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I sincerely do KBLA talk fifteen eighty invite you to
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call in right now if you got something to say.
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Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine
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two oh fifteen eighty. We are at war and there's
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no denying that. How long this will go on we
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don't know, but it if history is our guide, it
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can be a while, It's could be literally forever. I'm
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leaning into the music, I'm leaning into the art. I'm
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leaning into the theater, the painting, the drawing, the reading,
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because that's what keeps me strong and encouraged. But it
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doesn't stop us from the reality. We're at war. And
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the only way this ends is if we the people
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continue to push back. Right it is an election year,
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So when we look at what happened in Texas with
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the voter suppression and that Senate race there, who knows
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what would have happened if the people that we saw
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crying on social media, the people that we saw complaining
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on newscasts about how they were not allowed to vote.
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And I must say, out of all the newscasts and
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social media posts I've seen about, I haven't seen not
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one single white person crying about how they haven't been
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given the opportunity to vote in Texas, for example. I'm
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just saying my point is that the people have to
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push back. Clearly, this president wants to be a war president.
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He's mentioned before that maybe we can suspend elections if
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were embroiled in war. He may have high hopes for that.
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He may feel that he'll get that George W. Bush effect,
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where his approval ratings bounce up because people rally behind
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a war president. We traditionally have. However, this is a
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different time. This is a time when for all the
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miss and disinformation of social media, there's also an element
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of education that has happened there and people are less
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gullible when it comes to just the official story. I
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think that's also partly attributable to Black Lives Matter, the
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Black Lives Matter movement, what we've seen with all of
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these taped murders of black people. Reflecting back on the
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sacrifice of Rodney King as his angeliversary was this week,
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and just how far we've come in terms of understanding
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the gap between the kappaganda and the reality, the gap
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between the waraganda that's not a word I know, and
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the reality, but that's where we are right now. It's
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the I'm a wartime president, although our current occupant of
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the White House doesn't do a good job of the
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wartime president stick. Because this is the same guy who
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said he likes people that don't get captured, referencing John McCain,
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who was a war hero. This is the same guy
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who has a Secretary of Defense who speculates about whether
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or not talking about the people who have already sacrificed
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their lives in this Iran war is good for the
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president's image. This is President Captain Commandant Bone Spurs, who
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dodged the draft himself. So I don't know how well
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he does with wartime president, but clearly that is what
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is in the playbook right now. So think tank Thursday,
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here's a question for you. Jerry says, yes, I'm thirsty
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five some good thinking. And I'm laughing because I know
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when we had the contest to name Thursday, Jerry was
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the one who wanted it to be Thirsty Thursday. So
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now he's thirsty for thinking that works. But here's a
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think dank question for our brilliant KBLA delegation. You guys
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see and notice things that I miss all the time,
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and I'm grateful for that. The we're not talking about
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group think, but we are talking about crowd sourcing knowledge, information,
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and wisdom. What is the best way to stop this war? Right?
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What is the best way to stop this war? We
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saw the Senate not willing to stop it. We saw
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just one Republican siding with Dems, and then John Fetterman
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deserting the Dems and going over to the Republican side,
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which was pretty much a vote to give the president
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a free hand in attacking other nations, kidnapping their sovereign leaders,
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and bombing them without provocation, preemptive wars war because he
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feels like it, I mean, the liar in chief, No,
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I guess that's the president. The spokes liar Carolyn Levitt
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repeatedly said on yesterday that the reasoning for this attack
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Annie Wran was because the president had a feeling based
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on facts. What does that mean exactly? What's a feeling
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based on facts? Miles Uh? Oh, yeah. I mean, as
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a woman, we don't get to say if I say
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I'm attacking a whole country or even my husband because
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I have a feeling that's considered emotional.
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Right, I'm gonna say it's all emotions. Feeling based on facts.
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Facts don't need your feelings for it to be fact.
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Anything right, A fact is a fact. Where does a
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feeling come in?
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You had? You was in your feelings what he's saying,
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I was in my feelings.
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She said it three times, A feeling based on facts.
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I had a hunch.
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I had a hunch that we should go kill a
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thousand people in Iran.
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I had a bright idea, ed well, I woke up
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to day and I felt like.
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Yeah, I mean, look, don't get me wrong, I believe
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in intuition and hunches and feelings. But when you're talking
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about war, it gotta be more than a hunch, homie.
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That's why we're supposed to have the safe, the guardrails
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in place. You're supposed to go to Congress to get authorization.
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Even though the Senate failed to pass a resolution to
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rain this dude in. We've had three or four different
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stories about why we are bombing bombing Iran, and that
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war seems to be spreading already. Israel has been spreading
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their campaign for over a year, and it just for me.
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It's for me. It's scary to have a president who
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thinks it's a good calm strategy to tell us he
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had a feeling based.
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On facts, so distracted right now.
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It reminds me of the healthcare I have a concept
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of a plan? Is a feeling based on facts like
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a concept of a plan. So my think tank Thursday
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question is what is the best way for us, we
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the people, we the KBLA delegation, we the voters to
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end this war before it becomes a forever war. We
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know that it's likely already US a billion and tick
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tick tick tick counting right swipe swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe,
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And we know that we're supposed to be too broke
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for universal health care, too broke for college loan forgiveness,
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too broke for free college for all, even though Israel
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has those things and we're paying for their weapons. I
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imagine that. Imagine you know your household budget. Just imagine
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your household budget for a moment. Imagine your husband or
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wife comes home and says, Honey, I know we don't
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have money to feed the kids. I know we don't
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have money to pay for our kids college. I know
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we don't have money to pay for our children's health care.
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But I'm just gonna go and buy some guns. Imagine
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your husband and wife says that to you. I know,
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the kids are starving, they haven't been to see the doctor,
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and we have no plan to pay for their college.
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But I would like to go and spend all of
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the money that we have left on a semi automatic weapon.
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How would you react to that? That is what America
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is doing right freaking now, right now. What do we
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do about it? That's my think Tank Thursday question eight
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hundred and nine to oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine
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two oh fifteen eighty. It's a think tank thursdayn KBLA
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talk fifteen eighty. It does continue and my think tank
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Thursday question. You know, I always say this on all
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the various shows from Street Science to Front Page to
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First Things First, over the years that I am a
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piece nick. I believe in peace and everything in all
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the things that we have to do, understand, no justice,
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no peace. But when we're talking about international campaigns, especially
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when we're in now where really this was Israel's idea,
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I don't care how how much the President denies it.
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They've been wanting to attack Iran and have been attacking
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Iran for years. They've been widening their own Middle East campaign?
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And how can we be in a war with Iran
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along with the partner Israel, who can do whatever they want. Like,
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if you're in a war and you are working with allies,
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don't you have a coordinated joint strategy. I'm not a general,
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but it seems like it. No, Israel's just doing whatever
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they want and it has our name on it and
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our taxpayer funded weaponry there. So shouldn't we have some
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controls over what they do? The answer is we don't.
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So how do we stop this? There's a lot going on.
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And maybe if we released all the Epstein files that
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would stop this because a bunch of these folks would
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be in prison. Could it be that I don't know.
