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Speaker 2: in southern California as well as the Bay Area, Sacramento,
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Speaker 2: any questions, or you can't find any of the things
Speaker 2: that I just promoted. Let's star art in Woodland Hills
Speaker 2: where there was a big celebration yesterday. The mayor came
Speaker 2: all the way out to the valley because they are
Speaker 2: starting construction on a gigantic three thousand unit set of towers,
Speaker 2: towers that will house the elderly in a massive affordable
Speaker 2: housing complex. Just a reminder anytime that you hear the
Speaker 2: term affordable housing, just remember that that means it is
Speaker 2: subsidized in some way, whether it's through city, county, or
Speaker 2: state tax dollars, whether it is subsidized from the expensive
Speaker 2: rents from everybody else, somebody is paying for the affordable housing.
Speaker 2: By the way, this affordable housing complex which was greenlit
Speaker 2: under Karen Vass's executive directive one the short lived executive
Speaker 2: order that got rid of all red tape that she
Speaker 2: decided to cancel as soon as people got outraged that
Speaker 2: they were going to tear a single family home in
Speaker 2: Sherman Oaks and turn into a seven story building. Well,
Speaker 2: this is one of the projects that got in under
Speaker 2: the wire, and it's going to have three thousand units
Speaker 2: for what they say as mostly the elderly and people
Speaker 2: that cannot afford to get a regular place. But it's
Speaker 2: only gonna have eight hundred parking spaces. But that's not
Speaker 2: the real story of this. I was actually kind of confused.
Speaker 2: When I pull up the feed, I go to Fox eleven,
Speaker 2: I see this story. Of course I'm gonna click on
Speaker 2: it because I live near Woodland Hills. I'm always curious
Speaker 2: about what's going on there. The traffic is bad. Now
Speaker 2: just wait till Kronky builds the little rams park and
Speaker 2: then you've got this and it's going to be a
Speaker 2: whole thing having to deal with getting around down there.
Speaker 2: But I was like, wait, why are they sending Matthew
Speaker 2: Seedorf on this? That's Seedorf is usually being sent to
Speaker 2: a very dangerous location or somewhere that smells terrible. But
Speaker 2: I think the reason they sent in Seedorf for this
Speaker 2: fairly celebrate Tory event was because they knew this would
Speaker 2: be the one way to get Matthew Seedorf in his
Speaker 2: microphone in Karen Bass's face, because Karen Bass was more
Speaker 2: than happy to talk about, Hey, look at this, We're
Speaker 2: actually building something affordable housing.
Speaker 3: How great is this?
Speaker 2: Although the developer couldn't commit to how much, how many
Speaker 2: of the units are actually for seniors, how the affordability
Speaker 2: is being paid? Is this through Section eight? Is this
Speaker 2: through other housing funds measure ula? We don't know, but
Speaker 2: Karen Bass is all happy to talk about that, but
Speaker 2: what she did not expect was for Matthew Sedorf to
Speaker 2: be recording when she was giving her spiel, not just
Speaker 2: about building housing, but about homelessness. Because one of the
Speaker 2: things that Karen Bass says so many times when she's
Speaker 2: talking about her plan to end homelessness on the street
Speaker 2: by twenty twenty six, wait it is twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 2: Karen Bass likes to tout that there are so many
Speaker 2: different kinds of homeless people you cannot paint them with
Speaker 2: a broad brush. And Karen Bass likes to say, for
Speaker 2: all of you people that think that this is a
Speaker 2: mostly drug and mental illness problem, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: You spend a couple of weeks on the street and
Speaker 2: you don't see if you don't start using meth to
Speaker 2: protect yourself.
Speaker 3: Those were her words. They were on tape.
Speaker 2: The homeless are just using meth to protect themselves because
Speaker 2: they need to stay up at night otherwise they will
Speaker 2: be assaulted. So let's think about that for a second.
Speaker 2: So what the mayor of Los Angeles is saying is
Speaker 2: that the conditions in our streets, in these encampments are
Speaker 2: so dangerous that it doesn't matter if you had a
Speaker 2: drug problem that put you on the streets or not.
Speaker 2: You need to whether you're a man or a woman,
Speaker 2: black or white, young or old, you need to do
Speaker 2: math on the street so you can stay up late
Speaker 2: at night, because if you fall asleep at night in
Speaker 2: a homeless encampment, you will be sexually assaulted, you will
Speaker 2: be swallowelled, you will be platinered allegedly. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's necessarily the kind of argument you want to bring,
Speaker 2: because I don't know if she understands how the human
Speaker 2: body and how drugs work.
