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You're no fun.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I know I've been told that, like like, some days
are better than others.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
But you don't want to hear a guy whack himself
in the face of a hammer. You're really no fun.
Let me move on to uh, you know this, this
story makes me crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
His name.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He's one of these guys with four names. It seems
like everybody's got four names. Now kill mar Ormando, Abrego Garcia.
What should I call him? Which is his last name
Garcia or is it a Brego Garcia? I see both
going in the headlines. Let's call him a Brego Garcia.
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And uh, he got deported by Trump. He's an El
Salvadoran gang member, says the Trump administration. He was here illegally,
he got into the country years ago, and the Trump
people say he's an MS thirteen gang member.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So when they did the big sweep.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A couple of weeks ago and they got I think
it was two hundred and sixty eight gang members, most
of them venezuel and Trendy Iragua and a small number
of MS thirteens. Now MS thirteen used to be the
most vicious gang in North and South America, and now
Trendiar Ragua of Venezuela is giving them a run for
the championship here.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So Planeloads took the took all the.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Gang members to El Salvador, where Trump paid off the
president of El Salvador six million dollars to put all
these guys in a supermax prison.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It is brutal.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It is one of the nastiest prisons in the Northern
Hemisphere and at least on our side of the globe.
And this has caused all kinds of court cases. Number one,
because judges tried to stop Trump from sending the prisoners,
all of them to El Salvador, but Trump's team bloomed
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the judge off and said, hey, too late, they're already
in the air. That's one case. And then the other
case involves one guy out of the two sixty eight,
and that's a Brego Garcia that he was allowed some
years ago to temporarily stay in America. I should have
been deported. He wasn't legal alien, but he had an
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asylum claim. And his ridiculous claim was, well, if I
go back home, I'm going to get beaten up by
other gang members, rival gang members. And so judge fell
for this and gave him, I guess, permission to stay
until the whole thing was sorted out. Well, Trump's crowd
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decided to throw him in with the trendy iragual characters.
He's now in a supermax prison. He's always described as
a father of three. And I have seen so many
writers on both the conservative and liberal writers because the
conservative crowd doesn't think Trump followed the rule of law,
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and the liberals just want to protect any violent gang member.
But there's not too many fans of this decision from
a legal standpoint. Now, in normal world, nobody cares what
happens to him. Never should have been here. He's a
violent bastard. He's with a gang, and who cares. Most
of the normal worlds not into paperwork. I mean that's
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something for lawyers and politicians and judges. But seriously, when
you read about what these guys have done in their life,
it's like, just send them out, send them by bus,
by plane, you know, let them rot in a ditch.
Who cares?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All right, this guy, kilmar Abrigo Garcia. He is now
being accused of physically abusing his wife. I tell you
he's a bad guy, and his wife is one of
the fiercest advocates for him to be released. Her name's
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Jennifer Vasquez and this is not just a rumor. She
applied for a protective order against him in twenty twenty one.
Jennifer says that he punched, scratched, grabbed, and bruised her.
This is all in court documents, and the Department Home
Land Security put the case on X and says it's
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evidence that Garcia has a history of violence. Was not
the upstanding Maryland demand the media's portrayed him as. And
suddenly the lawyers representing Garcia have gone quiet. But Department
of Homeland Security says he's not a sympathetic figure.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
He's beat up his wife.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now, there was one politician in particular, and I'd never
heard of this guy. His name is Senator Chris van
Holland from Maryland, and they got him at the airport
before we found out that a Brago Garcia is a
wife beater. And he was speaking from the airport about
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why he's going to El Salvador to visit a Brago Garcia.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Cut six.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I'm here at the airport. I'm about to board my
flight for San Salvador. The goal of this mission is
to let the Trump administration, to let the government of
Al Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting
to bring Albrego Garcia home. Until he returns to his family.
I hope to meet with representatives of the government. I
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hope to have a chance to actually see Kilmark and
see what his condition is. But we are going to
keep fighting because this is a miscarriage of justice. The
Supreme Court has ruled nine to zero, nine to zero
that he was illegally taken out of the country and
put in a prison in Al Salvador. And this is
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about due process, is about rule of law. What bullies
do is they begin by picking on the most vulnerable.