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I'd love to hear from you, Molly Bell, City of Compton,
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good morning.
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And memory of our ancestors. God bless morning to you.
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Dominique into the KBLA listeners, And you know, I love
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myles saying that this is to do better network, and
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I just want to take an extra minute or two
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to say a couple of things. You know I've told
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you about me losing my joy. Yes, I still haven't
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gotten it. I still haven't gotten it back. The way
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that I should, and I couldn't understand why, and I've
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been praying, asking the Lord what is wrong with me?
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I said, I'm fighting against ice, and you know, and
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then I got a saying that I got from someone
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else that says, Molly Belle, you worried about ice, but
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always remember that I smelts and how I kept that.
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So I've kept that in my mind. And then the
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things that were happening with the jobs in America and
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how we're losing a lot of our good government jobs.
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And in the chat room we were talking about being
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you know, firefighters. I'm seventy nine years old. Most of
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my potners are up there. Even you have gotten older
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because when I met you, you know, you was a
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young fly girl. You still fly, ok, but you've come
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a long way. And then I liked always when we
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talk about this being a do better network, My concern
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now was I was still saying, well, we need to
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get our jobs. And then you talk today about our personnel,
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and I put in the chat Elon Musk got that
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he got all of our stuff from the very very beginning.
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I said, so what are we going to do? And
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then it came to me that Dominique. You've talked about TikTok,
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not really saying the name, but and Instagram. And I said,
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but Dominique has already given us an answer. She has
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taught us through African Focus that there's a whole new
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world out there. There is a whole new world where
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we haven't traveled. I remember the first time I went
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to Africa with our other radio station and been there twice,
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then to Jamaica once. And I'm just saying, what are
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we going to do with what Trump and all these
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people are trying to do? Will I was of African
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Focus and we wasn't even talking about it as an
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escape planet. And this is just me philosophying. We need
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to look at other countries. Can we really go and
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live there? Can we go back home? Can we go
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and see what we need to see? Can we do
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what we need to do? So I'm just saying that
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right now, African Focus has helped us. Miles has told
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us that this is we're going to if we do better,
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and we can do better. And then you told us
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about I haven't got on TikTok and Instagram the way
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that you have and how you mixed us together. They said,
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I heard you on Front. I heard you on the radio.
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I said, I wasn't on the radio with Dominique, but
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they said they heard it on TikTok or Instagram. I said,
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I never called in on there, but some kind of way, Dominique,
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you've hooked us up where you could hear us on
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all those networks at the same time. So I'm just
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saying that I feel my joy coming back in the midst.
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In the midst of all of this. Thank and to
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African Focus, who gave me award a couple of years ago.
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I thank you for keeping that going. You have taught
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us that there's a brand new world out there. You
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have traveled, you introduced and you interview the people when
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they go. I don't know what gave you that idea
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and you could tell me I'm gonna hang up in
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a minute, and what gave you that idea to do
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that to take us there on a regular basis. I
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don't know who told you to hook up TikTok, Instagram
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and our Facebook right now, but you have been someone
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that we've been waiting for. You are someone Tavis Smiley
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is someone that we've been waiting for and one of
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my heroes. His best saying was keep hope alive. And
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tomorrow this station is going to broadcast that. I'm just
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saying that it's a brand new world, and I want
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to listen to what our miles told me to turn
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everything down because I had it up too loud while
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I was trying to listen to us. I'm just saying
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that our reparation maybe it's not going to be just
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some cash. Maybe you have given us a reparation now.
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And so everybody in the chat room are your prayer
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warriors out there. M you know what you've got to do.
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You've got to keep besting, You've got to keep praying,
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get your joy back. Don't be afraid because God has
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not given us the spirit of fear, but of power,
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love and a sound mind. Because the struggle continues. It
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always to God be the glory.
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Thank you, Dominique, Thank you Molly Bell. And let's all,
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if you got a moment right now, let's take heed
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the call of Molly Bell and do a little praying,
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and let's pray her joy all the way back. Your
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joy is starting to come back. We want to make
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sure that seed takes hold and your joy comes all
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the way back because certainly, Molly Bell, you deserve it.
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Thank you for all of the work that you've done
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in the reparations movement, the anti racist movement, the movement
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against state sanctioned violence. Molly Bell has done more, probably
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in one year of her life, than many of us
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will do in our entire lives when it comes to
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fighting for liberation for black people. So I pray, pray, pray, pray,
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pray that your joy returns in all its glory. Molly
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Bell has always been one of the more joyful people
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I know. I wanted to note that the Do Better
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Network is actually Miles his own enterprise, his own podcast empire.
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Is that a fair assessment, Miles Empire, podcast Empire, whatever
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it is, that's that's your own business. It's it's not
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a nickname for KBLA.
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Right, But you know, at the same time, it was
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with the intent of being something that could be a
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mantra or a motto as well some lirits something how
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like a Black Lives Matter would be or.
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Yeah, I mean something like that.
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So yeah, I have no problem with it being your
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mantra as well, y'all, because the goal and the aim
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is to elevate people to do better.
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So yeah, go ahead and adopt. This is my eye. People,
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go ahead and adopted.
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I mean, I thought it came from the saying if
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we if you know better, you can do better.
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If you knew better, you do better. But who better
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to make you better? I better you? That's the answer.
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He about to start. He's about to start spinning in
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a moment. Yeah, so that's to do better network. But
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you have your own content and stuff that if Molly
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Bell wants to.
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Go look it up.
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Right, everything's on YouTube at to do Better Network. It
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features my music, music videos, behind the scenes, footage, podcasting,
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p s, a, AI work everything. Yeah, do better network
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on all platforms.
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Okay, so let's go to Big Phil call calling us
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from Los Angeles. Hi, Big Phil.
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Let me tell you something.
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I beleague.
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I came to a serve with Jesse Jackson. We go
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way back. I've been a couple of marks with Saint Louis.
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Was Dick Gregory alling hometown league with the world Home.
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I'm going way back now the Georgia. Let me tell
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you something. You was guarded. You just looked disguarded. Look
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like gold Eric Sailling Gold. You look guarded.
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Oh thank you.
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Let me see another thing too, So let these people
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worry about call in about two all stuff you talk,
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no stress in your life, your old thing, stick your
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stone like break my bones. So I got a run,
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but I love you guys. They face and keep doing
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what you're doing. No stress and out, big deal.
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Thank you, big Phils. Much appreciated. Yep, the no stress
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express over here as much as we can be given
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what's going down. Jerry from Beverly Hills, it's all you, Hi, Jerry,
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how are you feeling today?
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Were we about?
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I can't.
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Okay, Jerry, you know what, Let's talk off the air.
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I'm having more trouble than I typically do understanding what
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you're saying today. You know we we know the KBLA
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delegation knows that Jerry from Beverly Hills sometimes struggles with
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his communication a little bit because he is battling Parkinson's
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and it sounded like something about Syria. But I want
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to make sure I'm clear on what it is that
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you are asking so that we can address it. The question,
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the Think Tank Thursday question concerns how do we stop
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this war in Iran? It feels like a forever war.
