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Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel

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Speaker 2: Then let's get them right on here. We're on from

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Speaker 2: one to four. I got moistline twice this hour, and

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Speaker 2: let's get to Rick Crusoe on to talk about what

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Speaker 2: happened today, Karen Bass firing the LA Fire chief Kristin Crowley. Rick,

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Speaker 2: how are you? Thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: I'm good.

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Speaker 4: John.

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Speaker 5: How are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, very active. Here. Tell me what your

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Speaker 2: reaction was when you heard that Bass was firing Crowley.

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Speaker 5: Well, I was surprised, I think like all of us,

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Speaker 5: because the mayor, you know, up until what yesterday, was

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Speaker 5: saying that she needed to have an investigation in order

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Speaker 5: with Alex Michaelson, she kept saying she needed an investigation.

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Speaker 5: She couldn't answer questions, and then so it was surprising

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Speaker 5: that you fire somebody without the investigation and know what

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Speaker 5: they were doing. You know, I just think, you know, John,

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Speaker 5: we're in this loop which is very unfortunate for our city,

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Speaker 5: which really staddage me about a series of you know,

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Speaker 5: bad judgments, and here's another one. And I feel like,

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Speaker 5: I think like many people do that. You know, Crowley

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Speaker 5: stood up and was honest and went public with her

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Speaker 2: What did you think of Karen Bass saying she wasn't

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know who wasn't aware of the fire warnings, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean all of us got them. It couldn't have

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Speaker 5: been more public. Days before. I mean there was people

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Speaker 5: She had to know about it. How could nobody? How

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Speaker 2: But in Alex Michaelson's interview, she said, frankly, I wasn't aware.

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Speaker 2: And now today she blamed Kristin Crowley for not calling

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Speaker 5: I think it's one of those things where it now.

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Speaker 5: It just speaks for itself.

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Speaker 5: But I don't even interrupt you because it's almost comical.

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Speaker 5: Now there's nothing more you can say. You you know,

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Speaker 5: you're not prepared. Got you got warnings. The warnings were everywhere.

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Speaker 5: They were prolific, on your phone, on the news, on

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Speaker 5: You're not managing even one contract with Steve Sobrot properly.

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Speaker 5: That becomes the whole thing. And then now you've got this,

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Speaker 5: and so there's a real question on judgment and leadership

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Speaker 5: And she's refused to do that.

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Speaker 2: So where do we all go from here? I don't

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Speaker 2: who has any confidence in her at all. And with

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Speaker 2: is everybody supposed to do?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 5: Well, listen, I mean, it's really one of the reasons

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Speaker 5: I created this Steadfast La nonprofit that I'm doing, and

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Speaker 5: many great solutions. We're going to be pushing the city

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Speaker 5: donating their time and we're going to make this happen

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Speaker 5: in spite of the leadership at city Hall, and I

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Speaker 5: would ask people to remain hopeful and positive. This city

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Speaker 5: It's everything. It's everything from undergrounding all the power lines,

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Speaker 5: be the infrastructure will be the city of the twenty

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Speaker 5: including things like creating an AI model, which we're well

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Speaker 5: fifteen initiatives that we've got that we're working on, and

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Speaker 5: I'm very optimistic about it, no different than the one

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Speaker 5: we announced with Samara, the production home builder. To you know,

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Speaker 5: and it will be the equivalent of a permanent home

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Speaker 5: for a lot of people. And they're beautifully done. And

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Speaker 5: if people go to steadfast dot com and look at

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Speaker 5: our website, you know, we'll be posting all our different

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Speaker 5: initiatives and people can sign up for a home and

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Speaker 5: if they qualify, we're going to get people back in

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Speaker 5: their communities. We're working on rebuilding rec centers and schools

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Speaker 5: we're going to get it done quicker than most people expect.

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Speaker 2: Steadfast La dot com you mean.

