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hey everybody hey everybody hey
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everybody everybody hey everybody hey
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everybody welcome back besties are back
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besties have reunited besties are back
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besties are back for the all-in podcast
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we'll call this episode one episode two
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this is our fifth episode episode eight
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the last time you heard from the besties
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it was election night and it was
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a [ __ ] show
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he's got a megaphone
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prince of spax the dictator the dictator
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chamoth paulie hoppa tia hey everybody
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it's me jason this is cashmere do you
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like my thin cashmere joulet that i'm
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wearing let's all take a moment to say
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what we like about jamaat okay great
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let's get back to the episode queen of
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quinoa queen of kin y the queen of kin
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waff david freeburg is with us let me
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tell you guys what you missed out on hey
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everybody it's me jason califanus
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welcome welcome chiming in is rain man
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himself david sacks rain man david sacks
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hey guys
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hey
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besties are here talk about tech economy
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politics and our lives in silicon valley
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is it if newsom is recalled i would like
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to put my name on the ballot we're not
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going to get any positive change in this
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state until the politicians are held
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accountable salesforce in a record
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transaction for a sas company the ship
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goes into the suez canal and it had a
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blackout the chauvin trial guilty all
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three charges xi jinping and putin got
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together and they're apparently besties
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and then we can talk about the
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corporatist scumbags
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and other [ __ ] people over so let's
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let's do that
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you know i realized that what i said
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last week lacked empathy particularly
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towards others
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who are dealing with persecution i think
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what makes this podcast great is the
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diversity of opinion and respect that we
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show for each other jake out if if
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anything i said hurt your feelings i
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want to say i'm sorry i think you are
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the most incredibly loyal person love
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you chamath jake i have something to say
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to you as well
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sister breakdown [ __ ] it back at ya
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thank you to young spielberg extended
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edition remix we open source it to the
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fans and they've just gone crazy with it
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all in statistics where some maniac is
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breaking down how many minutes we each
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talk all in stands have a ton of skills
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who's the guy henry who does all those
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incredible videos with animations that
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is fraud that's where elizabeth holmes
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crossed the line crushing those things
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are great draymond green in the house
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what's up
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you bet 13
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okay you don't get 13 back you only get
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10 back uh we have biology here brad
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gershner welcome back to the program
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ryan armstrong what's up bro ryan
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peterson from flexport thanks for coming
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on the pod and we appreciate it i love
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you guys i wanted to kiss all of you on
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the mouth hopefully we'll have a bestie
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poker soon thank you for helping me get
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through a very difficult year people
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just can't believe men say to each other
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they love each other and they can't
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believe that saks almost is able to say
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it we love you sexy poo i love you david
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sacks and i love you david sacks
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back at you
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can we book the miami trip gym off let's
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let's go out there
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king of spaxx himself the guru of growth
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he puts the dick in dictator that time
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piece what does it do it reminds him of
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how much more money he has than you
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sweater is worth six times laura piana
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is above his line your super villain
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with that 1985 sasakaya he be chillin
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he's dropping annual letters in
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luxurious sweaters as far as respects go
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well it can only get better
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himself back with us again the tsar of
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arr the savant of sas
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he puts the ass in asperger's he's the
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sucker he's a sucker for tucker cesar of
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arr he perfected the flywheel with his
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boy peter tl lps don't be nervous
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because he's only investing in software
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as a service the world's biggest [ __ ]
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the rain man himself
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david sacks he's just waiting
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the queen of quinoa himself he'll reboot
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your physique with his munique the
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thriller from mamilla valley he puts the
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eye on anxiety works in dna but in the
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90s all he cared about was the mdma the
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duke of dna the titan of tempeh in high
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school he had no friends but thanks to
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the pod undergrads are in his dms all
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forms of steak he's a persian he's the
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vanguard of all the virgins the king of
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quinoa
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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ladies and gentlemen
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allow me to introduce
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your besties
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the queen of quinoa the sultan of signs
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david freeburg the rain man david sacks
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the dictator himself chamat pali hapatia
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and everyone's favorite bestie the point
