November 10, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/10) - Polly Grossman, a Cheviot Hills resident comes on the show to talk about a homeless shelter that is set to open in the area amid a federal investigation. Pres. Trump has turned on the air traffic controllers. A hotel in North Dakota was laundering sheets in the hot tub! Nancy Pelosi made how much money on the stock market while she was a congresswoman?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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in about an hour. We played you at the end
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of last hour, right before Dever's news. A Fox eleven
story from Matthew Sedorf about Chevy At Hills. There is
a seventy bed homeless shelter. It's I guess going to
provide permanent housing, conservative services. So you have seventy mental
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patients and drug addicts being stuffed into a residential neighborhood.
How this thing came to be is literally a federal scandal.
Federal agents arrested the real estate executive if Steven Taylor,
accused a bank fraud, identity theft, money laundering, saying Taylor
used fake bank records, fogus lines of credit, purchased the
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property for eleven million dollars. He used to be a
senior living center. Then he turns around ten days later
and sells it for twenty seven million, buys it for
eleven million, sells it for twenty seven million, a sixteen
million dollar profit, and nobody knows where the money went
and why the Line Guard Center would pay that price
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after Taylor used fake, fake documents and fake information to
get the eleven million. And this, of course is all
our tax money originally that went to Taylor. And on
top of that, even more importantly, the neighborhood doesn't want
this place. They don't want these kind of inhabitants for
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obvious reasons. Katy Rslavsky doesn't give a crap at all,
just kicks dirt on him, and of course Karen Bass
thinks this is wonderful. They want to bring all this
kind of insanity into peaceful, normal neighborhoods. That's the idea
is to grow in neighborhoods, make it more equitable. You see. Well,
let's get Polly Grossman on the line. Polly, Hi, doing Hi?
(02:16):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well? I'm worked up now that you've reminded me all
of the terrible you know, all of the terrible situations
we've been living through here in Chevy a Hill.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Chevy Hills is a very nice community and years ago.
My wife and I looked at a place there. We
even put a bit on one of the homes. Uh
And I cannot believe. I find Chevy Hills to be
idyllic and I cannot believe that they're doing this to you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
We are extremely upset. We have reached out to local government.
You know, Katie knew about this a year ago, and
they silenced us and they told us, you know, that
wasn't true, and it is. It's true. It's all come
to light, and evicting seniors while diverting funds intended for
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homeless is not acceptable public policy.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh, they evicted the seniors who were living there. Yes,
that's really and they're going to replace it with seventy
homeless people.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Exactly. That's this is exactly right. And they tried to
hide it, of course it was you know, it was
kept suppress the information. And we had to ask for
city documents and we have six thousand pages and we've
been reading through them, and you would just be shocked
when you find out that Karen Bess didn't know exactly
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this was going to cost, you know, sixty million dollars
and that they were going to evict the seniors.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, they know what they're doing. The game they play
is to keep the residents from knowing anything until the
last second. They almost pulled this off in Sayana Monica recently,
and then word got out and they were going to
put homeless people into two buildings on Ocean Avenue in
Santa Monica, and there was hell to pay when that
finally leaked and they pulled back that plan. But they're
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getting away with it in chevy At Hills up to now,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, you know, Santa Monica has a mayor and their
mayor stepped up, and this was going to happen in
Torrance and their mayor stepped up. But we don't have
a mayor.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
No, and you don't have a city council woman who
gives a crap about you either.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We're feeling we're feeling like she doesn't care, and you
know she does have an election coming up in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well that's where you get rid of her. You've got
to get rid oficated Yarslovsky. If you vote for her,
you rewarded her for potentially ruining your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes, we want this project suspended until the federal investigation
is complete.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What is this? This was, this was tax money used
that Taylor, Stephen Taylor got a hold of and then
he sells it in ten days for a sixteen million
dollar profit. Has anybody said why this Wineguard center would
pay a sixteen million dollar premium on this property. I don't.
(05:23):
I don't understand that part.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Wineguard maintains that it was, you know, it was the
cost was satisfactory to them, the price. And the real
estate agents in our area were just laughing. They just
couldn't believe that somebody would be so stupid to pay
twenty seven million dollars for this building and the.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Twenty seven million and then twenty seven million went to
Steven Taylor.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well, yes, and then there's sixteen million missing. Where is
the sixteen million dollars?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, I'm wondering if if anybody in government got kickbacks
for allowing these deals to go through.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And because there's a federal investigation, we are hoping that
more evidence will come to light.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
There has to be an endpoint for this money, and
it's not a good end point at least as far
as the residents are courrencerned. This must be money stolen
by people working in government, and this starts with Project
home Key, and that's that's a state plan, correct.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I think home Key is fed and then we have
inside space.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
This is the cities, yeah, or home Key might be
might be newsoance thing.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, and there's you know, they spent sixty million dollars
on this plank to house seventy people. So think about this.
