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Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome on really tumultuous day,

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Speaker 1: not only here, but in various places in the country.

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Speaker 1: version on the iHeartRadio app. And I told you yesterday

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Speaker 1: that we were going to be attending the Palisades rally demonstration.

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Speaker 1: It to the one put on by the reality TV

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Speaker 1: star Spencer Pratt and Jeremy Patawer, who is a producer,

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Speaker 1: and it drew a huge crowd today in the Palisades.

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Speaker 1: We recorded quite a few interviews with local residents and

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Speaker 1: we're going to be playing those throughout the show today

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Speaker 1: and you will get a sense of how devastated everyone

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Speaker 1: still is. Extreme frustration and anger, and there has just

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Speaker 1: been no help at all coming from any level of

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Speaker 1: this failed government, whether it is the city, state, the

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Speaker 1: fire department, the police department. It is a complete failure.

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Speaker 1: No one has spoken. Nobody in government speaks to any

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Speaker 1: of the people there or any of the community leaders.

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Speaker 1: Everything is denied, everything is deflected, excused, or not responded

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Speaker 1: to it all. It is astonishing and it starts with

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass, and there's a lot to say about her,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think Karen Bass has a single vote

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Speaker 1: in the Palisades. But what happened The biggest news occurred

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Speaker 1: just after we left. We got there early and we

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Speaker 1: plan the show and the speeches at this rally went

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Speaker 1: on for a while and after we left, and after

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Speaker 1: I spoke with him off stage, Spencer Pratt announced that

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Speaker 1: he's going to run for mayor against Karen Bass. And

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Speaker 1: we'll play you now that moment cut number ten.

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Speaker 2: NGOs, nonprofits and unions are running this town. Why do

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Speaker 2: you think one hundred million in fire aid money is missing?

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Speaker 2: The system in Los Angeles isn't struggling, it's fundamentally broken.

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Speaker 2: It to protect the people at the top and the

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Speaker 2: friends they exchanged favors with while the rest of us

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Speaker 2: drown in toxic smoke and ash. Business as usual is

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Speaker 2: a death sentence. For Los Angeles and I'm done waiting

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Speaker 2: for someone to take real action.

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Speaker 1: That's why I am running for mayor.

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Speaker 3: And let me be Claire.

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Speaker 2: This just isn't a camp. This is a mission, and

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Speaker 2: we're gonna expose the system. We are going into every

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Speaker 2: dark corner of LA politics and disinfecting the.

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Speaker 4: City with our light.

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Speaker 2: And when we are done, La is going to be

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Speaker 2: camera ready again.

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Speaker 1: That was a total surprise, and I think that captures

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Speaker 1: the mood of the Palisage residents really well. That does

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent support from the sound of it, from

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Speaker 1: the crowd. There is zero interest in even listening to

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Speaker 1: Karen Dass anymore. She is a complete liar and a

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Speaker 1: fraud and she has completely betrayed everybody in that section

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Speaker 1: of town. And if there are any Karen Bass supporters

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Speaker 1: an absolute disaster. And you go, you spend a couple

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Speaker 1: hours talking to the people from Palisades, come to your

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Speaker 1: own conclusions about her leadership. We're gonna play now, Spencer Pratt.

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Speaker 1: I spoke with him before he went on stage and

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Speaker 1: announced he's running for mayor and play cut number seven.

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Speaker 1: All we have Spencer Pratt here, Spencer, huge crowd. People

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Speaker 1: have really responded to your leadership online. It seems like

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Speaker 1: the last year. What have you gotten any response yet

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not just harassment.

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Speaker 5: Tw The mayor tried to insinuate that this event was

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Speaker 5: for profit, that people are making money off this. When

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Speaker 5: I think he even gave out five hundred shirts. So no,

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Speaker 5: all the leadership of the city and the state is

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Speaker 4: They need money from the fire victims.

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Speaker 1: So you saw this week obviously that there's been seven

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Speaker 5: Yeah, two months ago, I had firefighters reach out to

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, it's just it's unacceptable.

