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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 the California

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Speaker 1: report at randywangradio dot substack dot com. There was a

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Speaker 1: lot of people talking about that great piece from CBS

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Speaker 1: News nationally about the hospice fraud that is going on

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Well, there's an even bigger story that

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Speaker 1: was uncovered by CBSLA locally, and it has to do

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Speaker 1: with the hundreds of businesses that have been registered in

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Speaker 1: the state of California that are fraudulent stealing people's IDs,

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Speaker 1: usually stealing their IDs if they were legal immigrants that

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Speaker 1: came to this state to go to college and then

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Speaker 1: went back to their home country. These people all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden finding out that in their name, people are

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Speaker 1: opening up businesses in hundreds and hundreds of businesses open

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Speaker 1: this year that were completely fulent. So cbsla's Ross Palumbo

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Speaker 1: put out a great story. It's eight minutes long, but

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Speaker 1: it is worth a watch and you can check it

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Speaker 1: out at Randy wangradio dot substack dot com. The LA

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Speaker 1: Mayor's race is starting to get people to pay attention

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Speaker 1: to it, and Karen Bass is having to deal with

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Speaker 1: the fact that a poll came out where she is

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Speaker 1: pulling under twenty percent. She sat down with Conan Noan

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Speaker 1: to explain why she's not worried about that and how

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Speaker 1: everything's going to be so safe for the World Cup.

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Speaker 1: I say world Cup because she says world Cup because

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Speaker 1: she cannot pronounce a D. Why. Nobody knows, but things

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Speaker 1: aren't looking great for Karen Bass. She is also reacting

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Speaker 1: a lot to the street takeover that happened in downtown

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Speaker 1: la outside of La Live. And it's just it's interesting

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Speaker 1: to me that this is the one she pays attention

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Speaker 1: to because a wealthy luxury apartment building was ransacked. She

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Speaker 1: didn't do anything. When we've had autozones broken into or

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Speaker 1: seven eleven's broken into, she didn't care. She didn't say

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Speaker 1: anything about it. This is the first time I've ever

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Speaker 1: seen her talk about street takeovers. So maybe it's because

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Speaker 1: it's an election year, or maybe it's because she's worried

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Speaker 1: that wealthy donors could have been in that building and

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Speaker 1: they are not too happy. It's being a residents that

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Speaker 1: aren't too happy. As bad as the recovery has been

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Speaker 1: for the Pacific Palisades and as bad as the recovery

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Speaker 1: has been for Alta Dina. Malibu is experiencing something much worse. Again,

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Speaker 1: Malibu is its own city, so really they're looking to

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Speaker 1: the city of Malibu and La County for help. And

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Speaker 1: Matthew Sedorf went down there to find out fourteen months

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Speaker 1: after the fires, less than forty rebuild permits have been issued.

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Speaker 1: Now there's a lot of issues, including insurance, and you

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Speaker 1: still have a lot of people not getting paid out.

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Speaker 1: But apparently this does have to do with the permitting

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Speaker 1: process and going by all of these codes that didn't

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Speaker 1: apply when people got these permits and just going overboard

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Speaker 1: with the overregulation and making it impossible for people to rebuild.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they don't want people to rebuild. It's not looking great.

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Speaker 1: And in Boyle Heights, another homeless encampment is popped up

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Speaker 1: outside of a senior apartment complex where it's making it

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Speaker 1: difficult for the old ladies inside the apartment complex to

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Speaker 1: use the bus stop because the tent is right next

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Speaker 1: to the bus stop and they don't feel safe. This

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Speaker 1: is an Isabelle Herados district in Boyle Heights, and of

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Speaker 1: course you get the usual lip service of oh, we're

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Speaker 1: totally doing something about that, no, they're not, but that

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Speaker 1: is what the district voted for. You vote for DSA,

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Speaker 1: you vote for not doing anything about homeless encampments. So

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Speaker 1: that's true in District one, that is true in District four,

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Speaker 1: that is true in District thirteen, and that is true

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Speaker 1: in District fourteen. And I thought this story was pretty

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Speaker 1: fun and it's definitely eye opening. We have a pretty huge,

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Speaker 1: although very ineffective metro system in Los Angeles County, but

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Speaker 1: La Metro, because of the ridership it does have, ends

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Speaker 1: up with lots of lost items every year. And Christina

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Speaker 1: Gonzalez a Fox eleven did a great piece exploring what

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Speaker 1: is at the lost and found, including a lot of bicycles,

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Speaker 1: a surfboard, a LAUSD saxophone, of course, phones and wallets.

