WEBVTT - The Fight to Stop Toxic Spraying in Orange County 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.439 Well, the city council might only give you sixty seconds 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:05.560 to where your grievance is. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.440 Oh hi, I'd like to go to the first caller 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:09.200 on the phone. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.640 Well, if you're lucky, now we're giving you a both 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.840 sixty minutes. It's a KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.640 and our long recap of the day's top local stories 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:25.560 on your drive home. And unlike the City Council, we're 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.680 the perfect vehicle to actually get your voice heard. The 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:34.240 KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang starts no, No, No. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.680 It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on top 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:42.040 radio seven to ninety KABC. 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We start in Orange County, where concern residents 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:28.919 are very upset about the use of herbicides and pesticides 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.959 in waterways. It is a great piece from ABC seven, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:39.720 as there are very legitimate concerns as to why we're 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.600 putting what is effectively, when you talk about an herbicide 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.280 or a pesticide or anything that ends with side, it 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:53.480 is poison. And why, oh why are we putting poison 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.120 in a waterway, whether it be a creek, a river, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.840 what have you. You know, calif is a very interesting place. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.880 Of course, we have so much beautiful splendor. We have 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.680 so much majestic beauty, whether you want to talk about 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.640 the beaches or the mountains. We have every kind of 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.320 climate you can imagine. And I understand why there is 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.440 so much environmentalism in this state. And I understand why 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.639 there's so much environmental activism in this state because it's 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.840 a beautiful place and we want to keep it that way. Now. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.680 Of course, we've covered extensively how our environmental and climate 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:37.359 policies constantly fall short or are just incredibly short sighted 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.880 or misdirected. I mean Heck, look at what happened in 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.720 Boyle Heights, where the mayor of Los Angeles won't even 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.560 say out loud that the cause of that fire was 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:54.040 the solar panel farm. Not that you know, solar panels 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.799 by themselves are that big of a deal, but when 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.440 you have so many solar panels next to each other 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.440 and they can catch fire, it's a much harder fire 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.160 to put out than a regular fire. And when you 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:10.040 had that many in the proximity of a single family neighborhood, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.600 it was a disaster, a disaster that may cost her 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.480 the election. And you've got to think about that for 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:23.280 a second. Of why they won't talk about the solar panels, 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.560 it's because that would mean that if it's not the 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.840 refrigerator that's the problem, it's the solar panels that there 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.440 are the problem. Well, there are solar panel farms, not 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.040 that big, but there might be one at your kids' 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:43.160 school in their parking lot. They're all over the place. Well, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.400 this is a different kind of story in Orange County, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:53.400 where you have activists and one Orange County Supervisor, Katrina Foley, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.600 that are rightfully saying, hey, why are we doing this? 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.160 And you have other supervisor, there's like Don Wagner saying, Oh, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.840 don't worry, this is the safe amount of poison that 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.160 we can put into the riverways. So you might be 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:11.600 asking yourself, why are they putting herbicides and pesticides into 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.600 the creeks of Orange County. Apparently they say it's to 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:21.960 control the vegetation so we don't have bad flooding, which 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.680 is interesting because like, what did we do before we 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.680 had these things. But one of the things that came 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.800 out in this investigation is that while the state and 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:37.480 the federal government have certain standards for what is an 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.320 acceptable amount of poison to put in your river ways 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.840 and your waterways, turns out the people that we were 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.960 contracting to do that work to get the brush out 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.880 of the creek, we're putting way more in than was 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:57.919 the acceptable level. And there have been all kinds of 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.240 studies that have shown all kinds of links to these 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.000 herbicides and pesticides, whether you want to talk about round 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.080 up what have you, that have led to all kinds 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.880 of cancer diagnoses. So why are we even thinking about 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:18.920 doing this and putting this in our beautiful backyard, putting 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.200 this in our places? There has to be in twenty 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:27.800 twenty six. There's not a smarter, greener, easier way to 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.359 deal with the potential flooding of our waterways when it 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.840 rains every once in a while, then putting poison in 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.120 the river. Now, other counties, by the way, have backed 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.120 away from this. LA County's not doing this is one 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:45.599 of the rare stories where Orange County, which is usually 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.040 the most common sense of the counties, is far behind 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.800 because La County is cutting this out and San Diego 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:58.520 County is cutting this out, and there are real consequences 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.400 to even you know, so I think, honestly, we need 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.599 to move away from all these kinds of things. You know. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.920 Part of the reason that I buy organic food, outside 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.560 of the fact that, you know, maybe it's healthier, is 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.760 I don't want pesticides near me. I don't want to 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.719 consume them. And I think when it comes to trying 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.400 to clear out some brush from waterways, this is the 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.880 wrong way to do it. Let's not forget what happened. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.080 And we talked about this just a few weeks ago 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.560 in Ladera Heights. You remember Matthew Sedor from Fox eleven 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:36.200 went down there. Ten Hall in Ladera Heights also in 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:42.720 Orange County. You excuse me, Ladera Ranch, excuse me. You 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:49.120 add so many different families that had people that developed 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.239 rare cancers when they were young, and nobody can figure 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:54.960 out what the link is. But you had a whole 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.360 bunch of young people, including people who got cancer when 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.360 they were teenagers and died in their early twenties, and 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.600 they're trying to figure out what it is and the 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.320 only thing they can connect it to is these poisons. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:12.520 Round up what have you, the herbicides, the pesticides. So 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.400 I just happen to think there has to be another way. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.760 And you know what, La and San Diego, who stopped 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.040 putting the poison in the waterways, haven't seen a big 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.200 problem with flooding. So I think we need to do better. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.880 And I think I'm glad that Katrina Foley is addressing 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.200 this issue. I'm also very glad that ABC seven is 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:38.120 addressing this issue. And you know, when you're talking about 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.720 actual environmental dangers, this is one that not only affects 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.960 our wildlife, our plant life, but also our human life, 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.239 and we don't even know what's going on. And again, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.360 there could be an acceptable level of poison to put 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.120 in the water. I bet you there could be, but 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.520 that doesn't mean that that's what we're actually doing. And 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.480 so we're doing a lot of harm out there, and 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.680 it seems incredibly short sighted. Now. Of course, this is 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.640 going on while there are so many other environmental disasters 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.960 that we some do not even care about, including what 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.200 goes on every single day at the Tijuana River. And 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.440 of course we have talked about everything that has been 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.720 going on in Boil Heights, but just something to think about, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:27.600 why do we need to be putting roundup into the waterways? 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.880 And the companies behind this will tell you, well, there's 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.640 nothing wrong with our product, yet they have paid out 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.880 millions and millions and millions in cancer settlements over and 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.440 over and over again. You probably see and hear the 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.880 ads all the time of somebody that got cancer from 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.000 these poisons. So maybe we got to figure out a 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.840 way to get the poisons out of our system in 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.480 our food ways that there are so many other ways 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.760 to do this, and we know there are other ways 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.880 to do this, So let's start thinking smarter. Because it's 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.559 twenty twenty six already, all right. I got a little 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:11.840 update on Mia Ventura aka Adva Lavie that is apparently 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:18.840 her real name. She is the former fiance a former 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.800 gubernatorial candidate Stephen Klubec, the guy who made a bunch 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.040 of money in time Shares that decided to run for governor, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.600 dropped out endorsed Eric Swalwell, and when the Swallwell thing 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:37.040 blew up, Klubec was hosting him at his house. So 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.320 Clubec goes away after that whole thing he had, the 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.479 whole don't bust the trust thing that he told Matthew Siedorfay, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.160 that's two shoutouts for Seedorf. Poor guys sitting in an 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.760 airport in Bozeman, Montana right now. Hopefully you know, we 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.600 might have to get him on to talk about what's 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.920 going on. He got trapped in Canada because of an 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:01.680 airline strike. So Stephen Klubec shows up in the news 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.480 again a few months ago when he's accused by the 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.880 La County District Attorney of witness tampering and making threats 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.160 to witnesses because of his fiance, a woman who I 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.840 didn't originally know was connected to him. Her name Adva Levi, 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.360 and she's been known to find rich men on dating apps, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:28.160 date them, and then rob them. She also on camera 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.800 stole a bunch of stuff from a green room from 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.319 a Las Vegas podcast, So she was facing a whole 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.560 lot of charges, and apparently a lot of the men 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.240 that she duped were going to testify against her, and 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.400 Klubec was making threats against them not to testify. So 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.360 she's awaiting trial. She's out on bail on an ankle 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.560 monitor when all of a sudden last week, she gets 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.000 arrested in Beverly Hills. Turns out she wasn't wearing the 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:57.600 ankle monitor and they bust her because there are new 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:02.720 charges of a case going back to Riverside where last 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.840 year at Coachella. She's staying at Airbnb with some friends 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.800 of friends. Boy, I bet this guy is really pissed 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.240 off at whoever invited mea Ventura. She wants a free 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.480 ticket to Coachella. Nobody has one, so to get revenge, 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.520 she breaks into this guy's cyber truck and steals his 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.120 watch and his glasses and a whole bunch of other stuff. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.679 So she had a court appearance of the weekend. And 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.400 the first thing that's strange is even though she obviously 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:35.560 speaks fluent English, because she's an Instagram and OnlyFans model 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.920 what have You and has been on podcasts. She asked 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:44.200 for an Israeli translator, maybe that'll help win her over 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.880 with the jury. And then as a woman was testifying 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.600 in the preliminary hearing of some of the robberies that 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.880 she's accused of, she had an outburst in the courtroom 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:58.440 where she called that woman a drunk. There's a lot 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.600 of fun and silly things about this story, but I 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.320 bring it up for a very important reason because I 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:10.640 don't want to skip over that little detail of she 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:16.760 wasn't wearing her ankle monitor. The state of California has, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:23.320 in its bid to decarceerrate, put more people on probation 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:28.600 than ever before. Especially one of the side effects of 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.680 AB one oh nine, the prison realignment that pushed so 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.120 many people from the state prisons to the county jails. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.960 The county jails became overcrowded, so so many people with 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.160 non serior, so nonviolent offenses, are out on bail or 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:49.120 out on probation, and they're wearing ankle monitors. Ankle monitors 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:53.680 are supposed to be tracked by the probation officers. But 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.120 here's the situation that we have in Los Angeles County, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.640 and it's something we have talked about for a very 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.840 long time, but it is worth remembering. Why did it 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.840 take her getting arrested again for someone to find out 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:10.240 that she wasn't wearing her ankle monitor. Well, it's because 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:18.160 probation departments, specifically LA County Probation, they don't really have 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:23.240 anybody to check on. You see, in LA County, the 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:28.200 Probation Department has two different jobs. They're supposed to check 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.880 up on everybody who's on probation, on parole, make sure 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.600 they are staying on tracks, staying out of trouble, going 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.679 to their hearings, going to whatever diversion they're supposed to 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:44.360 go to, wearing their ankle monitor, and that's one part 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.360 of the job. Then there's the other part of the job, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:55.520 and that is dealing with the juvenile justice system. The 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.960 Sheriff's Department runs the jail, the Department of Corrections run 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:06.040 the prisons. The Probation Department runs the juvie and LA 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.360 County's juvenile halls, whether you're talking about Barry Nightharf or 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:17.720 Los Padrinos, have become complete disasters and they've always had problems. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.360 Believe you me. The County rote a check for four 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.680 billion dollars to settle decades of abuse claims, whether they 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:30.040 be violent or sexual or both against people who spent 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.880 time in Los Padrinos and Barry Nightdorf in What have 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.280 You Now. The district attorney says, a bunch of those 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:40.960 are fraudulent, but we wrote the check anyway. But over 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.720 the last half a decade, when we had a different 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.920 district attorney in charge, a man by the name of 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.440 George Gascone, he decided we were no longer going to 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.000 try any child as an adult, no matter what the crime. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.480 And that ended up meaning that a whole bunch of 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:03.120 very violent people, maybe very violent gang members, murderers, what 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:08.160 have you. Instead of going into the prison system, they 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:12.960 went into the juvenile justice system. And you don't know, 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.280 you don't. When you're in the juvenile justice system, you 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.320 don't go to prison once you turn eighteen. No, no, no, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.880 You stay in the juvenile justice system till you're twenty six, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.560 and then you're released because now you're an adult. And 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.280 that put the most violent people possible in proximity with 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.720 a lot of other not as violent people that were 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.600 very vulnerable. And that's how the fight started. That's how 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.960 the assaults on probation officers started. And that's when you 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.480 had a whole bunch of staffers start calling out to 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.720 work because they are afraid for their lives. They are 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:50.240 afraid for their safety. And what did probation do. They 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.080 decided to transfer all their field deputies, the people checking 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.320 to make sure mia Ventura is wearing her ankle monitor 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.560 and said, well, we don't have time for that. We 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.360 need to say and you to the juvenile hall. So 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.640 for as many people as we have on probation right now, 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.000 the silly little story of mia Ventura, the only fans 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.520 scam artist should let you know that we're not really 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.160 checking to see if anybody is actually doing what they're 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:21.200 supposed to be doing on probation. It's the News Blitz 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:26.600 with Randy Wang on KABC. It's the News Blitz with 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:32.080 Randy Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. Well this 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:38.640 is exciting. 