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Speaker 5: Right, yeah, steadfast La dot com. Yeah, okay, maybe that's

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Speaker 5: Just check out La dot com.

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Speaker 2: I was wrong, Steadfast La dot Com.

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Speaker 2: And obviously you're gonna need a lot of help from

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Speaker 2: Have they been cooperative the people that you're dealing with directly, You.

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Speaker 5: Know, everybody has been cooperative. Everybody wants to lean in

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Speaker 5: This the devastation is so big, it's so massive, it's

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Speaker 5: government alone can't do it. It's got to be a

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Speaker 5: same effort here. So we're not doing it to be

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Speaker 5: in city government. And I think that's where everybody in

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Speaker 5: this city has a role. When you say what do

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Speaker 5: Karen Bass the other day said it's going to be

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Speaker 5: three to five years, my response to that is, no,

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Speaker 5: Maybe if you leave it up to the government alone,

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Speaker 5: it is. I really believe people will be able to

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Speaker 5: start getting back into their homes and rebuilding their homes

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Speaker 2: And describe who is on your on your team in

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Speaker 2: terms of because you obviously you know you're leading this,

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Speaker 2: you and your staff are leading this, but you've got

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Speaker 2: to have a lot of other corporations, other other individuals.

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Speaker 2: I mean, who who are the players here that are

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Speaker 5: So here, here's the team that's all rolling up the sleeves.

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Speaker 5: We spent hours together yesterday. Andy Cohen, the head of Gensler,

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Speaker 2: Well, that's quite a lineup. That's a lot of heavy

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Speaker 5: Hey, John, What I love about it is we announced

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Speaker 5: We're going to do it, and we're going to push

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Speaker 5: Maybe tough, but we're going to do it, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Rick, and anyway we can help you, let us

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Speaker 2: know any any time you have an announcement or anything

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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you, John, appreciate good time. Thanks for giving

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Speaker 2: Rick Caruso there and Steadfast LA dot com go to

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Speaker 2: that site if you want to know what's going on

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Speaker 2: and if you need some help in the Palisades, I

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Speaker 2: think obviously a better bet is to start investigating what

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Speaker 2: Rick and all those other people he mentioned are doing here,

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Speaker 2: because I think they're going to make a lot of

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Speaker 2: progress rapidly. Karen Bass and that crowd, I have no idea,

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Speaker 2: no recommendations, and what to do with them right now

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Speaker 2: if it isn't obvious that there has to be huge

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Speaker 2: changes there, and I don't know what else to say.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to have a voiceline.

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Speaker 2: And then also after three point thirty, we got Todd

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Speaker 2: Chili sending their criminals here to America. You heard the

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Speaker 2: latest is seven Chilean criminals are accused of burglarizing the

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 2: It's time now for the moist Line eight seven seven

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Speaker 2: next week. And John, thanks for calling the moistline.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to hear from you.

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Speaker 2: To mapcime.

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Speaker 8: You know, all these city leaders and county leaders hating

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Speaker 3: Don't you realize what's going to happen?

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Speaker 9: Okay, that empty vessel Harris lost the presidency.

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Speaker 3: Now these stupid woke California and idiots here have no clue.

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Speaker 3: There's the old, poor poor Kamala. We got to give

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Speaker 5: She admitted to being long. We're going to Africa. Well

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Speaker 4: He's cutting the police budget, cutting the fire budget and

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Speaker 10: Chad Biancle.

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Speaker 3: He is greatly loved in Riverside County.

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Speaker 10: He is it.

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Speaker 5: We love him out in this area.

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Speaker 3: You know it.

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Speaker 4: I know it.

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Speaker 11: Everybody knows that Kamala will be your next governor, which

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Speaker 12: To me too, all rank let's come to a line

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Speaker 12: where I've gone online.

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Speaker 11: Just call anything to the left of your ideology socialism.

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Speaker 13: Get a dictionary.

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Speaker 8: You can't just call everything socialism.