But if we get rid of the rule of the
United States, it's a short road from there to tyranny.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Is he supposed to come?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So that's Van Holland, Except what do you want the
guy to come back to the country and beat up
his wife all over again?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I don't understand this.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
See this, when you create such a huge mess, even
get the US Supreme Court go, oh, you know, we
have to go through the proper paper.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He's not a legal citizen here. He came here, beat
the crap out of his wife.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Trump had the good sense to send him to an
El Salvador in supermax prison. And now everybody's screaming he
should come back why here's more of this buffoon Chris
Van Holland.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
The Trump administration's foot dragging and bringing Abrego Garcia home
is absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They illegally abducted.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Him and got him out of the country in seventy
two hours.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
They can get him.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Home in less than that. All they need to do
is send somebody from the US embassy to the prison
and have him released. After all, the United States is
paying El Salvador to keep him there. This was a
nine to nothing decision by the Supreme Court, and now
they need to stop foot dragging and bringing him back.
This is contemptuous action. I will leave it to the
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judge as to when contempt charges need to be filed.
But he needs to come home, and he needs to
come home now. I met just the other day with
his wife, with his mother, with his brother. The families traumatized.
They're worried, of course, minute to minute about what might
happen to him in that notorious prison.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And the Trump.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Administration needs to get him home and they need to
stop lying about this case.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I'd never heard of this guy. Did he give this
a passion speech? When Lake and Riley was raped and
murdered in Flora and her head dashed in with a rock.
I don't remember this guy's maybe he did, I don't know.
I mean, i'd go through the list of young women
who were raped and murdered viciously by illegal aliens, don't
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I don't remember this Chris van Holland standing up and
squawking about it. Apparently, only it's when a wife beating
illegal alien gets wrongfully sent to El Salvador, which, by
the way, is his home country.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It's his home country.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Really is up to the l Salvador and president president
there to figure out what to do if the alsar
El Salvadoran president wants to let one of his citizens go,
that's up to him. And then maybe the guy could
take another crack at a crossing the Mexican border.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
We've got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
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Speaker 1 (09:52):
All Right, you know, I was.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I was looking at the next door app today in
my neighborhood and somebody posted this and apparently this story
was from a few days ago, but they were very
impressed by it, and it was the first I saw it,
and we're gonna play it here. This is gonna be
cut one coming up. Eric Leonard did an interview with
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Rick Caruso on his plans to help rebuild Pacific Palisades,
and what struck me was how intelligent and measured and
detailed he is about the plans. And you compare it
to the nonsense that spills out of Karen Dass's face,
and you know this is going to go down in history.
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One of the most faithful and in some cases fatal
decisions that Los Angeles voters ever made is when they
decided to snub a guy who has constructed just absolutely
beautiful shopping malls and attractions here in Los Angeles in
favor of a tired, retread political hack. And I want
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to play this clip, and then I want to follow
up by giving you details of a new report that
shows just how many fires the insane vagrants start in
this city and how that has screwed up a fire
response in Los Angeles. Let's start with our old friend
Eric Leonard from NBC four.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Rick Caruso tells me he thinks the Palisades can recover
from the fire much faster than many expect. He says
he plans to reopen his Palisades Village shopping center in
early twenty twenty six. It survived the fire in part
because it was protected by private firefighters that he hired.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
So I'm very confident when we reopen, which should be
after the first of the year, that our businesses will
do well. It's going to be different for a while,
but I think we're going to do well.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Caruso, who ran for mayor and has had a hand
in overseeing a number of city agencies as an appointed commissioner,
says he has a unique understanding of the city's bureaucracy
and plans to use his leverage to push government to
work faster.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Government agencies do not have a sense of urgency and
they do not have a sense of innovation. With all
due respect, when you bring private agencies, private companies, very
talented people in to the fold, use start solving problems
very quickly.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
For example, he says, the prospect of tariffs driving up
the cost of imported building supplies can be managed. He
says he's working to help homeowners and developers buy wholesale
then pre stage lumber and other supplies in the Palisades
to lower the cost of buying and delivering construction materials.
