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Speaker 4: Show, and we continue at two o five in the

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Speaker 4: afternoon on The John Phillips Show, mister Randy Weggs in

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Speaker 4: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is

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Speaker 4: two two. The state of California is experiencing an insurance

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Speaker 4: crisis right now, where in some parts of the state

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Speaker 4: it's very difficult to find a company that's even willing

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Speaker 4: to sell you a policy. In some parts of the state,

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Speaker 4: the California Fair Plan is your only option. We're also

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Speaker 4: seeing rates only going one way, up, up, up, and away.

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Speaker 4: Our next guest is running to be the next insurance

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Speaker 4: commissioner for the state of California. He is a senator

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Speaker 4: representing the West side of Los Angeles, cities that in

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Speaker 4: West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and portions of LA. You can

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Speaker 4: follow him on x at Ben Allen CA. Senator Ben Allen.

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Speaker 6: Welcome, Thank you so much, appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's start out with the basics. Why should you

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Speaker 4: be the next insurance commissioner for the state of California.

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Speaker 6: Well, I've had a long track record working across the

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Speaker 6: aisle Democrats and Republicans on a number of issues protecting consumers.

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Speaker 6: I'm someone who has seen the dysfunction of the insurance

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Speaker 6: system up close and personal, with so much of my

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Speaker 6: hundreds and hundreds of them get the payouts they deserve.

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Speaker 6: We've now taken that work to a number of piece

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Speaker 7: In the future.

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Speaker 6: But I'm someone who's got a long track record of

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Speaker 6: standing up for consumers. I'm proud to have the support

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Speaker 6: someone who's the Democrats book to want to have a

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Speaker 6: on trying to make the existing system work for working people.

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Speaker 4: You represent the West Side, as I mentioned before, and

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Speaker 4: I believe that includes the Pacific Palisades. We have a

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Speaker 4: that I've heard from these listeners is that they're having

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Speaker 4: They're not asking for anything above and beyond what's in

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Speaker 1: But none of them.

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Speaker 4: Been doing enough to force these insurance companies to pay

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Speaker 6: Why I've teamed up with the assemblymen who represents the

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Speaker 6: Just because your home is still standing, does I mean

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Speaker 6: It's truly based on human health and toxicity. And that's

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Speaker 6: been pushing back really hard. We've been you know, the

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Speaker 6: Farm messing with people. We called for this audit that

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Speaker 6: going to take them to task as a result of

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Speaker 4: What you just said is the exact same thing that

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Speaker 4: having the worst time trying to collect on their policy.

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Speaker 4: It seems like Travelers and other companies are much easier

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's actually been one of the interesting things about

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Speaker 7: Right you think about it's all gimmicks, echos and.

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Speaker 6: the public is just woefully under informed, partly because this

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Speaker 6: Right if you have a bad experience drinking a certain beer,

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Speaker 7: Not going to go back.

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Speaker 6: But in insurance, it's one of those things that you

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Speaker 4: It seems like the attitude is that it's a policy.

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Speaker 4: It's a product that you have to buy to satisfy

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Speaker 4: need to purchase this product. But it's one where if

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Speaker 4: So it's really not a product, or I guess it's

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Speaker 1: But for just the run of the mill claims.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like I think that you wouldn't have even thought

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Speaker 6: It's like a hostage situation. We've got to change the dynamic.

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Speaker 6: We've got to have somebody in this position who's going

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Speaker 6: I'm seeing all these problems up close to my own community.

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Speaker 6: It's been very it's been exasperating to watch, and it's part.

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Speaker 7: Of what would have ene me to runt with this

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Speaker 4: How much of this job do you think is behind

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Speaker 1: And I say that because you.

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Speaker 4: Know, obviously there's public posturing between the regulator and the

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Speaker 4: and you know that's something I'm sure you're prepared to do.

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Speaker 4: But it seems though, as though it would be easier

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Speaker 6: I think it's a big part of the job, and

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Speaker 7: That's where my folk, that's my style, that's my focus.

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Speaker 6: I'm certainly, as you say, prepared to have a big

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Speaker 4: What do you think the odds are that State farm

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Speaker 4: let's say, selling policies again.