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Check out our 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.720 YouTube channel clips of this show, The John Phillips Show, 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.560 and The Accountability pot as well as the John Phillips 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.840 Show live stream at Johnny don't Like dot com or 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.520 if you prefer, Randy Wangradio dot com takes you to 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.439 the exact same place. And if you haven't seen the 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.879 noon to three live stream, it is a lot of 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.960 fun and we got a chat room in there is 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.560 a good old time, but check it out on demand 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.760 if you're not available from noon to three. Minimum wage 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.399 is going up in the state of California once again, 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.159 because our minimum wage in the state of California is 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:35.080 tied to inflation. Now this actually goes all the way 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.800 back many many years when the minimum wage was ten 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:43.280 dollars an hour, and you remember how often you would 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.560 hear the story of the fight for fifteen. We just 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.440 got to get to fifteen dollars an hour, and that'll 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:54.640 be enough. But the thing about California's minimum wage fight 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:59.639 is it's not you know, it's about to go up 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:04.560 to seven forty. That's not enough. The fast food workers 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.520 are making twenty dollars an hour, that's not enough. The 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:13.040 tourism workers for the Olympics want to get thirty dollars 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:19.640 an hour. That's not enough. It is so unbelievably expensive 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:24.040 to live in the state of California, to live in 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.120 the city of Los Angeles, I really don't know how 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:32.520 you get by on minimum wage, even with a minimum 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:37.400 wage that is almost three times higher than the national 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:41.560 minimum wage, because the cost of living here is so 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:47.399 exponentially higher. But I will say I prefer the flat 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:52.359 minimum wage over the We need to have specific minimum 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:57.800 wages for specific industries because that is just getting weird. So, 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.320 for instance, you look at Gavin Newsom's council, which also 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.720 hasn't met in a few years on the fast food 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.359 minimum wage, which was twenty dollars an hour, but it 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:12.680 only applied to certain places. In fact, there is a 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:17.879 handles ice cream in the Bay Area that still hasn't 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:24.520 gotten clarity if that rule affects them. And do you 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.240 have this weird distinction of depending on where you work 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.760 on you fall under that ordinance or you don't. You 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.479 look at the strange one that came out of La 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.280 City Council, which now they're trying to walk back because 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.160 it's going to kill our tourism industry, the thirty dollars 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:43.199 an hour minimum wage for tourism workers. And you ask yourself, 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.440 what is a tourism worker? Is that like the guy 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.840 who drives the bus for TMZ or the guy who 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.400 drives the bus for Ripley's believe it or not. No, 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.879 it's not that. It's not the people that work on 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:58.439 Hollywood Boulevard. It's definitely not the guy dressed up as 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:03.159 dirty Superman. No, tourism worker means people who work at 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:08.840 hotels and people who work at the airport, specifically airport concessions, 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.680 which is kind of strange. So the way that this 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.800 one works, which now they're wanting to delay it, it's 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.760 not finalized, but they want to delay it until twenty 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:23.080 thirty instead of twenty twenty eight. Is you would get 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:26.720 thirty dollars an hour. If you're the barista at Starbucks 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:29.640 at Lax, you would be getting thirty dollars an hour. 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.840 If you're the barista at Starbucks on Century Boulevard just 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:38.480 outside of Lax, you'd be getting whatever the minimum pay 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.760 is for Starbucks, which I don't think the fast food 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.120 law applies to them, but they probably pay better. Let's 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:52.200 see starting wage at Starbucks in California, and he guesses, oh, 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:55.359 they pay way more than twenty Starting wages for a 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.840 barista is twenty twenty five to twenty two ninety nine, 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:03.199 slightly seating the state's fast food minimum wage. But of 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:07.399 course you have to consider that that's still not thirty, 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:09.440 and you get thirty if you're working at the airport. 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.560 How about if you work at a restaurant at a hotel, 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.560 you'd be getting thirty dollars an hour. But if you 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.720 work at a restaurant outside the hotel, like I don't 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:24.240 know TGI Fridays to pull from personal experience, you're getting 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:28.160 minimum wage and then also tips and thank goodness for 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:32.680 the tips. Although California did just get declared the stingiest state, 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:36.720 and this is true, it's not by much. The national 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:40.160 average is eighteen percent and California is like seventeen percent. 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:42.879 If you ever worked in the service industry, you're probably 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:46.160 always tipping twenty percent unless something really bad happened, because 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:48.880 you know how hard those jobs are. But those kind 0:24:48.920 --> 0:24:53.119 of strange distinctions just kind of irk me. It always 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:56.520 made me laugh though, that, like, you know, the minimum 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:59.720 wage needs to be twenty dollars an hour, but what 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:03.800 think the minimum wages or the starting wage for in 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:08.480 and out in California is twenty two to twenty three 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:12.480 dollars an hour, always paying above and beyond. And I've 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:15.679 always said and I'll say it again. For some reason, 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:19.399 I became completely unemployable in the radio industry, which I 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:23.440 don't think will happen, but you never know. I think 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.879 I've built a pretty good career for myself over the 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:30.439 last twenty years. I am doing about seven different jobs 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:34.439 at once. I could probably keep this going another twenty years. 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:38.280 But if for some reason I became completely unemployable, or 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:41.280 the market tanks, what have you, I know that that's 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:43.960 a job I could go to I could do well, 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:46.520 and I could probably work my way up to becoming 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:50.160 a restaurant manager. And I'm pretty sure the restaurant manager 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:52.480 in and out Burger makes more than I do right now. 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:57.400