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It feels like it has the potential to spread throughout
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the Middle East. It's already starting to happen, seems like,
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and I'm not talking about a feeling based on facts.
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I'm talking about what I'm seeing unfold before our eyes.
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It seems like it could be a path towards World
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War III. But we the people have the power. How
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do we flex that power? How do we stop this?
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In its tracks? News, traffic, and sports. Then more on
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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Indeed it does. Looking forward to
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the conversation next hour, we're talking with Paris McCoy of
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tech Lamert. There are so many intersections here between war
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and AI, war and technology, surveillance and ice, and where
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we are with all of these things has big technological implications,
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some of which I get, some of which I don't,
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and which we will strive to understand more completely and thoroughly.
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Right now, my Think ten question for today is how
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do we the people? We the people. I believe we're
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the only ones that have the ability to stop the
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more scary aspects of our current governing administration, what I
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call the new Confederate white supremacist MAGA regime. And they're
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endless flooding the zone with crazy ideas and propositions and
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rules and moves, and now a whole new war, at
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least in part meant to distract from the Epstein files.
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But it's not just the Epstein file. I mean, as
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if that wasn't important. Of course it's important. It's actually
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really insanely creepy even trying to process that. Now we're
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trying to process a war. But there's also a matter
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of the social safety net right food stamps and medical
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and medicaid, and the threats of the privatization or cuts
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to Medicare, social security. All of this stuff happening slickly
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while we're over here worrying about how all of our
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money is being invested in war money we don't even have,
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not just our wars, but other people's wars, in this
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case Israel's wars. But also all of these things distracting
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us from the basic basics, which is food, housing, clothing, education,
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and healthcare for the people who pay the taxes, we
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the people. Let's go to run from Richmond.
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Good morning, Ron, Good morning Dominic.
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How you being I'm blessed? What's on your mind this morning?
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Oh man?
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A whole lot that This is my first, my first
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official call for this year, I haven't talked to you
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all six.
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Happy Women's History Month. You already skipped the Black History
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Month of New Year's.
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Oh yeah, I missed all that.
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Yep.
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I didn't forget about you though. I've been tuning in,
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tuning in watching you here on YouTube. So yeah, we
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always always got you all here here in the Bay rhythm. Yeah,
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rest in piece of rebend. Jesse Jackson Man that when
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I when I first heard that news here, that that
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kind of hit me a little bit.
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Man.
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And I heard his son, his son talking to Wolf
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Blister on a on CNN on that day that he
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had passed away, and he he was crying a little bit,
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got just kind of got to me a little bit,
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you know, thinking about my own dad. So yeah, ye
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he was best. Yeah, Jesse Jason, he was a special person.
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I never gotta, never got a chance to meet him
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in person like that, but yeah, he made his mark.
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So he definitely definitely will be with be missed.
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Yeah, absolutely, I'm sorry.
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You can go ahead, no, go ahead, are y'all? Are
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y'all a live stream in the service on tomorrow. I
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hear that correct, That is correct.
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Yes, it will start. I think it starts at eight,
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so it if it starts on time, we'll we'll preempt
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the last hour of this show. If it doesn't, we'll
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talk until it starts, and we'll reflect on what's happening.
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It's certainly it's like the passing of a president.
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Really, Yeah, exactly, Yes, I'll definitely be tuning into that. Yeah,
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I don't know what's going on with Trump, with this war.
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This is this is uh, this is crazy right now?
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Yeah, crazy, expensive, terrible and unprovoked. Iran has been a
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threat for decades. Why now exactly what changed?
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Exactly? Exactly? Well, I don't want to hold I'm sure
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it's a lot more folks out there want to get
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through and high let you. But always fun talking to you.
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I'm always tuned in. Big shout out to Miles and
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and uh, I keep putting it down, keep doing your things.
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I'm surprised you didn't show that Bay Area love for
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uh for Delroy Lindo and uh what was it that
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was on the stage the two Bay Arey Oh, Ryan Coogler?
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What Ryan Cooler said? Ryan Coopler talking about town business
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on the nuble A CPU Awards stage and just bringing
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up Oakland. I thought that was very Uh, it was adorable,
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you know, just to see that, to see that Bay
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area of pride and he going to He's gonna just
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throw out some Oakland love in the middle of the
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n double A CP Awards. I didn't realize Delroy Lindo
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lived in the Bay for many, many years. I knew
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Ryan Coogler was from Oakland because everyone says he has
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an accent, and to me, it sounds like an East
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Bay accent all day long.
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Okay, that's the food. Yeah, I didn't know deal Deal
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lived in the Bay.
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Well, he's not from the Bay, but I think he's
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been living there since the nineties or something.
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Oh okay, So it was just a.
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Really cute moment at the UH at the nuble A
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CP Awards, a little a little bit bit of Oakland love.
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He'll probably go look it up on a on YouTube.
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You'll get a laugh.
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Out of that run YouTube.
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Okay, yeah, yeah, or it's all over it's all over
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ig because Stello I looked at him. We couldn't believe
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that Ryan Coogler was gonna go all the way Oakland
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in the middle of the NAACP Awards. That was golden.
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And I really enjoyed the NAACP Awards. And I enjoyed
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watching Michael B. Jordan grab that Actor Award and Best Ensemble.
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It's all good. It makes it much more exciting to
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see what's going to happen at the Oscars next week.
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But stay healthy, be good, or at least have fun.
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If you're not going to be.
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Good, Ron, Yeah, I'm gonna try to. Y'all do to
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say thank you for taking my call.
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All right, and thank you for calling. Ron called me
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at eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty, and
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you can do the same. Look who's on my phone.
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It's Fred from LA Good morning.
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Hello, Dominique's Fred from Los Angeles. Now I want to
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respond to the LA Black Workers Union Center lady. And
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I believe she's a little bit older than what she
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sounds like.
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No, actually she's not. She's a millennial.
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How old is she?
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I don't know her exact age. She's a millennial. That
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means she's under forty under anyway, under thirty five, under
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forty I think, yeah, she's a millennial.
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local eighteen Skilled positions such
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as welder, electrician, proctor. We'll go to DEI Affirmative Action
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and repeat thing. I think this is just another thing,
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you know. I'm seventy three. I've been through the whole
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I was in the labor market for forty five years.
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Thirty okay, let me.
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Slow down for one second. Front. Why are you asking
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Ariel Moore's age on the air? I don't understand the reference.
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I heard her once before and wanted to respond, but
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there were more important things. And I thought she said
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she was older. I thought she said she in her fifties.
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No, no, not even no way, no way. See, I
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don't even know she's in her thirties, but she's definitely
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not in her fifties. Why does that matter though?
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Before?
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Why does it matter?
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Well, this is a brand new generation now that we're
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now we have in the firm of Action DEI. And
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now her thing, she wants her people to get into
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getting to open up the city charter.
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By her people, we mean black people. By her people,
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we mean black people workers, which is black workers. Yeah,
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black people, that's who they advocate for. Is that a
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problem for do we not want black people to have
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good city jobs?
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I want them to follow in my footsteps. But we
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have to have qualified people. We don't want people into
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the Yeah.