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Speaker 13: Can you imagine if our emergency services relied on electric vehicles,

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Speaker 13: they would have to be just like a fighter jet.

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Speaker 13: They have to return to base when they start getting

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Speaker 14: Unfit. I just can't believe Karen Bass She's the queen

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Speaker 14: idiot of all idiots. Time to get rid of her

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Speaker 3: You have to get rid of Karen Baths. You can

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Speaker 13: Time'm just meeting more comes out.

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Speaker 3: It has to be removed. What do you think if

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Speaker 3: it's going to turn out that they didn't have those

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Speaker 4: Want to pay over time.

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Speaker 2: I've been asking myself when did I Our practice is

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Speaker 2: gonna drop teams Louis, all the focuses, all this noose books,

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Speaker 8: All this book stuff.

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Speaker 2: Now we're focus on all this kind of stuff that

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Speaker 2: and they're living the life of kings.

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Speaker 13: So now they're winners, not losers.

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Speaker 10: So the Weather Service actually said life threatening wins, life

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Speaker 15: You know, the city of Los Angeles should be able

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Speaker 2: It should be run without everybody.

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Speaker 3: That's what we pay all these assistants for. I really

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Speaker 5: Karon Bess wasn't aware win and fire runnings.

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Speaker 15: I didn't send Barbara and I was aware of them

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Speaker 2: They had problem with Karen Bass as a mayor is

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Speaker 2: she really had no experience to be a leader or

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Speaker 15: You know why Bess didn't know about the warnings because

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Speaker 4: To save illegal aliens.

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Speaker 12: That's her priority. The excuse that Karen Vass is using

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Speaker 9: I live in San Diego.

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Speaker 12: I'm not even the mayor of a city, and the

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Speaker 15: Who were talking about Bass and not known her karma?

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Speaker 7: They're smoking a bowl or having so whiskey.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Bass, looks like she's.

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Speaker 14: High and drunk, just like Kamala three so Bianco, my

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Speaker 16: There's going to ruffle some feators like Trump.

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Speaker 3: Let's go John.

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Speaker 16: I'm up here in the North Bay and I knew

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Speaker 16: that's sane. The wins were coming because I listened to KFI.

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Speaker 16: What the hell does the mayor listen to looney Tunes?

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Speaker 3: Thank you for leaving.

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Speaker 5: You're probably not camp goodbye.

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Speaker 2: I want to remind you you weren't listening before. Karen

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Speaker 2: Vass has two hundred and thirty eight staffers in the

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Speaker 2: She has fourteen deputy mayors, and the guy who's the

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Speaker 2: department is on leave. He's being investigated for calling bomb

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Speaker 2: Before we're done here, going to have Tod Spitzer on

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Speaker 2: Kansas City chiefs Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey are the

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show Conrad will be coming up after four

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Speaker 2: o'clock Moistline. In the next segment, We're gonna get We're

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Speaker 2: gonna get Todd Spitzer on the Orange County District Attorney.

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Speaker 2: Something that has been in the news for years now.

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Speaker 2: Chilean criminals gang members they land at lax and other places,

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Speaker 4: I'm great. What a day for news man. I really

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Speaker 1: Hear from him some more.

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Speaker 4: But let me just tell you that was a great interview, John,

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Speaker 4: Thank you. Look, why in the world do we need

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Speaker 4: at the top of the news again. I'm prosecuting almost

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Speaker 4: one hundred individuals from the country of Chile here in

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Speaker 4: Orange County alone. You know, they go into Disney World

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Speaker 4: interesting thing is, you may recall, maybe six months ago,

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Speaker 4: where he took down or the FBI took down a

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Speaker 4: rental car agency in West LA that was renting these

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Speaker 4: and surveying us. The FBI, John knows about this, The

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Speaker 4: Department of Justice knows about it, Homeland Security knows about it.

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Speaker 4: I've been all over television in the country of Chile.

