May 5, 2026 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/05) - Freddy Escobar is suing Mayor Karen Bass for retaliation. The Sherman Oaks Homeowners' Association has excluded Spencer Pratt from their mayoral debate tonight. A woman in Hollywood who was pregnant was terrified by homeless people in the area and she says Mayor Bass and Nithya Raman have lost her trust. Democrats voted to hide records regarding high-speed rail in California.
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I mentioned that hopefully we can get Freddy Escobar on,
if not today then tomorrow sometime soon. Freddie's been on
our show a number of times and he really lets
it rip. He's very blunt, he's very honest. It's very
rare to have that in a public Official's president of
the United Firefighters of Los Angeles, their union. He's been
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with the fire department for thirty six years. And he
is suing Karen Bass, claiming she launched a retaliation campaign
after he publicly criticized her for defunding the fire Department,
which she did, and that had a lot to do
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with the horrific response in the Palisades last year. Escobar says,
the mayor and her senior staff, what a bunch of stakes.
This crowd is directed fire department officials to issue misleading
statements that's also known as lies to the media by
suggesting he was under scrutiny for overtime abuses. He said
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it was a coordinated effort to silence his criticism of
Bass and the fire budget. Let me explain to you
how this happened. According to Escobar, by the way, I'll say,
Karen Bass is one of the nastiest, most vindictive people
that I have seen. I mean, she cuts your head
off if you criticize her. And she got extremely upset
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by all the finger pointing, deservedly so for her role
in the fire disaster, and she tries she deflects blame
on other people, doesn't take responsibility, and if anybody publicly
criticizes her, they shut up, Which is why when we
had Who's the fire chief? Now? I always forget the
name of that guy, the guy who came on our
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show and just was full full of bs and nonsense,
who didn't think that the public, Hi Menymore, that we
don't have the right to know who ordered the revisions
of the after action report, the fire investigation. He doesn't
think the public ought to know because Karen Bass told him,
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you get fired unless you say that, And so Iimy
Moore is under the threat of being fired, as I mean,
look what happened to Kristin Crowley, the original fire chief
last year. Now, she screwed up running the fire department,
there's no question, but she got fired, not because she
screwed up. Bass doesn't fire you if you screwed up.
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If you screw up. Shriff fired Genie Kenoniez, who left
the the head of the DWP, who left the reservoir dry.
You get fired if you publicly contradict Karen Bass. So
let me explain. In the days after the Palisades fire,
everyone wanted to know were they prepared, what the hell
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went wrong here? And Escobar sided with Kristin Crowley because
Crowley got fired for saying, hey, we had years of
budget cuts. I told them this was going to happen.
I told them we wouldn't be ready if there was
a big one. So Crowley gets fired and Escobar continued
to support Crowley, saying, and he's correct. Crowley was telling
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the truth when it came to the budget cuts. Remember,
the fire department is only fifty percent funded. We have
half a fire department for a city the size of
Los Angeles, and Bass has made further cuts. Crowley sued Bass,
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saying the mayor was lying about her. Now Escobar is
suing Bass, saying Bass has been lying. Apparently the big moment,
they had a closed door meeting at city Hall, and
this is according to the California Post. Bass confronted Escobar
over his public criticism and demanded to know, quote, when
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are you going to stop? And Escabar wouldn't be. He
told her that Crowley told the truth about the lack
of resources, and Bass began a campaign of retaliation. Bass
and her staff retaliated by leaking a phony, blooney story
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that Escobar was abusing overtime. Escobar says city officials fabricated
a sham review into his overtime, leaked distorted information to
the press to suggest wrongdoing where none existed, and I
remember that. And then after a review was done magically,
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Escobar's overtime was found to be ordinary and fully consistent
with department policy in a chronically understaffed agency. According to
the documents, the directive from them from Bass was carefully
crafted and designed to portray Escimar overtime earnings has potentially
corrupt and undermine his credibility as a union leader. So
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Escobar is seeking damages and a jury trial, saying that
Bass and other officials violated his constitutional rights, waged a
campaign to silence dissent at a time when public safety
was on the line. This is all according to his
complaint that he's filed, which is the precursor I think
to a lawsuit. And this is what Bass does, and
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this is why she has to be fought, and she
has to be thrown out of office and not replaced
with the the Raman, but replaced with Spencer Pratt. There's
no question this regime is dishonest, destructive and evil. The
whole Bass Ramen error has been horrific. Again, use your eyes.
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You don't have to believe me, use your eyes. Drive
around the city and you'll see it. But what she
did to Freddie Escobar is so disgusting. But she did
it to Kristen Crowley. You don't get fired for being
bad at your job. You get fired for insulting Karen
Bass and she and Rahman the Psycho Sisters are having
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a debate, and I got something to say about that,
because it's the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association that's putting on
the debate at seven o'clock tonight. There's another debate tomorrow
that's going to be on Channel four and it's going
to be the Psycho Sisters and Spencer Pratt. But tonight
in Sherman Oaks, it's just the Psycho Sisters. I want
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to talk about that when we come back, because there's
something wrong with a lot of the people in this city.