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You know, that's a that's a red herring. Don't even
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don't even waste my airspace with that. BS. Because we
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know we have to be qualified. They don't give unqualified
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black people jobs. That's a myth. We are overqualified and
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still can't get hired. Look at Kamala Harris.
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What about her?
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She's way more qualified to be She's way more qualified
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to be president than either Trump or Biden. Well, maybe
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not Biden. He was a senator for three hundred years. No, no, no, no,
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no no. We're talking about qualification. Qualifications means your experience
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and your education.
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But with the labor markets, you have to have experience
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to get it into the skill.
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Experience and education. Experience and education. Well, she just laid
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it out, a pathway program which brings people in on
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paid internship internships into entry level jobs that prepare them
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for those positions, which, by the way, is what most
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people do. They learn on their job. No, most people
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do not come into their job and don't need any training.
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That's a myth.
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Now we're getting somewhere now for the skill positions. We
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want people that's already experienced. In my case, I'm in
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the construction and trucking industry, and when I'm higher up,
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I want to steal walmartsh drivers and everybody.
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Why why do you why do you say I b
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e W Local eighteen has d I? My in my
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experience some of these it does not have the I.
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But but in my but okay, And what is d I? Fred?
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The diversity?
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I don't mean, I don't mean what does it stand for?
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I mean, what do you think it is? Because people,
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you know the way you talk about it, it sounds
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like you think it's something different than what it actually is.
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Yeah, I think that's the late the fire chief, that
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God's fire for Los Angeles and the GM of the
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general manager that just well, I reassigned going to Puerto
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Rico yesterday or the day before.
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That's what I think the well, but explain what you
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mean by that, because what you sound like right now
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I was a racist misogynist. So what I need to
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know is why, hold on? Why are they DEI? What
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is about them as DEI? They're d I because they're women,
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They're d I because they're black? Like, what what makes
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a thing de I to you.
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Okay, well, the fire chief, she's the head of the paramedics.
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She had no skill of being being over the fire
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department and the j d w P general manager manager.
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Now that's my line of work. She came from up north.
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Now she had education and all of that, but she had.
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No practical careertion. She actually she actually did have experience
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in the field and she had education. So so what
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you're saying, your words don't match your rhetoric. I mean,
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your justifications don't match your rhetoric. Most people like you,
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Republicans who are who appear to be misogynistic, think that
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by being a woman or buying being black or Latino,
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that automatically means it's DEI EEI means they outreached to
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a diverse group of people so that everyone who was
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qualified would have a chance to apply. That's what DEI
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programs do. They widen the recruitment net so that everyone
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who is qualified gets a chance to be considered. It
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doesn't give jobs to people who aren't qualified. It doesn't
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create positions that are set aside for certain others. No,
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in fact, that is not true. That is illegal under
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Proposition two oh nine that would be affirmative action. We
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don't have that in the state of California. We only
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have that in your talking.
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Point charge of being ahead in the fire department.
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First of all, that's an assumption because who fired who fired.
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You're talking about Kristin Crawley, right, who was fired by
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Mayor b right, right, And you're assuming that because she's
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a woman. I mean, obviously, for me, I would have
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fired her much earlier because of insupport, bordination, and the
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fact that she was busy going on on CNN while
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she needed to be working for the city. But Kristin
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Crowley was pointed by Mayor Garcetti, not Mayor Bass. So
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let's make sure when we're pointing our finger and making little,
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unfounded talking point accusations that were at least accurate. Fred,
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we could continue this conversation when we come forward on
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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. You know, it is true that
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Fred calls and he kind of changes the vibe. That's
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what Jacquelin Anderson was saying in the chat. Fred changes
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the flow every time he calls with his Republican talking points.
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But I like to set the record straight because it
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also reminds us what the talking points are. So he's
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talking about Jenny's Quinones, who was over the La DWP
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since twenty twenty four. She has stepped down and she's
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going to go rebuild work on rebuilding the power grid
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in Puerto Rico. She's Puerto Rican. But to say that
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she was DEI what does that mean? She had twenty
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five years experience as a senior executive. She's an engineer.
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I interviewed this woman. She came from the DWP from
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PG and E, which is another huge utility company. She
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was a senior vice president of cass Gas Engineering and
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senior vice president of Electric Operations. Clearly she was qualified
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for the job. Now people were angry with her. She
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received a lot of criticism. I know, the right wing
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trolls went after her. Some of them even used clips
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from my show. Because a reservoir, a DWP reservoir that
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should have been full, was empty, or that seems like
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it should have been full, let me put it that way,
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was empty over in the Palisades because some of those
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fire hydrants did not have water. Now, my understanding, in
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further analysis is that because so much water was being
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pumped out, in part by people like oh Rick Caruso,
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who had private fire fighters sucking up the water to
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save their properties. There may not have been enough water
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pressure left for regular private homeowners. Another show for another day.
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But for him to say that miss Kenyones was strictly
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a DEI higher and that she didn't have qualifications is
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an lie or, as they say in Puerto Rico, mindidra,
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which means lie. Okay, she was qualified. Whether she did
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a good job or not, well, that's up for debate.
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A DEI hire maybe only in the sense that they
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were outreaching to women. Now do I want to be
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defending Kristin Crowley? Probably not. As I said, I would
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have fired her the minute she went on CNN and
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started running her mouth instead of worrying about how to
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make sure that fire was all the way out. The
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mayor eventually did fire her. She was hired by the
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last mayor and ironically was nominated by then council president
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Nora Martinez, who, as we know, resigned in disgrace after
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her illegal and seemingly racist comments became became unveiled. Okay,
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but whether you're like me and you think she should
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have been fired even faster than she was, or you're
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like fred. To say that she's unqualified and she was
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strictly a DEI hire is not accurate. She had twenty
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five years with the Fire Department. Okay, she was the
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acting Administrative's Operations chief Deputy, she was a fire marshal,
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and she had a long track record with the fire department.
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Do I know every detail of her tenure, No, I
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do not, But if you look at her resume, she
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appears to be qualified. She moved up through the ranks
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of the fire department. She was the first female fire marshal,
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the second woman to earn the rank of chief deputy
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within the department. So it's not like they got some
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lady that was you know, Oh, she's a woman, doesn't
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know anything about the fire department. Let's get her over here. No,
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she was with that department for more than two decades. Okay.
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So now, to me, the questions that arose were questions
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of character and judgment. Do we throw the mayor under
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the bus and run around and do a press tour
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while our city is burning? No, we don't do that.
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To me, that no resume can show you bad decision
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making like that. But once it has been shown, you
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need to be out of there, and I know she's
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you know, suing the city and all this other stuff.
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I still will defend against Fred's ridiculous point that somehow
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these are DEI hires, These are women who are highly
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qualified for their jobs. Was miss Kenons partly influenced by
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the endless barrage of criticism and her desire to get
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away from perhaps the consequences of having an empty reservoir
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and the terrible outcome that we had in the Palisades. Possibly,
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I don't have any proof of that, but you know,
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I think anyone would consider that if that was the
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state of their job. I'm sure the attacks by Elon
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Musk and others didn't help either. Possibly, but to say
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she wasn't qualified for the job when she was appointed
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to the job is just wrong. And that's why I
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say you seem like a misogynist. He didn't stay on
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the phone, so I'm sure he'll call again another day.
