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Speaker 2: All right, now, let's get to all right. First thing

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Speaker 2: you need to notice. Set this up. What is the

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Speaker 2: average price of gas in California. It is four dollars

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Speaker 2: and thirty five cents, highest in the continental the.

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Speaker 1: United States four thirty five.

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Speaker 2: What's the price of gas nationally to eighty seven, so

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Speaker 2: it's a dollar fifty difference. And the lowest price is

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma at two thirty six. So we're two dollars more

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Speaker 2: than Oklahoma, a dollar fifty more than the national average.

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Speaker 2: And ondn't you know that we have about a dollar

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Speaker 2: fifties worth of taxes we pay per gallon. And now

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Speaker 2: on top of the most expensive set of gas taxes

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Speaker 2: in America, they want to add a mileage tax. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you would get taxed anywhere between two and nine cents

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Speaker 2: per mile you drive.

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Speaker 1: This is real. There is legislation bubbling in Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: And we're going to talk to the best guy who

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Speaker 2: can explain what's going on, and that's Carl de Mile,

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Speaker 2: the Republican assemblyment from San Diego.

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Speaker 1: Carl, how are you, hey, John Helen not.

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Speaker 3: Drivers better get ready to grab their wallet because the

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Speaker 3: politicians are coming for more money. We have the highest

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Speaker 3: gas tax that you just pointed out in the nation

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Speaker 3: gas taxes. When you add in the cap and trade

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Speaker 3: fees that they charge, it's about a buck thirty five

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Speaker 3: per gallon for just the taxes state state taxes. And

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Speaker 3: then on top of that, if they enact this mileage

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Speaker 3: tax six cents per mile for the typical gas mileage

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Speaker 3: you get per gallon, it's an eighty cent increase in

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Speaker 3: the gas tax, or nine hundred dollars per driver per

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Speaker 3: year if you drive fifteen thousand miles. Now, working families

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Speaker 3: tend to drive more mileage on their cars because they

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Speaker 3: dollars per year per car. All in, when you take

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Speaker 3: the car tax, the gas tax, and this new mileage tax,

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Speaker 3: a family with two cars with average mileage will be

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Speaker 3: paying forty two hundred dollars just for the privilege of

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Speaker 3: driving on crappy roads In California. And that does not

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Speaker 3: include insurance for their car, the price of their car,

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Speaker 3: the actual base cost of the fuel. This is forty

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Speaker 3: two hundred dollars going to the lining greedy politicians who

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Speaker 3: aren't fixing roads. They're just trying to get our money.

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Speaker 3: This is insanity and we need to stop it.

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Speaker 2: So this is an extra nine hundred to twelve one

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Speaker 3: Car with fifteen thousand miles, If you drive fifteen thousand miles,

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Speaker 3: you're talking nine hundred bucks for the just the privilege

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Speaker 2: That's startle driving. That's roughly what I get fifteen thousand

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then the politicians say, well, we're just studying it,

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Speaker 3: lied to voters with the misleading ballot title. But in

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Speaker 3: that SB one bill were pilot projects for them to

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Speaker 3: it statewide no matter what. And so that's what this

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Speaker 3: Bill fourteen twenty one Assembly Bill fourteen twenty one that

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Speaker 3: was overwhelmingly approved by the Democrats last Thursday. That's what

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Speaker 3: this bill puts in motion, a mileage tax for the

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Speaker 2: Okay, so the first step is they would do a

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Speaker 2: According to a story I'm seeing from Channel Tanna Sacramento.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they did a research pilot. Now what they're saying

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Speaker 3: is they're instructing the California Department of Transportation pal Trends

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Speaker 3: to come back with the implementation steps for the mileage tax.

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Speaker 3: That's what AB fourteen twenty one is all about. And

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Speaker 3: here's why I need people to get off the couch

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Speaker 3: and into the street, share the petition Stop Themileage Tax

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Speaker 3: dot org. It's an online petition. Get all your friends

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Speaker 3: to sign up so that we can let them know

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Speaker 3: which politicians are voting for this. Stop Themileage Tax dot org.

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Speaker 3: And here's what we got to do, John, We got

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Speaker 3: to break the supermajority in Sacramento, or at least get

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Speaker 3: enough Democrats to commit publicly with this petition process that

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Speaker 3: they're hearing their constituents and that they are going to

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Speaker 3: change their vote and vote against it. So Stop Themileage

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Speaker 3: Tax dot org. That's how we organize. All the information

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Speaker 3: is on that website, Stop themilage Tax dot org so

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Speaker 3: you can share it with your friends and family.