That was twenty seven million dollars for the purchase, twenty
million to fix it up. And I'd just like to
mentioned the building had been updated two years prior and
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they could have just moved the homeless in immediately, and
instead they spent another twenty million and then it's going
to be another eleven million to run it is.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
This is crime. This is like organized crime and corruption.
I just looked it up. This is this is state money.
Project home Key is a newsome project.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, So this is state money being spent here. I
don't know if there's local money involved, but usually it's
like combined funds.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Right exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I mean, how long how long was this in the
works before anyone in the public found out?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, probably at least a year wow, maybe less, because
when west Side Current first the story about the price
that was paid. I'm not sure how long after that
actually happened, but after it did happen enough people didn't
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say anything and didn't do anything. Everybody thinks somebody else
is going to do something, and no one does. And
that's why we are really trying hard to bring this
to the public. And we have a what's app. It's
called the Integrity Project, and you're welcome to go there,
and we have prepopulated letters and prepopulated emails and all
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you need to do is copy and paste and they'll
be sent to Katie, to Karen, to Newse, them to
his wife, to everybody with local.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Governments, everybody who's involved in the in the corruption here.
So you go to what's app and what's the name
of that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's called the Integrity Project.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And then and then people can can cut and paste
the letters that you could send out to Karen Bass
and k Roslavsky and Gavin Newsom. All right, uh, yeah,
you got you got it. This is good. I mean
we're covering it here. Fox eleven covered it. Uh, you
got the West Side Current cover covering it. So I mean,
you gotta you gotta create a big, a big storm here.
(09:21):
There's no other way you just gotta go, you gotta
go a little crazy. What's that?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
La Times put out two articles and so that is
how everybody knew about the arrests. And wine Guard Kevin Murray,
they took him off the board as the CEO. He's
had to step down. There is he's in trouble. This is,
this is, this is getting larger by the day.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yes, I got that story here too. So there's a
tremendous amount of corruption that's going on here. Yeah, yeah,
here it is the Homeless Service Providers CEO Kevin Murray
uh placed on leave and uh Kevin Murray president and CEO,
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a former state senator. And Ben Rosen, the director of
real estate development from Wineguard, also placed on leave. So
you've got you've got Stephen Taylor and his company. You've
got Kevin Murray and this company. And so this this
is two layers of corruption here with with Bass and
Newsome and Yaroslavsky providing the money. All right, well, thank
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you very much for coming on, Polly, and please keep
in touch with us.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I will John. Are you going to be able to
post this story on your Instagram?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Uh? Well we will post it on something maybe uh
maybe X. That's where we put a lot of stories.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh, that would be awesome. Yeah, yeah, thank you, thank
you for the time. It's great. It's great to talk
to you. I just I think you're awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh, thank you very much. All right, we'll keep on it.
All right, we'll keep on it. You let us know
about the next chapter.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Happy to provide any updates.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
All right, we'll do.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
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Speaker 1 (11:09):
Dem Can you imagine you find out there's a seventy
person homeless residence built in your neighborhood, No, I I
Katie Arslovsky is one of the dumbest city councilmen I've seen,
and that's saying a lot. But she is awful representing
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her people, Absolutely awful. There is no doubt she would
never be elected except she has the name of her
father in law and her father in law was a
popular a bad but a popular politician for decades in
La and probably all the dumbasses out there thought they
were voting for him. Again, boy, is she awful. You
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remember back when she that naked woman who's living on
a sofa in the middle of Sanja Sente Boulevard, and
that went on for days and days, and she didn't
do anything about it until it was I think, on
the front page of the Daily Mail in London, and
finally she was embarrassed in into doing something. I've never
seen anybody so slow witted in my life, just absolutely
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slow witted. You would think, right off the top, if somebody,
if some company has an idea to bring in seventy
homeless people into one building in a really nice neighborhood
near a school, that the city council person would say,
over my dead body, you're not doing that, but she
lets it happen. And then Karen Beth praises it. Why
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do you keep voting like this? I hate being a
broken record, but I don't have any other solution. Maybe
you could form a human chain and block the entrance.
On top of that, there's like two layers of corruption
going on. The guy originally bought the building has been
federally indicted for fraud, and then the company that bought
the building paid the first guy an extra sixteen million
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dollars after ten days, and now two of their top
executives are placed on leave. Something does not sell for
eleven million dollars. And then ten days later it sells
for twenty seven million. And who ends up with that
sixteen million dollar profit? So Steven Taylor with the first
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company is federally indicted. Now these two characters with Wineguard
who bought the place. Now now they've been put on leave.
What's what? And the residents are supposed to accept seventy
homeless people? What are they going to do all day
in the neighborhood. Defecate in the street, deficate on the
lawns urinate, shoot up drugs, snort meth, molest the little children,
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rape the wives. What are they going to do all day?
These guys? Excuse me? I need to drink.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
What kind of alcohol is that?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's water? I had a bottle of water here before
I left it in my work bag. Over the weekend,
I had some more water in it and I took
a couple of swigs before it tasted like liquid plastic.
