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Speaker 1: right before the show. Matt Mayhen is making a little
Speaker 1: bit of a political earthquake with his late entry into
Speaker 1: the governor's race. He's already picked up some notable endorsements,
Speaker 1: including several members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
Speaker 1: Tom Wolf, and even Rick Caruso has endorsed Matt Mayhen
Speaker 1: for governor. Quite frankly, Rick Caruso, in his endorsement says
Speaker 1: he told Matt Mayhen to run. So if you're wondering
Speaker 1: why Rick Caruso is not running for governor, it could
Speaker 1: be that he thought Matt Mayhen had a better chance
Speaker 1: and was going to occupy the same lane as him.
Speaker 1: Now is Rick Caruso going to put his money behind Mayheen?
Speaker 1: One would hope, because Matt Mayhen is probably the most
Speaker 1: centrist candidate that is out there that has a chance.
Speaker 1: Antonio Viragosa, I'm so sorry you don't have a chance,
Speaker 1: but you know, keep trying. Matt Mayheen did an interview
Speaker 1: last night with our friend Elex michael On. The story
Speaker 1: is on CNN. Let's give it a listen.
Speaker 2: We don't just need to be against something, We need
Speaker 2: to be for something, a government that proves it can
Speaker 2: solve problems for working people.
Speaker 1: Once again, how about that? What a novel concept. If
Speaker 1: we have positive outcomes, people will vote for us because
Speaker 1: our ideas worked instead of you know, the typical politics
Speaker 1: of no, the other side's worse.
Speaker 3: Look, I don't know if Matt Mahon has the chance
Speaker 3: to win.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the appetite of the primary voters
Speaker 1: are going to be in for Matt Mayhan. But he
Speaker 1: certainly sounds a lot more pragmatic and common sense than
Speaker 1: most of the people who are running on the Democrat side. Honestly,
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, he sounds closer to a
Speaker 1: Steve Hilton than he does to a Katie Porter Lied.
Speaker 3: But we'll see. But let's hear what he had to
Speaker 3: say to Elex.
Speaker 4: That is San Jose Mayor. Matt Mahon on his first
Speaker 4: official day as a candidate for California governor. You see
Speaker 4: him there with his wife and kids. The moderate Democrat
Speaker 4: who has called out the current governor, Kevin Newsom on
Speaker 4: several occasions, is getting a lot of supports, especially from
Speaker 4: Silicon Valley. Matt Mahon is a forty three year old
Speaker 4: former tech entrepreneur, a former public school teacher.
Speaker 1: He's only forty three. Okay that he might be the
Speaker 1: youngest person. Well, how old is Ian calderone? No, he
Speaker 1: also is also ran that has no chance to win.
Speaker 1: But Eden Calderon is, oh, he's my age. In fact,
Speaker 1: he's two months younger than me, so he's forty So
Speaker 1: that would be the youngest. But for like the candidates
Speaker 1: that have a chance, that's pretty young. How young is
Speaker 1: Swallwell Eric Swallwell age? He's forty five. That's interesting and
Speaker 1: Swallow's pulling pretty well right now. I think Katie Porterge
Speaker 1: just turned fifty. But then you have Antonio Viragosa who
Speaker 1: sounds like he's eighty, talks like he's ninety, and he's
Speaker 1: in his seventies. But yeah, Mayhan's only forty three.
Speaker 4: Matt Mahon is a forty three year old former tech entrepreneur,
Speaker 4: a former public school teacher, a Harvard grad. He's known
Speaker 4: as a tough on crime mayor and has often criticized
Speaker 4: this state of California's approach to crime and homelessness. Let's
Speaker 4: go Live to San Jose, where Matt Mayhon joins us
Speaker 4: for the first national TV interview of his campaign for governor.
Speaker 3: Mayor.
Speaker 1: Welcome because the Story is is the only show on
Speaker 1: cable news that will pay attention to California politics. It's
Speaker 1: the largest state in the Union. But because all the
Speaker 1: cable networks, Fox, NBC or whatever they call it now, MS, now, CNN.
Speaker 1: Up until this show, they're all based on the East coast.
Speaker 1: California doesn't matter, But now they get Alex from nine
Speaker 1: to eleven, So California matter is a little mayor.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the story is and congrats on the run.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Alex. It's going to be with you.
Speaker 4: So when we talked about this many many times before,
Speaker 4: you said that you had young kids you wanted to
Speaker 4: focus on them, it wasn't the right time.
Speaker 1: What changed, Well, he met all of the people that
Speaker 1: were running and was thoroughly unimpressed. I guess scrub a
Speaker 1: dub dub didn't leave a very good impression on him.
Speaker 2: Well, I still have young kids, and we'll be focused
Speaker 2: on them. But I think it's really important that we
Speaker 2: fix our problems in California.
Speaker 1: I believe, Hey, that's the name of the one o'clock
Speaker 1: hour of this show. I mean the short version would
Speaker 1: be fixed California, but the long version is fix all
Speaker 1: of our problems in California hour.
