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Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 4: App sitting in for John Cobelt. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Ten years ago or more maybe eleven years ago. Who

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Speaker 4: remembers the name Neil cash Carry. Neil cash Carrey was

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Speaker 4: a Republican candidate for governor who ended up getting beaten

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Speaker 4: badly by Jerry Brown. You remember Jerry Brown, and so

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Speaker 4: I remember interviewing him in the newsroom at Fox eleven

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Speaker 4: and we were talking about the high speed rail and

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Speaker 4: he said, you know, I travel across California all the

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Speaker 4: time and people say to me, you know, how can

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Speaker 4: I get from Los Angeles to San Francisco faster? But

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Speaker 4: not one person ever said to me, this is cash

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Speaker 4: Carry talking. I wish I could get on a train

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Speaker 4: in Anaheim and end up in San Francisco, for example,

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Speaker 4: the time. So since then, we've spent countless billions on

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Speaker 4: the high speed rail project. It's something that present and

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Speaker 4: Trump and his new administration is reviewing this week. California

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Speaker 4: Congressman Kevin Kyleie formerly requested that the FBI opened an

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Speaker 4: investigation into it. So I'm joined by Michael Monks from

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Speaker 4: KFI News, who's been covering this story. What is the

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Speaker 4: latest on where things stand with this project?

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Speaker 5: Well, the board of the California High Speed Rail Authority

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Speaker 5: met yesterday and this was their first board meeting since

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Speaker 5: and said we think we're going to shut down this

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Speaker 5: gravy train that you've been enjoying for many years. In fact,

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Speaker 5: the latest amount of money that was promised by the

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Speaker 5: Biden administration was about four billion dollars, money that the

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Speaker 5: rail Authority says is needed to continue work just in

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Speaker 5: the Central Valley portion of this long project.

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Speaker 2: That's as far as they've gotten.

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Speaker 5: By the way, we are not going from Anaheim and

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Speaker 5: San Francisco yet, we are not even going anywhere.

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Speaker 4: I missed to remind our listeners right. It was back

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Speaker 4: in eight, two thousand and eight Proposition one A. It

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Speaker 4: was called San Francis go to Los Angeles, thirty three

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Speaker 4: The price tag is more than one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 5: Yes, the price tag is about the budget for the

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Speaker 5: whole thing is about one hundred billion dollars more than

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Speaker 5: what we were first told when this project, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, what's one hundred billion? What is it anymore?

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Speaker 5: This this economy, it's nothing. Yeah, but that's what people

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Speaker 2: So why are we even still having this discussion.

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Speaker 4: That's what's especially with Trump and Doge and Junior President

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Speaker 4: this would be like an obvious and they have clearly

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Speaker 4: review about specifically the four billion dollars, and that could

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Speaker 4: go farther. You mentioned Congressman Kylie and his requires is

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Speaker 4: basically a criminal investment. It's not a federal project, its

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Speaker 5: Most of the money has come from the state, so

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Speaker 5: it is still taxpayer dollars.

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Speaker 2: It's just a you and I are paying for this, correct, exactly.

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Speaker 5: And I think more people are wondering, especially people who

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Speaker 5: imagine if this thing we're back on the ballot from pain,

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Speaker 5: we please keep doing it, it would overwhelmingly lose.

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Speaker 2: And maybe that's where.

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Speaker 4: So let's say, whether it's a month from now or

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Speaker 4: then we've got the you've heard the proverbial train to nowhere.

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Speaker 2: I've been there.

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Speaker 4: We covered it in Merceid, Fresno, Bakersfield. I mean, there's

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Speaker 2: So what do you do? You just abandon it?

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Speaker 2: Now, congratulations, we might get.

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Speaker 5: To that point, but there are no trains from Bakersfield

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Speaker 2: Some of this project does use existing tracks.

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Speaker 5: But what we learned from the board at yesterday's meeting, okay,

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Speaker 5: out and said we welcome this review. We know that

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Speaker 5: all of the money is account They're everything exactly. It's

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Speaker 5: It's been slower than we thought. But the CEO ian

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Speaker 5: if we don't get the federal money. But we are

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Speaker 5: working on ways to proceed even without it through the

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Speaker 4: So have they said did they say at the meeting,

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Speaker 5: By the time you're going from La to San Francisco,

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Speaker 5: about thirteen years after the entire project was supposed to

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Speaker 4: But the board portrays this as really like an economics

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Speaker 4: job creation program, not like an over budget disaster, you know, right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 5: I mean, because even though we're not taking trains, there

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Speaker 5: with the term sizzle reel. This is something where you

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Speaker 5: put the highlights right to sell yourself. Well, they had

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Speaker 4: I mean, I guess in a perfect world, if you

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Speaker 2: Be a nice option, but not at this costactly.

