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  Speaker 2: I'm going to bring Amy into these conversations because we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about two different runs for office, one
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  Speaker 2: for the California governor the position, and that's coming up
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  Speaker 2: at seven twenty, and I'm going to start with the
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  Speaker 2: debate that's going to happen, I believe tonight right Amy
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  Speaker 2: for the mayoral race with Bass, Pratt and Ramen. And
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  Speaker 2: the mayor generally has a Democratic mayor because of course
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  Speaker 2: we're Democrats. Blew and True generally has a pass generally
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  Speaker 2: can go another term. But Bass, I think, is in
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  Speaker 2: trouble and it had to do with the fires. Do
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  Speaker 2: you remember that she went off to Ghana after saying
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  Speaker 2: that she would not leave Los Angeles because I guess
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  Speaker 2: she didn't do well in geography class in high school.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow Ghana is part of La City and she here's
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  Speaker 2: the accusation, is that the warning about the high winds
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  Speaker 2: and the dangers of this kind of fire actually came
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  Speaker 2: through and she says, oh, I never heard it and
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  Speaker 2: just started off fuskating and throwing it out there that
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  Speaker 2: she didn't know and she wasn't at fault. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to kill her. I think that's the one that's going
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  Speaker 2: to kill her. And then homelessness. So Bass and Pratt
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  Speaker 2: and Raman are going to do it. So Amy, what
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  Speaker 2: have you heard so far about this? By the way,
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  Speaker 2: I think that the first of the are going to
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  Speaker 2: happen tomorrow, if I'm not or tonight, if I'm not
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  Speaker 2: mistaken tonight.
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  Speaker 3: There was a debate last night between Mayor Bass and
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  Speaker 3: Nitia Rahman in Sherman Oaks. It wasn't it wasn't televised.
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  Speaker 3: There's cuts from it, but it wasn't televised. So and
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  Speaker 3: of course they talked about homelessness and making changes and
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  Speaker 3: how there's problems with the city that haven't been addressed
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  Speaker 3: in that kind of stuff. Spencer Pratt was not invited
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  Speaker 3: to that one. He is invited to this one. That
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  Speaker 3: one's going to be on NBC four tonight as starting
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  Speaker 3: at five and then followed by the Governor's debate.
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  Speaker 2: Now, of all the people that I know, Amy, you
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  Speaker 2: are the only one that actually follows this wall to wall.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I listened to I started listening to the
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  Speaker 2: Governor's debate, and I went, come on, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do it anymore. I couldn't do it. And we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: more about that at seven twenty.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's fascinating because I want to know who
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  Speaker 3: I'm voting for, and I think that you really do
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  Speaker 3: get ideas on their position, You get ideas on you know,
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  Speaker 3: how they handle some of the questions. Do they actually
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  Speaker 3: answer the questions or like you said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: bring the price down to three dollars a gallon? How
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  Speaker 3: and then they dodge it? Or is there somebody who's
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  Speaker 3: actually answering the questions? And I listen and pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to that, And of course I love it when they
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  Speaker 3: get nose to nose and start fighting.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and that boy, that certainly happened with the
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  Speaker 2: Governor's debate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Katie Porter was making some good points last night,
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  Speaker 3: and she started calling out different candidates individually. You did this,
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  Speaker 3: you did that, And then she said and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: even going to continue this, And I thought, well, that's
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  Speaker 3: a mistake, because I think she was making some good points,
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  Speaker 3: and again people do make mistakes. And she did own
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  Speaker 3: up to her whole thing where she yelled at her
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  Speaker 3: staffer and that kind of stuff she talked about that
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  Speaker 3: I think. I think she did pretty well last night.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think she was going to get elected,
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  Speaker 3: but I think I.
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  Speaker 2: Probably won't because again there's liability. I mean, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things I killed Hillary Clinton is that people just
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  Speaker 2: didn't like her. It's just that simple. This didn't like her,
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  Speaker 2: and that has a lot to do with electability, and
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  Speaker 2: we do not vote well. The people, including me now
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  Speaker 2: you know, just don't pay much attention because it's all
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  Speaker 2: mud slinging. And everybody promises that they're not going to
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  Speaker 2: get engage in months mud slinging and then immediately start
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  Speaker 2: mud slinging. Why is that? Because that works? That works.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's no such thing as the high road.
