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Speaker 1: Just in case you're unfamiliar with me, I host a mo'

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Speaker 1: You're gonna make a big announcement before the week is out,

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Speaker 1: want more information about me and what I do. But

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Speaker 1: right now I'm sitting in for John and Ken. And

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Speaker 1: part of sitting in for may it be John and Ken,

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Speaker 1: or Gary and Shannon or even Bill Handel is usually

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Speaker 1: during the holidays. And during the holidays, one of the

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Speaker 1: best things about if you're working during the holidays is

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Speaker 1: the lack of traffic. By and large, you don't have

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Speaker 1: That's the good news. But then I see the bad news.

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Speaker 1: Rain is coming to southern California for five days straight,

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Speaker 1: in other words, through New Year's Eve. Boo, through New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve. In other words, we need to possibly revisit

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Speaker 1: our previous conversation regarding what we plan to do on

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, because I am a firm proponent of

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Speaker 1: not being anywhere there's rain. Rain will kill an evening

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Speaker 1: because the rain negatively impacts all those factors. I think

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Speaker 1: this is why people on the East Coast laugh at us,

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Speaker 1: and reached out to my co parents' family in Philly

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Speaker 1: and they're saying, it's eight degrees eight So they moved

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Speaker 1: And for them, it's snowed in, it's iced, and it's

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Speaker 1: just and that's just what they do. For us, it's

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Speaker 1: like it's about to rain. I'm sure people on the

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Speaker 1: frozen over. But you know what that's like living in Pennsylvania. Yes, sucked.

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Speaker 1: That is why we came back. That is why we

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Speaker 1: came back. I would much rather have this five days

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Speaker 1: because it's like everyone I know is like, man, it's

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Speaker 1: this last week. Eric was I in for John and

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Speaker 1: Ken last week. What I was talking about how much

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Speaker 1: If my worst weather complaint is it raining and it

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Speaker 1: be sixty five degrees out for the next five days,

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Speaker 1: if you want to compare regional concerns, no, I mean,

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Speaker 1: of issues with traffic. We were just alluding to that

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Speaker 1: it's like. And to your point to all of it sucks.

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Speaker 1: It sucks. We may have homelessness, we have some crime,

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Speaker 1: But what they have an increase of on the East

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Speaker 1: that does to people's psyche. There was actually a news

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Speaker 1: or losing jobs where because performers was at all time

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Speaker 1: Don't go outside. Yeah, crime is everywhere, and that's you're

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Speaker 1: not going to escape that. Welcome to America. There's no

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Pacific Northwest, now, Mark Runner. That's

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Speaker 1: a place where it rains incessantly, not as much as

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Speaker 1: everybody believes, but yes it does. Yeah, absolutely get kind

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Speaker 1: I know it snows in the state of Washington. But

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Speaker 1: do the winters weigh on people in a negative way

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Speaker 1: snows in Seattle, all of society shuts down because it's

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Speaker 1: a very hilly city and they get more rain than snow.

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Speaker 1: But in the eastern part of the state, they're used

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Speaker 1: I miss seasons. I mean I like living here. I

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Speaker 1: to see the leaves change color. I can feel the

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Speaker 1: need to put on a cold No one cares about season.

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Speaker 1: I'm immune to your mockery seasons. The seasons are four seasons.

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Speaker 1: I want to feel it get cold in the fall.

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Speaker 1: I like eighty year round. Please, this sounds like nothing

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Speaker 1: but sour grapes. You guys, do your words. The hell

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Speaker 1: wants to live in Seattle over La Well, I moved here,

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Speaker 1: so it's a straw man. You're attacking. I'm a rhetorical question.

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Speaker 1: You you are the embodiment of our point. I like

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Speaker 1: All that sucks. Yeah, you can have that. Okay, forty

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Speaker 1: degrees is not cold. That's that's mild. It's unseasonably, you know,

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Speaker 1: on over that. He put a hoodie on. Show Yes,

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Speaker 1: Now to the care if I twenty our newswoman Mark Runner.

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Speaker 1: Four national parks across northern California and southern Oregon are

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Speaker 1: banding together to make one annual pass starting January first,

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Speaker 1: the Lasting Volcanic National part. I remember thinking a few

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Speaker 1: loosening the restrictions on eighty US the accessory dwelling units.

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Speaker 1: I said, this might be a huge growth industry for

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Speaker 1: our economy, especially here in California. In just in case

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Speaker 1: you don't know it, used to be where you couldn't

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Speaker 1: But now it's almost like they're encouraging you to do it.

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Speaker 1: like a more than two and three hundred thousand per unit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: then we would have been there by now. But it's

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Speaker 1: never been a priority here in America. The fact that

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Speaker 1: we're still using rail technology from the nineteenth century, Let's

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Speaker 1: be honest, it hasn't changed any It just doesn't make

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Speaker 1: any sense. And if we want to if we wanted

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Speaker 1: to actually deal with the issue of traffic and congestion.

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Speaker 1: If we had put the money into it back in

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Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties in the way that that's when we

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Speaker 1: started the La Metro, where do you think we would

435
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Speaker 1: have been today, what traffic might have looked like in

436
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: a lesser degree today, But instead we'd never focused on it.