Pratt is second in a lot of the polling, so
I don't know how he gets squeezed out. But the
Homeowners Association has come up with a bizarre and I
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think it's a non reason. I think they're just trying
to suppress Pratt and suppress his vote, and I think
Ramen and Bass are in on it. There's something fishy,
something screwy about the two of them. Can't prove anything,
but when my antenna starts to vibrate, most of the time,
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I'm right, and I'm getting some serious vibration. Yeah, yeah,
take that to the red light district. That's right. I
could you know I'd be a hit in Amsterdam. That's
all I want to say.
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There's a debate. It's not televised. It's the Sherman Oaks
Homeowners Association, a mayor ol debate, and the Sherman Oaks
Homeowners Association refused to allow Spencer Pratt to appear, even
though in many polls he's the number two candidate, and
it's the number two. It's the top two that get
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into the November finals, and there's no excuse for this.
In fact, I'm looking up at the New York Times
and in two of the last three polls, Spencer Pratt
is in second place. So there has to be some ugly,
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dark reason why the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association does not
want Spencer Pratt to appear. Because it's Nthia Rahman's district
and her district is a homeless disaster. I drive through
Sherman Oaks frequently and there are a lot of areas
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that have really gone to hell and have been in
a state of disgusting, disrepair and decay. For a long
time since she took over, she's been awful. She won't
even clear homeless encampments in front of schools. And now
she's putting out all these pony Thony nicey nicey videos
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claiming that she's going to cure homelessness by twenty twenty eight.
And she's completely full of the stuff that the homeless
people are flinging around all day. She is just immersed
in bs absolute bs that lady spews. So I don't
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know how she rigged it or Karen Bass rigged it,
but to not have the number two candidate according to
the polling in the Sherman Oaks debate, when the top
two go on to November means there's something something really
fishy and smelly the president. I'm looking at the board
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members of the Sherman Hoaks Homewners Association, and I tell you,
just looking at their photos, this is the collection of headaches.
Matt Epstein is the president, and apparently he wrote, I
assume it's him. It's under the head it's under the association.
In a time when political forums can feel crowded, chaotic,
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and more performative than productive, We've made a deliberate decision
to do something different rather and listen to this clever evasion.
Rather than housting a stage filled with a long list
of candidates, We've chosen to invite these two leaders specifically
because they represent Sherman Oaks on two critical and complementary
levels of government. Now, that is such a load of
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horse crap in so many ways. First of all, having
three people does not create a crowded, chaotic environment. Secondly,
what are you talking performative? Because Spencer Pratt is more
direct and honest than the psycho sisters, that's considered performative.
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When he actually points out the obvious that the streets
are filled with mental patients, drug addicts and garbage, that's performative.
So it's better to have Bass and Ramen lie about
current conditions, lie about their record, and lie about what
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they're going to do in the next four years. I
guess that's considered productive. So Matt Epstein, I don't get it, Shaarah,
the Legislative Committee is Maria Pavelou Cowban. I guess maybe
a close friend of Nthia Rahman. They don't want to
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create an environment where Ramin gets embarrassed. I don't know
what this is, Oh Sharah, the Homeless Committee, Howard Jaffy,
Are you all crazy people? I have been I lived
near Sherman Oaks for years and years. I used to
be there every day, did a lot of shopping there,
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most of our shopping, most of because I'm live just
up the hill for years and years, and restaurants, and
my kids were little and we went there all the time,
and it used to be a fun place. And now
I drive there through there less often but enough, and
many areas are disgusting and I see it with my
own eyes now. I don't know what you owed around
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Ramen in Bass, I don't know what you're afraid of.
The good thing is Channel four is putting on a
Mariage debate and all three candidates are going to be
on tomorrow, so this one doesn't really matter. But it
makes me think that there's something smelly up here. I
don't understand why Ramen is running unless it's somehow to
block Pratt out of the top two. There's no reason
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for Ramen to be running, and it bothers me. They
were really close friends and Ramen is just as responsible
for the homeless debacle as Bass. Is again. She won't
even clear out dangerous encampments where gang members are showing
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drugs and weapons and they're camped right in front of
the school entrance, elementary school entrance, and she won't get
rid of those. She rolls her eyes and she smirks
every time she's criticized at a public meeting. She's a
piece of work. She's nasty. Bass is nasty too, and
they're both quite vindictive. And Pratt is going to call
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them out on it, is calling him out on it.
And so somehow Matt Epstein and Maria Pavlou Talban again,
iphonates always trouble Howard Jeffy the homeless. I don't know
what you think you're doing. You're just giving them a
twenty four hour reprieve Wednesday's going to be televised. I
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just and then to come up with this. Oh, we
don't want it to be performative. We don't want a
long list of candidates. You don't have to put forty
people on the stage. And you know, Pratt is number
two in the polls, ahead of Ramen. Romen gets on,
but Pratt doesn't. There's some kind of corruption going on here.
There's some kind of deal behind the scenes. Somebody is
covering for somebody and that's wrong. But they're doing Sherman
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Oaks is wrong. A bunch of weasels. All right, We've
got more coming up. Oh, I'm gonna I tell you
about an Assembly bill and we're going to try to
get Alexandria Messito on the Senate. Democrats want to make
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all the high speed rail documented history secret. She's coming
on tomorrow. Okay, good, we're going to talk about it next.