It was so disgusting.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Just think of all the micro plastics that are entering
your body right now.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
This was like macroplastic. You know, it's probably completely clogged
my arteries. I don't know what happens, Like all the
plastic is dissolved in the water. So much plastic I'm
choking on it.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Then why are you drinking more?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, this is a new bottle. I can't get the
plastic from the old bottle out of my system yet.
All right, we come back quick rundown. The latest on
the shutdown ending. Trump has turned on the air traffic controllers.
How about that? Finally he's angry with them and it
ordered everybody back to work or there's going to be
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hell to play, hell to pay. So we talk about that.
And also before you go, a really disgusting story about
a North Dakota hotel worker an innovative way the hotel
had to clean soiled sheets. Guarantee you've never heard about
this process before. So we'll do both of those coming
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up next.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You probably heard the shutdown is going to be over soon.
We covered it extensively in the first hour if you want.
If you missed it, you can listen to the podcast
on the iHeart app John Cobelt Show on demand. The
Democrats that cave did there. They must have gotten enormous
pressure from people who needed food stamps and people who
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wanted to fly this upcoming Thanksgiving because it was really
stupid to have this kind of shutdown affect so many
people in important ways like this, They wanted an extension
of Obama subsidies that had an expiration date on it.
They created the expiration date back in twenty twenty one.
They did. It was a COVID response to help people
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with health care when so many were out of work,
and it was supposed to be temporary, and they wanted
to make it permanent, and the Republicans said, no, it's temporary.
You put in the expiration date, and it's costing. It
costs like a trillion and a half dollars over the
next X number of years. So yeah, it had it
had to go, and they gave up. Eight Democratic senators
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defected to the other side. Now, now the aftermath, Trump
is angry with the air traffic controllers. Well, the air
traffic controllers should never ever have been included in this shutdown.
They should have been paid throughout the entire shutdown because
there were still sixteen hundred flights canceled today. And this
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is going to go on for a few because the
wheels grind slowly in government, so it's going to take
a while for this bill to go through the Senate
and the House and the whole thing. Well, Trump wrote
on a social media post, all air traffic controllers must
get back to work now, capital letters, three exclamation points.
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Anyone who doesn't will be substantially docked. He says, he's
recommending ten thousand dollars bonus to any air traffic controller
who showed up every day and didn't take any time off.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, those guys, those guys ought to be rewarded for
those who For those though, who did nothing but complain
and took time off even though everyone knew they would
be paid in full. I am not happy with you.
In capital letters. You could just hear him yelling, and
the union says, well, if they can't, this is Chris
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Brown with the union. If they can't pay for daycare
and they don't have any extra resources, then there's no
way for them to come to work. They can't leave
their kids at home. I guess some people were so
short of money that they were calling in sick in
order to work at door Dash or Uber. Some probably
are just lazy, you know, but they never should have
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been unfunded to begin with. That was ridiculously stupid.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And they need to prevent that from happening again in
the future.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
They shouldn't have shutdowns. You have all year to negotiate. Again.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
We said they shouldn't get paid. The lawmakers shouldn't get
paid until they come up with a deal and sign it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think somebody in Congress has that has that bill
that they wrote up. I saw it in passing yesterday
and I don't remember who, but they wrote it up
saying you do a shutdown, then then Congress doesn't get paid.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
That would end this none. Yes, And I'm telling you,
I'm sure a lot of these these congress people and
senators they have private planes. They're corrupt donors give them
private planes to get a ride because they're all They
all got thirty six hour warnings to come back. All
right now, my disgusting story for you. I see these
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in the morning and get excited. I think this will
really upset Deborah.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Thanks John, I've got a friend.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
But you're very clean. And I say that as a compliment. Yes,
I could they just tell you you're very clean? You're
very like fastidious. You walk around with those white bees.
Still to open up, you know, open up doors, and
then you just smell very good and uh, and I
just get the feeling that you don't like ikey stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I do not like ikey stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And I get the feeling you don't like You probably
don't really like hotels, especially if they're the.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
First thing I do is I take the pill of
the decorative pillows and the beds, bedspreads or whatever off the.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Bed, right. And if you're if you're staying at a
less than luxurious hotel, they probably everything creeps you out right.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I've seen pretty gross stuff that I've had to go
to management.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah you're one of those, I am. Okay, I bet
you've never seen this. They have video of it. A
North Dakota hotel worker was caught on video jumping bed
sheets into the hotel hot tub. That's how he was
laundering them, and the hotel said, yeah, that's our system.
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What they do is they'd launder it in the hot
tub to remove the stains. This is the Expressway sweets
in Fargo, North Dakota, and you're probably not going to
be in Fargo anytime soon, but guests saw this guy
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doing it. He was loading the sheets into the chlorinated
water and mixing them with a broomstick.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I can see this.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You can't, it's online, said one guest Alex. At first
I thought maybe the hot tub was down and the
drain was broken and they were trying to soak up
the excess water. But he started adding in more and
I said, what's going on? That's disgusting. Are you kidding?