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god
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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i cannot believe what jkl has pulled off
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here i mean i am in shock that this is
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even real
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you know i still don't know where all
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the money went but
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the amount of money you embezzled
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we are witnessing our first theranose
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moment
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starring jason calcanis guys
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i got great news for you
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i took all the money
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i put it in luna
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i haven't checked it in the last week
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but we were up 3x
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we're gonna kill this um you'll never
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find the money i put it through multiple
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bitcoin tumblers that's great it's gonna
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be great uh welcome everybody by the way
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sorry this is a joke to everybody in the
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room but one person sitting over here
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who is really sweating the accounting of
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this freebird is happening
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he had a panic attack at the beginning i
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said if jacob's gonna do this we're
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gonna have a grip session we're gonna
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all sit down and we're gonna figure out
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where the grift happened because it's
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gonna happen the guy who's always
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calling out the griff knows how to griff
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better than anyone else we'll figure
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this out like
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half these people's families here have
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you guys met them all they're great
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people
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are there any calcaneuses who are not on
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the payroll
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can i tell you we're feeding a lot of
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calcaneuses here i've been i've been
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this guy bob it's a good job i've been
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your biggest supporter defending you
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from these two [ __ ] jackals but it
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finally got into my brain as well so
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when i got into the hotel room and i
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opened the bag i was like well maybe
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this cup cost four thousand dollars
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right maybe
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it's very possible it's awesome it's a
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heated cup it's a heated cost
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who are we to know when's the last time
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you bought a cup
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it's like it's like the pentagon or
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something you know
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i mean tomas like when george bush went
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to the supermarket he didn't know how
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much a tomato or a gallon of milk
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i have no idea i'm sorry
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i'm not going to pretend
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i asked sax when's the last time you
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flew commercial which george bush was in
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office
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[Music]
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herbert walker yeah no it was uh i think
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obama was still in office yeah yeah he
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just won the democratic nomination uh
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we're so great uh grateful for you all
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to come here how many people flew
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just by a show of hands and a whoop
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whoop how many people flew over 10 hours
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to get here
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oh my god i mean it's pretty incredible
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um
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fans from around the world
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uh
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and i i just think uh you know it's very
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special to us
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um that this podcast means so much to
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you
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last night we we you know had a little
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debrief and
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the thing just said to us you know when
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we when we when we met you all and it's
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very weird to do a podcast like this and
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have it become super popular item two
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weeks ago it became the 26th
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most popular episode in the app store
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which to us was crazy we did this
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because we were losing our minds and
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coveted as friends we couldn't play
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poker we couldn't see each other it was
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very lonely
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and we did this for ourselves and the
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fact that all of you got some value from
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it uh it was just remarkable to us like
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as a concept uh but incredibly um
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gracious of you all to come here and
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then to tell us what it means to you uh
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i i it just has blown us away that
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people are even tuning in
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to it
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how has it
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changed your life freedberg
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i mean you were a nobody
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i mean i literally didn't have a twitter
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account
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we were all very famous in the tech
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industry but nobody knew
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i mean i mean literally
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we were backstage and they said queen of
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quinoa and this audience went crazy
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[Applause]
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i mean you're very socially awkward tell
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us what
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what is it like for you to be famous you
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know i appreciate that but i'll tell you
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the um
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the aw the weird thing is we go into our
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office for 90 minutes a week and we talk
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to each other over zoom and then we go
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in the room and people want to take
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pictures that's what's so like strange
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is like we've never done this and we did
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it once in person together right the the
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pod at your so we've always done it over
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zoom and it was always like a remote
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like so it always just felt like hey i
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gotta meet i got meetings on either side
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let's go do the pod for for 90 minutes
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and then all of a sudden it's like hey
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you know people actually [ __ ] listen