She wants she blew the whistle on this bill ABE
sixteen oh eight that would force all the information to
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be hidden from the public, including audits. The audits will
be made secret. Every Democrat voted for it.
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the five o'clock hour. Just one more follow up. We
were talking about the atrocious decision by the Sherman Oaks
Homeowners Association blocking Spencer Pratt from being involved in a
debate tonight. Only Ramen, Nitthea Rahman, and Karen Bass are allowed,
which is absurd because is number two in most of
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the polls. And uh, everybody's afraid of him because he
speaks clearly, bluntly and correctly about all the all the
garbage going on in the city, literal literal garbage and
human garbage. Uh, here's another one. And what do you know,
I just overlook this and and then and then I'm
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going to get to them trying to cover up all
the uh all the high speed rail records that'll come
up in a minute. But uh, as long as we're
on Nythia Raman's case. Yes, it may shock you to
find out when I tell you this whole story, this
is also in Nythia Raman's district in Hollywood. I've actually
like frightened and breathless over the idea of Cnythia Ramen
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being mayor following up Karen Bass. Well, who would you prefer,
Karen Bass or Karen Bass or Nythia Ramen. I prefer Florida,
but if you choose one neither. They're both horrific. They're
both unbelievable disasters. They are the Psycho sisters. I'm voting
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for Spencer Pratte. We've got nothing to lose here. But
actually it can't get worse, and it will get worse
if Bass gets rewarded or Ramen is elevated. You wait,
you're going to see what happens in five years. It's
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going to be far worse than it is now. And
right now it is pretty bad. Those two have no
morals at all about how they destroy. They're DSA people there,
I mean, I mean, I mean. Bass was a Communist
believer for much of her life. She went to Cuba
many many times. She adored fidelic Astro. I've gone to Cuba.
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That's not a good model. And Nthio Ramen she moved
back to India and she only came to La ten
years ago. And now she's like some kind of know
it all and she's in the last ten years is
when they implemented all these disastrous homeless policies and she's
been one of the worst. Somehow she got in charge
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of the Homeless Committee. And she's a DSA woman too.
So bass is a communist and Ramen is DSSA, which
is like a more destructive form of communism. Yes, I'm
voting for Spencer Pratt. I may do some ballot harvesting.
So here's the story I wanted to get to. In
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Nthia Ramin's neighborhood. A lot of people are so weird
in the city now, they just want to look the
other way. Well, I don't know, maybe it's not that bad. Yeah,
it is that bad. What's wrong with you? I'm getting
very angry at the people who are need to be
smacked into reality. People are cult members, you're all glassy
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eye drooling. Anyway, here's the story. This is about a
woman named Kirsten Munson. She's pregnant, and she's a mother
of a two year old daughter, and she's a tech
executive and she's walking in Hollywood on Sunday near their
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home when Kirsten and her little daughter came upon two
drug addicts blocking the sidewalk. The California Post says she's
heavily pregnant, worried about her little two year old and
her unborn child, but found herself trapped between the mental
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patients and six lanes of traffic, and they tried to
hurry past what she described as zombies to get home,
and she's shaking and she gets home completely rattled. Put
a photo on social media which has gone viral. Hundreds
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of thousands of people have seen it, and she wrote,
ten months pregnant in La ten months who went out
for a relaxing walk quote relaxing walk with my two
year old and we get trapped by two zombies. My
heart is pounding fight or flight in full blast. The
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last thing my body needs right before labor, and all
I can think about is protecting my kids while the
city falls apart around us. And this is a woman
who voted for Karen Bass and knit the Aramen and
now she's looking at these two homeless, drug addicted mental
patient zombies, terrifying her and the baby, and her belly
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is also terrified because all that adrenaline cortisol is pumping
through the baby. That's not good, the two year old.
And she wrote, and this was aimed at Bass and Ramen.
I voted for you, I defended you, but you've lost
my trust. See I'm sorry to say, but Kirsty Munson,
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and a lot of the voters for Bass and Ramen
are women, which is mind boggling to me because I
again thought that women are far more tuned to safety, security,
worrying about the environment their children is growing up. And
apparently I've completely misjudged what a majority of the women
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are about, because candidates like Bass and Ramen get huge
female votes and I don't understand why. So this is
why I'm wondering about, you know, this cult effect. Anyway,
she wrote, I voted for you, I defended you, but
you've lost my trust enough. I'm done watching my community
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live in fear. I'm taking a chance on Spencer Pratt,
someone who will actually demand transparency, accountability and results. My
kids will not grow up in this hellhole. Time for
a real change. She was trying to walk to Bristol Farms.
She's about two blocks from Sunset and Fairfax. Said. I
was scared, then shocked that it was so bad this time,
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then furious. I've been part of the lots of neighborhood meetings,
know how stretched this city is. She was out at
medical appointments earlier with the daughter, had to walk around
multiple people passed out on the sidewalk. She just noticed
this stuff. It's been like this for years in Hollywood.
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She woke up, She came out of her her days,
her coma after voting for Bass and Rahmen, and who
knows how many others like those two, so she woke up.
I don't know. It's impossible for me to believe that
unless you are profiting from this, like you're in one
of these corrupt homeless agencies and you're making six figures,
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how you could possibly vote for ROMed or Bass. It
it boggles my mind what the argument is for these two.
