1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: If I am six forty more stimulating talk super Bowl Sunday, 3 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 2: Sunday Sunday, and am I watching the game? No, So 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 2: please no spoilers, because I have every intention of fast 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: forwarding through all the boring parts and then you're trying 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 2: to get a brief recap when I get home. I 7 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: don't know about you, but I have trouble watching sports 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 2: on tape on tape, like because I'm half boomer. I 9 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 2: guess I just I'm gonna try it. I've got things 10 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 2: set to be able to go back and watch the 11 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 2: super Bowl afterward, right, but I don't know if I'm 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 2: gonna be able to do it or if I'm just 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 2: gonna basically turn on Sports Center and watch the highlights. 14 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: I might just do that. I mean, I'll probably know 15 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: somebody's gonna spoil it for me. I'll probably know who 16 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 2: won before I get out of here, And you know 17 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 2: that'll bum me out because I kind of want to 18 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: watch the game. But here we are. You and I 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: hang out together, so if you're here, that means you're 20 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 2: not watching the game either. So hey, we're in it together, 21 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: which means you either don't like football or you're stuck 22 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: on the road and you can't watch it. I get it. 23 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: I get it. One of my favorite Super Bowls ever 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 2: was listening to it on the radio. I'm a huge 25 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 2: fan of sports on the radio, huge fan, huge no 26 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 2: sports on the radio tonight, that is what it is. 27 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 2: So off we go with not super Bowl stuff. Let's 28 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: start with California thinks you are not paying enough in taxes. 29 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 2: I know I was thinking the same thing. In fact, 30 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: I got out of bed this morning and I was here, 31 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 2: we're going waking up to the day, Go out of 32 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 2: the kitchen, start my coffee pot, and I was thinking, 33 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: as I was getting ready to prep for the show, 34 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: I thought, God, I sure wish I could pay some 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: more taxes today. What a blast that would be. So 36 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: it looks like we've got proposals to pay taxes on 37 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: wherever you drive, which is completely inevitable. It's also inevitable 38 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 2: that there's gonna be a big push to stop the 39 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 2: mileage tax. And that's it was a CBSLA was talking 40 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: about that this. 41 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 3: Idea is now moving forward because state lawmakers are concerned 42 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: that billions of dollars is going to be lost as 43 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 3: more electric vehicles and zero emission vehicles hit the road 44 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 3: across the state. California's gas tax goes to cover things 45 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 3: like road repairs, infrastructure improvement, and public transportation. So now 46 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 3: the idea of charging drivers based on how much ground 47 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: they cover while behind the wheel, it is not new, 48 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 3: but it is something that is more seriously being considered. 49 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, it's it's gonna happen. There's not 50 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 2: a question to this. If there's a question of when, 51 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 2: and then what's it going to look like as far 52 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 2: as how much. Look, we've got the highest gas tax 53 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 2: in America, got some terrible roads, We've got the highest 54 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: income tax in America, the highest unemployment rate in any state. 55 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 2: We've got the highest sales tax and the highest poverty rate. 56 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: But we also have the richest sobs, and we have 57 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 2: the most electric cars. And because we have the most 58 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 2: electric cars, that aren't paying the gas taxes to help 59 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 2: pay for the roads, which of course we raise the 60 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 2: gas taxes here recently. It comes down to the idea 61 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 2: that we're gonna have to have some money to fix 62 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 2: the damn roads. It's gonna have to have some money. 63 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: And if you're driving on the road, you should be 64 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:37,839 Speaker 2: helping to pay for that road. 65 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 4: Period. 66 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 2: I don't hate this idea, and I know that sounds 67 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 2: like sacrilege, but let's just review for a moment. You're 68 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: paying taxes already for the roads. You're paying high registration 69 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 2: on your car for the roads. I don't drive an EV. 70 00:03:58,240 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: I drive a hybrid because I want to have better 71 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 2: gas mileage. But even that, compared to somebody who's like 72 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 2: a commercial driver, right, let's say you got the gardeners 73 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 2: are out there driving an old Toyota pickup truck that's 74 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: getting fifteen miles to the gallon. He's paying way more 75 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 2: for the roads than I am. He might not even 76 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: be using them as much as I am. He's certainly 77 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 2: not using them as much as many of the people 78 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 2: are criising around of their teslas, And so it makes 79 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 2: sense that somebody has to do it. The deal is 80 