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to us talking over zoom yeah it's a
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little wacky i'll tell you um but it was
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great to meet everyone last night i
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think it was um it was really cool
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because i heard a lot of stories last
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night about some dude sold his company
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for like [ __ ] two billion dollars
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where's that guy
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that guy and he's like he's like
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well yeah
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yeah yeah he said he sold his company
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because of the um the call we made on
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the top of the market and he's like i
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took the deal 21 times revenue
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oh there he is oh oh who's this guy sir
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welcome
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anyways everybody it was crazy what an
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audience
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the mayor of miami francis juarez
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[Applause]
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so
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i take it i take it eleven just closed i
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got to dress like a human being for
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about an hour
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well it actually doesn't close eleven
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eleven
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so we'll just go there sorry it's 24
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hours it's 24 hours not that i've ever
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been there but yes
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um hey thanks for hosting us we were
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thinking of a place to do it and uh you
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were
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gracious enough to to encourage you took
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everybody's poker money everywhere else
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in the country so you decided to come
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here right yes we're going to swedenborg
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up here
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um
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but uh what an incredible um
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resurgence and cording of the tech
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industry you've done here tell us about
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a little bit about what's happened in
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the last two years since you started
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replying to people on twitter saying
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hey um if you're running a business we'd
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like to help you
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yeah sort of a united states of america
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type of approach right for fun
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fundamentally american where we want to
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create high-paying jobs in our city we
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want to empower people we want to give
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people an opportunity at being
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prosperous
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and uh for some reason in this country
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in certain cities that's been frowned
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upon or it makes you feel guilty about
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it and here in miami we're fundamentally
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shaped by our
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sort of our origin story right
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and many people in miami were exiled
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from their country of birth uh for
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because in those countries uh communist
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regimes took over and obviously in those
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countries uh a government official is
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saying hey give me your property
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give me your uh your business and don't
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worry i'll make everybody equal
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and they do make everybody equal they
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make everybody equally miserable so
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uh you know they've accomplished that
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and whenever government wants to grow uh
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you should run in the opposite direction
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and so in miami we do it uh by following
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some simple rules we keep taxes as low
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as humanly possible
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and shocker our budget has doubled in
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size
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uh since we uh have kept taxes to 1960s
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lows
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uh we focus on quality of life so we
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have the lowest homeless rate since
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2013.
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we're the first major city i think in
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america to actually try to get to zero
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we want to have zero homeless
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um and we we we actually invest in
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safety you know we actually while other
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cities decrease funding for our police
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we've increased funding for our police
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we have the most
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[Applause]
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we have the most police officers we've
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ever had in our history by the way they
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have the hardest job in america right
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now are our police officers and i'm
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going to give you a shocking correlation
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our crime went down
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shocking
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so you added police we added police and
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the crime went down yes you know it's
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it's it's bewildering our homicide rate
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went down by 23 last year this year it's
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down by 40 from the 23
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of last year so almost 63 percent two
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years
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so that's basically
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the combination of economic prosperity
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and then safety and security
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people are too busy to think about all
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of the long tail things they could be
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doing to screw up their own lives or
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somebody else's life they're just living
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a good life yeah we have 1.4
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unemployment um we're number one in the
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nation in wage growth we're number one
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in the nation in tech jobs we're number
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one in tech job migration i think we've
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moved 2 trillion aum in the last 18
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months
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and our vc pipeline grew by 200
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year-over-year and to put that number in
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context if it was a zero-sum game and
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our gain was for example san francisco's
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loss which it may very well be going
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into the future um in two years we would
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overtake san francisco as a vc capital
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of the world
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yeah and to be clear at that rate you
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know
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this is a very liberal city that is
