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Speaker 1: this refinery in El Segundo had exploded and there was

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Speaker 1: Chevron runs. It's a jet fuel production unit that exploded.

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Speaker 2: Hey, John, how are you today?

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Speaker 1: I'm good. Now I'm reading and you know, this is

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Speaker 2: Right, that's generally the standard operating procedures with events like this.

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Speaker 2: You know, refineries are extraordinarily complex and they are very

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Speaker 1: Now, from what I'm reading, this refinery produces about one

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Speaker 1: So it's twenty percent of our gasoline supply is produced here.

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Speaker 1: How long could it be offline before it we start

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a big refinery, okay, So it's the second

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Speaker 2: So generally you're going to have about a two week

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Speaker 1: Right, And twenty percent is a lot because we've talked

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Speaker 2: there's no doubt that we're losing refinery capacity In fact,

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Speaker 2: they stopped all operations on October sixteenth. That's it, they

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Speaker 1: And they're not doing anything about it. For all of

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Speaker 1: I don't understand they're gonna They're gonna expand the production

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Speaker 2: Produce ethanol here, so we get the ethanol from out

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Speaker 1: Is the average car run on ethanol, because I don't

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Speaker 2: And that product is entirely imported into our state via

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Speaker 1: Because reg is it is eighty seven, right, yep, yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: All right, So Newsom is pushing eighty five gas because

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Speaker 2: Apparently so and again we are we have started that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, Well when you when you do that,

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Speaker 2: to you next week for sure.

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Speaker 1: Us see Professor Michael McShea, and he has been guiding

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Speaker 1: So he just finished talking to Michael Leche about the

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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that in a moment, but I

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Speaker 1: First of all, is there any news on Diddy's ugly

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Speaker 5: It's sentencing day and a bunch of people have spoken,

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Speaker 5: Eleven years now they are, and you know that yesterday

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't know who this judge is, and it

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then Sean Diddy comes is expected to talk

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Speaker 1: to Royal Oaks from ABC News. He's their legal analyst

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Speaker 1: after Deborah's one thirty News, and he can guide us

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Speaker 5: Oh, we're hearing that Didd he is speaking now apparently,

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Speaker 1: At three o'clock. Loura Engel from News Nation, the cable

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show on every day from one until four.

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Speaker 1: We're watching in New York City. There. The judge is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, John, your timing is pretty good. I mean it's

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Speaker 3: You were no John who was more than that in

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Speaker 1: So that's the prosecution asked, five to seven years.

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Speaker 1: The prosecutors wanted eleven plus exactly.

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Speaker 5: Oh, no, you can go ahead, John, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: No, you're right. When he was found not guilty of

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Speaker 5: Sorry to break in, but the judge says a sentence

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Speaker 1: All right, so it's going to be less than eleven years.

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Speaker 5: Sorry Royal, but Sean Didtycombs has been sentenced to fifty

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Speaker 3: All right, So well, four years and two months is

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Speaker 3: actually a little bit a touch below the recommendation by

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Speaker 3: the Probation Department of five to seven years. Four years

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Speaker 3: is kind of what people were speculating several months ago

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Speaker 3: when the convictions came to out. It's a little surprising

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Speaker 3: that after the judge slammed him, as we've discussed the

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Speaker 3: last few minutes, he came in a little lower. And

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Speaker 3: of course that amount will be reduced by the fourteen

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Speaker 3: months that he already has served cooling his heels waiting

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Speaker 3: for trial and sentencing. So he's going to be out

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Speaker 3: before long. But he's got to serve a few years

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Speaker 1: Right, So it's a three year maximum sentence after you

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Speaker 1: deduct the fourteen months he's already served, and then when

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Speaker 1: does when does parole kick in?