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 2: this different, it's change, and that can be scary. Honestly, 81 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 2: it could be scary. But there's also a good chance 82 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: you actually pay less. If you're at driving a whole lot, 83 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 2: you pay less. And you might be thinking, yeah, but 84 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: I'm I might be paying less already because they don't 85 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: drive a lot because I don't I don't use as 86 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 2: much gas. It's kind of where I am. My commute 87 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 2: is twelve miles to work, and I don't pay a 88 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 2: whole lot in gas because I have a hybrid that gets, 89 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 2: you know, thirty five miles to the gallon than a 90 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 2: little less UV. So I don't know that I'm paying less. 91 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm and to end up paying more. 92 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 2: And that's where the questions are. And because it's unknown, 93 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 2: we can't calculate. And because we can't calculate, we assume 94 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 2: California's going to hose this because they always have in 95 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 2: the past. Right back to CBSLA. 96 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 3: The state Assembly this week just approved a bill for 97 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 3: that study to continue as a way to look into 98 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 3: mileage based fee system across the state as a way 99 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 3: to recoup the losses that come with EV drivers no 100 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 3: longer spending get the gas pump. 101 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: Although it is ironic and entirely predictable that here's a 102 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 2: state that incentivized EV use and purchases more than any 103 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 2: other state in the country did. And then we said, well, 104 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 2: wait a minute, if you're if you're incentivizing EV's, you're 105 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 2: using tax dollars to help people buy evs. Then who's 106 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 2: going to pay for the roads. And it was like, oh, 107 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 2: we'll worry about that down the road, pun intended. And 108 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 2: here we are down the road, punt still intended. And 109 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 2: again we all knew what was coming. But it's a 110 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 2: change that is going to happen. So the key here 111 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 2: is to start adapting to the idea that it's coming, 112 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 2: because you can, you can kick, and you can scream 113 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 2: as much as you want. It's coming. Yeah. For some 114 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: of you, you might go, well, this is it, this is 115 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 2: the final straw. I'm out now. I don't know what 116 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: took you so long. I mean, if you don't like it, 117 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: been complaining about California for a long time, So what 118 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 2: kept you around this long? Obviously there's something here you like. 119 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 3: IV drivers are already paying a road improvement fee when 120 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 3: they register their cars with the DMV. Well, this study 121 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 3: is looking for an alternative to the gas tax, which 122 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 3: could change those registration fees as well. 123 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 2: And by the way, does this mean that they get 124 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 2: rid of the taxes at the pump? Do we all 125 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: of a sudden have our gas prices come down so 126 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 2: that they're similar to what they are in other states, 127 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 2: because that I mean that that makes it a whole 128 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 2: lot easier to swallow, doesn't it. I mean instead of 129 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 2: paying whatever is I don't know what I paid this 130 00:06:52,960 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 2: wig in for bla a gallon? Yeah, does that make it? 131 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 2: Does that make it easier instead of paying four and 132 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: a half bucks a gallon? Is it now three and 133 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 2: a half dollars a Yellen? Maybe maybe that's an offset 134 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 2: that I go, oh, okay, you know what, I got 135 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 2: to pay the gas tax, but I am actually saving 136 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 2: it the pump, which would help the guy who's driving 137 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 2: the landscaping truck around. 138 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 3: As it stands right now, with this study, California Democrats 139 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 3: are for it and Republicans are opposed. 140 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 5: I'm shocked some of my colleagues from across the aisle, 141 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 5: instead of having intellectually honest debate, chose to traffic and 142 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 5: blatant lies and say that this bill increases a milage, 143 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 5: increases taxes, adds a mileage tax, and it does not 144 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 5: in any way, shape or form. It's a study bill. 145 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 5: And here in California, we cannot increase taxes without going 146 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 5: to the voters. 147 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 2: So they say, oh, this is this Z only a study? 148 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 6: The Z only study look, first of all, they only 149 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 6: study things that they're going to implement. 150 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 2: And I've been here long long enough in. 151 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 6: The Sacramento to know that to be true. 152 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 2: And you don't always get the full hearings on all 153 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 2: these bills. 154 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 3: According to the Legislative Analysts Office, because of zero emission vehicles, 155 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 3: California's gas tax revenues will continue to drop by billions 156 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 3: of dollars a year through the end of this decade. 