He says, through his Steadfast La nonprofit, he's already draught
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up engineering plans to put the Palisades electric system underground,
which he says could cost of billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
We have it solved for them. If you left it
up to the city forces alone, by time they just
went through the thinking of it, you're going to be
spending years to do so the undergrounding of the power
lines can be happening at the same time people are
building their homes.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Caruso remains critical of much of city Hall and the
head of the Department of Water and Power. He thinks
the city needs a change of leadership to be more
focused on solving the city's massive financial crisis by attracting
businesses and industry back to the city. Caruso tells me
he's been consumed lately trying to figure out solutions to
problems facing fire victims both residents and business owners, then
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trying to convince city, county, and state officials to go
along with his ideas.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, he's got to try to convince them to go along.
He lays out with clear, rational, intelligent logic exactly what
needs to be done. For example, you lay the wires
while you're rebuilding the homes takes a lot less time.
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My wife's in charge of building well, we built a
couple of homes over the years, and that's one of
the things she did to get a home built much
more quickly than you'd expect, is that she insisted all
the subcontractors work at the same time, the electric and
the plumbing and the drywall. You know, they're all layered
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on top of each other at the same time as
best you can. But what Caruso is getting at, and
he's got to speak very politically there and carefully, is
that the government is not filled with the best and brightest.
It's filled with the slow and the stupid. There is
no sense of urgency. What do they care. It doesn't matter.
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They can't be fired. It's not their money, it's not
their grief in life. What does it matter? And Karen
passes a product of that culture. She spent her whole
life in that culture where nothing matters, doesn't have to
get done. There's no urgency, there's no creativity, there's no Hey,
here's what we could do to make this work fast,
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Like he was talking about beating the tariff problem, or
buy a wholesale order a lot of it up front,
pile it up in the Palisades now, so if there's
a price disruption down the road, people are going to
be able to get a deal and get it into
the Palisades now, so there'll be less problem with shipping.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
If there's disruption in the supply chain.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Because he's run a business for decades, you know, there's
always those kind of problems.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Got it so frustrated, But he's sitting right here in
the city.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
At least he's taken this incredible approach with this outside
agency and engaging with the homeowners to try to bypass
Why Karen Bass and Marquise Harris Dawson most people can't
even find their texts, so they you know, we can
get the proof of them bubbling around the week of
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the fires and speaking of fires.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Do we know the cause yet?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
We know? Ah, glad you brought that up. We still
do not know the cause of the Palisades fire. Why
is that? Why won't they tell us? Maybe it's in
those texts, Maybe it's in the emails they won't release.
Nobody wants to tell us the secret. Well fires, huh?
A third of LA's fires in the last six years
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We're started by vagrants, mental patients, psychos, drug addicts, Oh
excuse me, people experiencing homelessness, homelessness impacted.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
People tell you bet we come back.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
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out on all right, you know, this is just so
unbelievably outrageous. There is a new city budget coming out
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in Los Angeles that Karen Bass has given birth to.
And of course, the last city budget underfunded the police
department by fifty percent. It didn't have any money so
that we could have a fully staffed firefighter force. We
had one hundred engines that were in the garage broken.
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It didn't fund the repairs to the engines, it didn't
fund the mechanics needed to fix the engines. It didn't
fund very much at all. And because Karen Bass and
the rest of these progressive jackasses have embraced this weird
progressive religion, the streets are still littered with tens of
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thousands of homeless people, vagrants, mental patients, drug addicts. So,
I guess what's happened in the last six years. ABC
seven has a story on this. There's a new memo
from the interim fire chief, Ronnie Villanueva. He replaced the
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one that bass fired, Kristin Crowley, and he said there's
been a surge in calls to help the vagrants. And
last year the city spent I believe this is an undercount,
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under count almost a billion dollars on homelessness, but the
total fire department budget was well under that, about eight
hundred and thirty million. Now, explain to me, in what
rational world do you spend more money on drug addicts
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and mental patients living in the streets than you spend
on firefighters. By the way, she set these budget terms voluntarily,
and the city council approved it. And so when you
hear fire officials say, wow, we didn't respond in the
Palo Sidge because the firefighters, you know, they're actually engaged
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in other important calls, it's this This memo again, this
is from the new fire chief, set a third of
all fires that the department responded to in the last
six years involved a vagrant a third, or, as ABC
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seven puts, a member of the homeless community. A what
do they have? Do they have do they have meetings?
