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Speaker 1: of the radio show. It's the same thing. The La

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Speaker 1: County District Attorney's race is in the same place as yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Gascone about twenty two percent of the vote, Nathan Hockman

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Speaker 1: about seventeen and a half percent, and Johnatami in thirteen plus.

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Speaker 1: Really didn't move much. The votes counted went from forty

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Speaker 1: vote has now been counted, and supposedly today between four

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Speaker 1: to the public. But odds are things are going to

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Speaker 1: stay as is. Let's talk now. We just played a

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Speaker 1: news story from Fox eleven because in the Compton area

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Speaker 1: in West Rancho, Domingz. There are lots and lots of

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Speaker 1: RVs parked on residential streets and all sorts of crazy

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Speaker 1: re elected Tuesday with sixty six percent of the vote.

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Speaker 1: Vote does not help anybody. According to one person, her

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Speaker 1: They don't want RV's parked in their residential neighborhood. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what our next step is. We have to

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Speaker 1: do something, said this resident. We're not going to give up. Gee,

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Speaker 1: you should have voted her out of office, but I

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Speaker 1: guess not. Let's talk down or Reverend Chuck esters, because

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Speaker 1: there was a march this week in rest Rancho Dominguez

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Speaker 1: are you there, Reverend?

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Speaker 2: I'm here, all right here, How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm fine? As I mentioned, we just played in the

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Speaker 1: like in these neighborhoods where you have hundreds of RVs parks.

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Speaker 2: Well, they were on the major streets like Broadway and

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Speaker 2: On one hundred and forty eighth Street. They do not

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Speaker 2: behind buildings, behind houses. We have a one that uses

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Speaker 2: he's a such middle state. He also goes around and

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Speaker 2: Another one has a generator. Whoever is living across from

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Speaker 1: That would that would make you insane and terrified that

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Speaker 1: using the using the neighborhood as a public toilet. Well,

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Speaker 1: what's what's the deal with Holly Mitchell? So she just

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Speaker 2: No response, Well, I did somebody in their office. But

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Speaker 2: the county doesn't seem to have a plan together. You know,

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Speaker 2: they push you to the sheriff to ship, to push

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Speaker 2: you to the public public health department. There's just no

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Speaker 2: unified effort. They think they solved the problem by getting

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Speaker 2: them off the major therafires after the business owner as

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Speaker 2: So we're suffering the run of their decision. So they've

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Speaker 2: I know there's some initiatives, well they're supposed to come

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Speaker 2: through the county to address this, but we're one neighborhood

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Speaker 1: You know, it simply should be against the law, not

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Speaker 1: absolutely zero tolerance. No nobody can park overnight in an RV.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly exactly I mean, but they don't tell you that.

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Speaker 2: The sheriff department is just kind of washed its hands

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Speaker 2: That's the next that's the next step for us to

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Speaker 1: How long has this been going on?

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Speaker 2: Oh, this in the past year, it's one two. But

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because I mean some areas, uh in in

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Speaker 1: But but this is new because you said they chased

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Speaker 2: They chasing them out the business district, and I believe

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Speaker 2: there are just more people who are moving in them

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Speaker 2: You don't they don't even they're not even running when

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Speaker 1: Right right. Yeah, they rent out, they rent out the

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Speaker 2: If you don't do anything with them, then they burn

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Speaker 2: way right.

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Speaker 1: It's just outrageous. It's perfectly legal for the county to

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Speaker 1: and say you can't park overnight period, end the story,

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Speaker 1: and you enforce it. You just send a patrol car out,

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Speaker 1: let it sit and Ron. Well, all right, Chuck, Well

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Speaker 1: keep in touch. Let us know. If you're not getting anywhere,

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Speaker 1: we'll make more and more noise about this because you're

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Speaker 2: Well, we appreciated that. We really do all that you do.

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Speaker 1: All right, Chuck Asters, Reverend Chuck Asters there and the

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Speaker 1: west Rancho Domingo's area near Compton, Thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 1: I now here's the difference between Holly Mitchell, who's there,

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Speaker 1: why nobody's paying attention now. I've always talked about Tracy

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Speaker 1: Park on the west side. She replaced Mike Bonnen, and

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Speaker 1: during Bonnin's time, there was an encampment about a mile

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Speaker 3: They wanted to come into your comfy car.