Speaker 3: But sure, the.
Speaker 2: Meth can keep you up all night, and then they
Speaker 2: usually take the fentanyl to fold over and pass out
Speaker 2: during the day. But what sexual assaults don't happen during
Speaker 2: the day. Look, this is a non sensical argument making
Speaker 2: excuses for doing illicit drugs that put people into you know,
Speaker 2: you want to talk about Karen Bass loves to do
Speaker 2: the chicken or the egg situation. Did someone become homeless
Speaker 2: because of their drug addiction or did they become a
Speaker 2: drug addict because of homelessness.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a different chicken or egg theory.
Speaker 2: Was the person crazy and then they started using meth
Speaker 2: or did they start using meth? And meth actually creates
Speaker 2: mental illness. Meth actually destroys your brain to the point
Speaker 2: where you're in psychosis, where you're extremely paranoid, where you're
Speaker 2: seeing things your schizophrenic. So anybody, any elected official, making
Speaker 2: excuses to do meth on the streets because while they
Speaker 2: need to do it to protect themselves might be the
Speaker 2: most bet bleep argument I have ever heard from an
Speaker 2: elected official. And of course Matthew Seedorf, being the great
Speaker 2: reporter that he is, has the microphone in front of
Speaker 2: her face and she's talking about how great this development is.
Speaker 2: But Seedorf, who I cannot say enough great things about
Speaker 2: I am a huge fan of this guy, says, what
Speaker 2: were you saying back there that the homeless take meth
Speaker 2: to protect themselves? And she says, I didn't say they
Speaker 2: were protecting themselves, Yeah, she did.
Speaker 3: It's on tape.
Speaker 2: I highly recommend you watch and share that video the
Speaker 2: Fox eleven Report as at Randy Wang Radio dot substack
Speaker 2: dot com. And I also highly recommend you check out
Speaker 2: the first hour of the John Phillips Show.
Speaker 3: I will also have.
Speaker 2: A contained video of John and I talking about this
Speaker 2: and playing the sound and a graphic that I am
Speaker 2: very proud of of Karen Bass as Heisenberg from Breaking
Speaker 2: Bad worked.
Speaker 3: Real hard on it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have that up tomorrow morning, and I highly
Speaker 2: recommend that's one of those stories you need to not
Speaker 2: only see it, you need to share it around. This
Speaker 2: is the kind of thing you need to be telling
Speaker 2: your friends. And you know, there was an interesting exchange
Speaker 2: on my Facebook page. One of the things that I
Speaker 2: do every single morning is in my now twelve hour day.
Speaker 2: Someday I'm gonna sit down and explain like what my
Speaker 2: workday is like right now, because it's a lot. But
Speaker 2: one of the things that I do is I create
Speaker 2: a couple of graphics, usually four. For the John Phillips Show,
Speaker 2: I create one graphic for this show. If we're doing
Speaker 2: an accountability podcast, I create a graphic for that. So
Speaker 2: that way, these things have an image that people are
Speaker 2: more likely to click on on the YouTube. And I
Speaker 2: like to share the images because well, we're having a
Speaker 2: lot of fun with them. So I post the one
Speaker 2: of Karen Bass in the Breaking Bass picture, which again
Speaker 2: I'm very very proud of that. I'm getting pretty good
Speaker 2: at putting in the right kind of prompts to google
Speaker 2: Gemini to make this stuff come out really nice. And
Speaker 2: I've gotten some very good advice from listener Tony on
Speaker 2: to make them look a lot cleaner and pop more
Speaker 2: for the old internets. But a listener I can't remember
Speaker 2: her name right now, I could check, but was like,
Speaker 2: you know, the more you beat up on Bass, the
Speaker 2: more you're going to help the DSA win that seat.
Speaker 2: And I responded, I don't actually know who would be worse,
Speaker 2: and as a voter in the city of Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: it is something that I will be conflicted about for
Speaker 2: the next four months because I know through four years
Speaker 2: that Karen Bass has been a complete disaster on every
Speaker 2: single level.
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree with you more. Karen Bass is so bad.
Speaker 2: I actually find myself pining for the good old Garcetti days.
Speaker 3: I received things on both ends.
