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The Lates in Sports
"AP sports and Mike Reeves, Josef Newgarden won his first Indianapolis 500 passing defending champ Marcus Ericsson in a two and a half mile sprint to the finish. Major League Baseball, the rays defeated the Dodgers 1110, while the rockies beat the bets by that same score, Cleveland got a four three, walk off win over St. Louis, the Orioles were three to two winners over the rangers, Detroit down the White Sox 6 to 5 in ten innings, the royals were three two winners over the nationals, Toronto shut out Minnesota three zero, the brewers won 7 to 5 over San Francisco Cincinnati is an 8 5 winner over the cubs, Miami at two zero winner over the angels, the Diamondbacks defeated the Red Sox four two, Seattle gets a 6 three win in ten innings over Pittsburgh. The Yankees beat the Padres 10.7 and Houston beat Oakland ten to one with the braves downing the Phillies 11 to four emiliano grillo won the PGA's Charles Schwab challenge. You don't play off over Adam schick and Steve stricker was victorious in a playoff over podrick heritage in the PGA scene your championship at Mike Reeves AP sports.
AP News Radio
New York City outlaws discrimination on the basis of weight, height
"New York City will outlaw discrimination on the basis of weight and height. I'm Lisa dwyer. New York City mayor Eric Adams has signed legislation that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories, such as race, sex and religion, exemptions under the ordinance include cases in which individuals height or weight could prevent them from performing essential functions of the job. Several other cities have also banned discrimination based on weight or on physical appearance, including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisconsin. I'm Lisa dwyer
The Dan Bongino Show
Is Ron DeSantis' Team Going to Take on Trump Head On?
"The polls that basically saying Ron DeSantis down the polls because he was a conservative in Florida And Trump is up in the polls not because he's just a guy people like and had a really conservative presidency himself But because he really sucks and people can't find an alternative in the San Francisco conservative But there's another takeaway from this The desantis expected announcement tonight at 6 o'clock Pretty much confirmed at this point by the way The second takeaway is the biggest question I find that I genuinely don't know the answer I don't like talking about things on the air I don't have a solid answer for because I don't want to waste your time I mean imagine going to a whodunit movie and they don't tell you at the end Like who done it Oh I don't know just guess It's like that movie vanilla sky That movie drives me crazy because it's like they never explain what the hell happened The guy's like customer support What the hell does that mean Did this happen or not Can you just tell me I wish they would just put a footnote at the end None of this stuff really has like Jacob's ladder You don't know what the hell happened at the end of the movie I don't like asking questions I don't know the answer to But I'm not sure what the desantis team is going to do Are they going to take on Trump head on Or not Well that's kind of a weird question No no it's the only question Because nobody who's taken on Trump head on Has survived politically to tell about it No one They're all politically speaking I'm not a violent leftist Buried 6 feet deep Never to be heard from again At least on a national scale You can't You can't take the guy You can't He's The Lion King man He's the apex predator I mean who's going to beat the lion
AP News Radio
NFL approves emergency 3rd QB after 49ers' injury woes in NFC title game
"NFL teams will be allowed to play an emergency quarterback from the inactive list if the first two are injured during a game. The rule change was approved by league owners and stem from San Francisco's depth chart challenge in the NFC championship game. The emergency activation can only occur after an injury or disqualification, not for a performance related decision or other conduct. The forty-niners had to send Brock purdy back into the NFC title game with an injured elbow after four stringer Josh Johnson suffered a concussion. I'm get them cool ball.
The Dan Bongino Show
WSJ: Big Progressive Cities Continue to See a Declining Population
"So I'm just going to ask a simple question to the liberals out there Pay attention cotton out of the year stick it in your mouth for me If you guys don't suck if you don't suck see my premise is you suck Your premises no we don't suck We're really great So if your premise is accurate in my premise is wrong and you premises that you don't suck And I'm wrong saying you do suck Then how come the numbers marry up with you really sucking I'm just checking because The Wall Street Journal again no far right Alvin pretty down to center the leaning right but pretty down to center right They have this article on escape from New York Remember they told us oh all these people are leaving New York to go to Florida but it's just because the lockdowns and they're going to Texas Oh that's strange because the lockdowns they're kind of over right Last time I checked and it's so weird like people are still leaving It's almost as if my premise that you suck is real And your premise that you don't suck is fake Because the numbers are pretty devastating According to the latest census data New York City lost 468 people Oh no 468,200 Holy Moses That's bananas because the entire population of the city of Miami's only 449,000 Wow That's a lot of peeps man New York City lost 5% of its population So strange Here there's a little common thread with the other big losers too Remember the liberal premise We don't suck and the conservative premise Now you suck Other big losers include Chicago 81,313 people That's a lot of peeps LA 76,529 We're on in all these cities by the way And San Francisco 65,522
AP News Radio
Suspect pleads not guilty in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee
"The suspect in the fatal stabbing of the founder of cash app in San Francisco pleads not guilty. A judge ruled tech consultant nimai is a public safety risk and should be held without bail, bob Lee was found with three stab wounds, including one to the heart last month in a San Francisco neighborhood. Brooke Jenkins is the San Francisco DA. Anyone who's capable of violently killing someone in society is a public safety risk, regardless of whether we think a murder was intentional or not. Prosecutors have not provided a motive, but say mommy stabbed Lee after dispute related to mome sister. Paula canny is mom's attorney. I'm going to say my defense is it is an accident with a
AP News Radio
San Francisco is naming the nation's first drag laureate
"San Francisco is fighting back against recent bans on drag performances. The city is naming the nation's first drag laureate, representing the LGBTQ+ community, Darcy drollinger. Having the drag laureate position takes what we're doing and really elevates it and gives it a deeper amount of credibility. Drollinger is a drag performer and owns the oasis nightclub. London breed is the city's mayor. I'm really proud of what San Francisco has done to really open its heart and its minds to accepting drag as an art form. Drollinger realizes there are people strongly opposed to drag performers. But I also don't want to live my life under the shadow of fear. The drag Laurie its goal is to make San Francisco sparkle. That is a sound that can't really be silenced. I'm Ed Donahue
The Charlie Kirk Show
NY Mayor's Laughable Response to Illegal Immigration Crisis
"I want to play a piece of tape here on New York City, which you should run for mayor Eric that would be that would be great. Let's play cut 28. Law of sanctuary city was in place long before I became mad. I'm following the law as a law enforcement person you know, we follow the law. We are now in court now today, asking the judge to revisit this law to deal with this humanitarian crisis because even when they decided to put in place that law, no one thought that they would be dealing with the humanitarian crisis of disproportion. So Eric, you know, this is interesting. There's a lot of news happening in New York, but what's your take as a New Yorker about the flow of the illegals just coming endlessly into New York? I laugh. What is there to say? It's all preposterous. It's all absolutely preposterous. The flow of illegals into this nation. The fact that we don't have the political will to stand up against this lawlessness, to stand against an attack on our sovereignty as Americans. The fact that we have innumerable anti American people in embedded everywhere throughout our government. So, you know, by the time they get to New York, I just laugh. It's like, are you kidding me? Now, you're complaining now because you don't want to deal with them. Well, you know, why don't you move to Arizona? I don't really understand what the issue got plenty of issues here. But it's ridiculous, of course, it's ridiculous. There's lawlessness. All of this is fixable, Charlie. You know, to have a city like San Francisco or Portland or whatever. To have these places, go to hell. It is all fixable.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Democrat Policies Bring Chaos and Crime to America
"Talking to John's mirac, you know, John, what I wanted to say was that what we're seeing at the southern border we're also seeing in places like San Francisco, which has become the human feces capital of the world. Thank you, Nancy Pelosi. We are seeing a breakdown of order of social order that we have never seen in America. It's absolutely astonishing that what we're, I was just talking to somebody yesterday who works in really, really super high end retail talking about wanting to have a footprint in San Francisco and realizing not a chance. There is no way we will risk having a storefront in San Francisco. So the Democrat policies seem sometimes intentionally and sometimes at least semi unintentionally to be bringing tremendous chaos and crime to the United States, which brings us to the story of the New York subway. Right. Daniel penny, who is a veteran of the U.S. Marines and he saw a psych dangerous homeless lunatic screaming yelling at threatening people on the New York City subway. And what he didn't realize is the new rules. The new rules is you don't do anything. You don't do anything to protect strangers. You don't even defend yourself. The new rules are America. You don't defend yourself. Because you remember the mccluskey's in Missouri, a mob of arsonists marched onto their front lawn. They wave a gun at them. They're charged with a crime and stripped of their law licenses. So they can't make a living. They're lawyers. They're stripped of their law licenses. It's like you forbidden to write ever again.
