: All Right, well, she said thank you.

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Speaker 3: For coming on, of course, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: All right, she's at Martinez valaderis state senator in the

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Speaker 1: Coming up. I think this was on Dever's News, But

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Speaker 1: we've got more detail.

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Speaker 2: The La Times has done an extensive story on this

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Speaker 2: guy who had an elaborate encampment, homeless guy, elaborate encampment

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Speaker 2: in a Royo Seco for five years and now it's

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Speaker 2: sob stories. He had had built in a flood channel. Well,

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Speaker 2: you can't live in a public flood channel. That's against

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Speaker 2: the law. And finally we're busting this thing up and

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Speaker 2: that The Times is hysterical over it.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 2: Well, this has been in Debra's news. There is a

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Speaker 2: guy named Alejandro Diaz, twenty nine years old. I suspect

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Speaker 2: he's an illegal alien. And he built an elaborate house

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Speaker 2: on parkland right next to a flood channel Arroyo Seiko

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Speaker 2: in Highland Park and it's it's public parkland next to

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Speaker 2: a public waterway. And he was allowed to build this house,

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Speaker 2: you know, which had windows and a garden, bamboo fencing,

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Speaker 2: bright yellow siding, and you know, we're required in this

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Speaker 2: in this state to go, oh, isn't that wonderful. It's like, no,

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Speaker 2: it's not wonderful. You can't have this in a public park.

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Speaker 2: It's it's it's for people to enjoy the park, not

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Speaker 2: deal with a guy who planted a a house right

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Speaker 1: It's an injustice, said Diaz.

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Speaker 2: The city doesn't care about anything other than destroying our lives,

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Speaker 2: even though we don't bother anyone, and all my time,

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Speaker 2: none of us have bothered anyone. Well, you have an

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Speaker 2: encampment along a parkway and a flood channel and all

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Speaker 2: that's illegal. In fact, I'm sure he's here illegally. I

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Speaker 2: don't understand this, don't You don't have a right to

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Speaker 2: money is used to care for. And finally they decided

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Speaker 2: to clear it out because it's in a high fire zone.

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Speaker 2: In fact, this rickety wood house makeshift house. Yeah, he

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Speaker 2: knocks a candle over. I don't know what he's using for.

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Speaker 1: What is he using for heat? What's he using for

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's something in there that could catch fire,

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Speaker 2: and then that whole wildland area catches fire. So the

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Speaker 2: city had to send out a crew to scrape the

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Speaker 2: A new poll is out, it's from M three Strategies,

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Speaker 2: The other issue, well, when he got elected, he took

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Speaker 2: He's black. They're among the angriest. Well, let me let

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Speaker 2: Latinos arrive in her neighborhood in twelve foot box trucks.

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Speaker 2: He is ranked as the worst sanctuary city mayor in

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Speaker 2: And by the way, the legal Latino residents, whether they're

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Speaker 2: His policies are stupid. He's stupid. He fits right in

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Speaker 1: And these are great cities other.

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Speaker 2: Than in La A long time, this used to be

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Speaker 2: Why do they willfully destroy great cities?

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Speaker 2: If you were going to intentionally destroy a great American city,

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Speaker 2: what would you do differently? In Chicago, in San Francisco,

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Speaker 2: So they blew through all the money, all this for

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Speaker 2: He's vilified as being something toxic and weird. I don't

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Speaker 2: That has not been unraveled yet. There's some bizarre fail

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Speaker 2: this is the tow truck story. I wanted to get into.