157 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 2: Also, did she love that whenever they have a report, 158 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 2: the reporter has to go stand up in front of 159 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: a gas station while we're setting the scene. Okay, yeah, 160 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 2: I definitely wouldn't have known what you were doing unless 161 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 2: you were standing in front of a gas station with 162 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 2: cars going by while you're trying to read it me. 163 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 3: At this point, though, the tax structure remains the same 164 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 3: as is no changes yet. This study, though, is looking 165 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 3: to have the results by January reporting opacity in rick 166 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 3: Monton as CBSLA. 167 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 2: Yet January was January was last month, so oh it's 168 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,439 Speaker 2: next January? Okay, great, all right, So here's the deal. 169 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 2: Mileish X is coming. It's a change, I get it. 170 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:01,359 Speaker 2: Change is scary. It's it's going to happen I'm skeptical, 171 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 2: just like you. I want them to drop the gas 172 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 2: taxes off the price of the pump altogether. If they're 173 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: gonna go to a mileage tax, that's fine. Then people 174 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 2: are gonna try to figure out ways around it, register 175 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 2: their cars and other states, whatever it might be. I 176 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 2: get it. There's gonna be ways to try to, you know, 177 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 2: scam the system whatever. But it's it's gonna happen. So 178 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 2: and we've got a year before they even get back 179 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:29,079 Speaker 2: with it, and then there's gonna be fights over and 180 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 2: then it's gonna have to go to the ballot. That's 181 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 2: the way it's gonna work. But eventually, eventually you're gonna 182 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 2: get tired of paying six seven dollars a gallon, and 183 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 2: somebody is actually going to say, if we go to 184 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 2: a mileage tax, you will not be paying seven dollars 185 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 2: a gallon. That's where the Democrats aren't doing anything right 186 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 2: right now. They're not they're not I don't know. Maybe 187 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 2: they don't plan on dumpling the gas tax at all. 188 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 2: Maybe that's the whole deal. Maybe that's why they're not 189 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 2: saying it. But at some point someone's going to say 190 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 2: the gas prices are too high, and it's be because 191 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 2: we're subsidizing the roads for people and evs, and this 192 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 2: is gonna this is gonna balance things out, and that 193 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 2: is going to appeal to voters. At some point, it's happening. 194 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: Just just let you know. At some point it is 195 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 2: gonna happen. Meanwhile, you're sitting in the backseat, you got 196 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 2: no driver, you're not freaking out over the steering wheel. 197 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 2: Maybe you're even be bopping along to some bad bunny. 198 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 2: Then your ride hits a kid, and all of a sudden, 199 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: the Union's want the whole thing shut down. California's robo 200 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: taxi honeymoon is over. Baby next Chris merril KF. I 201 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 2: am six forty. We live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app 202 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 2: stimulating talk still to come. A road trip to the Olympics. 203 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 2: That is that is coming up after we take a 204 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: look at the lawmakers, the lawbreakers, and the times that 205 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 2: there ought to be a law. Right after I Lincolnzalez 206 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: and her news here at three thirty. I did want 207 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 2: to make mention of this last week we talk to you, 208 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 2: and I'm sure you heard it. Other shows were discussing 209 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 2: it as well. That is that Weymo that hit the 210 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 2: kid Santa Monica bad Adelio. H. Well, of course that 211 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 2: has that has drawn the ire of the usual critics. 212 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 2: And I was I was trying to find some some 213 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 2: stories about this to put in the show today, right, 214 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 2: So I was like to have a source material, and 215 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 2: so I was able to find something that was no problem. 216 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 2: LA times said something about the California Teamsters, who you're 217 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 2: gonna hear about new moment. But then I said, okay, well, 218 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 2: I'm going to see if I can find some audio, 219 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 2: all right, And so I started looking up the teamsters 220 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 2: and Weymo teamster has been opposing Weimo and the Robotaxis 221 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 2: since forever, so it's not new. What you're finding out 222 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 2: now is that there's just more ammunition for the teamsters 223 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 2: in their fight against Weaimo. Here's the anyway, here's the 224 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 2: story from a KTLA as they were sort of telling 225 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 2: us why the teamsters are are anti Robotaxi. 226 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 6: Teamsters California calling on the California Public Utilities Commission to 227 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 6: immediately suspend Waymo's operating license. 