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Speaker 5: And it's obviously a full cover up, and we know

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Speaker 4: So that's when you knew it was cooked from the jump.

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Speaker 5: But of course the marriage just continues to lie, and

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Speaker 4: Everyone is lying because if the truth.

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Speaker 5: Gets out, how can they still be in office. They

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Speaker 4: And you know.

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Speaker 1: A lot of truth has come out. Do you think

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I think one of the biggest stories it still is.

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Speaker 5: You know, it sounds like insider baseball, but the amount

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Speaker 4: That's a big story that's going to be billions.

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Speaker 5: You know, everyone got worked up just over one hundred

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Speaker 5: able to prove that Newsom has not used the billions

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Speaker 1: What about the State Parks Department coming in and kicking

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Speaker 5: You know, I think the more insane part is that

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Speaker 5: because in their logic, oh, we don't want people to

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Speaker 4: Well, in your home park manual.

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Speaker 5: You're supposed to be closing the state park until it's

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Speaker 4: So once you leave the fire breaks, close your state

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Speaker 5: The fact that we have drome footage showing the whole

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Speaker 5: We have drome footage and was released this week with

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Speaker 1: Why do you think they did it? Why do you

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean that's first, it's negligence. I think there's

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of people I've been talking to

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Speaker 5: You know, at the end of the day, now the Palisades,

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Speaker 5: for it, and that's what we have to continue fighting

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Speaker 5: And you know, there's gonna be billions of dollars being

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Speaker 5: the state is broke, the city's broke.

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Speaker 4: So they need money.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, you've done great work, Spencer break And shortly

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Speaker 1: of the things that he referred to in that little

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Speaker 1: And not only did the state parks employees kick the

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Speaker 1: LA Fire Department off the land whose Topanga State Park,

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Speaker 1: it's where the original fire started on January first, it's

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Speaker 1: where it was still smoldering. It's where there were still hotspots, rocks,

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Speaker 1: They were the bulldozers off because that would tear up

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Speaker 1: Spencer mentioned this, is they made the firefighters take some

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Speaker 1: insane thing imaginable. Now, when we come back, I want

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Speaker 1: to tell you about the La Times this morning. It

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Speaker 1: turns out that the Palisades Investigative Report, the after action

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Speaker 1: So more truth came out today. Tell you about that.

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Speaker 1: we all went to the rally today in Pacific Pali

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Speaker 1: Seeds and take this rally name literally. They let us

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Speaker 1: Fire Department, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass they let the

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Speaker 1: Palisades burn. Now the question is why. But it looks

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Speaker 1: I have talked to so many people and they tell

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Speaker 1: And every time I hear another version of this story,

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Speaker 1: running for mayor, the former reality television star. And what

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Speaker 3: Next, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI

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Speaker 3: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: On the first anniversary of the Palisades and Altadena fires.

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Speaker 1: We're on from one until four o'clock and then after

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Speaker 1: So this morning a group of us, Eric Ray and

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Speaker 1: in the Palisades. They were attending the rally called they

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Speaker 1: She said, she's just gonna have that waved. Nothing's been waved.

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Speaker 1: Total lie, total failure. So this was posted that She

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Speaker 1: Every single politic, palacitian that wants to come back, that

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Speaker 1: You cannot make this stuff up anyway. We caught up

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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, my house burned down, a house

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Speaker 6: So no, I've written seventy five articles on Pacific Palisades

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Speaker 1: In fact, we gave away T shirts. We haven't sold

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Speaker 6: Well, that's the classic relationship between a victim and a victimizer.

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Speaker 6: We survived to fire, our home burned down, and we're

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Speaker 1: And you saw the LA Time story that she had

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Speaker 1: Has anybody from any level of government contacted you or

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Speaker 6: The first time the mayor has identified that I exist

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Speaker 1: that they don't have to respond to all these people gathering.

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Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I think they're not used to it.

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Speaker 6: I don't think they're used to the community pushing back,

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Speaker 6: and when the community pushes back, it's such a surprise

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Speaker 6: to them that they would really appreciate that they could

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Speaker 6: bury it. In fact, they've done everything that they could today,

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Speaker 6: in my opinion, to make sure that this didn't occur.

