WEBVTT - Steve Edwards Stops By 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:06.319 Something's not right here crime is up all over the state. 0:00:06.019 --> 0:00:08.680 The homelessness in the city is out of control the 0:00:08.780 --> 0:00:11.600 economy is sick taxes are high. 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.640 Housing is expensive and businesses are leaving. 0:00:13.330 --> 0:00:18.790 Leaving california needs fixing and john phillips is just the 0:00:18.829 --> 0:00:22.370 man to lead the charge it's the fix california hour 0:00:22.630 --> 0:00:24.570 with john phillips and randy. 0:00:24.329 --> 0:00:30.400 Wang And we continue at 105 in the afternoon on 0:00:30.420 --> 0:00:33.720 the John Phillips Show. Mr. Randy Wings in Culver City. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:38.190 Johnny, we're broadcasting live on the radio on 790 KABC 0:00:38.330 --> 0:00:42.250 in Southern California and 810 KSFO in the Bay Area. 0:00:42.610 --> 0:00:46.629 And we're also broadcasting live on video every single day 0:00:46.650 --> 0:00:52.880 at johnnydontlike.com. That's Johnny with a Y. Johnny don't like.com. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.820 That's where you can hit the like button, which means 0:00:54.860 --> 0:00:58.040 that YouTube will share us with new people. You can 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:03.830 also hit subscribe. We're at over 6,400 subscribers on the 0:01:03.890 --> 0:01:06.810 channel growing every single day. And look, it's just a 0:01:06.850 --> 0:01:09.450 personal goal of mine and it's nothing against him, but 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:15.750 John Cobelt is at like 7,500 subscribers, 8,500 subscribers. I 0:01:15.790 --> 0:01:17.190 want to beat him by the end of the month. 0:01:17.250 --> 0:01:20.210 And you can help us by sharing this show, telling 0:01:20.230 --> 0:01:23.010 your friends about it at johnnydontlike.com. 0:01:23.030 --> 0:01:26.140 800-222-5222 is the telephone number 1-800-222-5222. And I don't know 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:35.850 what the deal is, Randy. But I'm getting more spam 0:01:35.950 --> 0:01:39.290 phone calls over the last two weeks than I've gotten 0:01:39.569 --> 0:01:43.170 in the entire year combined. It is nonstop. It is 0:01:43.410 --> 0:01:44.590 every single day. 0:01:44.590 --> 0:01:47.980 90% of the time that my phone is notifying me, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.600 it's so it can harass me. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.600 It's literally like 15 a day now. Yep. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:55.080 Rude. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.340 All right. It is our pleasure to welcome our next 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:02.160 guest to the program. He is the host of a 0:02:02.220 --> 0:02:05.670 brand new podcast called which he hosts with his former 0:02:05.730 --> 0:02:10.000 co-host on Good Day L.A., friends of the show, Jillian Barbary, 0:02:10.419 --> 0:02:13.600 who I co-hosted a show with on KABC in L.A. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.859 for years and years and years, and Dorothy Lucy, who 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.840 was one of the anchors, the entertainment reporter on Good 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:24.920 Day L.A. for years as well. Mr. Steve Edwards, welcome. 0:02:24.940 --> 0:02:27.590 Is this a spam call? 0:02:31.450 --> 0:02:32.010 Close enough. 0:02:33.470 --> 0:02:35.350 Randy, you guys are still doing this, huh? 0:02:36.110 --> 0:02:38.310 Somehow they're still paying us to do this. 0:02:39.190 --> 0:02:42.090 Wow. I just unsubscribed. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.040 Well, now we're never going to beat John Cobell. Thanks 0:02:46.060 --> 0:02:46.959 for that, Edwards. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.040 First of all, it's great to hear you two guys. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:56.280 You're doing what you're doing. You're up and down the state. 0:02:57.470 --> 0:02:59.650 Although I don't always agree with you, I love you both. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.810 Well, we love you too, Steve, and we love your 0:03:02.870 --> 0:03:06.690 new podcast because you have a new podcast with Jillian 0:03:06.850 --> 0:03:09.709 and Dorothy. Tell us a little bit about that. 0:03:10.950 --> 0:03:20.280 Can you imagine that I went back for more? I 0:03:20.340 --> 0:03:26.180 guess this was inevitable. We got a call from Scott Sternberg, 0:03:26.220 --> 0:03:31.850 longtime television producer, And he essentially said, listen, you know, 0:03:32.310 --> 0:03:36.390 why don't you guys do a podcast? You know, it 0:03:36.410 --> 0:03:39.410 seems a natural thing. And I thought about it and 0:03:39.470 --> 0:03:48.060 Dorothy thought about it and Jill didn't listen. And we said, sure. 0:03:48.500 --> 0:03:50.440 And now we're in and now we've done a bunch 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.020 of them. We have a few thousand subscribers as well. 0:03:55.410 --> 0:03:58.450 And it's going okay. And You know, what I always 0:03:58.490 --> 0:04:01.010 say about that is, and you guys will know that 0:04:01.050 --> 0:04:04.070 because you both work with Jill, and you know Dorothy, 0:04:04.090 --> 0:04:08.420 you know good LA, if you love us, you'll like it. 0:04:13.510 --> 0:04:14.790 Don't oversell it, Steve. 0:04:15.870 --> 0:04:20.270 I don't oversell. I never oversell. No, no, it's good. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.750 So far, we've done a number of them. I've completed 0:04:23.270 --> 0:04:24.380 at least 11 sentences. 0:04:27.470 --> 0:04:29.370 Pretty much just get your name out and then Jillian 0:04:29.390 --> 0:04:29.950 takes over. 0:04:31.190 --> 0:04:36.400 Yeah, exactly. No, I say that I can't complete a 0:04:36.420 --> 0:04:38.700 sentence ever with these guys, so when I get to 0:04:38.740 --> 0:04:40.800 an end of a sentence, I don't remember what it is. 0:04:43.060 --> 0:04:45.840 And the LA Times did a big profile on you guys, too, 0:04:45.900 --> 0:04:46.880 which I thought was nice. 0:04:47.900 --> 0:04:50.430 Yeah, that was very nice. I mean, the truth is, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.270 there's no bigger cliche than to say it's a labor 0:04:54.310 --> 0:04:58.290 of love, but it is. This group has remained very 0:04:58.370 --> 0:05:02.540 tight through the years. We're closer now than we were 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.480 even then. Jill and Dorothy, who always had a somewhat 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.339 tumultuous relationship in the old days, are like the closest 0:05:10.420 --> 0:05:15.600 of sisters in the world. And, you know, I'm close 0:05:15.620 --> 0:05:17.940 to both of them. And, you know, all of us 0:05:17.980 --> 0:05:20.360 have been through a lot. And that has brought us 0:05:20.460 --> 0:05:21.040 even closer. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.920 I would imagine that when you're making the television And 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.080 you're on the treadmill that just keeps getting faster and 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.180 faster and faster because you guys were waking up in 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.060 the middle of the night. And then in addition to that, 0:05:36.180 --> 0:05:39.060 for a period of time, you had a national talk show, 0:05:39.100 --> 0:05:42.609 Good Day Live, which aired all over the country. You 0:05:42.700 --> 0:05:46.690 used to do radio on occasion, including here at KABC. 0:05:47.490 --> 0:05:51.750 Jillian had a sitcom and a dating show and other 0:05:51.810 --> 0:05:55.670 projects that were going on. Dorothy was a mom and 0:05:55.770 --> 0:05:59.140 had a family that was certainly growing at the time 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.039 that you guys were making good DLA and in the 0:06:02.100 --> 0:06:05.180 time you're just reacting because you have a lot that's 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.359 hitting you all at once and you react and sometimes 0:06:08.420 --> 0:06:12.360 tempers flare and sometimes if you had a little bit 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.490 more time to think about it you might think about 0:06:14.510 --> 0:06:18.250 it differently and it seems like now you guys are 0:06:18.290 --> 0:06:21.270 looking at that from 30,000 feet and you're not in 0:06:21.310 --> 0:06:25.230 the moment and they're not constantly turning the treadmill up faster, 0:06:25.250 --> 0:06:28.390 and I think it gives you a little different perspective. 0:06:29.830 --> 0:06:33.409 Well, it does, and it becomes more personal in many ways. 0:06:34.310 --> 0:06:36.359 As I said, there's a lot going on. People have 0:06:36.420 --> 0:06:40.380 experienced a lot, and it's a place to be very, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.860 very honest. You're not pleasing anybody. You know what I mean? 