U.S Congressman Mike Levin speaks at the Oceanside Navigation Center opening ceremony on July 21, 2023.
U.S Congressman Mike Levin speaks at the Oceanside Navigation Center opening ceremony on July 21, 2023. / Photo by Ariana Drehsler

On this week’s podcast our hosts have a special guest host – U.S. Rep. Mike Levin.

San Diego’s trash cans will soon be a whole lot smarter, as our Alina Ajaz recently reported. Levin joined the crew to banter about what that will mean for San Diegans’ disposal habits and their pocketbooks.

The crew also dove into the murky world of bot students, which have been wreaking havoc on community colleges nationwide. These fake students are often networks of stolen identities operated by AI-armed fraudsters out to swindle federal and state financial aid. They’ve gotten away with tens of millions in California alone.

Finally, we got Levin’s takes on what the future of U.S. politics has in store, what Democrats’ game plan for Trump should look like and what the local impacts of federal spending cuts may look like.

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Jakob McWhinney is Voice of San Diego's education reporter.

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