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Speaker 3: Look, parole won't be kicking in for a while, I mean,

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Speaker 3: as we saw in the Menendez Brothers. Usually, yeah, you

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Speaker 3: have to wait several years before you're eligible to say

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Speaker 3: I think instead of parole, he's going to be focusing

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Speaker 3: on appeal. His lawyers are going to take the arguments that, hey,

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Speaker 3: this wasn't classic prostitution, this wasn't a situation where he

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Speaker 3: Appeals could step in and help him out. They could

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Speaker 3: release him and put him on bail. But you know,

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Speaker 3: if they do that and he beat somebody up, that's

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Speaker 3: a bad look. If he gets in his private jet

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Speaker 3: and fliesh to Switzerland and bunks in with Roman Polanski

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Speaker 3: in his rumpus room, that's a bad look. So I

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Speaker 3: think he's probably gonna have to stay in prison pending

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Speaker 3: the appeal.

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Speaker 1: All right, very good, Royal Oaks, thank you for coming

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Speaker 1: on with us. You bet that good timing for your

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Speaker 1: parents today, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst and coming

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Speaker 1: up after two o'clock. I'm telling you you got to

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Speaker 1: hear this. The producer, well, the director is Ted Ballaker,

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Speaker 1: the producer is his wife, Courtney Ballaker. In the name

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Speaker 1: of the movies The Coddling of the American Mind, it's

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Speaker 1: a documentary that explains what went on at the universities

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Speaker 1: over the past fifteen years or so that caused all

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Speaker 1: the insanity that we've lived through and maybe turned your

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Speaker 1: son or daughter into someone unrecognizable. All of this nonsense,

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Speaker 1: this will progressive nonsense, had its root in the universities.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's told through the eyes of three students

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Speaker 1: who who saw their lives transformed based on what they

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Speaker 1: were being indoctrinated with. It's it's as if they were

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Speaker 1: being groomed to join a cult. And it's really it's

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Speaker 1: really scary. Actually, it's documentary as to what the universities

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Speaker 1: were able to do to all these young kids. And

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Speaker 1: these kids, you know, are now in their twenties and

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Speaker 1: early thirties and their minds have been altered dramatically and

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Speaker 1: they're trying to recover. So we'll talk with with Ted

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Speaker 1: and Courtney Ballacher coming up. It's called The Coddling of

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Speaker 1: the American Mind. I was watching it and listening to

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Speaker 1: it this morning. It's it's fresh in my head.

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Speaker 1: That's another way keep track of things. Now, as I

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Speaker 1: was mentioning, at two o'clock, we're going to have Ted

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Speaker 1: Ballaker Courtney Ballacker, husband and wife. Ted's the director, Courtney

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Speaker 1: the producer. Astonishing documentary they've put together based on a

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Speaker 1: book called The Coddling of the American Mind, and it

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Speaker 1: is ninety minutes. And if you have been flammoxed, flabbergasted, perplexed, outraged,

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Speaker 1: overwhelmed by all a lot of the insanity of the

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Speaker 1: last fifteen years coming out of the universities, maybe coming

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Speaker 1: out of your own kids who went to college during

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Speaker 1: this time, will you add those toxic progressive universities, add

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Speaker 1: that social media and the smartphone, and it just just

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Speaker 1: ruined many people in this generation. So we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk to Ted and Courtney because it's it's fresh in

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Speaker 1: my mind. I am still amped up from watching it today,

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Speaker 1: this documentary, and it's on all the streaming networks. We'll

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Speaker 1: tell you which one's coming up. One thing I want

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Speaker 1: to spend a few minutes following up on from yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We had two women on who were part of two

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Speaker 1: organizations in Altadena who are really upset with this phony

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Speaker 1: blowding nonsense. After action report by the the Crystal Group,

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Speaker 1: they were hired by the La County Board of Supervisors

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Speaker 1: to find out why the response to the Altadena fire

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Speaker 1: and the Palisades fire sucked so bad. Well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: lack of warnings to to let people know in certain

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Speaker 1: evacuation process, and nineteen people died in West cal Dadena

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Speaker 1: and nobody wants to address it. And I'm going to

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Speaker 1: call out these people constantly because their position in life

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Speaker 1: is really important to every La County resident and they're

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Speaker 1: largely overlooked, they're not covered by the media collectively, grossly incompetent.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Karen Barger is half, say, but the other

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Speaker 1: four Lindsey Horvath, Holly Mitchell, Janis Hahn, Hildasalise are so