AP News Radio
Government says dogs can dine al fresco but not everyone is on board
"Just in time for the summer dining season, the government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces, but not everyone's on board. The Food and Drug Administration's updated food code issued late last year, says restaurants can have dogs in outdoor areas, as long as they have approval from a local regulator, Megan Cornelius co owner of San Francisco zasi has jumped on the trend just as the summer's about to kick off. All the dogs are welcome here. We do a Monday night, dog night, specifically on the patio. So all the dogs can kind of commute together. Cornelius adds, it's their night out in the city, and you get $10 off a bottle of wine when you bring your dog, dog owner ilana minkoff is overjoyed by the move. I think that's fantastic. And what that will allow is for people like me who have dogs and love to travel, to go to other states and sit outside and eat. Which means I can now bring my dog when I travel, which is amazing. But even though nearly half of states already allow canine dining outdoors, the issues far from settled, with many diners and restaurants pushing back against the increasing presence of pooches. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Pilots at United picket for higher pay as pressure builds before summer travel season
"Pilots at United Airlines picketed for higher pay at major airports from coast to coast. They were wearing their pilots uniforms, hat included holding signs that read families first fix our schedules and four years past due. We've reached a point where management is stuck on denial and delay. And we're frustrated. Pilot Garth Thompson was at O'Hare airport in Chicago. Pilots like arzu delp in San Francisco say united should reward them for helping the airline survive the pandemic. And we feel it is now time for the company to step to the plate. And to give us a contract, acknowledging the sacrifices and the contributions that we have made. A united spokesman says they're working with the pilot union on a deal, a strike is an unlikely, but pilots at American and Southwest have voted to authorize strikes, Delta Air Lines reached a deal with its pilots earlier this year. I'm Ed Donahue
AP News Radio
Stephen Curry, Warriors stave off elimination, force Game 6 by beating Lakers 121-106
"The warriors kept their season alive as they beat the Lakers one 21 one O 6 6 player scored in double digits, including all 5 starters. Stephen Curry scored a game high 27 points from the jump the way we did handle their run the way we did and then close out fourth quarter strong was exactly how we expect to play in just a matter can we take it on the road and win a must win game on Friday? LA still leads the series three games to two. In the loss of LeBron James with 25 points and Anthony Davis had 23 game 6 is in Los Angeles on Friday night. Ryan leong, San Francisco
AP News Radio
Viking great Joe Kapp dies
"Joe Capp, the hard nosed quarterback who routinely ran into tacklers instead of away from them while leading the Minnesota Vikings to their first Super Bowl and California to its last rose bowl has died. He was 85. Cal confirmed that cap died on Monday. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for the last 15 years and was residing in an assisted living facility, his son JJ Capp said, the family made plans to send his brain to UC San Francisco researchers for steady of the potential connection between his dementia and hits he took to the head with his punishing playing style. I'm geffen cool bar.
The Dan Bongino Show
Biden’s Cold War: Anti-Air Conditioner Regulations Keep Piling Up
"Here's a story from Fox News Biden's Cold War anti air conditioner regulations keep piling up too Folks this green agenda is a religion for them This is an act of faith not science And when I say faith I don't mean faith in a good positive externality way I mean faith like Satan worshiping faith I mean this is really bad stuff That's why I've said and I'll say it again to our listeners in liberal audience market areas I mean you probably conservative There are still some conservatives left WLS Chicago KBC and LA Ron and a lot of liberal markets KSFO in San Francisco We love having you But man I'm telling you you better think twice about staying there These places are going down and going down fast I mean you run the very real risk of finding yourself in jail Do you see the story about the marine On the train in New York they saw homeless guy clearly mentally disturbed 44 arrests Guy winds up dead I don't want to see anybody dead I mean we say a jokingly don't get that but I'm not kidding I mean I don't want to see anybody dead But they're trying to criminalize self defense around the country You're not going to be able to get a gas stove You can't even cook your food the right way Why would you want to live there These places can not be saved anymore I wish they could But we are running out of time And how are you can Next thing you know there will be an exit tax Air conditioners next And I'm sure they'll call that a conspiracy theory too
AP News Radio
Sheriff: Wife of suspected Texas gunman has been arrested
"The suspect wanted in the Texas killing of 5 neighbors has been caught and his wife was also arrested. San jacinto county sheriff, Greg caper, says a tip led them to Francisco oropesa, hiding out in a home 20 miles from the scene of the shooting. He was caught hiding in a closet, underneath some laundry. His wife denied knowing where he was, but authorities believe she hid him in that home or apaza was shooting his air style rifle for fun Friday night when a neighbor asked him to move to another location, so his baby could sleep. Instead, caper says he shot 5 people in that house. And he will live out his life behind bars for killing those 5. Audio courtesy, KTRK. I'm Julie Walker.
