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Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app and if you miss

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Speaker 1: last hour, you ought to listen because it's pretty outrageous

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. Scott Wiener that emaciated a little worm

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Speaker 1: just it. You you hit the ceiling on it, which

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Speaker 1: And he said, normally, I think that's a conspiracy theory,

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Speaker 1: because I think incrementally. They're trying to destroy the automobile

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Speaker 1: industry and destroy our freedom. Our freedom in America comes

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Speaker 1: from the ability to drive cars, because then we can

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Speaker 1: And they want to destroy all this. And I know

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Speaker 1: there's only it's only a tiny fringe, but they're all

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Speaker 1: if you don't take this seriously, look how far we've come.

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Speaker 1: You won't be able to buy a gas powered car

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Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to drive on the

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Speaker 1: streets in La very freely anymore. If this Mobility twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty five plane gets its way, And that's the next

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Speaker 1: thing we're talking about. This is left over from Garcetti's time,

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Speaker 1: and it's a massive redesign of the streets between now

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Speaker 1: it much harder to drive your car. The remnants of

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Speaker 1: the La Times editorial board came out in favor of

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Speaker 1: this in the past week. Let's get Chris lagras On

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Speaker 1: and he's with streets La. Right, that's the same of

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Speaker 1: your great John.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I know what this is. I've seen all the writing

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Speaker 2: This is a leap forward and a completely chaotic approach.

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Speaker 2: What they tried to do under Darsetti was these big

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Speaker 2: miss of projects, as you and I well know, and

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Speaker 2: by the way, have with keep La Moving, not street

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Speaker 2: is the city.

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Speaker 1: Department, and so your your organization is keep La Moving,

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Speaker 1: Keep La Moving, okay, And then streets La is that's

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Speaker 2: That's the city, that's the rename that used to be

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Speaker 2: called the Bureau of Street Services. That sounded to bureaucratic

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Speaker 2: those are the folks that pave our streets, keep our

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Speaker 2: city council saying that this initiative is fundamentally flawed. In

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Speaker 2: other words, the city agency that would benefit from this

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Speaker 2: in terms of needing a bigger budget, needing more human

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Speaker 2: way this is being approached is fundamentally flawed. They actually

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Speaker 2: warn about the potential for failed streets. That's their language,

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Speaker 2: not ours, And for a government bureaucracy to speak in

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Speaker 1: All right, well, I think we should emphasize here. This

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Speaker 1: the fifth. It's going it's called Measure HLA, that's correct, correct,

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Speaker 1: And it would force the city force it to carry

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Speaker 1: add all the improvements required in the plan. That could

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, And the key of this solid editionive on

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Speaker 2: because we're all voting by mail now right, Yeah, so people,

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Speaker 1: And gress you there. Chris faded away, his phone went out,

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Speaker 1: I want to reiterate this because it hasn't gotten enough attention.

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Speaker 1: There's so much going on. This is really important. It's

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Speaker 1: you to drive your car. Let's get Chris on again, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: all right, what's now?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: In all the all the weenies involved in government love

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Speaker 1: this thing. Do you have any sense about how normal

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Speaker 2: No? No, The vast majority of average folks do not

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Speaker 2: pay attention to things like street striping. And that's what

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Speaker 2: makes these plans particularly insidious, is because they have all

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Speaker 2: this new approach would be so incremental that it would

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Speaker 2: by the way, this initiative is actually violates multiple state

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Speaker 2: can install it, they have to go to LAFD, propose

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Speaker 1: Are they going to LAFD as absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: And we have met with senior LAFD officials as well

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Speaker 2: as rank and file firefighters and paramedics, and to a person,

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Speaker 2: they oppose these measures. They don't appose Obviously, safe streets

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Speaker 2: They don't oppose making it easier for people to bike

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Speaker 2: but the way it is being implemented. First it was

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Speaker 2: and on and on and that the road diets. So

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Speaker 2: public backlash, and no small part thanks to this show

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Speaker 2: saying we're just gonna sneak it by them. It's like

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Speaker 2: I'm installing road diets.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they got it all over Santa Monica. It's absolutely infuriating.