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Speaker 6: Like we barely even had we paid for permitting, and

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Speaker 6: we barely had blockades up forty five minutes before this

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Speaker 6: cars were coming through.

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Speaker 1: It was scared me to death.

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Speaker 6: I was ready to cancel the event.

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Speaker 1: I saw it. Heard an interview that she did with

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Speaker 1: Channel two and at the end of the interview she

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Speaker 1: wanted to point out, but the World Cup is coming

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Speaker 1: and we want all Angelios to rally together. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she's doing the misspeak she can to like pivot towards

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Speaker 1: something positive. I just don't want to hear all this

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Speaker 1: talk about the Palisades.

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Speaker 6: Misdirection, gas lighting, and I think, look, the truth of

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Speaker 6: the matter is the fact that these homes burn down

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Speaker 6: in an Altadena n Malibu that effects a very small

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Speaker 6: porn shit of Los Angeles. But the reason why it's

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Speaker 6: pertinent to everyone else is because this could happen to them,

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Speaker 6: especially if our leaders learn nothing from the situation. If

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Speaker 6: they don't analyze it and figure out the things that

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Speaker 6: went wrong, we will not gain as a community, not

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Speaker 6: one bit, and this will happen again.

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Speaker 1: Jeremy, thanks for coming on. All right. That's Jeremy Padawak,

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Speaker 1: falsely accused by Karen Bass of profiting for organizing they

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Speaker 1: let us burn rally in the Palisades. He actually spent

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Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars of his own money to put together

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Speaker 1: the rally. More coming up next hour. We're going to

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Speaker 1: play eclipse of some of the experiences of the Palisades

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Speaker 1: residents and their feelings and their emotions. And these people

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Speaker 1: are hot still, they're still upset, and they should be

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Speaker 1: because the failure is ongoing every day. Every day the

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Speaker 1: failure is extended.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: We are on from one until four. You can follow

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Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio, and on YouTube. You can subscribe by going

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Speaker 1: com slash at johnco Belts Show. And from what I understand,

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Speaker 1: we are going to be putting videos of the interviews

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Speaker 1: that we did with the residents and with people like

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Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt and Jeremy Patterwer and also Tracy Park. Will

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Speaker 1: be playing the audio of that throughout the show as

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Speaker 1: much as we can fit in. But if you want

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Speaker 1: to see the videos, we're going to post those later

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Speaker 1: com slash at John Covelt Show. I was standing with

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Speaker 1: the crowd, uh, and they got, they got. They got

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Speaker 1: quite boisterous and quite noisy, especially when Spencer Pratt took

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Speaker 1: the stage. You know, I was thinking, Uh, I understand

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Speaker 1: how politics works. And Karen baskets a lot of votes

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Speaker 1: from the city unions. They're guaranteed votes. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what percentage, but it's a significant enough percentage. And these

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Speaker 1: people get paid by Karen Bass and she, like all

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Speaker 1: the other mayors, agree to generous contracts that the city

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Speaker 1: cannot afford. That's why there's constantly crises because they're just

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Speaker 1: isn't the tax revenue to cover these excessive contracts. But

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Speaker 1: in return, it's kind of like what Tim Waltz did

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Speaker 1: with the Somalis. Tim Waltz allowed billions of tax dollars

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Speaker 1: to flow to the Somalis through their fake, crooked childcare

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Speaker 1: centers and feeding our future centers, and in return, the

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Speaker 1: Somalis voted as this gigantic block eighty one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: votes that he had in the bank guaranteed right off

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Speaker 1: the top. Well, Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom have the

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Speaker 1: same scam going with state and city worker unions. One

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Speaker 1: of the great one of the worst things that Jerry

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Speaker 1: Brown ever did, or ednie governor was allow state workers

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Speaker 1: to unionize. I think he signed that back in the seventies.

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Speaker 1: And then governors start pandering. And here's the way it works.