They have both been in power a long time, and
they have created an absolute sewer, a cesspool, and everybody
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hates it, and deep inside, even these Ramen and pract voters.
I'm sorry, Ramen and Bass voters, you must hate this,
don't you. You don't. You don't hate zombies lying on
the sidewalk, drugged out menacing. You don't hate the needles
and the feces. You don't hate the stink of the encampments. God,
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what did we tell you just a couple of weeks ago.
I mean, there's there's there's dogs being bought and sold
on skid row, kept in Cage's experiment. Drug experiments are
being done on them. I don't know, I don't know.
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I don't know what's wrong with people and this A
lot of the stuff is over the news. I mean,
California person Post is certainly covering the hell out of
all this. All right, when we come back, I'll finally
get to this new Assembly built that wants to make
all the high speed rail business a secret, including the audits. Yes,
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that's what the Democrats voted for.
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because we still have a lot of show left and
right now, I want to tell you about Alexandra Mercido,
who is coming on the program of bar. She posted
today about an Assembly Bill sixteen oh eight. This has
not gotten much news coverage, but this is why you
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listen here, because we tell you all the important news
that most of the other media outlets they do not cover.
I presume by choice, because this is all the news
that makes their progressive heroes look bad. And the super
majority Democrats and Sacramento, as Alexandra writes, just voted to
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cover up the high speed rail failures. How do they
do this well, This Assembly Bill sixteen oh eight makes
all the documentation secret, such as audits. It'll be hidden
from the public. She says. Only the Democrats will be
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allowed access. Is that right? Republican representatives are not allowed.
There's only like three of them, six billion dollars in overruns.
After six billion overruns, the Central Valley farmland has been
gutted for empty promises. And now she writes, they want
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to bury the evidence. If this project is great, they
wouldn't pass laws to hide audit reports. Now you remember
Newsom the lyre when on Bill Mahers show, we played
the clip yesterday and when mar correctly accurately said, hey,
that high speed rail project is two hundred and thirty
one billion dollars, now give it up. Gavin Newsom was dismissive,
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saying it's not that well, it is that that number
came out of the Democratic run Senate Transportation Committee, and
there are a few Democratic politicians making squawking noise about it.
They don't do anything about it. But I read about
this some weeks ago, and it's real, and so presumably
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new some signs this and this now will I don't know.
This is massive public spending. How do legally how do
they get to cover all that up? How is that public?
This is what I'm saying. Everybody's gotten sucked into a
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cult and there are so many cult leaders now running
Sacramento two third super majority that they can do whatever
they want, and they are doing whatever they want, and
then most of the progressives in the media cover it
up by simply not reporting it. When when I used
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to hear a lot of complaints about media bias, after
a while I discovered, well, the bias isn't what they
it's really it's really slick. It's what they don't report.
It's what they don't tell you. And because most people
vote out of ignorance, they vote for tribal reasons. They
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both they vote because of the emotional connection they made
with one party or another. They actually most voters don't
have any relevant facts in their head. Although I would
think here in La, all the mental patients and drug
addicts in the streak in the streets would cut through, right,
You'd think they'd cut through, But they don't. People are
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still zombie out loyalty to their party, and and you
know it's created this disastrous mess that we're dealing with.
It's fascinating. In fact, somebody in this California Globe wrote
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a pretty entertaining piece entitled it California Horrorfleck. I'm going
to talk about this later, comparing comparing what California's California
voters do to what remember the old horror movies, Freddy
Krueger and Jason horror movies. The kids in those movies
always made the same stupid decisions over and over again,
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and you'd be sitting in your chair going, no, don't
do that. Run for the door, and they never ran
for the right door. They never got away. And he
writes that this is the same thing that's going on here.
It's really obvious that we've got to run for the door.
But the voters are acting like the kids in the
Freddy Krueger movies, and they don't do it. So why
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is this and the psychological aspect of this fascinates me.
It's like this, It's not anything I ever encountered in
my life. This is not the way normal humans used
to work. They used to recoil, get disgusted and angry
when their city was allowed to decay. And I've lived
in big cities and suburbs and small rural towns, and
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I've never run across a place where the majority of
the people who vote accept the most disgusting, degraded living
conditions that I have ever seen in my life. I've
tried a lot of countries. We've traveled to, like thirty
five plus countries. I have not ever seen anything like this.
We went to third world poverty countries, brought the kids,
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wanted to show them things. Didn't have to if you
wanted to show them disgusting, deprave poverty, just had to
drive fifteen miles to downtown La. Oh. Yeah, that's where
I used to take my kids. That's right. You saved
a lot of money. I did. I didn't travel the
world like you. Well, you also saved those countries naturally,
the natural disasters that you usually bring with you. So
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it worked out for everybody. Yeah, I didn't actually want
to go to all some of the countries we've back to. Yeah,
because you can't eat. No, that's the thing. I couldn't eat.
Food was horrific. Debra Mark. Because like in the CAFI
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I mentioned that hopefully we can get Freddy Escobar on,
if not today then tomorrow sometime soon. Freddie's been on
our show a number of times and he really lets
it rip. He's very blunt, he's very honest. It's very
rare to have that in a public Official's president of
the United Firefighters of Los Angeles, their union. He's been
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with the fire department for thirty six years. And he
is suing Karen Bass, claiming she launched a retaliation campaign
after he publicly criticized her for defunding the fire Department,
which she did, and that had a lot to do
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with the horrific response in the Palisades last year. Escobar says,
the mayor and her senior staff, what a bunch of stakes.
This crowd is directed fire department officials to issue misleading
statements that's also known as lies to the media by
suggesting he was under scrutiny for overtime abuses. He said
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it was a coordinated effort to silence his criticism of
Bass and the fire budget. Let me explain to you
how this happened. According to Escobar, by the way, I'll say,
Karen Bass is one of the nastiest, most vindictive people
that I have seen. I mean, she cuts your head
off if you criticize her. And she got extremely upset
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by all the finger pointing, deservedly so for her role
in the fire disaster, and she tries she deflects blame
on other people, doesn't take responsibility, and if anybody publicly
criticizes her, they shut up, Which is why when we
had Who's the fire chief? Now? I always forget the
name of that guy, the guy who came on our
(02:37):
show and just was full full of bs and nonsense,
who didn't think that the public, Hi Menymore, that we
don't have the right to know who ordered the revisions
of the after action report, the fire investigation. He doesn't
think the public ought to know because Karen Bass told him,
(03:00):
you get fired unless you say that, And so Iimy
Moore is under the threat of being fired, as I mean,
look what happened to Kristin Crowley, the original fire chief
last year. Now, she screwed up running the fire department,
there's no question, but she got fired, not because she
screwed up. Bass doesn't fire you if you screwed up.
(03:23):
If you screw up. Shriff fired Genie Kenoniez, who left
the the head of the DWP, who left the reservoir dry.
You get fired if you publicly contradict Karen Bass. So
let me explain. In the days after the Palisades fire,
everyone wanted to know were they prepared, what the hell
(03:46):
went wrong here? And Escobar sided with Kristin Crowley because
Crowley got fired for saying, hey, we had years of
budget cuts. I told them this was going to happen.
I told them we wouldn't be ready if there was
a big one. So Crowley gets fired and Escobar continued
to support Crowley, saying, and he's correct. Crowley was telling
(04:09):
the truth when it came to the budget cuts. Remember,
the fire department is only fifty percent funded. We have
half a fire department for a city the size of
Los Angeles, and Bass has made further cuts. Crowley sued Bass,
(04:32):
saying the mayor was lying about her. Now Escobar is
suing Bass, saying Bass has been lying. Apparently the big moment,
they had a closed door meeting at city Hall, and
this is according to the California Post. Bass confronted Escobar
over his public criticism and demanded to know, quote, when
(04:55):
are you going to stop? And Escabar wouldn't be. He
told her that Crowley told the truth about the lack
of resources, and Bass began a campaign of retaliation. Bass
and her staff retaliated by leaking a phony, blooney story
(05:19):
that Escobar was abusing overtime. Escobar says city officials fabricated
a sham review into his overtime, leaked distorted information to
the press to suggest wrongdoing where none existed, and I
remember that. And then after a review was done magically,
(05:43):
Escobar's overtime was found to be ordinary and fully consistent
with department policy in a chronically understaffed agency. According to
the documents, the directive from them from Bass was carefully
crafted and designed to portray Escimar overtime earnings has potentially
corrupt and undermine his credibility as a union leader. So
(06:05):
Escobar is seeking damages and a jury trial, saying that
Bass and other officials violated his constitutional rights, waged a
campaign to silence dissent at a time when public safety
was on the line. This is all according to his
complaint that he's filed, which is the precursor I think
to a lawsuit. And this is what Bass does, and
(06:30):
this is why she has to be fought, and she
has to be thrown out of office and not replaced
with the the Raman, but replaced with Spencer Pratt. There's
no question this regime is dishonest, destructive and evil. The
whole Bass Ramen error has been horrific. Again, use your eyes.
(06:54):
You don't have to believe me, use your eyes. Drive
around the city and you'll see it. But what she
did to Freddie Escobar is so disgusting. But she did
it to Kristen Crowley. You don't get fired for being
bad at your job. You get fired for insulting Karen
Bass and she and Rahman the Psycho Sisters are having
(07:16):
a debate, and I got something to say about that,
because it's the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association that's putting on
the debate at seven o'clock tonight. There's another debate tomorrow
that's going to be on Channel four and it's going
to be the Psycho Sisters and Spencer Pratt. But tonight
in Sherman Oaks, it's just the Psycho Sisters. I want
(07:40):
to talk about that when we come back, because there's
something wrong with a lot of the people in this city.
Pratt is second in a lot of the polling, so
I don't know how he gets squeezed out. But the
Homeowners Association has come up with a bizarre and I
(08:01):
think it's a non reason. I think they're just trying
to suppress Pratt and suppress his vote, and I think
Ramen and Bass are in on it. There's something fishy,
something screwy about the two of them. Can't prove anything,
but when my antenna starts to vibrate, most of the time,
(08:22):
I'm right, and I'm getting some serious vibration. Yeah, yeah,
take that to the red light district. That's right. I
could you know I'd be a hit in Amsterdam. That's
all I want to say.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
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There's a debate. It's not televised. It's the Sherman Oaks
Homeowners Association, a mayor ol debate, and the Sherman Oaks
Homeowners Association refused to allow Spencer Pratt to appear, even
though in many polls he's the number two candidate, and
it's the number two. It's the top two that get
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into the November finals, and there's no excuse for this.