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Speaker 1: We put money into freeways, we put money into toll lanes.

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Speaker 1: We've put money into cars and making it more accessible

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Speaker 1: for cars, widening lanes, diamond lanes, and so forth. But

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Speaker 1: we've never put the money in an earnest way into

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Speaker 1: mass transit. And part of that is building a subway

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00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: which didn't even take you to the airport. Who the

443
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Speaker 1: frick thinks that's a good idea? Who did? It's one

444
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Speaker 1: of those things where if you're going to have a subway,

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Speaker 1: if you're going to have mass transit, it's got to

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Speaker 1: take you to the airport at the minimum, airport in downtown.

447
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Speaker 1: Got to have those two things. We got to downtown

448
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Speaker 1: and it only took thirty two years. We'll take thirty

449
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Speaker 1: four when they're done, thirty four years to get us

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Speaker 1: to the airport. Well done, California, Well done, Yeah, John

451
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Speaker 1: and Ken Show Cafe I Am six forty one live

452
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Speaker 1: Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. McDonald's has an automated location where,

453
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Speaker 1: for the most part, you don't have to deal with

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Speaker 1: any real people. You pay your money to robots, and

455
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: you get your food. I think of it as the

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00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: glorified vending machine with just hot food. Now, depending on

457
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: when you were born, this could be settling or unsettling

458
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: for you. I remember when I was a kid, and

459
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Speaker 1: this is going to really date myself and also my family.

460
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: But I remember when ATMs and also microwaves became a thing.

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Speaker 1: In other words, people really started using it with great

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Speaker 1: efficiency and frequency. And I remember I think it was

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Speaker 1: my dad who said to me, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I trust an ATM. I don't know if I trust

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Speaker 1: a machine to give me the right amount of money.

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Speaker 1: And to me, it's like, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: You know, technology is cool, But now as I get older,

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Speaker 1: it's like, I get that if you've lived your life

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Speaker 1: in a way in which you're accustomed to dealing with

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00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 1: people or dealing with life a certain way, then you

471
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: may be resistant to change. My father's mother was a

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00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: person who did not believe in banks, and she literally

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00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: put money underneath the mattress literally because she did not

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Speaker 1: trust banks. And I remember my mother, I had to

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Speaker 1: help her out with the whole idea of online banking,

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00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 1: the idea of checking your account and making monetary transactions online.

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00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: She didn't necessarily believe in that, in the whole idea

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Speaker 1: of one hundred and twenty eight bit encryption kind of

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00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: resistant to that. But that's where technology had has led us.

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00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: And if you are my age or younger, you've grown

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00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: up with automation and just about every way, the whole

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Speaker 1: idea of needing a person to give you something or

483
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: facilitate a transaction, it's like, no, you don't. I was

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00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: talking about talking about my nephew. My nephew is grown

485
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: up in a world in which, yeah, you have a

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Speaker 1: kiosk for this, you have a machine for that. You

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00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: can go into a grocery store and do a self checkout.

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Speaker 1: You can go into a McDonald's even right now, and

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Speaker 1: you really don't need someone. You can go up to

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Speaker 1: the little self help kiosk and key in your order

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the person will bring

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00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: out your food five minutes later, and you really don't

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Speaker 1: need to interact with anyone, and there's something else about

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Speaker 1: this whole idea of an automated McDonald's, which is encouraging

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00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: to some people and discouraging to others. And let's just

496
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Speaker 1: say you don't know who I am. Let's say you

497
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Speaker 1: don't know my history regarding the whole discussion of minimum

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Speaker 1: age fifteen dollars an hour. I have been long of

499
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Speaker 1: the position that the whole fight for a certain dollar

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Speaker 1: amount for minimum wage was a fool's Errand if you're

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Speaker 1: trying to fight for quote unquote fifteen dollars an hour

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00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: and it takes you four and five years to get there,

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Speaker 1: then you've just rendered moot the whole idea or the

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Speaker 1: impact of supposed fifteen dollars an hour. And I also said,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to reiterate that, I also said that

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Speaker 1: you can't necessarily continue to fight for jobs which will

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Speaker 1: no longer be there. If it takes you five years

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Speaker 1: to get fifteen dollars an hour, don't you know in

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00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: five years that job probably won't be there. If you're

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Speaker 1: trying to fight for that wage or that job for

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Speaker 1: the future generation, don't it's not going to be there.

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Speaker 1: If you think that you're fighting for fifteen dollars an hour,

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00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: and you actually need like seventeen or eighteen. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you're going to fight for that because you think the

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Speaker 1: person working the register at McDonald's or in and out

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00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: or what ever needs that that, I'm here to tell

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Speaker 1: you those jobs are going away and it's not you

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Speaker 1: asking for fifteen dollars an hour, which is speeding up automation. No,

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00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: those things aren't even connected. Businesses have been trying to

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00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: get rid of employees and payroll, taxes and benefits forever.

