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Speaker 2: Also very important that you listen.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk with the Republican state Senator Janet

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Speaker 1: Win at one thirty. Janet has alerted the world that's

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Speaker 1: there is two fifty cent taxes gas taxes coming to

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Speaker 1: this off. It comes from the California Air Resources Board

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Speaker 1: from a bill that was passed in two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 1: seventeen years ago, there was something passed and the California

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Speaker 1: Air Resources Board can impose these carbon taxes and it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a dollar extra for gas. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be twenty dollars a tank. If you use a

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. You're going to be taxed for Why

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Speaker 1: Why to drive you out of your car and put

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Speaker 1: you into an electric vehicle that doesn't work, that has

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Speaker 1: no range, where there's no place to charge, that costs

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Speaker 1: too much money. This is really abusive. So you'd be

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Speaker 1: listening at one thirty to Jen it win. Now, let's see,

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Speaker 1: it's six oh six this morning. Deborah Mark beat me

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Speaker 1: to it. You were up earlier than I was.

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Speaker 3: I was actually up at five thirty. Bit I held

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Speaker 3: that I slept late. I didn't get up till six

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Speaker 3: twenty six. I looked at my iPad. First thing I

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Speaker 3: see is the daily Metro stabbing report that Debora forwarded

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Speaker 3: to me. Yes, two more stabbings and uh, this is

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Speaker 4: I get to see.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, John, we should get a sponsor

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Speaker 5: for this. Yeah, we should dedicate a corporate sponsor to

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Speaker 5: our Metro crime weekly report. Yeah, and it's a lot

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Speaker 5: of stabbings going on. It seems it is a lot

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Speaker 5: of stabbings. Yeah, there were two last nights, so let's

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Speaker 5: get into it. This first one was a woman coming

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Speaker 5: up in elevator. This was in South la She was

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Speaker 5: one oh five. It's on an overpass, and she was

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Speaker 5: and a man followed her onto that elevator, stabbed her

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Speaker 5: took off. Police are still looking for that guy. That

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Speaker 5: woman was stabbed again in the arm and she was

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Speaker 5: opposite side of town, up in Glendale, a man was

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Speaker 5: stabbed by three miners. This was an altercation that started

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Speaker 5: a third remains outstanding. Now it sounds like one of

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Speaker 5: these kids accidentally stabbed himself. Apparently one of the people

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Speaker 5: Is what my sources are telling me on that one.

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Speaker 2: So he went so nuts he stabbed himself.

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Speaker 5: Apparently, or he had bad aim, you know, maybe when jumping,

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Speaker 5: Started he was having popcorn, you know, he had buttery hands.

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Speaker 5: The follow through carried right to his leg. All right, Well,

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Speaker 5: that's two stabbings just today. I mean, the Times has

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Speaker 5: a list of stabbings just in the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: There were two on April thirteenth. There was one on

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Speaker 1: April twenty second. I when you have this many crazy people,

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Speaker 1: And so are all the crazy people now carrying knives?

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Speaker 1: And are they all in bad moods?

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, John, I went down to the

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Speaker 5: And as we always do with these metro stories, is

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Speaker 5: different stabbings. I mean just last week at the Holly,

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Speaker 5: this woman. She saw me with the microphone and I said,

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Speaker 5: I said I could probably just leave my microphone on

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Speaker 4: But this woman saw me. She flagged me down.

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Speaker 5: She's like, are you a reporter, and told me that

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Speaker 5: she's seen defecation on the system. She says she's seeing

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Speaker 4: But we'll start here. Here's some of her testimony.

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Speaker 6: The problem with the writer, they don't do nothing. They

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Speaker 6: and no, they didn't do nothing. They don't take the

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Speaker 6: I don't think they should be on there. They're the

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Speaker 4: So So the.

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Speaker 1: Woman who took the dump on the floor, the driver

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Speaker 4: I mean you heard her there.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'll go to acting like barnyard animals.