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Speaker 5: That's right, because you do have to weigh the cost benefit,

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Speaker 4: What also strikes me is that it's just it's just

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Speaker 5: You know, we should we should be better at this.

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Speaker 5: It's similar, I think to Metro Los Angeles. Obviously, Metro

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles is everything that they warn you about.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a native.

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Speaker 5: I've been here two years, okay, and so it is

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Speaker 5: And so it's a losing argument for public transportation when

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Speaker 5: you evaluate metros overall results, and it's a losing argument

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Speaker 4: Well, you're in a good situation because you have the

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Speaker 4: they have to, that's right, not because they That is

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Speaker 5: Know, there are folks whose only mode of transmit This

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Speaker 2: You've got to make it safe and viable for everyone.

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Speaker 2: We're talking with Michael Monks.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna stick with Michael for another segment because he's

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Speaker 4: covering City Hall a lot for KFI News and there's

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Speaker 4: always some fascinating things that go there. And welcome to

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Speaker 4: the world of suffering in traffic in southern California. It's

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Speaker 4: my autobiography, which will never be written. Is at tentatively

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll be back more than Michael.

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Speaker 2: Michael monsterrom KFI News is here.

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Speaker 4: Michael was at the City Council this week during this

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Speaker 4: theatrical is my Word presentation by the now ex fire

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Speaker 4: chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, Christian Crowley, who

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Speaker 4: sent back home by a vote of thirteen to two.

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Speaker 4: I believe it was by the city council. So what's

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Speaker 5: I think what we saw was the end of this story,

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Speaker 5: and now we move into the next story, which is

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Speaker 5: what a lot of us have already been talking about,

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Speaker 5: is the future of the mayor and what do her

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Speaker 5: So we closed this chapter in dramatic fashion. Look, I

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Speaker 5: explain why I think a Planning Commission meeting was really exciting.

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Speaker 5: I don't get this on, but no, that's what I wait.

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Speaker 5: But people realize they can go to the public. But

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Speaker 4: the upsetting but not surprising audit which shows billions of

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Speaker 4: dollars of money designated for helping the homeless is unaccounted for.

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Speaker 4: It can't be sort of tied to results. We talked

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Speaker 4: about the city of Los Angeles clearing the water and

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Speaker 4: the Pacific Palisades for drinking, for bathing, for using, which

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Speaker 4: Mayor Bass is touting as record accomplishments. She says she's

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Speaker 4: committed to rebuilding at lightning speed. We haven't heard that much,

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Speaker 4: by comparison, about progress in Alta Dina. The destruction there massive,

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Speaker 4: but not as widespread as the Palisades, and of course

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Speaker 4: that's part of Los Angeles County. We know that the

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Speaker 4: county sued Southern California Edison this week, using them their

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Speaker 4: high power lines of being the cause of the fire,

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Speaker 4: and then by comparison. On a related note, we understand

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Speaker 4: that again back to the City of Los Angeles, not

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Speaker 4: to get people confused between the city and the county,

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Speaker 4: but that when they rebuild the power infrastructure in the Palisades,

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Speaker 4: they've committed to putting the electrical transmission lines underground, which

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Speaker 4: is the way it's done now, which costs anywhere from

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Speaker 4: a million dollars to four million dollars a mile, and

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Speaker 4: there's at least eighty miles there, and no one has

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Speaker 4: explained exactly who's going to pay for that, except of

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Speaker 4: course you and I the taxpayers.

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Speaker 2: So things are moving forward.

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Speaker 4: The Dodgers, you may have heard, announced that they're going

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Speaker 4: to be building a couple of baseball fields in Altadena

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Speaker 4: through the very impressive Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation. I'm Phil

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Speaker 4: Shuman from Fox eleven News. Been covering these kinds of

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Speaker 4: things for a long time here in Southern California, and

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Speaker 4: it's interesting for me to get to share some of

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Speaker 4: what I think about these things, because usually, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm just playing it pretty much straight down the middle

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Speaker 4: of the road and reporting the news and both sides

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Speaker 4: or multiple sides of any given story, without you know,

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Speaker 4: adding in any personal thoughts. But this is a little

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Speaker 4: bit of an opportunity to broaden my horizons. But I

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Speaker 4: also want to hear what you think. And you've been

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Speaker 4: nice enough to record some of those messages on the

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Speaker 4: iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Let's listen to one.