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:50.050 You're pleasing yourself. There are no strictures. There's no management. 0:06:50.089 --> 0:06:54.110 There's no consultant. There's no whatever. So, you know, it's 0:06:54.190 --> 0:06:57.630 pretty free. And it's free to be smart and it's 0:06:57.690 --> 0:07:00.570 free to be stupid and it's free to be funny 0:07:00.730 --> 0:07:02.770 and it's free to be wise and it's free to 0:07:02.810 --> 0:07:05.350 be ridiculous. And that's only in the first three minutes. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.560 I'll tell you something else because Jillian and I were 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.180 doing the radio show at the time that she was 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.780 diagnosed with her very aggressive form of cancer. You could 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:21.140 tell when that diagnosis came in how much it affected 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:27.280 you and Dorothy. it really, really, really impacted you in 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.400 very serious and fundamental ways, like you would react to 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.610 a very close family member who is experiencing something like that. 0:07:36.150 --> 0:07:38.770 And I think that when something like that happens, that's 0:07:38.850 --> 0:07:41.490 real life that just smacks you in the face, it 0:07:41.530 --> 0:07:44.300 gets your attention in ways that other things don't. 0:07:44.310 --> 0:07:49.920 This is why you're on the radio. I could not 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:55.480 have encapsulated it better than what you just said. It did. 0:07:55.660 --> 0:08:00.830 It absolutely grows closer. And you realize what matters, you know, 0:08:00.870 --> 0:08:05.390 what does really matter. And being that it's Jill, after 0:08:05.650 --> 0:08:08.630 she had her surgery and she went to a place 0:08:08.670 --> 0:08:12.270 to recover, we were, you know, we visited her right away. 0:08:13.130 --> 0:08:16.600 And she said, hey, you want to feel my nose? 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.320 I don't think I have to dump that. 0:08:25.500 --> 0:08:28.880 I did it for you. I did it for you. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.260 A lot of people think Randy just did that. That 0:08:31.300 --> 0:08:36.480 was me. That was me. And, yeah, it brought us 0:08:36.940 --> 0:08:39.980 to the point where now we all root for each other. 0:08:40.059 --> 0:08:43.120 There's none of the, you know, there's no competition with 0:08:43.140 --> 0:08:46.770 Dorothy and Jill or anything like that. And we've reached 0:08:46.850 --> 0:08:48.390 a point, I used to say to them way back, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.420 When we were on a roll and the show was 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:56.760 number one and everything was great, I would say to them, 0:08:57.220 --> 0:09:00.250 you have to understand. Luckily, I've been through a lot 0:09:00.260 --> 0:09:03.990 of those in my career. This is it. This is 0:09:04.030 --> 0:09:05.849 the moment. Don't think of this moment in terms of 0:09:05.870 --> 0:09:10.290 where it's taking us. Enjoy every moment of this. It's 0:09:10.350 --> 0:09:14.950 working so well. But they didn't really get it. They 0:09:14.990 --> 0:09:18.950 get it now. In retrospect, they entirely get it. They 0:09:18.970 --> 0:09:21.270 keep bringing that up all the time. You kept telling 0:09:21.340 --> 0:09:23.380 us how great this is. And, you know, I was 0:09:23.420 --> 0:09:25.600 thinking of, Jill was saying, yeah, I want to get 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:30.640 another show. And Jordan said, like, at home. But that 0:09:30.660 --> 0:09:33.160 was a golden time. So, you know, my attitude about 0:09:33.179 --> 0:09:35.000 this is let's just make this a golden time and 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:35.660 see where it goes. 0:09:37.950 --> 0:09:42.170 Steve, the Angels, I'm going to call them the Anaheim 0:09:42.230 --> 0:09:45.819 Angels or maybe even the California Angels. Have a new owner. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.000 By the way, let me interrupt. Let me interrupt. I 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:52.120 think of you all the time when it comes to 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.850 the Angels, and I'm thinking, maybe you'll have a reason 0:09:55.910 --> 0:09:56.530 to live now. 0:09:58.330 --> 0:10:01.260 All right. On that topic, Stan, Kroenke is going to 0:10:01.300 --> 0:10:05.020 be the new owner of the angels. He owns a 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.140 team in the NFL, the Rams that play in Inglewood. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.940 He owns a team that plays in the NHL, the 0:10:11.980 --> 0:10:17.119 Colorado avalanche. He owns a professional soccer team. And it 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.040 brings me back to the old days in Los Angeles 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.610 when we had an owner that owned two teams. That 0:10:22.660 --> 0:10:26.170 man was Jack Kent Cook. He owned the LA Kings, 0:10:26.850 --> 0:10:30.510 and he owned the LA Lakers. And at one moment 0:10:30.530 --> 0:10:32.710 in time, I think you and I have even discussed this, 0:10:32.970 --> 0:10:35.820 when he decided that he was going to sell those teams, 0:10:36.420 --> 0:10:40.160 originally he talked about selling both of them to the O'Malleys, 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.400 and they were going to build an arena in the 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.190 parking lot of Dodger Stadium in and they were going 0:10:46.210 --> 0:10:49.929 to have all three teams play in the same facility 0:10:50.390 --> 0:10:52.689 and almost make it like what you see and what 0:10:52.929 --> 0:10:54.960 used to be in Oakland where you had the arena 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.120 and you had the stadium in the same physical space. 0:10:58.860 --> 0:11:01.740 What do you think about the idea of the same 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.300 guy owning two teams in roughly the same market? 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.939 I don't have a problem with that at all. I 0:11:09.940 --> 0:11:13.440 think it can truly be synergistic if it's the right guy. 0:11:14.710 --> 0:11:16.770 And with the right motive. And the motive has to 0:11:16.809 --> 0:11:21.010 be not just to make money. The motive has to 0:11:21.050 --> 0:11:25.140 be I'm here to serve the people. I'm here to 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.320 serve the family. Not just saying it. And if you 0:11:28.340 --> 0:11:33.340 have the right guy, it's synergistic and it's like a multiplier. 0:11:33.500 --> 0:11:35.360 One thing helps the other. I think it would be 0:11:35.380 --> 0:11:37.450 a great thing. It's funny you bring this up. I 0:11:37.470 --> 0:11:39.449 just did a ramble. You know that ramble I do 0:11:39.570 --> 0:11:45.960 on Instagram and Facebook? I don't. trace the history of 0:11:46.620 --> 0:11:51.300 where the Dodgers have been business-wise through the years leading 0:11:51.380 --> 0:11:53.560 up to now and try to explain the more assets. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:55.820 Have you talked about it at length? 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.569 No, we had Chuck Todd on the program not long ago, 0:11:59.670 --> 0:12:04.390 and he did a similar podcast, and he encouraged everyone 0:12:04.429 --> 0:12:08.250 to take a listen to it. But he thinks that 0:12:08.309 --> 0:12:13.880 there is potentially... trouble going on financially with what's going 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.180 on with the Dodgers right now. 0:12:16.660 --> 0:12:19.660 Because this really blasted the dream. The Dodgers of the 0:12:19.700 --> 0:12:23.420 last five, 10 years have been like the greatest franchise 0:12:23.580 --> 0:12:26.559 in the world, right? All dreams come true with the Dodgers. 0:12:27.940 --> 0:12:30.800 They put baseball on the map. They have, you know, 0:12:31.230 --> 0:12:33.829 when I was a kid, the most famous baseball player 0:12:33.910 --> 0:12:36.750 would be the most famous athlete. So when I was 0:12:36.830 --> 0:12:40.270 a little kid, Mickey Mantle, was the most famous baseball player, 0:12:40.309 --> 0:12:44.290 and everybody in America knew who he was. I think 0:12:45.390 --> 0:12:48.189 from that time to this time, it's never been that way. 0:12:48.210 --> 0:12:51.290 It's always been a basketball player. It's always been Tom Brady. 