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Speaker 5: Well, one thing that a few people had told me

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Speaker 5: A couple of these women told me I would not

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 7: Make up anything. I just I'm terrified that that happened.

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Speaker 7: It makes me even more paranoid.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's what we're hearing today who were saying

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Speaker 5: Have you seen a lot of sketchiness using the metro system.

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Speaker 7: No, but you know it's a lot of homeless people,

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Speaker 1: Anything from the La Metro Chairman of the board Karen Batty,

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Speaker 1: So I had reached. Safety is their highest priority.

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Speaker 5: I had reached out to Metro this morning to try

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Speaker 5: But you know, there's a lot of pressure right now

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Speaker 5: on Metro John to make these safety changes. The La

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Speaker 5: serve on that Metro board.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how about Stephanie Wiggins. Then they made the CEO

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Speaker 4: This, Still waiting on the still waiting on a comment back.

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Speaker 1: But I thought you at least you get the boiler

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Speaker 5: Well, as you know, recently, Metro had announced they passed

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Speaker 5: a motion. This motion was by Supervisor Catherine Barger, who,

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Speaker 5: it was approved by the Metro board to secure gate

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Speaker 5: around problematic stations. But the question is when is this

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Speaker 5: all going to be done? Because we have two stabbings now,

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Speaker 5: I know in the matter of a few hours.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And how do you stop people from taking a

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Speaker 2: What's going to be one? What's going to be in

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Speaker 2: the program for that? All right? Blake? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: All right, John, we'll probably talk again tomorrow about the

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Speaker 1: same thing, Blake, Charlie. KFI News will continue.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: Republican State Senator Jenet Winn coming on just after Debbor's

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Speaker 1: one thirty news. She is letting the world know that

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Speaker 1: as bad as the tax is in California on gas,

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Speaker 1: It's some kind of carbon tax nonsense garbage, because they're

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Speaker 2: It's a whole bust.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, everyone knows that except Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the two stabbings, not one, but

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Speaker 1: two stabbings, because you know, they're trying.

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Speaker 2: To push us into public transportation.

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Speaker 1: Right, if you're not going into an electric vehicle that

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Speaker 1: a metro train and get a knife pludged into your gut. Well,

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Speaker 1: two more people got stabbed just last night and there's

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Speaker 1: been a whole rash of stabbings. And Karen Bass is

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Speaker 1: somebody named Stephanie Wiggins, and she's been there three years,

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Speaker 1: and every time somebody gets stabbed to death or shot

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Speaker 1: up it's like she took over. I have an article

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Metro Board of Directors and her statement

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Speaker 1: develop with goals of achieving better health.

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Speaker 2: That's the first thing she led with. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: If I want better health, you know, maybe you take

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Speaker 1: a jog, maybe you go see a doctor. Right, doctors

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Speaker 1: What was inequal What was inequitable about getting on a

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Speaker 9: Thank you Jeff for having me. It's not just a

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Speaker 10: It's so we currently pay the state's gas tax, and

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Speaker 9: If they want us to all have evs and people

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Speaker 1: Well, the whole EV concept so far doesn't work. It

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Speaker 2: This is crazy policy, absolutely crazy.

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Speaker 9: What's more crazy, John, is by twenty forty, this carbon

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Speaker 1: Right, it's all going to be a tax on everything

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Speaker 2: The tax.

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Speaker 9: It was approved way back when, and then now the

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Speaker 1: Well, this is excessive. This is going to be just

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Speaker 9: No, they don't have it. And the food costs can

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Speaker 9: It is outrageous. It's a secret, and no one's talking

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Speaker 2: What can people do here?

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Speaker 1: I mean this is this is a terrible, terrible attack

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Speaker 9: The only way we can stop this is hold the

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Speaker 1: We need to.

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Speaker 9: Turn around because we don't. Allis is hurting everybody else

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Speaker 1: You know, some other legislators have to follow your lead here,

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Speaker 2: And Janet, I'm going to stay on top of this.