Speaker 2: Fix our problems in California. I believe we can do better, Frankly,
Speaker 2: and I know it because in San Jose. We've been
Speaker 2: getting back to basics on.
Speaker 1: This is it's it's so refreshing just to hear someone
Speaker 1: that actually is going to run on a record like, Hey,
Speaker 1: here's what I'm doing in San Jose. People seem to
Speaker 1: like it. I think I'd like to take that to
Speaker 1: higher office. It used to be that simple, but of
Speaker 1: course it's not when you consider how many of the
Speaker 1: candidates in this race don't even bring up California until
Speaker 1: like the halfway point of their commercial because it's all
Speaker 1: about who's sitting in the Oval office. That does not
Speaker 1: matter for so many different issues, making a lot of
Speaker 1: California's problems. Most of California's problems are self inflicted and
Speaker 1: they persist whether it is a R or a D
Speaker 1: in the White House.
Speaker 2: Making it easier to build housing, getting people indoors into
Speaker 2: basic dignified shelter, intervening when cycles of addiction or causing
Speaker 2: people to harm themselves and others, addressing public safety issues,
Speaker 2: and it's working. We've reduced the number of people living
Speaker 2: outside by about one third by building basic dignified shelter.
Speaker 1: And one thing that he does that a lot of
Speaker 1: cities don't have the appetite for is if they've built
Speaker 1: a shelter, you don't get a choice. You don't get
Speaker 1: to stay in Columbus Park. That park is for the residents,
Speaker 1: not for you.
Speaker 2: Available. We do a lot of outreach and we effectively
Speaker 2: require that people come indoors, and we've saved lives. It's
Speaker 2: what we're doing is working. But the state needs those
Speaker 2: solutions and Frankly to follow through.
Speaker 3: Oh we're so close.
Speaker 2: The state needs those solutions and Frankly to follow through
Speaker 2: on this mission I've begun in San Jose. We need
Speaker 2: more help from state government. We need our state to
Speaker 2: be as focused and accountable as we've been at the
Speaker 2: local level. And I think as the mayor of a big.
Speaker 1: City, by the way, this is also I like this argument. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're doing everything we can at the local level. To
Speaker 1: use Gavin Newsom's favorite phrase, localism is determinative. But right now,
Speaker 1: in order to keep going, the state is in our way.
Speaker 1: The state literally cut off the funding for programs like
Speaker 1: the things that Matt Mahon is doing personally, because a
Speaker 1: lot of the funding that went to places like Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and San Francisco went nowhere, but in places where
Speaker 1: it is working, they're losing the funding.
Speaker 2: I have the best perspective on what our biggest challenges
Speaker 2: are and how we can solve them with a different
Speaker 2: kind of leadership and Sacramento.
Speaker 1: Of course, the big question is how do you get
Speaker 1: the legislature on board? You know, how do you get
Speaker 1: the legislature, for instance, who is vehemently opposed against the
Speaker 1: Prop thirty six to all of a sudden funded.
Speaker 4: And you pointed out your wife said it's time to run, right,
Speaker 4: And maybe she wasn't totally all in, but now she's in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got home. I got home the other night
Speaker 2: about three weeks ago, and she looked at me and said,
Speaker 2: I think you need to consider doing this because we're
Speaker 2: both worried about our future, or we're worried about the
Speaker 2: future of California, about our country. We think California needs
Speaker 2: someone who will fight for our values but also fix
Speaker 2: our problems.
Speaker 1: And I think, notice how we're three minutes into this interview.
Speaker 1: He hasn't said the tea word once, hasn't mentioned Trump
Speaker 1: at all, because that's not relevant here when we're talking
Speaker 1: about the California governor's race, even though certain people want
Speaker 1: to make it all about that. Swallwell porter Stier, who's
Speaker 1: supporting Tom Steyer. I spent an hour and a half
Speaker 1: yesterday listening to a debate at a Pasadena Green Society.
Speaker 1: It was a forum between Bessarah Porter Styer and Swallwell.
Speaker 1: And I still have a headache from that thing.
Speaker 2: But also fix our problems, and I think that in
Speaker 2: the long run, the best resistance as results, it's actually
Speaker 2: delivering safer neighborhoods, cleaner neighborhoods, better schools, better jobs. And
Speaker 2: showing you this.
Speaker 1: Styer, if you really want to make a difference, maybe
Speaker 1: you fund this campaign and you get out because there's
Speaker 1: nobody that is voting for Tom Steyer. Guy's got a
Speaker 1: little bit of an ego complex.
Speaker 2: Our values, our diversity in California, work in practice.
Speaker 4: What's the biggest difference from a public policy perspective between
Speaker 4: you and the current governor?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Alex is doing what Alex does best, stir
Speaker 1: in the pot.
Speaker 4: What's the biggest difference from a public policy perspective between
Speaker 4: you and the current governor Gavin Newsom? What changes with
Speaker 4: you in charge?