In fact, I'm looking up at the New York Times
and in two of the last three polls, Spencer Pratt
is in second place. So there has to be some ugly,
(09:25):
dark reason why the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association does not
want Spencer Pratt to appear. Because it's Nthia Rahman's district
and her district is a homeless disaster. I drive through
Sherman Oaks frequently and there are a lot of areas
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that have really gone to hell and have been in
a state of disgusting, disrepair and decay. For a long
time since she took over, she's been awful. She won't
even clear homeless encampments in front of schools. And now
she's putting out all these pony Thony nicey nicey videos
(10:09):
claiming that she's going to cure homelessness by twenty twenty eight.
And she's completely full of the stuff that the homeless
people are flinging around all day. She is just immersed
in bs absolute bs that lady spews. So I don't
(10:30):
know how she rigged it or Karen Bass rigged it,
but to not have the number two candidate according to
the polling in the Sherman Oaks debate, when the top
two go on to November means there's something something really
fishy and smelly the president. I'm looking at the board
(10:51):
members of the Sherman Hoaks Homewners Association, and I tell you,
just looking at their photos, this is the collection of headaches.
Matt Epstein is the president, and apparently he wrote, I
assume it's him. It's under the head it's under the association.
In a time when political forums can feel crowded, chaotic,
(11:12):
and more performative than productive, We've made a deliberate decision
to do something different rather and listen to this clever evasion.
Rather than housting a stage filled with a long list
of candidates, We've chosen to invite these two leaders specifically
because they represent Sherman Oaks on two critical and complementary
levels of government. Now, that is such a load of
(11:34):
horse crap in so many ways. First of all, having
three people does not create a crowded, chaotic environment. Secondly,
what are you talking performative? Because Spencer Pratt is more
direct and honest than the psycho sisters, that's considered performative.
(11:55):
When he actually points out the obvious that the streets
are filled with mental patients, drug addicts and garbage, that's performative.
So it's better to have Bass and Ramen lie about
current conditions, lie about their record, and lie about what
(12:15):
they're going to do in the next four years. I
guess that's considered productive. So Matt Epstein, I don't get it, Shaarah,
the Legislative Committee is Maria Pavelou Cowban. I guess maybe
a close friend of Nthia Rahman. They don't want to
(12:37):
create an environment where Ramin gets embarrassed. I don't know
what this is, Oh Sharah, the Homeless Committee, Howard Jaffy,
Are you all crazy people? I have been I lived
near Sherman Oaks for years and years. I used to
be there every day, did a lot of shopping there,
(12:57):
most of our shopping, most of because I'm live just
up the hill for years and years, and restaurants, and
my kids were little and we went there all the time,
and it used to be a fun place. And now
I drive there through there less often but enough, and
many areas are disgusting and I see it with my
own eyes now. I don't know what you owed around
(13:21):
Ramen in Bass, I don't know what you're afraid of.
The good thing is Channel four is putting on a
Mariage debate and all three candidates are going to be
on tomorrow, so this one doesn't really matter. But it
makes me think that there's something smelly up here. I
don't understand why Ramen is running unless it's somehow to
block Pratt out of the top two. There's no reason
(13:44):
for Ramen to be running, and it bothers me. They
were really close friends and Ramen is just as responsible
for the homeless debacle as Bass. Is again. She won't
even clear out dangerous encampments where gang members are showing
(14:06):
drugs and weapons and they're camped right in front of
the school entrance, elementary school entrance, and she won't get
rid of those. She rolls her eyes and she smirks
every time she's criticized at a public meeting. She's a
piece of work. She's nasty. Bass is nasty too, and
they're both quite vindictive. And Pratt is going to call
(14:27):
them out on it, is calling him out on it.
And so somehow Matt Epstein and Maria Pavlou Talban again,
iphonates always trouble Howard Jeffy the homeless. I don't know
what you think you're doing. You're just giving them a
twenty four hour reprieve Wednesday's going to be televised. I
(14:52):
just and then to come up with this. Oh, we
don't want it to be performative. We don't want a
long list of candidates. You don't have to put forty
people on the stage. And you know, Pratt is number
two in the polls, ahead of Ramen. Romen gets on,
but Pratt doesn't. There's some kind of corruption going on here.
There's some kind of deal behind the scenes. Somebody is
covering for somebody and that's wrong. But they're doing Sherman
(15:17):
Oaks is wrong. A bunch of weasels. All right, We've
got more coming up. Oh, I'm gonna I tell you
about an Assembly bill and we're going to try to
get Alexandria Messito on the Senate. Democrats want to make
(15:38):
all the high speed rail documented history secret. She's coming
on tomorrow. Okay, good, we're going to talk about it next.
She wants she blew the whistle on this bill ABE
sixteen oh eight that would force all the information to
(16:01):
be hidden from the public, including audits. The audits will
be made secret. Every Democrat voted for it.