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But we are talking tech next segment, But not just
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tech as in the latest update for your phone, but
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how tech, whether it's AI or other technology, is now
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part of every aspect of our lives, including this geopolitical
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outlook and what we need to know about it. If
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you have questions or contributions to the Conversation eight hundred
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and nine to fifteen eighty is the way in I'm
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Dominiq Daprima for KBLA Talk, fifteen eighty
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I sincerely do KBLA talk fifteen eighty invite you to
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call in right now if you got something to say.
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Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine
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two oh fifteen eighty. We are at war and there's
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no denying that. How long this will go on we
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don't know, but it if history is our guide, it
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can be a while, It's could be literally forever. I'm
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leaning into the music, I'm leaning into the art. I'm
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leaning into the theater, the painting, the drawing, the reading,
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because that's what keeps me strong and encouraged. But it
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doesn't stop us from the reality. We're at war. And
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the only way this ends is if we the people
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continue to push back. Right it is an election year,
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So when we look at what happened in Texas with
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the voter suppression and that Senate race there, who knows
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what would have happened if the people that we saw
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crying on social media, the people that we saw complaining
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on newscasts about how they were not allowed to vote.
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And I must say, out of all the newscasts and
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social media posts I've seen about, I haven't seen not
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one single white person crying about how they haven't been
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given the opportunity to vote in Texas, for example. I'm
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just saying my point is that the people have to
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push back. Clearly, this president wants to be a war president.
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He's mentioned before that maybe we can suspend elections if
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were embroiled in war. He may have high hopes for that.
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He may feel that he'll get that George W. Bush effect,
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where his approval ratings bounce up because people rally behind
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a war president. We traditionally have. However, this is a
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different time. This is a time when for all the
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miss and disinformation of social media, there's also an element
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of education that has happened there and people are less
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gullible when it comes to just the official story. I
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think that's also partly attributable to Black Lives Matter, the
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Black Lives Matter movement, what we've seen with all of
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these taped murders of black people. Reflecting back on the
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sacrifice of Rodney King as his angeliversary was this week,
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and just how far we've come in terms of understanding
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the gap between the kappaganda and the reality, the gap
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between the waraganda that's not a word I know, and
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the reality, but that's where we are right now. It's
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the I'm a wartime president, although our current occupant of
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the White House doesn't do a good job of the
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wartime president stick. Because this is the same guy who
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said he likes people that don't get captured, referencing John McCain,
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who was a war hero. This is the same guy
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who has a Secretary of Defense who speculates about whether
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or not talking about the people who have already sacrificed
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their lives in this Iran war is good for the
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president's image. This is President Captain Commandant Bone Spurs, who
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dodged the draft himself. So I don't know how well
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he does with wartime president, but clearly that is what
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is in the playbook right now. So think tank Thursday,
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here's a question for you. Jerry says, yes, I'm thirsty
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five some good thinking. And I'm laughing because I know
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when we had the contest to name Thursday, Jerry was
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the one who wanted it to be Thirsty Thursday. So
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now he's thirsty for thinking that works. But here's a
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think dank question for our brilliant KBLA delegation. You guys
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see and notice things that I miss all the time,
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and I'm grateful for that. The we're not talking about
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group think, but we are talking about crowd sourcing knowledge, information,
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and wisdom. What is the best way to stop this war? Right?
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What is the best way to stop this war? We
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saw the Senate not willing to stop it. We saw
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just one Republican siding with Dems, and then John Fetterman
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deserting the Dems and going over to the Republican side,
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which was pretty much a vote to give the president
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a free hand in attacking other nations, kidnapping their sovereign leaders,
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and bombing them without provocation, preemptive wars war because he
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feels like it, I mean, the liar in chief, No,
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repeatedly said on yesterday that the reasoning for this attack
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Annie Wran was because the president had a feeling based
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on facts. What does that mean exactly? What's a feeling
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based on facts? Miles Uh? Oh, yeah. I mean, as
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a woman, we don't get to say if I say
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feeling come in?
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I had a hunch that we should go kill a
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thousand people in Iran.
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to day and I felt like.
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in intuition and hunches and feelings. But when you're talking
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about war, it gotta be more than a hunch, homie.
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That's why we're supposed to have the safe, the guardrails
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Even though the Senate failed to pass a resolution to
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rain this dude in. We've had three or four different
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stories about why we are bombing bombing Iran, and that
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war seems to be spreading already. Israel has been spreading
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their campaign for over a year, and it just for me.
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thinks it's a good calm strategy to tell us he
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of a plan? Is a feeling based on facts like
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a concept of a plan. So my think tank Thursday
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question is what is the best way for us, we
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the people, we the KBLA delegation, we the voters to
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end this war before it becomes a forever war. We
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know that it's likely already US a billion and tick
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tick tick tick counting right swipe swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe,
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for universal health care, too broke for college loan forgiveness,
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too broke for free college for all, even though Israel
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has those things and we're paying for their weapons. I
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imagine that. Imagine you know your household budget. Just imagine
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your household budget for a moment. Imagine your husband or
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wife comes home and says, Honey, I know we don't
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have money to feed the kids. I know we don't
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have money to pay for our kids college. I know
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we don't have money to pay for our children's health care.
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But I'm just gonna go and buy some guns. Imagine
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your husband and wife says that to you. I know,
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the kids are starving, they haven't been to see the doctor,
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and we have no plan to pay for their college.
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the money that we have left on a semi automatic weapon.
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How would you react to that? That is what America
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is doing right freaking now, right now. What do we
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do about it? That's my think Tank Thursday question eight
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hundred and nine to oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine
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talk fifteen eighty. It does continue and my think tank
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Thursday question. You know, I always say this on all
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the various shows from Street Science to Front Page to
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piece nick. I believe in peace and everything in all
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the things that we have to do, understand, no justice,
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no peace. But when we're talking about international campaigns, especially
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when we're in now where really this was Israel's idea,
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I don't care how how much the President denies it.
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They've been wanting to attack Iran and have been attacking
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Iran for years. They've been widening their own Middle East campaign?
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And how can we be in a war with Iran
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along with the partner Israel, who can do whatever they want. Like,
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if you're in a war and you are working with allies,
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don't you have a coordinated joint strategy. I'm not a general,
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but it seems like it. No, Israel's just doing whatever
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they want and it has our name on it and
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our taxpayer funded weaponry there. So shouldn't we have some
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controls over what they do? The answer is we don't.
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So how do we stop this? There's a lot going on.
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would stop this because a bunch of these folks would
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be in prison. Could it be that I don't know.
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I'd love to hear from you, Molly Bell, City of Compton,
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good morning.
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And memory of our ancestors. God bless morning to you.
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Dominique into the KBLA listeners, And you know, I love
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myles saying that this is to do better network, and
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I just want to take an extra minute or two
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to say a couple of things. You know I've told
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you about me losing my joy. Yes, I still haven't
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gotten it. I still haven't gotten it back. The way
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that I should, and I couldn't understand why, and I've
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been praying, asking the Lord what is wrong with me?