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  Speaker 2: It simply doesn't. It doesn't exist. So we will see
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  Speaker 2: you and see a lot of platitudes. The bottom line
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  Speaker 2: is this state, both on a state level, on a
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  Speaker 2: county level, on a city level, and certainly the US
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  Speaker 2: or the school district LA unified school district ungovernable. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: It's simple that it's ungovernable. The problems homelessness are overwhelming,
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  Speaker 2: and thing is going to really do anything unless enormous
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  Speaker 2: amounts of money are piled into or piled down a problem.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have the most expensive place in the
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  Speaker 2: country to live, both in taxation and in housing and
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  Speaker 2: in food prices, although I think the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: country is right up there with food prices. What was
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  Speaker 2: it last night, beef has gone up seventeen percent in
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  Speaker 2: the last month. I mean, just complete insanity.
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  Speaker 4: But weren't we overtaxed for sidewalks, streets, the homeless, all
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  Speaker 4: these things that they didn't do anything about. You to
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  Speaker 4: take our money for that stuff, and they've done crap
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 2: It's ungovernable. There's not enough money to spread around dealing
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  Speaker 2: with the problems in California. It's that simple. We have
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  Speaker 2: an overwhelming We have an overwhelming number of people that
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  Speaker 2: are homeless and are poor. Even so, our per capita
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  Speaker 2: is in pretty good shape. But they throw some billionaires
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  Speaker 2: in there too. I mean, how many billionaires do you
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  Speaker 2: think come out of South Dakota or Illinois.
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  Speaker 5: It's not that many.
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  Speaker 2: And then the argument is it we do have? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: is it manageable at all? Okay, very rare for me
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  Speaker 2: to die just not to watch, but I really my
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  Speaker 2: socks truly needed rearranging last night, So it's a question
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  Speaker 2: of priorities. Just got the news Amy reported Ted Turner
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  Speaker 2: has died at the age of eighty seven. Ted Turner
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  Speaker 2: really interesting guy, to say the least. He was a
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  Speaker 2: sailor America's Cup. I think he owned one of the teams,
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  Speaker 2: and I think his claim to fame, and I think
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  Speaker 2: this legitimate, is he created cable news. He invented. He
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  Speaker 2: started with CNN and effectively invented the entire process, and
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  Speaker 2: CNN was the dominant force of news or cable news
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  Speaker 2: until Fox started doing its thing. Roger Ayles, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: responsible for Fox. So we're trying to put together a
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  Speaker 2: story because the obits are going crazy, and I do
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about Ted Turner because there was so
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  Speaker 2: much We're going to try to talk about it moving
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  Speaker 2: into the show later on. Now, let's move on to
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  Speaker 2: the California governor's primary debate on CNN strangely enough, and
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  Speaker 2: the seven candidates for the governor, well, yeah, they went
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  Speaker 2: at it distinguishing themselves with a month left in the
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  Speaker 2: race and we're already receiving ballots. And I'm gonna bring
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  Speaker 2: Amy into this because she actually watched it wall to wall,
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  Speaker 2: which I can't anymore. And I can't, I'm sorry, I
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  Speaker 2: just because it's so ridiculous, it's so stupid, it's so mudslinging.
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  Speaker 2: There are no real answers, it's all deflection, it's all
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  Speaker 2: this is what I'm going to do. And as I said,
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  Speaker 2: I once ran for school president or class president in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth grade and I offered free pizza to everybody
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  Speaker 2: on Friday. So that's what we hear now, free pizzas
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  Speaker 2: to everybody. Yeah, guess what is it going to happen?
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  Speaker 2: Of course not so Amy. What did you see because
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  Speaker 2: you looked at this really carefully?
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  Speaker 3: I did, And I will tell you just a couple
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  Speaker 3: of takeaways. One is that I think that there is
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  Speaker 3: a lot of that I'm going to give you this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you that, and you have to
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  Speaker 3: for me. I try to watch and see what their
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  Speaker 3: responses are, do they actually answer some questions, do they
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  Speaker 3: have any credibility? And a couple of my takeaways were
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  Speaker 3: Antonio Viebrigosa, who's so low in the polling, there's just
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  Speaker 3: a very low chance for him.
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  Speaker 2: I think that he made some.
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  Speaker 3: Good points, but he doesn't articulate it well. He's not
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  Speaker 3: a smooth talker, and I think he had trouble getting
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  Speaker 3: his points across, but when he did, I think he
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  Speaker 3: did an okay job. I think Bessarah also talks very calmly, smoothly,
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  Speaker 3: comes across as very professional, but also last night looked
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  Speaker 3: like a deer in the headlights a lot like he
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  Speaker 3: would get questioned on something, and he just didn't look
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  Speaker 3: like he had, you know, the everyday knowledge to be
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  Speaker 3: able to handle this position. I think Chad Bianco comes
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  Speaker 3: across as a no nonsense kind of guy, and mentioned
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  Speaker 3: this earlier, said he looks angry, and I said, I
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  Speaker 3: think he is angry, and he does say he's angry
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  Speaker 3: because he said, look what's happened by having one party rule?
