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Speaker 1: Can I am six forty you're listening to the John

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Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app Live everywhere on the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app well. As we're facing another round of winds,

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Speaker 1: it could be frightening again. The winds are supposed to

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Speaker 1: gust to fifty seventy miles an hour in the coastal

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Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour, and the mountains and passes in

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Speaker 1: Ventura County may be particularly hard hit with winds, but

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Speaker 1: it's going to affect La County as well, especially along

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Speaker 1: the coast, which.

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Speaker 2: Now we have a new fire, John by the way,

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Speaker 2: in San Clemente. This fire is only about an acre

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Speaker 2: right now, but another fire, so this is two that

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Speaker 2: we know about so far.

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 1: They're expecting these extreme winds to continue till at least

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Speaker 1: ten am tomorrow morning, and often these warnings get extended

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Speaker 1: beyond and then there's another round of extreme winds is

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Speaker 1: coming later in the week. And you know, we know

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Speaker 1: that there's tens of thousands of crazy people running around

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Speaker 1: in addition to all the non crazy ways that fires

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Speaker 1: could start. We still have these absurd power companies whether

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Speaker 1: it's Southern California Edison or PG and E or DWP

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Speaker 1: and all the badly maintained wires and badly maintained transmission towers.

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Speaker 3: But hey, what do they care they get.

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Speaker 1: Sued, the taxpayers will end up bailing them out anyway,

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Speaker 1: and the people running the energy companies walk away with

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars of golden parachutes. The reservoir in the

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Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades is still not filled, and the woman who

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Speaker 1: the job, Genie Sqinonyez. Karen Bass is still the mayor.

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Speaker 1: Gavenusom is still the governor, and you still have thousands

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Speaker 1: and thousands of people homeless in the Palisades in Altadena.

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Speaker 1: So nothing's changed after the weekend except Trump is now

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Speaker 1: the president, and Trump is signing executive orders faster than

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Speaker 1: anybody can read them. He's going to be signing another

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Speaker 1: round of them, I think at this event at the

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Speaker 1: and they're having an event. They're having a parade indoors,

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Speaker 1: where he's going to sign more executive orders. The most

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Speaker 1: important for the health of the nation in the immediate

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Speaker 1: term is all the border executive orders. And this he's

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Speaker 1: mostly going to be on safe ground legally because the

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Speaker 1: president has complete control over the border and there's nothing

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Speaker 1: or close the border. As we found out with Biden,

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Speaker 1: right he flew from the border wide open. And the

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Speaker 1: we're sinking badly in part because of the border chaos. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's Trump now reversing all of Biden's border policies and

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Speaker 1: then some. He's declaring a national emergency at the southern border,

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Speaker 1: so the Secretary of Defense can very quickly deploy members

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Speaker 1: more federal resources. And Trump has designated the Mexican cartels

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Speaker 1: as global terrorists. Well, if they're global terrorists, then again

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Speaker 1: we can use the military to treat them as such.

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Speaker 1: Trump is directing the military to prioritize the borders. The

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Speaker 1: military will have a role in protecting the territorial integrity

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Speaker 1: of the United States. So he's basically declaring all this

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Speaker 3: And I don't think there's any other way you could

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Speaker 1: We've had millions come over every year illegally, and we've

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Speaker 1: also had seventy thousand people die just of fentinel poisoning,

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Speaker 1: which the drug cartels are the prime suppliers, prime distributors of.

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Speaker 1: So any organization or set of organizations that are causing

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Speaker 1: seventy thousand deaths and millions of illegal crossings, and embedded

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Speaker 1: in those illegal crossings are more criminals and gang members

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Speaker 1: and mental patients and terrorists. For some countries around the world,

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Speaker 1: how could you not declare a national security emergency? This

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Speaker 1: somebody declaring war in the United States. It's just not

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Speaker 1: It isn't like a military invasion in Europe in World

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Speaker 1: Trump is going to end catch and release of illegal aliens.