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Speaker 6: I like to think it's relatively high. But I only

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Speaker 6: want them to come back on, you know, based on

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Speaker 6: be providing real service to people. But your question is

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Speaker 6: actually undergirds the dilemma that we're in from a public

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Speaker 6: policy perspective. Yeah, we're all very frustrated with the industry.

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Speaker 6: We all wish that they'd behave better nobody. You know,

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Speaker 6: the polling numbers for the insurance industry is incredibly low.

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Speaker 6: The flip side is we need them here. We need them.

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Speaker 6: You know, A functional, healthy private insurance market is a

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Speaker 6: critical part of of undergirding a modern economy.

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Speaker 7: It's how people buy a house, it's.

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Speaker 6: How people start a business, it's how people you know,

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Speaker 6: We've got to be tough on them. We also need

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Speaker 7: And I think it's imperative.

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Speaker 4: Senator Ben Allen candidate for insurance Commissioner here in the

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but how many people are so fed up with

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Speaker 4: And that's who he's running against. Ben Allen is a

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Speaker 5: What's funny is so many people think that's what the

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Speaker 5: state insurance. It is run by the insurance companies, and

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Speaker 5: People have been asking for this for years and I

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Speaker 5: finally figured out how to do it. If we can

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Speaker 5: get to twenty five hundred subscribers on the Accountability Podcast

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Speaker 5: YouTube dot com slash at Accountability Podcast. If you haven't

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Speaker 5: subscribed yet, I'm going to put a link in the

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Speaker 5: chat right now, here's what we will do for you.

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Speaker 5: People love the drops that we play on the show,

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Speaker 5: that we've collected over the years. But I'm the one

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Speaker 5: who's in control of the soundboard. I'm the one that

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Speaker 5: plays the sound of Katie Porter.

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Speaker 8: Why do you have to watch porn in the living room?

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Speaker 5: Well, what if you were the one with the soundboard.

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Speaker 5: What if you had our top one hundred that we've

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Speaker 5: collected over the last eight years from the John Phillip Show.

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Speaker 1: I'm Tom Steyr, I am about to ride the d.

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Speaker 5: So here is our challenge to you. If you can

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Speaker 5: help us get to twenty five hundred subscribers on the

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Speaker 5: Accountability Podcast, I have built a website ready to go

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Speaker 5: that is your very own John Phillip Show soundboard.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely, it.

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Speaker 5: Has our top one hundred drops picked by me. But

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Speaker 5: if there's something that you want added to it, we

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Speaker 5: will add to it and you will be able to

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Speaker 5: play them on all you want. You just hit the

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Speaker 5: button and it plays. It actually works almost as good

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Speaker 5: as the stinger that I used to play this stuff

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Speaker 5: right here at the radio station. Get that money. So

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Speaker 5: if you want your brand new, your very own John

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Speaker 5: Phillips show soundboard to play with on your own time,

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Speaker 5: it'll be one hundred percent free. All you have to

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Speaker 5: do is get us to twenty five hundred subscribers. Because

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Speaker 5: I had to pay thirty dollars for the website and

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Speaker 5: then another forty dollars for the domain name.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of crime now, but all of the

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Speaker 2: drops that you love. Yes, she called me a crime boss.

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Speaker 5: That's gonna be one as well. I can't wait to

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Speaker 5: show you guys this website, but we need you to

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Speaker 5: subscribe to get us to that goal. That's our next

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Speaker 5: stretch goal, and then after that it'll be Tijuana River time.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 4: I think we've given people enough time to pull up

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Speaker 4: the show on YouTube again. If you're watching us on YouTube,

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Speaker 4: click that light button that helps us out a lot

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Speaker 4: with the algorithm. It seems like one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 4: more people just signed up on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: That's great.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's go ahead and debut what might be

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Speaker 4: the most famous call in the history of the John

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Speaker 4: Phillips Show.

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Speaker 2: Here is Kathy, thanks to Aim.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Kathy. Kathy, you're on KABC. Hello.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Hello, I'm a big fan of Martha Stewart. Yes.

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Speaker 3: And the days when you're liss you're screener. The day

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Speaker 3: that she converts to gas.

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Speaker 9: No electric versus gas, then I will because she's.

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Speaker 3: A Hallmark And where are we going with this?