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Speaker 4: They're the only remaining South American country still in the

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Speaker 2: And why what do you think is there a story

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Speaker 4: Agree to tell you my speculation. Who's one of the

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Speaker 4: mister Elon Musk, what's his major interest lithium batteries. What's

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Speaker 4: I will tell you why wouldn't this be done in

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Speaker 4: I am absolute because this.

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Speaker 4: I understand, and I think until the owners of these

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Speaker 4: put it on the absolute Washington Capitol Hill agenda, and

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Speaker 4: now we have members of Congress asking Homeland Security what's

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Speaker 4: going on, and even their questions now renewed or not

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Speaker 4: getting answered by Homeland. Now it's Homeland overwhelmed. Did the

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Speaker 4: new secretary just get appointed? Yes, but I would expect

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Speaker 4: because everybody knows about this, and the FBI has been

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Speaker 4: clamoring about this for years now. This should be shut

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Speaker 4: down at any moment, but it's not happening.

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Speaker 2: And you think that Chili might retaliate in some way

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Speaker 2: that would affect us our ability to get lithium for

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Speaker 2: the lithium batteries. You know that Elon Musk needs for

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Speaker 2: his cars.

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, I'm just trying to connect dots.

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Speaker 2: No, no, I'm all in for connecting dots. That's a

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Speaker 2: fascinating thing.

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Speaker 4: We know that the Sultan Sea is not ready, and

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Speaker 4: we know the Sultan Sea is going to be a

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Speaker 4: major lithium producer, but it's in production or in development.

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Speaker 4: But right now, the demands for lithium batteries in this country.

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Speaker 4: A large portion is coming from the country at Chili.

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Speaker 4: So I just googled natural resources in Chili and I

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Speaker 4: learned through Google that lithium is the number one export

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Speaker 4: to the United States from that country. And then I

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Speaker 4: connected dots who is running our government? And why isn't

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Speaker 4: this being shut down again? I'm making this pronouncement, John,

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Speaker 4: because I want somebody to tell me publicly I'm wrong,

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Speaker 4: but they're going to cut off the program.

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Speaker 2: Well, whether whether you're right or not about the lithium

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Speaker 2: from Jelly, they should end the program because these guys

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Speaker 2: have had free reign for many years and they've stolen

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Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. And maybe breaking into Travis Kelcey's

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Speaker 2: house and the homes house is what it takes to

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Speaker 2: get the attention to end it. I guess maybe that's

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Speaker 2: what it takes because they don't care what happens to

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Speaker 2: people who are not star athletes. Everyone else's stuff can

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Speaker 2: be stolen, but not theirs.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. But again, because of the athletes prominence,

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Speaker 4: it's getting the attention it deserves. I'll take whatever avenue

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Speaker 4: I can to get this program cut off. If the

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Speaker 4: athletes need to come together and the professional teams to talk.

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Speaker 4: It's not just football, it's all these athletes who travel

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Speaker 4: on the road. Yeah, their houses are being surveyed. People

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Speaker 4: know they're not home and they're getting burglarized while they

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Speaker 4: are other way games.

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Speaker 2: All right, Todd, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 4: All right, John, thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: All right, Todd Spitzer, the Are County District Attorney. When

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Speaker 2: we come back, we got a round of the moistline,

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Speaker 2: and I've got to spend a couple of minutes on

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Speaker 2: the protesters in Calabasas physically blocking the trucks hauling toxic

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Speaker 2: waste to the Calabasas landfill. This is pretty wild what

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Speaker 2: they were doing. And this looks like people who are

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Speaker 2: going to have to throw their bodies in front of

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Speaker 2: the trucks to stop all this disgusting waste from being

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Speaker 2: dumped into the into their towns. That'll be next.

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 7: six forty.

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Speaker 2: But very soon Voiceline Part two Conway will be in here.