Speaker 2: Now with Ramen has a lot of crazy ideas. Nythia
Speaker 2: or Ramen has not been a great member of the
Speaker 2: city council, and yes she is affiliated with the DSA,
Speaker 2: but would she truly be as incompetent as Karen Bass,
Speaker 2: Because forget ideology, honestly, you want to break them down
Speaker 2: among ideological lies. I don't know what really separates Nythia
Speaker 2: and Karen Bass. And this was evident by every single
Speaker 2: podcast that Nythia would do where she was asked, what's
Speaker 2: different between you and Karen Bass? And her answer was
Speaker 2: and this was true when she was on Pod Save
Speaker 2: America with Evan Lovett, she kept saying, well, I would
Speaker 2: just be more focused, and you know what, there's a
Speaker 2: potential that that is actually true either way. The policy
Speaker 2: ideas are terrible, the not wanting to clear homeless encampments
Speaker 2: because it's an ineffective policy.
Speaker 3: What have you? She was someone that said defund the police.
Speaker 3: She won't say it now, but she.
Speaker 2: Also things that the police, which is at historic low levels,
Speaker 2: it has at a fine level, and we need more alternatives.
Speaker 3: What have you.
Speaker 2: Karen Bass, who now has the endorsement of the police union,
Speaker 2: doesn't say that.
Speaker 3: She says we need more police officers.
Speaker 2: But everything she has done to get us more police
Speaker 2: officers has been completely ineffective.
Speaker 3: And she has been asleep at the wheel. How many times.
Speaker 2: You look at the ten Freeway melting well, we still
Speaker 2: don't know who started that one. Of course, all the
Speaker 2: disaster and cover ups with the Palisades fire that we've
Speaker 2: covered extensively, the fact that when this Boile Heights warehouse
Speaker 2: fire started, she put out the information that don't worry,
Speaker 2: the smoke coming out from those solar panels isn't toxic.
Speaker 2: I don't know necessarily if Nifia really would be worse
Speaker 2: than Bass. It's one of these things that is so
Speaker 2: upsetting about our system. There is no good decision here.
Speaker 2: Sometimes all you're set with is two bad decisions. What
Speaker 2: was the old South Park bit where you had to
Speaker 2: choose between a crap sandwich and what was the other one?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to look that up during the break.
Speaker 2: But these are your choices and there's not really a winner.
Speaker 2: But one thing that I do know, you could say, well,
Speaker 2: Karen Bass is a proven entity. You know what you're
Speaker 2: going to get, and Nithie Raman is the devil. You
Speaker 2: don't know that's true. But I have seen so much
Speaker 2: incompetence from this administration and I think a lot of
Speaker 2: it has to do with and I know this is
Speaker 2: an uncomfortable topic, but I'm ready to have it. One
Speaker 2: of the issues that I have with Karen Bass, and
Speaker 2: she doesn't get as much flak for it as other politicians,
Speaker 2: but I don't want any more senior citizens running our government.
Speaker 3: There I said it. Karen Bass is seventy one.
Speaker 2: I don't like that people slow down, people get distracted,
Speaker 2: people cannot work as hard as somebody in their forties.
Speaker 2: Nithea might be crazy, but she's in her forties. And
Speaker 2: even though I mean, I don't know what it would
Speaker 2: be like, it could be a disaster. And I still
Speaker 2: don't know who I'm going to vote for. I'm going
Speaker 2: to vote. I'm going to make my voice heard, even
Speaker 2: though I don't like either of the choices. I will say,
Speaker 2: for all the talk about his insane ideology in New
Speaker 2: York City, the reviews of the first few months of
Speaker 2: Zorn Mamdannie have been, well, he's getting some stuff done,
Speaker 2: he's filling some potholes, He's got some energy, And I
Speaker 2: think there is something to bringing youth and energy to
Speaker 2: these jobs. Daniel Lurry is a relatively young guy. He
Speaker 2: is the most popular mayor in the country now. He's
Speaker 2: a much more moderate candidate than Karen Bass or Nythia
Speaker 2: Rahman or Zora and Mom Donnie. But I think having youth,
Speaker 2: being able to not be set in your old ways,
Speaker 2: because I'll tell you one of the ways that we're
Speaker 2: so bogged down is that Karen Bass has been in
Speaker 2: this machine for such a long time that she has
Speaker 2: a certain understanding how things work, and she's not willing
Speaker 2: to change that. She's not willing to break the wheel.
Speaker 2: She just wants to be another cog in the wheel.
Speaker 2: And things are so messed up that we do need
Speaker 2: to break the wheel now. The best way to do
Speaker 2: that would have been Spencer prep, but we don't have
Speaker 2: a choice here. So this is what I'm conflicted about,
Speaker 2: and this is what a lot of voters are conflicted about.