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Speaker 9: She has a home here in Malibu, trust me, she

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Speaker 9: doesn't cook on electric. And by the way, also.

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Speaker 3: Madonna, Yeah, have her in a minute.

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Speaker 2: What time do they start Happy Hour at Gladstone's.

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Speaker 3: She looks like a like a like a little Danish

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Speaker 3: girl with braids. You would have her in a minute,

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Speaker 3: don't think, don't don't knock Madonna?

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Speaker 2: What kind of orange just do you like with your mimosas?

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Speaker 5: Then?

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Speaker 3: Why is everybody laughing?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call? I appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: There you go, everybody. That was Kathy from Malibu's go to.

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Speaker 5: It was one of the most surreal moments that we

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Speaker 5: ever experienced in this show, and it begot on a

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Speaker 5: life of its own because not only did it air

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Speaker 5: the one time, but then somehow inexplicably, it kept showing

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Speaker 5: up on like replays that would air at nine o'clock

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Speaker 5: at night, over and over and over again, and we

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Speaker 5: would get these emails Johnny and being like, we heard

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Speaker 5: the Kathy from Malibu call.

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Speaker 2: Again, over and over and over again.

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Speaker 4: I love the fact that she must have assumed, in

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Speaker 4: her drunken state that we were broadcasting from Jeffrey Epstein's island,

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Speaker 4: because her self for Madonna was that she looked like

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Speaker 4: a little Danish girl.

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Speaker 5: Just in case anybody is tuning in late, why don't

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Speaker 5: we play this call one more time and again? It's

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Speaker 5: one thing to hear the call. I spent like three

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Speaker 5: hours on a Saturday building all the graphics for this.

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Speaker 2: I actually and this is true. I think I texted you.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 5: At some point Google Gemini tells you you've used me

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Speaker 5: too often. You need to wait two hours. They got

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Speaker 5: put in the timeout stool. All right, let's see it.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Kathy. Kathy, you're on KABC.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Yes, Hello, I'm a big fan of Marcus Stewart.

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Speaker 5: Yes, and I think the prompt for that one us

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Speaker 5: Crazy Lady is Martha Stewart's biggest fan.

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Speaker 3: And the days when you're liss, you're screener.

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Speaker 9: The day that she could.

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Speaker 3: Birts to gas.

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Speaker 9: No electric versus gas, then I will because she's a Hallmark.

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Speaker 2: And where are we going with this?

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Speaker 9: She has a home here in Malibu.

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Speaker 5: And if you can see the home in Malibu has

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Speaker 5: special security to keep Kathy out.

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Speaker 3: Trust me, she.

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Speaker 9: Doesn't cook on electric. And by the way, also.

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Speaker 3: Madonna, you have her in a minute.

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Speaker 5: It took a while for Google to let me even

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Speaker 5: make this prompt happen of John Phillips trying to seduce Madonna.

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Speaker 4: So what did you have in mind when you were

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Speaker 4: making this her on the same train as Tom Steyr.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you can tell the woman in the

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Speaker 4: background has a stopwatch because she's trying to see if

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Speaker 4: you really could have her in a minute?

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Speaker 2: What time do they start Happy Hour at Gladstone's.

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Speaker 3: She looks like a like a like a little Danish

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Speaker 3: girl with braids.

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Speaker 2: For some reason, the.

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Speaker 5: Algorithm or the U two, the AI generation kept wanting

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Speaker 5: to know why I wanted to put Madonna in Danish

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Speaker 5: braids and was like, I'm not doing it. I'm not

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Speaker 5: doing it. That's weird, that would be Strange's the queen

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Speaker 5: of pop. I don't want to do it. So then

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Speaker 5: I just send it a picture of Madonna and said,

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Speaker 5: make this lady have Danish braids. I found out my way,

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Speaker 5: but have her in a minute, and there's John seducing

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Speaker 5: Madonna with Danish braids.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for not making me turning me into Bill Cosby.

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Speaker 3: There bank don't don't knock Madonna.

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Speaker 2: Kind of orange? Just do you like with your mimosas?

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Speaker 3: And why is everybody laughing?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. I appreciate it that.

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Speaker 5: See, I don't know how we're gonna top that one.

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Speaker 5: Those were the two most famous calls we ever had

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Speaker 5: on the show. So I don't know what we do next.