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  Speaker 3: And he points out some things with that. One of
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  Speaker 3: the things I liked about Besarah, not Besarah, about Bianco
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  Speaker 3: is that when they talk about homeless, everybody's up there
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  Speaker 3: saying it's, you know, we have a housing shortage, and
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  Speaker 3: this is this, and this is you know, that's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: He said, that's not the problem. He said, the homeless
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  Speaker 3: problem with all the camps is drugs and mental illness,
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  Speaker 3: and that's being ignored. And he said that's our problem.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we can't fix it. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: he made some points there. I liked Matt Mayhan, who
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  Speaker 3: is the mayor of San Jose, comes across as pretty knowledgeable.
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  Speaker 3: He says he's actually taken a third of the homeless
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  Speaker 3: people off the streets. It sounds like he's had some
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  Speaker 3: accomplishments as mayor of San Jose. So as far as takeaways,
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  Speaker 3: and what I think you're trying to get out of
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  Speaker 3: the debates is who are you leaning for? Who are
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  Speaker 3: you leaning against? And do the debates help swagh that
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  Speaker 3: decision at all? And I think that maybe a little
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  Speaker 3: bit last night it might have helped people a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And then we'll take another look tonight when they face
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  Speaker 3: off and see if anybody makes any points.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do these debates move the needle generally, not
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  Speaker 2: a lot. And I want to bring a couple of
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  Speaker 2: points into it, because you raised a very good point,
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  Speaker 2: and that is how well they come off during debates.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody looks great during commercials when they buy.
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  Speaker 2: People are smiling, they're laughing. This is what I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do. Those are can spots. Now, what happens in
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  Speaker 2: debates which are live and which are in real time?
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  Speaker 2: Who is the best communicator and the smoothest talker? What
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  Speaker 2: does that have to do with governing? Can someone who
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  Speaker 2: does not communicate very well be a good give good governance?
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  Speaker 2: Of course it can. And so to determine you're a
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  Speaker 2: good talker therefore you're going to be a good governor
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  Speaker 2: or president is just horrific. Those people that think Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 2: for example, is a good president. And I'm not making
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  Speaker 2: a value judgment there, but if it turned out that
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  Speaker 2: we are looking at a well produced or someone who
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  Speaker 2: knows how to communicate well, Joe Biden would have never
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  Speaker 2: been elected because he just doesn't communicate very well. And
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  Speaker 2: the other thing, as you pointed out, much bickering that
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  Speaker 2: you really don't get any answers, and they're talking over
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  Speaker 2: one another, and they're attacking each other and that's the
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  Speaker 2: way politics goes these days. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's always been the case. For some reason, I think
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  Speaker 2: in the past there wasn't that much. Maybe it's I'm dreaming.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that maybe I've just gotten sicker of it
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  Speaker 2: as I get older.
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  Speaker 4: Well to Amy's point, though, I think some of the
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  Speaker 4: lesser known people do get an opportunity to show themselves
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  Speaker 4: in a room full of people that maybe have more
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  Speaker 4: money to spend or a name, have name recognition. I
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  Speaker 4: think they're the ones that win in the debates, not
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  Speaker 4: the front runners per se.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of interesting points. Styer is trying to
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  Speaker 2: buy his way into the governorship, and that's happened before,
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  Speaker 2: and it hasn't worked. The only one I think who
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  Speaker 2: has been successfully who has successfully body in we're talking
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars by the way of personal
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  Speaker 2: money check writing, is Michael Bloomberg became Mayor of New
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  Speaker 2: York buying his way in. We do not have that,
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, in California. It goes the other way,
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  Speaker 2: and so Caruso, for example, Rick Caruso tried to buy
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  Speaker 2: his way in. It did work.
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  Speaker 5: Huffing takes successful people here in Cali.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not just successful, it's some people who are
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  Speaker 2: not in politics saying I want in, and I want
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  Speaker 2: in as the mayor, the governor, and I'm willing to
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  Speaker 2: pay the money.