AP News Radio
Sheriff: Suspected Texas gunman caught hiding under laundry
"The man accused of shooting to death 5 of its Texas neighbors has been captured. The suspect is in custody. At a news conference carried by KTRK, San jacinto county, sheriff Gregg capers, says the search for 38 year old Francisco or a pesa ended Tuesday when authorities received a tip to his location, a home near Houston about 20 miles from where the shooting occurred. He was caught hiding in a closet, underneath some laundry. Or a pesa is accused of shooting to death 5 neighbors, including a 9 year old boy and his mother after neighbors asked him to go farther away if he was going to fire round in his yard because it was keeping a baby awake, authorities say oropesa, then went over to the neighbor's house with the baby and began shooting, authorities say he's being charged with 5 counts of murder and Bond is set at $5 million. I'm Donna water
AP News Radio
Álvarez's clutch hit sends Mets past Braves 5-3 for DH split
"Francisco Alvarez is two run single put the mets up the stage. They managed to fight the three win over Atlanta to split a double header. David Robertson picked up a 6 out save for the mets. You know, fortunate to make just enough good pitches to get us through that one, they're a good team. We have to beat and we fought with them all day long and managed to pull out a win today. In the open and Sean Murphy hit two, three run homers and spent a strider lasted 5 innings for his fourth win as Atlanta held on for a night to aid victory. The braves 19 and ten, the mets are 16 and 13. Mike mancuso knew
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Larry Elder: Auditioning for the American People
"Have that empathy for the American people and you have that America first mindset with a likeability that shorter your argument, isn't it? I think the same thing applies to a battle between you and Ron DeSantis as it would you and Donald Trump. Well, my argument is a little different, Michael. My argument is, I've been talking, debating conservative issues, defending them for some 40 years in print on radio on TV with callers. I ran for governor of California. I got 3.5 million votes around the Santa's got 4.6 million votes in Florida with a battlefield far less daunting than the battlefield out here in California. On the question two replacement side, I carried 57 to 58 counties in California, the only one I lost was San Francisco, and I lost that Michael by a whopping 149 votes. Got in with 8 weeks left. In 8 weeks, we raised $27 million from a 150,000 individual donors, half a home came from outside of California. So there's a record there. And I've never said that I'm running against Donald Trump, we're running against Ron DeSantis or anybody else. I'm auditioning to the American people. I want the American people to look at me and say, can you deal with this guy? Somebody like Larry elder, whose father, I came from abject poverty, never knew his biological father. Ended up cleaning 20s for a living, started little cat say when my dad retired Michael, this 8th grade dropout had a net worth of a little bit under a $1 million, owning the restaurant property, probably next door in the home we still have in our family. So that doesn't tell you what it can happen in America. I don't know what can.
Slate's If Then
"francisco" Discussed on Slate's If Then
"A western city someplace with less traffic or less congestion than a San Francisco that you might not see some of the issues that you've seen in San Francisco? I think maybe I think that's possible. And I'm not basically out there sort of rooting for all of these AV companies to fail. But what I do think is that there are real risks. If nothing else, the experience of San Francisco shows things can go wrong in terms of individual incidents that are public safety risks, but also take a step back. We may end up with a lot more congestion, a lot of other sort of systemic problems to get in the way of traffic planning. And this is why I take such a regular regulation heavy perspective on the topic is whether or not that small city you're describing has fewer incidents of what the kind that San Francisco is enduring still, those local officials as well as the state government should be looking carefully to make sure there's transparency about what is going wrong, whether it's a lot or a little bit. And that there's clear data being collected about how the on net, these autonomous vehicles are affecting the transportation system. Because that is just not happening in California, which yes, it does have a stronger regulatory perspective than Arizona or Nevada or Texas, but it's not a very effective regulatory structure at all. And I frankly think it's in pretty urgent need of a reboot. You know, for so long, Silicon Valley companies and car companies have been working to make driverless cars. And frankly, reporters have covered them kind of breathlessly. And now that they're here, I wonder what do you think we've learned? We've learned how to burn up a lot of money. I think some people have learned about the hype cycle and how if you are really excited about a new technology forecasting the date at which we're all going to be using that technology that you do that at your own peril because there's a lot of people with egg on their face with their sort of beautifully crafted graphs about AV uptake that they issued in like 2017. There's one that's a beautiful graph, some graphic designers is very skilled, created this for Lyft, showing that by 2022, we'd be gently shifting all of us toward total robotaxis everywhere across the country. Beautiful graph utterly wrong. But I think what I worry about that we haven't learned as a society is that technology is not a panacea that goes for things like Hyperloop, which is also failing to meet expectations. And it goes for a number of other technologies as well. I think that there is a lesson here about being realistic about sort of mundane mobility solutions being better than the new crazy technological ones. And to recognize too that autonomous or even dare I say it electric cars are not going to remove some of the fundamental problems of cars period in our cities. Dense cities like San Francisco don't function well when they're overrun with cars. I don't care if you make it autonomous. I don't care if you make it electric. And that's a lesson that I think we're starting. Maybe to learn, but I don't think we're there quite yet. David zipper, thank you so much for talking with me. It's been a pleasure. David zipper is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy school's taubman center for state and local government. You can find his work on slate and at David zipper dot com. And that is it for our show today. What next TBD is produced by Evan Campbell, our show is edited by Tory Bosch, Joanne Levine is the executive producer for what next, Alicia Montgomery is vice president of audio for sleep. TBD is part of the larger what next family, and we're also part of future tense. A partnership with slate, Arizona state university, and new America. And hey,
This Week in Photo
"francisco" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"Within the last year, there was a guy visiting that did the old, you know, I just stepped out of my car for 30 seconds and I came back and everything was stolen from my car. Now, we're talking multiple laptops multiple cameras multiple lenses. What they do tell you in San Francisco is don't leave anything in your car under any circumstances. And I've seen the signs. I've taken pictures of the science, the signs are very well positioned, this person chose to ignore that sign. And everything got grabbed out of their car. So propos are up there looking for people that leave things in their car. And they steal them. I don't know if you just walked out of the car with the camera on your neck, whether anybody would hit you up there. You know, I certainly wouldn't leave anything in the car. What does that mean not leave it in the car though? I mean, obviously, well, I guess it's not obvious, but obviously I feel like you wouldn't leave anything on the seed because people would break the window and take it off. If anything in the car, not in the trunk. No, really? Oh wow. Well, first of all, I'm guilty of that. He totally guilty. Do you have a hatchback? No, my car is a trunk, a trunk trunk. Okay, I have a trunk, too. Most people, because I've looked. Most people have hatchbacks. That's a real easy hit and just grab everything and run away. Right? Wow. So those are the three areas. Now, I have photographed the north beach in Chinatown, mission district, financial district, ferry building. Fisherman's wharf, I have photographed all over San Francisco all year and it had no problem whatsoever. But let's remind people that when the photographer uniform is out and doing his or his or her thing, there's a $5000 camera around their neck, a $2500 camera and a $2500 lens, roughly, right? Maybe we're talking in $2000 camera in a $1000 lens. Maybe it's a $1500 lens, but you get the idea. And most photographers, when they're out on a job, have two of them. So there are $10,000. And then they have the backpack, which has more stuff. So it just makes it's easier than going to a bank. You just go over to them, steal their stuff, and run away. The cops don't care. The blame game. The cops say I'm not going to bother arresting anybody because the DA won't prosecute. The DA says I want prosecute because the cops won't arrest them. And the mayor says it's not my fault. It's their fault. And everybody goes in a big circle. Meanwhile, if there's a black eye on the city. Yeah. You know, I wonder, and that's a lot, right? So the other side of it is people may be thinking, okay, so they still might think they stole my Nikon. My Nikon has a serial number on it. My insurance company has a serial number. I should be saved because there's got to be some national registry of equipment that if thieves try to fence this thing, like if they try to take it to MPB dot com or auto Rama or someone and sell that lens or that body shouldn't have red flag pop up at one of those places you say no, this is stolen here. And it doesn't. But that's the other problem. eBay, Craigslist, Facebook, marketplace. You name it. You can resell stuff like that and there's nothing on there that says show me your proof of ownership. Show me the serial number. The input the serial number before will allow you to sell it. You just go on and sell it. Yeah. What a mess. What a mess. So then, okay, one of the things in your newsletter, you mentioned one of the areas that you mentioned that was a hotspot was a place that I love going to all the time and that's looking back at the city from treasure island. Yeah, like those big rocks out there, which is currently undergoing gentrification, right? Yeah, let me give you the treasure island story. So this is well, this is pretty well known. Photographer gets robbed while on the freeway. Well, I'm not really. The photographer was in treasure island was doing a shoot. And the thief watched the photographer get in the car, then followed the photographer real estate photographer. Actually, a husband and wife team followed the photographers as they drove away from treasure island as they pulled off route 80 in San Francisco. They got out, smashed the back, stole everything out of the car and drove away, and it was caught on the Tesla cam. So it made all the newscasts. So treasure island, yeah, you can go there with your camera. I've gone there with my camera. I haven't had a problem. You just have maybe think about where you're going to put the camera in your car afterwards, like myself, maybe I put it under my feet in the front seat. Or somewhere that would make it a little awkward and tough for them to come to a smashing ground. It's certainly have nothing in the trunk. And I also treasure island has the best skyline view in San Francisco. Right? It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. You go directly across. It's amazing because you go directly across from the city on the bay bridge. You don't even have to pay a toll. It's what not even a mile. Get off and then you're looking straight at the city. And sunsets, great. Though I did get a really nice sunset on here.