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe Kathy'll call back and she'll give you an

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Speaker 4: inspiration for the next one.

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Speaker 5: Oh wouldn't that be special, because like I can think

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Speaker 5: of a couple ideas, like what if we go through

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Speaker 5: that in that Shang Tao did where she talked about

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Speaker 5: getting rated by the FBI. Absolutely absolutely, But I don't

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Speaker 5: know the prompts that would come from that might actually

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Speaker 5: be too explicit for even the YouTube.

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Speaker 4: Well, she was topless when the raid happened. I think

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Speaker 4: bottomless too, so I guess you couldn't say she was

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Speaker 4: reaching for a gun.

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Speaker 2: So that was our thank you.

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Speaker 5: The video will be live on the Accountability Podcast YouTube channel,

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Speaker 5: so you can watch it all you want, and the

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Speaker 5: Katie Porter video which we released on Friday, that is

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Speaker 5: also available on our Randy Wang Radio YouTube channel. You

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Speaker 5: can watch it all you want, you can see it,

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Speaker 5: and you can even smell.

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Speaker 2: It right here.

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Speaker 1: You can smell it right here, and don't forget.

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Speaker 4: If we get up to twenty five hundred subscribers on

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Speaker 4: the Accountability Podcast page on YouTube, then you get your

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Speaker 4: very own soundboard too.

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Speaker 1: With all of the drops that we play on the show.

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Speaker 5: It you will not only be able to play all

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Speaker 5: of them in an easy array that you can use

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Speaker 5: on your phone or on a computer, but you can

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Speaker 5: download all of the sounds our top one hundred drops

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Speaker 5: and there's a lot of Kadie on there. But especially

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Speaker 5: because this costs me a bunch of money, we can't

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Speaker 5: give it to you this beautiful website that I created

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Speaker 5: until we get to twenty five hundred subscribers on the

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Speaker 5: Accountability Podcast. If you're already subscribed, thank you. Tell your friends,

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Speaker 5: tell your family, tell your Facebook groups, your next door apps, Reddit,

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Speaker 5: whatever you have to do. We need you to help

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Speaker 5: us blow up the Internet and get everyone paying attention

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Speaker 5: to this little show that we're doing from noon to

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Speaker 5: three every day and our Accountability Podcast.

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Speaker 4: If you'd like to email the show, you can do

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Speaker 4: so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 4: That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail dot com. And Randy,

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Speaker 4: you're monitoring the mail bag.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 5: A bunch of people now think that Karen Bass in

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Speaker 5: her picture as Walter White from Breaking Bad, looks like

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Speaker 5: she's in run DMC. All right, now, this is complicated,

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Speaker 5: but I kind of like the idea, although it would

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Speaker 5: be a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of work.

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Speaker 5: Robert thinks that our next slide show should be the

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Speaker 5: Barbara Ferrara Halloween Story.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that would be interesting.

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Speaker 5: The complication with that is that the music under it

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Speaker 5: is from the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, and I would

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Speaker 5: have to figure out how to get rid of the

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Speaker 5: music or have you read the thing dry?

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Speaker 1: Oh my, well, that is an idea. That's an idea.

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Speaker 5: If you have more ideas for how we can create

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Speaker 5: more work for me to increase our subscribers, you can

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Speaker 5: email us at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 4: Facial recognition is now coming to grocery stores in the

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Speaker 4: Bay Area.

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Speaker 5: Specifically at grocery outlets. This is a plan to stop

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Speaker 5: shoplifting with AI facial recognition technology, and eagle eyed fans

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Speaker 5: of the show know that the graphic that I had

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Speaker 5: AI make for this one misspelled shoplifting, and I didn't

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Speaker 5: catch it till we made it to the air.

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Speaker 1: You know what I say?

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Speaker 2: Good enough. For more on this, we go to a

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Speaker 2: kpix in the Bay.

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Speaker 10: Heyton, a Bay Area based supermarket chain, is rolling out

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Speaker 10: a controversial new way to prevent theft. Grocery Outlet is

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Speaker 10: implementing facial recognition technology in several of its.

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Speaker 5: Who goes to the grocery outlet to steal what the

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Speaker 5: two year old boxer Rice crispies?

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Speaker 1: Okay, but here's the issue.