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I said, I'm fighting against ice, and you know, and
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then I got a saying that I got from someone
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else that says, Molly Belle, you worried about ice, but
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always remember that I smelts and how I kept that.
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So I've kept that in my mind. And then the
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things that were happening with the jobs in America and
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how we're losing a lot of our good government jobs.
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And in the chat room we were talking about being
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you know, firefighters. I'm seventy nine years old. Most of
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my potners are up there. Even you have gotten older
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because when I met you, you know, you was a
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young fly girl. You still fly, ok, but you've come
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a long way. And then I liked always when we
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talk about this being a do better network, My concern
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now was I was still saying, well, we need to
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get our jobs. And then you talk today about our personnel,
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and I put in the chat Elon Musk got that
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he got all of our stuff from the very very beginning.
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I said, so what are we going to do? And
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then it came to me that Dominique. You've talked about TikTok,
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not really saying the name, but and Instagram. And I said,
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but Dominique has already given us an answer. She has
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taught us through African Focus that there's a whole new
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world out there. There is a whole new world where
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we haven't traveled. I remember the first time I went
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to Africa with our other radio station and been there twice,
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then to Jamaica once. And I'm just saying, what are
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we going to do with what Trump and all these
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people are trying to do? Will I was of African
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Focus and we wasn't even talking about it as an
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escape planet. And this is just me philosophying. We need
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to look at other countries. Can we really go and
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live there? Can we go back home? Can we go
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and see what we need to see? Can we do
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what we need to do? So I'm just saying that
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right now, African Focus has helped us. Miles has told
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us that this is we're going to if we do better,
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and we can do better. And then you told us
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about I haven't got on TikTok and Instagram the way
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that you have and how you mixed us together. They said,
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I heard you on Front. I heard you on the radio.
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I said, I wasn't on the radio with Dominique, but
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they said they heard it on TikTok or Instagram. I said,
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I never called in on there, but some kind of way, Dominique,
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you've hooked us up where you could hear us on
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all those networks at the same time. So I'm just
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saying that I feel my joy coming back in the midst.
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In the midst of all of this. Thank and to
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African Focus, who gave me award a couple of years ago.
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I thank you for keeping that going. You have taught
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us that there's a brand new world out there. You
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have traveled, you introduced and you interview the people when
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they go. I don't know what gave you that idea
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and you could tell me I'm gonna hang up in
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a minute, and what gave you that idea to do
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that to take us there on a regular basis. I
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don't know who told you to hook up TikTok, Instagram
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and our Facebook right now, but you have been someone
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that we've been waiting for. You are someone Tavis Smiley
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is someone that we've been waiting for and one of
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my heroes. His best saying was keep hope alive. And
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tomorrow this station is going to broadcast that. I'm just
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saying that it's a brand new world, and I want
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to listen to what our miles told me to turn
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everything down because I had it up too loud while
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I was trying to listen to us. I'm just saying
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that our reparation maybe it's not going to be just
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some cash. Maybe you have given us a reparation now.
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And so everybody in the chat room are your prayer
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warriors out there. M you know what you've got to do.
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You've got to keep besting, You've got to keep praying,
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get your joy back. Don't be afraid because God has
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not given us the spirit of fear, but of power,
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love and a sound mind. Because the struggle continues. It
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always to God be the glory.
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Thank you, Dominique, Thank you Molly Bell. And let's all,
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if you got a moment right now, let's take heed
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the call of Molly Bell and do a little praying,
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and let's pray her joy all the way back. Your
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joy is starting to come back. We want to make
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sure that seed takes hold and your joy comes all
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the way back because certainly, Molly Bell, you deserve it.
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Thank you for all of the work that you've done
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in the reparations movement, the anti racist movement, the movement
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against state sanctioned violence. Molly Bell has done more, probably
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in one year of her life, than many of us
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will do in our entire lives when it comes to
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fighting for liberation for black people. So I pray, pray, pray, pray,
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pray that your joy returns in all its glory. Molly
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Bell has always been one of the more joyful people
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I know. I wanted to note that the Do Better
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Network is actually Miles his own enterprise, his own podcast empire.
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Is that a fair assessment, Miles Empire, podcast Empire, whatever
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it is, that's that's your own business. It's it's not
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a nickname for KBLA.
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Right, But you know, at the same time, it was
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with the intent of being something that could be a
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mantra or a motto as well some lirits something how
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like a Black Lives Matter would be or.
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mantra as well, y'all, because the goal and the aim
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is to elevate people to do better.
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So yeah, go ahead and adopt. This is my eye. People,
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go ahead and adopted.
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I mean, I thought it came from the saying if
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we if you know better, you can do better.
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If you knew better, you do better. But who better
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to make you better? I better you? That's the answer.
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He about to start. He's about to start spinning in
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a moment. Yeah, so that's to do better network. But
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you have your own content and stuff that if Molly
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Right, everything's on YouTube at to do Better Network. It
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features my music, music videos, behind the scenes, footage, podcasting,
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p s, a, AI work everything. Yeah, do better network
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on all platforms.
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Okay, so let's go to Big Phil call calling us
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from Los Angeles. Hi, Big Phil.
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Let me tell you something.
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I beleague.
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I came to a serve with Jesse Jackson. We go
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way back. I've been a couple of marks with Saint Louis.
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Was Dick Gregory alling hometown league with the world Home.
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I'm going way back now the Georgia. Let me tell
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you something. You was guarded. You just looked disguarded. Look
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like gold Eric Sailling Gold. You look guarded.
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Oh thank you.
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Let me see another thing too, So let these people
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worry about call in about two all stuff you talk,
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no stress in your life, your old thing, stick your
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stone like break my bones. So I got a run,
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but I love you guys. They face and keep doing
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what you're doing. No stress and out, big deal.
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Thank you, big Phils. Much appreciated. Yep, the no stress
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express over here as much as we can be given
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what's going down. Jerry from Beverly Hills, it's all you, Hi, Jerry,
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how are you feeling today?
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Were we about?
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I can't.
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Okay, Jerry, you know what, Let's talk off the air.
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I'm having more trouble than I typically do understanding what
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you're saying today. You know we we know the KBLA
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delegation knows that Jerry from Beverly Hills sometimes struggles with
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his communication a little bit because he is battling Parkinson's
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and it sounded like something about Syria. But I want
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to make sure I'm clear on what it is that
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you are asking so that we can address it. The question,
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the Think Tank Thursday question concerns how do we stop
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this war in Iran? It feels like a forever war.
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It feels like it has the potential to spread throughout
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the Middle East. It's already starting to happen, seems like,
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and I'm not talking about a feeling based on facts.
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I'm talking about what I'm seeing unfold before our eyes.
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It seems like it could be a path towards World
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War III. But we the people have the power. How
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do we flex that power? How do we stop this?
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In its tracks? News, traffic, and sports. Then more on
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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Indeed it does. Looking forward to
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the conversation next hour, we're talking with Paris McCoy of
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tech Lamert. There are so many intersections here between war
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and AI, war and technology, surveillance and ice, and where
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we are with all of these things has big technological implications,
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some of which I get, some of which I don't,
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and which we will strive to understand more completely and thoroughly.