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Speaker 2: I just want to spend a minute or two on

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Speaker 2: the people in the Calabasas area who threw their bodies

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Speaker 2: in front of a semi truck hauling toxic waste from

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Speaker 2: the Palisades. LA Times did a story on Kelly Martino.

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Speaker 2: She actually stood in front of a freight liner semi truck.

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Speaker 2: Several dozen people protested they don't want the toxic ash

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Speaker 2: and debris and toxic soil carted to the landfill in

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Speaker 2: the area they live. The crowd started chanting back it up.

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Speaker 2: They were holding signs that said no toxic dumping and

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Speaker 2: the trucks. The line started getting longer and longer, and

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Speaker 2: the sheriff's deputies threatened to make arrests if people didn't disperse. Well,

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Speaker 2: they would not disperse. Martito said, all the ash and

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Speaker 2: sludgeon debris is going to come here, and that is

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Speaker 2: not acceptable. And we're not going to wait for a

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Speaker 2: bunch of kids to get sick in twenty years. You know,

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Speaker 2: A Bass and Crowley ought to get arrested. If the

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Speaker 2: sheriffs have nothing to do, I think it'd be better

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Speaker 2: to arrest them and not these people trying to protest

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Speaker 2: all this toxic waste. Why can't they take the toxic

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Speaker 2: waste far away where people don't live. And I hear

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Speaker 2: in on the West Side people were upset because these

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Speaker 2: trucks carrying the toxic waste are rumbling down Sunset Boulevard

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Speaker 2: and the dust and the ash is blowing in the air.

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Speaker 2: They had another protest Saturday in Calabasas. Also in Granada

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Speaker 2: Hills there was one at the Sunshine Canyon landfill because

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Speaker 2: the dust is going to be drifting into all the

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Speaker 2: neighborhoods and it's also going to leak into the groundwater.

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Speaker 2: Because you're not supposed to bring this kind of waste

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Speaker 2: to the Calabasas landfill or the one of Granada Hills.

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Speaker 2: It's supposed to go to special landfills that have liners

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Speaker 2: to prevent leakage and monitors. There's four and a half

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Speaker 2: million tons of ash and wreckage from the Eaton and

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Speaker 2: Palisades fire. It's one of the biggest ever in terms

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Speaker 2: of debris. But if you go to the Calabasas Landfill,

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of signs that say no hazardous

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Speaker 2: waste and it's a local landfills for normal garbage. Another

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Speaker 2: signed list of the electronics and the household items that

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Speaker 2: are not accepted because they might contain toxic substances. It

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Speaker 2: says you have to have a certificate that Verita verifies

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Speaker 2: it's non hazardous, but that only applies to private contractors,

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Speaker 2: not to federally hired crews. One resident says, you cannot

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Speaker 2: legally bring a battery or a can of spray paint

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Speaker 2: into this landfill, But now they're allowing hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 2: of tons of burnt batteries, paint chips, and other things

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Speaker 2: in the community. It's incomprehensible. Dallas Lawrence said that president

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Speaker 2: of the Lust virgin of school Board, this is the

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Speaker 2: collateral damage because Bass and Crowley didn't do their jobs.

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Speaker 2: It's all those people who lost their homes, people who

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Speaker 2: lost their lives. Now nobody can drive around the West Side.

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Speaker 2: There's so much traffic, and the toxics garbage is being

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Speaker 2: taken to peaceful towns that had nothing to do with

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Speaker 2: the fire. All right, round two, moistline, Let's go. Hey

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Speaker 2: if Sean, thanks for calling them oistline.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to hear from you about time.

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Speaker 15: Karen Bass is full up, but she doesn't know what

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Speaker 15: she's doing.

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Speaker 14: She's blaming the president.

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Speaker 13: Oh, the president asked me to go.

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Speaker 3: The President also asked you to get rid.

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Speaker 16: Of all those illegal immigrants in the prison and let him,

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Speaker 16: have him, but she won't do that.

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Speaker 11: But Shul'll run off.