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the five o'clock hour. Just one more follow up. We
were talking about the atrocious decision by the Sherman Oaks
Homeowners Association blocking Spencer Pratt from being involved in a
debate tonight. Only Ramen, Nitthea Rahman, and Karen Bass are allowed,
which is absurd because is number two in most of
(17:02):
the polls. And uh, everybody's afraid of him because he
speaks clearly, bluntly and correctly about all the all the
garbage going on in the city, literal literal garbage and
human garbage. Uh, here's another one. And what do you know,
I just overlook this and and then and then I'm
(17:23):
going to get to them trying to cover up all
the uh all the high speed rail records that'll come
up in a minute. But uh, as long as we're
on Nythia Raman's case. Yes, it may shock you to
find out when I tell you this whole story, this
is also in Nythia Raman's district in Hollywood. I've actually
like frightened and breathless over the idea of Cnythia Ramen
(17:46):
being mayor following up Karen Bass. Well, who would you prefer,
Karen Bass or Karen Bass or Nythia Ramen. I prefer Florida,
but if you choose one neither. They're both horrific. They're
both unbelievable disasters. They are the Psycho sisters. I'm voting
(18:07):
for Spencer Pratte. We've got nothing to lose here. But
actually it can't get worse, and it will get worse
if Bass gets rewarded or Ramen is elevated. You wait,
you're going to see what happens in five years. It's
(18:28):
going to be far worse than it is now. And
right now it is pretty bad. Those two have no
morals at all about how they destroy. They're DSA people there,
I mean, I mean, I mean. Bass was a Communist
believer for much of her life. She went to Cuba
many many times. She adored fidelic Astro. I've gone to Cuba.
(18:51):
That's not a good model. And Nthio Ramen she moved
back to India and she only came to La ten
years ago. And now she's like some kind of know
it all and she's in the last ten years is
when they implemented all these disastrous homeless policies and she's
been one of the worst. Somehow she got in charge
(19:12):
of the Homeless Committee. And she's a DSA woman too.
So bass is a communist and Ramen is DSSA, which
is like a more destructive form of communism. Yes, I'm
voting for Spencer Pratt. I may do some ballot harvesting.
So here's the story I wanted to get to. In
(19:33):
Nthia Ramin's neighborhood. A lot of people are so weird
in the city now, they just want to look the
other way. Well, I don't know, maybe it's not that bad. Yeah,
it is that bad. What's wrong with you? I'm getting
very angry at the people who are need to be
smacked into reality. People are cult members, you're all glassy
(19:53):
eye drooling. Anyway, here's the story. This is about a
woman named Kirsten Munson. She's pregnant, and she's a mother
of a two year old daughter, and she's a tech
executive and she's walking in Hollywood on Sunday near their
(20:15):
home when Kirsten and her little daughter came upon two
drug addicts blocking the sidewalk. The California Post says she's
heavily pregnant, worried about her little two year old and
her unborn child, but found herself trapped between the mental
(20:39):
patients and six lanes of traffic, and they tried to
hurry past what she described as zombies to get home,
and she's shaking and she gets home completely rattled. Put
a photo on social media which has gone viral. Hundreds
(21:02):
of thousands of people have seen it, and she wrote,
ten months pregnant in La ten months who went out
for a relaxing walk quote relaxing walk with my two
year old and we get trapped by two zombies. My
heart is pounding fight or flight in full blast. The
(21:25):
last thing my body needs right before labor, and all
I can think about is protecting my kids while the
city falls apart around us. And this is a woman
who voted for Karen Bass and knit the Aramen and
now she's looking at these two homeless, drug addicted mental
patient zombies, terrifying her and the baby, and her belly
(21:50):
is also terrified because all that adrenaline cortisol is pumping
through the baby. That's not good, the two year old.
And she wrote, and this was aimed at Bass and Ramen.
I voted for you, I defended you, but you've lost
my trust. See I'm sorry to say, but Kirsty Munson,
(22:15):
and a lot of the voters for Bass and Ramen
are women, which is mind boggling to me because I
again thought that women are far more tuned to safety, security,
worrying about the environment their children is growing up. And
apparently I've completely misjudged what a majority of the women
(22:36):
are about, because candidates like Bass and Ramen get huge
female votes and I don't understand why. So this is
why I'm wondering about, you know, this cult effect. Anyway,
she wrote, I voted for you, I defended you, but
you've lost my trust enough. I'm done watching my community
(22:59):
live in fear. I'm taking a chance on Spencer Pratt,
someone who will actually demand transparency, accountability and results. My
kids will not grow up in this hellhole. Time for
a real change. She was trying to walk to Bristol Farms.
She's about two blocks from Sunset and Fairfax. Said. I
was scared, then shocked that it was so bad this time,
(23:20):
then furious. I've been part of the lots of neighborhood meetings,
know how stretched this city is. She was out at
medical appointments earlier with the daughter, had to walk around
multiple people passed out on the sidewalk. She just noticed
this stuff. It's been like this for years in Hollywood.
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She woke up, She came out of her her days,
her coma after voting for Bass and Rahmen, and who
knows how many others like those two, so she woke up.
I don't know. It's impossible for me to believe that
unless you are profiting from this, like you're in one
of these corrupt homeless agencies and you're making six figures,
(24:06):
how you could possibly vote for ROMed or Bass. It
it boggles my mind what the argument is for these two.