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Right now, my Think ten question for today is how
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do we the people? We the people. I believe we're
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the only ones that have the ability to stop the
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more scary aspects of our current governing administration, what I
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call the new Confederate white supremacist MAGA regime. And they're
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endless flooding the zone with crazy ideas and propositions and
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rules and moves, and now a whole new war, at
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least in part meant to distract from the Epstein files.
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But it's not just the Epstein file. I mean, as
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if that wasn't important. Of course it's important. It's actually
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really insanely creepy even trying to process that. Now we're
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trying to process a war. But there's also a matter
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of the social safety net right food stamps and medical
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and medicaid, and the threats of the privatization or cuts
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to Medicare, social security. All of this stuff happening slickly
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while we're over here worrying about how all of our
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money is being invested in war money we don't even have,
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not just our wars, but other people's wars, in this
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case Israel's wars. But also all of these things distracting
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us from the basic basics, which is food, housing, clothing, education,
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and healthcare for the people who pay the taxes, we
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the people. Let's go to run from Richmond.
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Good morning, Ron, Good morning Dominic.
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How you being I'm blessed? What's on your mind this morning?
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Oh man?
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A whole lot that This is my first, my first
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official call for this year, I haven't talked to you
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all six.
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Happy Women's History Month. You already skipped the Black History
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Month of New Year's.
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Oh yeah, I missed all that.
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Yep.
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I didn't forget about you though. I've been tuning in,
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tuning in watching you here on YouTube. So yeah, we
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always always got you all here here in the Bay rhythm. Yeah,
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rest in piece of rebend. Jesse Jackson Man that when
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I when I first heard that news here, that that
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kind of hit me a little bit.
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Man.
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And I heard his son, his son talking to Wolf
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Blister on a on CNN on that day that he
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had passed away, and he he was crying a little bit,
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So that kind of, you know, it just kind of
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got just kind of got to me a little bit,
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you know, thinking about my own dad. So yeah, ye
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he was best. Yeah, Jesse Jason, he was a special person.
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I never gotta, never got a chance to meet him
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in person like that, but yeah, he made his mark.
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So he definitely definitely will be with be missed.
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Yeah, absolutely, I'm sorry.
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You can go ahead, no, go ahead, are y'all? Are
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y'all a live stream in the service on tomorrow. I
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hear that correct, That is correct.
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Yes, it will start. I think it starts at eight,
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so it if it starts on time, we'll we'll preempt
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the last hour of this show. If it doesn't, we'll
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talk until it starts, and we'll reflect on what's happening.
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It's certainly it's like the passing of a president.
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Really, Yeah, exactly, Yes, I'll definitely be tuning into that. Yeah,
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I don't know what's going on with Trump, with this war.
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This is this is uh, this is crazy right now?
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Yeah, crazy, expensive, terrible and unprovoked. Iran has been a
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threat for decades. Why now exactly what changed?
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Exactly? Exactly? Well, I don't want to hold I'm sure
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it's a lot more folks out there want to get
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through and high let you. But always fun talking to you.
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I'm always tuned in. Big shout out to Miles and
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and uh, I keep putting it down, keep doing your things.
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I'm surprised you didn't show that Bay Area love for
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uh for Delroy Lindo and uh what was it that
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was on the stage the two Bay Arey Oh, Ryan Coogler?
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What Ryan Cooler said? Ryan Coopler talking about town business
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on the nuble A CPU Awards stage and just bringing
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up Oakland. I thought that was very Uh, it was adorable,
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you know, just to see that, to see that Bay
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area of pride and he going to He's gonna just
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throw out some Oakland love in the middle of the
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n double A CP Awards. I didn't realize Delroy Lindo
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lived in the Bay for many, many years. I knew
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Ryan Coogler was from Oakland because everyone says he has
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an accent, and to me, it sounds like an East
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Bay accent all day long.
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Okay, that's the food. Yeah, I didn't know deal Deal
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lived in the Bay.
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Well, he's not from the Bay, but I think he's
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been living there since the nineties or something.
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Oh okay, So it was just a.
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Really cute moment at the UH at the nuble A
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CP Awards, a little a little bit bit of Oakland love.
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He'll probably go look it up on a on YouTube.
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You'll get a laugh.
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Out of that run YouTube.
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Okay, yeah, yeah, or it's all over it's all over
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ig because Stello I looked at him. We couldn't believe
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that Ryan Coogler was gonna go all the way Oakland
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in the middle of the NAACP Awards. That was golden.
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And I really enjoyed the NAACP Awards. And I enjoyed
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watching Michael B. Jordan grab that Actor Award and Best Ensemble.
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It's all good. It makes it much more exciting to
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see what's going to happen at the Oscars next week.
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But stay healthy, be good, or at least have fun.
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If you're not going to be.
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Good, Ron, Yeah, I'm gonna try to. Y'all do to
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say thank you for taking my call.
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All right, and thank you for calling. Ron called me
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at eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty, and
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you can do the same. Look who's on my phone.
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It's Fred from LA Good morning.
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Hello, Dominique's Fred from Los Angeles. Now I want to
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respond to the LA Black Workers Union Center lady. And
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I believe she's a little bit older than what she
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sounds like.
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No, actually she's not. She's a millennial.
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How old is she?
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I don't know her exact age. She's a millennial. That
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means she's under forty under anyway, under thirty five, under
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forty I think, yeah, she's a millennial.
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local eighteen Skilled positions such
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as welder, electrician, proctor. We'll go to DEI Affirmative Action
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and repeat thing. I think this is just another thing,
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you know. I'm seventy three. I've been through the whole
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I was in the labor market for forty five years.
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Thirty okay, let me.
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Slow down for one second. Front. Why are you asking
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Ariel Moore's age on the air? I don't understand the reference.
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I heard her once before and wanted to respond, but
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there were more important things. And I thought she said
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she was older. I thought she said she in her fifties.
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No, no, not even no way, no way. See, I
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don't even know she's in her thirties, but she's definitely
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not in her fifties. Why does that matter though?
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Before?
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Why does it matter?
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Well, this is a brand new generation now that we're
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now we have in the firm of Action DEI. And
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now her thing, she wants her people to get into
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getting to open up the city charter.
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By her people, we mean black people. By her people,
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we mean black people workers, which is black workers. Yeah,
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black people, that's who they advocate for. Is that a
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problem for do we not want black people to have
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good city jobs?
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I want them to follow in my footsteps. But we
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have to have qualified people. We don't want people into
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the Yeah.
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You know, that's a that's a red herring. Don't even
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don't even waste my airspace with that. BS. Because we
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know we have to be qualified. They don't give unqualified
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black people jobs. That's a myth. We are overqualified and
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still can't get hired. Look at Kamala Harris.
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What about her?
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She's way more qualified to be She's way more qualified
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to be president than either Trump or Biden. Well, maybe
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not Biden. He was a senator for three hundred years. No, no, no, no,
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no no. We're talking about qualification. Qualifications means your experience
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and your education.
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But with the labor markets, you have to have experience
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to get it into the skill.