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Speaker 1: They want. They're worried that.

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Speaker 2: Gas tax revenues might decline by thirty one billion because

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Speaker 2: people are going to drive.

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Speaker 1: That's a made up number. It seems to me made

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Speaker 1: a number. That's there.

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Speaker 3: What we know is happening. Yeah, yeah, here's what we

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Speaker 3: know is happening. In the budget. Every year gas price,

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Speaker 3: the gas taxes have gone up every single year because

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Speaker 3: they've put the gas tax on autopilot, increasing year to year. Secondly,

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Speaker 3: we had a about twenty percent of California drivers have

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Speaker 3: now implemented or adopted an electric vehicle. But all the

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Speaker 3: studies show that the remaining drivers don't want anything to

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Speaker 3: adoption rate for evs has plummeted and we don't see

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Speaker 3: people going to EV's anymore. So there is no revenue loss,

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Speaker 3: There is no revenue crisis for these people. And the

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Speaker 3: idea that, oh, let's force the EV drivers to pay

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Speaker 3: their fair share. Look, that's exactly what the politicians want

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Speaker 3: us to think. They want to divide in concer if

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Speaker 3: you think they're going to be satisfied just with the

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Speaker 3: mileage text on EV drivers. Man, you haven't been living

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Speaker 3: in California very long. They're coming for you, baby, They're

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Speaker 3: coming for you.

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 2: I'm shocked every day that people aren't wildly suspicious of

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Speaker 2: everything they say and do. The amount of trust and

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Speaker 2: the amount of ignorance in this state is just overwhelming.

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Speaker 2: All right, stop themileage tax dot org. That's the key

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Speaker 2: to this. And if they go there, they will see

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Speaker 2: a petition that they should sign.

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Speaker 3: Correct, they should sign. They should share it with all

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Speaker 3: their friends, because we've done this before where we've applied

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Speaker 3: pressure to these politicians and then they suddenly, you know,

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Speaker 3: change their vote. We did that with the human Trafficking

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Speaker 3: bill a year ago. I believe we can do it

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Speaker 3: with mileage tax. But we also need to make this

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Speaker 3: the central question and election issue this November to break

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Speaker 3: the supermajority, and so share that petition with all your friends.

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Speaker 3: Stop themileage tax dot org. Spread the word.

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Speaker 1: The roads are in such bad condition, all of them.

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Speaker 2: The Interstate Highways pocketbook, yeah, the household budget and well

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Speaker 2: you pointed out at the beginning the people hit who

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Speaker 2: are going to be hit the worst are the ones

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Speaker 2: who can't afford to live and work in the same metro, right,

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Speaker 2: and so they have to they have to live like

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Speaker 2: rack up one hundred miles a day driving because they

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Speaker 2: can't afford housing here in the city. And now they're

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Speaker 2: afford the housing. Now they won't be able to afford

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's insane. And then the Democrats say, oh,

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Speaker 3: this the inflation is because the oil and gas companies

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Speaker 3: are price gouging. Please, and that's how they avoid accountability.

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Speaker 3: So we need people to be educated, and that's what

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Speaker 3: the petition helps us do. Reach people, you know, educate them,

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Speaker 3: November stopthimileage tax dot org. That's where people need to go.

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Speaker 2: All right, this is another thing, Carl. As you find

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Speaker 2: out more, let us know. We'll have you back on. Okay,

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Speaker 2: well we will take care all right, Carldon, my assembly

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Speaker 2: assemblymen down in the San Diego area on a mileage. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the gas tax not only at a record high, not

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Speaker 2: only the highest in the country. Now they're gonna charge

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Speaker 2: you in this proposal perhaps six cents a mile every mile,

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Speaker 2: every day of the year, and it'll cost the average

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Speaker 2: assuming you travel in the range of fifteen thousand miles.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk more about this. I need, I need,

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Speaker 2: we need to go step by step on how badly

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Speaker 2: you're being screwed right now. You need to wake up.

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Speaker 2: All right, they're coming for more of your money. You

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Speaker 2: can't afford. You can't afford life already, and now they're

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Speaker 2: gonna take more just because they can. Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: we gotta vote differently. You must vote differently.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have fifteen other things that we got to

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Speaker 2: get to today, I think I'd screamed for the whole

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Speaker 2: three hours. Who wants to pay this new mileage tax?