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Speaker 5: Now, Hey, if you were a second year on the

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Speaker 5: four h five, you must be driving a nineteen seventy

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Speaker 5: five B two ten.

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Speaker 2: That's a Dawson for you millennials. I'm not driving, but

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Speaker 2: I will tell you.

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Speaker 4: I mean, when I first moved to southern California, I

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Speaker 4: believe it was sometime in the nineteen eighties, I had

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Speaker 4: a I had been driving a stick manual transmission, and

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Speaker 4: you quickly realized that unless you want to be burning

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Speaker 4: out your clutch, you need to graduate from that to

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Speaker 4: the automatic transition. So the second gear on the four

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Speaker 4: oh five is obviously tongue in cheap, but it makes

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Speaker 4: the point that when you're on that four oh five,

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Speaker 4: oh first gear, second gear, and then what about mass transit?

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Speaker 4: We were talking with Michael Monks about Metro and a

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Speaker 4: bunch of related issues in the previous segment.

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Speaker 2: Something we've talked about here before.

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Speaker 4: They still are struggling with the plan to put mass

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Speaker 4: transit through this Supulveta pass. It's kind of like the

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Speaker 4: holy grail of getting people back and forth from the

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Speaker 4: valley to the west side without sitting on that four

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Speaker 4: h five. You remember what was it called Deborah years

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Speaker 4: ago Karma Geddon when they they destroyed the overpass and

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Speaker 4: rebuilt some bridges and widen the freeways, and ultimately it didn't.

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Speaker 2: Accomplish a whole heck of a lot.

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Speaker 4: But now we're talking about maybe even a monorail through

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Speaker 4: the subpulvent of pass connecting say the Brentwood area to

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Speaker 4: the Van Eyes area.

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Speaker 2: Hey, whatever they can do, I'm all for it. What else?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: What else do we have? Elmer?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Will it be possible to find out the individuals

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Speaker 1: who are in charge of those moneies? Are those funds

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Speaker 1: from the homeless program? And will any of these individuals

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Speaker 1: be held accountable or prosecuted if discovered that they stole

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Speaker 1: the money?

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Speaker 2: In fact?

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Speaker 1: Can we get names of those individuals and who hired

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Speaker 1: all these individuals. Thank you enjoyed the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 4: That's in reference to the story we had earlier about

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Speaker 4: the very the audit of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,

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Speaker 4: which administers money from the city, which administers money from

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Speaker 4: the county, which found a lack of accountability for billions

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Speaker 4: of dollars with the potential for fraud or waste or abuse.

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Speaker 4: No one's accusing anyone of stealing the money, but Los

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Speaker 4: Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the director's appointed by the mayor,

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Speaker 4: It has a board, And I guess the short answer

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Speaker 4: to your question is, we certainly would be able to

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Speaker 4: find out who's in charge, and if there is anything.

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Speaker 2: Illegal that who would be held accountable.

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Speaker 4: But it's really more a question of efficiency than any

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Speaker 4: possible criminal activity at this point, do we have another one?

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Speaker 7: You say it's a complicated situation. How come it wasn't

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Speaker 7: complicated twenty years ago? Because the police would move you along.

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Speaker 7: You weren't allowed to camp wherever you wanted. We didn't

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Speaker 7: give you a free cell phone, we didn't give you

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Speaker 7: free drugs, we didn't give you free alcohol, cigarettes, whatever

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Speaker 7: your heart desired. We made it tough on them, and

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Speaker 7: they pulled their poop together. They should either be in

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Speaker 7: jail or they should get drug rehab and help.

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Speaker 2: Fix well A.

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Speaker 4: It's not a crime to be homeless, so you can't

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Speaker 4: arrest somebody for being homeless. You can certainly arrest somebody

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Speaker 4: for loitering. You can arrest somebody for drug dealing, You

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Speaker 4: can arrest somebody for violence, You can arrest somebody you

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Speaker 4: know for a variety of things. But our political leaders

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Speaker 4: have chosen to be more compassionate than that. And if

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Speaker 4: you arrest somebody, where are you going to bring them?