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Speaker 1: But at some point somebody on an La Metro bus

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Speaker 1: or train lost a prosthetic leg. How I want to

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Speaker 1: know everything about that story? Who forgets their leg on

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Speaker 1: the bus? Kind of interesting. Now let's move on to

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Speaker 1: the Bay Area, where an interesting turn has happened in

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Speaker 1: the case of the guy who assaulted Daniel Luriy, the

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Speaker 1: Mayor of San Francisco's security detail in the tenderloin because

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Speaker 1: the judge looked at the video and thinks that Daniel

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Speaker 1: Lurry's police were the aggressor here and is letting this

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Speaker 1: lawyer says, it's Daniel Lurry's fault for instigating something, even

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Speaker 1: though they were the ones that say, hey, you can't

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Speaker 1: the lawyer said to the judge, hey, look at this,

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Speaker 1: and because it's a San Francisco judge, they're letting this

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Speaker 1: and he is going to be due back in court

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Speaker 1: tomorrow for unrelated charges because this is one of these

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Speaker 1: perpetual tenderloin residents that is a drain on every aspect

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Speaker 1: of society because we don't do anything about the drug problem. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: even with Luri in charge, that there have been some improvements,

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Speaker 1: but for the most part, the open air drug market

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco persists. Now, this might be one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite stories of the day, but San Francisco Supervisor

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Speaker 1: Alan Wong no relation in the Sunset district. He was

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Speaker 1: the one that replaced the pet shop lady that replaced

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Speaker 1: Joelngardio when he got recalled. But Alan Wong is putting

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Speaker 1: forth a contest in his district. If you can point

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Speaker 1: out and identify the dumbest laws in San Francisco, this

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Speaker 1: is something that every single city should do. The states

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Speaker 1: should do it as well. For as much as we

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Speaker 1: have members of our legislatures and city councils and board

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Speaker 1: of supervisors writing new bills on a daily basis, I

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Speaker 1: think it's pretty great to look into your books and

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Speaker 1: find out what is already law that makes no sense. So,

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Speaker 1: for example, a few that ABC seven in the Bay

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Speaker 1: uncovered is do you know in San Francisco it is

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Speaker 1: illegal to carry a loaf of bread in an open container?

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Speaker 1: What why that's illegal? I don't think anybody knows. Also, apparently,

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Speaker 1: many many years ago, San Francisco had an ordinance that

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Speaker 1: banned ugly people, but we need to do this. City councils,

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Speaker 1: especially with term limits, have no idea what has been

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Speaker 1: passed by people in their chairs in the past, and

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Speaker 1: there is so much non on the books that maybe

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Speaker 1: we can get some of these really stupid laws repealed.

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Speaker 1: Now in strike Apalooza, we continue with the Dublin teachers strike,

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Speaker 1: where there's a twenty million dollar difference between what the

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Speaker 1: they want. So the students are going to suffer for

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Speaker 1: another day. But at this point the district says, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the proposed wealth tax, the billionaire tax in the state

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Speaker 1: of California. A new poll shows that it has got

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Speaker 1: some pretty decent support. Fifty one percent of respondents in

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Speaker 1: a Berkeley poll said yeah, I think I'm all about that,

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Speaker 1: And I have a theory because I don't know if

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Speaker 1: a lot of people pay attention to the intricacies of

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Speaker 1: the bill, and by the way, it has not made

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Speaker 1: the ballot, but the fact that it is a one

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Speaker 1: time seizure of unrealized assets and how exactly do you

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Speaker 1: calculate that and how is that legal? I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're paying attention to that. I don't think they're paying

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Speaker 1: attention to that. All. Most of the money goes towards