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Speaker 1: The governments basically bribe the union workers in exchange for votes,

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Speaker 1: and in turn, I suspect that these unions then bribe

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Speaker 1: the politicians with campaign contributions or under the table contributions.

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Speaker 1: I think the reason these nonprofits both here in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles and in Minnesota and everywhere else, the reason they're

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Speaker 1: suddenly thriving this past decade. You know when something changes

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Speaker 1: that dramatically. It was just a few years ago I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what NGO meant. Non government organization. Well, what's that. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's these nonprofits that get these huge grants that run

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Speaker 1: into the millions, the tens of millions totals up into

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Speaker 1: the billions of dollars. And somebody pointed out that the

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Speaker 1: politicians here in LA have been short changing funding the

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Speaker 1: police and fire. They shovel the money into the nonprofits

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Speaker 1: or into the unions. And I have to believe that

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Speaker 1: the politicians, especially here in the city of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: are getting kickbacks from the nonprofits. They have to be,

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Speaker 1: because untold millions of dollars go into these and I'm

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Speaker 1: talking like homeless nonprofits, the legal alien nonprofits, poverty nonprofits,

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Speaker 1: all these fake industries that have sprung up just in

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Speaker 1: recent years. They're extremely well funded. They accomplished nothing. Take

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Speaker 1: homelessness for example, it's only increased the more money would

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Speaker 1: put in. That was like the first morning in my

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Speaker 1: head is how could you put this much money in

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Speaker 1: every year? Every year, every year billions of dollars and

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Speaker 1: every year goes up by the thousands. How is that possible?

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Speaker 1: Because almost none of it was used to help the

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Speaker 1: homeless people. It was pocketed by the people running the nonprofits.

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Speaker 1: I started looking at at the salaries and all the

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Speaker 1: executives are making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of these people. Some of this information is

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Speaker 1: accessible online and it's like, these are tremendous salaries. And

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Speaker 1: then and this is off the books, they give kickbacks

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Speaker 1: to the politicians. Why would a politician, you know how

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Speaker 1: how specific they are with spending their money. They want

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Speaker 1: to spend money on something that's going to benefit them,

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Speaker 1: So they spend the money on worker unions from police

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Speaker 1: and fire to all the loser workers in state and

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Speaker 1: city government because they want them votes. But I think now,

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Speaker 1: especially with the nonprofit organizations, it's because they're getting to

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Speaker 1: share the proceeds. It has to be that. You wonder

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Speaker 1: how politicians end up leaving office and they're millionaires and

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Speaker 1: they own multiple homes. They have to be skimming off

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Speaker 1: some of the money or getting kickbacks. It can't be

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Speaker 1: anything else. The money never gets to the destination, which

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Speaker 1: is why you still have lots lots of kids that

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Speaker 1: were hungry. I mean, look look at what chef Bruno

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Speaker 1: has to do every year, right, Why isn't that all

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Speaker 1: taken care of by the billions of dollars Orange County

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Speaker 1: residents have spent supporting various government programs to relieve to

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Speaker 1: relieve hunger. Money doesn't get to the kids, money doesn't

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Speaker 1: get to the homeless. The money didn't build high speed rail.

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Speaker 1: The money goes into the pockets of those running the

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Speaker 1: nonprofits and goes into the pockets of the politicians who

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Speaker 1: vote to disperse the money, and maybe the bureaucrats of

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Speaker 1: these agencies who facilitate the dispersement. It's got to be that,

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Speaker 1: because I can't think of where else the money has gone.

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Speaker 1: A lot of these programs are not complicated. They should work,

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Speaker 1: they should do so them good. They don't, and the

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Speaker 1: problem gets worse, which means it's obvious now we have

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Speaker 1: like they have in Minnesota. And I'm glad Minnesota happened.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that'll get people here in LA to realize that's

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Speaker 1: what's going on here. I mean, they're prosecuting ninety people

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota. All Right, we come back. I'm gonna play

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Speaker 1: Eclipse from some of the residents of the Palisades and

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Speaker 1: listen to what they've been going through and how they feel. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six

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