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Speaker 4: You're going to bring them to county jail when they

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Speaker 4: need drug or alcohol treatment. So there's not enough drug

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Speaker 4: or alcohol treatment centers. Yes, life was maybe simpler twenty

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Speaker 4: years ago. Maybe that's too short a timeframe, maybe forty

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Speaker 4: years ago, but the cost of housing, air in southern California,

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Speaker 4: and a variety of other factors have contributed to the

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Speaker 4: rise of homeless given. Yes, agreed, drug and alcohol abuse

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Speaker 4: a huge part of it. But that's why I say

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Speaker 4: it's complicated, and that's why everybody, most that that studied

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Speaker 4: this issue agrees it's complicated because there aren't enough facilities

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Speaker 4: to treat the people who need the treatment, and yes,

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Speaker 4: we have been too lenient in letting people quote choose

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Speaker 4: to stay.

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Speaker 2: On the street. All right.

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Speaker 4: I mean I could talk about this endlessly and a

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Speaker 4: lot of times I feel like we're going around in circles.

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Speaker 4: But I think we agree that the current approach, while

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Speaker 4: well intended, is not as successful as it could be.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if Rick Caruso had been elected mayor rather

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Speaker 4: than Karen Bass, would things be significantly different today than

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Speaker 4: they are. I don't know that I could say yes

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Speaker 4: to that question. All right, we have one more segment left.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully we'll get a visit from Timmy.

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

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Speaker 6: six forty.

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Speaker 4: I'm Phil Shuman, Thanks for joining for joining in this

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Speaker 4: discussion for the passed a few hours. Been with you

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Speaker 4: since one o'clock, sitting in for John today, who has

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Speaker 4: a well deserved Friday off. Tim Conway Juniors come in

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Speaker 4: and we spent a lot of time talking about upsetting

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Speaker 4: issues and I'm sorry, but that's part of what we

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Speaker 4: do here, whether it's the audit that reveals like a

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Speaker 4: lack of accountability and billions of dollars for treating the homelessness,

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Speaker 4: the futility of the high speed Reil program, this bizarre

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Speaker 4: death of Gene Hackman and his wife, perhaps as much

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Speaker 4: as a week apart in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The

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Speaker 4: fire department, the chief getting fired, appealing unsuccessfully for her

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Speaker 4: job back La City Fire. But here's one thing we

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Speaker 4: can all agree on. The Dodgers are going to be great.

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Speaker 4: In fact, did you know that the Dodgers are actually

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Speaker 4: starting their season? A lot of people haven't focused on

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Speaker 4: this on yet, is that the Dodgers are starting their

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Speaker 4: season in Tokyo. They're going to play two games against

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Speaker 4: the Cubs. That's start. I mean that count rather on

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Speaker 4: March eighteenth and nineteenth, the Tokyo Series. It's the latest

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Speaker 4: installment in what they call in the MLB's World Tour.

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Speaker 4: San Diego started the season last month last year, and

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Speaker 4: Soul the Mets were in London, and so that's kind

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Speaker 4: of cool something to look forward to. Dodgers pretty much

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Speaker 4: guaranteed to win the World Series again already at this

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Speaker 4: point in the season. And then how about the Lakers.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw the Lakers game last

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Speaker 4: night against the Knicks. They came back, they won I

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Speaker 4: think they're eighth in a row. There was a really

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Speaker 4: interesting scene where Lebron, who you know, if you listen

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Speaker 4: to me here, I love Lebron and forgive me for

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Speaker 4: you that find ways to criticize him them your way

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Speaker 4: off base.

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Speaker 2: He had it out with Stephen A.

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Speaker 4: Smith, apparently Steven who feels the need to you know,

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Speaker 4: don't even get me started on Steven A feels the

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Speaker 4: need to justify his existence.

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Speaker 2: Pretty much twenty four hours a day.

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Speaker 4: Has been calling out the Browny Lebron situation, saying that

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Speaker 4: the only and Brownie's in the league is because of

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Speaker 4: his dad, and he insisted the Lakers draft him. I say, great,

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Speaker 4: good that he's in the league. They got twelve players,

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Speaker 4: they can afford to have the number twelve guy, but

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Speaker 4: not the greatest. But then Steven A, I mean, the

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Speaker 4: story about him. He's going to be making Tim Conway

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Speaker 4: junior money. I think he's about to sign a five

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Speaker 4: year contract as in ESPN right for one hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 4: I mean, what world exists where Steven A Smith, who

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Speaker 4: you know, does a good job and has a strong

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Speaker 4: following and a point of view and a personality. It's

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Speaker 4: worth twenty million dollars and my kid's teacher is worth

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Speaker 4: you know, sixty grand a year.