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Speaker 1: I forgot. I always forget to mention the ballards. Those

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Speaker 2: Well these are particularly dangerous actually, because the average motorist

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Speaker 2: sees this plastic thing. It just looks like a piece

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Speaker 2: And they are so quick and easy to implement. And

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Speaker 2: you mentioned Santa Monica. Santa Monica, which by the way,

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Speaker 2: is facing a massive budget deficit, is facing a ongoing,

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Speaker 2: spiraling homeless crisis. Business is fleeing like you can't believe.

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Speaker 2: You know where they're spending their money. They bought a

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Speaker 2: better description. And in five minutes, Ocean Boulevard went from

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Speaker 2: It is a special built machine and it makes.

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Speaker 1: It with Los Angeles and makes it very difficult to

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Speaker 1: travel at at a decent speed. Chris, I gotta go.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on again, and let's keep talking

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Speaker 1: a lot between now in March fifth, because I grieve

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Speaker 1: with you. I don't think most people know this thing

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Speaker 1: even exists, let alone understand what it's going to do

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Speaker 1: to daily life in the city of Los Angeles. Thanks

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much. John, talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you firsthand because I'm frequently in

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Speaker 1: Orange County. You do not want this. This is terrible

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Speaker 1: because the only purpose is to restrict automobile movement, nothing else.

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Speaker 1: The way that Scott Wiener's stupid bill wants to restrict

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Speaker 1: It's going to take you much longer to get around.

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Speaker 1: Oh ay, this is a warrend.

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

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Speaker 1: Forty every hour, it seems it changes somewhat. And this

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Speaker 1: is apparent impending standoff between the federal government and the

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Speaker 1: state government. Is of Texas because the Republican governor there,

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Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, he has put up razor wire at the

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Speaker 1: Mexican border. It runs through a park and they are

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Speaker 1: preventing the federal government agents from coming in and cutting

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Speaker 1: What is going on? Because this story really is blown

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Speaker 1: And then what happens. I mean, you've got armed law

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Speaker 4: But when it comes down to securing the nation, right,

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Speaker 4: Texas is only securing Texas. They're going to push people

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Speaker 4: to the outskirts and they're going to continue to come.

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Speaker 4: So it's not necessarily solving an illegal immigration issue, but

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Speaker 4: Texas that says, hey, we're protecting our constituents in our state.

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Speaker 1: Allie, thank you very much for coming on with us.

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Speaker 1: Excellent report.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me. Hopefully we can

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Speaker 4: chat again soon.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Ali Bradley, and she's with News Nation. Look for

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Speaker 1: that on your cable system. It's a new news channel

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Speaker 1: and she's the Southwest correspondent Texas. I can't remember this

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Speaker 1: kind of revolt coming from a state government over anything

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Speaker 1: in my life. And Abbott is not backing down in

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Speaker 1: the least even after losing that Supreme Court decision. So

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Speaker 1: tomorrow could be an interesting day, I'm sure the Biden administration.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Joe is aware of what's going on,

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Speaker 1: but certainly the Biden administration would would like a graceful

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Speaker 1: way out of this. It is not a good look

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Speaker 1: at an election of your campaign to be having a

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Speaker 1: face off with one state's national guard because the governor

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Speaker 1: thinks you've completely botched your border security plan. It's fascinating.

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Speaker 1: All right, We've got more coming up, and I do

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Speaker 1: want to get to this story about the Max nine jets,

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Speaker 1: which makes ever really happy that they're going to be

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Speaker 1: up in the Scottish Thrilled wrote twenty six A and B.

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Speaker 1: Remember that that's what you want. It's for a plug.

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Speaker 5: Well, they must have worked, those officials must have worked

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Speaker 5: well fast being able to check out all those planes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI

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Speaker 3: A six forty coming up just a moment.

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Speaker 1: We gotta, we gotta, we gotta run this story. In fact, Tony,

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Speaker 1: get uh which which uh? Get the thing about the

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Speaker 1: gig Get to think about the caves and Sacramento that

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Speaker 1: story ready?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Or at Midestine that's where they are, all right? So

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Speaker 1: it's true. The Boeing CEO met with some US senators

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill yesterday. Uh and and David Calhoun's his name,

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Speaker 1: David Calhoun is the accountants guy who became the Boeing CEO.