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Are we sleeping on those sheets? I was really disgusted. Yes,
they were sleeping on those sheets. So the hotel says,
the sheets are put on guest beds, they're washed their
traditional way, so.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
That first they're soaked and then they're washed.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They're soaked in the hot tub to remove the stains.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
They can't remove the stains and have washing machine, they
put it in the hot tub and then and then
people go into the which I don't, by the way,
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh, the hot tubs yuck a the grosest things I
can imagine.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Even with all that chlorine.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, well they're they're extra chlorinated. Yeah, uh but no,
it's it's just and some of the people in hot
tubs there's a certain type.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yea, and god knows what they do in there.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, yeah, and you know people don't clean themselves well,
I mean, there's so The hotel claimed the sheets put
on beds are washing their traditional way.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
The sheets are put into the hot tub and it
gets out tiny little stains, and then the hot tub
is drained. It's really heavy, heavily cleaned by a huge
deep cleaner. One hotel worker said. Management said they own
they only resort to the hot tub method as a
last ditch attempt to clean the bedding.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Why don't you just get new bedding.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
These are the stains that don't come out. I know.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
That's gross, John, it's so really good, disgusting.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Senior hotel workers claim they only put the bed sheets
in the tub after pool hours. Uh. And and the
worker who did it in front of the guests has
been told off. Uh. There are some guests are checking
with city health officials because experts say that sauna baths
are filled with a high percentage of bodily fluids that
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can be the breeding ground for bacteriy. Center Disease Control
says you can get respiratory illnesses, Legionnaire's disease, and hot
tub rash. Well, if you're gonna war, if you're gonna
put staged sheets in the top, yeah, it doesn't explain
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what hot tub rash.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That is so gross? All right, did I did? I upset?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
You know that. I don't want to go anywhere anymore now, No.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I know. I don't want I don't want to be
around people I was, I was on I was on
six planes in the last month. I don't want to
be crammed into planes with other people anymore. I had
an enormous guy sitting with me. They're a Friday on
the way to Philadelphia. Oh, J'SU. This guy. This guy
was massive. We got very close.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Oh you did.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
We almost got into it. He was just he was
just spread out in all directions.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You didn't say, excuse me? Can you move that? U?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Can you move that?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
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we say here now, Conway's up in minutes. All the
adulation for Nancy Pelosi just made me gag made just
(25:14):
really really upset my stomach. You know, she should be
regarded as a crook. New York posted a story she
made one hundred and thirty million dollars in stock profits
while she was a congresswoman. Do you know what her
return on investment was? Sixteen thousand, nine hundred and thirty percent.
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She do you think any insider information was involved here?
I mean, the glorification of this woman chess was absurd.
Sixteen nine hundred and thirty percent. She made at least
one hundred and thirty million dollars. Let's play a clip.
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The White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt laid this out
back on July thirty. First.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
The idea to put a ban on stock trading for
members of Congress is even a thing is because of
Nancy Pelosi. I mean, she is rightfully criticized because she
makes think one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a year,
yet she has a net worth of approximately four hundred
and thirteen million in twenty twenty four, Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio,
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this was a fascinating statistic to me, grew seventy percent
in one year in twenty twenty four, and her portfolio
outperformed every single large hedge fund in that same year
and even more than doubled the returns of Warren Buffett's
Berkshire Hathaway. So I think the President stands with the
American people on this. He doesn't want to see people
like Nancy Pelosi enriching themselves off of public service and
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ripping off their constituents in the process. As for the
mechanics of the legislation and how it will move forward,
the White House continues to be in discussions with our
friends on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
She and her husband have had their head in the
traw for forty years. Almost when she was took office
in nineteen eighty seven, she was forty seven years old,
and they reported that they had between six hundred, ten
thousand and seven hundred and eighty five thousand dollars in stocks. Okay,
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now you fast forward thirty eight years and it's one
hundred and thirty million in profits. Now, I told you
she made a return of sixteen thousand, nine hundred and
thirty percent. You know how that compares to all the
other stock indexes Dow Jones over the same period of time,
up twenty three hundred percent, her average annual return fourteen
(27:45):
and a half percent. That's double standard and poor five hundred.
That's double the NASDAK, double the Dow Jones performances last year.
As you heard Levitz say, fifty four percent return. And
I I it's just incredible, the tremendous amount of wealth
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she created by trading insider information that most people had
no access to, and never gets investigated, never gets criticized
for it from anybody on her side. It's they prattle
on about the gap between the the the wealth gap
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in this country, the income inequality gap, the haves and
the have nots, and this lady's been running Congress for
many years, in the last decade. It's just complete hypocrisy,
total fraud. We're done for now. Michael Kurzer is the
News Conway next Michael Lied and the KFI twenty four
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in about an hour. We played you at the end
(00:23):
of last hour, right before Dever's news. A Fox eleven
story from Matthew Sedorf about Chevy At Hills. There is
a seventy bed homeless shelter. It's I guess going to
provide permanent housing, conservative services. So you have seventy mental
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patients and drug addicts being stuffed into a residential neighborhood.