Speaker 2: Do we go with what we know is already bad
Speaker 2: or do we know what could also be bad but
Speaker 2: maybe possibly more effective because they're not seventy and incompetent,
Speaker 2: and Karen Bass also has a history of cover ups,
Speaker 2: covering her ass And I'm I almost said the QF word.
Speaker 2: I am sick of it, not saying I'm voting for Nthia,
Speaker 2: but at this point I don't really see how four
Speaker 2: more years of Bass is infinitely a better option than
Speaker 2: the DSA candidate. If you have a differing opinion, please
Speaker 2: let me know. You can email me at Randy Wang
Speaker 2: Radio at gmail dot com, and you can give us
Speaker 2: a phone call at eight hundred.
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Speaker 2: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk Radio
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Speaker 2: two two two. Let's go to Jim and Orange. Jim, Hello,
Speaker 2: Oh hey, how's it going.
Speaker 4: Thanks for kicking my call.
Speaker 3: Doing great.
Speaker 4: I heard what you were saying, and you know, I
Speaker 4: like Sprincer Proud. I don't like either one of them,
Speaker 4: but you know I would rather between the two of them.
Speaker 4: I would rather have the competent, old progressive than the
Speaker 4: young aggressive communists.
Speaker 2: So you'd rather have Karen Bass be asleep at the
Speaker 2: wheel for four more years than someone that has enough
Speaker 2: energy to do some real damage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, because that's what they would do. Damage, worst, my.
Speaker 2: Damage, I understand that I do. However, the damage that
Speaker 2: Karen Bass has caused for being an incompetent is literally
Speaker 2: you can see it with the burned down palisades. So
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's necessarily much better.
Speaker 4: No, I get it.
Speaker 5: I just I can't go with a communist, especially a young,
Speaker 5: aggressive one. And he's not filling potholes, he hasn't six potholes.
Speaker 5: He's closing down grocery stores.
Speaker 3: All right, Jim, thank you so much for the call.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Another disaster on Karen Bass's hands is the Boyle Heights Warehouse.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing that you need to know, because
Speaker 2: I've been hearing every version of this story. Alex Badilla
Speaker 2: went down there and toured it, says he wants to
Speaker 2: get the EPA involved. And by the way, there should
Speaker 2: be some kind of movement to get a federal response
Speaker 2: out here, because right now the mayor, the incompetent mayor,
Speaker 2: who says, all right, you lineage, you have forty five
Speaker 2: days to get all this rotting food out of there, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, now we're in the middle of a
Speaker 2: heat wave and the rotting smell is getting worse by
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 3: We're now a month's.
Speaker 2: Since this fire started, what two weeks since Karen Bess
Speaker 2: put out that executive order. So let's just say we're
Speaker 2: fifteen days into the forty five day window of when
Speaker 2: they have to get rid of all of this rotting food.
Speaker 2: Here's what you need to know, because sometimes the numbers
Speaker 2: can be confusing. The first number you need to know
Speaker 2: is that there are eighty five million pounds of food
Speaker 2: that is rotting in this burned out warehouse and boil Heights,
Speaker 2: eighty five million pounds. According to all the news stories yesterday,
Speaker 2: the cruise at Lineage that are working around the clock
Speaker 2: have so far cleared three hundred and fifty tons of
Speaker 2: the rotting food. And again, we are now fifteen days
Speaker 2: into the forty five day cleanup. And you might be
Speaker 2: a little confused because we're giving one measurement in pounds
Speaker 2: of we're giving one measurement in tons. So I went
Speaker 2: ahead and did the math this morning. And if anyone
Speaker 2: asks you about what's going on in the Boyle Heights warehouse,
Speaker 2: what's going on with the cleanup, here's what you need
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 3: Nine eighty five million pounds.
Speaker 2: If you divide that by two thousand, because it's two
Speaker 2: thousand pounds for a ton, it means that we're dealing
Speaker 2: with about forty five thousand tons of food. So now
Speaker 2: I think the math is going to be a little
Speaker 2: simpler for us forty five thousand tons, and we've only
Speaker 2: cleaned up three hundred and fifty which means two weeks
Speaker 2: into Karen Bass's forty five day window to clean up
Speaker 2: all the rotting food, we have cleaned up less than
Speaker 2: one percent point eight percent.
Speaker 3: There, I did the math for you.
Speaker 2: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC.