228 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 2: I gotta be straight with I didn't know the Public 229 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: Utilities Commission regulated WEIMO, so that definitely means it's not 230 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 2: gonna be suspended. They're not gonna they are not gonna 231 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 2: revoke it. They have never said anything it was not 232 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,599 Speaker 2: good for the biggest businesses around. Is that pg and 233 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 2: e pg Ande burned down a town. Public utilities commissioners like, yeah, well, 234 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 2: you know those things happened. We totally get it. So 235 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: they're definitely not going to take a license away for 236 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 2: Weimo just for one kid who didn't even die. 237 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 6: The union's demand coming after a Weimo robo taxi struck 238 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 6: a small child near a Santa Monica elementary school last week. 239 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 6: The child was treated for minor injuries. Weimo says it 240 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 6: is fully cooperating with the investigation. 241 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, one more thing about that that accident with the kid. 242 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 2: The story that I'm getting is that that kid kind 243 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 2: of popped out of their cars. You know, a parallel 244 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 2: parked on the on the side of the street, and 245 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 2: the kid sort of popped out from between the cars 246 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 2: at the last second. Even Weaimo said, or Google or 247 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 2: alphabet whatever said that the kid had been a human driver, 248 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 2: the reaction time would have been so much slower. The 249 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 2: kid would have been hit much harder. It was a 250 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 2: very low speed impact anyway. I think it was like 251 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 2: four miles an hour or something. But if you're a 252 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 2: small child getting hit by a two ton missile even 253 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 2: at four miles an hour, probably gonna leave some bruises. 254 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 2: But Waimo was like, yeah, our car hit the kid, 255 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 2: and if it hadn't been USD that kid might be 256 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 2: dead right now. So they're trying to spin it as 257 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 2: being like good thing, luckily lucky for that kid we 258 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 2: hit him. The whole thing just reminded me of Driver's 259 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 2: ed right or even Grand Theft Auto. Just the idea 260 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 2: that you're driving along park cars and then the ball 261 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 2: comes bouncing up, sorry, the ball comes bouncing out, and 262 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 2: then from between cars that a kid runs out. I 263 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 2: think we've even seen that in the All State commercials 264 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 2: or something. 265 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 6: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched an investigation into 266 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 6: the Waimo last month following several incidents involving the driverless taxi. 267 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 6: Part of that investigation includes reports of Waimo vehicles illy 268 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 6: passing school buses. Teamsters California says the incidents highlight broader 269 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 6: concerns with big tech and the push to replace human 270 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 6: workers with ai. Waimo and its parent company Google have 271 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 6: yet to respond to the teamsters demand. 272 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 2: All right, thank you Kathie La on that report. Okay, 273 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 2: teamsters don't like weymo because they see it as a threat. 274 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 2: It makes perfect sense. I mean, you're a union trying 275 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 2: to protect your workers. You want to make sure that 276 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: the jobs are there and that they continue to go 277 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 2: to human beings who are still paying dues. I get it. Look, 278 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 2: I'm in the union. I want to make sure the 279 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 2: union is protecting me from AI coming in and stealing 280 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 2: my job and putting an AI machine on here. No 281 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 2: AI radio host is going to give you the kind 282 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 2: of quality. Okay, that's a bad example. No AI rate, 283 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 2: No I need a job. There you go. So I 284 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 2: understand the teamsters and their push. I get it. I 285 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 2: totally get it. I think the teamsters may be better 286 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 2: off to try to figure out another way to capitalize 287 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 2: on the way instead of trying to resist it along 288 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 2: the way. Try to figure out how they can spin 289 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 2: it in a manner that serves their their people. And 290 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 2: I don't know what that I don't know what that 291 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 2: looks like. But I do know that the teamsters are 292 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 2: concerned with things like the self driving semis, you know 293 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 2: the I think Elon Musks, I think Tesla's got some 294 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 2: of that stuff going on. In fact, I think that 295 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 2: there's already was it Houston to Dallas, I believe has 296 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 2: already got a driverless delivery, you know, like a semi. 297 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 2: I think tu Son of Phoenix has a driverless delivery 298 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 2: or a driverless semi going on anyway. But I certainly 299 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 2: understand Teamster's point of view. I certainly get it, and 300 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 2: that crash that happened in Santa Monica nightmarish, to be sure, 301 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 2: But then we have to wonder, to the point of weymo, 302 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 2: would it have been worse had it been a human driver? 303 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 2: And honestly, there's no way to tell. You're trying to 304 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: prove a negative, which can't do. You can't prove a negative. 