Is there like a membership card you could apply for?
Do you get any special benefits a member like it
was a private club? Who the hell writes this at
Channel seven what Numskull calls these vagrants? A member of
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the homeless community who comes up with this crap? Anyway,
they talked to Freddy Eskobar, president of the United Firefighters
of LA who said, and this is almost like a prayer.
Whenever you start speaking about homeless you have to say
at the beginning, we don't want to criminalize. We don't
want to criminalize homelessness. Yeah, well maybe you should. You
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criminalize the acts of homelessness, such as starting one third
of the fires, such as doing drugs in publics, such
as stealing anything that's not nailed down, Like the guy
the city he finally got rid of that was near
my neighborhood. You've just seen all the crap that he
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had in his little encampment, lots of stolen stuff from
the neighborhood. I saw probably two dozen crimes. He was committing.
I can tell you the members that I represent, meaning
the firefighters, cannot sustain the call load of what we're
doing for homelessness. Uh, it's based on rubbish fires. They
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call it rubbish fires. In the last ten years, surged,
are you ready let me let me endeavor? How high
do you think rubbish fires have gone up at a
percentage basis last ten years?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I would say eighty five percent.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You say, Eric, you got a guess, three hundred percent,
four hundred and seventy five percent, four hundred and seventy
five percent, and half of the rubbish fires. Oh, here's
another great euphemism. Involve a person experiencing homelessness. This reports
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by Kevin Ozebek. Kevin, you've got all the woke phrases down.
I don't know which one i'd like better, a member
of the homeless community or a person experiencing homelessness. So
that's half of all the garbage fires. Four hundred and
seventy five percent increase. In nineteen sixty, the fire department
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at one hundred and twelve fire stations. Today it only
has one hundred and six. Do you think we have
a few more people living in LA than in nineteen sixty.
We certainly have tens of thousands more homeless in the streets.
And this is the Karen Bass budget. This is why
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my head pops off whenever I hear some antiot in
one of our staff members, like that idiot spokes old
Zach Sidell or the idiot city Council President mar Keith
Harris Dawson. They start defending her. You just it's like,
what is wrong with you? You know you're full of crap.
You know you're full of crap. I can smell it
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from here. So they're having, uh, they're having an LA
Fire Department commission meeting. Let me see here, what, yeah,
I guess on Tuesday, and that's a week before Bass
is going to release her proposed budget. How much you
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want to spend? They're going to spend more money on
the vagrants and the mental patients than they're going to
spend on firefighters. And here's the guy, Zack Sidel. You
should see what he looks like a real goofball. The
report shows how much money is being spent to address
the homelessness crisis, how much money is being spent. The
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report's not going to show that they're actually getting people
off the streets and they're getting them to stop starting fires. No,
but we're wasting more of your tax money. And we'll
demonstrate that on Tuesday. And he claims the number of
homeless will decrease as more Angelinos come inside.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
What do they call them?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Angelino's a lot of marriage. They were sent packing by
their families from all over the country. Families got sick
of them stealing their money and jewelry and starting violent
fights inside the house. Listen to the zach sidell he's
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another one who's full of it. Oh my god, where
do they get these people? Do they manufacture them in China?
I mean, where do they get them? We are shattering
the status quo to solve homelessness and get people off
the streets for good. As we continue to house angelina
is living on the streets. We know that the cost
of doing nothing is far greater.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, it's not. The cost of doing nothing is zero.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
You put them on a bus and send them out
of town, send them out of the state. Maybe ask
Trumpy if he has extra deportation planes and we can
send them all to that El Salvador in prison.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
God.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh yes, He actually writes this and says this out
loud and the reporters. What did you say, Zach? I'm
want to get that exactly right. Okay, what did you say?