How this thing came to be is literally a federal scandal.
Federal agents arrested the real estate executive if Steven Taylor,
accused a bank fraud, identity theft, money laundering, saying Taylor
used fake bank records, fogus lines of credit, purchased the
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property for eleven million dollars. He used to be a
senior living center. Then he turns around ten days later
and sells it for twenty seven million, buys it for
eleven million, sells it for twenty seven million, a sixteen
million dollar profit, and nobody knows where the money went
and why the Line Guard Center would pay that price
(01:30):
after Taylor used fake, fake documents and fake information to
get the eleven million. And this, of course is all
our tax money originally that went to Taylor. And on
top of that, even more importantly, the neighborhood doesn't want
this place. They don't want these kind of inhabitants for
(01:52):
obvious reasons. Katy Rslavsky doesn't give a crap at all,
just kicks dirt on him, and of course Karen Bass
thinks this is wonderful. They want to bring all this
kind of insanity into peaceful, normal neighborhoods. That's the idea
is to grow in neighborhoods, make it more equitable. You see. Well,
let's get Polly Grossman on the line. Polly, Hi, doing Hi?
(02:16):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well? I'm worked up now that you've reminded me all
of the terrible you know, all of the terrible situations
we've been living through here in Chevy a Hill.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Chevy Hills is a very nice community and years ago.
My wife and I looked at a place there. We
even put a bit on one of the homes. Uh
And I cannot believe. I find Chevy Hills to be
idyllic and I cannot believe that they're doing this to you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
We are extremely upset. We have reached out to local government.
You know, Katie knew about this a year ago, and
they silenced us and they told us, you know, that
wasn't true, and it is. It's true. It's all come
to light, and evicting seniors while diverting funds intended for
(03:07):
homeless is not acceptable public policy.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh, they evicted the seniors who were living there. Yes,
that's really and they're going to replace it with seventy
homeless people.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Exactly. That's this is exactly right. And they tried to
hide it, of course it was you know, it was
kept suppress the information. And we had to ask for
city documents and we have six thousand pages and we've
been reading through them, and you would just be shocked
when you find out that Karen Bess didn't know exactly
(03:44):
this was going to cost, you know, sixty million dollars
and that they were going to evict the seniors.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, they know what they're doing. The game they play
is to keep the residents from knowing anything until the
last second. They almost pulled this off in Sayana Monica recently,
and then word got out and they were going to
put homeless people into two buildings on Ocean Avenue in
Santa Monica, and there was hell to pay when that
finally leaked and they pulled back that plan. But they're
(04:12):
getting away with it in chevy At Hills up to now,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, you know, Santa Monica has a mayor and their
mayor stepped up, and this was going to happen in
Torrance and their mayor stepped up. But we don't have
a mayor.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
No, and you don't have a city council woman who
gives a crap about you either.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We're feeling we're feeling like she doesn't care, and you
know she does have an election coming up in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well that's where you get rid of her. You've got
to get rid oficated Yarslovsky. If you vote for her,
you rewarded her for potentially ruining your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes, we want this project suspended until the federal investigation
is complete.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What is this? This was, this was tax money used
that Taylor, Stephen Taylor got a hold of and then
he sells it in ten days for a sixteen million
dollar profit. Has anybody said why this Wineguard center would
pay a sixteen million dollar premium on this property. I don't.
(05:23):
I don't understand that part.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Wineguard maintains that it was, you know, it was the
cost was satisfactory to them, the price. And the real
estate agents in our area were just laughing. They just
couldn't believe that somebody would be so stupid to pay
twenty seven million dollars for this building and the.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Twenty seven million and then twenty seven million went to
Steven Taylor.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well, yes, and then there's sixteen million missing. Where is
the sixteen million dollars?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, I'm wondering if if anybody in government got kickbacks
for allowing these deals to go through.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And because there's a federal investigation, we are hoping that
more evidence will come to light.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
There has to be an endpoint for this money, and
it's not a good end point at least as far
as the residents are courrencerned. This must be money stolen
by people working in government, and this starts with Project
home Key, and that's that's a state plan, correct.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I think home Key is fed and then we have
inside space.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
This is the cities, yeah, or home Key might be
might be newsoance thing.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, and there's you know, they spent sixty million dollars
on this plank to house seventy people. So think about this.
That was twenty seven million dollars for the purchase, twenty
million to fix it up. And I'd just like to
mentioned the building had been updated two years prior and
(07:05):
they could have just moved the homeless in immediately, and
instead they spent another twenty million and then it's going
to be another eleven million to run it is.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
This is crime. This is like organized crime and corruption.
I just looked it up. This is this is state money.