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Speaker 1: And he's got he's got no defense for what happened,

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Speaker 1: because according to reports, it's Boeing that screwed up the

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Speaker 1: plane because they they took the door out, put it

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Speaker 1: back in, and apparently forgot the bolts. It was never

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Speaker 1: bolted back in the plane and that's why the door

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Speaker 1: plug went flying a couple of weeks ago. Leaving Portland

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Speaker 1: headed for Ontario, is headed down here in southern California.

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Speaker 1: So Calhoun says, I'm here today in the spirit of

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Speaker 1: transparency and to answer all their questions, because they have

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Speaker 1: a lot of them. I wish they would drop all

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Speaker 1: these officials, drop that word transparency, just say you're you're

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Speaker 1: gonna tell the truth. You're going to give all the details,

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Speaker 1: not hold anything back. All right, talk in English. I

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Speaker 1: don't know anyone in private life whoever used the word transparency.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't always like this. It's one of these

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Speaker 1: words that all these idiot politicians and officials and media

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Speaker 1: people picked up on. It irritating as hell. So they're

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Speaker 1: still reviewing data on early inspections of the planes. Eventually

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Speaker 1: it's going to approve safety review instructions so the planes

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Speaker 1: can go back to service. It's going to happen soon,

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Speaker 1: but they will not predict, so they stopped trying to predict.

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Speaker 1: According to an FAA administrator, but as soon as we

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Speaker 1: get it sorted out, it'll be up again. And again,

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Speaker 1: this was the fuselage panel. It was a door plug

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Speaker 1: that was used in an exit door passageway and on

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Speaker 1: some models of the Max nine, depending on the airline configuration,

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Speaker 1: you don't need an exit in the back of the plane,

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Speaker 1: so they plug it up with a fake door and

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Speaker 1: that's what blew out. And it had been taken out

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Speaker 1: at the factory in Washington and then reinstalled, and somebody

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Speaker 1: forgot to put the bolts on, and whatever inspection process

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Speaker 1: there was or paperwork, there was, nobody caught it all. Right, Now,

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Speaker 1: let's go on to Modesto. A lot of media around

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Speaker 1: the country is picking this up because it is so bizarre.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about something from time to time

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Speaker 1: called de evolution that and you see it in the streets, right,

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Speaker 1: You see people acting pre caveman line animal like because

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Speaker 1: of the mental illness, the drugs, and the fact that

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Speaker 1: laws aren't enforced anymore, and the beasts inside people are

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Speaker 1: now coming out and they're not acting like modern humans anymore. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is an example of it up in the Modesto

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Speaker 1: area where they found caves constructed for shelter by homeless people.

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Speaker 1: And let's listen to this news story from CBS thirteen Sacramento.

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Speaker 5: Hidden homeless caves jumps along the Tuolami River in Modesto.

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Speaker 6: These are basically stairs that they made to get down

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Speaker 6: to the dwelling.

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Speaker 5: Tracy Rojas took us on the treacherous walk to see

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Speaker 5: the craters created near Crater Avenue and.

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Speaker 6: If one of these were to collapse, it would be devastating.

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Speaker 6: This whole side would come down and into the water.

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Speaker 5: Seventy six hundred pounds of trash, that's how much was

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Speaker 5: cleared out by volunteer groups and police over the weekend.

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Speaker 6: This was fully furnished. Yes, there was betting. There was

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Speaker 6: little things up on the mantle lack of a better word, mantle,

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Speaker 6: food items, drugs, gun.

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Speaker 7: We had a hard time figure out how they got

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Speaker 7: so much stuff down in there, considering how hard it was,

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Speaker 7: it's always harder to get up the hill and get

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Speaker 7: it out.

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Speaker 5: Chris Scuptel was one of these volunteers who says they

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Speaker 5: found eight caves in total, but it wasn't the group's

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Speaker 5: first time down here.

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Speaker 7: And we really don't have a known solution to deal

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Speaker 7: with it.

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Speaker 5: In November twenty twenty two, CBS thirteen took a tour

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Speaker 5: of the cleared out caves, nowhere near as elaborate as

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Speaker 5: they are now.

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Speaker 6: You can see the hooks on the wall where they

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Speaker 6: had bottles and things like that hanging down.