This Week in Photo
"francisco" Discussed on This Week in Photo
"You live close to LAX. Just get your butt up to LAX, get out of plane, come on out, we'll fly drones. We'll do underwater, all that stuff. Yeah. All the fun stuff. Yeah. Okay. All right, well let's talk about the not fun stuff, unfortunately. So I got your newsletter, which by the way, photo ops TV. Go sign up for this man's newsletter. I get it. I read it religiously every time you publish an episode or an addition of that. And this last one is why we are here today because it was about tips and tricks to not get your stuff stolen while in big cities, particularly San Francisco, because you had some unfortunate adventures in San Francisco. Let's dive into that. So set the stage for that first occurrence. I saw it when you first posted. This was like a couple years ago when you first had that first incident where you were shocked and you came away with less gear than you started with. Tell us take us through that adventure. Okay. And first of all, the story has continued because the camera thefts continue in San Francisco and every time there's a camera theft, I write another article, and when I write another article, people reach out and it just keeps on going because nobody in San Francisco has taken ownership of this and it stood up and said, we have a problem. And we're going to do something about it. And we keep waiting for that to happen. So it was a year and a half ago it was in 2021. I was doing a project for the folks at kelby one. And Frederick, you're familiar with kelb one, because you've done projects for them as well. Absolutely. And I was doing a photographer's guide to photographing San Francisco. And my wife was helping me on the shoot. It's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and I said, one more shot. One more shot and she goes, I'm tired. I don't want to do anything. You just go sit over there and I'll just do the shot, okay? So I put my Sony a 7 R camera mounted with a 7200 millimeter lens on a tripod, put my mics in there, and I'm shooting at Chrissy field, which is this fantastic big park at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. It's where you would get that iconic. I'm standing in San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge behind me. Now, unfortunately in this park, there's a big field, but there's also a road where you could drive in. And I had the tripod too close to the road. As I was recording myself, one man band productions, 70 to 200 millimeter lens, you could imagine how close I was to the camera, not close enough. So as I was doing this stupid thing, be a road, some kid comes running up to me with a big grin on his face, grabs my camera and throws it into the getaway car and drives away all within two seconds. Maybe three. And it all happened very fast. Some good samaritans took pictures of this, they got the license plate, and I called the cops in a really didn't care at all
The Dan Patrick Show
"francisco" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Big news yesterday despite the niners committing to Trey Lance Jimmy Garoppolo is staying in San Francisco. And yesterday, restructured his deal that he'll make a base salary of 6 and a half $1 million. Now he can make upwards to 14 $15 million this year with bonuses, and there is a no trade clause for the upcoming season. The deal at first glance may make a lot of sense for a team that has limited cap space or maybe it doesn't. Because now they do have cap space, restructured deal and you've got the most expensive backup quarterback, the most experienced backup quarterback in the NFL. You have an elite quarterback there, but Jimmy Garoppolo looking over Trey Lance's shoulder. But you start to look at the recent history with the NFL with backup quarterbacks. Nick Foles with the eagles in 2018. Kurt Warner with the rams in 1999, backup quarterbacks won the Super Bowl. I don't know if Trey Lance is ready. I've been saying all along, I thought if the niners could keep Jimmy Garoppolo to keep him because I don't think Trey Lance is ready right now. Doesn't mean he won't be, but if you keep Garoppolo, this is a team that can win the Super Bowl now. They're that good. But if you can get Jimmy Garoppolo at a lesser salary and I'm going to guess you're probably going to have the opportunity to have a trade partner during the season if somebody gets hurt. Here's a couple of things that I'm curious about. Jimmy Garoppolo has not worked out with the team. He's not in meetings. He hasn't been involved. He's like a strange from the team. Now does he come back today? It's like a welcome back, Jimmy banner out front. He's got a parking spot, how weird is that, your Trey lands, you go into the quarterback being, hey, Jimmy, where are you been? Trying to get traded. Well, come on back in. You can listen as trace the starter now. But I don't know if you're Jimmy Garoppolo, is this the best. I don't know if he's healthy enough right now to even play football. Because he had the shoulder surgery. So let's just
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"francisco" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"We needed to be out, but not like that. And not to empower the people that took down our towers and want to hit us again. Not to empower Russia the way he has. I mean, all of this was so predictable with the problems with Russia and China when he empowered him so much. And then, of course, the southern border, you can not keep a republic. As you know, dinesh, when you've got 2 million people plus pouring in every year and they don't know what it takes to keep a republic. So it's the overall of this administration, but especially when you're taking away Americans rights and that just makes it nearly impossible to come back from what he is doing to us. That's also concerning. I mean, Louis, I think you're making an important distinction here, and that is that if I think back when I first came to America was the car to administration. And they were making one disastrous decision after another. Remember that was the hostage crisis, so there was the foreign policy disaster that was runaway inflation. So some of the same signatures were seeing today, but I think what you're saying is that an important difference is the carda wouldn't dream of militarizing the FBI against his opponents. He wouldn't dream of classifying his domestic critics as somehow domestic terrorists or enemies of the state. We've seen an escalation of that type of rhetoric. Why do you think the Democrats have made this fateful turn in which they have now in a sense are trying to establish it seems a one party state and portray their political opponents as somehow enemies of democracy? Well, I've.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"francisco" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"The philosopher Edmund Burke once said to love our country our country ought to be lovely. I think what he meant by that is that we do love our country in part because it's ours. But we should also love our country because it makes possible for us. The good life. It offers us opportunity. It offers us a chance to make a better life for ourselves and for our children. Now, I have a cousin in India. Well, he's no longer in India, but he grew up in India along with me, my first cousin, his name is Rahul. And one of his phrases was, I hate India. And the rest of us would look at him like, what are you talking about? Well of course, India is all we knew. But his point is it's exhausting to live in India. He goes everything is difficult. He always having to pay money under the table, just getting through the days like tiring. And I do think a lot of us in that generation of the 1960s, 70s. You know, we would identify with that sentiment. Well, America has for me and for so many other immigrants been the opposite. It's not exhausting to live in America. In fact, it's kind of exhilarating. Why? Because there are chances all the time to better yourself to better your life to learn to explore new things. And even if you fall down, maybe even if you fail, even if you go bankrupt, you can pick up