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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. We start in

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Speaker 1: Marina Del Rey at a Ramada Inn that in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty was converted into an emergency shelter through Project Room Key.

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Speaker 1: So far, so good. Then we moved to twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two where it was decided that this emergency shelter was

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Speaker 1: going to be turned into a permanent supportive housing homeless shelter,

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Speaker 1: and we had already spent I believe ten million dollars

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Speaker 1: on this. We decided we were going to spend another

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Speaker 1: ten million dollars on turning the emergency shelter into a

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Speaker 1: permanent supportive housing unit. That was in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Sedorf checked on how the project is going today,

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Speaker 1: and it is still not done. Converting this shelter that

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Speaker 1: was already a hotel into permanent supportive housing whatever that means,

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Speaker 1: has been a conundrum and a half and has cost

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Speaker 1: way more money than it was supposed to and has

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Speaker 1: been sitting empty, not housing anybody for many years now.

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Speaker 1: The homeless nonprofit that got the contract people assisting the

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Speaker 1: homeless path. You probably if you're ever on the four

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Speaker 1: or five freeway in West LA, you can see their

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Speaker 1: giant building. Well, here we go. This is California's ineptitude

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Speaker 1: at the homeless crisis on full display. We had a

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Speaker 1: motel we decided to buy that turn into an emergency shelter.

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Speaker 1: Not good enough. We decided to give a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of money to a nonprofit that didn't know what they

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Speaker 1: were doing. And the project is sitting completely empty. And

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Speaker 1: how many of these are there? Dozens more? I'm sure

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Speaker 1: if anyone's going to find out, it's Fox eleven's Matthew

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Speaker 1: sed Or if you've got to watch this story and

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Speaker 1: you got to share that one, because this is right

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Speaker 1: here everything that's wrong with trying to solve the homeless

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Speaker 1: problem in Los Angeles. And there was a new whistleblower

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Speaker 1: complaint about the response to the Eaton fire. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of issues with the LA County Board

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Speaker 1: of Supervisors and their Office of Emergency Management, where you

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Speaker 1: had the wrong emergency alerts going out to everybody for

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Speaker 1: a certain fire in Woodland Hills, and you also had

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Speaker 1: no emergency alerts going out to a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: people in Altadena on the night of the fire. Well,

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Speaker 1: a whistleblower is speaking out and saying that that office,

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Speaker 1: the Office of Emergency Management, has been completely understaffed for years.

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Speaker 1: They were sounding the alarm that they were needing to

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Speaker 1: be taken care, they were needing in people to work

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Speaker 1: in that office to make sure that they were staffed

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Speaker 1: for an emergency. And well, I'm sure the county found

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Speaker 1: other places to waste their money now in the Bay Area.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a waste of money,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to choose to be optimistic. But San

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Speaker 1: Francisco applied for a PROP one grant and they're getting

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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars in state funding and they're going

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Speaker 1: to use it towards addiction and mental health services. This

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Speaker 1: is if this works, this is good. This is what

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Speaker 1: the money should be going towards. There's already lots of

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Speaker 1: shelter space, but what we need is beds to either

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Speaker 1: get people to a point where they are no longer

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Speaker 1: dependent on the drugs that have destroyed their lives, or

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Speaker 1: for mental illness. We got to get people the treatment

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Speaker 1: that they need. And if there are people that are

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Speaker 1: completely untreatable. We need to figure out a place for

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Speaker 1: them as well. And I've been covering this story quite

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Speaker 1: a bit, but NBC in the Bay has been doing

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Speaker 1: a lot of stories on how neighborhoods in parts of

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Speaker 1: San Jose are dealing with the construction of the light

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Speaker 1: rail extension by the VTA. And we've told you how they,

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Speaker 1: through eminent domain, took a trucking business and made them move,

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Speaker 1: but they haven't actually done anything with the land. We

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Speaker 1: told you about the shopping center that has lost almost

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Speaker 1: all their customers because of all the construction. Well it

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Speaker 1: gets worse. The VTA light rail extension project has actually

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Speaker 1: been damaging homes in the neighborhood. The vibrations from the

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Speaker 1: equipment that they're using to pound the concrete, what have you.

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Speaker 1: It's actually damaging the walls and the foundations of nearby homes.

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Speaker 1: The homeowners are filing claims and VTA seems to be

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Speaker 1: wanting to fight a lot of those. So, look, if

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Speaker 1: you need to build this extension, you need to build

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Speaker 1: more public transit. You need to make sure you're making

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Speaker 1: whole all the people whose lives you are disrupting. Now,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know this, but you know right now we're

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Speaker 1: in the middle of a government shutdown, a partial government

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Speaker 1: shutdown through the Department of Homeland Security, and that includes

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Speaker 1: TSA agents. So TSA agents have not received a paycheck

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Speaker 1: in quite some time, and that is why a lot

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Speaker 1: of them are not showing up, a lot of them

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Speaker 1: are calling out, and at a lot of airports, the

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Speaker 1: lines have gotten really long. In San Jose, the lines

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Speaker 1: really long. But at SFO, the lines are moving just

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Speaker 1: as quickly as they always do because at SFO, their security,

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Speaker 1: their TSA is actually a private contract. It's privatized, so

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Speaker 1: they are not paid directly by the federal government. They

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Speaker 1: paid while the TSA agents and the other airports don't.

