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Speaker 1: more of what we did later on in the hour

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Speaker 1: and then you could enjoy it later this evening, we've

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Speaker 1: continued covering the fires and we're trying to cut through

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Speaker 1: these loads of horsemen were being shoveled at us by

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Speaker 1: civic leaders. We've been talking the last couple of days

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Speaker 1: about Steve Soberoff, who held a private meeting with the

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Speaker 1: rich guys, the Hollywood agents and telling them, hey, just

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Speaker 1: hold on, hold on for a year, and whatever you're

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Speaker 1: being offered for your property now you'll get triplet next

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Speaker 1: year because of all the money coming in. But he

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Speaker 1: didn't want to talk about any of the causes of

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Speaker 1: the horrific response here in La City from fire management.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to talk about the empty reservoir. He

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Speaker 1: He only wants raw ros stuff. Well, we're going to

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Speaker 1: focus on reality here because that's what we do. I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine living in these fantasy worlds that politicians and

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk again now with Cheryl Poindexter. Cheryl

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Speaker 1: comunt our show way back in twenty twenty, which is

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Speaker 1: one of the worst years in human history, and twenty

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Speaker 1: and she lost everything home, cabin, horse stalls, barn, motor home, trailer.

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Speaker 1: Five years later, she's rebuilt the house, but she can't

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Speaker 1: a warning to all of you in Altadena and the

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Speaker 1: Cheryl on. Cheryl, how are you man?

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Speaker 2: I'm alive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that's one good thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I want to thank you for what you're doing here,

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Speaker 2: And I know you're playing nuts with the stuff that

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Speaker 3: I've been hearing about how they're going to cut the

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Speaker 3: red tape and everything, and.

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Speaker 2: It's like been making me nuts. And I've been.

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Speaker 3: Dying to share my experience with these poor people because

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Speaker 2: It's just really, oh.

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Speaker 1: My God, give us a quick summary of what happened

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Speaker 1: to you. It was September eighteenth, twenty twenty. You're out

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Speaker 3: I lived there twenty years and it was you know,

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Speaker 3: the AZUSA. They took real good care of Azuza. And

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Speaker 3: the fire was moving up the hill and it went

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Speaker 2: And they just left us to burn.

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Speaker 3: And they said that it was a dispatch problem, that

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Speaker 2: So you know, I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love their their non answers instead of explaining in detail,

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Speaker 1: Well I just lost everything I own.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well they in the station fire. A few years

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Speaker 3: They said, we're getting out of here, and they left.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that because you wrote you wrote in

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Speaker 1: your letter that eighty five homes burned, only four have

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's been five years, it's a decent amount

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Speaker 3: A lot of people I had excellent insurance with all states.

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Speaker 2: Not anymore, and they left California.

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Speaker 3: So I had really really good insurance, and I had

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Speaker 3: Exactly exactly, and it's ridiculous. I had to get a

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Speaker 1: And it just let me let me talk, let me

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Speaker 3: They just finished it last week. It's totally finished. And

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Speaker 2: They'll come at you.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, he screwed me out of several hundred

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Speaker 1: But uh gees, yeah, you've had everything happen. Yeah, what

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Speaker 3: That's the reason why it took me four months to

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Speaker 2: It's not going to happen.

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Speaker 1: So with with Newsom and Bass and sober Off saying

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Speaker 3: No bloony blooney, no absolute blooney. That's mean because the

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Speaker 2: Just geared to drag. I mean, it's just it's like the.

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Speaker 3: Most aggravating thing I've ever been through in my whole life,

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Speaker 3: and all I want to do is just be back

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Speaker 2: And I'm saying and they say, oh.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're real busy with the fires, and I said, well,

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Speaker 3: you know, and it's priority. You know that these people have,

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Speaker 3: I filed four years ago.

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Speaker 2: You think that I would have pride?

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Speaker 1: So when when all right, let me ask you the

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Speaker 2: It's a lot they're lying there.

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Speaker 3: I don't it's just mainstream many a media boloney. And

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Speaker 3: you know, it's gonna take about five years, and I went, finally, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's about right. Yeah, because I'm five years and I'm

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Speaker 1: And you know, I have no bar and you and

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Speaker 1: you had good insurance to help me rebuild. All right,

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Speaker 1: I got it, wrote I got to go. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much Scherff for coming on.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you for all your doing. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Well, We'll keep doing it. Cheryl Poindexter who lost her

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI am sixty.