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welcoming of all people it's just not
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like you've become some like insane
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crazy right-wing like teal sacks
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you still are like fine with people
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living their lives and you know yes
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we're we're very much into freedom uh we
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we're we're kind of sort of libertarian
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here uh in miami uh and and you know we
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we want people to live their lives as
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they see fit uh we're not here to tell
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them what to do we're here to create the
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conditions for their prosperity to the
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extent that government even gets
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involved in that right we we like to
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stay out of people's business we try to
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be efficient uh which i know is almost
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an oxymoron in government and we try to
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facilitate people's growth and success
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that's it that's all we do tell us about
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your uh support of crypto
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so you know when we were trying to
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create this uh buzz and ecosystem uh we
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knew we had to uh disrupt the the
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natural order of things and so
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our hack right our
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david and goliath sort of slingshot hack
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was to go all in on crypto
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part of the reason why is uh you know i
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understood the fundamentals of it i like
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the fundamentals of it um you know i
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think one of the things that's missing
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in our society is trust
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and when you see policy makers whether
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at the fed or
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or or the federal government when
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spending significantly more money than
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what it's taking in uh which is creating
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hyperinflation we see interest rates
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going up i mean sort of a
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terrible
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man man or woman inflicted
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uh suffering and you see a system that
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is uh designed to sort of create trust
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by making it um humanless in effect
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it was something that was very
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attractive obviously the blockchain i
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was part of the blockchain foundation
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part of the blockchain task force for
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the state of florida so i had a sort of
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education on the technology prior to the
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moment where i sort of decided to go all
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in on and i thought that it could be a
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differentiator being a young mayor who
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understood the tech
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who understood that i wasn't taking as
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big a risk as people thought i would be
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taking
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and it's been great for our ecosystem i
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mean whatever the price of bitcoin is at
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a given moment is pretty much irrelevant
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what's important to me is we have the
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bitcoin conference we have you guys uh
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we have the bitcoin conference which is
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a tens of millions of dollars in
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economic development we brought a
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tremendous amount of funds and
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and uh and exchange exchanges to
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headquarter here in miami which has
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created hundreds of high-paying jobs uh
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and then we got uh ftx to name our arena
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which is a 200 million dollar uh gift or
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contribution to our our community so
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it's it's been something that's
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benefited us to the tunes of hundreds of
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millions of dollars so regardless of
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what you think about crypto as a
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technology as an economic development
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tool it's been game changing for us saks
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i'm curious how you think about what
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you've seen in this city versus you know
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where we all live and operate in the bay
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area
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and then across the country
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how do you grade the job the mayor has
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done here and what do you think the
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lessons are for the rest of the country
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i think you know mayor suarez done
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amazing job here and it's something that
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other cities should be looking to
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emulate which is simply to be helpful
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instead of you know being an impediment
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i did an event for mayor suarez in san
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francisco you know my my home and it was
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the best attended event i've and i've
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done a lot of uh political events the
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one we had with you was the best
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attended event i think we ever
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held and the reason there's a tremendous
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amount of curiosity
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on the part of people in san francisco
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in terms of what's been happening here
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and the kind of the thing that you heard
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over and over again
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by the people who attended that event
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who had asked questions was you know why
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can't we have a mayor like you
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in san francisco because i don't live
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there
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actually i'm president of the us
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conference of mayor so i kind of
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jokingly say well i'm kind of you know
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trying to but every every city i go to
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they ask me the same question and i'm
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like well i really like miami a lot yeah
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i mean
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fundamentally we have not just a mayor
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but because the mayor in san francisco
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is actually not bad london breed's not
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bad the issue is the board of
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supervisors who really controls the city
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i mean they've been engaged in killing
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the golden goose i mean
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san francisco and the bay area had a
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lock on the tech ecosystem and because
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the