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Speaker 2: My God, we have so many psychos wandering around that

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Speaker 2: There are there were people in Alta, Dina, victims of

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Speaker 2: they falsely claimed that they were contracted by Altadena officials,

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Speaker 2: and they would tow the cars to undisclosed locations and

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Speaker 2: then charge the driver's high fees to return them. Basically,

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Speaker 2: they took the cars hostage and they wouldn't return them

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Speaker 2: to their owners until the fee was paid and the

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Speaker 2: cars were taken out in Riverside or San Bernardino. And

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Speaker 2: you had to show a photo of your driver's license

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Speaker 2: to the tow truck thieves because I guess they wanted

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Speaker 2: to steal your private information as well. They're called vehicle

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Speaker 2: hostage scams. I'd never heard of this. They show up

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Speaker 2: on highways now. If you get charged, well not if

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00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 2: you get charged. If you get involved in an accident

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Speaker 2: right and you're pulled over to the side of the road,

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Speaker 2: these fake tow truck guys are driving around looking for accidents.

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Speaker 2: They see one and they target you and they offer

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Speaker 2: to tow your vehicle to a particular body shop. When you

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Speaker 2: get to the body shop, you're forced to pay a

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Speaker 2: large amount of money, usually not covered by insurance. Otherwise

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Speaker 2: you can't get the car back. Here are the red flags.

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Speaker 2: You think this would be common sense and obvious. It's

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Speaker 2: like if a tow truck showed up next to me

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Speaker 2: on a on the side of the road. So I

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Speaker 2: don't trust anything. I don't trust anything anybody. I don't

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Speaker 2: believe anything. So tow truck shows up at the side

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Speaker 2: of the road. These people feel like, oh, my god,

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Speaker 2: the luckiest day in the world. I got to an accident,

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Speaker 2: I got some damage, and look at that tow truck

464
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 2: guy just miraculously appeared. Yeah, there's no such thing. So

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00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: they show up within minutes. If the driver insists on

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Speaker 2: bringing the car to a specific body shop the tow

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Speaker 2: truck driver. If the driver asks you to sign documents,

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Speaker 2: you're probably turning over all your rights. Or if the

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Speaker 2: tow truck driver requests a ride share on your behalf

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Speaker 2: like they'll call you an uber to get you out

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Speaker 2: of there. Why they take your car to another county.

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Speaker 2: They had one of these tow truck scam investigations and

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Speaker 2: there was a ring. They found sixteen guys doing this.

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Speaker 2: They create fraudulent insurance claims. They collected more than two

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars holding people's vehicles hostage, purposely causing a collision.

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Speaker 2: So one guy rams into you on the freeway, and

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Speaker 2: then the next guy shows up and say, hey, look,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell your car.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: A lot of these guys were already charged in one

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Speaker 2: of these rackets in San Bernardino. I guess they weren't

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Speaker 2: put in jail, so they all showed up in Altadena

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Speaker 2: during the fire.

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Speaker 1: Conway and Thompson, Now, yeah, La throws a lot.

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Speaker 8: At you, you know, every day. Yeah, and you get

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Speaker 8: a lot of crap thrown in your face.

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Speaker 4: Bye, bad guys, Bye, bad guys.

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Speaker 1: Well, the weather's great, the weather.

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Speaker 4: Is great, and you know you grew up here. You're

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Speaker 4: taking off for granted, but you don't know how lucky

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Speaker 4: you are. That's that's maybe. Would you like to go

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Speaker 4: where I grew up? Yes, yeah, on the rough mean streets?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Of what of Washington, DC?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, some some wealthy suburb in Virginia.

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Speaker 4: No, I live right in the city.

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Speaker 9: How dare you? I live right there? And the belly

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Speaker 9: of the Beast. Conway tell him he went to public school. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: I did in Washington, DC. Yeah, it was a tough,

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Speaker 9: tough neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Georgetown.

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Speaker 4: My head. My dad had to deal drugs on the weekend,

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Speaker 4: you know, and all week he was seven days a week.

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Speaker 8: Sure, right, Alex Stone's coming on with us to talk

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Speaker 8: about the there's a new rule change possibly in the

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Speaker 8: National Football League.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this is I have a strong opinion on this.

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Speaker 4: You might as well.

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Speaker 1: I do too. It's called the the tush push. First

510
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Speaker 1: of all, they got to stop using that. It is

511
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Speaker 1: an awful sounds dirty, doesn't it.