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Speaker 4: It's not as if they don't know who's stealing from them,

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Speaker 4: It's that no one does anything about it.

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Speaker 10: Bay Area store, So it's aimed at stopping shoplifters before

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Speaker 10: they even make it through the front door. So our

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Speaker 10: Mattie White is live at the pleasant Hill bargain Market

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Speaker 10: with a look at how it works. It sounds interesting, Maddie,

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Speaker 10: but I'm hearing that some shoppers are split on how

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Speaker 10: they feel about it.

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Speaker 8: Tell us about it. They absolutely were, Juliette.

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Speaker 11: You know, most recent FBI crime data shows that shoplifting

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Speaker 11: in California is at an all time high and that

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Speaker 11: we're now about fifty percent worse than where we were

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Speaker 11: pre pandemic. And that may explain why grocery stores like

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Speaker 11: Grocery Outlet behind me here in Pleasant Hill are turning

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Speaker 11: to AI for help. At some grocery outlet stores, shoppers

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Speaker 11: are now being greeted by more than just a security

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Speaker 11: camera signs on the front door for something called Safer Save.

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Speaker 8: Facial recognition software is.

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Speaker 11: Being used to identify people suspected of shoplifting.

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Speaker 5: I've never heard of this technology being used in this way, hey,

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Speaker 5: but this is the stuff that they have at the

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Speaker 5: clippers arena. The into a dome where it scans your

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Speaker 5: face and you never have to show them a ticket

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Speaker 5: for anything. In fact, you can buy popcorn just by

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Speaker 5: scanning your face.

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Speaker 2: It is wild.

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Speaker 11: Alerting store employees if someone on its watch list walks inside.

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Speaker 8: For some customers, that makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 5: I worked for years as a manager of a store,

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Speaker 5: and that theft was just unbelievable.

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Speaker 8: King Guerrero, So she's walked retailers.

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Speaker 2: Of that girl buys a lot of PEPSI.

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Speaker 4: If you see someone who you know is a thief

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Speaker 4: that walks in, you still have to have someone walk

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Speaker 4: up to them and say you're a thief.

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Speaker 1: Get out.

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Speaker 5: Typically we don't want that because that might create a

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Speaker 5: bigger incident.

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Speaker 1: Sah you think the.

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Speaker 8: Cost of theft for years and has no problem with

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Speaker 8: the new technology.

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Speaker 3: I don't at all. I agree with it.

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Speaker 8: Others support the goals, but not necessarily how it works.

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Speaker 9: I do understand, but you know, invading my privacy when

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Speaker 9: my picture, you know, everybody going in and not you know,

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Speaker 9: I don't agree on that.

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Speaker 2: She don't like it.

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Speaker 4: I wonder if she doesn't like it because she doesn't

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Speaker 4: want people keeping tabs on how often she hits up

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Speaker 4: the grocery store for twix bars.

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Speaker 6: You know you gotta come find them.

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Speaker 8: By the way, it's worth noting.

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Speaker 11: Safer's privacy policy states unmatched customer images are deleted immediately.

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Speaker 11: Then there are shoppers like Steve Brunette who aren't worried

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Speaker 11: about being on camera. They're worried about whether AI.

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Speaker 8: Gets it right.

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Speaker 7: It could lead to a lot of problems.

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Speaker 8: I think that same question.

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Speaker 5: I mean, AI is not perfect. I created that image

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Speaker 5: of me as a goatherter with three hands.

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Speaker 4: How much do you want to bet all of the

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Speaker 4: casinos in Las Vegas already do this? People who rob

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Speaker 4: from casinos, people who count cards, people who have been

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Speaker 4: asked to leave before. I bet you they have a

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Speaker 4: computer with all of that information on it. Okay, I

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Speaker 4: want to know what this lady story is. She's walking

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Speaker 4: out with as many frozen peas as she can carry.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she has a slingshot too.

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Speaker 8: Can AI get it wrong? Is when technology experts are

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Speaker 8: watching closely too.

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Speaker 11: There's about a dozen states where the collection of biometric

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Speaker 11: information requires often consent. California isn't one of them.

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Speaker 8: It's Mario Truquillo.

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Speaker 2: Hey, we can all spy on each other.

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Speaker 1: Great