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political forces there defined tech as
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the enemy they basically have driven it
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out and as a result you now have
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emergent tech hubs all over the united
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states starting with miami and austin
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um and other cities like that and it's
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kind of crazy san francisco had the
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monopoly and it basically chose to give
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it up well spending it was a giant grift
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right aren't they at like 4x budget per
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capita over new york it's like yeah it's
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reacted something insane yeah it is
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great mayor let me ask a question around
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um one of the reasons silicon valley
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exists is because of the relationship
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with the universities in the bay area
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and obviously that still continues to be
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a big driver for the tech and
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more recently biotech economy in the bay
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area
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a lot of people get their phds they
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graduate engineering students they stay
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in the bay area ucsf stanford berkeley
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et cetera how do you think about the
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relationship between universities what's
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the kind of um kind of reflective
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solution here and are there
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relationships you could maybe build or
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bridge with california schools to kind
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of get innovation hubs set up that that
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partner would graduate
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i would love to um you know one of the
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things that's interesting about silicon
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valley is 95 of the people that live in
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silicon valley were not born in silicon
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valley um in miami it's closer to 70
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percent of the people that um
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that live in the city were not born in
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the city i'm actually an anomaly being
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the first miami-born mayor in the
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history of the city 125 years so that's
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that's a pretty cool stat but i
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absolutely think that we can look we're
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not perfect i like to think that i get
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up every morning
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as a mayor you sort of look at the
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imperfections and you try as a long-term
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build right beyond these 24 months you
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start thinking about what are the
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structural things that we can do better
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and i think you just hit on one of them
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right i think certainly having a
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university that's at the caliber of the
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stanfords the mits you know harvard even
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ut and georgia tech get a lot of fanfare
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um in austin and in the atlanta area um
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and so i think we can certainly
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do better um i'm not one of these people
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that likes to be complacent or that
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thinks that you know even if we had a
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university at the caliber of some of
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these universities i'd be still trying
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to find a way to do better i think the
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world is highly disruptive i think
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higher ed is highly disruptive and i
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think uh and it's an archaic sort of
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institutional just like government right
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they're always behind so i think that
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that gives cities like miami if we're
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smart if we find our crypto for
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universities
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right we can sort of leapfrog a lot of
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them and and get to the top very quickly
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i think i want to ask you as we as we
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wrap here a really hard question um we
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are
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struggling how to beat your mouth in
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poker yeah it's hard
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to be possible i would say
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no i mean
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we have um a drug crisis in this country
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yeah with fentanyl yeah it is a
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superdrug we have never seen we have
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this
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problem in san francisco with
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homelessness and drugs and you are now
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uh running the
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uh conference of all the mayors in the
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country and you all come together and it
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seems like some cities are figuring out
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how to deal with this and some are
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floundering
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is the issue that we're looking at a
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super drug and an addiction problem that
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has very low chance of uh resolving
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itself through even you know when you
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when somebody can get a bed and go to
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recovery the recovery rates for fentanyl
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are slow single digits and we're looking
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at this as if the problem is actually
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homelessness that they don't have a home
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when in fact they are addicted to a
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super drug why can't we look at this for
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what it is and stop conflating
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a super drug addiction problem with
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people not having a home and an economic
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issue
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it seems like there's some denial going
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on sure look i think fentanyl is uh the
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numbers are very scary right in terms of
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recovery it's infinitesimal uh in terms
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of people that can get out of that that
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vicious cycle of fentanyl addiction
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in miami what we did about 10 15 years
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ago was we created a network
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of of of
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facilities that do drug treatment
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alcohol treatment mental health and
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vocational training all at the same
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place
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it's called the homeless trust
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we use i think it's a cent from it's a
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basically a tourist tax so people who
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come in and visit pay a bed tax uh when
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they come and visit a hotel