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Speaker 4: That sounds that's like, it doesn't sound football league.

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Speaker 8: That should be like the thesh push, the discount at

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Speaker 8: at midnight at the strip bar, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 4: So much better.

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Speaker 1: Two minutes, all free for all. And then we have

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Speaker 1: fallout from something.

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Speaker 4: You haven't read it through.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to carry him today, Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 1: I was put it in gear.

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Speaker 4: He's in neutral right now. He'll he'll, he'll pop the

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Speaker 4: clutch right a few minutes after.

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Speaker 8: But we've got the whole Mayor Bass Kristin Crawley thing.

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Speaker 8: I'm getting a little tired of that, but we'll cover

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Speaker 8: it up. And then Denny's is going to add a

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Speaker 8: temporary surcharge not only to eggs, but quality search charge.

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Speaker 8: Do you want anythink good of Denny's, you gonna have

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Speaker 8: to pay a little more.

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Speaker 4: I have to tell you the story when I did

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Speaker 4: a voiceover for Denny's for their commercial. Yeah, and can

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Speaker 4: I tell you this real quick? Yeah, okay, So it's

532
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Speaker 4: really hard to get you know, when you're beginning your career,

533
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Speaker 4: which I was just doing it. To get voiceover work

534
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Speaker 4: is really hard. You audition a lot you need. So

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Speaker 4: I finally got this good commercial for Denny's TV commercial.

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Speaker 4: And the way that at the time it worked is

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Speaker 4: you recorded in Hollywood with my voice. Obviously I'm living

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Speaker 4: in Hollywood and it's on a satellite or something tied

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Speaker 4: to J Walter Thompson in Chicago. That they're the You

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Speaker 4: need to know that, because they are the You only

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Speaker 4: hear them and they say, hey, Mark, welcome you, blah

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Speaker 4: blah blah. You do the spot. They called me back

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Speaker 4: four weeks later because they changed the price of the

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Speaker 4: Grand Slam Breakfast. Okay, and they do like a pickup.

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Speaker 4: It's a simple thing. You just go all through February.

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Speaker 4: Grand Slam Breakfast is whatever it is. Yeah, so they say, great,

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Speaker 4: so we'll play the spot back down the line for you.

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Speaker 4: These are the guys in Chicago, same group, and you're

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Speaker 4: watching it and you're listening, and you'll just will punch

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Speaker 4: you in just for that part. Okay, just a pick up.

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Speaker 4: And I'm listening down the line and I'm watching the

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Speaker 4: commercial and it's not my voice on the commercial. You

553
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Speaker 4: know what is going on here? That's and I remember,

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Speaker 4: it's really hard to get this commercial. I usually I

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Speaker 4: got this commercial to begin with.

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Speaker 1: Did you try to bs and imitate the guy?

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Speaker 4: So in a moment, like in an instant, I thought, well,

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Speaker 4: what do I do here? I don't even know so

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Speaker 4: exactly what Conway said. I'm listening and I'm thinking, okay,

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Speaker 4: I'll try to like match it. So I you know,

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Speaker 4: it was ridiculous. It was absurd. And they said, wow,

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Speaker 4: that doesn't even I'm like you. And then they did

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Speaker 4: the greatest thing ever. They said, let's just record the

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Speaker 4: whole thing. Oh, that's that's the top to bottom. Let's

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Speaker 4: just do it again. Yeah. Yeah, I dodged a bullet.

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Speaker 1: And those things pay a lot, those nationals.

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Speaker 4: It was. It was a big deal for me. So

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Speaker 4: that's why I was like reluctant to say anything.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, right, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Here's somebody. I guess somebody else got the job, though

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Speaker 2: I don't know what happened.

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Speaker 4: I did call the agent and say, hey, man, I

573
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 4: told him the story. He said, look made. They asked

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Speaker 4: for you, sir, He said, what do you want with them?

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