0:12:51.309 --> 0:12:56.240 It's always been somebody like that. But now it's Shohei Ohtani, who, 0:12:56.260 --> 0:13:00.040 by the way, is going on the injured list right now. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.520 They have revitalized the sport. Certainly here in L.A., 50,000 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:10.500 a night, 4 million a season. Such excitement, the possibility 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.729 of a three-peat, all of that. And is it a 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.650 house of cards that could tumble? I ask you. 0:13:17.650 --> 0:13:20.309 Well, that was the reason I didn't knock Artie when 0:13:20.450 --> 0:13:24.310 Artie didn't match the Dodgers for money with Shohei. Because 0:13:24.350 --> 0:13:26.850 you have a guy who pitches. You have a guy 0:13:27.050 --> 0:13:29.829 who bats. You have a guy who is putting a 0:13:29.870 --> 0:13:32.959 tremendous amount of stress on his body. Do you really 0:13:32.980 --> 0:13:35.800 want to invest that amount of money in someone who 0:13:35.820 --> 0:13:38.710 will likely spend a lot of time on the bench. 0:13:39.220 --> 0:13:43.700 There are very talented players who just abuse their body 0:13:43.780 --> 0:13:45.939 to the point to where they spend a lot of 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.620 time on the injured list. I mean, look at, to 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.920 switch sports for a second, look at Bill Walton. Bill 0:13:51.940 --> 0:13:54.750 Walton was one of the most talented basketball players at 0:13:54.790 --> 0:13:58.929 the collegiate level. He then moves on to the professional 0:13:58.970 --> 0:14:03.050 basketball league, the NBA, and he spends most of his 0:14:03.110 --> 0:14:06.680 time sitting on the bench because he's injured. And I 0:14:06.870 --> 0:14:09.050 feared that that would be the case with Shohei. 0:14:11.470 --> 0:14:16.230 Well, but you can look at it from a different perspective. Yes, baseball-wise, true. 0:14:17.270 --> 0:14:21.330 If Shohei only plays two more years off of how 0:14:21.370 --> 0:14:23.590 long is the contract, 10 years, 12 years, whatever it is, 0:14:24.470 --> 0:14:25.930 the Dodgers have made it all back. 0:14:26.530 --> 0:14:26.790 Sure. 0:14:27.210 --> 0:14:31.500 They got everything they could. Artie couldn't do that. Artie 0:14:31.580 --> 0:14:35.120 didn't market the same way. He didn't. didn't realize what 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.620 he had internationally. And as I used to say to 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.140 you when I did the show with you so many times, 0:14:43.550 --> 0:14:46.030 you had a team with the best player in baseball, 0:14:46.070 --> 0:14:50.130 Mike Trout, and the best player in the universe, Shohei Otani. 0:14:51.470 --> 0:14:54.750 And nobody cared. I don't want to hurt your feelings. 0:14:54.770 --> 0:14:55.950 I don't want to hurt your feelings. 0:14:56.770 --> 0:14:57.210 It's true. 0:14:58.850 --> 0:15:02.980 It didn't move the needle. As soon as Shohei... went 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.900 to the Dodgers, he became the most famous athlete in 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:06.240 the world. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:07.980 And it happened overnight. 0:15:09.340 --> 0:15:15.960 Overnight. It happened just absolutely, absolutely overnight. And while I'm reminiscing, 0:15:16.620 --> 0:15:19.460 I do have to tell you, I got to do 0:15:19.500 --> 0:15:22.080 a lot of, you know, I worked at KABC Radio 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.160 way back in the early 90s. Loved it. And through 0:15:26.180 --> 0:15:29.960 the good graces of you and others, I got to 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.190 come back and work a lot with you and fill 0:15:33.230 --> 0:15:35.870 in his stuff and work with, get to know Randy. 0:15:36.410 --> 0:15:40.180 Got to see this guy, Randy. What's the deal with Randy? 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.340 We still don't know what's the deal with him. Well, 0:15:45.420 --> 0:15:47.480 some say he was born that way, but I say 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:48.460 it was the environment. 0:15:50.140 --> 0:15:57.290 I think it's a combination of nature and being badly nurtured. No, no, 0:15:57.310 --> 0:15:59.489 because Randy, I got a kick out of because which 0:15:59.530 --> 0:16:03.160 Randy are we talking about? You know, Which photos are 0:16:03.180 --> 0:16:08.390 we talking about? Randy, you've been remarkable. You really have been. 0:16:08.450 --> 0:16:09.830 Suddenly you've become like Brad Pitt. 0:16:11.530 --> 0:16:12.489 I did lose a little weight. 