Speaker 1: It's half past five in LA. That means you're either
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Speaker 2: No, it is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on
Speaker 2: Talk radio seven ninety KABC. This is your daily rundown
Speaker 2: of everything you need to know that's going on in
Speaker 2: southern California as well as the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego,
Speaker 2: in the Central Valley. I compile a list every single
Speaker 2: morning of all the stories that you may have missed
Speaker 2: that affect you locally at Randywangradio dot substack dot com.
Speaker 2: You can follow me on the socials, X and Instagram
Speaker 2: at Randy Wang Radio our YouTube channel which has now
Speaker 2: grown to what are we have twenty seven hundred subscribers
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Speaker 2: broadcast the John Phillips Show every single day from noon
Speaker 2: to three. The address is YouTube dot com slash at
Speaker 2: Randy Wang Radio. If you cannot find it, send me
Speaker 2: an email at Randywang Radio at gmail dot com. And
Speaker 2: don't forget the Accountability podcast. That is YouTube dot com
Speaker 2: slash at Accountability Podcast. That is where we just put
Speaker 2: up a new episode that launched today of John and
Speaker 2: I going through the uncensored town hall where Karen Bass
Speaker 2: and Barbara Pereer rightly got cussed out by the Boyle
Speaker 2: Heights residents. Did you know that we are now just
Speaker 2: two years away from the LA twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 2: I have a little little residual trauma just saying that
Speaker 2: one of the dumber things that I did in my
Speaker 2: now nearly twenty year radio career. It'll be twenty years
Speaker 2: in September that I've been doing this.
Speaker 3: But when I was the.
Speaker 2: Sports reporter for McIntyre in the Morning, our morning show
Speaker 2: for many years here on KABC one, that I won
Speaker 2: two Golden Mic Awards for even though I know nothing
Speaker 2: about sports, we would cover pretty extensively the work of
Speaker 2: Eric Garcetti to bring the Olympics to Los Angeles in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, but that didn't work out. In fact,
Speaker 2: I think before that they tried and I think Boston
Speaker 2: beat them. But finally it got put on the books
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty eight Olympics. And in twenty eighteen, when
Speaker 2: we found out this was happening, I came up with
Speaker 2: a bit and I thought it would be really, really funny,
Speaker 2: and it was. For like the first week, I would
Speaker 2: at the end of my sports report every single day
Speaker 2: do an official countdown clock with the Olympic theme and
Speaker 2: a clock ticking sound effect, saying there's only three thousand,
Speaker 2: seven hundred and forty eight days left till the LA
Speaker 2: twenty twenty Olympics.
Speaker 3: And here's why.
Speaker 2: It's one of the dumber things I've ever done in
Speaker 2: my career. That's a bit you now have to commit
Speaker 2: to for ten years, and it doesn't matter what you're doing.
Speaker 2: If you do the same bit every single day for
Speaker 2: weeks and weeks and weeks, even if the bit is
Speaker 2: only ten seconds long, it gets old. It gets on
Speaker 2: people's nerves. It becomes the first thing that they can
Speaker 2: pick on you for. You realize that you're in this
Speaker 2: giant hole. And eventually I just gave up doing it.
Speaker 2: But for a while I was like, yep, I had
Speaker 2: it on my I had a little script that I
Speaker 2: wrote every single day with like the angel scores and
Speaker 2: the Dodger scores, and I would have my three thousand,
Speaker 2: five hundred and eighty seven days I did that. So
Speaker 2: the moral of the story is, don't commit to a
Speaker 2: bit you're.
Speaker 3: Gonna have to do for ten years.
Speaker 2: Always commit to the bit, but don't commit to a
Speaker 2: bit for ten years. Now I mentioned Eric Garcetti. Eric
Speaker 2: Garcetti is taking a victory lap. He sat down with
Speaker 2: NBCLA give him the full face. He gave them the
Speaker 2: full face to talk about, Hey, the Olympics is here
Speaker 2: in two years.
Speaker 3: How exciting is this gonna be?
Speaker 2: And one of the criticisms that I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people who live in Los Angeles, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you're aware, but I'm born and raised in this
Speaker 2: city and I do not use the term Angelino.
Speaker 3: Don't like it. Never did.
Speaker 2: One of the frustrations that I have whether it was
Speaker 2: Garcetti back then with his twenty eight transit Pride twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight, which I don't think we accomplished nearly half
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: At one point.
Speaker 2: One of those projects was the supulvit Abasin train. Nope,
Speaker 2: still haven't broken ground on that. One of those projects
Speaker 2: was express lanes in the Supulvta Pass. I don't even
Speaker 2: think that one's happening anymore. But this frustration that you
Speaker 2: live here, you pay through the nose to be here.