305 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 2: But I do know that, especially if it had been, say, 306 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 2: a teenager who was texting and driving, that kid would 307 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 2: have been flattened. If it's like the people in my neighborhood, 308 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 2: there's no way that a human driver would have been 309 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 2: going to speed limit. They would have been going ten 310 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 2: or twelve over fifteen or twenty. In fact, I left, 311 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 2: Oh god, I left here. Side note. Look I get 312 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 2: I do tangents. It's Sunday afternoon, we get to do tangents. 313 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 2: I left work and we're burbanks, so I hit one 314 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 2: thirty four and as I'm driving home, one guy with 315 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 2: no lights on. Those are my favorite. The middle of 316 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 2: the night and you're driving around with no lights on. 317 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 2: That's just genius. And I know what that is. It's 318 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 2: because their daytime running lamps around, they don't notice that 319 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 2: they don't have their head lights on. And then I 320 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 2: had two cars pass me at like one hundred miles 321 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 2: an hour. They had to been going one hundred because 322 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 2: you know, I'm cruising along sixty five seventy and they 323 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 2: just I mean, like I was standing still so or 324 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 2: hp on that they're not but Waimo is not doing that. 325 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 2: They're just not now collectively, And this is the question. 326 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: If we've got one guy who's driving with no lights on, 327 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 2: and we got somebody else's driving one hundred miles an hour, 328 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 2: and then somebody else's chasing them at one hundred miles 329 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 2: an hour. And there were some street racing going on 330 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 2: around me on the freeway as well, where they were 331 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 2: passing me on each side doing at least eighty or 332 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 2: ninety collectively is way mo better. And I got a 333 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 2: feeling that when we have more of a proliferation of 334 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 2: these robotaxis, we're gonna find that they are in fact 335 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 2: better than us human drivers. The trouble I run into, though, 336 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 2: is believing that these cars can handle the different nuances 337 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 2: of a densely populated area. It makes a whole lot 338 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 2: more sense to me if I hear that the cars 339 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 2: are driving the Central Valley than it does if you've 340 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,479 Speaker 2: got cars that are driving, you know, some of our 341 00:17:55,520 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 2: goofy freeways which seem haphazardly dashed together, especially on rams 342 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 2: and off ramps and everything else. I mean, things can 343 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 2: get confusing. Oh, here's non ramp, here's an off ramp. 344 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 2: Oh but if you want to get on and go 345 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 2: to the other direction, then you have to drive around 346 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,959 Speaker 2: behind the supermarket and you have to go into their 347 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 2: delivery zone, and that's where the on ramp. It like 348 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 2: that makes no sense to me. Somehow, I guess weimo 349 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 2: they must be doing it, okay, though, gotta be doing 350 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 2: it okay. Oh yes, it's that time of year when 351 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 2: you hear Sacramento start making nutty suggestions, and you know, 352 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 2: that some of them are. They're going to go through 353 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,959 Speaker 2: today's lawmakers, law breakers of the times, that there ought 354 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 2: to be a law, sees a guilty perv walk, and 355 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,880 Speaker 2: Sacramento's plan to rig the election hold muster. That's next. 356 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 2: Chris Merril kfi AM six forty WeLive everywhere on the 357 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. 358 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand. 359 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 2: Every week. We do it the lawmakers, the lawbreakers, and 360 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 2: the times, and there ought to be a law And 361 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 2: then normally I play the La law theme and I 362 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 2: don't have it. Today It's Chris Merril kfi AM six 363 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: forty more stimulating talk and I forgot my music library, 364 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 2: so yeah, normally I have it on me and today 365 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 2: I just bone that up. So off we go, and 366 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 2: thanks for listening. Everybody that is on the app. Appreciate it. 367 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 2: Everybody checking us out from around the country. I love 368 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 2: when you guys leave talkbacks too, from you know, Nashville 369 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 2: and Saint Louis and places far flung. It makes me 370 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: give me a little tingle, So thank you so much 371 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 2: for that. Let's start in Sacramento, where Sacramento goes to 372 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 2: d C and DC says Sacramento. You're okay. This is 373 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 2: because the Supreme Court, and I'm sure you heard the 374 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 2: crew this week talking about it. Everybody was discussing this. 375 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 2: It's a big deal. The Supreme Court rejecting. The California 376 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 2: Republican parties planned to block the new congressional map before 377 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 2: the midterms, and they said, no, we're not going to 378 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 2: hear it. So the Supreme Court is not going to 379 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 2: hear the appeal on it. The map, as we all know, 380 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 2: was designed specifically to jerrymander the state and give Democrats 381 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 2: more or influence, and that was done in response to Texas. 