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  Speaker 4: Pack up all of his beautiful properties that are safe
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  Speaker 4: and wonderful to shop at, and leave California like the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the rich people. But he says, I want
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  Speaker 4: to put money and my time into California, and we
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  Speaker 4: punish him.
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  Speaker 5: Go figure out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But then there's the argument, and this is the case,
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  Speaker 2: if someone could buy in where it really mattered, you
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  Speaker 2: would have anybody who has tons of real tons and
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  Speaker 2: tons of dollars. And the shame of it is that
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  Speaker 2: there should be and there was a point where everybody
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  Speaker 2: on an even playing field, you can't spend more money
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  Speaker 2: than anybody else, and let just let the chips fall
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  Speaker 2: where they may. So I think that works, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not gonna work, Okay, now, delivery bots. I remember a
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  Speaker 2: few months ago, was in downtown LA and here I
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  Speaker 2: saw this robot on wheels, about the size of a
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  Speaker 2: large cooler, and there it was zipping along the sidewalk
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  Speaker 2: all by itself. Serve Robotics as a company that has
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  Speaker 2: expanded this delivery robot fleet to forty LA neighborhoods from
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  Speaker 2: two in twenty twenty three. They now have over five
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  Speaker 2: hundred these bots across six metropolitan areas, and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to go nationwide. And it engineers and does it engineered
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  Speaker 2: and does create these robots with safety features like running
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  Speaker 2: over old people that can't get out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Also very good at doing those pit stops with wheelchairs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's very interesting to see how these work.
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  Speaker 2: Now Glendale, Chicago are imposing restrictions concerns about delivery, worker
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  Speaker 2: displacement and pedestrian accessibility on credit say on crowdit say
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  Speaker 2: walk crowded sidewalks. Now I can see that that one
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  Speaker 2: makes sense. The worker displacement argument is something that I
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  Speaker 2: do not understand. Let's go back to making computers illegal
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  Speaker 2: because so many people were, in fact manufacturing companies were
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  Speaker 2: manufacturing and repairing typewriters, okay, buggy whips. That becomes a
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  Speaker 2: problem now. The argument is that more people are working
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  Speaker 2: in computers that we're working in previous industries. By that
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  Speaker 2: if it turns out that's true, but delivery people are
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  Speaker 2: going to be displaced when you have robots zipping along
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  Speaker 2: and delivering food. I kind of like it. This started
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  Speaker 2: out of Uber's Postmates in twenty twenty one and right
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  Speaker 2: now serves south central del Rey, Little Tokyo, and elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And NLA is a big market. It's the second largest
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  Speaker 2: food delivery market after New York. And what Server does
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  Speaker 2: is it runs on its most advanced G three robot
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  Speaker 2: in n video chips, five times the processing power of
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  Speaker 2: the previous models. Now, I have not seen one in
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  Speaker 2: my neighborhood because they're not here yet. But Neil, your
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood is very interesting. Do the homeless people that live
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  Speaker 2: there do they jump on top of these robots and
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  Speaker 2: sit down to get around and they use them as transportation?
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  Speaker 4: No, they use They use all the other garbage, like
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  Speaker 4: the e bikes and stuff like that and scooters.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: See these the Cocoa units. The coco they're all over
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  Speaker 4: the place. They have the like the large pole on
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  Speaker 4: the back with the flag like you used to put
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  Speaker 4: on wind.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's when that I saw, which was kind of neat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then they have lights that circumvent the entire unit.
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  Speaker 5: And so is that the right word?
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  Speaker 4: Go through the circumference whatever it is on the outside,
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  Speaker 4: and I see them at night, they see them during
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  Speaker 4: the day, and they'll they'll pause if you're in front
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  Speaker 4: of them, and then they'll try and make their way
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  Speaker 4: around you. And they they come up to your house
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  Speaker 4: and then they call you or they let you know
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  Speaker 4: what they're out front. You go out there, you put
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  Speaker 4: a code in a one time code. It opens up
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  Speaker 4: and you could take your food out, and then it
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  Speaker 4: closes again. So unless you have that code, you can't
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  Speaker 4: get into them, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is perfect for for example, hot food delivery because it
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  Speaker 2: can be a warming oven inside, so you get warm
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  Speaker 2: or hot pizza, which you can't get in delivery at all.
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  Speaker 2: And you it's a it's a great idea. We're in
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  Speaker 2: on a brand new world of robotics and Elon Musk
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  Speaker 2: is switching over, for example, Tesla Tesla. He's giving less
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  Speaker 2: attention to Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, yeah, tesla,
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  Speaker 2: you know me with pronunciation. And Elon Musk is doing that,
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  Speaker 2: and he is putting a pile of money into robotics,
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  Speaker 2: as many many companies are. We're going to see it.