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Speaker 1: All right, Janet Win, Republican State Senator. And again there's

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Speaker 11: Why don't you provide Why do I have to provide it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Extra, it's nat to pay my own.

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Speaker 1: You have to pay for yourself, your family, and then

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Speaker 11: in August and I'm going.

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Speaker 1: To see, yeah, eighteen percent, eighteen percent, And then they

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Speaker 1: put a space for a tip, right.

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Speaker 11: And and what happens We don't leave a tip and.

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Speaker 12: The servers get screwed, right, because what are we going

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Speaker 12: to leave almost forty percent? Right that you did that

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Speaker 12: once though that was a different restaurant on the block.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they put it in the eighteen percent you didn't see.

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Speaker 11: Then the guy came running after me, and I thought

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Speaker 11: I did something wrong. He says, oh, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 11: I thank you, and I'm thinking, what the heck?

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Speaker 1: And you get him a thirty six percent tip? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, he'd serve you any day. And then you

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Speaker 1: told me about it, And coincidentally, I went to the

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Speaker 1: restaurant a couple of weeks later, and I warned everybody

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Speaker 1: at our table. I said, be careful, there's an extra

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Speaker 1: eighteen percent already there.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm glad you said something I didn't know.

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Speaker 11: But you know what, since I've been back to that restaurant,

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Speaker 11: it's gone, is it?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Well, because because you know, I would hope that people

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Speaker 1: complain about this. There's a story in cow Matters how

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Speaker 1: the restaurant groups are upset because they enjoyed these fees,

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Speaker 1: and they quote Tim Standard of a bacist management group

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Speaker 1: they operate many Bay Area restaurants, and he said, it

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Speaker 1: feels like the state lit the fuse to this bomb

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Speaker 1: and is standing back to see what happens. It is terrifying.

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Speaker 1: We can't pay the wages we're paying now unless we

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Speaker 1: dramatically procrease prices and hope guests actually come in and

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Speaker 1: pay those prices, and they're admitting that they do a

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Speaker 1: bait and switch. There's actually some of these restaurants said

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Speaker 1: that to attract customers, we have to mislead them with

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Speaker 1: low ball prices on the menu, oh please, and then

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Speaker 1: attach these extra fees to the check after the fact,

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Speaker 1: or in tiny print at the bottom of the menu.

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Speaker 12: Well that's maloney, because the restaurants that we're referring to,

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Speaker 12: first of all, those aren't low ball prices on the menu.

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Speaker 2: What they are, Yeah, but you know they're not.

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Speaker 12: And you know what, fine, add a dollar to your stake, John,

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Speaker 12: you'll never know and have that go toward whatever the

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Speaker 12: restaurant wants to use it for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I think they want more than a dollar

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Speaker 1: when you're putting eighteen percent extra bogus tips on it. See,

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Speaker 1: the thing is, who do these people vote for. You

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Speaker 1: vote for these progressive equity Democrats, you get twenty dollars

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Speaker 1: an hour minimum wage requirements, then you're not allowed to

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Speaker 1: charge the bogus fees to cover those minimum wage increases.

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Speaker 2: Who are you voting for?

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Speaker 1: If we had a more balanced state, if we had

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Speaker 1: a two party state, you wouldn't have this kind of

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Speaker 1: twenty dollars an hour minimum wage, and oh that's driving

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Speaker 1: up our prices. It's like, get well, you asked for it.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to look at this this. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know the guy, this, Tim Standard, the back of

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Speaker 1: management group. Who what campaign contributions has your organization made?

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Speaker 2: Who have you been supporting all these years?

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Speaker 1: You're asking for this Newsom doesn't care if he puts

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Speaker 1: everybody out of business during COVID, what do they do?

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Speaker 1: They shut down, They shut down all the businesses. Twenty

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Speaker 1: thousand of them went out of business, twenty thousand. So

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Speaker 1: he doesn't care if a few more go. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you understand that they have such a deep inbred

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Speaker 1: ideology that they don't care about the collateral damage of

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Speaker 1: restaurants closing.