Project home Key is a newsome project.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, So this is state money being spent here. I
don't know if there's local money involved, but usually it's
like combined funds.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Right exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I mean, how long how long was this in the
works before anyone in the public found out?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, probably at least a year wow, maybe less, because
when west Side Current first the story about the price
that was paid. I'm not sure how long after that
actually happened, but after it did happen enough people didn't
(08:12):
say anything and didn't do anything. Everybody thinks somebody else
is going to do something, and no one does. And
that's why we are really trying hard to bring this
to the public. And we have a what's app. It's
called the Integrity Project, and you're welcome to go there,
and we have prepopulated letters and prepopulated emails and all
(08:36):
you need to do is copy and paste and they'll
be sent to Katie, to Karen, to Newse, them to
his wife, to everybody with local.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Governments, everybody who's involved in the in the corruption here.
So you go to what's app and what's the name
of that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's called the Integrity Project.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And then and then people can can cut and paste
the letters that you could send out to Karen Bass
and k Roslavsky and Gavin Newsom. All right, uh, yeah,
you got you got it. This is good. I mean
we're covering it here. Fox eleven covered it. Uh, you
got the West Side Current cover covering it. So I mean,
you gotta you gotta create a big, a big storm here.
(09:21):
There's no other way you just gotta go, you gotta
go a little crazy. What's that?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
La Times put out two articles and so that is
how everybody knew about the arrests. And wine Guard Kevin Murray,
they took him off the board as the CEO. He's
had to step down. There is he's in trouble. This is,
this is, this is getting larger by the day.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yes, I got that story here too. So there's a
tremendous amount of corruption that's going on here. Yeah, yeah,
here it is the Homeless Service Providers CEO Kevin Murray
uh placed on leave and uh Kevin Murray president and CEO,
(10:05):
a former state senator. And Ben Rosen, the director of
real estate development from Wineguard, also placed on leave. So
you've got you've got Stephen Taylor and his company. You've
got Kevin Murray and this company. And so this this
is two layers of corruption here with with Bass and
Newsome and Yaroslavsky providing the money. All right, well, thank
(10:29):
you very much for coming on, Polly, and please keep
in touch with us.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I will John. Are you going to be able to
post this story on your Instagram?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Uh? Well we will post it on something maybe uh
maybe X. That's where we put a lot of stories.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh, that would be awesome. Yeah, yeah, thank you, thank
you for the time. It's great. It's great to talk
to you. I just I think you're awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh, thank you very much. All right, we'll keep on it.
All right, we'll keep on it. You let us know
about the next chapter.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Happy to provide any updates.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
All right, we'll do.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Dem Can you imagine you find out there's a seventy
person homeless residence built in your neighborhood, No, I I
Katie Arslovsky is one of the dumbest city councilmen I've seen,
and that's saying a lot. But she is awful representing
(11:30):
her people, Absolutely awful. There is no doubt she would
never be elected except she has the name of her
father in law and her father in law was a
popular a bad but a popular politician for decades in
La and probably all the dumbasses out there thought they
were voting for him. Again, boy, is she awful. You
(11:53):
remember back when she that naked woman who's living on
a sofa in the middle of Sanja Sente Boulevard, and
that went on for days and days, and she didn't
do anything about it until it was I think, on
the front page of the Daily Mail in London, and
finally she was embarrassed in into doing something. I've never
seen anybody so slow witted in my life, just absolutely
(12:14):
slow witted. You would think, right off the top, if somebody,
if some company has an idea to bring in seventy
homeless people into one building in a really nice neighborhood
near a school, that the city council person would say,
over my dead body, you're not doing that, but she
lets it happen. And then Karen Beth praises it. Why
(12:35):
do you keep voting like this? I hate being a
broken record, but I don't have any other solution. Maybe
you could form a human chain and block the entrance.
On top of that, there's like two layers of corruption
going on. The guy originally bought the building has been
federally indicted for fraud, and then the company that bought
the building paid the first guy an extra sixteen million
(12:57):
dollars after ten days, and now two of their top
executives are placed on leave. Something does not sell for
eleven million dollars. And then ten days later it sells
for twenty seven million. And who ends up with that
sixteen million dollar profit? So Steven Taylor with the first
(13:18):
company is federally indicted. Now these two characters with Wineguard
who bought the place. Now now they've been put on leave.
What's what? And the residents are supposed to accept seventy
homeless people? What are they going to do all day
in the neighborhood. Defecate in the street, deficate on the
lawns urinate, shoot up drugs, snort meth, molest the little children,
(13:48):
rape the wives. What are they going to do all day?
These guys? Excuse me? I need to drink.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
What kind of alcohol is that?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's water? I had a bottle of water here before
I left it in my work bag. Over the weekend,
I had some more water in it and I took
a couple of swigs before it tasted like liquid plastic.
