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Latest: President Trump’s Visit to China | California Fraud Concerns · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 2: Shine by AM six forty.
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Speaker 3: Bill Handle Here, good morning on a Thursday, May fourteen,
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Speaker 3: And as everybody is paying very close attention to, and
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about the entire world, the summit between G
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Speaker 3: and President Trump going on right now. I think today
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Speaker 3: is their last day of meetings. There were two days
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Speaker 3: of summit meetings, so I have that wrong.
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Speaker 2: Amy, they just wrapped up their first day of meetings.
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Speaker 2: They've got another one before he leaves. Their twelve hours difference. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I always time's all.
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Speaker 3: Weird, but I think their scheduled for two days, if
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Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, of a summit, a lot of panoply,
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Speaker 3: a lot of pageantry, but that's expected with President Trump.
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Speaker 2: That's that's how you get on his good side, is.
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Speaker 3: You let him know how important he is and how
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Speaker 3: great he is, and none other than him, And you know,
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Speaker 3: G plays right into it. As I said yesterday, the
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Speaker 3: Chinese played a long game on this one. I truly
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Speaker 3: believe that Trump is out of his league with President G.
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Speaker 3: So there they were, and G welcomes President Trump down
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Speaker 3: at the airport he was President Trump was met with
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Speaker 3: some very high officials of the government, which is typical,
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Speaker 3: and then was driven into the city and Jijingping told
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Speaker 3: President Trump that if the Taiwan, the Taiwan issue were
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Speaker 3: handled poorly, it could lead to a clash with the
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Speaker 3: United States. Here's what's going on to the Chinese. The
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Speaker 3: most important thing that's going on right now is Taiwan
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Speaker 3: and has been forever, the reunification of Taiwan. Taiwan was
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Speaker 3: an independent country after the revolution in nineteen forty nine
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Speaker 3: when Mao took over and was recognized around the world
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Speaker 3: as an independent country.
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Speaker 2: And then a few.
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Speaker 3: Decades later Taiwan ceases to be an independent country as
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Speaker 3: far as the world is concerned, certainly as far as
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Speaker 3: the United States is concerned. And I'll never forget when
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Speaker 3: Taiwan was literally kicked out of the United Nations because
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Speaker 3: it represented China and the Chinese, the Red Chinese.
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Speaker 2: At that point, the.
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Speaker 3: Communist Chinese came in and took their place as the
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Speaker 3: only legitimate government of China.
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Speaker 2: And that's what's going on now.
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Speaker 3: Although Taiwan is a huge ally of the United States,
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Speaker 3: and the United States is a huge ally of Taiwan.
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Speaker 2: Props it up militarily.
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Speaker 3: It also does an enormous amount of trade with Taiwan,
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Speaker 3: sells an enormous amount of armaments.
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Speaker 2: And so to.
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Speaker 3: President Chi that the reunification is critically important, and he
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Speaker 3: talks about the fact that Taiwan is merely another province
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Speaker 3: of China. So as critical as that was, was that
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Speaker 3: brought up, No, not particularly, that was not on the table.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you about this summit. It is a whole
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Speaker 3: lot of nothing, in my opinion, a whole lot of nothing.
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Speaker 3: Now is what is g doing. Well, He's doing exactly
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Speaker 3: what it takes to make Donald Trump your best friend,
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Speaker 3: and that is give him accolades, give him pinch, pageantry,
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Speaker 3: give him pomp, say whatever it takes. Even here was
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Speaker 3: a comment from G which gives you an idea of
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Speaker 3: what the president expects and what they give him. World leaders.
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Speaker 2: This is a quote from G.
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Speaker 3: The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America
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Speaker 3: great again.
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Speaker 2: Go hand in hand. We're on the same team.
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Speaker 3: Make America great again is what we want also, and
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Speaker 3: that's what Trump wants to hear. Now, how much substance
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Speaker 3: was there, well, not much to say. The least at
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Speaker 3: the outside the Great Hall of the People. The two
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Speaker 3: men walked together past an honor guard, rows of cheering children,
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Speaker 3: I mean by the hundreds with little American flags and
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Speaker 3: Chinese flags, and in the background the Star Spangled Banner
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Speaker 3: was playing, and a twenty one gun salute went across
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Speaker 3: Chinneman Square. Because it was, as the President said, it
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Speaker 3: may be the most momentous summit in history, far more important,
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Speaker 3: for example, than the Potsdam meeting with the Churchill Stalin
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Speaker 3: and President Truman at that time, carving up Europe. This
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Speaker 3: is a little bit more important than that. Okay, how
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Speaker 3: about that. So aside from Taiwan, which was not talked
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Speaker 3: about very much, if at all, g and Trump discussed trade,
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Speaker 3: the Middle East, Ukraine, the Korean Peninsula. The White House
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Speaker 3: said that both sides agreed that the Strait of Hormuz
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Speaker 3: must remain open. Now, is China going to do anything
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Speaker 3: about it?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 3: One of the purposes of the President visiting China was
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Speaker 3: to convince China to try to convince the Iranians to
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Speaker 3: open up the strait. And it's in the best interest
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Speaker 3: of China to do this because China gets an enormous
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Speaker 3: amount of oil from Iran and no commitment. The only
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Speaker 3: commitment is we agree that the Strait must remain open. Okay,
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Speaker 3: that's great. All the Iranians agreed that the strait must
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Speaker 3: remain open. It's just if it don't do a B
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Speaker 3: and C, it ain't going to happen. And the other
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Speaker 3: thing is they both agreed that Iran should not will
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Speaker 3: not have a nuclear weapon. And what happens with this
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Speaker 3: is if you notice that the United States position has
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Speaker 3: gone from regime change, has gone from wiping out their
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Speaker 3: ballistic missile and drone program, has gone from everything.
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Speaker 2: That was asked for.
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Speaker 3: Oh and the support of terrorist organizations around the world
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Speaker 3: as their proxies, all of that has disappeared.
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Speaker 2: That's all disappeared.
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Speaker 3: And now it's making sure Iran does not have a
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Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. And if Iran says, okay, we're not interested,
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Speaker 3: they get everything else they want. Oh and also the
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Speaker 3: lifting of sanctions. That's kind of important, and there was
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Speaker 3: not much talk about that, although that's between Iran and
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Speaker 3: not and the United States and not China. I was
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Speaker 3: watching a CNN interview this morning with a Republican Center,
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Speaker 3: don't remember who it was, and he he was talking
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Speaker 3: about how the president is right and how and the
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Speaker 3: kind of thinking, and that the president is doing everything
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Speaker 3: honorable and he is saving America. Your normal Republican clap
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Speaker 3: trap and argue that the the the American America controls
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Speaker 3: the straight of horror moves. The United States controls the
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Speaker 3: straight of horror moves.
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Speaker 2: And the interviewer said, then why is it closed.
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Speaker 3: It's closed because our allies over there, Saudi Arabia, Oman
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Speaker 3: want it closed. They have asked that it be closed
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Speaker 3: because of certain tactical issues. Okay, it's gonna get good.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna get good, all right. Now.
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Speaker 3: The Vice President yesterday alleged that California is allowing fraud.
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Speaker 2: And here's what he has said.
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Speaker 3: The Trump administration is deferring, holding off one point three
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Speaker 3: billion dollars in medicaid reimbursements to California over concerns that
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Speaker 3: the state is allowing fraudsters to drive up cost to taxpayers,
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Speaker 3: including by pushing unnecessary medications on US unsuspecting patients. He said,
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Speaker 3: there are California taxpayers, that American taxpayers who are being
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Speaker 3: defrauded because California isn't taking his program seriously. Also, you
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Speaker 3: have people who've been prescribed medications they don't even need.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes they've had drugs put into their bodies that don't
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Speaker 3: need them. Fraudsters have actually encouraged false prescription and false
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Speaker 3: administration and medications. And of course the backlash is that's
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Speaker 3: all political, right the governor and Bonta have said that
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Speaker 3: this is all political question which we never actually answer.
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Speaker 2: Can it be both? Is it possible that it can
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Speaker 2: be both?
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Speaker 3: That in fact, fraud is rampant in our medical system
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Speaker 3: in California, and at the same time, the President is
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Speaker 3: using that fraud to nail California and it may very
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Speaker 3: well be legitimate. Now, mem at Oz, the czar of
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Speaker 3: actually what is the head of Medicaid services for the US,
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Speaker 3: said that it really is fraud in California. There is
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Speaker 3: no question in his mind it was fraud. He said
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Speaker 3: that what is it? He said that a third or
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Speaker 3: half of all the money in medical services which are
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Speaker 3: paid for by the federal government, but half of them
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Speaker 3: are considered fraudulent or a third. Now, when you have
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Speaker 3: that many people in and that's the Los Angeles area,
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Speaker 3: when you have that many people who are defrauding the system,
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Speaker 3: and by the way, the governor didn't refute that. Bonta
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Speaker 3: did not refute that. He didn't say, that's a lie.
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Speaker 3: What the governor said, it's political and admitted there's tons
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Speaker 3: of fraud going on.
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Speaker 2: And so here's what the governor did say.
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Speaker 3: By the way, and again there's always there's always nuance
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Speaker 3: to this, and that is the governor said that the
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Speaker 3: money that is being touted as going to fraudsters, much
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Speaker 3: of it is to in home supportive services.
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Speaker 2: And it's simple.
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Speaker 3: California is keeping more people out of more expensive nursing homes.
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Speaker 3: This is where the federal government is saying, look how
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Speaker 3: many people you're putting in nursing homes and look how
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Speaker 3: much money is costing us, and the governor saying, look
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Speaker 3: how many people were taking out of nursing homes and
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Speaker 3: doing our program that pays assistance usually family members, actually
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Speaker 3: tasks like bathing, laundry, cooking injections, accompanying them to doctors' appointments.
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Speaker 3: And Newsom wrote that this program costs thirty thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: a year per patient. Nursing home care is one hundred
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Speaker 3: and thirty seven thousand dollars a year per patient. Now,
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Speaker 3: the fraud is in not in the care, not in
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Speaker 3: nursing care by family members.
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Speaker 2: It's at these centers.
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Speaker 3: It is the services that are provided under governmental programs.
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Speaker 3: California's Medicaid program medical is expected to cost And this
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Speaker 3: one I looked at and go, this is this It
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Speaker 3: can't be this much money. Two hundred and twenty two
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Speaker 3: billion dollars for the next budget year the medical program alone,
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Speaker 3: and that includes both state and federal funding.
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Speaker 2: More than a third of the state of.
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Speaker 3: The residents of California are on medical So what's the
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Speaker 3: bottom line.
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Speaker 2: Both sides are right, and both sides are wrong. The
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Speaker 2: Fed's are right.
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Speaker 3: There's tremendous amount of fraud going on in the medical
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Speaker 3: system here in southern California.
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Speaker 2: Hospice care has exploded.
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Speaker 3: I mean that is it's like one thousand percent a
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Speaker 3: year is gone up and the state and the Feds
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Speaker 3: pay for a lot of it.
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Speaker 2: Is they're fraud. They're finding more fraud than you can imagine.
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Speaker 3: So is it maybe that there is fraud and the government,
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Speaker 3: federal government is taking paying particular attention to California because
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Speaker 3: it wants retribution because California did not vote for Trump.
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Speaker 3: Probably both, Probably both all right, twenty eight Olympics are coming,
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Speaker 3: of course, and as you pray, probably no airline hotel well, workers,
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Speaker 3: employees at hotels around the city and at the airport
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Speaker 3: are getting a thirty dollars an hour, several dollars raised
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Speaker 3: to thirty dollars an hour, and just at the airport
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Speaker 3: and just at hotels. And let me tell you, the
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Speaker 3: owners of these businesses are not very happy. Now this
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Speaker 3: kicks in in twenty twenty eight, so let me tell
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Speaker 3: you what they did. What they did is they put
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Speaker 3: on the ballot an ordinance that people will vote for.
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Speaker 2: And that is yanking.
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Speaker 3: The tax, the business tax here well in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 3: and that is the tax, a gross for seeds tax
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Speaker 3: of which very few other cities have. And they said, okay,
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Speaker 3: you want to do that, and this is the argument
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Speaker 3: that's being made by the mayor and being made by
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Speaker 3: the hotel owners. You want to increase the amount of
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Speaker 3: money that's paid to these workers. Okay, we're gonna put
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Speaker 3: on the ballot the replacement or the withdrawal of the
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Speaker 3: gross receives tax. All right, now, what does that mean
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Speaker 3: to the city, Well, thirty dollars an hour does not
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Speaker 3: affect the city you know, it just affects employers. But
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Speaker 3: removal of the receipt tax is going to cost the
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Speaker 3: city seven hundred and forty million dollars in taxes that
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Speaker 3: is not getting oops. So hear their choices, and that
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Speaker 3: is retract that thirty dollars an hour or lose seven
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Speaker 3: hundred and forty million dollars.
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Speaker 2: And what the businesses want is.
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Speaker 3: Let's just make it to twenty thirty instead of twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty eight. And the City council President of City Council
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Speaker 3: set out, right, yeah, this is extortion, Yes it is.
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Speaker 3: It is straight extore. And they're simply taking advantage of
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Speaker 3: the political philosophy here sort of the political climate. Yes
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Speaker 3: they are. So now it's they're playing chicken with each other.
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Speaker 3: And let me tell you who's going to win. It's
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Speaker 3: going to be the employers. It's going to be the
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Speaker 3: hotels that do not want to pay thirty dollars an
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Speaker 3: hour minimum wage to the workers there. Matthew Zabo, the
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Speaker 3: city administrative officers, said the consequences of la losing its
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Speaker 3: second largest revenue stream would prompt it to immediately declare
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Speaker 3: a fiscal emergency. I mean, right now, thousands of layoffs
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Speaker 3: would be required. That's not a question, that's a certainty.
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Speaker 3: The city would be forced to implement austerity measures far
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Speaker 3: worse than seen during the Great Recession or the COVID pandemic.
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Speaker 3: For example, job cuts would debilitate the homelessness problem. Two
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Speaker 3: thousand police officers would be cut. Olympics preparation severe jeopardy. Now,
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Speaker 3: the Hospitality union Local eleven called the leveraging of the
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Speaker 3: business tax repeel measure a corporate shakedown. Yes, it is
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Speaker 3: an unethical scheme. I don't know that's a value judgment
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Speaker 3: because there are a lot of employers out there, especially
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Speaker 3: in the world of the hotels, saying, hey, how come
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Speaker 3: we're nailed and not other businesses. If you're in manufacturing,
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Speaker 3: it's not going to be a thirty dollars an hour
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Speaker 3: minimum wage. If you are in services, it's not going
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Speaker 3: to be a thirty dollars minimum wage.
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Speaker 2: It's only if you work at the airport or you
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Speaker 2: work at the hotels.
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Speaker 3: Now, I assume this is anticipation of the twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: eight Olympics, because this was supposed to cut kick in
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty eight. So the President of the City
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Speaker 3: Council said Okay, tell you what, why don't you yank
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Speaker 3: the proposal and we'll give you until twenty thirty and
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Speaker 3: that gives us time to negotiate a reasonable settlement because
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Speaker 3: laborers come to the table in good faith. Management, that's
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Speaker 3: come to the table with a little bit of good faith.
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Speaker 3: So it's going to happen. I mean, there's no way.
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Speaker 3: Seven hundred and forty million dollars. By the way, that's
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Speaker 3: just next year. It's going to go up to eight
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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty million dollars a year in the next
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Speaker 3: couple of years of the city will not be getting
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Speaker 3: So what do you do?
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Speaker 2: Well, you weigh the benefits and the risks.
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Speaker 3: Okay, what does the city get for thirty dollar an
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Speaker 3: hour minimum wage? Not very much because it doesn't have
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Speaker 3: to pay. What does the city lose if it kicks
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Speaker 3: in seven hundred and forty million dollars, which is the
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Speaker 3: second biggest revenue stream into the city.