Speaker 1: Because you got to remember he is probably the only
Speaker 1: person running on the Democrat side that openly has criticized
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom for things like not funding Prop thirty six.
Speaker 2: Well, I think Gavin Newsom has been a really courageous
Speaker 2: governor in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, we're going real diplomatic with this answer.
Speaker 1: Really create he knows that what's going to happen is
Speaker 1: that Gavin's press people are going to see this interview
Speaker 1: and if it's not nice enough to Gavin, they're going
Speaker 1: to go after him.
Speaker 2: Really courageous governor in a lot of ways. He's done
Speaker 2: more on homelessness than any past governor. He has stood
Speaker 2: up to abuses of power from this administration. He's articulated
Speaker 2: the case for our democratic institutions. He's done a lot
Speaker 2: of good work. And I think the next governor, whether
Speaker 2: it's me or someone else, has the.
Speaker 3: Job of filling in the details.
Speaker 1: Gavin made a bunch of big proclamations and now someone's
Speaker 1: actually got to do the work.
Speaker 3: To use a cliche, building.
Speaker 2: On many of the things he's done on homelessness, care court,
Speaker 2: setting up tools to help people get mental health care.
Speaker 2: He has done a lot to reform sequels so we
Speaker 2: can build housing faster, so there are a lot how.
Speaker 3: Many reforms do we need.
Speaker 1: At what point do we realize that the law is
Speaker 1: antiquated and it gets abused constantly.
Speaker 3: Gavin will give me the first one to admit.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason that the high speed rail is
Speaker 1: nowhere and non existent is because he got sued over
Speaker 1: sequa a lot.
Speaker 2: So there are a lot of areas of agreement, but
Speaker 2: of course it's always the disagreement that gets have we publicized.
Speaker 2: And you know, probably the biggest difference has been around addiction.
Speaker 1: I've had, by the way, appreciate that after that preamble
Speaker 1: he is answering the question and it is a pretty big,
Speaker 1: stark difference between Gavin Newsom and Matt Mayheon.
Speaker 2: You know, probably the biggest difference has been around addiction.
Speaker 2: I've had family members who've ended up on the streets
Speaker 2: because of severe addiction, and I know that in those
Speaker 2: cases it requires a certain amount of tough love to
Speaker 2: help people turn their lives around. You have to be
Speaker 2: willing to intervene, to impose consequences, to give people a
Speaker 2: choice for treatment, but also make sure they're held accountable
Speaker 2: for it. There has to be accountability, and that saves lives,
Speaker 2: It makes everybody better off and I just don't think
Speaker 2: the state has been bold enough in being willing to
Speaker 2: intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get
Speaker 2: people the help that they need.
Speaker 1: No, we have made things like care Court voluntary. We
Speaker 1: have supported policies like Housing First that don't fund recovery housing.
Speaker 1: We've had so many experts over and over again talk
Speaker 1: about how this is one of the big problems you have,
Speaker 1: all this permanent support of housing, the SROs in San
Speaker 1: Francisco where drugs are allowed and a lot of people
Speaker 1: come out in a body bang.
Speaker 4: I mean you. You've Austin criticized the governor for some
Speaker 4: of his style for.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, alex Is Stern, the pop mar.
Speaker 4: For basically being so focused on memes and attacking President
Speaker 4: Trump and not enough focused on state issues and getting
Speaker 4: results for people here. That's gotten a lot of publicity.
Speaker 4: Jeremy White, political reporter is at a Bloomberg event with
Speaker 4: the governor today and he asked him about you. Here's
Speaker 4: what he said.
Speaker 2: I don't know enough about him, I don't good I
Speaker 2: wish him good luck. He said, you've jumped blindly into
Speaker 2: meme land, I believe was a quote.
Speaker 4: Well, I've tried to put a mirror up I don't
Speaker 4: know that quote, so he said I don't know enough
Speaker 4: about him, which reminded some folks of Mariah Carey when
Speaker 4: she talks about Jennifer Lopez. If she doesn't like when
Speaker 4: she says I don't know her.
Speaker 1: Is Alex Michaelson alleging that Gavin Newsom is mean girling
Speaker 1: Matt Mahon.
Speaker 3: I think so it's pretty good when.
Speaker 4: Clearly she knows her. So, I mean, what do you
Speaker 4: make of that? And are you worried that the governor
Speaker 4: may try to sort of hurt you behind the scenes
Speaker 4: because the idea of having you in there if he's
Speaker 4: potentially a Democratic nominee, may not be helpful to him.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean they're still on the same party. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of policy alignments. There's one major difference.
Speaker 1: But ultimately for Gavin's legacy, it's going to look bad
Speaker 1: if the younger, more effective version of Gavin, because Matt
Speaker 1: Mayhan in a lot of ways is what Gavin sells
Speaker 1: himself as, but Gavin has no follow through. Gavin gets
Speaker 1: distracted easily, makes a big proclamation, assumes everyone's going to
Speaker 1: do exactly what he says is going to happen and
Speaker 1: moves on care court being a huge one. Oversold that
Speaker 1: one a lot.