It was so disgusting.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Just think of all the micro plastics that are entering
your body right now.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
This was like macroplastic. You know, it's probably completely clogged
my arteries. I don't know what happens, Like all the
plastic is dissolved in the water. So much plastic I'm
choking on it.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Then why are you drinking more?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, this is a new bottle. I can't get the
plastic from the old bottle out of my system yet.
All right, we come back quick rundown. The latest on
the shutdown ending. Trump has turned on the air traffic controllers.
How about that? Finally he's angry with them and it
ordered everybody back to work or there's going to be
(14:55):
hell to play, hell to pay. So we talk about that.
And also before you go, a really disgusting story about
a North Dakota hotel worker an innovative way the hotel
had to clean soiled sheets. Guarantee you've never heard about
this process before. So we'll do both of those coming
(15:17):
up next.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You probably heard the shutdown is going to be over soon.
We covered it extensively in the first hour if you want.
If you missed it, you can listen to the podcast
on the iHeart app John Cobelt Show on demand. The
Democrats that cave did there. They must have gotten enormous
pressure from people who needed food stamps and people who
(15:47):
wanted to fly this upcoming Thanksgiving because it was really
stupid to have this kind of shutdown affect so many
people in important ways like this, They wanted an extension
of Obama subsidies that had an expiration date on it.
They created the expiration date back in twenty twenty one.
They did. It was a COVID response to help people
(16:13):
with health care when so many were out of work,
and it was supposed to be temporary, and they wanted
to make it permanent, and the Republicans said, no, it's temporary.
You put in the expiration date, and it's costing. It
costs like a trillion and a half dollars over the
next X number of years. So yeah, it had it
had to go, and they gave up. Eight Democratic senators
(16:36):
defected to the other side. Now, now the aftermath, Trump
is angry with the air traffic controllers. Well, the air
traffic controllers should never ever have been included in this shutdown.
They should have been paid throughout the entire shutdown because
there were still sixteen hundred flights canceled today. And this
(16:58):
is going to go on for a few because the
wheels grind slowly in government, so it's going to take
a while for this bill to go through the Senate
and the House and the whole thing. Well, Trump wrote
on a social media post, all air traffic controllers must
get back to work now, capital letters, three exclamation points.
(17:19):
Anyone who doesn't will be substantially docked. He says, he's
recommending ten thousand dollars bonus to any air traffic controller
who showed up every day and didn't take any time off.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, those guys, those guys ought to be rewarded for
those who For those though, who did nothing but complain
and took time off even though everyone knew they would
be paid in full. I am not happy with you.
In capital letters. You could just hear him yelling, and
the union says, well, if they can't, this is Chris
(17:59):
Brown with the union. If they can't pay for daycare
and they don't have any extra resources, then there's no
way for them to come to work. They can't leave
their kids at home. I guess some people were so
short of money that they were calling in sick in
order to work at door Dash or Uber. Some probably
are just lazy, you know, but they never should have
(18:24):
been unfunded to begin with. That was ridiculously stupid.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And they need to prevent that from happening again in
the future.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
They shouldn't have shutdowns. You have all year to negotiate. Again.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
We said they shouldn't get paid. The lawmakers shouldn't get
paid until they come up with a deal and sign it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think somebody in Congress has that has that bill
that they wrote up. I saw it in passing yesterday
and I don't remember who, but they wrote it up
saying you do a shutdown, then then Congress doesn't get paid.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
That would end this none. Yes, And I'm telling you,
I'm sure a lot of these these congress people and
senators they have private planes. They're corrupt donors give them
private planes to get a ride because they're all They
all got thirty six hour warnings to come back. All
right now, my disgusting story for you. I see these
(19:18):
in the morning and get excited. I think this will
really upset Deborah.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Thanks John, I've got a friend.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
But you're very clean. And I say that as a compliment. Yes,
I could they just tell you you're very clean? You're
very like fastidious. You walk around with those white bees.
Still to open up, you know, open up doors, and
then you just smell very good and uh, and I
just get the feeling that you don't like ikey stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I do not like ikey stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And I get the feeling you don't like You probably
don't really like hotels, especially if they're the.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
First thing I do is I take the pill of
the decorative pillows and the beds, bedspreads or whatever off the.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Bed, right. And if you're if you're staying at a
less than luxurious hotel, they probably everything creeps you out right.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I've seen pretty gross stuff that I've had to go
to management.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah you're one of those, I am. Okay, I bet
you've never seen this. They have video of it. A
North Dakota hotel worker was caught on video jumping bed
sheets into the hotel hot tub. That's how he was
laundering them, and the hotel said, yeah, that's our system.
(20:30):
What they do is they'd launder it in the hot
tub to remove the stains. This is the Expressway sweets
in Fargo, North Dakota, and you're probably not going to
be in Fargo anytime soon, but guests saw this guy
(20:53):
doing it. He was loading the sheets into the chlorinated
water and mixing them with a broomstick.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I can see this.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You can't, it's online, said one guest Alex. At first
I thought maybe the hot tub was down and the
drain was broken and they were trying to soak up
the excess water. But he started adding in more and
I said, what's going on? That's disgusting. Are you kidding?