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it generates about 50 million dollars a
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year which you can bond out and we've
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created a decentralized set of
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facilities all across the msa we reduce
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homelessness by about 90
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with that network we're now down to the
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chronic uh few that the last 10 percent
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it's about a thousand in the county in
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miami in the city which is one of 34
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cities in the county we have 510
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homeless right now in the city
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and that's incredible you know down to
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the person yeah down to the person we do
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we do a a um
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a continuous audit and continuous uh
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uh census
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and so we know down to the person and i
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think the key for us to go to zero right
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aside from trying to fund the network's
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uh wish list which we did uh with some
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arpa funding that we got is to really
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know them at an intimate level know
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their stories right you know you when we
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first met one of the things you said was
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you don't know someone until you know
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their story like how do you drill down
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and how do you get inside and know uh
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what is what's the reason why they're
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there whether it's an addiction whether
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it's
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uh some people just have been homeless
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for 20 years and they're just used to it
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right
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they want a lifestyle they want to live
00:24:07
on the streets and those are the hardest
00:24:09
ones because you really can't
00:24:10
unfortunately legally tell them you
00:24:12
can't live on the street right so it's
00:24:14
it's it's about convincing them that
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there's a better path there's a better
00:24:16
life that there are things out there
00:24:18
that can uh create more happiness for
00:24:20
them yeah but you have to hold the line
00:24:23
as well you do on a policing level like
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absolutely if you
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uh as we've seen in san francisco
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if you incentivize it
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by not doing
00:24:34
any basic policing you get more of it
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well here's the issue i think what
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people often forget is obviously people
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who are homeless are human beings and
00:24:41
they need to be treated with dignity at
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the same time they're human beings like
00:24:45
we are if any one of us
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is recording over there if any one of us
00:24:49
just got up and started urinating
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on the stage right now
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they would be arrested they would be
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arrested so so we we're held to a
00:24:58
certain level of account as human beings
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where our actions affect others
00:25:03
right so it's not just about the human
00:25:05
person and how we take care of that
00:25:06
human being but it's also how does a
00:25:08
human being interact with and affect
00:25:10
everybody else and i think that's the
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part that gets lost sometimes in the
00:25:13
debate
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mayor before sorry i want to ask one
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question you focus on local issues the
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city that you operate what do you think
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happens to the united states the federal
00:25:21
government over the next 30 years do you
00:25:23
have any points of view on where we're
00:25:24
headed as a
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wow it's that's a long uh that's a
00:25:27
bloated question but i think well you'll
00:25:29
be running for mayor uh for president
00:25:33
2032 when are you planning who knows who
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knows thank you
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whenever tamatha also authorizes it um
00:25:42
look it has been authorized just you
00:25:43
know you are looking at it eight to
00:25:44
twelve years from now he will be the
00:25:46
president of the united states but
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anyways go ahead and i'm always trying
00:25:49
to hack and accelerate the process
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anyhow um
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so uh
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yeah
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so so it's it sounds good by the way uh
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i i think a few things i think first of
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all those three uh those three
00:26:02
bullet points if you will those three uh
00:26:04
uh sort of keys to success keeping taxes
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low investing in quality of life which
00:26:09
is sort of homeless assistant safety and
00:26:11
then uh you know creating high-paying
00:26:13
jobs was leaning into an innovation
00:26:14
economy we're transitioning that's
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that's that's a recipe for success for
00:26:18
the country can we change the country
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though what can we change can we move
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the trend right
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look what we did in miami in two years
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absolutely we can i think we have to
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transition there's two inflection points
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which are massively disruptive the first
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is from a an industrial to a digital
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economy and the second is from the
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boomer generation to our generation
00:26:36
that's right right so those two
00:26:37
inflection points are happening at the
00:26:38
same time if we
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and what i i what that does i call it a
00:26:43
tsunami of opportunity right and if we
00:26:46
get ahead of the tsunami and we surf
00:26:47
that wave as opposed to letting the wave
00:26:49
run us over um i think we can create a
00:26:52
generation of prosperity but look you
00:26:54
have you have china and and russia
00:26:56
banning bitcoin do we want to agree with
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china and russia on anything right now
00:27:00
i don't know you know i don't think so
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so you know i i think there are
00:27:05
tremendous opportunities for us to lean
00:27:07
into this innovation economy and create
00:27:09
prosperity you have the largest
00:27:11
microchip factory in the world being
00:27:12
built in columbus ohio um i think that's
00:27:15
something that uh we need to sort of
00:27:17
reclaim our ability to to produce things
00:27:19
in the technological industrial
00:27:20
revolution
00:27:22
we're seeing you know uh bitcoin mining
00:27:24
facilities that are done at carbon you
00:27:26
know carbon neutral uh so i think
00:27:28
there's a lot of opportunities in this
00:27:30
new economy for us to really jump ahead
00:27:32
where skilled labor is going to be a
00:27:33
premium over unskilled labor that's
00:27:35
going to be done with computers or you
00:27:37
know uh you know printers or whatever
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well mr mayor we we appreciate that uh
00:27:42
you are putting uh your life to service
00:27:45
thank you for the citizens of this great
00:27:47
city uh and we really appreciate that
00:27:49
because you have other opportunities you
00:27:51
could have pursued and you're pursuing
00:27:52
really
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changing
00:27:54
uh what is you know some some major
00:27:57
dysfunctions in the political system and
00:27:58
we're all rooting for you and
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the results are undeniable and we really
00:28:02
do appreciate you ladies and gentlemen
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thank you guys
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let your winners ride
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rain man david
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and they've just gone crazy with them
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we should all just get a room and just
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have one big
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we need to get
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back
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