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Speaker 1: Does it make sense to privatize the entire thing? Maybe?

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Speaker 1: Does it make sense to take these very essential employees

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Speaker 1: and stop holding them hostage every time there's a fight

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Speaker 1: over who knows what in Washington, d C. These shutdown

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Speaker 1: fights are getting really, really ridiculous. And if you want

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Speaker 1: to change policy, okay, don't do it on the backs

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Speaker 1: of the employees, especially the ones that we need that

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Speaker 1: are essential. But yeah, maybe the workaround for that is

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Speaker 1: we privatize all of them. And this story is interesting.

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Speaker 1: AI is starting to freak a lot of people out

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Speaker 1: in all different kinds of industries. Notably people in the

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Speaker 1: tech industry have started to realize they're the jobs that

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Speaker 1: are going to be going first. A lot of coding jobs,

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Speaker 1: a lot of jobs to create all of this, those

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Speaker 1: are all going to be gobbled up by AI quicker

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Speaker 1: than a lot of other jobs. And that is why

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Speaker 1: you are seeing people who already have successful careers in

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Speaker 1: tech when rolling in colleges like community colleges, in certain

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Speaker 1: vocational programs like auto repair mechanics, just so they have

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Speaker 1: a backup skill in case AI takes away their livelihood.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's really really smart. I think you know,

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Speaker 1: no matter what line of work you're in, we don't

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Speaker 1: know what the future holds, and it definitely helps to

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Speaker 1: have some other skill set that you can fall back

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Speaker 1: on that you could definitely make a living app Before

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Speaker 1: I got into radio, I worked in restaurants and I

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Speaker 1: could definitely do that again if I had to. I

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Speaker 1: could go work in an out burger. I could be

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Speaker 1: a waiter. I was a great waiter. I'm old enough

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Speaker 1: there's going to be an issue when AI takes so

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Speaker 1: many jobs. Only some of you are going to be

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Speaker 1: able to make a living on OnlyFans taking a picture

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Speaker 1: of your feet. That's not going to be for everybody.

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Speaker 1: So thing a backup skill set is not necessarily a

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Speaker 1: terrible idea. Here's something else that's not necessarily a terrible idea.

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Speaker 1: Door dash is started a new pilot program in Half

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Speaker 1: Moon Bay. They're calling it the Loop Service, and part

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Speaker 1: of this is trying to eliminate all the waste that

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Speaker 1: comes from to go ordering when it comes to to

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Speaker 1: go containers. So they have figured out a reusable container

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Speaker 1: I always thought compostable was the easier idea, like the

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Speaker 1: paper to go boxes. And you know it's interesting, how

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Speaker 1: you know we have all this plastic wear and we have.

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Speaker 1: Even the paper straws that we have suck. Hawaii doesn't

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Speaker 1: allow a lot of plastic, and they're compostable. Spoons and

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Speaker 1: But okay, let's say we're going into reusable plastic containers.

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Speaker 1: I'm not totally opposed to that, though. I will say

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Speaker 1: reusable containers you can have for your own life. You know,

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Speaker 1: we kind of have a rule in this house. Whenever

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Speaker 1: little bit of hoison, a little lime, but that ginger

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Speaker 1: beef broth it is is magical. But what's nice about

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Speaker 1: I do a little trick. This is my faw hack.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if everywhere does this one. I don't

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Speaker 1: I care about the meat broth and the rice noodles.

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Speaker 1: But that's what I need to really cure me. So

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Speaker 1: But when you do that, they bring you to full

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Speaker 1: any professional that does meal prep, they really are the best.

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Speaker 1: So maybe that's the way to go is just when

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Speaker 1: I am all for less waste and zero waste. Now,

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Speaker 1: seeing a spike in interest in fuel efficiency and electric

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Speaker 1: When gas prices are getting out of control again, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty nice. I only charge at night, and I don't

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Speaker 1: I only have to charge my car about once a week.

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Speaker 1: But electric cars have realistic limits. I use it for

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Speaker 1: commuting and that's it. We have tried road tripping with it.

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Speaker 1: especially if you know you're going to a hotel that's

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Speaker 1: We did that once with Tory Pines and it was fine.

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Speaker 1: But I can't tell you the stress from the time

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Speaker 1: a whole scattershot of different charger companies and they all

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Speaker 1: require an Internet connection to activate, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: was a mess. Honestly, if you had the option right now,

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Speaker 1: plug in hybrid might be the way to go. My

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Speaker 1: mother in law has one. She's got the Volvo something

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Speaker 1: X sixty sixty I don't know. It has a plug

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Speaker 1: in electric battery that goes for about forty miles. But

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Speaker 1: the city driving, you will almost never ever use the gas.

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