Speaker 2: It feels like the government does not pay attention at all.
Speaker 2: But when a big, fancy sporting event is coming, that's
Speaker 2: when we got to That's when we got to really
Speaker 2: make sure this city moves. Traffic can be awful every
Speaker 2: single day of your life, but when the Olympics is here,
Speaker 2: let's try to figure that out.
Speaker 3: I don't like that.
Speaker 2: Now gar Citi will say, well, you know what, these
Speaker 2: events just acted as an accelerant. I mean, you got
Speaker 2: the second deck of the Lax Airport because of the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four Olympics. I can't imagine how bad that
Speaker 2: airport was back then. But I wouldn't be touting anything
Speaker 2: that Lax is doing as an accomplishment, Eric Garcetti and
Speaker 2: all of these transit projects that we're supposed to help
Speaker 2: us get around, I mean, with enough delays? Is the
Speaker 2: train the D line? Tom stayers favorite line is that
Speaker 2: actually going to get all the way to UCLA by
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. We'll see will the people Mover actually
Speaker 2: be running by twenty twenty eight?
Speaker 3: Oh, we don't even know.
Speaker 2: I'll have a lot more to say on the People
Speaker 2: Mover on tomorrow show, so stay tuned for that because
Speaker 2: there's a lawsuit between the contractor and Lax, and there's
Speaker 2: a lot more to this story. I should actually reach
Speaker 2: out to this podcast that I listened to that explain
Speaker 2: the whole thing. Try to get them as a guest
Speaker 2: on the show, because the saga of the Lax People
Speaker 2: Mover project is increase incredibly embarrassing and an indictment of
Speaker 2: you know, they talk about these things like the homeless
Speaker 2: industrial complex, Well there seems to be in the state
Speaker 2: of California, the contractor industrial complex. When you bid for
Speaker 2: these massive contracts, contracts that a city or a county's
Speaker 2: reputation is held on, you hold immense.
Speaker 3: Power in your hands.
Speaker 2: And if you're a little less than ethical, you can
Speaker 2: extract as much money as possible out of a project,
Speaker 2: which is why this thing is a billion dollars over
Speaker 2: budget and three years late. But we'll have more on
Speaker 2: that on tomorrow's show. Culver City did it. They have
Speaker 2: extended their drive through ban, putting a moratorium on any
Speaker 2: new drive throughs for the foreseeable future, which means the
Speaker 2: proposed in and out burger on Sepulvida and Sawtel is
Speaker 2: not going to be being built any time soon. And look,
Speaker 2: I'm a big fast food fan. I don't eat it currently.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm down seventy pounds and kept it off
Speaker 2: for nearly a year. But at what point I was
Speaker 2: known is mister fast food. I used to spend a
Speaker 2: lot of time in the drive through. Hell, I was
Speaker 2: late to work once when I worked at KABC because.
Speaker 3: Of a drive through. That was a fun story.
Speaker 2: But I don't necessarily think this is the right call,
Speaker 2: especially when the place that you're shutting down is a
Speaker 2: new in and out burger, because we're talking about not
Speaker 2: only something that brings joy to the community, it's not
Speaker 2: necessarily the kind of fast food that you know adds
Speaker 2: to our unhealthy diets.
Speaker 3: In and out.
Speaker 2: It's not great for you, but it's a heck of
Speaker 2: a lot better than the competition. But it's also you're
Speaker 2: talking about a great job creator in an out burger,
Speaker 2: that's a good job. I've always said, if this radio
Speaker 2: thing after twenty years didn't work out and I become
Speaker 2: completely unemployable in the entertainment business, which I'm not expecting
Speaker 2: that to happen, I work pretty damn hard, and I
Speaker 2: like to think that that is valuable in a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of different things. Plus, I like to think that
Speaker 2: I know what I'm doing. But let's say that radio
Speaker 2: goes away for me, what am I going to do?