The cost of doing nothing is far great. Oh that's
a good one, Zach. Ah ah.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Get me a hammer you want to chisel?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, that's how you chisel your looks the back end
of a hammer. That's what I'm gonna do. The head
ankle distract me. Uh when we come back. I don't
know now, I'm exhausted.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
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John Cobelt Show, I Am six forty live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app. After Debra's News at three o'clock, Carl
Demayo is coming on the hits. Keep coming with Carl.
He's the Assemblyman from San Diego and he is announced legislation.
It's called the Cut the Politician's Perks Act. You know,
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the California legislators and other elected officials have a large
amount of benefits and perks and Carl's going to go
through them and which ones ought to be banned. Poster
child for this is the incredibly incompetent Insurance Commissioner Ricardo
calpart Lara, last seen in Bermuda, instead of going to
(26:56):
a Senate hearing on all the insurance problems that people
have in California. And then we found out he'd gone
on dozens of trips and he costs the taxpayer tens
of thousands of dollars. All he does is he goes
on trips and spends our money. And if he's not
spending our money, he's taking money from others who have
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business here in the States with the governments. I think
there's a word for that. So we'll talk to Carl
Demo coming up. All right, this is funny. You ever
heard of a British tennis player named Harriet Dart. No,
Harriet Dart was playing in the Ruin Open on Tuesday
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and was playing against a woman named Lois Bossan. Now
Dart is from the UK, she's British. Boussan is from France,
which may have something to do with well you'll hear
next A hot Mike picked up what Dart was telling
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the umpire about Bussan.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Can you tell her to war?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Can you tell her to put on deodorant? She smells
really bad?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Full quote is can you tell her to where deodorant
because the smell, can you tell her where deodorant?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
She smells really bad.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
In Boissan's defense, she's doing something athletic, so she's gonna sweat.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
She probably puts them on before and it probably wore off. Well,
the real problem is she's French.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So what are you saying? She doesn't wear deodorant at all.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Have you ever smelled the French in France?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
No, I've never gone up to somebody in France and
smelled them. I mean, look, they are lovely perfume in France.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I was the victim. Yes, the perfume in France is great.
What what the body's naturally produced? Not so great because
they don't they don't generally use the yorderant. It's not
part of the culture.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
We were in.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I've been to Paris twice, I think, and the first
time we were there we went, for only time my life,
went to a really fancy French restaurant and we're sitting
all dressed up and they were serving us these incredibly
tiny portions of food. Nothing like paying a lot of
money and getting a little speck of meat. And as
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the waiter is leaning across in front of me to
remove a dish or fill a water glass. His armpit
was right in my face. Oh, oh my god, right
in the middle of dinner. Wf no wonder they serve
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only tiny port.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You're not gonna want to eat very much. Nobody's gonna
make it through a full meal.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
And the thing is that I'd already heard the joke
about you know, they don't use the order into France.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's like, well, no, they don't.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
And then we were we were packed in uh during
rush hour on a bus. You know, we went on
a bus to uh go a few blocks to whatever
the next tourist site was. Oh, in the heat with
a bus full of people. H yikes. I didn't know
anything could smell like that. That was just eye wadering,
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to say the least. Anyway, I feel bad for Harriet
right now now she she's blubbering an apology.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Well, she feels bad. But she meant what she said
she did.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
But but she didn't want others to hear it. It
was a private It was a private conversation that went publish, right.
Can you imagine some of our conversations.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I wish they could be I want everybody to hear
all that, including the people we talk about. All Right,
we come back. Carl Demayo cut the politician's perks. That's
his new bill, and it's an honor. Ricardo Lara, the
insurance commissioner who flies off around the world and does
(31:28):
not show up for all the hearings in Sacramento and
the insurance the state of insurance in California is a
complete disaster. Debor Mark is live in the KFI twenty
four our newsroom.
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