382 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 2: The difference is Texas just did it legislatively. Texas just 383 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 2: said in their their their their House and their Senate, 384 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 2: they said, let's just let's just tinker and let's make 385 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 2: sure that more Republicans win. And then California went, oh, 386 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 2: we're gonna do the same thing, only in California. Because 387 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 2: we by proposition, passed a bill that's supposed to make 388 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 2: the the the district's more evenly split, it had to 389 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 2: go to the voters. And then you said, collectively, maybe 390 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 2: not you individually, but collectively we said, uh yeah, Texas, 391 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 2: screw you. So we passed a we passed another prop 392 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 2: that said we're going to suspend our last prop for 393 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 2: a little while. So that was it. Because we did it. 394 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 2: And I think this is a big key because because 395 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 2: the state of California followed the our own procedure to 396 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 2: get that change, the Supreme Court really didn't have a 397 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 2: reason to say it was bad. The California Republican Party, 398 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 2: to their credit, said, oh, the new maps that they proposed, 399 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 2: which the voter's voted on, were drawn up along racial lines, 400 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 2: which is a no no, or at least he used 401 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 2: to be. I think George is gonna redo it, and 402 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be allowed, but uh, you're not 403 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 2: supposed to. So the Republican said, look, you're redrawing the 404 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 2: lines to give Hispanic voters more influence over other races, 405 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 2: which I mean, it's a legitimate concern, even if you're 406 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 2: even if you're a liberal Democrat, you go, whoa. We 407 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,239 Speaker 2: got to make sure that we're being fair to all 408 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 2: different races. But then the Democrats said, no, this wasn't 409 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 2: a race thing. This was just us trying to steal 410 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 2: the election. We're just rigging it's we're not racists. We're 411 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 2: just rigging the election. And somehow, in this beautiful country 412 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 2: of ours that is perfectly legal. Somehow, we don't have 413 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 2: no partisan district line drawer verse everywhere. Somehow we have 414 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 2: states like Texas saying let's just change our lines so 415 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 2: that we can tinker with the math and make Republicans 416 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 2: win more. And the way our rules read, including the constitutions, like, yeah, 417 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 2: that's cool, that's great. As long as you're not doing 418 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 2: it to give whites and advantage, that's cool. As long 419 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 2: as you're not doing it based on ready, that's cool. 420 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 2: If you're doing it for politics, because you're trying to 421 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 2: rig the system against people and take away their voice 422 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 2: just because they have different opinions, that's great. That's America. 423 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 2: If you're trying to make sure that the minority of 424 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:49,959 Speaker 2: opinion has a grander influence over the operations of the country, 425 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 2: that's great. Texas, go for it, California, go for it, Georgia, 426 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 2: go for North Carolina, go for everybody. Go for it. 427 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 2: That's fine. Just make sure it's had about race, religion, 428 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 2: or gender. That's it unbelievable. Meanwhile, there was a big 429 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 2: story that feels gross. KTLA was covering this one. It 430 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: makes me feel icky. 431 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 7: Former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps, found guilty of sexually abusing 432 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 7: female patients, now getting a new trial. Senior in footage 433 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 7: from a previous court hearing. The twenty twenty two conviction 434 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 7: that landed Heaps behind bars with an eleven year sentence 435 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 7: now overturned. A California appeals court ruling Monday that Heaps 436 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 7: was denied a fair trial because his defense attorney was 437 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 7: not made aware of a note from the jury four 438 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 7: person at the time. 439 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 8: It is uncommon that the Court of Appeals sends back 440 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 8: a case for a retrial to begin with. But the 441 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:53,959 Speaker 8: error here, I've never heard of it. It is extremely uncommon. 442 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 2: Well, you talk about getting off on a technicality pun intended, 443 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 2: But that I said that feels really extra gross. I mean, 444 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 2: aside from the case itself being rooted in disgusting, this 445 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 2: that feels especially. 446 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 9: Uh. 447 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 2: I just need a shower. 448 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 7: Note describing collective concern from jurors that one juror did 449 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 7: not speak English sufficiently to deliberate and had already made 450 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 7: up his mind. The three justice panel, finding the trial 451 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 7: courts handling of the note deprived Heaps of his constitutional 452 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 7: right to counsel at a critical stage of his trial. 453 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 4: This is a brutal reminder that a procedural misstep and 454 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 4: a criminal trial can truly have devastating consequences. 455 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,479 Speaker 7: An attorney who represented over two hundred former Heaps patients 456 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 7: in a lawsuit that was settled with UCLA saying, this 457 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 7: conviction reversal is a blow to these accusers. 