Speaker 2: How am I going to make a living? Well, I've
Speaker 2: always thought while figuring it out, is I don't think
Speaker 2: I'm the kind of person that can just deal with
Speaker 2: like I'll be on unemployment for a year. I don't
Speaker 2: want to know what I would be like. There are
Speaker 2: some times where, especially right now where my wife is
Speaker 2: out of town, I get to the weekend and I
Speaker 2: don't even know what to do with myself. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 2: I'd probably just start my own podcast again and would
Speaker 2: be off to the races, but I'd have to have
Speaker 2: some way to pay the bills, and I've always thought, okay,
Speaker 2: I could go work at in an out burger. I
Speaker 2: worked in fast food. My first job was working at
Speaker 2: all the food establishments at Magic Mountain, So I know
Speaker 2: something about the job. I know that compared to a
Speaker 2: lot of other jobs. While it is a hard job,
Speaker 2: your day goes by pretty quickly because you're always on
Speaker 2: your feet, You're always moving. Now there is the added
Speaker 2: temptation of you know, I'll be around animal style fries
Speaker 2: all day long. But it's a well paying job. They
Speaker 2: do offer benefits in vacation and talk about a pathway
Speaker 2: to upward mobility. You can go from being the fry
Speaker 2: cook at in and out Burger to being a restaurant
Speaker 2: manager and make well over six figures, like what one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty one hundred and forty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: I don't make that, So I've always thought that's a
Speaker 2: decent backup while I try to figure things out. So
Speaker 2: I disagree completely with shutting down a job creator, a
Speaker 2: good job creator, and something that brings all kinds of
Speaker 2: joy to the community that is an in and out Burger. Now,
Speaker 2: if this was a Taco Bell they were trying to
Speaker 2: shut down. I might say they have a point because
Speaker 2: we don't need all of those explosive you know what
Speaker 2: disease is spreading everywhere. Okay, that might have been a
Speaker 2: little slanderous. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC.
Speaker 2: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk Radio
Speaker 2: seven ninety KABC. Hey, if you're looking for something to
Speaker 2: listen to after this show, make sure you check out
Speaker 2: the Accountability Podcast.
Speaker 3: If you don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: John and I do fifteen hours a week and now
Speaker 2: we do a special sixteenth hour and it's on video.
Speaker 2: We can also talk uncensored. We can talk about things
Speaker 2: that we don't usually talk about on the radio. But
Speaker 2: this most recent episode is John and I going through
Speaker 2: the uncensored town hall in Boyle Heights where Karen Bess
Speaker 2: and Barbara Ferrer got cussed out. It is definitely worth
Speaker 2: a listen. You can search for the Accountability Podcast wherever
Speaker 2: you get your podcasts, but YouTube, I think is the
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Speaker 2: Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com. Grocery outlet in
Speaker 2: the Bay Area is got a new idea how to
Speaker 2: shut down shoplifting, and that is with AI facial recognition technology.
Speaker 2: The idea here would be that if you are ever
Speaker 2: caught shoplifting, almost like a futuristic version of don't write
Speaker 2: checks to this man and having the mugshot on the wall,
Speaker 2: the system knows who you are when you walk in
Speaker 2: the store, and if you are someone that has been
Speaker 2: caught stealing before, they can art security immediately. Now security
Speaker 2: still has to enforce this, but I'll tell you this
Speaker 2: technology is pretty darn accurate. I haven't seen it applied
Speaker 2: this way, but if you've been to a Clipper game recently,
Speaker 2: ever since they moved to the Innewit Dome, it is
Speaker 2: a really interesting experience because they use facial recognition for everything.
Speaker 2: You scan your face when you get into the arena
Speaker 2: at the parking garage and you don't show a ticket,
Speaker 2: a phone, anything for the entire experience. You want to
Speaker 2: go buy their popcorn and by the way, the popcorn
Speaker 2: at the Clipper games is pretty darn fantastic. Just show
Speaker 2: your face and there you go, you're scanned in. It
Speaker 2: is really really, really cool. I'm a big fan of it.
Speaker 2: And am I worried about the surveillance technology. They're already
Speaker 2: spying on you in a million ways than one, Like,
Speaker 2: is this going to somehow lean into also what they're
Speaker 2: talking about with surveillance pricing, with digital price points, where
Speaker 2: they see you walk in, they know you've got some
Speaker 2: money on you, so all of a sudden, the toilet
Speaker 2: paper costs a dollar more. It's possible. But anything we
Speaker 2: can do to deterin the shoplifting, because I'll tell you
Speaker 2: right now, the whole conversation in San Francisco about oh
Speaker 2: maybe we need to go with this public grocery store
Speaker 2: idea that Mom Donnie's talking about that Lurry shut down.