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Speaker 5: Painted pictures, and even a makeshift fireplace.

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Speaker 1: This was someone's home.

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Speaker 6: What do you think needs to be down to stop

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Speaker 6: this from happening? Well, I think we need more emphasis

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Speaker 6: on the homeless. I mean the point where you can

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Speaker 6: see torri that they're desperate.

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Speaker 5: We ask Modesto police and the city what's being done

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Speaker 5: to prevent people from coming back to cave camp. The

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Speaker 5: response they will continue to monitor the area and connect

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Speaker 5: the homeless to services.

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Speaker 7: It was already improven that people are willing to dig

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Speaker 7: those things out, so I don't think filling them back

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Speaker 7: in with any material would work.

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Speaker 5: The caves cleared for now, but the neighborhood near the

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Speaker 5: river feeling no real sense of peace in this problem.

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Speaker 6: It's a hazard for not only the homeless who live

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Speaker 6: in there, but the people who are walking up here.

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Speaker 5: Yes, erosion, rising waters, washing the belongings into the river,

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Speaker 5: and contamination are all concerns. Rojas says that park rangers

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Speaker 5: are planning on putting up cameras around this area and

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Speaker 5: also signage making it an official park that way that

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Speaker 5: they can have more enforcement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there you go. So there is a solution.

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Speaker 1: You declare it a park. It becomes off limits for

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Speaker 1: these vagrants, and you put cameras up and you actually

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Speaker 1: track what's going on the video. And then when you

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Speaker 1: say you do patrols. And when you see people moving in,

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Speaker 1: I mean seventy six hundred pounds of trash. And they

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Speaker 1: went inside the caves and they were decorated with furnishings

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Speaker 1: like it was people's living rooms and bedrooms. There was

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Speaker 1: a table, there's crates filled with supplies, shelves, they had food, condiments,

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Speaker 1: and they couldn't figure out how the homeless people got

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Speaker 1: in there and lugged all this stuff up or down.

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Speaker 1: Actually they had to get it up the hill and

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Speaker 1: out and down into the caves. Well, obviously these people

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Speaker 1: are capable of doing some serious physical labor, right, that's

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Speaker 1: why this idea. Well, they're desperate, they're not desperate they

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Speaker 1: want to live outdoors. They want to live in the

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Speaker 1: caves because they're insane. They're mentally ill. And if we

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Speaker 1: were international society, these people put in a mental institution.

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Speaker 1: But we keep we have all these busts. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many cliches and buzz phrases did you hear? You know,

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Speaker 1: and from the reporter too. When when the media and

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Speaker 1: government officials start talking to each other, it's just a

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Speaker 1: torrent of bull crap. It's just the same old You

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Speaker 1: have to have some more outreach focus on the home

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Speaker 1: is because of the desperation and they're insane, but they're strong,

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Speaker 1: aren't they. All of a sudden, they're willing to do work.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're able to create a mini apartment

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Speaker 1: and draggle your furniture up a hill and then down

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Speaker 1: into a cave, there's probably a lot of blue collar

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Speaker 1: jobs you'd be good at. They don't want that because

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Speaker 1: they can't deal with the responsibility. They can't deal with

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Speaker 1: the discipline, They can't deal with the human relationships that

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Speaker 1: you need to have when you work, because they're crazy.

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Speaker 1: Their bodies can physically do some of this stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: local services. I mean, I'm just looking through these news

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Speaker 1: stories and it's just the same. And also they had

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Speaker 1: drugs and weapons because a lot of these guys are

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Speaker 1: just bad guys.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: These are the people who are let out of prison early,

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Speaker 1: let out of jail early. They commit crimes all the time.

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Speaker 1: That's how they exist. They steal stuff and they live

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Speaker 1: off their stolen goods. Are we come back? We got

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Speaker 1: a lot.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know what.

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Speaker 1: That trial is opening up here in La of that

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Speaker 1: rich woman whose husband founded the Grossman Burden Center, Rebecca Grossman.

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Speaker 1: She was the one who ran down those two little

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Speaker 1: kids in the valley in Westlake Village. And we will

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Speaker 1: talk about that trial because a jury has been impaneled.

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Speaker 1: We're coming up John Cobalt Show Debra Mark live in

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Speaker 1: the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening

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