They have both been in power a long time, and
they have created an absolute sewer, a cesspool, and everybody
(24:27):
hates it, and deep inside, even these Ramen and pract voters.
I'm sorry, Ramen and Bass voters, you must hate this,
don't you. You don't. You don't hate zombies lying on
the sidewalk, drugged out menacing. You don't hate the needles
and the feces. You don't hate the stink of the encampments. God,
(24:49):
what did we tell you just a couple of weeks ago.
I mean, there's there's there's dogs being bought and sold
on skid row, kept in Cage's experiment. Drug experiments are
being done on them. I don't know, I don't know.
(25:10):
I don't know what's wrong with people and this A
lot of the stuff is over the news. I mean,
California person Post is certainly covering the hell out of
all this. All right, when we come back, I'll finally
get to this new Assembly built that wants to make
all the high speed rail business a secret, including the audits. Yes,
(25:33):
that's what the Democrats voted for.
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(26:05):
because we still have a lot of show left and
right now, I want to tell you about Alexandra Mercido,
who is coming on the program of bar. She posted
today about an Assembly Bill sixteen oh eight. This has
not gotten much news coverage, but this is why you
(26:27):
listen here, because we tell you all the important news
that most of the other media outlets they do not cover.
I presume by choice, because this is all the news
that makes their progressive heroes look bad. And the super
majority Democrats and Sacramento, as Alexandra writes, just voted to
(26:51):
cover up the high speed rail failures. How do they
do this well, This Assembly Bill sixteen oh eight makes
all the documentation secret, such as audits. It'll be hidden
from the public. She says. Only the Democrats will be
(27:14):
allowed access. Is that right? Republican representatives are not allowed.
There's only like three of them, six billion dollars in overruns.
After six billion overruns, the Central Valley farmland has been
gutted for empty promises. And now she writes, they want
(27:35):
to bury the evidence. If this project is great, they
wouldn't pass laws to hide audit reports. Now you remember
Newsom the lyre when on Bill Mahers show, we played
the clip yesterday and when mar correctly accurately said, hey,
that high speed rail project is two hundred and thirty
one billion dollars, now give it up. Gavin Newsom was dismissive,
(27:59):
saying it's not that well, it is that that number
came out of the Democratic run Senate Transportation Committee, and
there are a few Democratic politicians making squawking noise about it.
They don't do anything about it. But I read about
this some weeks ago, and it's real, and so presumably
(28:24):
new some signs this and this now will I don't know.
This is massive public spending. How do legally how do
they get to cover all that up? How is that public?
This is what I'm saying. Everybody's gotten sucked into a
(28:44):
cult and there are so many cult leaders now running
Sacramento two third super majority that they can do whatever
they want, and they are doing whatever they want, and
then most of the progressives in the media cover it
up by simply not reporting it. When when I used
(29:06):
to hear a lot of complaints about media bias, after
a while I discovered, well, the bias isn't what they
it's really it's really slick. It's what they don't report.
It's what they don't tell you. And because most people
vote out of ignorance, they vote for tribal reasons. They
(29:27):
both they vote because of the emotional connection they made
with one party or another. They actually most voters don't
have any relevant facts in their head. Although I would
think here in La, all the mental patients and drug
addicts in the streak in the streets would cut through, right,
You'd think they'd cut through, But they don't. People are
(29:52):
still zombie out loyalty to their party, and and you
know it's created this disastrous mess that we're dealing with.
It's fascinating. In fact, somebody in this California Globe wrote
(30:17):
a pretty entertaining piece entitled it California Horrorfleck. I'm going
to talk about this later, comparing comparing what California's California
voters do to what remember the old horror movies, Freddy
Krueger and Jason horror movies. The kids in those movies
always made the same stupid decisions over and over again,
(30:39):
and you'd be sitting in your chair going, no, don't
do that. Run for the door, and they never ran
for the right door. They never got away. And he
writes that this is the same thing that's going on here.
It's really obvious that we've got to run for the door.
But the voters are acting like the kids in the
Freddy Krueger movies, and they don't do it. So why
(30:59):
is this and the psychological aspect of this fascinates me.
It's like this, It's not anything I ever encountered in
my life. This is not the way normal humans used
to work. They used to recoil, get disgusted and angry
when their city was allowed to decay. And I've lived
in big cities and suburbs and small rural towns, and
(31:20):
I've never run across a place where the majority of
the people who vote accept the most disgusting, degraded living
conditions that I have ever seen in my life. I've
tried a lot of countries. We've traveled to, like thirty
five plus countries. I have not ever seen anything like this.
We went to third world poverty countries, brought the kids,
(31:42):
wanted to show them things. Didn't have to if you
wanted to show them disgusting, deprave poverty, just had to
drive fifteen miles to downtown La. Oh. Yeah, that's where
I used to take my kids. That's right. You saved
a lot of money. I did. I didn't travel the
world like you. Well, you also saved those countries naturally,
the natural disasters that you usually bring with you. So
(32:03):
it worked out for everybody. Yeah, I didn't actually want
to go to all some of the countries we've back to. Yeah,
because you can't eat. No, that's the thing. I couldn't eat.
Food was horrific. Debra Mark. Because like in the CAFI
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