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Speaker 1: They just wanted a ride.

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Speaker 3: You have plenty of room.

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Speaker 1: Well they're all wild eyed too, and they shout at

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Speaker 1: just everything aup Tracy, Uh, but but you do tear.

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Speaker 1: Practically it was huge. It was the biggest single person.

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Speaker 1: I usually avoid it, but I took it and it's like,

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Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan's been dead for twenty years. Ronald Reagan is

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Speaker 1: not the cause of the tent on San Jacente Boulevard,

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Speaker 1: it'll be gone. That's how that that's your job. That's

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Speaker 1: your job as a city council person, their supervisor. You

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Speaker 1: get complaints about illegal encampments. You get rid of them,

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Speaker 1: you do the whole song and dance, give them outreach,

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Speaker 1: to the desert. A lot of room out there.

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Speaker 1: most people just either have never heard the details really

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Speaker 1: of what goes on in La City government, and if

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Speaker 1: And what I'm telling you is most of the people

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Speaker 1: the money. And there's a lot of money floating around.

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Speaker 1: There's literally billions of dollars in tax money. There's a

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Speaker 1: It's not complicated. You don't need the you know, two

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Speaker 1: Dating apps are falling out of favor. It turns out

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Speaker 1: voted to recriminalize drugs. She says, I've worked so many overdoses.

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Speaker 1: I came into this building two weeks ago knowing we

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Speaker 1: had to do something because the status quo is not working.

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Speaker 1: This thing passed in twenty twenty with fifty eight percent support.

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Speaker 1: They thought, believe it or not, that decriminalizing would mean

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Speaker 1: fewer non Island drug addicts in prison and more in treatment. No,

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Speaker 1: people don't go to treatment. They liked being on drugs.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're not a drug addict. Too many

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Speaker 1: people get into this scolding mode. People on drugs like

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Speaker 1: the feeling of being on drugs. They do you get

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Speaker 1: in nice heroin Hayes. You're all like jacked up and

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Speaker 1: crazed on cocaine. You're full of life and confidence. They

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Speaker 1: they expanded addiction services. They spent the tax money. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't one of these cases where they did not set

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Speaker 1: up addiction centers that they didn't get the tax money.

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Speaker 1: They got the tax money, they spent it. They opened

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Speaker 1: the addiction centers. None of the addicts wanted to come

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Speaker 1: since now there was no consequence. They wanted to keep

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Speaker 1: getting stoned high. They keep They wanted to stay in

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Speaker 1: their fitanyl haze. They wanted that meth insanity they enjoy

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Speaker 1: made them feel good. That's why people take drugs. It

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Speaker 1: makes them feel better, makes them feel good, and once

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Speaker 1: you get addicted, you have to take it because the

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Speaker 1: withdrawal is so painful and so uncomfortable. So of course

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Speaker 1: they this is just a great experiment, isn't it. Can

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Speaker 1: you believe this? They actually thought good things would happen. No,

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Speaker 1: they'll just voluntarily come in for treatment. There's a reason

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Speaker 1: the stuff has been illegal since the beginning of time.

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Speaker 1: Human beings can't handle these kind of chemicals, especially the

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Speaker 1: chemicals we have now. These are chemical formulations that never

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Speaker 1: existed before. All. Right, coming up, were you ever on

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Speaker 1: a dating app?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: Doesn't it seem like a form of Hell.

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Speaker 5: Well, but it is really hard to meet people these days,

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Speaker 5: So I think that for youngins.

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Speaker 1: Hell, you just go up to people and say, Hi,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 6: But the girls got their guard up now these days, John,

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Speaker 6: Why because there's a bunch of creeps in the world.

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Speaker 1: There were always creeps in the world. All guys are creeps. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's more now there's more now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well there's just online.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about in person it's harder to pick up

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Speaker 1: a girl in person.

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Speaker 3: They were always creeps at bars.

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Speaker 6: I'm telling you now, it is harder to pick up

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Speaker 6: a girl in person than it was when you guys

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Speaker 6: were dating.