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Speaker 3: Through Africa the drop of the hat.

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Speaker 14: Yeah right, I needn't know what's kind of happening baloney.

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Speaker 9: Thinking about Karen Bass and her ilk.

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Speaker 3: They've been telling us for at least.

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Speaker 9: Twelve to thirteen years that global warming and climate change

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Speaker 9: are going to trigger extreme weather episodes, and they didn't

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Speaker 9: prepare the preparation. Lack thereof is inexcusable from newsome on down.

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Speaker 5: Karen Bass is so full of and she needs to

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Speaker 5: wipe that.

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Speaker 4: You could smile off.

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Speaker 6: Her face because there's nothing to be smiling about with

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Speaker 6: all the incompetence that she's done, between the television and

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Speaker 6: the Weather Force and the National Weather coming through and

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Speaker 6: breaking them on the radio.

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Speaker 8: Everybody knew he's cool. He didn't know shared Bass is right,

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Speaker 8: there wasn't any preparation.

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Speaker 4: God, I just wish there was someone.

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Speaker 15: In like a good position to initiate preparations throughout, like, oh,

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Speaker 15: I don't know a mayor.

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Speaker 1: The reason that Karen Bass disregarded the arch warning about

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Speaker 1: the winds is because they disregard their own narrative model

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Speaker 1: hyperbole with extreme weather events and all these other crap

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Speaker 1: that they throw out there.

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Speaker 3: As Elon goes through all these books and all this

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Speaker 3: mismanagement and misplacement of money and spend did not show anything.

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Speaker 3: If you did that in the business, the IRS would

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Speaker 3: knock your door. So how about if we start sticking

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Speaker 3: the IRS on all these government agencies that don't know

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Speaker 3: how to spend their money properly.

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Speaker 9: Just doesn't make sense that billions of dollars are going

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Speaker 9: places and nobody knows where it's going.

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Speaker 16: Now, that doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 15: Why would anybody take two trains plus a bus that takes.

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Speaker 13: Seven hours to go from christ Field to LA when

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Speaker 13: you can drive from LA to San Francisco in eight

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Speaker 13: That doesn't make sense. Who was thinking about this? It's

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Speaker 13: absolutely ludicrous.

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Speaker 14: John, Not only that it's not gonna be I see

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Speaker 14: because the damn train has to stop at stations along

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Speaker 14: the way, say I'll just get the speed and then

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Speaker 14: has to stop.

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Speaker 11: So Baths basically admitted that she's not capable to do

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Speaker 11: this job, but yet she's still here. Yeah, I'm gonna

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Speaker 11: go tell my employer that I'm messing up my job.

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Speaker 11: I'm wanting how fast I get fired?

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Speaker 14: John, Any sane person looked at the people in charge

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Speaker 14: avenuwsom baths, et cetera, et cetera. And how bad Calfiory

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Speaker 14: has been burned in the ground. Like me, I got

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Speaker 14: out of there three years ago. It's just really sad

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Speaker 14: Born and Raiz California had to go because it's just

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Speaker 14: being destroyed.

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Speaker 15: Karen Bass wants to have I guess an investigation into

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Speaker 15: what way along with what happened with the fires. Well,

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Speaker 15: I say go ahead, let it happen. But if there's

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Speaker 15: gonna be an investigation, that said investigation out of her pocket.

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Speaker 15: She's the one has to clear herself, not the taxpayers.

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Speaker 4: You really think ste so sober Off is not going

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Speaker 4: to receive this money. Yes, publicly they said he was

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Speaker 4: gonna do it for free.

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Speaker 1: Now after they.

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Speaker 3: Wanted to give him half a million.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll guarantee Karen Bats is going to find a

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Speaker 1: way to still pay him that money she promised, and

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Speaker 1: absolutely guarantee.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for leaving your message.

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Speaker 3: Please hang up goodbye.

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Speaker 2: coming up next and we have Michael Krazer live in

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