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Speaker 1: That's where the aliens who entered the country illegally could

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Speaker 1: All they have to do is shout the word asylum

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Speaker 1: back in six years for a hearing. And Tom Holman,

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Speaker 1: the Quarters Are has said crossing into this country and

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Speaker 1: legally is very dangerous. Stay in your homeland. Trump is

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Speaker 1: also reinstating the remain in Mexico policy, which means if

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Speaker 1: Mexico into the claims are process, which again takes several years.

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Speaker 1: A lot of this is reversing Biden's stupid, destructive policies.

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Speaker 1: And boy, I tell you watching him sit next to

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Speaker 1: Trump while Trump is speaking this morning, and he was

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Speaker 1: I don't think he was aware of what was going on.

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Speaker 1: I really don't. I think he was off in dreamland somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Everything was foggy, hazy, gauzy. Border wall is going to

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Speaker 1: resume construction, refugees resettlements suspended for four months. This one

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Speaker 1: will go to court. Ending birthright citizenship right now. If

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Speaker 1: you're born in the US, you get citizenship, even if

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Speaker 1: your parents are here illegally. That's a fourteenth Amendment issue.

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Speaker 1: And he's ordering enhanced border vetting and screening. So it's

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Speaker 1: just about every aspect of border control you could imagine.

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Speaker 1: He's got an executive order on and most of those

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Speaker 1: except birthright citizenship will will not be seriously challenged. On

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Speaker 1: the diversity and inclusion front, Trump is defining gender officially

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Speaker 1: as two sexes. Federal agencies will enforce laws to protect

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Speaker 1: men and women as distinct sexes and use sex not

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Speaker 1: gender in federal policies and documents. There are two sexes,

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Speaker 1: male and female. They are grounded in incontrovertible reality, said

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Speaker 1: one official. So now there's only two groups to belong to.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to remain in the male group. Yeah, where

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Speaker 1: are you going? Uh?

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Speaker 4: Female?

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Speaker 3: Female?

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Speaker 1: You're gonna stay in the female group, Yes, Okay, that's it.

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Speaker 1: You know what I read and I didn't notice that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't notice. You apply for a passport. There were

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Speaker 1: three choices, male, female or x X.

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Speaker 4: Seriously, yeah, I thought I would say other.

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Speaker 3: No, it was X. How stupid is that? What's what's

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Speaker 1: I guess that encompasses all forty one colors on the flag.

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Speaker 1: Trump is ending good X.

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Speaker 4: You know Elon Musk's son is named X.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I saw Musk on stage with his son. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he referred to him.

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Speaker 3: He goes X. Here is very exciting. Yeah, what do

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Speaker 3: you mean X. I didn't know that that's his name. Yes, Well,

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Speaker 3: that's that's not good.

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine your name is X.

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Speaker 3: You don't name your child after a letter, especially X.

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Speaker 1: Uh. Trump is ending federal DEI programs, UH, illegal mandates, preferences,

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Speaker 1: all ending.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna direct the UH.

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Speaker 1: He's ending DEI funding in the government, will direct the

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Speaker 1: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Personnel Management to

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Speaker 1: end all of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: Let me see here.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he's going to declare a National Energy emergency UH

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Speaker 1: and leasing to wind farms withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords,

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Speaker 1: eliminate the electrical electric vehicle mandate and uh, he's going

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Speaker 1: to increase oil and natural gas production. By the way,

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Speaker 1: do I say a horse a little bit?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: I feel horse.

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Speaker 4: You better not be getting sick from ray.

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Speaker 1: No. I was outdoors today, we did our workouts outdoors,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's it's.

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Speaker 3: All the filthy air.

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Speaker 4: Oh wait, now you do just right. Yeah, there was

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Speaker 4: a little yet. I heard that.

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Speaker 3: I heard scratch.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I.

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Speaker 3: Think I think it's the filthy air that had been breathing.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure on the west side, because the air

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Speaker 1: has intermittently been toxic. Oh and I heard that. What's

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Speaker 1: you're breathing when you see the ash floating around? Yes,

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Speaker 1: someone that gets in your lungs.

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Speaker 3: You know, you know what?

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Speaker 1: You know what that ash is made of in terms

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Speaker 1: of chemicals, like titanium is in modern paint, lead is

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Speaker 1: in older paint. There's this bestus flying in the air

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Speaker 1: because a lot of those old homes in the Palisades

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Speaker 3: So there's this bestus. I mean, you could, you could.

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Speaker 2: How many of us are going to have cancer in

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Speaker 2: the next how many years?

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Speaker 1: You go outside and take a walk, Yeah, and you're

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Speaker 1: planting seeds for lung cancer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, last week I was out of breath a lot,

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Speaker 2: and I was coughing and coughing and coughing and coughing

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Speaker 4: And I assumed it was because of the bad air.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my wife said I was. I was wheezing the

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Speaker 4: I want to see that one.

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Speaker 1: Uh snoring, Yes, the wheezing was something oh worse than that.

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Speaker 4: How can she videotape that I can't I can't describe it.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 1: Trump is speaking again now to the supporters at the

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Speaker 1: at least five years. Now people are starting to say

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Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, he was like this in twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: when he was first announcing that he's running for president.

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Speaker 1: And the Speaker of the House is a Republican named

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, and he gave an interview to The Free Press.

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Speaker 1: That's one of these new journalist sites where the journalists

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Speaker 3: Play cut three.

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Speaker 7: Like I don't understand. You know, liquified natural gas is

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Speaker 1: Know how terrifying is that? And that was standard business

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Speaker 1: I guess in the White House for years. Liquified natural

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Speaker 3: So we lose the money and Russia.

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Speaker 3: Either. Was no reason to ever ever stop the export.

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Speaker 1: Covering the aftermath of the fires and also President Trump's

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Speaker 1: That's where they're having the inauguration parade. It's indoors this year.

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Speaker 3: Do you know how much money the.

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Speaker 1: Residents of Pacific Palisades pay in taxes? And I guess

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Speaker 1: You can clear the rush yourself, but you're supposed to

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Speaker 2: Well, you have to pay for you to pay to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's government brush. But it's near your house.

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Speaker 1: this in community meetings. Now follow this. The State Parks

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Speaker 1: Department does not clear vegetation from the state park. The

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Speaker 1: LA Fire Department issues them citations. Nobody just gets on

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Speaker 1: their hands and knees and clears the brush. This is

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Speaker 1: like the story we told you last week that the

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Speaker 1: DWP wanted to build a fire road and replace wooden

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Speaker 1: poles with concrete electrical poles. And then some wacky botanist

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Speaker 1: he was hiking on the trail and saw that the

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Speaker 1: milkvech plants had been trampled on by the DWP workers,

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Speaker 1: and he complained and the city issued a formal complaint

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Speaker 1: against the DWP, and the DWP had to pay two

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Speaker 1: million dollars in fines for trampling on milkvetch plants because

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Speaker 1: they're endangered, so they could never do the fire mitigation

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Speaker 1: work they wanted to do fire road, new electrical poles

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Speaker 1: and whatever else. Of course, all those milkvetch plants have

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Speaker 1: now earned maybe now the species is extinct. Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: has some of the toughest vegetation management rules in the country.

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Speaker 1: Property owners are supposed to clear brush within two hundred

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Speaker 1: feet of any structures and within ten feet of roads

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Speaker 1: or fences.

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Speaker 3: But Palisades residents say.

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Speaker 1: That local and state governments don't follow their own rules

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Speaker 1: on their own land. Bart Young is the president of

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Speaker 1: Palisades Neighborhood Group. He says they neglected, and his group

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Speaker 1: got so fed up with the government not doing anything

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Speaker 1: they raised one hundred and forty thousand dollars to do

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Speaker 1: its own brush cleanup. So all these people in the Palisades,

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Speaker 1: they not only pay five hundred and fifty million dollars

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Speaker 1: worth of property taxes, they raised out another one hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty thousand dollars to do their own brush cleanup.

