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Let's get into today's stories, and 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:38.400 our first story considers our Attorney General Bob Bonta Rob Bonta, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.960 but we like to call him Bob Bonta because LeeAnne 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.440 Melendez said that once and I can't get over it. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.160 Bob Bonta made big headlines when he and eleven other 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.520 attorneys general made a big lawsuit trying to halt the 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:58.200 mega merger between Paramount Sky Dance and Warner Brothers Discovery, which, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.720 by the way, just the name of those comempanies tells 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.520 you how out of control some of these mergers have gotten, 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.440 because both of these companies recently did their own mergers 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.280 and takeovers, and it's just it is a constant industry 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:16.480 of everyone eating each other up. I have conflicting thoughts 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.880 on this. For one, I love Bob Bonta making the 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.240 backdrop of the Hollywood Sign as he's trying to obviously 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.400 get some attention for himself. But what's interesting about this lawsuit? 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.640 And I just listened to an interview that Bonta did 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.040 the day he dropped the lawsuit with Kara Swisher on 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.120 Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, which I listened 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.720 to and I enjoy And if you ever listen to 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.920 Scott Galloway, who I'm a big fan of. I like 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.400 a lot of his stuff. But if you know me, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:57.000 and you know my obsession when it comes to phraseology 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.160 and my obsession with certain word crutches that people can't 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:05.280 seem to realize that they keep doing, specifically quite frankly, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:10.680 quite frankly, quite frankly, quite frankly, that if you ever 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.120 listen to Scott Galloway, you will realize that he says 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:19.560 that phrase over and over and over again. But one 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.760 of the things about this lawsuit is that the scope 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.680 is specifically going after the film distribution and the film 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:32.240 studio part of this, because if you're Paramount sky Dance 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.440 and you're looking to gobble up Warner Brothers Discovery, you 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.839 can look at this at the lens of you're just 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:42.240 trying to become a bigger competitor in the streaming market 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:47.040 because the market share of Warner Brothers, which is HBO 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.960 Max and Paramount which is paramount plus combined, isn't even 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.640 a fraction of what Netflix does or what YouTube does, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.040 which I am recording to and I'm going to post 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.200 a video of right now I somebody being four twenty 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:00.800 one years old. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.960 Well, I'll be forty one in a couple of weeks. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:08.640 I consume the vast majority of my content on YouTube, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.920 and in fact, with my wife being out of town 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.760 for the summer, I don't think outside of watching John Oliver, 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.800 I have watched anything on any of my streaming services 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.440 for the past six weeks, and I pay for all 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:24.560 of them. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.960 So this lawsuit is not about that. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.120 This lawsuit is about the consolidation of the film studios 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.760 and how there is an argument that that's going to 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.880 lead to job losses when it comes to redundancy, when 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.440 you're talking about some of the office people, HR, accounting, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.560 what have you. We've seen this over and over and 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.920 over again, and the people that are going to be 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.560 there are going to have to do a lot more 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:54.040 with a lot less. Look, I'm no stranger to market consolidation. Famously, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:59.480 in the late nineties, then President Bill Clinton helped rein 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:05.880 through so the deregulation of the radio industry where companies 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.400 can only own a certain amount of stations, and then 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.440 we said, screw it, they can own as many as 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.480 eight in every market. And that's when you saw the 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.719 behemoths of clear Channel and later what became to be 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.880 known as Cumulus buying up every single thing. Odyssey just 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:25.200 did this recently, and buying all these stations and also 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.040 buying all the debt, and not exactly becoming profitable. And 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.800 for the most part, you ask anybody that's worked in 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.120 the radio industry in the last thirty years, they'll tell 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.520 you the product has gotten worse. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.960 So is this better for consumers? 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:43.360 Probably not accepted one specific instance. And again, the lawsuit 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.440 is not about the streamers. The lawsuit is about the 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.279 film studios, which is interesting because you know, there's so 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.280 many things that get made now. They get a lot 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.080 of attention that are being done by the independent studios, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.279 whether it be your obsession, whether it be your back rooms, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.359 or the Oscar Anora, which. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.600 Is a fantastic movie and. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:08.840 Worth all of it, and she deserved the Oscar too, Like, Okay, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:14.160 let's make the argument that these studios are too big 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:19.400 and too powerful. Well, okay, on the streamer side of it. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.760 There is one benefit to the consumer. Now there could 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.760 be an issue with well that means if they're buying 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.240 up all these services, there's going to be less content. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.280 For one, there's a lot of content out there, and 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.600 one of the issues with having so much different content 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.280 on so many different streamers is that it's impossible to 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.080 watch everything, and if you're paying for every single one, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.440 you're probably wasting a ridiculous amount of money. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.080 I don't even want to add it up now. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:52.760 Caveat certain streamers I get with a benefit to my 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:57.400 credit card. So Apple TV Plus, which I think Apple 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.440 puts out incredible content. You're talking Ted Last, so you're 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:05.400 talking shrinking great shows. They don't really care about how 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.800 many people watch them. They're just doing it for the awards. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.400 But I think they put out really really quality content 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.160 and not enough people talk about them. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.480 But they're in one category. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.640 You've got your Peacock, which I think puts out great stuff. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.120 That Reggie Dinkins show is great. It's very reminiscent of 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.600 the thirty Rock days. But I mean, how much business 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.320 are they really doing. All of these companies have a 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.280 fraction of the business that Netflix is doing, and even 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.839 all that pales in comparison to what YouTube is doing. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.280 But if you're paying for all of them, you're not 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.320 watching them. Anyway, I do pay for all of them. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.160 Probably shouldn't, but I do have a deal going. So 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.440 the Apple one I get with my Chase cards, that 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.440 one's free, I can watch all I want. My Chase 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.760 Reserve is paying for that, and I already get enough 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.160 benefits where the annual fee makes sense. My MX Platinum, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.560 I get a twenty five dollars streaming credit which I 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.640 have bundled together HBO and Disney and Hulu, which I 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.600 don't know how that works because Disney and Hulu are 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.920 about to merge, but anyway, that's like twenty eight dollars 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.040 a month, and I get twenty five dollars a month, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.360 So I'm getting those for three dollars. Then you get 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.199 your peacock and then you get your paramount. But one 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.840 of the benefits to the consumer if all of these 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.439 companies merge is there will be less. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.320 Of these streaming services to subscribe to. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:31.560 But it is very interesting to me that six years ago, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.120 when everyone decided they were gonna come out with their 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:40.240 own Netflix, we're talking Disney Plus, we're talking paramount, plus 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:41.479 we're talking peacock. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:42.960 HBO had. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.480 HBO has gone through so many name changes over the 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.000 last ten years. First they had HBO Go, then it 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.000 became HBO Now, then it became HBO Max, then it 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:57.079 became Max, and then it became HBO Max again. I'm 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.760 pretty sure I got all of those, but that's always 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.440 been a in some capacity. But you you have so 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.560 many others at that point. If there's less of them, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.880 then you'll be paying less to watch all of this stuff, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.040 unless they decide, Okay, now we've merged these services, we 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.199 need to increase the price to Netflix levels. Because Netflix 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.839 got really expensive. I hope you enjoy it because you're 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.440 paying If you're paying for four K on multiple screens, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.800 you're paying what twenty six twenty seven dollars a month 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.320 just for that, and it goes up like every year. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.040 That being said, regardless of the streaming aspect of us. Oh, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.360 let me get to the point I was making so 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.440 all these companies put forth all this money to create 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.440 all this original content and stop doing what they were 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.160 doing selling it to Netflix. And Netflix was taking on 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.280 a ridiculous amount of debt, but they were growing a 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:53.600 huge subscriber base. All of these streamers immediately start losing money. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.040 They start cutting the amount of content they're doing, they 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.600 start cutting how much money they're putting into these shows. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:10:59.880 Season one of. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.280 How the Dragon had lots of battles and lots of dragons. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.160 Season two had a lot of talking. Now I haven't 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.320 seen season three yet, but I hear they brought a 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.000 lot of the fighting and the dragons back. So maybe 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.400 they've realized their mistake or they pissed off George R. R. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:13.880 Martin. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.560 But ultimately a lot of these companies decided, you know what, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.560 why don't we just go ahead and start selling our 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.640 back catalogs to Netflix again anyway, because that was working 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.880 out really well. It's a giant, convoluted mess. And one 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:32.000 of the things that is interesting is the younger generation doesn't. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.520 Pay attention to almost any of this stuff. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.160 They're watching YouTube, they're watching videos of other people play 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.360 video games, they're watching short form content on TikTok, they're 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.480 watching the instagrams, and they're watching podcasts. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.760 That is a huge growth industry. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.840 In fact, Netflix is so into this now and they're 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.480 seeing how many people are watching podcasts on YouTube, something 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.000 that we're now doing that. They're actually buying podcasts, the 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:04.440 Breakfast Club, you can Netflix's. It's having all of this 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.040 content that costs so little to produce. I can now 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:12.319 put on a cable news level of quality talk show 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.720 from one computer. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.240 It's crazy, but. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.480 Ultimately it means the way that this industry is going 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.800 is that there will be fewer jobs. And these mergers 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.080 are whether they happen or not, there's going to be 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.360 a lot of the industry is going to be more 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.080 spread out than it ever has been and I don't 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.880 see that changing anytime soon. And sure, we could talk 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.760 about the tax credits issue, including apparently a piece of 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.600 legislation that might handicap California trying to claw back some 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.800 of the productions that have left and the more attractive 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.440 tax credits in other states, because we decided to put 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.840 forth a part in the budget that says no company 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.440 can get more than five million dollars in these tax credits, 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.200 which pretty much wipes out all the big studios from 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.560 coming back here anytime soon. And don't worry, they're not 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.280 going to Atlanta anymore. They're fleeing to Ireland or the 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:10.240 UK or Canada. And yeah, I'm gonna say this as 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.000 a union guy, it's the unions that are definitely helping 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.520 accelerate that push. It would be nice if everyone could 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.480 sit down and find a happy medium to keep production here, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.800 but I don't see that happening anytime soon. In Culver City, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.040 there is a backlash two more proposed bike lanes, this 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.560 time protected bike lanes on Overland Boulevard, taking away parking 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:38.160 and taking away lanes of traffic on a very busy 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.760 street that connects to the freeway. And one of the 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.640 arguments that a lot of people that showed up at 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.920 the council meeting have as to why they're opposed to 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.240 this is they don't see anybody in these bike lanes anyway. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.000 It's this whole idea, if you build it, they will come. Well, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.840 I live in parts of the San Fernando Valley where 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.560 we have turned entire thoroughfares. Receive a boulevard in the 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.080 Northridge area into bike lane, and you think, oh, that 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:02.720 would be a place with a lot of bikes. You're 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.360 right next to seasun You will never see a bicycle 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.400 going through Receipt a boulevard. They've got the protected bike 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.240 lanes on White Oak I've seen maybe one, maybe two. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.480 I have seen a lot of dented ballards that I 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:20.440 have seen plenty of, but I have not seen people 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.280 using these bike lanes because for the most part, outside 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.080 of the recreation of it, which you're probably better off 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.840 going to the trails or the bike paths, except for 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.040 the La River bike path, because you will probably pop 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.960 your tires unbroken glass. I speak from experience, but it's 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.080 still not necessarily safe and it's not really convenient, and 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.320 so we're building a bunch of infrastructure that nobody's really using. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.880 So I understand the concern over there. Squatters are taking 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.960 over more homes in Los Angeles. This is a fantastic 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.680 report from our friend Matthew Seedorf at Fox eleven, and 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.920 it is We told you about this story four months 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.400 ago where a family lost their home because the house 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.560 next door burned down thanks to squatters, and this family 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.760 lost their home and their three dogs passed away. Awful, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.640 awful story. Four months later, their house is still burned 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.400 down and now it's a giant pile of trash. Squatters 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.080 have invaded, which means there is more fires, there is garbage, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:28.080 and there is condoms everywhere. Because one of the factors 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.360 of squatters is it's also dens for prostitution. I don't 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.520 know why that's your thing where you need to do 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.280 that situation on top of a burned out building, But 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.600 creepy dudes gonna creepy dudes. Speaking of creepy dudes, there 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.200 is a crazy story coming out of Long Beach where 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:52.560 locals are very upset about all of these vans parking saying, hey, 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:58.200 check out Pinky's Girls in this big pink font advertising 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.560 adult services and hookups. We're not really sure what it's for, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.640 and people are like, why is this allowed, especially outside 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.640 of school, and how are you making any money on this? Well, 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.520 great piece from NBCLA. It's one of my favorite pieces 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:17.920 of the day because here's the issue. You have all 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:22.280 of these ced trailers and vans being parked all over 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.840 the place. How much could they possibly be making from it? 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.000 What if the whole plan is not to make any 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:34.920 money from Pinky's Girls. What if the idea here is 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:41.200 to actually trick cities like Long Beach into a big, fat, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:45.200 expensive lawsuit. So when the city of Long Beach tried 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:50.200 to shut down these trailers advertising Pinky's Girls whatever CD 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.160 service they were actually advertising. They got sued over First 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.400 Amendment violations by the owner of said trailers, and the 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.359 owner got three hundred dollars. So is this a situation 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.199 where someone really is advertising prostitutes on the back of 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:12.879 a van, or is this a free speech First amendmenttrol 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.320 who has figured out the perfect scam to sue cities. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.080 It's definitely possible. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.520 on KABC. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:31.360 talk radio seven ninety KABC. You know what, let's get 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.520 this out of the way, because I'm totally going to forget. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.840 I've got something nice for you. Seven ninety KABC welcomes 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.840 Nelly with special guests Too Short at the Pacific Amphitheater 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.240 at the OC Fair on August second. 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But this last one, including a bill 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:18.040 signing that he did just today, may have a little 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.040 bigger impact than most of the things that he says 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:25.600 are game changers, because there's a lot of things that 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:29.320 go into why it's so expensive to build in California. 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:32.679 Could be the cost of materials, could be you know, 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:36.919 minimum labor standards and union workers, what have you. But 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:39.680 one of the things that truly drives up the cost, 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.280 and it's something that Matt Mayhan talked about a lot 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:44.560 on the campaign trail when he was running for governor 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.439 as mayor of San Jose and got four percent of 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:51.040 the vote. 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.320 Was impact fees. What are impact fees? 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:59.639 Impact fees are fees placed by cities and counties to 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:04.760 peace people building homes, whether that's single family homes or 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:10.560 multifamily homes. It is an essential tax before a shovel 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:15.119 is even put into the ground, and it can drive 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:19.360 up the cost of a home by twenty to thirty 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:24.720 percent because the developer's got to make that money back somewhere, 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:26.679 which means the home's going to have to cost a 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.560 lot more because we're paying a ridiculous tax to even 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:32.560 build a house while we say we're in the middle 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:38.359 of a housing crisis. Now, cities and counties depend on 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.800