Speaker 2: No. I think this has been played up, particularly in
Speaker 2: the media.
Speaker 3: But he's not taking the bait in the media.
Speaker 2: But the truth is, even folks who share a lot
Speaker 2: of values that are very aligned. We're both Democrats, we're
Speaker 2: both pragmatic, we both try to solve problems. But we
Speaker 2: can have differences of opinion, as we did on Prop
Speaker 2: thirty six and on requiring treatment and severe cases of addiction.
Speaker 3: That's and those are some pretty stark differences.
Speaker 1: And this is where the you know, as Dan Walters
Speaker 1: put in his column today, a litmus test for the
Speaker 1: voters of California. You know, the voters in California. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know enough to give you any good, but
Speaker 1: good luck finding someone who does. Even with the results
Speaker 1: that we have an election after election after election. Twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four was interesting because in twenty twenty four, every
Speaker 1: single county overwhelmingly passed Prop thirty six, and Matt Mayhon
Speaker 1: was the loudest voice, the loudest big city mayor talking
Speaker 1: about why we need Prop thirty six. It came on
Speaker 1: this show to talk about Prop thirty six by the way,
Speaker 1: we're working on getting him on this show next week.
Speaker 1: If the voters who said yes to Prop thirty six
Speaker 1: want to see it fully funded, this is your guy.
Speaker 1: Hilton's your guy, Bianco's your guy. But if one of
Speaker 1: those two doesn't look like it's gonna happen, because California
Speaker 1: is California, and a Republican getting elected is a really
Speaker 1: uphill climb, Mayheon might.
Speaker 2: Be your guy leading to crime.
Speaker 1: Other than that, it's Vira Gosa and that's not happening.
Speaker 1: Everyone else is staunchly against Prop thirty six, including Katie Porter, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, someone just emailed something. I cannot read
Speaker 1: it on the air, but I am laughing on the inside.
Speaker 2: Leading to crime, we just had a difference of opinion
Speaker 2: over the best way to tackle that problem. On style,
Speaker 2: the point I was really trying to make, I don't
Speaker 2: particularly care what the governor's tweeting. I just would like
Speaker 2: more of his attention on what we're doing in our
Speaker 2: cities and how the state can help us. And I mean,
Speaker 2: to me, it's just really important that all of our
Speaker 2: leadership and Sacramento and I'm not just picking on the governor.
Speaker 2: I want to see the legislature and all the institutions
Speaker 2: of state government be more focused and accountable on the
Speaker 2: core challenges facing Californians right here at home, in our name.
Speaker 1: That should be the campaign right there, California should focus
Speaker 1: on California. Let's clean up our own house before we
Speaker 1: start complaining about the white house, right.
Speaker 2: Here at home, in our neighborhoods. You know, it's access
Speaker 2: to good schools, good jobs, affordable housing, addressing crime and holmlessness,
Speaker 2: the basics. We've got to do better. We have to deliver.
Speaker 2: And again I just been making the case that the
Speaker 2: best resistance is delivering results and showing a better example.
Speaker 4: Well, I open invite to come in here because I'd
Speaker 4: love to have a deeper dive conversation about affordability, about hiking,
Speaker 4: housing more affordable, and some of those issues that are
Speaker 4: really driving not only California politics but around the country.
Speaker 4: But a good introduction to you tonight on your first
Speaker 4: night as a candidate San Jose Mayor, Matt Mayhan, Thank
Speaker 4: you so much for being with us.
Speaker 2: Thanks Alex, look forward to We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 1: That's any of you, by the way, huge shout out
Speaker 1: to Alex Michaelson. I don't know why CNN is not
Speaker 1: great about posting things on their YouTube channel. Alex has
Speaker 1: a lot of these really important interviews and they don't
Speaker 1: get posted often. So when he tweeted out that he
Speaker 1: was going to have Matt Mayhan on the show, I
Speaker 1: just commented on his tweet posted on YouTube please, because
Speaker 1: sometimes he'll put the interviews on his YouTube channel, which
Speaker 1: you should all follow. Alex Michaelson seven am, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: midnight last night? When did he text this to me?
Speaker 1: Let me see? Alexmichaelson texted me at twelve fifty four
Speaker 1: am a link to the video because he knew I
Speaker 1: wanted it. I appreciate that because you know, if it's
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Speaker 1: out from that devastating winter storm that hit a lot
Speaker 1: of the Southwest and it really really really hit Texas.
Speaker 1: My in laws are in Texas and it was I
Speaker 1: think one of the days it was seven degrees.
Speaker 3: We flew out o New Mexico.
Speaker 1: We flew out a Santa Fe Airport, which is a
Speaker 1: tiny little airport on Saturday, and the flight was delayed
Speaker 1: an hour because of the conditions. We literally saw them
Speaker 1: trying to sweep ice out of the engine of the plane.