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00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: That doesn't change. You asking for X or why in

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00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: terms of pay doesn't necessarily impact They're not going to

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Speaker 1: run quicker to automation because you're asking for fifteen dollars

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00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: an hour. They've always tried to get rid of you

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00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: as the employee, and this is just the latest evidence

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00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: of that. Now you got to make a decision moving forward.

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00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: Are you going to continue to fight for let's say,

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Speaker 1: sixteen or seventeen dollars an hour or are you going

529
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: to take stock of reality and understand that these jobs

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00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: simply are not going to be there anymore. And the

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Speaker 1: only reason we still have actual cashiers at grocery stores

532
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Speaker 1: is I believe because people want to feel as if

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Speaker 1: they're dealing with humans. The only reason I think we

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00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: still have customer service actual people because sometimes I would

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00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: say most times people don't want to just deal with

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00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: an automated system, but the technology is there, they don't

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00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: need them. Have you noticed whenever you get online you

538
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: have a problem. Let's say it's with most companies. If

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00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: you go to their website, you get a chat bot.

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00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: You don't get a person. You get a chat bot,

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00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: and they have the scripts that the chat bot will follow,

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00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: and more times than not, they can help you with

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00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: whatever you need. If they can't help you, then and

544
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,479
Speaker 1: only then, they'll pass you on to an actual person.

545
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: But there's not a need for all these people doing

546
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: all these jobs in which they have to pay them

547
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: all these months, weeks, and years the automated McDonald's. I

548
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: think it's less about that actual location and realizing this

549
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: is where our economy is moving now. We've already had

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00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: the automated cash list Amazon store. If you go to

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00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: any airport. We just talking about how the Metro is

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00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: just now trying to connect you to the airport. Go

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00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:08,959
Speaker 1: to any airport and you will find a cashless Kiosk store.

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00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: If you will where you just wave your ATM card,

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00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: walk through, take stuff off the shelf, and walk out,

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00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: and then it'll just bill you. Those are jobs which

557
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: are not coming back ever, and you're not going to

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00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: get more money for them. So the whole idea to

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00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: bring in full circle, the whole idea of an automated

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00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: McDonald's says to me, Yeah, of course, how long did

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00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: it take for us to get here? It should have

562
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: been here a long time ago, And I think it

563
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: has more to do with getting people acclimated and accustomed

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00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: to the idea. It's a glorified vending machine. What's the difference?

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00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: You don't question when you put your two dollars in

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00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: the vending machine down the hall at your job for

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00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: a coke or a bottle water. I know, sometimes it

568
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: doesn't work. You have to kick the crap out of it,

569
00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: I know, But the thought process behind it is any different.

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00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: You go up to the automated McDonald's, you have a

571
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: literal drive through, you punch you your order, or you

572
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: can say your order to the robot, which is no

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00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: different than any other place that you order and you

574
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: get your food and hopefully they don't mess it up

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00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: like a real McDonald's. Now you are someone who worked

576
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: in fast food, yeah, you might have a different feeling

577
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: about it. No, I actually don't, because even here in

578
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: California they debut maybe what a year ago it was

579
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: Flippy the LP. Yeah, the food at McDonald's. This is

580
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: no disrespect to McDonald's, but they're not fresh patties. They're

581
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: not out there getting fresh ground meat and grinding up

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00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: and patting it down. And especially it's not like a

583
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: corner burger stand. These are burgers that are for the

584
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: most part, already prepared, fish patties, nuggets, everything's pretty much

585
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: already prepared. A robot can easily go to the nugget dispenser,

586
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: drop six of them the hot bin, fry them up,

587
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: put them in the thing out because I looked I

588
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: was watching the TikTok video of how this all works.

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00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: You don't need a single person in there. If you

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00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: have one of these jobs and you work in McDonald's

591
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: and know how it works, what you need to be

592
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: doing is going to the school of McDonald's to learn

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00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: the technology behind it so you can be the person

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00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: that comes in and services the machine. Not only that,

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00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: there's something else, and you understand this I actually feel

596
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: better about my food when there aren't people involved. Oh,

597
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: because you don't want the special order. I know that

598
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: sometimes they make mistakes, or they may handle it in

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00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: a way which is more conducive to salmonella and E.

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00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: Coli and all that, And there are other times where

601
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: they just want to mess with your food. I feel

602
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: better knowing that there is less of that human interaction

603
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: and element that's just me. If not for humans and

604
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: handling of food, I wouldn't have gotten schiguela until you

605
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: get them bolter a screw in your burger. Well, put

606
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: it this way. I know people are getting food poisoning

607
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: somewhere every single day. Yes, because because of the mishandling

608
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: of food by humans. Oh every day, Yes, every day.

609
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: You just don't hear about it. Now. If this can

610
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: be lessened on some level, then I'm all for it. Now.

611
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: I'm see Twila one day will tell you the stories

612
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: off air of his time and fast food and all

613
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,479
Speaker 1: the things which will make you rethink. Oh, I worked

614
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: at Buffalo Wild Wings. I got stories too, Mom, Then

615
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: you should be agreeing with me. Yes, it's the John A.

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Speaker 1: Kin Show. K if I am six forty, We're live everywhere,

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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app,