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Speaker 2: There's a there's a let me see here.

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Speaker 1: The Employment Policy Institute is an organization that tracks minimum

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Speaker 1: wages and other employment issues, and they wrote that service

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Speaker 1: charges have been increasingly common tools at keeping restaurants afloat.

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Speaker 1: So apparently that's the profit. The extra charges is their

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Speaker 1: profit because they can't pay the minimum wage. And now

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Speaker 1: the restaurants have been suffering significant losses. So they're taking

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Speaker 1: the serch charges away from the restaurants and they're going

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Speaker 1: to have even more losses.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what to tell you.

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Speaker 1: You could vote in different people and they could start

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Speaker 1: repealing these minimum wage laws. You can do that and

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Speaker 1: start repealing the regulations that drive up the cost of

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Speaker 1: all business.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't have to be that way. It's not that way

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Speaker 2: in most other states.

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Speaker 1: You go to most other states, you don't have eighteen

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Speaker 1: percent extra charges. You don't have I have healthcare seurch charges.

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Speaker 1: None of that exists. And they're honest in their prices,

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Speaker 1: you know, off of meal costs fifteen ninety five, and

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Speaker 1: then that's what you pay, not fifteen ninety five, but

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Speaker 1: all the secret search charges.

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Speaker 11: And then you need to leave a tip on top

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Speaker 11: of that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I know.

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Speaker 1: And now they bring you those electronic pads with the

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Speaker 1: pre suggested tips. And for years tips were fifteen percent,

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Speaker 1: then eighteen percent. And I see these things and they're

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Speaker 1: offering me twenty twenty five, thirty percent automatically. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: then you're supposed to hit the custom tip button while

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Speaker 1: the server is looking over your shoulders staring at you.

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Speaker 12: I was gonna say or What about when you go

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Speaker 12: and get takeout? Why am I going to give a

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Speaker 12: tip for that?

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Speaker 10: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I got a rule if they don't come to my

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Speaker 2: table carrying the food, no tip. I I bought ice cream.

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Speaker 1: I went to an ice cream shot to get an

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Speaker 1: ice cream cone for my wife and I and he

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Speaker 1: gives me the pad. All he did is scoop up

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Speaker 1: the ice cream and put it in the cop is it?

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Speaker 11: I hope you didn't tip him?

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't.

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Speaker 1: If my wife called me on it, she goes, you

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Speaker 1: don't tip him. Oh, you didn't do anything tipping people.

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Speaker 11: I want to tip for making people?

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Speaker 1: Uh like, yeah, set up a tip jar.

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Speaker 11: Tip?

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Speaker 2: God? What was the other one we stopped? We just

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Speaker 2: walked in there.

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Speaker 1: There's this this beachside cafe, right, but they have really

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Speaker 1: good chocolate chip cookies. So we stopped just to buy

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Speaker 1: the cookies off the counter, and the cookies themselves. They're

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Speaker 1: really big, but they're really expensive, like three dollars and

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Speaker 1: fifty cents.

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Speaker 2: This was a big tree.

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Speaker 1: The guy gives me the pad, and you know there's

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Speaker 1: a tip there. W Oh, he did his hand the

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Speaker 1: cookie over the cottle.

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Speaker 11: I wouldn't tip either. No, that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: You guys have never worked in a restaurant. Huh? I

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Speaker 2: did for two days. Oh yeah, that's right. You couldn't last.

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Speaker 2: I didn't last. Oh what you're in favor of this extortion?

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Speaker 1: Well, not to that extent, but listen as someone who's

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Speaker 1: had to live off of tips.

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Speaker 2: You want me to throw you a five dollar bill

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Speaker 2: on your control board? There? Every nice, I'll put a

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Speaker 2: jar out here. All right.

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Speaker 1: just a few minutes on the Trump trial, Michael Cohen

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Speaker 1: getting interrogated and irrigated by the Trump defense team. We've

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