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Speaker 2: This new gas tax?

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Speaker 1: Never? You want to pay increased?

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Speaker 2: Up kidding me?

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Speaker 5: I'm sick and tired of what I pay already.

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Speaker 2: Eric, you're you want to pay more money just to

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Speaker 2: drive to work every day?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 4: Not?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't either. Is there anybody who wants to

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Speaker 1: And so for a.

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Speaker 2: Long time, the small amount of Republicans would be able

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Speaker 2: You drive on the roads. We all drive the same roads.

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Speaker 2: They're all bad. They're they're all you pick you know, like,

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Speaker 2: They look more torn, they're in terrible condition, and they're

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Speaker 2: In fact, I gotta dig out that story. I've been

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Speaker 2: All right, I'll do that in the next segment. So

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Speaker 2: You're drive into one of those garages and the jackasses

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Speaker 1: They're all empty.

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Speaker 2: You got to drive up to the third floor, the

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Speaker 5: I can't stand going to Lax and yeah, that is.

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Speaker 1: It's just too much.

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Speaker 2: Short term parking. You want to be there for an

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Speaker 2: handicapped spots, there simply aren't that many handicapped people all

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Speaker 2: So between the excessive amount of handicap spots and the

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Speaker 1: Right, yes, absolutely, Oh yeah. You see a thirty seven

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Speaker 5: They might have a heart condition, John.

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Speaker 2: But they're carrying two heavy bags and a kid. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: Now you have the electric vehicle scam. There just aren't

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Speaker 2: thousand times, they didn't build charging stations. I suppose you

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Speaker 2: And if it was widely adopted, the electrical grid would

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Speaker 2: you really do. This is outrageous. We are paying a

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Speaker 2: which nobody else has. Our gas tax is sixty one

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Speaker 2: How many times are you gonna be bent over? How

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Speaker 2: many so stop themileage tax dot org, Stop themileage tax

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Speaker 2: dot or go to that and sign the petition and

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Speaker 2: we'll be on on this day and night. Okay, we

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Speaker 2: come back. I'm gonna find that story in the City

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Speaker 2: Journal about why LA doesn't fix its roads. They don't

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Speaker 4: Seriously, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI

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Speaker 4: AM six.

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Speaker 2: Forty moistline is eight seven seven moist eighty six eight

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. We've given you plenty already with

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Speaker 2: this new mileage tax percolating in the state legislature to

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Speaker 1: You're paying.

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Speaker 2: On top of it six cents a mile. Calculate your

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Speaker 2: probably about nine hundred dollars you're gonna be paying. And

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Speaker 2: and it's fast tracked. They're doing their study. Now what

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Speaker 2: what they're gonna do. They're gonna pass it. So I

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Speaker 2: stop the mileage tax dot org, stop themilage tax dot org.

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Speaker 1: Sign the petition.

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Speaker 2: Carl DeMaio is working on this, uh in order to

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Speaker 2: show the Sacramento jackasses, We're not gonna put up with

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's got to be a limit. Now.

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Speaker 2: The streets suck, the highways suck, the interstates suck. Okay,

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Speaker 2: they're rough, they're ragged, they're potholed, they're there. It's it's

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Speaker 2: I know this when I go to other states. You

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Speaker 2: Soon as you cross the state line, everything.

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Speaker 1: Is smooth.

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Speaker 2: And and and you here, we seem to have all

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Speaker 1: Have you seen this?

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Speaker 2: And in the sunline you can't tell what's what. They

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Speaker 2: go to other states and it's all dark asphalt as

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Speaker 1: Most states are like that.

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Speaker 2: California has, by every independent measure, the worst roads in

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Speaker 2: the state. Nobody's even close. And then you get La County,

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Speaker 2: La City, and I don't know exactly where all the funding.

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Speaker 1: Goes, but it's all bad.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the source of taxation is for

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Speaker 2: listen to this, and I guarantee you didn't know this.

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Speaker 2: There's a publication called City Journal citydash Journal dot org.

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Speaker 2: Sean Reagan is is the writer here. I'm gonna read

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Speaker 2: you verbat him his first paragraph. Los Angeles streets are

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Speaker 2: sidewalks have spawned years of costly litigation, and Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: pays out millions of dollars each year to drivers whose

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Speaker 1: Now you would think, if all the.

