Caruso's Direct Energy Weapons and Ben's Take

• 1:27:45Tim describes two political extremes in LA: a real estate portfolio worth half the city budget, and someone advocating killing cops.
• 1:28:02Guest recounts how LA crime improved through high school and pandemic but has now returned to gunshots and unprecedented homelessness.
• 1:28:29Tim pitches Caruso building an abandoned Americana mall exclusively for homeless people to pretend to shop and play in fentanyl-filled fountains.
• 1:29:10Ben's argument: Caruso is rich and bored, so letting him run for office is just the natural progression of wealthy people trying to fix things.
• 1:29:45Tim proposes Caruso's solution to crime is equipping cops with direct energy weapons that make people instantly drop and shake, sourced from Raytheon lunch meetings.
• 1:30:02Caruso claims his Raytheon friends at the Rosewood Miramar hotel have been discussing pulse-based direct energy weapons to incapacitate people on the street.

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