0:16:16.070 --> 0:16:20.440 No, you look great. Anyway, I enjoyed my time with 0:16:20.460 --> 0:16:24.820 you two guys immensely. And in a career where I've 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.359 been really fortunate to have just a lot of ups 0:16:28.940 --> 0:16:31.140 all the way through going back to Houston and Chicago 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.820 with in Los Angeles. A uniquely good time working with 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:35.220 you guys. 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.400 Well, we love you, Steve. And we always love hearing 0:16:39.450 --> 0:16:43.750 from you. And we love hearing your perspective. Sometimes not 0:16:43.810 --> 0:16:46.190 on the Angels because you're a little bit too brutally 0:16:46.230 --> 0:16:49.770 honest with us, but for the most part, we do. Now, 0:16:49.870 --> 0:16:52.030 while we have you here, who do you think is 0:16:52.050 --> 0:16:53.350 going to be the next mayor of L.A. 0:16:56.310 --> 0:16:58.890 Even if I had to bet on it, if I 0:16:58.930 --> 0:17:04.120 had to bet on it, it's going to be second term, 0:17:04.780 --> 0:17:05.379 Mayor Bass. 0:17:09.500 --> 0:17:12.000 Did you see that Laura Chick came out today and 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.119 endorsed Nithya? 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.200 Did I just stop the show just then? 0:17:15.220 --> 0:17:16.220 A little bit. 0:17:16.530 --> 0:17:18.869 Well, everyone in the audience just got depressed. I mean, 0:17:18.890 --> 0:17:22.220 there's no good answer. But just the idea of four 0:17:22.260 --> 0:17:24.560 more years of Bass is depressing, and the idea of 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.459 four years of Nithya is depressing. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:33.800 Let me ask, yeah, exactly, your audience. Who can make 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.420 you happy? Neither one will make you happy, right? 0:17:36.780 --> 0:17:37.000 No. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:39.120 No. 0:17:40.540 --> 0:17:43.920 No, it makes me depressed. Do you remember, I think 0:17:43.940 --> 0:17:46.680 you were on stage at the inauguration of Richard Reardon, 0:17:46.700 --> 0:17:47.200 were you not? 0:17:47.220 --> 0:17:50.680 I was, actually, I'm seated, yes. 0:17:51.140 --> 0:17:54.500 Okay, remember the optimism back then, and that was right 0:17:54.540 --> 0:17:58.090 before LA Live and right before the Disney Concert Hall 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.810 and before the Staples Center and all of these projects 0:18:01.850 --> 0:18:04.270 that were going on in the city. Venice became a 0:18:04.490 --> 0:18:08.270 really tony, safe place to be. Hollywood became a safe 0:18:08.330 --> 0:18:11.630 place to be. Suddenly Echo Park, which had gang injunctions, 0:18:12.130 --> 0:18:16.669 had these million-dollar homes popping up. The optimism that was 0:18:16.810 --> 0:18:20.960 in the city around that time was through the roof. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.340 And as optimistic as we were back then, I feel 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.790 like the feeling is despair today. 0:18:27.810 --> 0:18:33.510 Oh, I, I, I, I agree with you that, I mean, 0:18:33.790 --> 0:18:37.710 there's a certain degree of hopelessness. Uh, the homeless problem 0:18:37.810 --> 0:18:41.350 just seems to be intractable. Everybody has an answer until 0:18:41.369 --> 0:18:46.710 they're in office. And, uh, I don't know where that goes. Uh, 0:18:47.420 --> 0:18:50.000 I like the idea that Caruso may have had a 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.970 different approach that could have been more effective. I don't know. 0:18:53.510 --> 0:18:55.590 Spencer Pratt, I don't know what to say about Spencer 0:18:55.609 --> 0:19:00.070 Pratt other than he represented a whole need that a 0:19:00.230 --> 0:19:03.190 large part of the city had, not necessarily for him, 0:19:03.230 --> 0:19:09.239 but for what he represented. So I don't know who ideally, 0:19:09.260 --> 0:19:12.280 let me ask the two of you, ideally, who would 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:13.060 you like as mayor? 