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Experience and education. Experience and education. Well, she just laid
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it out, a pathway program which brings people in on
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paid internship internships into entry level jobs that prepare them
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for those positions, which, by the way, is what most
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people do. They learn on their job. No, most people
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do not come into their job and don't need any training.
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That's a myth.
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Now we're getting somewhere now for the skill positions. We
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want people that's already experienced. In my case, I'm in
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the construction and trucking industry, and when I'm higher up,
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I want to steal walmartsh drivers and everybody.
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Why why do you why do you say I b
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e W Local eighteen has d I? My in my
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experience some of these it does not have the I.
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But but in my but okay, And what is d I? Fred?
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The diversity?
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I don't mean, I don't mean what does it stand for?
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I mean, what do you think it is? Because people,
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you know the way you talk about it, it sounds
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like you think it's something different than what it actually is.
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Yeah, I think that's the late the fire chief, that
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God's fire for Los Angeles and the GM of the
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general manager that just well, I reassigned going to Puerto
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Rico yesterday or the day before.
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That's what I think the well, but explain what you
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mean by that, because what you sound like right now
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I was a racist misogynist. So what I need to
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know is why, hold on? Why are they DEI? What
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is about them as DEI? They're d I because they're women,
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They're d I because they're black? Like, what what makes
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a thing de I to you.
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Okay, well, the fire chief, she's the head of the paramedics.
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She had no skill of being being over the fire
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department and the j d w P general manager manager.
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Now that's my line of work. She came from up north.
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Now she had education and all of that, but she had.
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No practical careertion. She actually she actually did have experience
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in the field and she had education. So so what
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you're saying, your words don't match your rhetoric. I mean,
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your justifications don't match your rhetoric. Most people like you,
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Republicans who are who appear to be misogynistic, think that
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by being a woman or buying being black or Latino,
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that automatically means it's DEI EEI means they outreached to
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a diverse group of people so that everyone who was
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qualified would have a chance to apply. That's what DEI
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programs do. They widen the recruitment net so that everyone
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who is qualified gets a chance to be considered. It
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doesn't give jobs to people who aren't qualified. It doesn't
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create positions that are set aside for certain others. No,
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in fact, that is not true. That is illegal under
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Proposition two oh nine that would be affirmative action. We
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don't have that in the state of California. We only
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have that in your talking.
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Point charge of being ahead in the fire department.
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First of all, that's an assumption because who fired who fired.
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You're talking about Kristin Crawley, right, who was fired by
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Mayor b right, right, And you're assuming that because she's
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a woman. I mean, obviously, for me, I would have
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fired her much earlier because of insupport, bordination, and the
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fact that she was busy going on on CNN while
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she needed to be working for the city. But Kristin
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Crowley was pointed by Mayor Garcetti, not Mayor Bass. So
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let's make sure when we're pointing our finger and making little,
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unfounded talking point accusations that were at least accurate. Fred,
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we could continue this conversation when we come forward on
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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. You know, it is true that
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Fred calls and he kind of changes the vibe. That's
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what Jacquelin Anderson was saying in the chat. Fred changes
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the flow every time he calls with his Republican talking points.
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But I like to set the record straight because it
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also reminds us what the talking points are. So he's
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talking about Jenny's Quinones, who was over the La DWP
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since twenty twenty four. She has stepped down and she's
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going to go rebuild work on rebuilding the power grid
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in Puerto Rico. She's Puerto Rican. But to say that
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she was DEI what does that mean? She had twenty
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five years experience as a senior executive. She's an engineer.
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I interviewed this woman. She came from the DWP from
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PG and E, which is another huge utility company. She
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was a senior vice president of cass Gas Engineering and
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senior vice president of Electric Operations. Clearly she was qualified
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for the job. Now people were angry with her. She
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received a lot of criticism. I know, the right wing
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trolls went after her. Some of them even used clips
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from my show. Because a reservoir, a DWP reservoir that
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should have been full, was empty, or that seems like
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it should have been full, let me put it that way,
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was empty over in the Palisades because some of those
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fire hydrants did not have water. Now, my understanding, in
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further analysis is that because so much water was being
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pumped out, in part by people like oh Rick Caruso,
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who had private fire fighters sucking up the water to
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save their properties. There may not have been enough water
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pressure left for regular private homeowners. Another show for another day.
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But for him to say that miss Kenyones was strictly
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a DEI higher and that she didn't have qualifications is
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an lie or, as they say in Puerto Rico, mindidra,
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which means lie. Okay, she was qualified. Whether she did
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a good job or not, well, that's up for debate.
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A DEI hire maybe only in the sense that they
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were outreaching to women. Now do I want to be
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defending Kristin Crowley? Probably not. As I said, I would
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have fired her the minute she went on CNN and
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started running her mouth instead of worrying about how to
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make sure that fire was all the way out. The
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mayor eventually did fire her. She was hired by the
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last mayor and ironically was nominated by then council president
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Nora Martinez, who, as we know, resigned in disgrace after
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her illegal and seemingly racist comments became became unveiled. Okay,
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but whether you're like me and you think she should
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have been fired even faster than she was, or you're
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like fred. To say that she's unqualified and she was
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strictly a DEI hire is not accurate. She had twenty
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five years with the Fire Department. Okay, she was the
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acting Administrative's Operations chief Deputy, she was a fire marshal,
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and she had a long track record with the fire department.
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Do I know every detail of her tenure, No, I
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do not, But if you look at her resume, she
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appears to be qualified. She moved up through the ranks
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of the fire department. She was the first female fire marshal,
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the second woman to earn the rank of chief deputy
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within the department. So it's not like they got some
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lady that was you know, Oh, she's a woman, doesn't
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know anything about the fire department. Let's get her over here. No,
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she was with that department for more than two decades. Okay.
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So now, to me, the questions that arose were questions
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of character and judgment. Do we throw the mayor under
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the bus and run around and do a press tour
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while our city is burning? No, we don't do that.
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To me, that no resume can show you bad decision
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making like that. But once it has been shown, you
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need to be out of there, and I know she's
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you know, suing the city and all this other stuff.
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I still will defend against Fred's ridiculous point that somehow
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these are DEI hires, These are women who are highly
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qualified for their jobs. Was miss Kenons partly influenced by
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the endless barrage of criticism and her desire to get
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away from perhaps the consequences of having an empty reservoir
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and the terrible outcome that we had in the Palisades. Possibly,
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I don't have any proof of that, but you know,
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I think anyone would consider that if that was the
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state of their job. I'm sure the attacks by Elon
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Musk and others didn't help either. Possibly, but to say
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she wasn't qualified for the job when she was appointed
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to the job is just wrong. And that's why I
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say you seem like a misogynist. He didn't stay on
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the phone, so I'm sure he'll call again another day.
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But we are talking tech next segment, But not just
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tech as in the latest update for your phone, but
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how tech, whether it's AI or other technology, is now
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part of every aspect of our lives, including this geopolitical
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outlook and what we need to know about it. If
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you have questions or contributions to the Conversation eight hundred
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and nine to fifteen eighty is the way in I'm
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Dominiq Daprima for KBLA Talk, fifteen eighty
