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Speaker 1: It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk

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Speaker 1: radio seven ninety KABC. Let's get right into today's California

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Speaker 1: Report at Randywangradio dot substack dot com. Here we are

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Speaker 1: just three years away from the LA twenty twenty eight Olympics,

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Speaker 1: and tickets for some of the events are finally on sale.

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Speaker 1: And how lucky are you if you're a local Southern

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Speaker 1: Californian You get first DIBs at the tickets. And some

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Speaker 1: of these tickets are twenty eight dollars. Oh, those got

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Speaker 1: snatched up immediately. Some of these tickets are under two

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Oh, those got snatched up immediately. Some of

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Speaker 1: these tickets are thousands and thousands of dollars because, of course,

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Speaker 1: I think in the NBCLA story that I posted, there's

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Speaker 1: a guy that bought tickets for his family to go

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Speaker 1: see the track and field events and it's going to

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Speaker 1: cost him ten thousand dollars for eight people. Holy how

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Speaker 1: there is another woman that she could not afford the

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Speaker 1: tickets that were on sale for the gymnastics, so she

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Speaker 1: found tickets for the one thing she could afford, which

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Speaker 1: is rassage and nothing against marassage, which if you don't

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Speaker 1: know what that is. It's fancy horse dancing. It is

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Speaker 1: a very different sport than gymnastics. But this is how

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Speaker 1: big events just work.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: There are they always say we set aside some tickets

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Speaker 1: so the average person can go to these games, but

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of those are going to get snatched

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Speaker 1: up by people selling them on third party markets. And

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Speaker 1: of course the Olympics themselves are cashing in because there's

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Speaker 1: so many service fees left and right, ripping people off.

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Speaker 1: For as much as we talk about junk fees and

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Speaker 1: how awful it is that Ticketmaster does stuff like that

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Speaker 1: while we're doing it right now. So if you are

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Speaker 1: trying to buy tickets to these events for LA twenty eight,

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Speaker 1: just be aware it's going to be a lot more

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Speaker 1: defensive then you thought it was going to be. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the answer is here, but I

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Speaker 1: do think the entire system that we have of buying

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Speaker 1: tickets and this is true whether it's the Olympics or

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Speaker 1: concerts to what have you. And we really saw this

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Speaker 1: get out of control with the big Taylor Swift tour

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Speaker 1: a few years ago. It is just not fair that

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Speaker 1: the person who really wants to go to the concert

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Speaker 1: is in competition with the brokers and the third party

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Speaker 1: sellers and the people that are just looking to buy

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Speaker 1: tickets to flip them. I don't know how you quash that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you change that, or you have

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Speaker 1: to make it way different, or you can't sell a

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Speaker 1: ticket for more than double its face value. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but it'd be really nice if the only people buying

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Speaker 1: tickets were the people that wanted to go to the events, Like, really,

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Speaker 1: are all the people who bought those track and field tickets?

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Speaker 1: Are they all big track and field fans or something

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Speaker 1: else going on here? Just be careful. It's just reminding

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Speaker 1: me that I really don't want to be in town

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Speaker 1: for this. Three years from now, I would like to

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Speaker 1: airbnb out my house for six weeks. I'll go chill

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Speaker 1: out in Santa Fe and I'll probably cash in because hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm near a bunch of the Olympic events, all those

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Speaker 1: ones at the subpulvit Abasin, and that's definitely getting canceled,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. Of Course, the problem is I got a cat,

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Speaker 1: and it's like I take the dogs with us. I

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Speaker 1: can't take that cat with me. Just taking her to

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Speaker 1: the vet. She thinks that the world's ending. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine a thirteen hour ride with your cat? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe I can knock off a little bit of the price,

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Speaker 1: but you have to deal with the cat. But my

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Speaker 1: think this one through. Now. I'm a big fan of

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Speaker 1: Burbank Airport. But Burbank Airport is going through a big

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Speaker 1: construction phase right now, and that's why we're giving you

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Speaker 1: this public service announcement. If you take Hollywood Way to

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Speaker 1: go to Burbank, well, Hollywood Way is going to be

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Speaker 1: bogged down with construction and extra traffic for the next

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Speaker 1: two months. So if you go that way, just prepare.

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Speaker 1: You might actually have to arrive fairly early. And it's

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Speaker 1: the one thing that's kind of a bummer about Burbank Airport,

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Speaker 1: which they are actively working to fix on. But if

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Speaker 1: I are sticklers, we always get to the airport early.