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Speaker 1: damaging and destructive with their politics and their incompetence. The

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Speaker 1: turns out, according to them, Crystal Group and to some extent,

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Speaker 1: this whole thing was a whitewash because it didn't tell

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Speaker 1: you who was responsible for screwing up on the evacuations

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Speaker 1: and the warnings and the fire response. It didn't tell

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Speaker 1: you how it was done, who made the bad decisions,

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Speaker 1: who didn't talk to, who, who was at a position

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Speaker 1: or asleep or had had bad policies that there's not

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Speaker 1: that specifics because I think a lot of the people

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Speaker 1: in county government ought to be fired for the response

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Speaker 1: to the fire at flat out fire because they're dangerous.

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Speaker 1: You know, with fire season now, you can't have this

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Speaker 1: crew in charge. Not to mention the supervisors, four out

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Speaker 1: of the five ought to resign, just flat out quit, resign,

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Speaker 1: get out because they're so incompetent. And again that's Horvath,

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Speaker 1: Mitchell Han and Solis and what I'm looking at here

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Speaker 1: just one of the stories that I'll have time for

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Speaker 1: the Office of Emergency Management apparently was operating with staffing

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Speaker 1: levels that were way too low for all the disasters

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Speaker 1: we can have in and we can go through all

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Speaker 1: the terrible things that can happen here, earthquakes, fires, mud slides, floods, riots,

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Speaker 1: Office of Eternity. Oh, not to mention the pandemic, the

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Speaker 1: Office of Emergency Management was, Oh, here's the quote, under resourced.

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Speaker 1: They didn't give money to it, they didn't hire people,

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Speaker 1: they didn't have equipment that worked, or an evacuation system

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Speaker 1: going to keep going back to the false alarms that

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Speaker 1: the county who were nowhere near the fire in Altadena,

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Speaker 1: while the neighborhoods in Altadena that needed to get the

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Speaker 1: the night and nobody told them, and nobody at the

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Speaker 1: fire department or the Office of Energy Management or the

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Speaker 1: chef Erst Department. They did get somewhat of a roasting

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Speaker 1: in this. And Robert Luhna is running for reelection and

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Speaker 1: this should be the number one, number two, and number

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Speaker 1: three issue because it looks like the response and a

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Speaker 1: lot of this has to do with management and organization,

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Speaker 1: who they hire, how much money for all the billions

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Speaker 1: that's with a big billions of dollars that horv F

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Speaker 1: Mitchell Hannen Solis has wasted on the homeless scam. They

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Speaker 1: put hardly any money into emergency management and preparedness billions

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Speaker 1: to help to help vagrants, all the drug addicts and

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Speaker 1: fake phony criminal nonprofits that got funded by the billions.

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Speaker 1: The Office of Emergency Management, which is supposed to send

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Speaker 1: is coming and you're gonna die, that was under resource.

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Speaker 1: So that's just the first warning shot here. I'm keeping

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Speaker 1: a file on all this stuff and we're gonna keep

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Speaker 1: returning to it until we find out. First of all,

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Speaker 1: there should be an extensive investigation if we had a

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Speaker 1: real Attorney general instead of that talking puppet Rob Bonta,

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Speaker 1: who all he does is kiss nuisance ass and he

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Speaker 1: should be investigating the county because this was a deadly

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Speaker 1: disaster and everybody's just pretending, oh did that happen? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was terrible. Well, what a tragedy. Thoughts and prayers, No,

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Speaker 1: not here. We don't do thoughts and prayers here. All right,

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Speaker 1: we come back. Ted Ballacher and Courtney Blaker. They are

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Speaker 1: the director and producer of this documentary, The Coddling of

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Speaker 1: the American Mind. It's on the streaming channels, and it

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Speaker 1: is stunning. It explains why we went why we went

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Speaker 1: through so much of the nonsense coming out of the

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Speaker 1: universities last fifteen years which powered this woke progressive revolution,

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Speaker 1: and what it did to the students, to the individuals.

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Speaker 1: Maybe your kid that is next. Deborah Mark live in

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