Speaker 2: Part of that is because you do have grocery stores
Speaker 2: and pharmacies that went out of business or they closed,
Speaker 2: and they closed because of theft. It's a joke, but
Speaker 2: it's also true. Walgreens in San Francisco had a location
Speaker 2: that put a chain and a lock on the freezer
Speaker 2: because people were stealing ice cream and pizza. That kind
Speaker 2: of lawlessness is unacceptable. So whatever we can do to
Speaker 2: crack down on it, including you know, fully funding Prop
Speaker 2: thirty six, would be very beneficial. And Oakland street vendors
Speaker 2: are very upset that the city is starting to enforce
Speaker 2: street vending laws. If you want to be a street vendor,
Speaker 2: you can do that, but you need to get a permit,
Speaker 2: You need to be evaluated by the Health Department, make
Speaker 2: sure that you know how to operate a pro pain tank,
Speaker 2: have a place where you can, I don't know, safely
Speaker 2: wash your hands. I don't think these are onerous regulations.
Speaker 2: And look, if you don't care about any of that
Speaker 2: and you want to have the street taco, go for it.
Speaker 2: But I think that we should all be on a
Speaker 2: level playing field with the basics. If you were deep
Speaker 2: frying food on a cart, where's that grease going at
Speaker 2: the end of the night. Is it going into the
Speaker 2: storm drain? We should have real answers to these things.
Speaker 2: And I know, if it's a barrier, it's a cost thing.
Speaker 2: We can help out with that, but we should have
Speaker 2: a regulated system. But here's what I found so interesting
Speaker 2: about this story, because OPD was actually going in and
Speaker 2: cracking down on street vendors that were not permitted, and
Speaker 2: like they were confiscating coolers and crushing them the trash can.
Speaker 2: And what I realized was, you know what, Alameda County
Speaker 2: never opted in to Ricardo Lara's street vending bill. So
Speaker 2: back when Ricardo Laura, now the terrible Insurance Commissioner, was
Speaker 2: just a terrible state senator, he authored SB nine six,
Speaker 2: the Safe Street Vending Act or whatever it was called,
Speaker 2: signed into law by Jerry Brown, and this decriminalized all
Speaker 2: aspects of street vending in an incredibly misguided attempt to
Speaker 2: protect illegal immigrants from getting deported, because this was during
Speaker 2: the Trump days, and you had to be a county
Speaker 2: to opt in if you wanted to do this. And
Speaker 2: what happened in the counties that did opt in, which
Speaker 2: include Los Angeles and San Francisco and San Diego, is
Speaker 2: if you have people that are operating street carts illegally,
Speaker 2: whether they don't have a permit, violating safety standards, or
Speaker 2: i don't know, straight up selling stolen goods.
Speaker 3: Guess what.
Speaker 2: You cannot have law enforcement interfere You have to have
Speaker 2: public works or public health. And in San Francisco and
Speaker 2: the mission where people were selling stolen goods. The public
Speaker 2: works employees were actually getting assaulted by all of the
Speaker 2: illegal street vendors that were selling stolen goods. And the
Speaker 2: answer to that is a bill that's been working its
Speaker 2: way in San Francisco and the legislature for years and
Speaker 2: years and years. Maybe it'll get signed into law where
Speaker 2: now there's a list of twenty commonly stolen items that
Speaker 2: you're going to need a receipt for if you're selling
Speaker 2: them in the mission, and if you don't have a receipt,
Speaker 2: you're going to get a fine on your third warning.
Speaker 3: That'll do it.
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Speaker 2: time for one more story. One of the bills that
Speaker 2: did not make its way through the legislature was Alex
Speaker 2: Lee's bill to put the kibosh on private equity firms
Speaker 2: buying up single family homes. And there is a debate
Speaker 2: as to how big of a problem this actually is,
Speaker 2: and there are definitely more important issues, but it's just
Speaker 2: it feels wrong right that these big corporations can outbid
Speaker 2: you with cash offers for single family homes. Well, while
Speaker 2: it failed at the state level, it actually was a
Speaker 2: provision in the new federal law, the one that for
Speaker 2: some reason Trump refused to sign. Now it is federal
Speaker 2: law that a company can't own more than I think
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty homes. And it may be a
Speaker 2: small but symbolic step, but I think it's a step
Speaker 2: in the right direction. The people that should have the
Speaker 2: first crack at a single family home is a single
Speaker 2: family that plans to live there. That might just be
Speaker 2: a small step in the right direction. That housing law
Speaker 2: has a whole lot of other benefits, and with everything
Speaker 2: that we're doing in California, maybe it'll start moving the needle.
Speaker 2: But as we talked about yesterday, at what point do
Speaker 2: you build enough where the prices come down? And if
Speaker 2: you're a homeowner that's dependent on your equity. Is that
Speaker 2: necessarily something that you want? Check out the Accountability Podcast
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