and start again, which is not easy to do in other places. So the American Dream and again, despite Biden, in many respects it's still alive, but it is getting choked off. It is getting stunted in places like New York and San Francisco, basically in democratic rhyme cities. Now I want to turn the experience of kind of a fellow Indian who came to America as I did and came to California as I once did. Looking for opportunity. This is a high-tech guy. And I'm going to refer to him because it's interesting sometimes to go from data to lived experience. What is it actually like for someone to come to California, and this guy's name is Hari ragava, he's kind of software guy. And he comes to California, he says, because of the following things, quote. A fantastic universities incredible natural beauty, plenty of agricultural land nearby, wonderful weather, renewable energy sources and a critical mass of people who are both rule breakers and opportunity seekers. So these are sort of, he calls it sort of the modern gold rush. This is why people came to California. But he's been there and he's been successful there to a point, but he is now exhausted and he's getting out of there. And he doesn't say where he's going, but he does say why he's leaving. He makes this striking statement. He says San Francisco today is a symbol of decline. I think it's more inconvenient to live in San Francisco or Oakland than when I lived in Chennai or Bombay growing up. That's quite a for someone like me, kind of a startling statement because what he's really saying is that places like California are becoming third world eyes. Third world is in the sort of worst sense of that term. Now, he says a year ago, I was smirking at the people moving out of the Bay Area. He goes, I thought, why are they going? What's better than here? But he goes these come to see that the American Dream is no longer thriving in the Bay Area, and he goes on to say exactly why. Number one, he goes, it's hard to feel safe. He goes on the last 7 years, my wife and I have experienced four home break ins, one car break in multiple other thefts and he goes on to say that every one of his female friends in San Francisco has either been accosted or assaulted. Typically by a homeless guy, but in some respect or the other. And he goes of all these break ins, he goes, I only reported one. Why? Because quote, what's the point? They don't do anything about it. Number two, he goes, there is a systematic animus against business, particularly small business in California. And so you're trying to do something you're trying to get it done and they make you into the bad guy. They block you in all kinds of ways and then they're hostile. They're actively hostile to entrepreneurship. He says they gifted programs and fields like math and science are being eliminated in schools. Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk are literally being chased out of California. He goes quote privilege and success. Instead of something to be mindful of and thoughtful about has become something to be ashamed of. In fact, he says, if you build a successful company, the attitude of the California democratic bureaucracy is this, they say, a, you're exploiting the region, exploding the region, and B, you're not paying enough taxes even though the entrepreneurs in San Francisco are paying the highest tax rates in the whole country. He then goes on to say that the bureaucracy and animus toward the citizens on the part of the people who run the city. Remember San Francisco has California is kind of a one party state. So they don't have to. There's no real competition so they don't really care. There's no profit motives. They don't really care on that score either. And he goes over time, the way you down, he goes, you fight them, you think I'll get around them, but over time you become innervated, you become tired and you then say, listen, this is toxic. Why do I need more toxicity in my life? It's time for me just to get the heck out of there. Then he goes on to talk about. Merit achievement and success or becoming a lost cause. Wow. In California, suddenly merit is now seen as a bad thing, Meredith's racist. And so success is diminished. He's talking about the social contract and he says, quote, there's a social contract between government and citizens. We pay taxes and abide by the law, and the government provides social services and governs by the will of the people. So this is a very moderate guy. He's not even all that political. He's basically saying I'm keeping my end of the deal, and you're not. And so at some point he's saying, look, I can stay and I can stay and I can hang in there, hoping that things will get better, but sometimes hope itself becomes a casualty. And then there's no alternative, but to say I came for the dream, there are no more dreams here to be found. I need to go elsewhere to search for.
Johnjay & Rich: After Words
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"And i haven't gotten the the all the details on why she chose san francisco But it's like it's it's on a former military base and and i assuming that the proximity to lucasfilm has something to do with it It's just me. Let's get into that rich. Says it's a big story. Yes a kyle. I know you know some of the details to correct me if i go astray. But there is a couple. That's dating almost engaged. Decided going across country trip in a van together and what's happening now is the guy showed backup home without the girl in the girl is missing in. The guy won't talk to his family's protecting him but somewhere in the last couple of days. They've found police. Body cam footage of of a fight kinda happening between the two of them where she's pushing him and he's pushing her in the police. Break up the fight but they don't see any reason to arrest them they say. Why don't you guys cool off. So she spent the night in a hotel somewhere along this journey in utah and he spent the night in the van. And that's the last anybody's heard of in this. This girl's family is going crazy. You gotta talk to the authorities. You you have to let us know what happened. So it's all the big mystery but it's been sort of taken over the the news as of late. yeah. I do think they actually were engaged. Her name's gabby petito. I think that we pronounce her last name. But john j. You brought this up like three days ago your skin a lot of legs. A lot of people are interested in this because it's so suspicious like it's so suspect the fact that they go on this trip the cops have to come like the fight was bad enough that the cops were called on whatever this domestic dispute was between them but he you know essentially they had told the cops were engaged. We really love each other. We don't wanna press charges. We don't whatever and that's why the cops had said okay. Just spend the night apart. You need obviously some breathing room because you're traveling this little tiny van across the country together but the fact that she texted her mom. I think the last text she or her mom got was just no service in yosemite and her mom doesn't think that that text was actually written by her mom was written by possibly the fiancee. Who is now literally like holing up and not cooperating with the cops at all so she has an even answered the questions like well. We spent the night apart and then we just decided we'd want to talk so i don't know what's up now when freshman because the lack of information is really really impeding on their investigation. They're just trying to find this girl and she's been gone now. I think for what maybe eleven days. Something like that I saw on the news this morning saying like i. I don't really care if he needs to rest or if he's got emotions like let's let's find my daughter and get her safe if if that's what's going on and then we can work on whatever you guys thought about. But he how do you not. How do you have the ability to just say no. thanks. I don't wanna help when you're the main suspect. I mean eventually. They're gonna they're gonna have to make him talk like they're going to have to subpoena him or do something to kind of get him to start talking..