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Speaker 2: Sidewalks are broken, and the roads are so badly damaged

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Speaker 2: and more, and what would you do if you were

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Speaker 2: That would be the incorrect answer. As of last summer,

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Speaker 2: the city of Los Angeles stopped repaving its streets. Stopped entirely,

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Speaker 2: and as Sean Reagan puts out, points out, not slowed,

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Speaker 2: not fell behind, zero no more streets getting repaved.

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Speaker 1: Do you know that you could have.

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Speaker 5: Guessed that the streets everywhere I look are in horrific condition?

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Speaker 1: Everywhere because they don't even bother anymore.

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Speaker 5: But again, our tax money was supposed to go to that.

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Speaker 5: And remember all of those TV commercials that that inspired

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Speaker 5: so many people don't really understand what they're voting for.

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Speaker 5: So when you ask, well, why are you, you know,

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Speaker 5: why would you want a mileag's tax, It's going to

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Speaker 5: be because it's going to be it's going to appeal

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Speaker 2: The money is going to the homeless people laying in

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Speaker 1: Listen to this.

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Speaker 2: The Bureau of Street Services again this is the city agency,

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Speaker 2: latest budget for the next fiscal year has zeroed out repaving.

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Speaker 2: They have not repaid the streets since June, and they

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Speaker 1: For the coming fiscal year.

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Speaker 2: They're doing some road repairs and fixing potholes and patches,

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Speaker 2: but full street resurfacing has disappeared from Los Angeles. Now

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Speaker 2: why is this well, federal disability rules. Federal disability rules

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Speaker 2: have made fixing roads legally riskier than letting them fall apart.

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Speaker 1: See, if you do a.

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Speaker 2: Repaving, then you have to rebuild all the curbs at

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Speaker 2: an intersection and turn them into ramps for disabled people

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Speaker 2: for wheelchairs. When a city alters a street in a

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Speaker 2: major way, it must bring adjacent pedestrian infrastructure into compliance

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Speaker 2: ADA compliant curb ramps American with Disabilities Act. Repaving is

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Speaker 2: considered a large enough alteration triggering the requirements. Maintenance like

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Speaker 2: potholes minor repair are not so if they actually repave

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Speaker 2: a road, each curb ramp costs fifty thousand. That's two

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars an intersection. With ten intersections per mile,

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Speaker 2: curb ramps can add two million dollars per mile to

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Speaker 2: the cost of repaving, a figure that exceeds the cost

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Speaker 2: of the asphalt itself.

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Speaker 1: This is some kind of federal regulation. How nuts is this?

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Speaker 1: Let me go through this again.

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Speaker 2: If you repave a street in the city of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: you have to put in curb ramps for the wheelchairs.

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Speaker 2: Four in every intersection fifty thousand dollars per ramp, ten

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Speaker 2: intersections a mile. That adds a cost of two million

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Speaker 2: dollars to the repave. That's more than the cost of

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Speaker 2: the asphalt. Design and construction take nine to twelve months.

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Speaker 2: LA used to ignore this requirement, and then last January

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Speaker 2: the federal government implemented implemented updated public right of way

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Speaker 2: accessibility guidelines. So now what they do is just what's

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Speaker 2: considered large asphalt repair, but not a resurfacing. It's putting.

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Speaker 2: You've probably seen this, just partial strips of asphalt across

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Speaker 2: the lane. That's why it's somebody the words, look what patchwork?

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Speaker 2: Or they'll fill the pothole, but they won't do a

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Speaker 2: complete resurface, and so everything stuck. Los Angeles committed spending

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Speaker 2: almost a billion and a half on sidewalk repairs because

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Speaker 2: of disability lawsuits. By twenty twenty one, five years in

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Speaker 2: LA had repaired less than one percent of its sidewalks.

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Speaker 2: It's going to take five hundred years to fix all

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Speaker 2: the broken sidewalks in Los Angeles at this rate.

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Speaker 1: Five hundred years.