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 1: Last hour we were telling you that Westside Current has

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Speaker 1: a breakdown of the LA city budget and it's just

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Speaker 1: it's just absolutely appalling. You know, the city of Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles is broke. I could spin this story out of

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Speaker 1: half a dozen ways, but I just want to focus

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Speaker 1: on the money that we're spending on homelessness compared to

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Speaker 1: the fire department. The amount of money that we are

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Speaker 1: spending on homelessness is now one point three billion dollars

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Speaker 1: every year. That is ten percent of the city's budget.

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Speaker 1: Is that not staggering? Ten percent of the budget on

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Speaker 1: homelessness and the homeless people are only one percent of

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Speaker 1: all that money, two thirds of the homeless have no shelter,

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Speaker 1: not even a shelter bed, they're still laying out in

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Speaker 1: the streets. Mental patients and drug addicts they get the

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Speaker 1: same percentage ten percent that the La Fire Department and

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Speaker 1: emergency medical services get and disaster services. You total up fire, emergency, medical,

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Speaker 1: and disaster and it accounts for almost as much as

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Speaker 1: we're spending on homeless. Almost actually get a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: And the fire department serves all four million people in

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Speaker 1: the city of La These homeless programs serve one percent

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Speaker 1: of that. The police department gets sixteen percent, fire department

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Speaker 1: ten percent, and the homeless ten percent. And again, the

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Speaker 1: police and fire have to cover four million people. Do

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Speaker 1: you know how much they spend on brush clearance, which

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Speaker 1: had a lot to do with whipping up the Palisades

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Speaker 1: fire and the Altadena fire? A million and a half dollars,

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Speaker 1: that's it. But we spend one point three billion on

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Speaker 5: Are standing in front of just one of LAFD maintenance yards.

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Speaker 6: More is better, And if they're available and if they

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Speaker 6: So easily if we would have had an engine, let's

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Speaker 5: You know Captain Freddi Escobar who was talking to us

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Speaker 1: the fire department that serves one hundred percent of the population.

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Speaker 1: And now that we know this, this has got to stop.

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Speaker 1: You can't have fire and standing around because they don't

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Speaker 1: have a fire truck when the worst fire in history

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Speaker 1: is happening. This is absolutely insane. So you can get

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Speaker 1: the money, everybody will. You're gonna get the money. Kill

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Speaker 1: the homeless industry, destroy it, wipe it out, drop some

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Speaker 1: kind of bureaucratic asteroid on it, put the people on buses,

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Speaker 1: and get them out of town. That's it. No, we're

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Speaker 1: not building homes for them. They're never going to be housed.

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Speaker 1: They're never gonna be off their trugs, and they're never

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Speaker 1: gonna take the medication for their illnesses. So you just

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Speaker 1: might as why'd you be an adult and just accept

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Speaker 1: all that. More coming up.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 1: Conway is coming up in just a few minutes. This

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Speaker 1: is funny. I enjoy new some twisting in the wind

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Speaker 1: after he came down here and embarrassed himself trying to

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Speaker 1: be the big man responding to the fire. And then

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Speaker 1: he got unmasked by that mother in the Palisades when

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Speaker 1: at Newsome because her kid's school burned down. And Newsom

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Speaker 1: tried to get out of it by claiming he was

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Speaker 1: the mom called him on it, saying, well, here, let

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Speaker 1: me get in on the conversation, let me talk, and

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Speaker 1: he had to say, well, I've been trying to get

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Speaker 1: to him, and she said, yeah, I've tried five times.

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Speaker 1: Can't get a phone signal. Oh well let's go together

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Speaker 1: and find the phone signal. Right, totally unmask him to

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Speaker 1: be a phony. Well, the thing is about Newsom, he's

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Speaker 1: comfortable being a phony, and he'll just put on He's

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Speaker 1: like a chameleon. He'll put on a new persona. And

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Speaker 1: the latest persona is he's going to be the conciliator,

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Speaker 1: He's going to be the compromiser. He actually flew out

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Speaker 1: to Washington this week and yesterday he met with Trump

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Speaker 1: for more than an hour. Yeah, had a private meeting

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Speaker 1: with Trump for more than an hour, begging for money.

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Speaker 1: See He promised two and a half billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: state tax money to help bail out Los Angeles, but

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Speaker 1: he wants Trump to reimburse him. He makes he makes

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Speaker 1: the promise and then he goes to Trump and so

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Speaker 1: he has to kiss up to Trump. He's got to

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Speaker 1: kiss Trump's ass. He is the first Democratic elected official

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Speaker 1: to meet with Trump in the Oval Office since Trump

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Speaker 1: took over again. And of course, overriding all this is

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Speaker 1: Newsom wants to run for president. And he realizes that

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Speaker 1: being the leader of the woke resistance is now a

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Speaker 1: dead end job. The resistance is dead. Woke is dead.