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Speaker 2: All right, I raised that question hypothetically.

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Speaker 4: But also maybe Tim Conway Junior gong with you, buddy,

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Speaker 4: is able to weigh in on that.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 8: I look, the Lakers have won eight in a row. Ye,

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Speaker 8: who cares who's on the team?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a good his mom could be on the

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Speaker 8: team if they're running eight in a row, nine in

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Speaker 8: a row?

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Speaker 2: Who cares?

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Speaker 4: I mean, is the twelfth man gonna be the difference

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Speaker 4: between victory and defeat?

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Speaker 2: I don't think so, right, But Steven A.

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Speaker 8: Smith is really good at getting people to watch his

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Speaker 8: show because he wants people to either love him or

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Speaker 8: hate him. He doesn't want anyone in between. And he

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Speaker 8: does and has a point of view. Yes, But initially

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Speaker 8: he got that that reputation, and he decided to attack

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Speaker 8: America's football team, the Cowboys, and he went after the

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Speaker 8: Cowboys every year, every season, every week, and he got

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Speaker 8: those those Cowboy fans so pissed off that it just exploded.

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Speaker 8: So he knows how to get people to watch and listen.

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Speaker 8: And that's why signing one hundred million.

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Speaker 4: Dollars I mean that's what it's about, right, You got

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Speaker 4: the ratings, you got the followers. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 4: spend a lot of time listening to the sports talk

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Speaker 4: on radio or TV. I mean, I'm a huge sports fan,

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Speaker 4: as you know. I mean I read the La Time

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Speaker 4: Sports page.

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Speaker 2: I love it. But I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Were you a Jim Murray guy, huge Jim Murray guy.

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Speaker 8: I remember Jim Murray used to be a columnist for

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Speaker 8: the La Times, and I used to go, even in

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Speaker 8: seventh grade. We take the beach by from the valley

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Speaker 8: down to uh Sherman Oaks, then to Westwood end of

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Speaker 8: the you know, it's three transfers to get to the beach.

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Speaker 8: But we were you know, thirteen fourteen, you know, and

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Speaker 8: you could ride the bus back then.

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Speaker 2: And I'd show up at the beach.

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Speaker 8: All my friends would be chasing girls around and playing

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Speaker 8: football and then eventually later on smoking weed, and I'd

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Speaker 8: be reading Jimmie Times, reading Jim Murray beach yeah right,

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Speaker 8: And and a buddy of mine said, why do you

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Speaker 8: read the newspaper? Those stories change all the time. I'm like, well,

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Speaker 8: that's why you read it. Yeah, yeah, I mean we're

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Speaker 8: fortunate enough. I mean I talk about the La Times

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Speaker 8: a lot here.

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Speaker 4: I mean Bill Plashki's world class, and then you know

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Speaker 4: Steve Lopez, Gustavo Ariana, Robin ab Carry and I mean

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Speaker 4: they've they were kind of a shadow of what they

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Speaker 4: used to be in terms of circulation and also influence,

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Speaker 4: I think. But still on a day to day basis,

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Speaker 4: especially with these fires and the homelessest issue and the

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Speaker 4: whole political scene, they do a great job.

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Speaker 2: I really think they do a great Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Right, I think they could do a little deeper dive

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Speaker 8: into city hall.

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Speaker 2: What do you what do you read in the Conway

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Speaker 2: Family Newsletter? Read the racing form?

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Speaker 8: But you know, nobody holds city hall to the fire,

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Speaker 8: to the feet to the fire in this town.

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Speaker 2: Now they're trying to.

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Speaker 4: But I mean the stories that come out there's no consequences.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's why, because nobody ever does it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was a story that came out today.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if you saw this today, but there

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Speaker 8: was a story that came out today.

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Speaker 2: I said to John colebolts right up his alley.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And the title or the lead was searing adult audit,

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Speaker 8: searing audit find City Hall has failed in properly tracking

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Speaker 8: billions of dollars for homeless.

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Speaker 2: Right, we did that. They don't know where the money

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Speaker 2: is well?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: Which and then so why isn't the head of LASA,

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Speaker 4: Lavish Adams Kellum fired.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's calling for her resignation.