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Speaker 2: If you request sidewalk repairs on your block, you will

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Speaker 2: wait over ten years. The Hall City is literally busted

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Speaker 2: into pieces, completely physically broken down. Got more coming up.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After

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Speaker 2: four o'clock, well, we've got it. We actually have a

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Speaker 2: new schedule. I got to catch myself and correct myself,

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Speaker 2: I guess until I get used to this new announcement. Now,

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Speaker 2: we are going to post the podcast every hour as

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Speaker 2: soon as the hour is over. So the one o'clock

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Speaker 2: hour will be posted shortly after two o'clock. See how

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Speaker 2: fast Eric can get this done.

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Speaker 1: I'm working as fast as I can here.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm talking as fast as I can so

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Speaker 2: we can get to the end of the hour. And

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Speaker 2: so at one, the one o'clock hour, we'll be posted

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Speaker 2: just after two o'clock, the two o'clock hour, just after

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Speaker 2: three o'clock, the three o'clock hour, just after four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Hour by hour posting, you no longer have to wait

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Speaker 2: to the end of the show. So we're gonna be

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Speaker 2: in competition with ourselves now. But we just did a

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Speaker 2: lot on the mileage tax, which is sledding its way

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Speaker 2: through Sacramento six cents a mile for every mile you

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Speaker 2: drive on top of the gas tax. So you're going

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Speaker 2: to want to listen to that. Now, a couple of

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Speaker 2: the stories here. Remember Gavin Newsom got himself all worked up.

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Speaker 2: He was preening and printing, well inside his head. If

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Speaker 2: you actually drilled into Gavin Newsom's head, you'd hit nothing

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Speaker 2: but hair je out. I'm not talking on his hair,

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Speaker 2: I mean inside his head. His brain must be made

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Speaker 2: of hair gel. Because he made a big deal about

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Speaker 2: the mask ban. ICE agents can't wear masks in California,

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Speaker 2: and so far there has not been a single ICE

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Speaker 2: agent arrested or detained for wearing a mask because minute

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Speaker 2: one I said, no local law enforcement is going to

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Speaker 2: enforce that law. No local law enforcement is going up

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Speaker 2: to armed ICE agents and saying, hey, pull that mask

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Speaker 2: off or you're under arrest. And so far, since this

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Speaker 2: thing passed, and I forget what month had passed last year,

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Speaker 2: the number has been zero. It was just complete nonsense

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Speaker 2: on his part, just preening for the camera.

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Speaker 1: I made a bad mistake. Kim MacDonald, the police chief

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Speaker 1: for LAPD, at a press conference Friday, said that his

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Speaker 1: officers will not enforce the mask ban. Quote.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't well thought out, said McDonell. The reality of

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Speaker 2: one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict

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Speaker 2: over something that would be a misdemeanor at best, or

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Speaker 2: an infraction, it doesn't make any sense. Newsman entitled this

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Speaker 2: the No Secret Police Act. Remember this hysteria. He was

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Speaker 2: going on national television carrying on about the Nazis, the Gestapo,

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Speaker 2: the secret police. It was all hysteria, it was all theater,

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Speaker 2: it was all garbage. He knew this would never work

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Speaker 2: in real life, but he wanted to position himself as

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Speaker 2: the anti Trump, a moron, so he signed the bill

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Speaker 2: into law. It took effect on January first, and it's

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Speaker 2: gone to court because the Department of Justice says the

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Speaker 2: No Secret Police Act is unconstitutional because you can't have

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Speaker 2: some penny anti governor tell the President of the United

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Speaker 2: States how he's going to have his law enforcement dress.

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Speaker 2: It's called the supremacy clause, but news some campaigns for.

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Speaker 1: Stupid people approval.

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Speaker 2: Most people don't know about the supremacy clause, which is

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Speaker 2: why they don't understand that the federal government rules immigration policy,

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Speaker 2: not the States, and that includes the mask The masks

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Speaker 2: that the ice officers wear. Oh, by the way, in

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Speaker 2: that riot on Friday night downtown, protesters through water bottles, bottles, rocks, debris,

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Speaker 2: and other objects at the federal officers. And that's why,

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Speaker 2: that's why they have to have masks, and because they're

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Speaker 2: targeted by their identity. If everybody knew their identity, they'd

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Speaker 2: be killed. That some people would come up to their

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Speaker 2: homes and kidnapped their wife and kids, and these officers

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Speaker 2: would be followed to their house. And that's why you

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Speaker 2: have masks. Now, second stupid story. Did you watch any

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Speaker 2: of the Grammys last night?

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Speaker 1: I didn't.

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Speaker 5: I usually do watch those types of shows, but I

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Speaker 5: did not.