458 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 4: It's a harsh reality that in our criminal justice system, 459 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 4: the road to justice for many survivors of sexual abuse 460 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 4: can be extremely difficult. 461 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 10: And I also spoke to the attorney who represented Heaps 462 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 10: during his original trial said he believes Heaps will ultimately 463 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 10: be exonerated. Yeah, no, he will not, and there are 464 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 10: some procedural next steps over the next thirty days. But 465 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 10: in terms of what we could see, he says, it 466 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 10: is possible that a judge could grant Heaps bail. I 467 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 10: did speak to another attorney not related to the case 468 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 10: who doesn't think that's likely. 469 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's because they're neutral. So you got the old 470 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 2: attorney that was the defense attorney's like, boh, he's a 471 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 2: totally great guy. No, this is totally bogus, but speaking 472 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 2: of sexual abuse, because nothing's more fun that's sarcasm. Please 473 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 2: don't at me. How about this? Got a good story 474 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 2: about this? I love when we're able to say we 475 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:44,199 Speaker 2: got the BASTARDSBC seven was covering this trafficking story, a 476 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 2: big bust. Human trafficking and child exploitation are devastating crimes. 477 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 9: Last week of January, local state, and federal law enforcement 478 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 9: teams went out to pick up solicitors and providers of 479 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 9: young girls and boys involved in sex trafficking. 480 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 2: Little Epstein's in training. Yeah. Now, had there been a 481 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 2: numerous billionaires involved, then we never would have heard about this. 482 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 2: But because they're just porschelubs who are pedophiles, then it's 483 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 2: it's totally okay. But I do have an update on 484 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 2: the Epstein stuff, by the way, and why it's all 485 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 2: of a sudden affecting our Olympic team. If you missed 486 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 2: that story, that's coming up here after five o'clock. Okay, 487 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 2: back to ABC and this big bust. 488 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 9: They call it Operation Reclaim and Rebuild. Stay wide, more 489 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 9: than six hundred arrests were made, one hundred and fifty 490 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 9: six adults and fourteen children were rescued from the streets 491 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,399 Speaker 9: of LA and up and down the state. The task 492 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,479 Speaker 9: Force also confiscated several weapons in their week long sting. 493 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 9: Young girls and boys given a second chance to reclaim 494 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 9: and rebuild their lives. 495 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 2: Survivors need care, they need time, they need a chance 496 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 2: to rebuild their lives, and our partnerships with these organizations 497 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 2: are what allows those individuals to reclaim their lives, their lives. 498 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 2: Good job, just all around, good job, good job when 499 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 2: you get the creeps off the streets. Very happy about that. Overall, 500 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 2: what they say, six hundred arrests, one hundred and seventy 501 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 2: victims that were rescued, So that's just amazing. So thank you, 502 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 2: thank you, thank you everybody that was you know, part 503 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 2: of that to make sure that we're getting people back home. 504 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,679 Speaker 2: Horrible switch. You know, what's even more disturbing to me, 505 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: aside from the crime itself, is the demand for the 506 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:35,439 Speaker 2: crime itself. Right, nobody gets trafficked unless somebody's asking for 507 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 2: for them. Somebody's ordering that up on the menu. That 508 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 2: grosses me. On the La Olympics is supposed to be 509 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 2: what sun palm trees, little traffic, and then you look 510 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 2: at where the soccer games are going. Turns out Los 511 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 2: Angeles is doing a whole lot of waving goodbye to 512 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 2: the footballers. Where they're headed is next Chris Merril, I 513 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 2: AM six forty Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio caf i 514 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 2: AM six foot or Stimulating Talk Chris Merrill on demand 515 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: anytime the iHeart Radio app to pitch. Tonight's showing the 516 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 2: featured segments, Featured featured segments, Podcast Featured podcast segments, Featured Anyway. 517 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 2: It's on the website, you need to a gig for it. 518 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 2: Appreciate you checking us out on the iHeart Radio Appear 519 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 2: Super Bowl Sunday. So obviously you've decided not to be 520 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,679 Speaker 2: a part of the biggest event going out in America tonight, 521 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,479 Speaker 2: and that makes me happy because if you hadn't, then 522 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 2: there would be no one listening to me at all. 523 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 2: Just is what it is. Okay, we have venues that 524 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 2: have been announced for the Olympics. We know we're starting 525 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 2: to you know you're gonna go here, They're gonna go there. 