Johnjay & Rich: After Words
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"Lucasfilm a life sized darth vader. And i was like i'm home. Finally i tim some abuse you finally was like i was like i just through the dimsum away and it just ran and embrace darth vader papa. Actually but and this is so confusing to me. Because i'm like star wars the biggest maybe arguably the biggest franchise in the history of the world and we are walking around here freely. We are walking the grounds where george lucas walks. Probably daily. and we're and we come upon a water fountain in who sits atop the water fountain. Yoda no yoga and beverage. It was it was. It's a yogurt based soda. So we walk up and i a bronze the oda. That's a water founded like. I can't believe. I can't believe we're here and it's like the one time i wasn't wearing a store shirt so i was equally excited but also disappointed because i couldn't use my influence or hashtag appropriately. But it was amazing. And you you like although it's all windows really so you walk up and you can see like inside these offices and you can see like the artists like inspiration and the the main lobby has everything from mandal. Laurean stuff to like to indiana jones. It was so awesome. And i would. I mean if you go to san francisco. It's at least worth a walk-through because it's almost like like like a college campus. But it's all work. No no you just can can really look for an interview george lucas. What's it called. Im what's it called. Yeah well it's it's lucas film. Is i believe the campus but island is part of lucasville so you get interview with him. And you're like or not you breed interview and it's like hey man so what do you think about. I l and he's never been there for the tourists crying over iota fountain news. I never been the we do. The real work over here Remind me again. Which ones yoda i thought. The skywalker ranch was where all that stuff happened. I know this existed. Yeah skywalker ranch. Is is where george lucas lives. It is outside of san francisco. Okay i did look at them to also went to the walt disney family museum. Oh cool and it's pretty awesome too. Yeah san francisco's a cool town but as your wife. She cool with walking around the the the lucasfilm campus. While you're nerd. Now she okay with it so like it was her idea. Yeah that was yeah. That part was her idea. She enjoyed it for the most part. It was it was like i wanted to look into to every window. She was like maybe. That's a little creepy. By the time we got to the walt disney family museum which is like walking distance away. I could tell she had kind of checked out of my of my nerdiness. And and and she was going through the museum quicker than i was. They had to throw. They had to throw in the walt disney museum because disney lucasfilm i. Normally there wouldn't be walt disney museum there. Well it so their hero. Walt disney family museum was started by his daughter..
Johnjay & Rich: After Words
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"I compared it to is weird. Kyle and i were talking about a story oregon earlier today about the goonies house and the goonies house. The people that live there now have a giant tarp over it because people were coming into the yard. They were trying to steal things and they were like okay. No no more. This is just it just wide open. And i found out on the trip that it's like the another reason is because they're called the painted ladies and it's the architecture of san francisco and blah blah blah but areas air for the fucking whole house. Okay crowded would you have been like blown away that you were at the full house. If it wasn't crowded if there's nobody but you guys there you would have. It would have been the by. Yeah i would have been. I would have probably valued that time more when it was just nobody here to see the full tourist attraction. I was at alcatraz influencers. Thank goodness why. Why is that. The one comment. I wouldn't go dizzy. Land eighty thousand influence. It sounds like just fans the full house that were. They're just like you. I mean it was sold for three or four five point. Three five million. Yeah it's gorgeous. I'm we'll have pictures. It's really pretty the it doesn't look like the full house house on the inside. Now it does not use bush us like why would they care what happens on the inside of the house in that neighborhood. I don't know. I mean it's just i guess it's just like if you have an hoa at your home camping there certain. Yeah there's certain things you just can't cantu city ordinance ordinance. Well shame on the people that when they first started the sitcom why they picked. That house should have picked a better house. They should have bought it right away. Just made it in that. Yeah so where else did you go on your vacation. We went to a baseball game. We went to chinatown in. This is another thing and this was like kind of the theme for certain parts of this trip was like. Is it really worth the hype. The things that. I didn't think we're going to be worth it. We're awesome then the things that i was like super excited about were like. Oh it's fine but we so we went to chinatown. I have never had dim sum. And i was like gimme dim. Some of that them some. Yeah and so we go in. There's huge ass lines at two of these different places in my wife's looking and she's making sure that we're going to the exact ones that we need to go to and so you go in. We waited for forty five minutes to get this food and dim. Some kind of. I guess you could describe it. It's like appetizers right. I never had it. Not that soup dumpling. Thing no but they kinda come around. Pick it off the plate right and sometimes you don't know what it is. Yeah well we didn't know what any of it was but you go in and they're super rude to you and i guess that's a thing but i'm like i. This is not what i want for my restaurant experience and we go in and you like you pick things to order. And they're like what else. What else what else. What else and so like. I'm sweating because it's hot outside and because unlike you're yelling at me 'cause i'm trying to order i'm trying to give you money for food and we get it. There's no place to sit so it's like okay. Well we'll i guess we'll walk this back. The hotel i dunno we've got two giant containers spent thirty dollars. Each each item was like three dollars a piece. So we got all this stuff and we go and we ended up having. We're walking back to the hotel and we're just like well..
Hyperbrole: A Comedy Advice Podcast
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"Waitress and you'd be the rest. Jeez holy shit. Yeah with my parents. Because i'd be like you wouldn't take me to a restaurant to eat. Never taken you the denny's band remember that Bad but super excited to have you on a comedy advice. Podcast where we're gonna. We've got a lot of comedy. We've got a little bit of advice to sprinkle into. And i i gotta say i'm really excited to have you for all those listeners. Who are just listening to that. Amazing treasure of a voice. Not talking about mind by the way of our special guest blow francisco joining us today. Let's boys got to go into the brother they'll be jimi hendrix serious move over rover diesel trying to vin diesel down but then diesel a grownup of bessie. Jurist this kind of semester. Salani again it down. That's my son so difficult. That's pretty good. Have you tried taking steroids. Maybe that's given still roy decarava steroid decorate dearest but agrees riddick's really so we've been twenty two now kiana reserve I'm trying to think of more celebrities. Remember back lincoln the ninety s out behind you you get people new dennis hopper was come on man here. You go that kind of thing you know or a you got michael j. fontes. He's cutting their watch that you know so trying to figure out what celebrity would be. You know they're all the same same inflections. Kinda sorta slits can hard. Yeah pinpoint to china bureau. It's the kevin. Hart i can't do. Here's kevin harder.