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Speaker 1: It was on in the background. My wife looks likes

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Speaker 1: looking at the dresses. Yeah, I missed that part.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really pay attention, So I missed this. Apparently

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Speaker 2: Billie Eilish, she got up and declared, no one is

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Speaker 2: illegal on stolen land. I don't know if you've ever

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Speaker 2: been to a public event or like a public meeting,

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Speaker 2: a council meeting or some such thing, they often stop

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Speaker 2: and they have a moment of silent meditation. I've actually

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Speaker 2: witnessed these things where we're supposed to remember the Tungva

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Speaker 2: Indian tribe which used to uh well on the west

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Speaker 2: side of Los Angeles. I guess they used to inhabit

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Speaker 2: much of that land hundreds of years ago and they

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Speaker 2: don't anymore. And so she's doing a two fer on this. No, no,

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Speaker 2: you can't have an illegal alien that the land itself

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Speaker 2: is stolen. Now, she's got a lot of blowback online

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Speaker 2: because Billie Eilish is worth over fifty million dollars and

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Speaker 2: I found a website that just runs through all the

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Speaker 2: homes that she and her family own. You've got a

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Speaker 2: house in Highland Park that's worth about eight hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's your childhood home. And then her brother has Her

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Speaker 2: brother was up on stage with her, the producer. He's

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Speaker 2: the Yeah, well, her brother bought a Spanish colonial in

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Speaker 2: Los Fela's that's two point seven million. They've got a

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Speaker 2: Malibu beach house the family five point two million for

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Speaker 2: twelve hundred and fifty square feet.

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Speaker 1: That's just for starters.

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Speaker 2: That's just like the first article I saw that they

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Speaker 2: put together, so three three big homes.

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Speaker 1: And the general message online is if.

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Speaker 2: You're upset because the tongue the Indians had their land stolen.

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Speaker 2: Why not give up your house and your land and

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Speaker 2: take in some tongue of Indians. Now, I don't know

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Speaker 2: how many have survived in the tribe. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if they're on a reservation. I don't know, you know,

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Speaker 2: if there are any tongue is left alive, but maybe

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Speaker 2: maybe their descendants somebody. Right, here's my house, here's my land,

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Speaker 2: right I own? I mean that was that was five

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Speaker 2: million plus two seven eight hundred. Yeah, about nine million

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Speaker 2: dollars worth of homes. Billy Eilish and her brother have

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Speaker 2: turn it over to the tongueas make each one a reservation.

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Speaker 1: Sure, John, Yeah, well that's what you're upset about.

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Speaker 2: She's apparently from what I understand, the Grammys had a lapse.

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Speaker 2: They went back into woke lecturing, which is what they

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Speaker 2: were doing five six years ago, and it destroyed the

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Speaker 2: television audience numbers because you just couldn't take it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm the oscars are going to be very very

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Speaker 1: much the same. They stopped doing it a.

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Speaker 2: Couple of years ago, and the numbers started going back

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Speaker 2: up because people would hang in longer, right, Because for me,

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Speaker 2: I would watch for a few minutes and the first

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Speaker 2: woke comment, I'm out changing the channel that I have

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Speaker 2: zero interest in listening to these people. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how they could be so stupid and so uneducated and

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Speaker 2: so irritating.

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Speaker 1: And I just.

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Speaker 2: Turned it off because I don't need to be aggravated.

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Speaker 2: It's one thing to have an opinion that you don't

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Speaker 2: agree with, but it comes from somebody who's really a

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Speaker 2: functional vegetable, and they're they're arrogant and obnoxious about it.

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Speaker 1: But forget it. That's not that's not entertainment. That's that's

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Speaker 1: just nonsense.

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Speaker 2: And then the hypocrisy of owning seven million dollars nine

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Speaker 2: million dollars worth of property, but it's on stolen land.

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Speaker 2: Turn your land over? Has anyone ever done that? Has

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Speaker 2: any of these wokeheads ever turned over their house to

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Speaker 2: a Native American family? All right, we come back the

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Speaker 2: most the most offensive piece of writing. Have you seen

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Speaker 2: Vanity Fair, the tongue bath of Gavin Newsom, Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: oh my god. If you've just had lunch, it's going

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Speaker 2: to come up. Debor Mark Lyden the CAFI twenty four

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Speaker 2: hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt

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Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on

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