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Hes been with muni 15 years, with the Cable Car Division nine years. Please welcome joseph hsu. Mr. Hsu, hows it going . If you werent driving a cable car, what would you be doing . Watching tv . So you can play the drums and watch perry mason at noon at the same time. Sounds good to me. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Joseph hsu. [ringing bells] [applause] joseph hsu, ladies and gentlemen. Joseph hsu. Now, all those six men are competing against this man, ladies and gentlemen. We left him for last simply because he was the 46th annual cable car bell ringing champion. Ladies and gentlemen, hes been ...

>> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what...

>> howard woo, ladies and gentlemen. fantastic. all right. our fourth contestant, ladies and gentlemen, is a grip and a conductor. he's been with muni for 35 years. he's been on the cable car for 18 years. 1999 champion to ring in the millennium and 2004 champion. ladies and gentlemen, mr. frankware. -- mr. frank wear. how's it going today? >> great. >> if you weren't driving the cable car what would you be doing? >> i'd be bar-hopping. >> start at one end of clement street and go all the way down, hitting all the bars. if you could choose anybody to pick your partner, who would you ...

it's a great honor to be here. my name is debby dirsh, san francisco native. i'd like to welcome you to the annual cable car bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ford. >> welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation -- competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they're great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta bo...

[applause] >> nice. trinny whitaker, ladies and gentlemen. our sixth contestant is qualifieding for the -- qualifying for the very first time today. he's a conductor. he's been with muni 15 years, with the cable car division nine years. please welcome joseph hsu. mr. hsu, how's it going? if you weren't driving a cable car, what would you be doing? >> watching tv? >> so you can play the drums and watch perry mason at noon at the same time. sounds good to me. ladies and gentlemen, mr. joseph hsu. [ringing bells] [applause] >> joseph hsu, ladies and gentlemen. joseph hsu. now, all those...