Voices of the Community
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Voices of the Community
"francisco" Discussed on Voices of the Community
"Pieces in the house in case. You can't leave the house. So what came out of code for us that we learned as we now have a piece of our work that we offer which is called a safety hit and we deliver actually over a hundred since last july. I'm really excited about that. And those kids have been so helpful. It is a combination of earthquake safety. Kobe prevention and preparedness in addition to giving people the tools to have like a house emergency plan in the event. They can't leave or the exit very quickly. We've been able to pivot in add safety kids into our regular year round programming in. It's been received very well so the pandemic obviously taught us a lot a shutdown our ration- for ninety days but really what emerged from that for us was discovering that he's wallace calls. Were vital during this time for our neighbors were sheltered in place and that this emerging nuclear merging service that happens safety kids are so beneficial that now it has become a regular part of our work we were able to softly kind of open up our operations in mid july and since that time we've been slowly but surely getting up to our normal level of operation of one hundred percent and we actually have our bill days scheduled for the end of july in for the end of september. So we're almost there but kind of moving along but if call taught us anything. I believe it's taught us and particularly our organization that we plan in wants to be more helpful in the area of preparedness for our viewers especially vulnerable ones. How is the rebuilt together. San francisco's team your partners. Your volunteers are you now. Working in the reopening component of pandemic. Yeah so a lot of information has come out from local regional kind of cdc guidelines. We have just begun allowing volunteers to come back in volunteer with us. On a regular basis all volunteers complete applications they are signing agreements than in those agreements intel. Hauer contact tracing. Were still protecting ourselves with masks. Gloves sanitizer in social distancing. We have just begun to reach that. Volunteers are office like many offices. Back in march have gone remote. We are still technically remote now with the planned reopening sometime in october. We wanna be back into the office part time and we will continue to kind of monitor san francisco right now. I believe is at herd immunity or pretty close to hurt immunity. So we're going to continue to monitor and follow the local guidelines in terms of reopening but we are accepting volunteers. The are having our bill days in. We expect to have regular in office hours sometime in october. Over thirty years of operation. Would you feel spend the biggest impact on separatists. Go in it. Seniors especially in our community members disabilities. Some of our biggest value adds not been with the organization or almost close to two years. From what i gathered from the history and talking to people and the biggest value add that we offer. And that we've been able to give. San francisco is to ensure that low income families elderly and the disabled populations that they can stay in their home. That something like a plumbing issue or needing to replace a door or meetings a habit chairlift doesn't stop them from being able to stay in their home. It is preserving housing in its best form in. It's also a form of anti displacement. There is no secret that there is a lot of gentrification happening and there are measures around anti displacement of longtime san franciscans and we feel that our work helps to preserve those face and they're being and they're belonging in san francisco. There's also another piece. I think that's really important especially targeted to our disabled and elderly population around aging in place. And what that really means is just because you get older just because you need a little more support. You should not have to leave. Your home in. Our organization is dedicated to making sure that those particular populations don't have to leave their home because either they age or need additional support to get around the hall. Those couple of areas are very important to us. I believe that's really being value. Add for the city. So how can our audience members support rebuilding together. San francisco can now sounds like volunteer donate sponsor absolutely they can go onto our website. Www dot rebuilding together at dot or we are accepting volunteers skilled and unskilled. So even if you've never even hammered something in your own home you're welcome to volunteer. Were best companies can sponsor events or hosts of team building activity rebound organization. We offer that you around. People in the local community can donate obviously dollars. Financial contributions go a long way and follow us on social media. We have facebook account. Our social media handles are listed on our website in baking. Continue to support us in that way and get the word out. But i highly suggest volunteering. A highly suggest donating to our organization in their companies out there looking for a great outdoor team building activity. We have sponsor packages for team building activities for local companies as well. Thank you and would you please share with the audience. One of your favorite moments of working at rebuilding together separate cisco yes. I have very fond memory a little less than a year old rebuilding together. San francisco had the opportunity to partner with five keys. Which isn't organization out of san francisco and our volunteers renovated six apartments on treasure island. That were prepared. For formerly incarcerated women that have served twenty years plus coming out of prison and we prepared six apartment units with construction upgrades in safety upgrades for the women and not my favorite story by far just because the impact of our work that had on the women coming to a clean ready face that they could restart their lives in his support to the community. Really resonated with me because when you come out of prison you come from a sale in you. Don't realize the big difference until you come out so a plea apart or women to go from prison to a nice apartment was a really special moment for me. That's definitely something. I'll never never forget it. Treasure island is beautiful. Of course that the unions match that beauty out there in the women were so happy warning rosie in particular so elated so happy ready to restart her life and i know that our work and that unit being prepared will support her in her journey and the rest of her life. Thank you a great story and once again back down to housing. I absolutely so final question. What would you say were some of the positive things that could come out of the pandemic to support the increase in housing and wraparound services.
Voices of the Community
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"Welcome to voices of the community which explores critical issues facing northern california communities. We introduce you to the voices of community thought leaders and change makers who are working solutions that face our fellow individual community members neighborhoods cities and our region. Is george koster your host. This episode is part of our series exploring covered nineteen impact on nonprofits and small businesses in the san francisco bay area back in april of twenty twenty when we decided to create this ongoing series uncovered nineteen impact. I are nonprofits and then on small businesses in the san francisco bay area. We like you had no idea how long the pandemic would go on. And what. The health and economic impact would be in our community with vaccinations increasing in nineteen cases and deaths decreasing. Were now moving into the summer of twenty twenty one with the reopening of the economy and all of the uncertainty of our ever indoor and outdoor vaccinated and unvaccinated protocols and the politics that will drive how we all come back together as a unified or fractured community. We will continue to shine a spotlight on the nonprofits and small businesses that make up the fabric of our community along with the founders and staff who are struggling to deal with the impact of the kobe. Nineteen pandemic on their operations. Services is sustainability until we can all get to the other side of the pandemic along the way we will also share with you all the amazing solutions that are nonprofits. Small businesses foundations and government leaders are working on to help us all get to the other side of the pandemic and come together to rebuild our communities with more economic social and environmental quality value. Add that we offer and that we've been able to give. San francisco is to ensure that low income families elderly and the disabled population that they can stay in their home that something like a plumbing issue or needing to replace a door or meetings. a habit. chairlift doesn't stop them from being able to stay in their home. It is preserving housing in its best form in. It's also a form of anti displacement. There is no secret. There is a lot of gentrification happening in there are measures around anti displacement of longtime snappers skins and we feel that our work helps to preserve those face and they're being and they're belonging in san francisco. This is the executive director of rebuilding together san francisco mahogany rolling and this week show. We continue our focus and theme on housing insurer voices and solutions to our long term housing issues. Mahogany shares with us their ongoing work to support our seniors in our disabled community members to stay in their homes. I'm trying remotely mahogany roland. The executive director of rebuilding together san francisco. Thanks for being here today. Mahogany thank you for having me be here. So could you please. Provide the audience. Just a quick overview of rebuilding together san francisco. And then some of your programs thank you again. Happy be here. I am with an organization called rebuilding together. San francisco and our mission in the community is to repair homes. Revitalize communities and rebuild lives. And what that looks like on a daily basis is supporting. Low income homeowners primarily low income families just able population in also the elderly population with doing a minor construction repairs in their home. So that those families in books can stay in their home. we also have national rebuilding month. Which takes place in april where we simultaneously work on fifteen to twenty homes on a given day. It is the work saturday in april where we are doing construction repairs in how we do that. Is we mobilize our volunteer network over two hundred skilled passionate construction. Volunteers contractors that are passionate about the community that are doing upgrades in ada. Modifications for families in san francisco. We also have a she bills program or women who are in the trades interested in connecting with women in the trades. Are she builds. Program focuses on safe in healthy housing primarily four female led households in for a facilities that are centered around women in children so again we're focusing on three areas mainly safe in healthy housing refocusing on eighty eight modifications in. We're focusing on women in households. That are needing support. Took preserve their home in moving forward in their lives in mahogany. So much of what you do again is in person you're in people's homes etc how has coveted eighteen impacted your operations and what did you and your team do. And of course our you and your teams now starting to come back out of our pandemic into the magical reopening that everything is going to be better. I call what we're in right now. The new normal. And we're still figuring that out however back in march win whole country's shutdown. I remember that daylight yesterday. Our whole operation shutdown fully. For about ninety days we were in the middle of safety modifications in ada upgrades we were not able to hold our national rebuilding the fourth saturday in april. Everything was cancelled. Everything kind of just shut down. And we were not able to be in homes during that ninety day period before we got a soft green light to open from the san francisco public health department. We made a strong pivot. The things that we focused on were chippings. We were still authorized to do emergency repairs. They'll still really focused on making sure people had hot water and he and that their doors exits were safe to enter into exit. We were able to do those three things upon emergency when our neighbors will call us or fill out a new application. The other piece that we did besides focusing on emergency repairs is me began. Doing wellness calls. Our organization is been in san francisco going on thirty three years so we served over five to six hundred families and we're still in contact with many of them. We have their information and we were able to do wellness calls now. Wellness calls and tells one just doing a call and fade. Hello how're you doing. Do you need to be connected to resources dean. Have any emergencies in your home that we can support you way. We did a great job with partnering with organizations like the department of aging deepening our partnership with the san francisco department of health. So a we were part of that san francisco hub up connecting people different resources whether it was grocery delivery medical or i would say pharmacy deliveries in also supporting with emergency repairs. Walnuts call turned into a big part of our work and then as kind of the ninety days was approaching more like mid july. We discovered that many of our vulnerable communities were hit pretty hard and the number one thing we've learned from that is he will. Everyone should be equipped in the event of an emergency. Kobe just kind of arrived in happened to us. We get to choose it in one of the things we learned from that was all of our neighbors need to be prepared that means having a household emergency plan having things in the house.