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  Speaker 2: I saw the beginning of the computer h when there
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  Speaker 2: weren't computers and all of a sudden, this thing exploded.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to be as we grow older, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be telling our grandkids. I was there when
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  Speaker 2: I started. I was there when a robotics finally got
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  Speaker 2: a leg up, even though they don't have legs. Well,
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  Speaker 2: some of them have legs.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm kind of disappointed that we're starting to hear
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  Speaker 4: these things in America, a land of opportunity. Every time
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  Speaker 4: something happens or technology moves, and it's like, oh, they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna the lowest rung. It's like, oh, well, now we
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  Speaker 4: don't have that job. That's that's ridiculous. Why aren't restricating people?
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  Speaker 4: It is true, but it don't work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a.
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  Speaker 5: Skill, you know, and and to have more skills and things.
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  Speaker 5: Think about that.
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  Speaker 4: When COVID hit, so many people pivoted and did new
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: jobs and started new careers because they want to work.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, the last time I mentioned this was a couple
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: of years ago and was the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe it was last year and I had mentioned that
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch mainly plastics that are floating
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: around and the way the currents work in the Pacific.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Effectively all the garbage sort of moves into the middle,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: into this patch. And I had mentioned that it was
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the size of Texas, if you can imagine that. Well,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: since I mentioned this, it is twice the size of Texas.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Now you're talking about can you imagine you take your
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: boat through it and you could literally almost walk on
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the garbage that is floating on the water. And we
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: talked about the fact that the microplastics are part of it,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that they break down or really doesn't break down, but
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: when the plastic does break down, it breaks into these
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: nanoparticles that actually are in the water, and the fish
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: eat those things, and the fish are full of plastic,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: which is really, in one way good news because if
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you're eating fish for dinner, and this is across the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: board all over the world world, you don't have to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: worry about a ziplock bag to keep your fish fresh
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: because they do it on their own. Just throw them
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: on a plate and you'll be fine. But here's what
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: a new study has come out. It's not just the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: microplastics and the fish. It's the microplastics connected to global warming.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: And that is something that's news, and it has to
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: do with the amount of sunlight going through the plastics.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And when they had measured this and tried before, they
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: had taken clear plastic, and the sunlight went right through
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: the clear plastic, and it really didn't affect as far
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: as global warming. It really didn't affect temperature that much.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, it affected the fish and the sea life
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: that we eat or we don't eat that's out there.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: But most of the plastic, or a lot of the
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: plastics is colored. I mean, look at all the things that
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: you buy that are not clear plastic. Well, when you
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: have colored plastic or colored anything, the dark it gets,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the more sunlight is absorbed. And now you have an
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: issue where instead of the sunlight being dispersed and going
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: across the ocean like it's supposed to, it's now hanging
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: loose or it's attaching itself to the nanoplastics themselves.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Once again, you're blaming the browns.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I am, I am, yeah, damn right, damn right. And
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: it's just you know, we're starting to see that everything
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: is going to kill you. Everything doesn't matter what you do.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Life kills you, Yeah, it does you.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: And I should be making the Great Pacific garbage Patch, kids,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: making some money.
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  Speaker 2: That's absolutely true. Someone, Well, as I read in maybe
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Siddartha or something when I was in college, and Herman
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: has a that everybody reads in college, and you have
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: you have to read it stone on LSDD. I mean,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: there's no way to read that in a class. And
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: one of the great lines is the day you are
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: born you start to die, which actually was a pretty
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: good line.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interest pretty bad.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a pretty good line. I mean, you know,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: how much do you understand when you're on LSD? Not
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: a lot? Or you think or you think you do,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: and then you wake up in the morning when you're
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: done after having written all this, what the hell is
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: that about? I remember, well, it's a story that I'll
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: share another. Time you got high, you.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Would think about the second law of thermodynamics, that's which yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Very actually not. When I got high, I thought about
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: how great waffles can take taste when you put whatever
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: fruit on top of them.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Oh waffles.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's enough. I mean, well, boy, tell me we
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: just didn't go off on a tangent.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: All right? Coming up news that we just got this morning.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Ted Turner died at the age of eighty seven and
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go through an oh bit because what
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: an extraordinary man, and I'll share that news with you.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I've heard about him in a long time, but what
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: he did it was, and who he was pretty impressive.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: So we'll do that coming up. This is KFI AM
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