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Speaker 8: Nobody gets fired in city Hall or in the supervisors.

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Speaker 8: The fire chief got fired, right, the fire chief got fired.

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Speaker 8: But none of these officials, they don't get fired. They

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Speaker 8: go to jail occasionally. But look, you know, up and

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Speaker 8: during COVID, you remember this, the state lost thirty billion

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Speaker 8: dollars to fraud for the Unemployment Department. Not one person

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Speaker 8: was fired or reprimanded, not one, not a single person.

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Speaker 8: It's that's thirty billion dollars. The City of Los Angeles

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Speaker 8: is their their budget shortfall next year is one hundred

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Speaker 8: and forty seven million dollars. It's gonna get worse too,

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Speaker 8: because you're not gonna get the property tax from you know,

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Speaker 8: the burned out homes. There's a lot of businesses that

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Speaker 8: have been shut down. You're not going to get that tax.

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Speaker 8: And a lot of production in Hollywood's been shut down,

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Speaker 8: and sales of homes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's horrible.

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Speaker 4: So now that you have us depressed, what do you

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Speaker 4: what do you got coming up after? For Yeah, your

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Speaker 4: buddy Alex Mike Eleckson man, all right, he's does he

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Speaker 4: have a.

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Speaker 2: New interview with the governor?

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Speaker 8: You know he hasn't he it's it's odd. It's Charlie

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Speaker 8: Kirk odd. Yeah, he sort of Charlie Kirks, but he

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Speaker 8: knows how it all went down. Yeah, and he interviewed

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Speaker 8: Charlie Kirk. Right, Yeah, he interviewed Charlie Kirk. But Michael

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Speaker 8: Monks is coming on with us as well, and so

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Speaker 8: Michael Monks on four to thirty five, Alex Michaelson at

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Speaker 8: five oh five, and then we have Gene Hackman. I'm

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Speaker 8: sure he did that. Yeah, we covered that. Very strange

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Speaker 8: and she was there for a week before he died.

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Speaker 4: And what does that mean he was unable to do

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Speaker 4: anything because of his advanced age and state. We don't

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Speaker 4: and we may never know because there but dead.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna get a lot of crap for this, but

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Speaker 8: at the end of a guy's life, he's really difficult

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Speaker 8: to be around.

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Speaker 2: Guys are not good at the end.

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Speaker 8: At ninety five between George Carlin said between eighty and

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Speaker 8: ninety it is not a good decade for men. This

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Speaker 8: guy was five years north of that. So I'm sure

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Speaker 8: they hated each other, the two of them, right had

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Speaker 8: to have because you know, all of a sudden, she's

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Speaker 8: a full time nurse for the last ten years, and

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Speaker 8: so it was probably a complicated relationship.

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Speaker 2: They didn't talk to anybody.

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Speaker 8: You know, you couldn't be gone for two weeks without

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Speaker 8: somebody checking on you. I couldn't be gone for tenfing

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Speaker 8: minutes without somebody checking it on me.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, yeah, Hey, I'm you know what, I'm going

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Speaker 4: to the Clippers game tonight, so I'll be listening on

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Speaker 4: the way there.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's cool. They're playing.

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Speaker 4: They're playing the Knicks. Wow without Brunson who got hurt

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Speaker 4: last night?

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Speaker 8: And how about this next Laker game Boston tomorrow, Boston Laker.

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Speaker 2: If you were the finals? Is that here or there?

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Speaker 2: It's there?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, But this is an exciting time to be

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Speaker 4: a sports fan. Sports adds so much to us and

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Speaker 4: it brings us together. Tim it's by and the King.

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Speaker 8: The Kings made a trade too, they got a journeyman

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Speaker 8: guy from Russia.

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure that'll work out.

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Speaker 8: And look, the Dodgers, the Rams, everybody's trying to win

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Speaker 8: a championship around here. You know, sometimes you live in

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Speaker 8: cities where they don't try to win championships, like Anaheim,

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Speaker 8: Saint Louis. You know, I San Diego. San Diego has

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Speaker 8: never won a championship in anything, football, baseball, basketball, soccer, nothing,

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Speaker 8: not one championship, nothing.

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Speaker 2: And we've had like nine hundred of them here.

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Speaker 4: All Right, I'm gonna have to that Tim, Tim Conway's

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Speaker 4: coming up. After checking in with Michael Trojan the KFI

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Speaker 4: twenty four newsroom.

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