Voices of the Community
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"I think we're all going to be smelling a lot of campfires in our homes away. The summer's going. So to that point greg. How can folks you know. If they've got some equipment they want to donate or they wanna make a donation to the mash or they wanna participate in the centro emergency mesh. How can they do that. San francisco whereas emergency mesh is also a nonprofit accept donations both of equipment and in kind donations and monetary donations and through those are tax deductible. I would say the cost of equipment for building up. This capability is really negligible. it's not a barrier. The biggest barrier is sites having places to put thing buildings towers really anywhere right the benefit of it being the way it is. it doesn't require. Licensed infrastructure doesn't require a contractor to come out and run power lines. It's all low voltage is either. It's what you would use in your house. Which i think has made it attractive to some people right. It's not any more sophisticated than hooking up a cable modem but once it's there even if you don't use it yourself it's providing a service to the community that doesn't exist today right so next time you know. The city has a group called neurotic neighbor. Emergency response team. That is a group that could benefit from this capability other cities around the bay area. Have somewhere group core and certain in all these things again today they constrain themselves to to a voice radio and what we're saying. Hey next time you need to read a list. Don't read it over the radio. Senator mel right. Don't describe the building collapsed. Take a picture of it. Sent a picture make a phone call you know other capabilities looking at adding or things like a wildfire spotting cameras remote telemetry and air quality sensors things like that mobile deployable field kits all of those things so the best way to participate..
Voices of the Community
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"We have monthly meetings on zoom today which. I believe the third friday of the month this calendar on our website. And then i would say the if you're interested at all join our slacker. Join our mailing list. There's tons of people there to ask questions. Guide you along your way greek. Could you share with the audience. One of your favorite stories. If you will or moments of participating in the radio club or your work inside of the regency disaster indications a moment that i realized we can really change the community. Was we have a project we're working on. I haven't really told this story other than in person. And i've been wanting to sort of get it on the record. Because it's what precipitated this project so separately from the radio club in separately from acs there's a project we've stood up. Call the san francisco. Wireless emergency mesh. It's primarily based in amateur radio so it fits into both of those buckets but a couple years ago. I was going to bed. And i made the mistake of looking at my phone. One more time before. I went to bed. And i saw someone post saying that they were evacuating napa. And just a profound thing to hear it'd be like they're evacuating daly. City am i what i could imagine the scale that that's weird. What's going on in napa right. Say that to you now. You'd be like what's going on in napa right. We don't know what's going on. And i looked through social media a little bit more so in the city in san francisco here said my house. Smells like a campfire and mike. That's weird. I don't smell anything up to go to the bathroom. Walk into the hallway house and might my house smells like. Is there bonfire in my backyard. And that was the first time..
Voices of the Community
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"Thanks out me. I love the san francisco. Radio club of old time radio person myself. I never got into ham per se. But i would love if you could just provide the audience. A little background on the san francisco radio club which is over one hundred years old now. Then you're working inside of the receipt disaster medications you've got emergency mesh wifi that you're doing as well. Yeah absolutely. i'll start with the radio club. So the san francisco radio club is over a hundred years old. Ironically pre date the existence of there being any idea of nonprofit within the federal irs. That complicates things a little bit. So what we provide is a community for folks who are interested in communications overall while the club itself is primarily focused on amateur radio ham radio sort of the pillars of that hobby. We certainly welcome anyone interested in communications radio communication science education emergency and disaster response and public service. That might stem from that. We have periodic club meetings and we have a variety of topics that we cover in those club meetings. We have radio systems that amateurs interested folks can use to communicate with each other..
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"Your host. This episode is part of our series exploring covid nineteen impact on nonprofits and small businesses in the san francisco bay area back in april of twenty twenty when we decided to create this ongoing series on covid nineteen impact first nonprofits and then on small businesses in the san francisco bay area. We like you had no idea how long the pandemic would go on. And what the health and economic impact would be in our community with vaccinations increasing cove in nineteen cases and deaths decreasing. We're now moving. Into the summer of twenty twenty one with the reopening of the economy and all of the uncertainty of ever changing indoor and outdoor vaccinated and needed protocols and politics. That will drive how we all come back together as a unified or fractured community. We will continue to shine a spotlight on the nonprofits and small businesses that make up the fabric of our community along with the founders and staff who are struggling to deal with the impact of the covid nineteen pandemic on their operations services is sustainability until we can all get to the other side of the pandemic along the way we will also share with you all the amazing solutions that are nonprofits. Small businesses foundations and government leaders are working on to help us all get to the other side of the pandemic and come together to rebuild our communities with more economic social and environmental equality. Know what was going to happen so we were some of the first to get mosconi online and up and running right. We brought equipment out there. We about everything right. We brought the garage emptied the garage and then nothing right in. For good reason we hunkered down. We sheltered in place. We didn't go anywhere. Didn't do anything and hopefully that will have saved more people in save the economy as well but we did the thing we needed to do. We're getting through it. I am reluctant to say we're through it or getting through it. We know what to do now but looking back like of the things we know how to do of the things we've learned over the last year. How can we apply them to other aspects of the community. I think particularly acutely about wildfire season right. That was another thing that really affected us as californians as community. This is the president of the san. Go radio club greg. Albright the san francisco radio club was formed in nineteen o nine by a handful of radio enthusiasts with the objective of exchanging messages over the air. We wanted to host the san francisco radio club on the.