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Speaker 1: anything he missed or where's Gavin. He's running for president.

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Speaker 1: He went to Florida, it's going to alabama's going to Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: going all over the South to start his campaign. We're serious.

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Speaker 1: all of his extra money on something like raising his

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Speaker 1: public profile nationally. This week, it stops in Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi,

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Speaker 1: and Alabama. At least I know those four for sure. Yeah. Oh,

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Speaker 1: red states where where American freedoms are most in danger. Well,

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Speaker 1: they'll load the audience with the local minions. But as

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Speaker 1: the guy who shut down all the businesses in schools

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Speaker 1: and meeting the moment, Yeah, stus, what's that. I will

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Speaker 1: explain more about this A dope tour and one of

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Speaker 1: the big stops in Florida coming up in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: We've been following the saga of a man that really

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Speaker 1: would want to be the next Gavenuesom. It's a San

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Speaker 1: Diego County supervisor by the name of Nathan Fletcher, who

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Speaker 1: we talked to from time to time because he's pretty

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Speaker 1: the last time we talked about him, he's another proponent

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Speaker 1: of getting you into mass transit and affecting San Diego

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Speaker 1: County driving mileage tax, all of that good stuff. But

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Speaker 1: he ran into some problems. It was just announced recently

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Speaker 1: and was entering rehab. He did serve in the military,

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Speaker 1: so the reason given was post traumatic stress syndrome. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe what happened right after that was a lossuit was

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Speaker 1: announced he was being sued for sex harassment by a

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Speaker 1: that Nathan Fletcher was also a member of, and from

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Speaker 1: there it's all gone downhill. He did announce that he

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Speaker 1: would resign as San Diego County Supervisor until later next month.

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Speaker 1: His annual pay is two hundred and seventy five thousand,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty five dollars before taxes, including salary,

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Speaker 1: to thirty seven thousand, fifty dollars in total pay for

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Speaker 1: the seven weeks from the start of this absence to

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Speaker 1: the effective date of his resignation. So as part of

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Speaker 1: the May fifteenth is a date he announced. So we're

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Speaker 1: we'll find out. Jim Desmon who said, go now, Nathan Fletcher,

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Speaker 1: Jim are you there? Yes, I'm here, and absolutely this

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Speaker 1: I don't know he picked this arbitrary trary date of

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Speaker 1: got to pay for his legal fees. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be the taxpayers. Well, luckily for the county right now,

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Speaker 1: we're not named in the lawsuit. It's this metropolitan transit system,

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Speaker 1: for another six weeks. Oh yeah, absolutely, and May and

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Speaker 1: he gave no explanation as to why he chose May fifteenth, No,

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Speaker 1: He cheated on her. He was a subordinate at this

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Speaker 1: This civil lawsuit alleges that he stalked her on social media,

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Speaker 1: But we all have to take spexual harassment training and

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Speaker 1: the number one thing they say is a boss can

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Speaker 1: and that's exactly what he did. So I think he

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Speaker 1: you heard anything, any any stories behind the scenes about him, Well, now,

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Speaker 1: No one else has come forward. Well, there's a nineteen

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Speaker 1: still it's sexual harassment as far as the government's concerned.

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Speaker 1: Nobody else on the board, though, supports your call for

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Speaker 1: him to leave now Huh, not that I've heard. Nobody

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Speaker 1: But so there's and people are telling me, you know,

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Speaker 1: was it was really pretty obvious that he was pursuing her. Well,

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Speaker 1: his PTSD before this incident. I had not. And to

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Speaker 1: I just mentioned on the iHeart Radio app. Well, we

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Speaker 1: have been no arrest made. The details behind what happened

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Speaker 1: to him in the early morning hours yesterday. One more

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Speaker 1: tech story. It's a little lighter Google. Google, of course

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Speaker 1: has laid off twelve thousand people, but they're telling the

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Speaker 1: remaining employees that you may lose some of the perks.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start cutting back. We're gonna close some of

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Speaker 1: the snack bars known as micro kitchens. We're gonna and

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Speaker 1: John by the way, many tech companies. It's all free.

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Speaker 1: I know. You go down the hallway there and you

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Speaker 1: a lot too. Yeah, because it's like three bucks for

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Speaker 1: You don't have to go to the seven to eleven

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Speaker 1: where it's also expensive. You know, I went to uh

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Speaker 1: I had a friend who work there. Yes, so it

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Speaker 1: is all free men him at lunch. Yes, it was free.

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Speaker 1: It was really good food, I know, like like excellent.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, it would have been a highly rated

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Speaker 1: gonna shutter cafeterias on days when they see lower traffic,

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Speaker 1: it says here. Employees will not get to automatically replace

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Speaker 1: it looks like they're cutting back on massage. Never had

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Speaker 1: that perk here, No, I don't think you'd want it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe some of the tech guys could come and give

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Speaker 1: he gave up on it. It weren't bad now. Some

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Speaker 1: of it is in response to the new hybrid workweek.

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Speaker 1: The email said, Oh, that's a fancy phrase for people

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Speaker 1: I'm on the hybrid plan. Oh that means you're staying

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Speaker 1: in bed. They because they're finding out. One documents CNBC

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Speaker 1: when people were likely working from home. Yoga classes. John,

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Speaker 1: isn't that a perk? Yeah? That's where Garcetti was headed.

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Speaker 1: If he hadn't gotten the ambassadorship, he was gonna be

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Speaker 1: a yoga instructored. We had that lined up ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Was one of our first names for a mayor. Yoga

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Speaker 1: pants yoga pants. That's right. Yeah, that's what we called

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Speaker 1: them that. So they're gonna start negotiating better deals with

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Speaker 1: their servers and their data centers. Well, because you know,

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Speaker 1: this is unusual because for years the tech industry was

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Speaker 1: about yeah, you know, we're flowing it. They were Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was unlimited money. You know, they they had they

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Speaker 1: had now taken so much advertising money, right, but you

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Speaker 1: There's only so much advertising money and they've gobbled up

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Speaker 1: a huge percentage. So that's it. That's that's the limit

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Speaker 1: the new Hybridcing has slowed since twenty twenty one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the hybrid hybrid workweek. Yeah, we got Conway. Hey, Nah,

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Speaker 1: great for ABC News. He'll be doing the find my Phone. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know that, you know that that feature that keeps

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Speaker 1: setting people to the guy's house. It's a big story,

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Speaker 1: huge story. We got that. We has a protein bars

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Speaker 1: sold at Costco being recalled in seven states. That's our audience.

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Speaker 1: They liked the protein bars, you know. You know another

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Speaker 1: big story, that's right, Johnson and Johnson's paying eight point

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Speaker 1: I've seen those commercials for years. Yeah. I remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: guys used to do that at gyms and they powder there.

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Speaker 1: a buff for you to say that word. That's right,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Uh. And then also a target loss and

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Speaker 1: then they found that kid. It was a missing seven

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Speaker 1: that kiddy. They found him, found him. Yeah, Mike Crozier

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Speaker 1: is the news. Yeah, they dog with him to live

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Speaker 1: from the Troy for our cafe. Hey, you've been listening

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