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Speaker 1: Because these government agencies NA Park, State Park, California Coastal Commission, City,

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Speaker 1: and County of LA wouldn't do it themselves, the group

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Speaker 1: hired private contractors to pull out dead trees, rake pine needles,

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Speaker 1: and clear vegetation. They looked at records of a twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three meeting. There was a California State Parks agency

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Speaker 1: with a representative at the meeting and said, the state

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Speaker 1: doesn't typically remove brush for environmental conservation reasons. Say again,

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Speaker 1: the environmental fanatics, the same ones that freaked out over

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Speaker 1: the milk vetch plant, they freak out of the delta smelt.

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Speaker 1: Well here they won't these these environmental groups won't let

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Speaker 1: the state remove the brush.

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Speaker 3: But any citizen.

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Speaker 1: Could remove the dry brush close to their own party, but.

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Speaker 3: You have to obtain a permit. You have to apply

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Speaker 3: for a permit.

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Speaker 1: It it takes up to eight weeks, It costs one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars, and you have to agree to

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Speaker 1: a visit by a state parks representative.

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Speaker 3: So it's fire season.

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Speaker 1: You've got to pile a dead, dried brush adjacent to

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Speaker 1: your house or neighborhood. You can't tear it out until

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Speaker 1: you fill out a form eight wait, eight weeks, have a.

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Speaker 3: Meeting, and pay them one hundred and fifty dollars.

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Speaker 1: This is the stuff that their taxes should do automatically,

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Speaker 1: except the state parks. The state park officials are afraid

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Speaker 1: of the environmental nuts that they're going to get sued.

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Speaker 1: I guess I don't know, And of course there's no

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Speaker 1: names attached to whoever these idiot officials are. This entire

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Speaker 1: bureaucracy needs to be bill dozed and redesigned from top

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Speaker 1: to bottom. And for all the money that people paying

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Speaker 1: taxes here, and for the terrible tragedy and devastation that

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Speaker 1: has gone on, the least we could get is these

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Speaker 1: bureaucrats to be cleaned out and have rational, common sense policies.

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Speaker 1: What normal people would do. Normal people in the neighborhoods

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Speaker 1: banded together, threw in some money, clean their own vegetation.

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Speaker 1: In my neighborhood, we banded together through in some money.

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Speaker 1: We hired two private security patrols and individual security foot

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Speaker 1: patrols to guard our homes in the middle of the night,

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Speaker 1: front yards and backyards because the city failed us. So

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Speaker 1: on top of paying an exorbitant amount of taxes, we

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Speaker 1: had to pay for one security patrol, second security patrol,

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Speaker 1: an armed foot patrol. These people, on top of their taxes,

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Speaker 1: have to pay private companies to pull out. They spend

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty thousand dollars pulling out brush growing

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Speaker 1: on state land. I mean, it is so crazy, and

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Speaker 1: everybody in government thinks, well, that's the way we deal

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Speaker 1: with things.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 6: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Trump just finished up signing a pile of executive orders

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Speaker 1: at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, d C. Where

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Speaker 1: they held a big rally in inaugural parade. And then he

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Speaker 1: sat at a desk and he signed all these orders

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Speaker 1: and was holding.

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Speaker 3: Them up in the air.

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Speaker 1: They were in these file folders or binders, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's on them, but we'll find out in

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Speaker 1: a matter of minutes. He signed many executive orders early on,

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Speaker 1: as soon as he was inaugurated. Now he's coming to

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles on Friday, and he's going to tour the

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Speaker 1: damage in the Pacific Palisades and in Alta Dina the

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Speaker 1: eaton fire and and Catherine Barger, the LA County supervisor

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Speaker 1: who's the only sane supervisor, invited Trump to come, and

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Speaker 1: he is going to come. There's a lot of Republican

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Speaker 1: lawmakers who want conditions to be placed on the AID.