526 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 2: This is where we're gonna big gold medal matches. And 527 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 2: when it comes to soccer, it sounds like not gonna 528 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 2: be the La Olympics. In fact, Katla was telling us 529 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 2: exactly where they're gonna go. 530 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 11: We knew that the Iconic Rosebolt Stadium would be hosting 531 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 11: semi final and final matches for both women and men's 532 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 11: Olympic soccer. But now we finally have the full list 533 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 11: of soccer venues for LA twenty eight. And this is 534 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 11: certainly great news for soccer fans nationwide because they will 535 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 11: not be here, only in LA. 536 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 2: Take a look, Yes, great news for not here, as 537 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: reported by kat La. Okay, so typically not thought it 538 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 2: was great news for LA when it's not happening in LA. 539 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 11: But carry on, kat La, because the LA twenty eight 540 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 11: Olympic and Paralympic Games today announcing that the Iconic Rose 541 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 11: Bowl is one of seven venues across the United States 542 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 11: that I'll be holding matches for the highly anticipated twenty 543 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 11: twenty eight Olympic football tournaments or soccer tournaments. The other 544 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 11: six selected stadiums span the country from east to west, 545 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 11: including venues in San Jose and San Diego. Here in California. 546 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 11: You see the graphic there. New York, New York, Columbus, Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee. 547 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 2: Columbus, Ohio, Columbus sucks. National's nice. So Nissan Stadium is 548 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 2: a nice place if that's where they're doing it, that's nice. 549 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 11: In Saint Louis, Missouri, LA twenty a says it worked 550 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 11: closely with soccer officials to evaluate stadiums nationwide to make 551 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 11: sure that the chosen venues met the highest standards. LA 552 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 11: twenty eight chief of Sport and Games Delivery Officer Seanna 553 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 11: Ferguson saying, quote, bringing Olympic football group stage and knockout 554 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 11: matches to stadiums across the United States means more fans 555 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 11: will witness this global event and experience the Olympic spirit 556 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 11: first hand. 557 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 2: She says. 558 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 11: LA twenty eight is developing a match distribution that allows 559 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 11: the competition to move progressively from east to west as 560 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 11: those teams advanced toward the final stages, with that final 561 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 11: stage matches being played here at the Rolls well the 562 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 11: gold medal matches for the men's tournament on July twenty eighth, 563 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 11: twenty twenty eighth, and for the women's net tournament being 564 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 11: played the following day. 565 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: All right, for that there is I do think this 566 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 2: is smart. If you're gonna do it elsewhere, it's fine whatever. 567 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 2: It's still it's still in the US, and I think 568 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 2: what we've got Oklahoma's hosting some softball and baseball tournaments 569 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 2: or something like that. I'm I'm okay with it. The 570 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 2: Paris and Olympics, we had surfing in Tahiti, obviously not 571 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 2: near Paris. So look, that's fine. And if you're getting 572 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 2: people distributed around the United States, especially coming off the 573 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,479 Speaker 2: North America World Cup going on this year, maybe you've 574 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 2: got more enthusiasm, certainly some tourist dollars going to other places. 575 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 2: That's fine. The smart thing that they're doing, though, is 576 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 2: the progressive match play from east to west, because that 577 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 2: way you don't have somebody who's playing and this you'll see. 578 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,719 Speaker 2: This World Cup tries to do things pretty logically, but 579 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 2: it's sort of like when you're watching the NFL and 580 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 2: you might have the Rams playing the forty nine Ers 581 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 2: one week, right, so it's West coast game, not a 582 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 2: lot of travel, and then all of a sudden they 583 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 2: gotta go play the New York Giants the next week. 584 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, Rams gonna fly out to 585 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 2: New York, right, And then the following week, oh well, 586 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 2: you're back to play another conference or another division game 587 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 2: against Seattle, right, So that's just it messages with your clock. 588 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 2: This is much smarter. Let's start out here and then 589 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 2: work our way back, especially because if you are if 590 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 2: you're anyone except the United States, every game is a 591 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 2: road game, so it's not like you have home field 592 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 2: advantage you're trying to get back to, so that that 593 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 2: part is smart. So the Epstein Files finally out, which 594 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 2: means great, we got there's finally only a month after 595 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 2: the deadline, and that means we get transparency, and that 596 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 2: means finally some accountability and we have we're gonna shine 597 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 2: some light on this. No, no, we're not. Instead, we're 598 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 2: gonna get apologies, we're gonna get victims who are saying 599 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 2: that they're being threatened, and we're gonna have the internet 600 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 2: start interneting. What actually changed since the release is next. 601 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 2: I'm Chris Merril I AM six forty Live everywhere in 602 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. 603 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand