1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Something's not right here. Crime is up all over the state, 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: the homelessness and the city is out of control. 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 2: The economy is sick, axes are high. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: Housing as expensive, and businesses are leaving leaving. 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 3: California needs fixing, and John Phillips is just the man 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 3: to lead the charge. 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 4: It's the Fix California Hour with John Phillips and. 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: Randy Wang, and we continue at one oh five in 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: the afternoon on The John Phillips Show. 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I'm gonna put a 58 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 4: link in the chat in case you have not subscribed. 59 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 4: It's very easy and it gives you something to watch 60 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 4: and listen to right after we're off the air. 61 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 62 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 63 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next 64 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,399 Speaker 1: guest to the program. He is a candidate for governor 65 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: here in the state of California. You can get him 66 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: online at Goldenetogether dot com and follow him on x 67 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: at Steve Hilton X. Steve Hilton, Welcome. 68 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 2: Great to be with you, John, How are you doing? 69 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: I am good. So we'll start out with the number 70 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: one question that everyone can't wait to hear you answer. 71 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: Are you going to join Katie Porter's book club? 72 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 2: Yes? My first. My first recommendation is going to be 73 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 2: how to Make Friends and Influence People. I think that's 74 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 2: one that we should enjoy reading together. I think that 75 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: there must be some very important diet book that she 76 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: can share with us. Something happened there. I don't know 77 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 2: what that's about. 78 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: All right, Well, there's a new pull out, an Echelon 79 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: insights ball that shows that you were doing well among 80 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: independent voters here in California. You have a forty five 81 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: to forty one percent lead over javieror Besserra among no 82 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: party preference voters here in the Golden State. As you 83 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: campaign up and down the state, are you feeling as 84 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: if there are voters who don't usually vote Republican who 85 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: are being receptive to your message? 86 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so. I mean I want to put 87 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 2: it into context, John, we haven't really started yet. So 88 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 2: we've been you know, we had the primary that was 89 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: a good outcome, very happy about that. Obviously, the real 90 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 2: fight starts now because we've got to we can't let 91 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 2: this one party will all continue. It's an incredibly important election. 92 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 2: We've been making very very serious plans which you're about 93 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 2: to see come into fruition. So although I've been on 94 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 2: the road non stop since the election, we're going to 95 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 2: be moving into a much higher gear and you'll be 96 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: seeing that very soon. Having said that the starting point, 97 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 2: I think we just got to be honest about it. 98 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 2: This is a very it is an uphill battle. Yes, 99 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 2: there are very encouraging signs that show us the path 100 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 2: to victory. You just mentioned one of the most important 101 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 2: that I'm ahead among independents, But I try to give 102 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 2: make sure people understand the full picture. There's another poll 103 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: out this week. You may have discussed it, which showed 104 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 2: a less encouraging picture. This was the pPIC poll does 105 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 2: very straightforward who you're going to vote four Pole sixty 106 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 2: one percent, Psarah thirty six percent for me. Now, people say, 107 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 2: are you discouraged by that? Not at all. This is 108 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 2: before we've even started. It's really just you know, adding 109 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 2: up of the results that we had in the primary. 110 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 2: To be honest, the two Republican candidates added together myself 111 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 2: and Chad Bianco actually comes to thirty five percent. So 112 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 2: in this poll, I'm a little bit ahead of that, 113 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: and all the Democrats added together gives Passerah his sixty one. 114 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 2: But this is before the campaign and the past to victory. 115 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: I think there's another important finding in that Echelon poll, 116 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 2: as well as me leading among independents, when you actually 117 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 2: look at the numbers in terms of people's commit to 118 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 2: the candidates. I have a solid thirty three percent, but 119 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 2: Sarah has a solid forty one percent, and then there's 120 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 2: twenty six percent in the middle who are completely undecided 121 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 2: and open to any argument. And that brings me to 122 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 2: your question, because we've been doing town halls and so 123 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 2: on just last weekend, last Friday, we had a town 124 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 2: hall in San Francisco on Saturday in Oakland, neither of 125 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 2: them at all strong Republican areas, and at both of 126 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 2: them we had many Democrats coming out and they were 127 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 2: saying things like, obviously, we do the town hall, we 128 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 2: have the questions and answers, and then I take pictures 129 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 2: and chat with people, and I asked them, you know 130 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 2: what brought you here, and many of them said, I 131 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 2: voted for Matt Mayhan, but you know he's out and 132 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 2: so now I'm interested in you or I'm voting for you. 133 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 2: I did actually have a couple of Katie Porter voters, 134 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 2: if you can believe that. So we've definitely seen that 135 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: there's an interest. The other thing I would point to is, 136 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 2: for example, in Los Angeles, where I think this is 137 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 2: a very very strong feeling of peopleeople who are in 138 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 2: that very democratics, that you just fed up with everything, 139 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 2: the homelessness, the chaos, everything that powered spensive preps campaign, 140 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: the collapse of the entertainment industry and what's happening there. 141 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 2: And I'm having conversations and meetings and getting support from 142 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 2: die hard Democrats who've been Democrats, very active Democrats, very 143 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 2: high profile ones in some cases. So there really is 144 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: something happening. And I'm very very confident that we can 145 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 2: win this election. It's not going to be easy to 146 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 2: win it, but the idea that it's impossible is just 147 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 2: not true. 148 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: There was a piece that came out earlier this week 149 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: in the California Post that was written by John Fleischmann, 150 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: and he addressed the strategy that Javier Besserra is going 151 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: to employ, or the likely strategy in this election and 152 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: in the piece, Fleischmann argued that what Bisserah will likely 153 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: do is try to keep as low of a profile 154 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: as possible, not campaign in any visible way, just do 155 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: the absolute bare minimum to avoid debating you on any 156 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: more than one occasion. And when they agree to debate you, 157 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: they're going to try to make it as low profile 158 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: as possible so nobody pays attention to it and just 159 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: rely on the voter registration advantage to win the election. 160 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: By trying to turn this into a contest involving a 161 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: generic Republican versus a generic Democrat, Fleischmann correctly argues in 162 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: the piece that the people who would lose out if 163 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: that were to actually happen are voters, because we would 164 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 1: be denied a conversation on just exactly what the future 165 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: of the state looks like. What's your strategy to prevent 166 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: him from doing that and to force him to answer 167 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 1: questions that voters have about the future of the state. 168 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's completely right, various observer, as are you, 169 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 2: and I would add to that, add to the mix 170 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 2: that their only message is Trump Trump Trump, Mega Megamaga. 171 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 2: You're going to wet. You can't have a Trump governor 172 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 2: can't have a mega governor. That's it, because they can't. 173 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: The record is indefensible. It's a total disaster, and he's 174 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 2: not offering any change for the future. He's literally running 175 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 2: as the more of the same status grow candidates. I 176 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 2: think that's right. Our strategy you'll see it enacted very soon, 177 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 2: is to be the most high profile and aggressive campaign 178 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,599 Speaker 2: we've seen in at least twenty years, probably more in California. 179 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 2: And I'm very excited about bringing that to you and 180 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 2: everyone else pretty soon, both in terms of showing the 181 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: positive practical change that I want to make, which is 182 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: not ideological but just very practical, pragmatic, simple things that 183 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 2: I've been running all along, and you'll hear more of it, 184 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 2: just allowed a volume as we go forward, with different 185 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 2: techniques and different ways of getting that message out there. 186 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 2: Three dollar gas, cut, your electric bills and other utility 187 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 2: bills in half, your first one hundred and fifty grand 188 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 2: tax free starter homes for young families, making our state califfordable. 189 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 2: That's that We're going to be very strongly And what's 190 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 2: his answer to that? Nothing, So we will be pressing 191 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 2: him and then of course making the argument against him, 192 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 2: because he's an absolutely devastatingly bad candidate, just at a 193 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,959 Speaker 2: time when the state a majority of Californians. An other 194 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: detail from the Echelon Pole, sixty six percent of Californians 195 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 2: now believe that the state needs a major overhaul. In 196 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 2: the face of that, they put forward this status crow candidate, 197 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 2: career politician in the California machine for thirty six years. 198 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 2: But way beyond that, you've got the incompetence in the 199 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 2: Biden administration, the fraud and so on. You've got his 200 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 2: inability to articulate any kind of change. But the big 201 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: one is his record with the migrant kids, which is 202 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 2: which if you think you've heard all of that in 203 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 2: terms of the reporting that's already been out there, the 204 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 2: story in the New York Times that actually came up 205 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 2: in the debate, but Sarah lost, that's the word that's used. Lost, 206 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 2: eighty five thousand migrant kids. That is just that. That's 207 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 2: not even the half of it. There is a lot 208 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 2: more there. And so our strategy is to hit him 209 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: incredibly hard and to prosecute our positive message incredibly hard. 210 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 2: And you know me, I mean, if people think that 211 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 2: I've been high energy so far, in the words of 212 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 2: that great former governor and president. You ain't seen nothing yet. 213 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: Well, speak with Steve Hilton, candidate for governor here in 214 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: the city, California. You can follow him on exit Steve 215 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: Hilton X. Earlier this week, Chad Bianco, former candidate for governor, 216 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: came out and endorsed Michael Gates, who is the Republican 217 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: candidate for attorney general, but so far has declined to 218 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: publicly endorse you for governor. Is he being a brat 219 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: and experiencing sour grapes or are you guys just waiting 220 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: for a time later in the race to make it 221 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: a big splash. 222 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 2: Well, I'd love that to be the case. I'll just 223 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 2: be direct with you and never are listening, John, Which 224 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 2: is that Chad and I haven't had a conversation, but 225 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 2: I'm very much hoping that we'll be able to work 226 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 2: together because we both want the same thing, which is 227 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 2: to say, California. I'm very happy endorsed Michael Gates, my 228 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 2: running mate as attorney general. Michael and I've been running 229 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 2: on what we've been describing as the Golden ticket, along 230 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 2: with Gloria Romero, the Lieutenant Governor, Herb Morgan for state 231 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 2: control and now we have the whole ticket because we've 232 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 2: got Sonya Shore and so on to state Superintendent Don 233 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 2: Wagner for Sexuary State. And so this is a very 234 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: important aspect of the campaign that we're all working together 235 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 2: as a team, and i'd love Chad to be on 236 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 2: that team. We haven't had that conversation yet, but as 237 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 2: I always say, my doors always open. One thing that's encouraging, 238 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 2: just going back to that poll that a lot of 239 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 2: people viewed negatively, the sixty one to thirty six pole. Actually, 240 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 2: in one sense it's positive that all of the people, 241 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 2: just in terms of percentages, the entire block of Chad 242 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 2: Bianco's vote was supporting me. We're very unified as a 243 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 2: party at least now I've got a bills beyond that. 244 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 2: That's of course true, but I think that's good news 245 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 2: in terms of voters at least voting intention. That unity 246 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 2: has happened, and I want to see it continue, and 247 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 2: i'd love Chad to be part of that, but we 248 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 2: haven't actually spoken about that yet. 249 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: Let's shift gears here and talk about Boyle Heights because 250 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: you have a chemical fire that burned for many moons 251 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: where dangerous chemicals, plastic particles were being pumped into the 252 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: air in that part of the City of Los Angeles, 253 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: an unincorporated county of Los Angeles. After that fire started 254 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: the County of Los Angeles, the public Health director, Barbara 255 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: Ferrer and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, came 256 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: out and told residents that it was perfectly safe to 257 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: breathe in that smoke and breathe in that air. Many 258 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: of them did that after being told that it was safe, 259 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: and now the ers and the public health clitics are 260 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: full of people who have lungs that are filled with 261 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: fluids and blood coming out of their nose. Clearly that 262 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: air was not safe for them to breathe in. So far, 263 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: the Governor of California, Galvin Newsom, has not shown up 264 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: to Boyle Heights to meet with residents and to criticize 265 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: the failures that have taken place so far, and neither 266 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: to my knowledge, has your opponent in the race, Javier Bessera, 267 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: who I believe used to represent that area in the 268 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: state legislature and in the United States Congress. What do 269 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: you make of the fact that so many politicians are 270 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: hiding out from this environmental and public health disaster. And 271 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: should the governor of California be there? 272 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I've been there twice. I went once 273 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 2: with Gloria Romero, my running mate for Lieutenant governor, who 274 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 2: not only represented that era when she was leader of 275 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 2: the Democrats in the state Senate many years ago, but 276 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 2: lives close by now. And we were there within days 277 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 2: of the fire, calling for immediate practical action, which never happened. 278 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 2: And then I've been back subsequently since the fire was out. 279 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: I think it was the last week or the week before, 280 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 2: to draw attention to the outrageous situation with all the 281 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 2: rotting meat that was there and the absolutely disgusting smell. 282 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 2: So you have the fire that the noxious fumes and 283 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 2: all the health impacts that you describe, and then on 284 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 2: top of that, you've got this unbearable stench of rotting meat. 285 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 2: It's just unbelievable. And Karen Bass saying that, you know, 286 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 2: she gave them forty five days, like a month and 287 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 2: a half to clear it out. What's wrong with these people? 288 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 2: And the other point that I made when I was 289 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 2: there is to highlight something that was the quote from 290 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 2: a local resident, which is they didn't do anything. Quote 291 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 2: because we are poor and Latino. That's how they felt 292 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 2: in that community. And I will be back there very 293 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 2: soon again for a third time to make that point, 294 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 2: because in many ways, this symbolizes exactly what's rotten, not 295 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 2: just the meat, but what's rotten about one party rule 296 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: under these Democrats. They are totally arrogant, out of touch, 297 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 2: complacent about what's going on. I think they'll be in 298 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 2: power forever, so they only need to respond to real 299 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 2: world concerns like this. They take the Latino vote for granted, 300 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 2: they take working class Californians for granted. I think they 301 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 2: can do whatever they want and people will just turn 302 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 2: out and vote for them anyway. Because of their machine, 303 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 2: which is corruptly financed. That's a whole other story, and 304 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 2: I think they're wrong. And this is the election where 305 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 2: fun you know. Finally, I think, because this is something 306 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 2: we've talked about for a long time, we have that 307 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: multi racial working class coalition that actually has happened to 308 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 2: a certain ccent across the country in the Trump years, 309 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 2: take shape here in California because it is working class 310 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 2: people in California who have been hurt the most, not 311 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 2: just there you see in Boil Heights, but more broadly 312 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 2: with the gas prices and the housing costs, electric bills, 313 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 2: all of that. It's working class people who suffer the 314 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 2: most as a result of that, and that's who I'm 315 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 2: fighting for in this election. And so what's happened in 316 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 2: Boil Heights is a perfect symbol of that and the 317 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 2: change we need to make. 318 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: As someone who has been there, we all have heard 319 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: the descriptions of how bad the smell is. Do the 320 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: descriptions do it justice or is it infinitely worse than that? 321 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 2: It's worse. I mean, it's just unbelievable. I mean we 322 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: all know that. You can you can smell it before 323 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 2: you get out the car, and you get out the car, 324 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 2: it's just hits you. And it's just how and people 325 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 2: have to live here. It's just unbelievable. Now that was 326 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 2: probably ten days ago, so I don't know what it's 327 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 2: like now, but it was unbelievable, like just all in 328 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 2: the air, the stench everywhere. You couldn't you couldn't avoid it, 329 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 2: and there's nothing to do with the way. It was 330 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 2: just absolutely overpowering. That would like when you have these 331 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 2: you know, the people have experienced a dead animal somewhere 332 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 2: nearby and you're trying to find it. It's like that 333 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 2: it was just just so shocking. 334 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: Should there be consequences for the mayor of Los Angeles 335 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: and Barbara Ferrara going out and telling this population of 336 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: people that it was safe to breathe in that air 337 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: when clearly it wasn't. 338 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really important question. I mean, obviously the 339 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 2: media consequence should be Karen Bath losing her job in 340 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 2: the election, But then what do we get if she 341 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: loses her job? Nthia Rahman. I mean, that's what's so 342 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 2: devastating about what happened in that primary. It's just an 343 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 2: unbelievable choice. But there's a I suppose the answer to 344 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 2: that lies with, you know, the mobilization of the community 345 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 2: and any legal remedies and civil suits there that may be. 346 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 2: I certainly think it's merited, for sure. I mean there's 347 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 2: there's you know, in terms of the criminal responsibility there, 348 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 2: I'm not sure we need to talk about that. If 349 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 2: they knew that that that it was dangerous but said 350 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 2: stay there anyway, I don't know if that's been established, 351 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 2: if they're just being ignorant and complacent. So I think 352 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 2: it's definitely worth pursuing because you just can't behave like 353 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 2: that and and and have no consequences. 354 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: Steve Hilton candidate for governor here in the state of California. 355 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: You could get them online at Goldentogether dot com and 356 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: follow him on exit Steve Hilton X. Steve Hilton, thanks 357 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: so much for stopping by. 358 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 2: Thank you, Joe, See you soon. 359 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 360 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 361 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: two two two. 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But 401 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: now we have to hit some of them on time. 402 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 4: Because we syndicate to San Francisco and eventually to other markets. 403 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: We'll see about that. 404 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 4: We have to hit the bottom of the hour news 405 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 4: at thirty, so John has to go to break, but notoriously, 406 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 4: especially the months leading up to when we launched live 407 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 4: on KSFO, we'd probably get to the news at like 408 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 4: thirty three, thirty four, thirty five. 409 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: John just liked to go. Hey, I like to fly 410 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: American Airlines. Everything I do is delayed. All right. We 411 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: know that there is a demand that has been placed 412 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 1: on the City of Los Angeles the owner of that 413 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: building in Boyle Heights to get the rotting food out 414 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: because because the stench, as Steve Filton just described, is overwhelming, 415 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 1: which leads to the question, Okay, if you're removing the 416 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: rotting food, where is it going? And Randy, we have 417 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: an answered, it's going to your county. Did you know 418 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: that great. 419 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 4: The rotting food is going to the Elsabronte landfill in 420 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 4: Corona in Riverside County. For more on this, we go 421 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 4: to our report from CBSLA. Tomorrow will be one month 422 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 4: since the fire started at the Boyle Heights food warehouse. 423 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 4: The month this was yesterday, So today is the one 424 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 4: month anniversary of that disastrous fire. Great food waste inside, 425 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 4: it's now on the move. 426 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: We've learned some of it will be headed to a 427 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: landfill in Corona. 428 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 6: And we have team coverage tonight beginning with CBSLA Zach Beweto. 429 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 4: That outfit Pat kind of looks like she is a 430 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 4: member of the Avengers. 431 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,880 Speaker 1: Superhero Harvey. I'm here for it. 432 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 6: He's showing up how that move was approved. 433 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 5: It's been exactly two weeks since trucks full of rotting 434 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 5: food waste from the destroyed Lineage warehouse in Boile Heights 435 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 5: began delivering and dumping it in the Elsa Bronte landfill. 436 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: For the most part lately, I haven't smelled it. About once, about. 437 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 7: A week ago, I got a good whiff of the 438 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 7: landfill the moved. 439 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 4: Boy, how would you like to be that guy living 440 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 4: next to the Alsabronte landfill. 441 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: And you wake up one morning, you walk out on 442 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 1: your driveway to pick up the newspaper, and you can 443 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: smell it right there. 444 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 8: You can smell it right here. 445 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 7: You can smell it right now. 446 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,200 Speaker 5: To bring the waste here required the Riverside County Department 447 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 5: of Environmental Health to sign an emergency waiver. 448 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 7: It's food. 449 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 1: Wait, so they said yes? Are they getting paid? Like? 450 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 4: How does this work? Who says yes to the rotting 451 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 4: pig meat? 452 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: Okay, if you're accepting that, I hope you're getting the 453 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: King's ransom waste. 454 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 9: So it's nothing that is abnormal. It's something that can 455 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 9: be disposed of on a regular basis. It's just a 456 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 9: high volume due to that fire, so it needs to 457 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 9: be removed and disposed of properly. 458 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 4: Can we put it all in a giant oven first, 459 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 4: so at least then it'll smell like Bacon. 460 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 5: County says the waiver request met its requirements. One requirement, 461 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 5: Governor Gavin Newsom activating a state of emergency that waiver 462 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 5: giving waste. 463 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 4: Even though he still hasn't visited. Yeah, where are you, Gavin? 464 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 4: We want you to smell it right there? Al, he's 465 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 4: hat swimming with Chris Christy. He's Christie watching on the boats. 466 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 4: By the way, that video that the interpretation of the 467 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 4: Chris Christi interview is up on the YouTube channel at 468 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 4: Randy Wang Radio. 469 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: So I have some fun with that. 470 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 5: Management which operates the landfill the ability to exceed maximum 471 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 5: tonnage on both the daily and weekly basis and exceed 472 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 5: outgoing vehicle per day limits until September thirtieth. 473 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 4: So we're spreading out the environmental disaster to several smaller 474 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 4: environmental disasters. 475 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 1: And they're bringing it closer to me. Yeah, what's that about? 476 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,880 Speaker 9: Since all those parameters were met and there wasn't any 477 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 9: other concerns or any other safety measures that had come up, 478 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 9: that we would approve. 479 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 5: The weaver Rodney Humphrey, who lives south of the landfill. 480 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: And you never want to live south of the landfill, No, 481 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 1: you don't. 482 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 5: And others who live nearby say, as long as the 483 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 5: extra trucks and waste are managed properly, they won't have 484 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 5: a problem, but they will speak up if the smell 485 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 5: gets out of hand. 486 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 4: If it has to happen, then they really need to 487 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 4: be diligent about making sure things are covered up and 488 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 4: controlling that order. 489 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 5: Riverside County officials here unable to get us the exact 490 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 5: amount of waste coming from Lineage Warehouse since. 491 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, because they don't want the law. You don't want 492 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 4: to know how much waste is going there. 493 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: Boy, that guy is really rolling the dice, trusting that 494 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: they're going to do this correctly, because if they don't. 495 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: Living where he lives, it's going to be unbearable. Alan 496 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: writes in on YouTube. If they let it burn and 497 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: the neighborhood smelled like bacon, they would probably raise their 498 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: taxes for the bacon benefit. I wouldn't mind that smell. 499 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 5: That weaver was signed on July second. That weaver expires 500 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 5: September thirtieth, reporting it. 501 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 4: They're not going to be done dumping all this stuff 502 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 4: by September thirtieth. 503 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: No, not even clothes. 504 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 4: The last estimate was two days ago they had gotten 505 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 4: rid of three hundred and fifty tons, which is one percent. 506 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,120 Speaker 1: I'm surprised they're not just dumping it in the Tiawana River. 507 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 4: Don't give them any ideas They're having enough problems down 508 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 4: there in Imperial Beach. 509 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 6: You can smell it right here. 510 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 5: You can smell it right now, Corona Zakowotto CBSLA. 511 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 6: And now our team coverage continues now with a look 512 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 6: at the problematic history of the landfill, excepting all this 513 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 6: rotting food. 514 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 4: Yes, it's going to al Sabronte, which has had some 515 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 4: issues in the past. 516 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: Oh rate, CBSLA Assignment Editor Mike Rodgers at the desk, 517 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: and Mike, regulators have sighted the landfill more than a 518 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: dozen times in two years. 519 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we just heard back from the AQMD 520 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 8: one and pat and fifteen times since twenty twenty four, 521 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 8: this landfill has been sighted by the Air Quality Management 522 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 8: District and that is just. 523 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: And we're going to bring all of the rotting neat there. 524 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 8: This is so dumb yep AQMD regulators in Overside County 525 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 8: have also cited them a number of times, and it's 526 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 8: free issues like this. 527 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about this before. Leech eate. 528 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 8: Leech eate is something that comes up from underground when 529 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 8: the temperature underneath the surface here boils up to higher 530 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 8: than one hundred and seventy degrees fahrenheit something, by the way, 531 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 8: that is not an acceptable standard under AQMD's regulatory obligations here. 532 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 4: Now, when this happens, so the hot, disgusting trash is 533 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 4: about to get hotter and even more disgusting underground, and 534 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,479 Speaker 4: those toxic gases are going to permeate through the soil. 535 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: It's triple digits here in Riverside County today. By the way, is. 536 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 4: It really makes sense to send all the trash somewhere 537 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 4: that's even hotter than Boile Heights. 538 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: It's almost as if they haven't thought this through. 539 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 8: It creates this mess that then siphons up out of 540 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 8: the ground and creates this leechate that can release that 541 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 8: terrible smell. This right here is actually when they were 542 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,919 Speaker 8: notified about a methane cloud that was hovering over the 543 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 8: top cloud. 544 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 4: I feel really bad for the people of Corona and 545 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 4: Norco that live near this thing. 546 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 1: What happens if that cloud starts producing rain. 547 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 8: This landfill. These are photos from when they cleaned it up. Now, 548 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 8: a lot of these violations that have had by either 549 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 8: the Riverside County or AQMD have been rectified by the 550 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 8: landfill itself, But AQMD tonight acknowledges that the subsurface temperatures 551 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 8: there are still in exceedence of that one hundred and 552 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 8: seventy degrees fahrenheit, which again is the rest okay? 553 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: So if they're not compliant with what the state is requiring, 554 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: why are they accepting all this rotting food? 555 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 4: There has to be a big price tag. I mean, 556 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 4: think about how much you have to pay her dump 557 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 4: to take a normal load of trash to the dump. 558 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 4: They're probably getting paid a primo for it should there, 559 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 4: even though they don't have a way to properly dispose 560 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 4: of it. 561 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 8: It sounds like it have entered into an agreement and 562 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 8: a notice of corrective action by the AQMD board. We 563 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 8: also know that there have been carbon dioxide emissions that 564 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 8: are higher than acceptable standards as well floating around in 565 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 8: that air. 566 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: That's ultimately what led. 567 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 8: Some people to question whether or not this was actually 568 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 8: a good idea to be bringing in these millions of pounds, 569 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 8: potentially millions of pounds of food from the Boyle Heights 570 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 8: warehouse all the way to this landfill in Corona. Now 571 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 8: you've heard me talk about Lee Hight before. It was 572 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 8: a very very prominent issue at the Chikida Canyon landfill 573 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 8: up in Santa Clarita. 574 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: That was another hazard zone earlier this year. 575 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 8: This appears to be a little bit different of an issue. 576 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,719 Speaker 8: It seems like when they get these notices of violation 577 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 8: sometimes they're able to correct them in a timely manner. 578 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 8: Lots of regulatory oversights, specifically on this landfill. And we 579 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 8: should note that the permit that they got to take 580 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 8: in this boil Heights food very specifically says they are 581 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 8: not allowed to dump any of that food on this 582 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 8: area that is dealing with these subsurface temperatures. 583 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: Okay, what do you think the odds are they're doing 584 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: it the right way? 585 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 4: Not great considering how many citations Elseabronte has had in 586 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 4: the past. 587 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: Extremely high. 588 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 8: It's got to be put on a different area of 589 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 8: the landfill. I also want to point out nobody has 590 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,479 Speaker 8: been very forthcoming with us about where this food from 591 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 8: the Boyle Heids warehouse is going. We shoed out the 592 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 8: lineage last night to confirm that it was going to 593 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 8: this landfill. 594 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: They never got back to us. 595 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 8: Waste Management, who is taking in this waste at the landfill, 596 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 8: referred us to another company. It wasn't until we were 597 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 8: able to pull those documents. 598 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 4: Because no one wants to know where this stuff. Nobody 599 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 4: wants to know that the stuff that is stinking up 600 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 4: Boyle Hides is now coming to their town. 601 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 8: Permits that we're able to finally get confirmation that it 602 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 8: was actually coming from the Boyle Heights area. 603 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: So we're going to continue to monitor this. We know 604 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: that regulators are as well. 605 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 8: But again according to the AQMD, they have sighted this 606 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 8: landfill fifteen times since twenty twenty four for various regulation violations. 607 00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: Guys, we know you'll stay on top of Mike. 608 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 4: Thank you. 609 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: So that is the latest. 610 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 4: It turns out a whole bunch of the rotting pig meat, 611 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 4: among other things, from the cold storage facility and Boyle 612 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 4: Heights is going to John's neck of the woods. 613 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: Well, you know, Randy, this is equity spreading the misery. 614 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: What eight hundred two two two five two two. 615 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 4: Twobe there's sandy bit in the chat as to which 616 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 4: one of us is Batman and which one is Robin. 617 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: How we do it? 618 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 4: On the likes, let's check it out. 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We're at twelve hundred and seventy nine, 635 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 4: which means we're a little more than halfway to our 636 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 4: goal of twenty five hundred. Once we get that, we 637 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 4: unveil the John Phillips Show soundboard website, where you can 638 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 4: play all of your favorite Katie Porter drops. 639 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: Why do you have to watch porn in the living 640 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: room on your own time? 641 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 4: And you can play them for your own friends or 642 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 4: download them as ringtones, you do whatever you want with them. 643 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 4: They will be yours the top one hundred drops from 644 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 4: The John Phillips Show. But I can't give you that 645 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 4: website until we get to twenty five hundred subscribers at 646 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 4: YouTube dot com slash app Accountability Podcast, putting a link 647 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 4: in the chat. 648 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: Right now, I feel like the theme of today show 649 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: is one hundred and one bad ideas, one of which 650 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: is telling people it's okay to breathe in the toxic 651 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: smoke from the fire and boil hides. Another is to 652 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: allow the rotting food to go to a landfill that's 653 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: been cited repeatedly. And the third, I guess is Katie 654 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: Porter hosting a book club. But Randy, we have got 655 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: another bad idea to add to the list, and that 656 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: is forcing fire victims back into homes that are unsafe. 657 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 4: This time it's far As Insurance that gets the award 658 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 4: for the worst insurance company. Oh wait, that's my insurance. 659 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 4: They're gonna drop me, aren't they. For more, here is 660 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 4: NBCLA now to. 661 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 10: Our wildfire recovery. Eighteen months after the Palisades and the 662 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 10: Eaton fires, families are still trying to rebuild their lives, 663 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 10: and some say they feel pressured to move back into 664 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 10: homes they feel are unsafe. NBC's Liz Kreutz has the story. 665 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 7: A year and a half after the Eaton fire, Chauncey 666 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 7: and Libby Godwin are still to pace from their Altadena home. 667 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 7: They wear masks when inside their living room, just as 668 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 7: it was when they evacuated in January last year. 669 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,359 Speaker 4: Boy, the sight of the Christmas trees, especially that have 670 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 4: been sitting there for almost two years, it is depressing. 671 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: And again, the smoke damage in a lot of these 672 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: homes is something you may not necessarily be able to see, 673 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: but it's something that makes the home unsafe and unlivable. 674 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 7: The Christmas tree still standing, it's hard to believe that 675 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 7: it's real. The couple says their house isn't safe to 676 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 7: live in due to the smoke damage, but that they 677 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 7: feel pressured by their insure Farmer's insurance to move back. 678 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: So it's not just the fair plan. It's not just 679 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:38,800 Speaker 1: State farm. 680 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 4: Farmers is doing this too, where they don't want to 681 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,399 Speaker 4: cover what's in the contract. 682 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: When did all these sons of bitches decide that it's 683 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: okay to treat us like lab mice. 684 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 4: Well, when they realized that the person who's supposed to 685 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,320 Speaker 4: regulate them could be bought. 686 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 1: I'm very kind of sketch. 687 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,720 Speaker 3: They're kind of cartoonish in their villainy. 688 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:03,759 Speaker 1: I happen to agree. 689 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 4: I you know, you never want to assume malice, you 690 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 4: always want to ensume incompetence. But based on the behavior 691 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 4: of these insurance companies, how can you not see this 692 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,440 Speaker 4: as anything but villainous? 693 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 3: Really feels to me that like they're sitting behind their 694 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 3: desks twirling their mustaches. 695 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 7: After months of back and forth, the god Wednesday Farmers 696 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 7: has now agreed to pay for at least part of 697 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 7: the belongings inside their house so far roughly one hundred 698 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,919 Speaker 7: and fifty thousand dollars. But the bigger fight is over 699 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 7: the home itself. Testing the Family Commission found confirmation of 700 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 7: persistent carcinogenic and toxogenic residues in their house and recommended 701 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 7: full interior demolition down to the studs, estimated to cost 702 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,360 Speaker 7: more than a million dollars. The Farmers rejected that recommendation 703 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,240 Speaker 7: after its own testing suggest that the house could mostly 704 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:52,840 Speaker 7: be cleaned. 705 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 4: Okay, you lived there for six months and then when 706 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 4: you get lung cancer you can complain to us. 707 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,319 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable that they expect these people to move in 708 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: and then you know, if they get cancer, they're going 709 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,919 Speaker 1: to try to low ball their relatives. 710 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 7: Paying the family some eighty thousand dollars for cleaning and 711 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:10,879 Speaker 7: repairs of them. 712 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:15,759 Speaker 4: Okay, so the testing company says, this house is not habitable. 713 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 4: There are so many toxins in there, it needs to 714 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 4: be ripped down to the studs. That's going to cost 715 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 4: a million dollars. Farmer says, here's eighty grand for a vacuum. 716 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck with that, because for eighty grand, you 717 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. Not only are they going 718 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,319 Speaker 1: to get cancer, but groundskeeper Willie or whoever it is 719 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: that they hire to clean it up, he's getting cancer too. 720 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,280 Speaker 7: Home instead, how much longer are you both willing to fight? 721 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 8: We'll fight for as long as it takes. 722 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, they found the right ones. If they want 723 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:47,319 Speaker 3: to fight, we'll fight. 724 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,840 Speaker 4: Did you get an attorney? Have you called a have 725 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 4: you called a public insurance adjuster? And do not fight 726 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:54,800 Speaker 4: this alone? 727 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,800 Speaker 7: But the Godwins are now among the thirty eight percent 728 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,400 Speaker 7: of LA fire survivor who report they'll soon or already 729 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,320 Speaker 7: have run out of their additional living expenses money provided 730 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 7: by insurance for temporary housing no more commonly as al. 731 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 4: Well, what does it say about the insurance companies that 732 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,239 Speaker 4: it's taken them so long to pay out these claims 733 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,239 Speaker 4: that those temporary living expense benefits have run out. 734 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: Well, we're not even close to getting to a point 735 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: to where these people can move back in. This is 736 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,279 Speaker 1: going to go on for a much longer period of time. 737 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 7: Without ali money. They're left paying for the mortgage on 738 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,359 Speaker 7: their home and a rental at the same time, looking. 739 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,120 Speaker 3: At our rent and looking at how long it's going 740 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,320 Speaker 3: to take. It's an entirely frightening situation. 741 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 7: Farmers says it cannot comment on individual claims, but tells 742 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,360 Speaker 7: NBC News in part, our goal is to pay claims 743 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:49,240 Speaker 7: quickly and fairly. 744 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: No, it's not. They always like to wiggle out of 745 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,760 Speaker 1: it by saying we never comment on specific cases. Oh yeah, 746 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 1: why not the people who are supposed to be being 747 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,440 Speaker 1: paid out or commenting on it publicly. So it's not 748 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,320 Speaker 1: like you're going to out someone who is a private person. 749 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: They're already going on television themselves. 750 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 7: Taking into account the circumstances of the loss and the 751 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:15,800 Speaker 7: terms of the policy. 752 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now, it's behavior like this, and 753 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 4: you insurance companies are going to have to deal with this. 754 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 4: It's behavior like this that is pushing people to vote 755 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 4: for the Socialists for insurance commissioner to cut you all 756 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 4: out because you're so damn greedy. 757 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,520 Speaker 3: If they can force us to cave, they don't have 758 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,480 Speaker 3: to pay for it, And that's what this is all about. 759 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 7: In fact, just next door, like the Godwins, John Moss 760 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 7: is also fighting with Farmers Insurance. 761 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,279 Speaker 1: The window was melted shuts. 762 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 7: Over whether his smoke damage home needs structural remediation or 763 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 7: can just be cleaned. But unlike the Godwins, the Moss family, 764 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,279 Speaker 7: including three young kids, made the difficult decision to move 765 00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:57,759 Speaker 7: back in. 766 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,760 Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a mistake. 767 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,399 Speaker 7: What reservations did you have about moving your family back 768 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 7: in here? 769 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,879 Speaker 8: For my wife and I are Our biggest was, of course, 770 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 8: the contamination. 771 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,640 Speaker 7: He says. Last year Farmers accused the family of delaying 772 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,480 Speaker 7: and prematurely cover wait. 773 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,440 Speaker 4: The insurance company is accusing the victim of delaying a 774 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 4: payment because why. 775 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,560 Speaker 7: Not them off from their remaining ali They were given 776 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,920 Speaker 7: one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars for cleaning and 777 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,960 Speaker 7: repairs of the house, a fraction of their policy limit 778 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,760 Speaker 7: and far short of the one point five million dollars 779 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 7: the family's contractor told them would be needed to restore 780 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 7: the home. 781 00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,799 Speaker 4: What's the point of having an insurance commissioner when there's 782 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,279 Speaker 4: so many of these stories. 783 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,040 Speaker 1: It's just heartbreaking to see what these families are going 784 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,360 Speaker 1: through because they've been traumatized. I mean, don't forget that 785 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,120 Speaker 1: part of it. They lost everything down to their toothbrush, 786 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,680 Speaker 1: many of these fire victims, and now they just want 787 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,520 Speaker 1: to move on with their lives, and their insurance companies 788 00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,799 Speaker 1: are making that impossible to do. All right, We've got 789 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,120 Speaker 1: one more hour coming up on the John Phillips Show, 790 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: Don't You Go Anywhere.