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Speaker 1: That's from experience a lot of failure. I guess yes,

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Speaker 1: all right, Well I'll be sorry about turns out a

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Speaker 1: lot of the dating sites, the dating apps were structured

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Speaker 1: like Facebook and Instagram to get you addicted to the

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Speaker 1: swiping without giving you a reward. And there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of scammers online now, and a lot of people who

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Speaker 1: want to hurt you online. We'll tell you about it

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Speaker 1: from a San Francisco Gates story.

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Speaker 4: Next, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A.

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Speaker 1: Six after three o'clock. All right, did Gavin news some

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Speaker 1: take one hundred and sixty four thousand dollars from a

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Speaker 1: business owner named Greg Flynn. Flynn owns a lot of

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Speaker 1: food franchises such as Panera Bread and Panera Bread got

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Speaker 1: this interesting exemption in the minimum wage bill. They don't

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Speaker 1: have to pay their employees twenty dollars an hour, as

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Speaker 1: I understand it, because they bake bread and sell loaves

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Speaker 1: of bread at the restaurant. And I've seen the wording,

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Speaker 1: and that's what it seems like. They got this incredible break.

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Speaker 1: Longtime friend, friend and business associate of Gavin Newsom. Newsom

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Speaker 1: has acted strangely at first, saying well, that's just the

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Speaker 1: sausage making of the legislature, then claimed absolutely did not happen.

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Speaker 1: It's not true, but I saw my own eyes. Unless

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Speaker 1: I'm misreading it, well, simply Republican James Gallagher, he and

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Speaker 1: the Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones have sent a letter

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Speaker 1: to Newsom. They want records about the origin and negotiation

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Speaker 1: process of the alleged bakery exemption to the minimum wage

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Speaker 1: law for fast food workers. They're calling it panaragate, and

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Speaker 1: Newsom has acted so squarely that I think there's something

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Speaker 1: to this. But we'll see now. I didn't realize we

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Speaker 1: were going to press Eric's button here, just just the

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Speaker 1: trauma he's had with dating apps. This story was in

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Speaker 1: SFGate dot com and it was a story about how

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Speaker 1: some people are getting back into speed dating, you know,

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Speaker 1: going to a local bar and doing speed dating, and

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Speaker 1: I guess you jump from table to table and you

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Speaker 1: have a few minutes and you get to know each

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Speaker 1: other and at the end of the night, see if

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Speaker 1: you've made any friends or you have any interest. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what people are showing up at these This was

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Speaker 1: a craze about twenty years ago pre dating apps, because

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Speaker 1: there's a surge of scams. People are I guess, meeting

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Speaker 1: some of these some of these alleged dates, and and

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Speaker 1: you know they're aut to steal money from you. I guess,

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Speaker 1: to manipulate you. There's a lot of AI generated profiles there,

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Speaker 1: so I think you're trying to contact imaginary people. I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine how this works. A lot of people are

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Speaker 1: getting harassed. For forty percent of users have encountered a

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Speaker 1: scam on a dating app. Forty twenty percent have fallen

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Speaker 1: for one. There's now a class action lawsuit against the

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Speaker 1: company that owns tender Hinge, and the league claims that

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Speaker 1: the company chases profits at the expense of the daters.

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Speaker 1: Well there's a shock, deliberately keeping users swiping rather than

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Speaker 1: helping them find romance. They alleged that the company has

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Speaker 1: built addictive features which compel them to pay for upgrades.

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Speaker 1: Nobody understands what the matching algorithms are, but the features

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Speaker 1: prevent users from ever reaching the relationship goals. Have you

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Speaker 1: noticed this, Eric?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so like on Hinge, for instance, there's a like

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Speaker 6: feature where you can like somebody's profile and hopefully the

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Speaker 6: idea is the other person once they get the message

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Speaker 6: that somebody is liked them, if they're interested in them,

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Speaker 6: you can like them and then you match, right, you

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Speaker 6: can start conversing. There's also a feature on Hinge called

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Speaker 6: Standouts where Hinge will through AI generation I'm guessing, compile

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Speaker 6: a list of girls for me, for instance, and it'll

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Speaker 6: highlight their profiles and I can send the girl a rose,

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Speaker 6: a digital rose instead of like, and you have to

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Speaker 6: pay for it, like you get one free rows a week,

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Speaker 6: and then yeah, if you get one free rows a week,

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Speaker 6: and then if you want to send more roses to

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Speaker 6: more girls, you have to pay for more roses.

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Speaker 2: Kit.

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Speaker 1: Look, I realized I'm talking from another generation. No, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: This is what I'm going to know that if you

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Speaker 1: give you know, if if you know a woman she

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Speaker 1: likes you, you give them a flower, it really has

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Speaker 1: an effect on them. The rose you could just a

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Speaker 1: tangential effect, right, yeah, not tangential and not just an

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Speaker 1: obvious effect. Tangible effect that's the word. I was looking

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Speaker 1: for a tangible effect. I can't imagine sending really what

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Speaker 1: amounts to an emoji is going to have the same effect.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know emojis are cheap. Well, there is

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Speaker 1: the endorphins like Deborah getting alike? Has that worn't off yet? Deborah?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I don't care about likes anymore.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh. I mean maybe the first time you get

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Speaker 1: a rose. But you know, a real rose that soft

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Speaker 1: and smells, has a nice fragrance to It's something you

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Speaker 1: can home that.

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Speaker 3: Eric is saying that you have to pay for the roses, right, well, right.

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Speaker 6: So you get one free rose a week that you

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Speaker 6: can choose on a girl that maybe stands out the

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Speaker 6: most to you that week. But if you want to

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Speaker 6: send out more roses during that week, once you've use

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Speaker 6: that one rose, you have to pay for more roses.

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Speaker 1: And that's how hinge. And it's not gonna have an

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Speaker 1: effect on a girl because an emoji rose is not

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Speaker 1: like having a real rose.

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Speaker 3: No, but I could see.

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Speaker 5: But the reason I brought that up is because since

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Speaker 5: the guys have to pay for after the first rows

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Speaker 5: a week, some ladies may say, oh wow, I know

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Speaker 5: he has to pay for this, you know he must.

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Speaker 6: Well right, it's like the girl sees she's getting a rose.

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Speaker 6: That tells the girl, oh, this guy is really interested.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're an easy mark if you'd fall for an

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Speaker 1: electronic row. She's wow, I need the real thing. Well,

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Speaker 1: they got to get to be in person to get

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Speaker 1: to the real thing, and they got to meet on

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Speaker 1: an app first, So I guess a virtual rose. No,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to, but I mean, really, do you

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Speaker 1: know for thousands of years people got together and they

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Speaker 1: made it, and they created lots of kids. There were

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Speaker 1: lots of marriages and happy lives, and there wasn't there

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Speaker 1: wasn't screens. You can't do this. We're capable of it.

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Speaker 1: Alogy demands us to do this. You know. Men are

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Speaker 1: designed to walk in a room and they seem anybody

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Speaker 1: who's attractive to them, they'll they'll figure out a way

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Speaker 1: to converse.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean, Uh, you just act like all

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Speaker 3: men are cave men.

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Speaker 1: Well we are a lot of us are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're so unattractive.

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Speaker 1: Cave women used to like it.

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Speaker 5: Well that was a long long time ago.

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Speaker 1: It's the impulse, and I know we're supposed to disguise

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Speaker 1: our impulse, and some of us disguise it better than others.

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Speaker 3: And when you say, mate, are you looking for a mate?

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Speaker 1: I mean sure at some point. That's that's kind of

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Speaker 1: the point word that words. But that's why men have

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Speaker 1: the reaction they do. Men don't don't walk around stimulated

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Speaker 1: for any other reason than to mate. I'm talking about biologically, No,

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Speaker 1: we can, we can go another minute. That's why we're here.

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Speaker 1: We're here. That's our purpose is to mate.

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Speaker 5: I thought you evolved from that. I think that's what

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Speaker 5: I'm trying to say.

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Speaker 1: We pretend that we've evolved, all right, We pretend that

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Speaker 1: we're civilized.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm so ignorant on that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I had no idea that you were. It was

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Speaker 1: so easy to get to you though electronic growth.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I said, I prefer the real thing. I was

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Speaker 3: explaining why others may like that.

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Speaker 1: Uh, put up a little resistance. Hey, you've been listening

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Speaker 1: to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear

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Speaker 1: the show live on KFI AM six forty from one

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Speaker 1: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course

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