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Speaker 1: So all the nons, the all the strutting around he

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Speaker 1: did for the past six years is now dated. It's

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Speaker 1: out of style. So he's got to put on uh,

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Speaker 1: he's got to put out a new costume. And Trump

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Speaker 1: has cons only threatening to withhold disaster aid, and he

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Speaker 1: keeps coming up with different demands and Newsom is now

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Speaker 1: reduced to saying whatever he wants their yes, sir yes.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it says here that this is from Newsom's

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Speaker 1: spokeshole is he Garden said they had a very productive

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Speaker 1: meeting at the White House, very productive over an hour

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Speaker 1: Newsom expressed his appreciation for the Trump administration's collaboration. The

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Speaker 1: governor also thanked Lie Zelden, the head of the EPA,

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Speaker 1: who dialed in for part of the meeting, thanking him

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Speaker 1: for deploying more than a thousand workers to help with

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Speaker 1: debris removal. And while other loser governors from failed states,

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Speaker 1: like the governor of New York and Illinois are are

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Speaker 1: carping and holding meetings trying to revive the resistance, Newsom

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Speaker 1: has no wants no part of it. He is not

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Speaker 1: joining them, and because he wants to run for governor

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Speaker 1: and he is in a huge hole here, and he

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Speaker 1: needs two and a half billion dollars in reimbursements. And

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Speaker 1: it's kind of fun to watch him twist and beg now, god.

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Speaker 8: Wait, hey no, hey, no, hey, no, hey, John, I

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Speaker 8: got a quick question for you. Uh And and tell me, honestly,

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Speaker 8: do you know who Do you know the name Emmett

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Speaker 8: Kelly the clown? Yes, yes, yes, you're the only guy

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Speaker 8: in the building that knows who that is other than me,

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Speaker 8: the only man in this building.

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Speaker 1: It probably doesn't reflect well on either one of us.

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, famous, very famous clown yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think it was worry or wary Willie that.

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Speaker 8: He based that he was a character anyway, he's he's, uh,

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Speaker 8: you know, one of the my one of the influences

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Speaker 8: on my dad M Kelly. And I'm and I'm shocked

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Speaker 8: at nobody. Yeah, that nobody knows who that is.

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Speaker 1: I remember him performing at ball games, used to see

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Speaker 1: them on television.

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Speaker 8: Yes, that's right. He was a bad deal. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 8: a huge deal. I know how you and I are

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Speaker 8: the only ones left.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 8: I know it's the Titanic over here. But I will

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Speaker 8: tell you I understand your frustration. You've been here since

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Speaker 8: what year, nineteen ninety six, ninety four, ninety two, ninety two,

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Speaker 8: ninety two, okay, and you've been saying the same thing

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Speaker 8: since ninety two, and people still don't listen to you.

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Speaker 1: Some people.

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Speaker 8: Yes, right, And I've been right, Yeah, you've been right, Yes, okay,

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Speaker 8: all right, right, yes, okay. I on the other hand,

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Speaker 8: I've been right. I've been saying for twenty five years,

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Speaker 8: you have to get a generator. Now everybody's buying generators.

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Speaker 8: I've been saying for twenty five years, we got to

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Speaker 8: cut these palm trees down because they're they're spreading wildfires.

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Speaker 8: And now the La Times twenty five years later said hey,

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Speaker 8: maybe it's time to get rid of these palm trees.

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Speaker 1: You know, you and I are going to be like

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Speaker 1: Van Go. That's right. We're going to be appreciated after

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Speaker 1: we're dead, that after we've checked into the mental institution.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Maps of our shows will go for millions

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Speaker 1: of dollars.

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Speaker 8: Yes, that's exactly right, and we'll be long gone, our

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Speaker 8: kids will be able to enjoy them. Alex Stone is

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Speaker 8: coming on with us tonight and also a scandal with

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Speaker 8: the super Bowl will get into that. Dean Sharp as well,

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Speaker 8: and then Petros at six thirty five.

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Speaker 1: So go all right, where dig dong with you? By

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Speaker 1: By the way, big show, Yeah, mist the news live

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Speaker 1: in the CAFI twenty four newsroom. Hey you've been listening

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Speaker 1: to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear

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