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.350 Well, I think... Forget who it was that we had on. 0:19:17.390 --> 0:19:20.940 Maybe it was Susan Shelley. And she said, whoever it 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.320 is is going to have to do what Dick Reardon 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.119 did back in the old days, which is start working 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:33.570 immediately after the last election, build relationships, build trust, and 0:19:34.430 --> 0:19:36.909 not do a last-minute sort of thing, not do an 0:19:37.030 --> 0:19:40.070 overnight sort of thing, but really put the work in 0:19:40.130 --> 0:19:43.800 for a very long period of time and I was 0:19:43.859 --> 0:19:47.280 hoping Rick Caruso would be that guy. It didn't work out. 0:19:47.700 --> 0:19:50.719 But someone like that. Because I... I don't think we 0:19:50.740 --> 0:19:54.060 can go on like this for much longer and have 0:19:54.100 --> 0:19:54.820 anything left. 0:19:56.420 --> 0:19:59.899 Well, you know, to me, the genius of Reardon was that, 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:05.159 you know, nominally, he had a political assignment, right? He 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:09.820 was a Republican. But he didn't work like a guy 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.840 with a party. He never worked with a guy with 0:20:12.900 --> 0:20:15.720 a party. There was no door closed to him because 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:22.170 of party rivalry or affiliation. I am very, you said 0:20:22.190 --> 0:20:26.230 the word sad. I'm a little misty-eyed for those days 0:20:27.109 --> 0:20:30.390 where here's a guy who, he didn't come at you 0:20:30.770 --> 0:20:33.929 from any particular point of view other than the pragmatics 0:20:33.990 --> 0:20:34.780 of how do we fix it. 0:20:35.290 --> 0:20:37.170 And Steve, we're going to have to leave it there. 0:20:37.230 --> 0:20:40.510 I'm late for a break. The podcast is so unanchored 0:20:40.950 --> 0:20:45.160 with Steve Edwards, Jillian Barbary, and Dorothy Lucy. Click subscribe. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.020 Listen to those episodes. You won't regret it. 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Cause I've heard what else is on the radio. 0:22:16.470 --> 0:22:18.840 You should really only listen to us like on a 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:23.320 24 hour loop. The rest is track. 0:22:23.340 --> 0:22:25.660 And next week we're going to universal city. 0:22:26.150 --> 0:22:28.860 We're going back to the Universal Hilton for the Over 0:22:28.890 --> 0:22:32.040 the Edge event with our friends at the Union Rescue Mission. 0:22:32.100 --> 0:22:34.780 If you want to sign up and rappel down the 0:22:34.780 --> 0:22:37.270 25 stories of the Universal Hilton, which I did two 0:22:37.290 --> 0:22:41.369 years ago, go to urm.org.ote. This, of course, is an 0:22:41.430 --> 0:22:45.230 event to help the Union Rescue Mission. in their goal 0:22:45.300 --> 0:22:48.419 to solve homelessness one person at a time, doing it 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:52.480 the right way, giving them actual structure, giving them rules, 0:22:52.780 --> 0:22:56.040 and getting them to be self-sustaining. If we just funded 0:22:56.060 --> 0:22:59.080 the Union Rescue Mission, we wouldn't have the problem that 0:22:59.100 --> 0:23:01.320 we have. But no, instead we fund a bunch of 0:23:01.340 --> 0:23:04.510 crooked nonprofits. But we love the Union Rescue Mission, and 0:23:04.550 --> 0:23:07.250 we'll be there at the University of Hilton on September 25th. 0:23:07.270 --> 0:23:11.230 Go to urm.org slash ote if you want to participate. 0:23:11.580 --> 0:23:13.600 Are you going to descend down the hotel this year? 0:23:14.020 --> 0:23:14.800 Do I have to? 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:18.139 Now, Art tried to say that I should do it 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:20.619 again because I've been going to Pilates so much and 0:23:20.660 --> 0:23:23.120 I have better core strength to see if it's easier. 0:23:23.140 --> 0:23:26.470 But it's such a whole thing. I mean, it's probably 0:23:26.490 --> 0:23:27.950 going to be hot and humid and I'm going to 0:23:27.990 --> 0:23:31.070 be sweating on the side of a building. How do 0:23:31.090 --> 0:23:33.169 you feel, by the way, if you're the people who 0:23:33.210 --> 0:23:36.130