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Speaker 1: I'm never going to be late for a flight. Like

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Speaker 1: I'll sit there in the gate and just play my

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Speaker 1: almost late. But one of the nice things about Lax

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Speaker 1: is if you get to the airport early and you

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Speaker 1: have the right credit cards, you have the right status,

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Speaker 1: you can go lounge it up and the lounges. I

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Speaker 1: have the card that gets you into the American lounges,

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Speaker 1: So as long as you're flying American or One World,

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Speaker 1: which is a lot of international airlines and Alaska, you

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Speaker 1: In fact, they make a mean bloody Maria, which is

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Speaker 1: great when you're flying in the mornings. But Burbank doesn't

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Speaker 1: have that yet. They're doing a whole bunch of construction.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is they're not just changing the terminal.

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Speaker 1: They're replacing the terminal. The place where you've been going

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Speaker 1: and they've been building this new terminal that's gonna have

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Speaker 1: new gates and maybe more than two luggage things. Burbank

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Speaker 1: has a lot of great things, but if you check

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Speaker 1: the bag and you're flying into Burbank, sometimes you are

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Speaker 1: waiting a really long time for your bag if the

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Speaker 1: airport is backed up. But hopefully the new terminal has

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Speaker 1: a lounger to something that I can enjoy, something that

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Speaker 1: I already can use with one of my existing way

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Speaker 1: too many credit cards. That would be nice. But again,

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Speaker 1: if you are flying out of Burbank anytime soon, just

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Speaker 1: remember there's traffic on Hollywood Way, so use Empire. Empire

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: We've been telling you for a few weeks now, almost

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis, the updates on the homelessness crisis

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Well over the weekend there was a

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Speaker 1: big LA Times report forty percent of the people in

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass's Inside Safe went back to the streets. The

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Speaker 1: program was a failure for forty percent of the people

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Speaker 1: and the other sixty percent they're still in it, but

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Speaker 1: they're just in motels. Very few have graduated to permanent

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Speaker 1: support of housing whatever that means, or actually gotten back

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Speaker 1: on their feet and gotten their lives in order. And

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Speaker 1: we need real change here, regardless of the politics. Here's

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Speaker 1: one thing you know about politicians. They never admit when

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Speaker 1: they're wrong. They never admit when they make a mistake.

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Speaker 1: If we give Karen Mass another four years, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be another four years of this failed policy that

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Speaker 1: is so expensive where we're spending seventeen thousand dollars per

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Speaker 1: that make any sense? Honestly, would it really be worse

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Speaker 1: What we're seeing right now is a lot of people

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Speaker 1: legitimately and illegitimately getting rich off of this, and the

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Speaker 1: people who were supposed to be helping we are not helping.

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Speaker 1: You're not helping anybody by putting them in a box

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Speaker 1: and saying here, do all the drugs you want, and

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Speaker 1: It's been a complete failure. And continuing on that theme,

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Speaker 1: remember how unisses her Nandez said, oh, we're totally going

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Speaker 1: to clean up that homeless encampment in front of the

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Speaker 1: post office at MacArthur Park. They haven't and they're not

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Speaker 1: jurisdictional idiocy where they're saying, well, we can't clean up

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Speaker 1: the parking lot. That's post office property, which okay, if

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Speaker 1: that's true, post Office, what are you doing? I just

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Speaker 1: I can't stand the blame game, the point of the fingers. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is county property, this is city property, this is

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Speaker 1: state property, this is federal property. You are all the

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Speaker 1: government and you are all failing. Enough is enough already?

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Speaker 1: And how hard is it when you have people stealing

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Speaker 1: electricity to go after them for doing that. You'll literally

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Speaker 1: know who's doing it. Now. Another crisis that we'll be

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Speaker 1: facing in about a week is LAUSD facing this possible strike.

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Speaker 1: The deadline is April fifteenth, which is coming up real fast,

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Speaker 1: and UTLA wants a sixteen percent raise, this, of course

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Speaker 1: the sweetest healthcare deal they can get, unlike a lot

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Speaker 1: of the other unions. So they demand higher pay. Sure,

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Speaker 1: they're going to say, oh, we also want more funding

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Speaker 1: for special education, but that's just something they say. They

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Speaker 1: want more money. The district says, we can give you

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Speaker 1: ten percent and a three percent raise, But will they

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Speaker 1: find time to meet in the middle. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: every major district seems has gone on strike this year,

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Speaker 1: want a piece of that action as well. But who

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Speaker 1: think it's something we can all. We don't have to

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Speaker 1: that could include going as far as ditching your iPhone

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Speaker 1: matter who you are. The dopamine fix from scrolling through Facebook,

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Speaker 1: Instagram or Twitter. Yeah I still call it Twitter, the

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Speaker 1: new name stupid. It's not good for us, and it's

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Speaker 1: just a good reminder that we're all meant to be outside.

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Speaker 1: We're all meant to socialize with human beings. Having actual

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Speaker 1: conversations is a great thing. Going out and experiencing the

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Speaker 1: world is a great thing. You want to expand your mind,

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Speaker 1: you want to expand your horizons. I will say it

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Speaker 1: a million times still on Blue in the Face. Travel.

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Speaker 1: You've got to travel. You've got to meet people, see

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Speaker 1: how different people live. Travel across the country, travel across

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Speaker 1: the state, travel across the world. But whatever you do,

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Speaker 1: myself included. I wouldn't be on any of this stuff

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Speaker 1: interesting idea. Now when we go to the Bay Area,

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Speaker 1: it looks like layoffs are finally coming to the city

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Speaker 1: of San Francisco. Look with all the improvements that have

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Speaker 1: been going on in San Francisco, and there have been

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Speaker 1: a lot of wins lately, they're still in a huge

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Speaker 1: structural budget deficit, which includes about a billion dollars over

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Speaker 1: the next two years. So Daniel Lurie has sent off

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Speaker 1: the first one hundred and twenty seven layoff slips. He's

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Speaker 1: plenty to cut five hundred city positions, which still isn't enough.

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Speaker 1: They still have to cut programs, they still have to

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Speaker 1: cut contracts, but of course the unions are going to

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Speaker 1: Randywangradio dot substack dot com. Our next guest is running

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Speaker 1: for Congress in the twenty six congressional district of California.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Miller. Welcome to the Newsplitz.

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Speaker 2: Oh hi, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: So I would like to start with some education.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: Tell the people listening where the twenty sixth district is

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Speaker 2: Well, listen now, it's really interesting after the Prop fifty

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Speaker 2: So it's Court Hills West Lancaster, join now with West

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, Calabasas, Megory Hills, West Hills, and then over

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Speaker 1: That is an interestingly drawn district for sure. So Daniel

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm Daniel Miller, a businessman, actor, songwriter. I've helped

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Speaker 2: Katherin Barger, who's a county supervisor. I worked on her campaign.

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Speaker 2: I worked on Suzette valderas, a Senate campaign of a

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Speaker 2: in Washington State. And I'm really concerned about politics. I

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Speaker 1: That is definitely true. Now, as a member of Congress,

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Speaker 1: what can Congress do about California's cost of living in

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Speaker 2: Right under the affordability I think one thing we can

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Speaker 2: And I think it's also a national national security issue

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Speaker 1: So if you were in Congress, you would hold hearings

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, it definitely would try to do that and

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Speaker 1: Now, when we talk about affordability in the state of California,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is maddening and not cool because I've met

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Speaker 2: To raise the sales tax? Yeah, I would vote no

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Speaker 2: of that money's disappeared, a lot of whatever happened to

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Speaker 2: the a lot of the fire money, A lot of

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Speaker 2: that money has disappeared. And I heard I guess they

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Speaker 2: want to do a tax where if you sell your

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Speaker 2: house you have to pay a sixty thousand dollars extra

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Speaker 2: tax on that. And I think Demyo of cal matters,

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Speaker 2: I think he's concerned about that.

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Speaker 1: We're speaking with Daniel Miller, he is running for Congress.

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Speaker 1: What are the committees that you would specifically want to

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Speaker 1: be on if you were in Congress, Like, where would

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Speaker 1: your focus be?

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Speaker 2: Well, I would like to be on some of the

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Speaker 2: finance committees, maybe the maybe one of the environmental committees.

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Speaker 2: I guess i'd have to see once they got there.

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Speaker 2: A fun fact I mean this is I don't want

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Speaker 2: to ruin my campaign by talking about this, but it'd

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Speaker 2: be cool to also be on one of the committees

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Speaker 2: that deals with these UAPs that are seeing, you know,

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Speaker 2: all over California and whatnot. But I would like to

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Speaker 2: be on the finance committee, tax committees, stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: UAPs. What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's I don't like that term. That's another term

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Speaker 2: for UFO. And they've had some committees like hearings in

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Speaker 2: d C on that, and just for the fun of it,

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Speaker 2: I thought I'd say I like to be on that

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Speaker 2: committee that did those hearings. But in all seriousness, I

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Speaker 2: would like to be on the tax tax committees and

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Speaker 2: finance committees.

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Speaker 1: Now, if you are going to d C. In Congress,

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Speaker 1: you are specific in the legislative branch, which means Congress

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Speaker 1: writes the laws, the President executes the laws, and the

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Speaker 1: judicial branch overseas if anything is violating of the Constitution.

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Speaker 1: So that being said, for going to Congress as a

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Speaker 1: law maker, do you have an idea of what the

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Speaker 1: first piece of legislation would be that you would be

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Speaker 1: working on.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me think here. I think it would be

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Speaker 2: nice to be working on some tax issues and tax oversight.

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Speaker 2: I would also like to figure out a way to

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Speaker 2: get you know, property tax down. I know that's a

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Speaker 2: state issue, but I'd like to work on some legislation

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Speaker 2: like that and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Miller, candidate for Congress in the twenty six district,

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Speaker 1: which is parts of the Lancaster area going down to

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Speaker 1: also West la and Castaic. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Noight, I

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Speaker 2: do listen to your show, so thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's

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Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've found this story very interesting. There are a bunch

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Speaker 1: of retired teachers who worked at Fresno Unified. They're suing

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Speaker 1: the school district because, you know, one of the things

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Speaker 1: that you expect when you're a teacher is you're going

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Speaker 1: to get a pretty darn good healthcare plan, including when

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Speaker 1: you retire. And at some point, the Fresno Unified pension

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Speaker 1: plan switched their retirees from Medicare to Medicare Advantage, and

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Speaker 1: they are now suing Fresnoe Unified over this change because

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Speaker 1: from everything that I've heard, Medicare Advantage is a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of hooey, and it actually turns your healthcare that

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Speaker 1: you you've been paying into your entire life into yet

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Speaker 1: another private health insurance plan that has you paying more.

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Speaker 1: As so many things that I have seen on deep

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Speaker 1: dives of Medicare Advantage, I don't understand how that's not

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Speaker 1: a complete and utter scam. So I'm interested to see

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Speaker 1: where this lawsuit goes. And I don't like that as

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Speaker 1: much as I understand that these pensions are going broke

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Speaker 1: and they're not fully funded. I don't like the bait

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Speaker 1: and switch of you're on a healthcare plan and your

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Speaker 1: union says no, no, no, no, no, no no, we're

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Speaker 1: putting you on Medicare advantage. I don't know about that.

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Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's

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Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. You know,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to take some time to give you a

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Speaker 1: little update on what's been going on with me and

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Speaker 1: my campaign to take care of myself. I'm sure you're aware.

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Speaker 1: About nine months ago I started on a diet program.

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Speaker 1: It was very successful. It's not ozebic, even though everyone

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Speaker 1: thinks it is. It wasn't. It was intermittent fasting and

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Speaker 1: calorie restrictions and eating very specific things, and it worked

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Speaker 1: out for me. So I lost sixty pounds in just

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Speaker 1: over four months. It was great. I've kept it off

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Speaker 1: now for quite some time. And on Monday, I got

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Speaker 1: to do something that I usually don't look forward to doing,

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Speaker 1: but I looked forward to having my annual physical because well,

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Speaker 1: I had some bragging to do. And it's one of

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Speaker 1: the little benefits that you get of taking care of

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Speaker 1: yourself is when you get to go see the doctor,

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Speaker 1: and the doctor and the nurses like, boy, what did

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Speaker 1: you do. It's a nice little feeling. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's of course not just that you know, you look

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Speaker 1: better and you're weighing less, but when you're starting to

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Speaker 1: get the blood work and you're noticing that like all

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Speaker 1: of these areas where you may have had problems, including

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Speaker 1: you know, a blood pressure or cholesterol, all of these

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Speaker 1: things going in the right direction. It's just it's very,

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Speaker 1: very very encouraging.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I.

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Speaker 1: Didn't have to make any excuses, although I kind of

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Speaker 1: wish that I didn't schedule the physical the day after

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Speaker 1: Easter because I thought about it after I was about

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Speaker 1: six bottles of wine deep and about ten deviled eggs deep.

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Speaker 1: Is that I got to get a blood test tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, I've done so much good work.

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be totally fine. I sure

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Speaker 1: I did mention that, hey, if things look a little weird,

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Speaker 1: just remember I had about a kajillion deviled eggs, and

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Speaker 1: I you know, it's Easter and that is the holiday

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Speaker 1: for rose all day, and then rose all day turned

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Speaker 1: into steak night. So it was funny, though we paste

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Speaker 1: it out. At no point was I ever like blitzed

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Speaker 1: or far gone. I know how to manage and consistently

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Speaker 1: eating sharkouterie will do that for you. But again, for

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Speaker 1: the most part, I eat very healthy. We do go

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Speaker 1: out from time to time because we we've earned it,

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Speaker 1: and we make sure to manage what we're doing. Our

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Speaker 1: portion sizes are so much smaller than they used to be.

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Speaker 1: But it's just it was a really good feeling to

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Speaker 1: go in and show right there on the medical scale

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Speaker 1: that you're sixty pounds lighter than they used to be,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm very happy about that. And of

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Speaker 1: course it's not the only thing I've been doing. When

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Speaker 1: I was on the diet plan, the way the program

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Speaker 1: was structured, I was advised not to do any real

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Speaker 1: heavy exercise. So what I would do is I would

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Speaker 1: walk around the block every single day. I do a

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Speaker 1: thirty minute walk with my dogs every day when I

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Speaker 1: do the show prep for this show and for the

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Speaker 1: John Phillips Show, and I've got my metaglasses on and

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Speaker 1: I'm listening to my YouTube videos and we go for

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Speaker 1: about a mile and a half about a half hour.

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Speaker 1: Although let me tell you, my two dogs are onto

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Speaker 1: me because we used to do just this little half

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Speaker 1: mile loop in our neighborhood. And now they know when

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Speaker 1: I'm not going straight back on the loop and I'm

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Speaker 1: turning right to go into the further neighborhood to go

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Speaker 1: on the full walk, these two little lazies they try

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Speaker 1: to pull me in the other direction, like, no, we

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Speaker 1: don't want to do it, we're lazy. We want to

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Speaker 1: go on the short walk. But no, no, no, they're

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Speaker 1: going on the long walk. So I've been doing that

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Speaker 1: pretty much every day, no matter what. And then when

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Speaker 1: I'm in places like Santa Fe, I can walk for

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Speaker 1: much more because I'm not wasting two hours in the

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Speaker 1: car every day. Oh the quality of life when you

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Speaker 1: don't have to drive is it's pretty excellent. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I've mentioned this. I have incorporated because

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Speaker 1: one thing that I noticed, and but I say I noticed,

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Speaker 1: my wife pointed out to me, was some of my

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Speaker 1: extremities were starting to get a little weirdly skinny. My

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Speaker 1: wife was pointing out my skinny little arms and my

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Speaker 1: skinny little legs. And while hearing anything related to me

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Speaker 1: is skinny is kind of nice. It was time to

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Speaker 1: start putting on some muscle so many, many, many years ago,

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Speaker 1: I had a friend that took me to a pilates

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Speaker 1: class and I loved it. I really really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: The problem was I was in my mid twenties and

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Speaker 1: definitely could not afford going to pilates classes more than

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Speaker 1: like once a week. It was expensive. And then a

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Speaker 1: few years ago I tried to get back into it,

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Speaker 1: but I kept running into the same problem. I would

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Speaker 1: get really into the classes. I love the fact that

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Speaker 1: it's all of these exercises that target so many muscle

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Speaker 1: groups all in the same day, and there's so much stretching,

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Speaker 1: so your recovery is really accelerated. But I kept getting

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Speaker 1: to studios that either took forever to get to because

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Speaker 1: of traffic, or you got to the studio and there

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Speaker 1: was no parking. And I have rage quit many, many

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Speaker 1: many places. Well just my luck. At the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the year, a studio opened up really close to my

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Speaker 1: house in a shopping center that has a huge parking

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Speaker 1: lot because it's in the parking lot of a supermarket.

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Speaker 1: And I have been going ever since February. And originally

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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I'm going to go maybe three

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Speaker 1: times a week, and then I went out of town

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Speaker 1: for a week and I came back and I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm paying for the unlimited membership. Let me take advantage

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Speaker 1: of this, and let me just tell you. From February

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Speaker 1: twentieth until April fourth, I went every single day. Couldn't

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Speaker 1: go on Easter because they were closed, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: go yesterday because I had my physical. But I went

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Speaker 1: every day for six weeks and I haven't seen a

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Speaker 1: noticeable improvement. I see muscles getting growing on me, I

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Speaker 1: feel that I'm getting stronger, and it's just really really encouraging.

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Speaker 1: So I just felt like sharing. Thank y'all so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on

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Speaker 1: kabc SA