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Speaker 1: the union that's putting this on the ballot, the SEIU.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're paying attention to that either. I

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Speaker 1: think respondence in the poll here that we are going

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Speaker 1: to tax billionaires and they look at their TV and

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Speaker 1: today and they have said, yeah, I want to take

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Speaker 1: that guy's money away. And who can blame them? Now,

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Speaker 1: we're really at a crossroads where so many different industries

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Speaker 1: and the entertainment industry is definitely going to be facing

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Speaker 1: that as well, which is why there's so much pushback

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Speaker 1: to the AI generated actress Tilly Norwood. Again, this is

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Speaker 1: a this is a computer program, but a agency has

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Speaker 1: they made a music video showing all the things that

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Speaker 1: Tilly can do and it's really scary and it's really creepy. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: the creatives will depend will help us decide if this

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Speaker 1: pay attention to, because currently there's a lot of AI

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Speaker 1: slop on the Internet that nobody wants to pay attention to.

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Speaker 1: People want a real act or they can connect with.

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Speaker 1: And the things that are generated by AI might be

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Speaker 1: for an easy laugh if you're talking about a parody song.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think we're anywhere close to where we

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Speaker 1: that's on the level of the entertainment that we consume.

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Speaker 1: Could an AI do what I'm doing right now? Oh? Probably? Well, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I got one more year and I qualify for that pension.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I don't get to use it for twenty

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Speaker 1: and this is why we need to have certain guardrails.

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Speaker 1: Where AI makes sense, it's great, but if we're going

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Speaker 1: to see even more corner cutting for this technology, which

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Speaker 1: also it may be cheaper for labor costs, but you

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Speaker 1: AI in the next decade is going to double what

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Speaker 1: everyone a lot more money. So just something to think about.

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Speaker 1: We have told you for a few days now about

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Speaker 1: how all of these cities in the Bay Area are

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Speaker 1: reconsidering how they're using their flock cameras because activists don't

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Speaker 1: like that. Oh no, they could be stealing my info.

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Speaker 1: The federal government could be looking into where I went

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Speaker 1: in and out of on a street. Okay, Well, San

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Speaker 1: Jose has been pressured to end their flock program and

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Speaker 1: they're not. They're making a small change where the database

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Speaker 1: is only accessible for thirty days as opposed to a year,

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Speaker 1: which I guess is enough for SJPD to do their jobs.

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Speaker 1: our pockets that are listening to every word that we say.

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Speaker 1: You ever say the name of a restaurant and all

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Speaker 1: your social media feeds. Yeah, it's because your phone is

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Speaker 1: always listening to you, So we don't really care about

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Speaker 1: privacy staying in San Jose, five elementary schools are facing

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Speaker 1: closures because population decline. And while yes, there are some

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Speaker 1: great things to say about San Jose and what Matt

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Speaker 1: Mahon has done there as mayor, it is one of

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Speaker 1: the most expensive cities in the entire world, so who

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Speaker 1: Fox forty tried to figure out why it is we're

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Speaker 1: and apparently it's because we're getting close to the end

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Speaker 1: do not understand why we are not incentivizing tele telework

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Speaker 1: And finally I got to talk about this Julie Watts

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Speaker 1: keep you updated if I get them. In San Diego,

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Speaker 1: San Diego City Council looking for new regulations for e bikes,

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Speaker 1: In the governor's race, we have that new poll where

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Speaker 1: Tom Steyer keeps spending all the money in the world.

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Speaker 1: And if you want to learn a more and more,

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Speaker 1: if you want to learn a little more about Matt Mahan,

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Speaker 1: you can check out his interview on KQUED. I think

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Speaker 1: they do a really good job. That's today's California Report

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Speaker 1: at Randywangradio dot substack dot com. It's the News Blitz

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Speaker 1: with Randy Wang on KABC. Last night, I was lucky

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Speaker 1: We had a wonderful time seeing Beatlejuice. It's showtime at

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Speaker 1: you can get tickets at Broadwayanhollywood dot com. That's Broadwayanhollywood

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Speaker 1: you can now have a beverage inside the Pantagious theater.

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Speaker 1: right here. It's Randy Wang here the News Splitz with

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