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Speaker 2: Guess who's going to win on that one? Huh.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you who is going to win. If you
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Speaker 3: own a hotel, you're in good shape.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: Of course, labor is going berserk here saying things like
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Speaker 3: we need the money we planned on the money. This
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Speaker 3: is unfair, all right, all of it fine. In the meantime,
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Speaker 3: what's the city going to do? They're got a cave,
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Speaker 3: they have no choice. Okay, a subject that we've talked
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Speaker 3: about a whole bunch. That's CHAT, GPT and A grades
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Speaker 3: and the two are connected. Why because AI is making
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Speaker 3: A grades much easier to obtain in some college classes,
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Speaker 3: which means those a's reduce their usefulness.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 3: The University of California Berkeley study found AI exposed classes
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Speaker 3: have thirty more a's than other classes, and employers actually
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Speaker 3: are using GPA for hiring, which well becoming more and
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Speaker 3: more prevalent. The college classes heavy on writing and coding,
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Speaker 3: by the way, use more AI tools, and students use
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Speaker 3: those a lot.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: It's I can't tell you how many people that I
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Speaker 3: work with saying, oh, I'm putting this through shat, GPT,
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm putting this letter through Okay, a little inside baseball.
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Speaker 3: As you know, I do commercials and I get copy
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Speaker 3: and I usually rewrite the copy because well because I
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Speaker 3: rewrite the copy. Now, commercials come in from our salespeople.
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Speaker 2: And every one of them. Now I'm going to put
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Speaker 2: it through Chat GPT.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I can do that, but that's just a personal
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Speaker 3: aspect of that.
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Speaker 2: That's just what I am living with.
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Speaker 3: But if you're sending emails out and they're complicated, complicated,
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Speaker 3: big issues, well there goes shat GPT.
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Speaker 2: There goes AI.
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Speaker 3: AI is inundating everything we do. Everything. Your doctor is
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Speaker 3: going to using AI to figure out, you know why
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Speaker 3: your veneerial disease can't be treated very well? Your no
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Speaker 3: it stomp look him me will tell me that's not happening.
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Speaker 2: Huh, give me a break.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Your doctor didn't tell you when in you when you
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Speaker 2: went in for the drips that breakfast anyone?
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, By the way, just a quick I want
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Speaker 3: to make a quick point about Will. I know I
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Speaker 3: make fun of him, but Will has had more discharges
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Speaker 3: in the US Army. Hands out, Uh and how would
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Speaker 3: you know? Because well, that's a very good point. You know,
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Speaker 3: I didn't think that went through. That's that's an excellent point.
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Speaker 3: The problem is is on a subject or on a
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Speaker 3: provision of this or a segment part of AI is
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Speaker 3: that uh it is uh inundating everything we do, which
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Speaker 3: means there's a uniformity to it, which means there are
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Speaker 3: programs out there that can find what's going on. They
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Speaker 3: can say, okay, you've used AI. The problem is those
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Speaker 3: AI programs are getting better and better and better at
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Speaker 3: fooling people to thinking that it is original content from
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Speaker 3: someone who writes it. We're going to soon be a
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Speaker 3: society that well, we don't have to do much research.
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Speaker 2: It's all there. I mean when I went to.
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Speaker 3: Law school, we had to research. I mean, if there
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Speaker 3: was a case that we talked about, we had to
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Speaker 3: go back all the way when the case was first decided,
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Speaker 3: and it could be forty years Today.
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Speaker 2: We throw that into AI. There goes the answer right there.
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Speaker 2: Research is gone.
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Speaker 3: And that has a lot to do with thinking of
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Speaker 3: a lawyer, although I really don't know what that's about.
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Speaker 3: I think is lawyer. But that's more personal than anything else.
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Speaker 1: Coming up.
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Speaker 3: Teenagers and balls. There's a connection. You bet there's a connection,
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Speaker 3: and there's no connection. Now there's a connection again. I'll explain.
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