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Speaker 1: I think there should be two conditions. One that Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass resigns and the second is that Gavin Newsom resigns

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Speaker 1: and then we could discuss everything else. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't think he can write a blank check to California

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Speaker 1: or to Los Angeles because the money gets stolen, the

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Speaker 1: money gets blown on nonsense. Look when they gave us

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Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars for unemployment funding during COVID,

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Speaker 1: what happened Thirty to fifty billion dollars was sent to

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Speaker 1: every scam artist around the world, So there should be

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Speaker 1: plenty of strings attached to this. Look what's happened to

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Speaker 1: the homeless money? All that disappeared by the billions as well.

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Speaker 1: So if I was Trump, I play hardball on this,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, we need a lot of help here, and

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Speaker 1: we need a lot of federal aid. But I don't

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Speaker 1: trust you trust Bass and Newsom. You shouldn't trust those

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Speaker 1: two conways here.

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Speaker 5: Hey, now, I don't you think that if we had

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Speaker 5: to do it all over again, we would claw back

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Speaker 5: or at least, I don't know, take some of the

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Speaker 5: money we're putting into the Mountain Lion Bridge and.

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Speaker 3: You know, get rid of some of the shrubbery.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you think one hundred and twenty eight million dollars

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Speaker 5: So the Mountain Lion doesn't have to go to the

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Speaker 5: Lost Virgins and go over that bridge.

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Speaker 3: I wonder how I wonder how much wildlife died in

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Speaker 3: the fire.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I wonder how many mountain lions are going

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Speaker 5: to come over and kill your dogs and cats because

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Speaker 5: that's what they eat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw coyote in our neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: As if we didn't have enough trouble in the neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the evacuations and the looting. I got

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Speaker 1: up really early in the morning and I'm driving down

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Speaker 1: the road and there's a really ugly look and nasty,

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Speaker 1: mangy coyote.

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Speaker 5: I see him every day on the way back from

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Speaker 5: work way to home.

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Speaker 1: And I stopped in front of the house and it

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Speaker 1: was still dark, and I thought, well, now what am

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Speaker 1: I going to do? You know, he's a coyote going

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Speaker 1: to attack me. I gotta not only worry about the

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Speaker 1: now I got this coyote.

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Speaker 3: On the loose. I know it's a wild wild West

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Speaker 3: out here. It is.

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Speaker 5: We have a lap Captain Eric Scott coming on with us.

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Speaker 5: The latest wind warnings, a lot of wind happening. There

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Speaker 5: was a small fire in Griffith Park. They think that's

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Speaker 5: or they know that that's Arson, and then we have

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Speaker 5: another one in South Orange County. We'll keep an eye

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Speaker 5: on that. And then Michael Monks suspended. Arson is being

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Speaker 5: detained or suspected Arsen is being detained for that Griffith

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Speaker 5: Park fire. So we've got them all covered here, and

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Speaker 5: then we'll dip into a little bit of the Trump

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Speaker 5: celebrat They should have shot that guy on site. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: they got to do something about these guys. I mean,

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Speaker 5: you know, if we can't take this much more, just

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Speaker 5: another couple of examples, it'll stop.

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Speaker 3: Well, they used to shoot that.

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Speaker 5: They used to shoot looters on site in New York

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Speaker 5: City whenever they had a blackout, you know, back in

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Speaker 5: the forties and fifties. They shot him on site. I'm

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Speaker 5: for that too, a lot of shooting on site, that's right,

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Speaker 5: all right.

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Speaker 1: Conway's next, and we have Michael Kurzer with the news

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Speaker 1: live in the Can't Fight twenty for our newsroom. Hey,

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

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Speaker 1: can always the show live on KFI AM six forty

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Speaker 1: from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and

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