(21:25):
Are we sleeping on those sheets? I was really disgusted. Yes,
they were sleeping on those sheets. So the hotel says,
the sheets are put on guest beds, they're washed their
traditional way, so.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
That first they're soaked and then they're washed.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They're soaked in the hot tub to remove the stains.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
They can't remove the stains and have washing machine, they
put it in the hot tub and then and then
people go into the which I don't, by the way,
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh, the hot tubs yuck a the grosest things I
can imagine.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Even with all that chlorine.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, well they're they're extra chlorinated. Yeah, uh but no,
it's it's just and some of the people in hot
tubs there's a certain type.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yea, and god knows what they do in there.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, yeah, and you know people don't clean themselves well,
I mean, there's so The hotel claimed the sheets put
on beds are washing their traditional way.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
The sheets are put into the hot tub and it
gets out tiny little stains, and then the hot tub
is drained. It's really heavy, heavily cleaned by a huge
deep cleaner. One hotel worker said. Management said they own
they only resort to the hot tub method as a
last ditch attempt to clean the bedding.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Why don't you just get new bedding.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
These are the stains that don't come out. I know.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
That's gross, John, it's so really good, disgusting.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Senior hotel workers claim they only put the bed sheets
in the tub after pool hours. Uh. And and the
worker who did it in front of the guests has
been told off. Uh. There are some guests are checking
with city health officials because experts say that sauna baths
are filled with a high percentage of bodily fluids that
(23:11):
can be the breeding ground for bacteriy. Center Disease Control
says you can get respiratory illnesses, Legionnaire's disease, and hot
tub rash. Well, if you're gonna war, if you're gonna
put staged sheets in the top, yeah, it doesn't explain
(23:35):
what hot tub rash.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That is so gross? All right, did I did? I upset?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
You know that. I don't want to go anywhere anymore now, No.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I know. I don't want I don't want to be
around people I was, I was on I was on
six planes in the last month. I don't want to
be crammed into planes with other people anymore. I had
an enormous guy sitting with me. They're a Friday on
the way to Philadelphia. Oh, J'SU. This guy. This guy
was massive. We got very close.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Oh you did.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
We almost got into it. He was just he was
just spread out in all directions.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You didn't say, excuse me? Can you move that? U?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Can you move that?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
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we say here now, Conway's up in minutes. All the
adulation for Nancy Pelosi just made me gag made just
(25:14):
really really upset my stomach. You know, she should be
regarded as a crook. New York posted a story she
made one hundred and thirty million dollars in stock profits
while she was a congresswoman. Do you know what her
return on investment was? Sixteen thousand, nine hundred and thirty percent.
(25:39):
She do you think any insider information was involved here?
I mean, the glorification of this woman chess was absurd.
Sixteen nine hundred and thirty percent. She made at least
one hundred and thirty million dollars. Let's play a clip.
(26:00):
The White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt laid this out
back on July thirty. First.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
The idea to put a ban on stock trading for
members of Congress is even a thing is because of
Nancy Pelosi. I mean, she is rightfully criticized because she
makes think one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a year,
yet she has a net worth of approximately four hundred
and thirteen million in twenty twenty four, Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio,
(26:27):
this was a fascinating statistic to me, grew seventy percent
in one year in twenty twenty four, and her portfolio
outperformed every single large hedge fund in that same year
and even more than doubled the returns of Warren Buffett's
Berkshire Hathaway. So I think the President stands with the
American people on this. He doesn't want to see people
like Nancy Pelosi enriching themselves off of public service and
(26:49):
ripping off their constituents in the process. As for the
mechanics of the legislation and how it will move forward,
the White House continues to be in discussions with our
friends on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
She and her husband have had their head in the
traw for forty years. Almost when she was took office
in nineteen eighty seven, she was forty seven years old,
and they reported that they had between six hundred, ten
thousand and seven hundred and eighty five thousand dollars in stocks. Okay,
(27:19):
now you fast forward thirty eight years and it's one
hundred and thirty million in profits. Now, I told you
she made a return of sixteen thousand, nine hundred and
thirty percent. You know how that compares to all the
other stock indexes Dow Jones over the same period of time,
up twenty three hundred percent, her average annual return fourteen
(27:45):
and a half percent. That's double standard and poor five hundred.
That's double the NASDAK, double the Dow Jones performances last year.
As you heard Levitz say, fifty four percent return. And
I I it's just incredible, the tremendous amount of wealth
(28:08):
she created by trading insider information that most people had
no access to, and never gets investigated, never gets criticized
for it from anybody on her side. It's they prattle
on about the gap between the the the wealth gap
(28:29):
in this country, the income inequality gap, the haves and
the have nots, and this lady's been running Congress for
many years, in the last decade. It's just complete hypocrisy,
total fraud. We're done for now. Michael Kurzer is the
News Conway next Michael Lied and the KFI twenty four
(28:52):
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