Speaker 1: We get onto the plane, we get on the tarmacts
Speaker 1: delayed another hour because they need to hose this thing
Speaker 1: down like you're at a car wash with de icer.
Speaker 1: But we made at home safely. A lot of flights
Speaker 1: did get delayed, and one of the things that you
Speaker 1: don't think about when you have that many flight delays
Speaker 1: is how many other things get canceled, including how many
Speaker 1: essential things get canceled.
Speaker 3: Think about this.
Speaker 1: The severe winter weather that we experienced in the last
Speaker 1: week intensified in already devastating blood shortage. More than twenty
Speaker 1: thousand donations were uncollected due to these winter storms. The
Speaker 1: Red Cross is experiencing a severe blood shortage because of
Speaker 1: this weather. The storm canceled more than five hundred blood drives,
Speaker 1: which would have resulted in more than twenty thousand blood
Speaker 1: and platelet donations going uncollected since January twenty third. To
Speaker 1: talk to us about this and the need that is
Speaker 1: out there. It's proud to welcome the American Red Cross
Speaker 1: BioMed account manager Nina Minton. Welcome to the John Phillips Show.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. I really appreciate being here. Love
Speaker 5: being on the show, and hopefully I can get some
Speaker 5: information out there about our severe blood shortage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so tell us about this.
Speaker 1: Seems like the weather was so bad that it's making
Speaker 1: it really hard for y'all to do what you need
Speaker 1: to do to save lives.
Speaker 5: That would be correct. So we have not only you
Speaker 5: mentioned about five hundred blood drives that were canceled the
Speaker 5: month before that because of severe weather, we had four
Speaker 5: hundred blood drives canceled. So you're talking about nine hundred
Speaker 5: blood drives in the last two months, which is horrendously bad.
Speaker 5: And it's something that most people don't think about, and
Speaker 5: we think about every day because the Red Cross deals
Speaker 5: with forty percent of the US blood supply, So when
Speaker 5: we're not collecting in certain locations, and now the winter,
Speaker 5: that winter storm has affected ooh, a lot of areas
Speaker 5: in the East Coast and Midwest and a lot of places,
Speaker 5: so we're really having problems collecting. But what's wonderful is
Speaker 5: we live in this wonderful location called California, and I
Speaker 5: workout of the Los Angeles Santa Monica office, and I
Speaker 5: will tell you that a lot of donations can happen here.
Speaker 5: And so there are other places where this is not
Speaker 5: occurring in terms of winter storm, and we're asking people
Speaker 5: to really join us if there's any way possible.
Speaker 3: Well and to think about it.
Speaker 1: Like you said, while it's still freezing in a lot
Speaker 1: of different parts of the country, it's going to be
Speaker 1: in the mid eighties tomorrow in Los Angeles, which means
Speaker 1: it's short sleeve weather, which is really easy if you're donating.
Speaker 5: Blood right, you don't even need to pull your sleeve up.
Speaker 5: You can just stop in. And a lot of people
Speaker 5: don't realize how easy donating blood is. I'm a regular donor.
Speaker 5: I donate every two months, and it is something that
Speaker 5: if you first go for the first time, you realize
Speaker 5: how incredibly easy it is. We always tell people as
Speaker 5: first timers, you know, obviously we really need you, Okay,
Speaker 5: and it takes I would say leave an hour. At
Speaker 5: most most blood donations it might be a total of
Speaker 5: forty five minutes or so. You know, you check in
Speaker 5: with us and basically we have to check your iron
Speaker 5: and Heba globin and see you know where you've traveled to.
Speaker 5: You get on the bed. You're on the bed only
Speaker 5: for about five to ten minutes unless you're doing a
Speaker 5: different donation with us, because there's two types of donations,
Speaker 5: and then you go into our wonderful canteam when you
Speaker 5: get lots of goodies. So you know, the whole process
Speaker 5: is actually very easy and the donation part is just
Speaker 5: a few minutes of that.
Speaker 1: And what are the different kinds of donations? Because there
Speaker 1: are you know, your your typical blood donation, but what
Speaker 1: else are things that you're doing at the Red Cross?
Speaker 5: There are at a mobile blood drive, which is what
Speaker 5: I primarily do, although we have something called Excites, but
Speaker 5: at our mobile drives we do two things. And a
Speaker 5: mobile drive means we basically, for example, we can go
Speaker 5: to different studios and we can go to schools, we
Speaker 5: go to office building corporations, and very easy to host
Speaker 5: a blood drive with us too. But basically, if those
Speaker 5: drives will have two types of things, and one is
Speaker 5: a whole blood donation that one in itself takes by
Speaker 5: itself five to ten minutes. The whole process, as we said,
Speaker 5: if you're a first time donor, especially, this can be
Speaker 5: about forty five minutes, and we say leave an hour.
Speaker 5: The second type of donation we have is called a
Speaker 5: power red donation. That is a really amazing donation. It
Speaker 5: is like platelets, and a platelet takes a lot longer,
Speaker 5: but you can only do that at certain locations. But
Speaker 5: the power red donation, now it sounds like you'd think
Speaker 5: we drain that person of all their blood, and it's
Speaker 5: the exact opposite. We are actually taking red blood cells.
Speaker 5: We are taking a few extra red blood cells, okay,
Speaker 5: and those red bloods are the most transfused items that
Speaker 5: we need that a hospital asks for. So that particular donation,
Speaker 5: instead of being on the bed five to ten minutes
Speaker 5: like a regular whole blood donation, you're on the bed
Speaker 5: maybe twenty minutes longer, so you're thinking about maybe thirty
Speaker 5: minutes with us on the bed thirty five minutes. And
Speaker 5: then the rest of the process, the health history when
Speaker 5: you first come in and the check in and then
Speaker 5: at the end the canteen, so that you might be
Speaker 5: with us about an hour, an hour, ten minutes total.
Speaker 5: So it's just a humanute longer. But the reason that's
Speaker 5: needed is not only is it's the most transfused item,
Speaker 5: but let's say you get a mom who lost a
Speaker 5: lot of blood in childbirth. Well, we are able to
Speaker 5: take those power red those red blood cells, we add
Speaker 5: some whole blood to it, and that mom feels amazing.
Speaker 5: She actually rapidly repairs. So it's something where those red
Speaker 5: blood cells are like you know, like spinach for Popeye.
Speaker 5: You know, they work really fast, and they were pair
Speaker 5: someone actually quicker. And so it's a little bit of
Speaker 5: a process because we are going through the blood and
Speaker 5: we are cycling through to get those red blood cells,
Speaker 5: and then we give that person back their plasma and
Speaker 5: extra saline solutions so they feel great when they're done.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: So it's actually, yeah, it's a really neat process and
Speaker 5: a lot of people we ask these certain blood types.
Speaker 5: We look for, oh, A negative and B negative, but
Speaker 5: it is something where if you're a donor, you don't
Speaker 5: know in the future, we're able to actually get those
Speaker 5: who don't know about in terms of blood donation. You know,
Speaker 5: I've never done it before, so we're able to do that.
Speaker 5: But power Red is something that is pretty amazing in
Speaker 5: itself because we are able to do it again in
Speaker 5: not a very long period of time and the donor
Speaker 5: feels great as well. So there are two types of donations,
Speaker 5: but we need people to step up because there are
Speaker 5: a lot of people out there who've never donated. They
Speaker 5: might have a slight fear. And really it's so easy.
Speaker 5: I can't even tell you, you know, being a regular
Speaker 5: donor myself, we just we make it easy. And you know,
Speaker 5: it's very easy to even sign up. So all you
Speaker 5: do to sign up is go to either one eight
Speaker 5: hundred Red Cross or you go online to Red crossblood
Speaker 5: dot org. You put in your zip code and we
Speaker 5: are all over California. We are everywhere.
Speaker 1: So all you got to do is go to Red Redcross,
Speaker 1: blood dot org. You can call one eight hundred Red
Speaker 1: Cross or I am now going to right now in
Speaker 1: my app store download the Blood Donor app.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 5: That's a thing. That's a big thing. I have that
Speaker 5: app and I will tell you our donors absolutely love it.
Speaker 5: They get to see not only obviously your blood types. There,
Speaker 5: you get to see your your health history, which is
Speaker 5: great to show a physician, but even better than that
Speaker 5: is our blood journey. You actually get to see where
Speaker 5: your blood ends up in what how it goes to.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: Now quantify for the listeners, especially people that haven't donated before.
Speaker 1: You know, it's an hour out of your time they're
Speaker 1: taking up you know, a pint of blood or whatever.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? What is that?
Speaker 1: What does that blood do when it gets to where
Speaker 1: it needs to go?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. Well, first of all, what we do
Speaker 5: is every every unit we get goes immediately to our
Speaker 5: lab and we actually have one here in Pomona where
Speaker 5: they they basically just checking for all the things, the
Speaker 5: standard things we have to check for that we're required
Speaker 5: to because we want to make sure that blood that
Speaker 5: goes out is in pristine condition because it's going to
Speaker 5: someone who needs it. So you know, in a severe
Speaker 5: blood shortage that we're going through, it basically doesn't even
Speaker 5: reach the shelf. It kind of goes out almost immediately
Speaker 5: directly to a hospital where you might have a trauma patient,
Speaker 5: a cancer patient, that their blood is no longer longer
Speaker 5: really working very well because it's had you know, chemotherapy
Speaker 5: and things like that which really hurts the blood. So
Speaker 5: that person it might be sitting at home, they might
Speaker 5: be feeling horrible, can't get up out of bed. But
Speaker 5: once they have that transfusion. My cancer patients talk about
Speaker 5: how amazing it is. Within a short time, they see
Speaker 5: pink come back to their cheeks. They feel amazing, they
Speaker 5: can laugh and run and do things again. Blood is
Speaker 5: amazing in what it does. It truly is liquid gold.
Speaker 5: But so it will go almost immediately to a trauma
Speaker 5: patient maybe who's been in an accident. And I often,
Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you, I often have OAR nurses
Speaker 5: tell me that, look, when someone comes on it to
Speaker 5: the er and they can't find where the wound is,
Speaker 5: they're going through pints and pints very quickly, very very quickly.
Speaker 5: So you know, we're using a hospital, we will go
Speaker 5: through quite a bit of blood and so it's needed
Speaker 5: every two seconds. And just you know, only three percent
Speaker 5: in the US actually donate.
Speaker 1: Only three percent of people donate blood. Well, we got
Speaker 1: to do something about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just it's it's shocking when you think about that,
Speaker 5: and at any given time, over sixty six percent cannot donate,
Speaker 5: whether they're on a medication or there's some other issues.
Speaker 5: So there's really you know, people know who they are,
Speaker 5: they can donate, and then just don't want to. So
Speaker 5: it's like you've got to get them over the fear.
Speaker 5: But once they do it, it's pretty amazing because it really
Speaker 5: you know, as I said, I do it every two months,
Speaker 5: and you know, and you save up to three lives.
Speaker 5: So you know, we have three different blood products in there.
Speaker 5: You've got the red blood cells, the platelets, and the plasma,
Speaker 5: and they're all used for different things. It's kind of amazing.
Speaker 5: Platelets for cancer patients, you know, and red blood cells,
Speaker 5: as I was mentioning, we even use plasma for cancer
Speaker 5: for burned patients. So blood's being used all the time,
Speaker 5: and as I said, every two seconds. If you think
Speaker 5: about how often it's needed, we just you know, we
Speaker 5: need more blood. We need more donors to come and
Speaker 5: step up with us, you know, and we're trying to
Speaker 5: get the word out.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you I started watching that HBO
Speaker 1: show The Pit this year, which takes place in an
Speaker 1: emergency room in Pittsburgh, and boy do they go through
Speaker 1: a lot of blood every single hour. Watching that makes
Speaker 1: me think of a few things. One, boy, do they
Speaker 1: need a lot of blood in Two, none of those
Speaker 1: people are making enough money to do what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's pretty intense work, you know, and we're
Speaker 5: very lucky, you know, we have our in our staff.
Speaker 5: For example, we have amazing phlebotomists, you know, and if
Speaker 5: someone's just it's their first time, we hold their hand,
Speaker 5: you know, and get them through it. And most people
Speaker 5: when they get up and they've saved up to three lives,
Speaker 5: as I said, and they're sitting in the canteen hanging
Speaker 5: out having our goodies, you know, our cheese, it's oreos,
Speaker 5: all of our goodies that we have. They just sit
Speaker 5: there and they're so excited and they just look at
Speaker 5: me and they go, I had no idea how easy
Speaker 5: it was. I wish I had done it earlier. You know.
Speaker 1: The need is great right now, especially with these big
Speaker 1: winter storms, and you can help out by donating blood
Speaker 1: to the Red Cross, and it's easier than ever. You
Speaker 1: can go to Redcross Blood dot org. That's Redcross blood
Speaker 1: dot org. You can call the phone number one eight
Speaker 1: hundred Red Cross. That's one eight hundred seven three three
Speaker 1: twenty seven sixty seven. Or do what I just did,
Speaker 1: download the blood Donor app, and not only will you
Speaker 1: be able to find a place to donate blood, but
Speaker 1: you'll actually see where your blood goes, what hospital it
Speaker 1: ends up at, and how it's actually saving lives, which
Speaker 1: is pretty darn incredible. Nina Minton, the American Red Cross
Speaker 1: BioMed account manager the website of course, Redcross blood dot org.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us today and hopefully
Speaker 1: we inspired some people to donate some blood this weekend.
Speaker 5: Yes, hopefully they can donate or even host a bloodrive
Speaker 5: with us, so it's so easy to do. But thank
Speaker 5: you so much for having me. We really appreciate getting
Speaker 5: the word out.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks so much for coming on with us.
Speaker 1: It's Randy Wang here and let's end the week on
Speaker 1: a very positive note. Sometimes it feels like there's nothing
Speaker 1: you can do to solve the problems that the State
Speaker 1: of California puts on you. But you know what, sometimes
Speaker 1: if you make enough noise, the state will listen to
Speaker 1: avoid embarrassment. And that's what happened in Marin County when
Speaker 1: enough residents yelled and cricked and screamed and organized and
Speaker 1: got signatures and got Caltrans to reverse that god awful
Speaker 1: carpool policy where they were closing down one of the
Speaker 1: lanes to the one oh one to carpool traffic only
Speaker 1: when the one oh one was at its busiest. More
Speaker 1: on this, we get to ABC seven in the Bay.
Speaker 6: We're following the story as new carpool hours are coming
Speaker 6: to Highway one oh one in Marin and Sonoma Counties
Speaker 6: after an uproar from thousands of commuters. They complained the
Speaker 6: current hours were just too long and caused major traffic delays.
Speaker 6: Caltran says it listened and made changes. ABC seven Days report, Corneller,
Speaker 6: you just don't hear this that often. This is great.
Speaker 1: The citizens got mad, the citizens wanted changes, and it happened.
Speaker 6: Just ABC seven Daies report Cornell bernardists live on Highway
Speaker 6: one oh one. Cornell smack dab in the middle of
Speaker 6: tonight's commute.
Speaker 3: Yes, poor guy, Yes we are Dan.
Speaker 7: Hey, yeah, we are live on Highway one on one
Speaker 7: heading north. It is a Thursday evening commute through Corda, Madera,
Speaker 7: and you know carpool hours are about to change here
Speaker 7: after thousands of outrage commuters said the extended hours were
Speaker 7: not helping traffic at all. A Ronert Park driver taking
Speaker 7: those complaints to cal Tran's.
Speaker 3: Hey, we get a lot of calls from Ronert Park.
Speaker 8: Just them admitting that maybe that these longer hours were
Speaker 8: not working is a big deal.
Speaker 9: Katie Clayton from Broner Park is feeling a bit victorious
Speaker 9: after taking her commute complaints to Caltranz, which change carpool
Speaker 9: hours last September, adding hours onto Katie's commute to Nevada
Speaker 9: where she works as a hairstylist.
Speaker 1: And the lanes were just sitting there empty by the
Speaker 1: way southern California. Everyone just uses those lanes and nobody
Speaker 1: cares because you don't think you're gonna get pulled over.
Speaker 8: I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you should do that, and I don't
Speaker 1: do that, but I know people who do that. And
Speaker 1: if you're in the slow lane, you see the carpool lane,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of people who are just by themselves. Also,
Speaker 1: carpool lane didn't move any faster than any of the
Speaker 1: other lanes on the freeway I use every day.
Speaker 3: The four oh five.
Speaker 8: I'm glad that at least they saw our christ because
Speaker 8: a lot of signatures, a lot of people talking about it.
Speaker 8: I heard it in the salon.
Speaker 9: Katie launching this change dot org petitioned last summer, which
Speaker 9: now has almost nine thousand signatures, all from commuters demanding
Speaker 9: carpool hours be changed between Windsor and Sasolito.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you commute to the city like me
Speaker 1: from Nevada, it's been kind of a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we definitely listened.
Speaker 3: I've been to Windsor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we definitely listened.
Speaker 9: Cal Trans Matt o'donald says the agency heard complaints, launched
Speaker 9: a traffic study, and decided to make a change, reducing
Speaker 9: current carpool hours Monday through Friday from five to ten
Speaker 9: am to six am to nine.
Speaker 3: I've been to the Russian River brewing in Windsor.
Speaker 9: The afternoon drive will move from three pm to seven
Speaker 9: to three to six thirty.
Speaker 2: We listened to what where people had the most issues,
Speaker 2: you know, and it turned out that the morning commute
Speaker 2: was the was the biggest issue.
Speaker 1: Yes, because nobody was using the carpool lanes aren County.
Speaker 1: I think we got to go Florida and get rid
Speaker 1: of all the carpool lanes.
Speaker 9: Aren County Supervisor Eric Lucan helped secure the carpool changes
Speaker 9: through partnerships with state representatives and local transportation authorities. Lucan says,
Speaker 9: we heard clearly from constituents frustrated by longer commutes, and
Speaker 9: I appreciate cal Tran's willingness to listen and adjust the
Speaker 9: hours to better peak travel times while continuing to support
Speaker 9: carpooling and transit.
Speaker 1: I do oh enough with carpooling. That is just it's
Speaker 1: a failed concept.
Speaker 8: I do give Caltrans who works.
Speaker 3: In the same area that their neighbor does not that
Speaker 3: many people.
Speaker 8: I do give Caltrans some credit for being flexible. Changing
Speaker 8: her mind.
Speaker 9: Katie Clayton hopes her efforts to bring change will make
Speaker 9: her life for the lives of thousands of other North
Speaker 9: Bay commuters just a little easier in the future.
Speaker 3: See look at that.
Speaker 1: You organize, you get a signature gathering going on, you
Speaker 1: get the state agency embarrassed on the TV, and sometimes
Speaker 1: changes possible even in California. Well that's it for this
Speaker 1: fill in week. Johnny's back on Monday. I gotta go
Speaker 1: sit on the four h five Cry, have some lunch,
Speaker 1: and then I'm back on the air at five on
Speaker 1: seven ninety KABC for the Newsplitz with Randy Wang, where
Speaker 1: I will be recapping my California Report.
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Speaker 1: It's Randy Wang here on the John Phillips Show.