WEBVTT - The Debate Over Data Centers 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:04.400 Well, the city council might only give you sixty seconds 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:05.520 to where your grievance is. 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.000 Oh hi, i'd like to start go to the first 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:09.160 caller on the phone. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.520 Well, if you're lucky, now we're giving you a full 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:18.840 sixty minutes. It's a KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.599 and our long recap of the day's top local stories 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.560 flung your drive home, and unlike the city Council, we're 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.639 the perfect vehicle to actually get your voice heard. The 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.960 KADC News Blitz with Randy Wang starts no. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.400 It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:42.120 Radio seven ninety KABC. 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CBSLA actually went inside a data center in Irvine, 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.200 and the first thing you need to know is that 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:02.200 this data center that they investigated has been open for 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:09.200 twenty years. I understand there are a lot of concerns 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.119 and there are a lot of fears about what's going 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.560 to happen with AI. Doesn't mean that a whole bunch 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.200 of people are going to lose their jobs. I understand 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:27.320 all of that, but I feel like the fear among 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:34.359 specifically data centers and data centers don't necessarily even mean AI. Again, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.120 this one in Irvine has been around for twenty years, 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.240 and some of the server space powers the data for hospitals, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.520 some of it provides for other companies. All kinds of 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:55.079 businesses use servers and use data centers. Now, these aren't 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.680 as massive as the ones that are being talked about 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.840 in other states, but we've had these in California for 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.080 a very long time, and I think it's one of 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:11.160 those situations where rumors get spread on the internet, and 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.040 because it's hard for us in the age of the 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.240 Internet to really deem what's true, you hear something enough 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.760 times and you just believe it. So one of the 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.400 things that people say, oh, we don't want this, we 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.640 don't want the data centers is because of the noise. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.200 Well there is noise inside the data center with all 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.880 the air conditioning running, but outside it just looks like 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.120 a regular industrial building. Now, you might not want these 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.480 in a residential neighborhood, that's fair, But in a place 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.600 that's zoned for industrial or anything, I don't really see 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.600 what the problem is here. The other big myth is 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.480 that is a huge drain on resources, that it is 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.440 a huge drain on power and a huge drain on water. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.040 And that can be true for some of these data centers, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.240 but a lot of them you're like, well, what is 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:11.480 the water use. The water use is from powering the 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:16.279 air conditioning, and you can use reclaimed and recycled water 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.320 for that, so you're not using the regular water supply. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:24.080 And when it comes to the power, well, you can 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.760 do solar, you can do all kinds of things to 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.880 lower the impact on that. And honestly, I feel that 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:36.719 like the anger towards rising energy costs should be pointed 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.479 towards the energy companies that have found an excuse to 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.760 raise their prices because of all of this demand. Because 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.480 the other thing that we have learned, especially recently, is 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:55.320 the current demand isn't anywhere near what was expected, even 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:01.719 for all the AI data centers, because right now the 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:08.039 applications for AI are not as widespread as everyone hoped 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.240 it would be. Maybe we'll get there, you'll have the 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.400 tech CEOs always talking about, oh, this next update is 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.560 the game changer. But at the beginning of the year, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.159 a lot of companies that we're investing in building more 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.920 of these data centers and building more infrastructures change their 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.080 business model to actually leasing out the space they already 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.360 have because the demand is going way down. When you 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:36.440 talk about things like chat, GPT, and Claude. There are 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.680 people that use it just as a curiosity. But when 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:44.600 it comes to does it actually increase efficiency, increase sales 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.080 in all kinds of businesses that we're paying for all 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:52.120 of these credits to be determined. So maybe the demand 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.560 will rise and maybe we will need it, but right 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.799 now I feel like that is overblown as well. And again, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.960 these things power way more than AI. They power all 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:11.000 kinds of things cloud computing. For instance, I do the 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.480 live broadcast of the John Phillips Show through a web 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:20.719 app called Restream, and Restream, which I love, by the way, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.679 works out really well for us. It takes my Internet connection, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:30.160 whether I'm broadcasting from the radio station, whether I'm broadcasting 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.280 from home, which I'm doing right now, or whether I'm 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.000 broadcasting from a hotel room with just a basic hotel 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.839 Internet connection, and it takes my feed. And then I 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.839 connect to somebody like John Phillips and it takes his feed. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.719 And then let's say we add a guest like Jennifer 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.120 Van Laher or Mike Netter or Seneca Scott, it takes 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:57.120 in their feed. The whole show is actually being hosted, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.359 not on my computer with my bandwidth. It's being hosted 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.599 at a data center on a server farm. I don't 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:10.600 even know where the cloud computing is hosting everything, using 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.680 all the bandwidth, and then pushing out our product to 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:19.000 YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and Twitch all at the 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:24.640 same time. That would not be possible without data centers. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.040 Now, this one's more of a lark. 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:32.320 But the silly little graphics that I create for this show, 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.000 and obviously for the John Phillips Show, those use AI, 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.160 and well people seem to be a big fan of those. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.520 And look, I think AI is slowly doing a whole 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.880 bunch of things to make our lives a little easier 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.160 here and there. And I do understand there are fears, 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.520 but this is also people just get into these knee 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:59.360 jerk reactions, which turns into what is plagued California for many, 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.280 many men years. And there are legitimate concerns around every corner. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.400 We've even had guests this week where we talk to 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.960 people that were opposed to a development in Woodland Hills. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.080 We talk to people that were opposed to a bus 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.880 rapid transit line in Burbank, and there are legitimate. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:18.920 Concerns to both of those. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.000 Course, there are, especially when it comes to clogging up 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.920 the streets with a bus rapid transit line. When it 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:31.320 also comes to making sure that there is fire access 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:36.640 for building a development in the Woodland Hills fire zone area. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.839 I understand all of that, but this is the attitude 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.120 that got California to a point where we don't build 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:49.080 things and it takes forever to build things. This kind 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.320 of attitude of well, we don't want this and we 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.640 don't want that, because these things are coming whether you 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.960 like them or not, and we can either take the 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.320 economic benefit we get from them, or they're going to 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.680 be built in Texas, They're going to be built in Utah. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:07.040 If you don't want. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.800 Them literally in your neighborhood, okay, but what's the big 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.360 deal about having one of these in an industrial center? 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.480 Because again, the top line thing that you need to 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.520 know if you're freaked out about data centers is we've 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.960 had them for a very long time and you only 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.480 realize that recently, and you only realized what they were recently. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.720 And I think a lot of these fears are completely unfounded. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.720 Whether it's the noise, whether it is. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:44.920 The use of resources, or the proliferation of AI. It's 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.000 just a building with a bunch of servers in air conditioning, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.439 so I do not. I think this is one of 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:57.720 these things where people hear something and they play telephone 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.720 or fantastic board game, tell illustrations. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.000 Look it up. You will love it. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.760 Where you hear something, you repeat it to somebody else, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.679 except it's not the exact same thing, and then they 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.240 repeat it to somebody else, and then all of sudden 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.200 you have a situation like I wasn't gonna tell this story, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.160 but I have to because it is the funniest thing 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.200 that I have heard all week. So one of my 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:27.720 closest friends is a big fan of sparkling water. As 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.920 I am, I am drinking a Trader Joe's Tangerine Vanilla 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.079 sparkling water. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.920 As we do this show very good. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.600 My friend really likes the brand Liquid Death, which is 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:46.840 some of the smartest marketing I have ever seen. They 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.440 came out around COVID and it is just water, bottled water, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.720 flavored water, well not bottled but canned water, flavored water, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.640 sparkling water and like much healthier soda option. But they 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:05.720 call themselves Liquid Death, and the branding is fantastic, especially 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.800 for people that you know, want to hold something that 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.439 looks like they're drinking a tall Boy, but they don't 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:16.720 drink It is a very, very, very popular brand. So 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.000 we're doing trivia the other night with my friend and 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.560 she tells me that she and her girlfriend are no 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.120 longer drinking Liquid Death and I'm like, wait, you love 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.640 Liquid Death and the girlfriend's like, yeah, she won't let 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.240 me drink it anymore. She saw on TikTok that it 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:42.559 contains arsenic and I said, what, There's no way that's true, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.280 and she said, yeah, no, that's what I saw. And 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.080 so she had autoshipments of Liquid Death on Amazon that 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.559 she canceled and then switched to another less tasty brand. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.240 So we asked, can you send us this video? 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.199 Yeah, I'll look for it. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.120 Why again, do you think that it's not safe to 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.240 drink this stuff that's in every single grocery store. Oh 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.480 well they banded in Europe. Do a quick Google search. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:13.280 No they didn't do a quick Google search. Does Liquid 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:14.520 Death have arsenic in it? 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.120 No it doesn't. So I'm so confused. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.240 Where did she get this information and why does she 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.520 think Liquid Death contains arsenic to the point where she 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:29.120 had to completely change her drinking habits of sparkling water. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.600 The next day, she sends us a text message in 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.880 one of our friend group chats, Hey, I found the video. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.040 It didn't even say anything about liquid death. That was 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:47.600 completely wrong about that. I've reordered the stuff. And this 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.920 is what happens in our age of too much information. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.400 You hear something, maybe you have an emotional reaction to it, 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.000 and maybe you are only half listening or half paying attention, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.280 as we all do when we're doom scrolling on our phone, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.440 and all of a sudden, something that you heard wrong 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.160 or you weren't really paying attention to gets edged in 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.720 your brain as fact, and it makes you make irrational 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:26.280 decisions based on nothing. Now I'm not directly comparing the 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:31.080 liquid death thing with the fear over data centers, but 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.760 I think it's very important that we all get educated 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:39.199 on the subject. Realize that these are just buildings with servers. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.880 We've had them for decades, and they're not really that 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.960 big of a deal. And so while it might feel 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:51.439 real good emotionally to ban them in places like Monterey 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:56.960 Park and Gilroy doesn't want them on unused farmland, that 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.360 just means that your cities are going to lose out 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.840 on the tax benefits, on the job benefits, and all 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.680 kinds of other things, because we have arbitrarily decided that 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:15.280 this business is bad and it is based on a 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.160 bunch of whoy. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.960 That is at least my opinion. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.560 If you have a different opinion, maybe you find yourself 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.880 to be more educated on this subject than me. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:26.640 Send me an email. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.640 It's very easy to do so at randywangradio at gmail 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:35.040 dot com. That's Randy Wang radio at gmail dot com. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:40.280 I have no problem with the data centers. Again, maybe 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.240 you think it's a noise thing. Well, if you live 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.160 next to one and there's a lot of noise, please 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.400 tell me about it. Because I literally had somebody. When 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.600 we were talking about this the other day. We got 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.720 a lot of response on the email, including from one 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.000 guy who sent me a message, well, I heard they're 0:14:56.040 --> 0:15:00.680 really loud. Yeah, but did you hear the loud noises? 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.120 Did you were you next to one? Or did you 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.480 just hear that from somebody who heard it from somebody else. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.320 This is true for so many different aspects of our life. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.600 It's why you know, as somebody that delivers the news 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.960 to you, I trade and make sure that I'm never 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:23.240 pushing out any unwonted fears, and I have my facts 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.800 straight on everything. Even though I'm not technically a journalist, 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.120 I still feel that I have to do that as 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:35.600 I give you the news. It's the News Blitz with 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:45.640 Randy Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. It's the 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.720 News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. In the age 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.000 of technology that we are moving into, there is a 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:57.040 Bay Area startup that has started to put out there 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:02.080 robot maids, and this is way more than a roomba, 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:08.960 but it's still not Rosy the robot and Rosy the 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.920 robot didn't really have like the best hands to be 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.360 picking up things and sweeping and mopping, but it worked 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.960 in a cartoon. But we are at a point where 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.000 we're going to start seeing robotics. I've been listening to 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.360 a lot of podcasts on this stuff lately, and there 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.920 are some things that AI and robotics can do better 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.920 than humans. But when it comes to like physical manipulation 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:37.240 of things with your hands, robots are not nearly as 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.400 adept as we are, and will not be for a very, 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.840 very very long time. When you talk about specifically things 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:48.200 like cleaning, when you talk about things like sweeping up 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.400 loading things into a dishwasher, being gentle. It's that kind 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:57.640 of technology. Work quite a while from and they say, well, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.680 the maids that we have, it will be at a 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.080 cheap price. I think it's like thirty dollars an hour 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.320 for the robot. But how efficient is the robot. We 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:11.040 have maids and we love them. My wife realized a 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.639 long time ago that if she did not get house cleaner, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:18.040 she was gonna murder me. And we pay our maid 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.480 and it's a woman and her niece and they come 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.199 every two weeks. Pay them one hundred and forty dollars. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:31.840 It makes our life way easier. I don't see replacing 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.400 them with robots ever, because I trust these people. They 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.800 do a fantastic job, and I feel like I am 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.560 contributing to the economy in a great way. You know, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.120 not only am I getting a huge benefit out of it, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.040 but they're making money. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.320 I don't see hiring a robot to do that. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.000 Even if it is a little cheaper, because well, for 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.399 certain things, maybe you want that personal touch, maybe you don't. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.119 Maybe you'd rather have a robot that's just sweeping around 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:59.400 your house all day long. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:00.800 That's definitely possible. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.040 Does this mean though, that we are slowly but surely 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.600 getting into the Wally future that was predicted in that 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.720 movie from two thousand and eight, you know, the little 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.800 one with the robot Wally and Eva. You remember how 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.920 all the humans in that movie lived on an intergalactic 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.119 cruise ship and they were all five hundred pounds on 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:28.480 floating movable recliners and couldn't do anything for themselves. Are 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.240 we at the beginning of that story? Is that possible? 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.960 I mean maybe in like a few hundred years, Although 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.440 if you listen to the AI CEOs, like next year, 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.879 AI is going to be smarter than every human combined. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.040 And what is that going to mean? I don't really know. 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:52.359 I don't think the AI robot maids are going to 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:57.560 be completely changing that industry anytime soon. Some industries they will. 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.320 I don't see for that one happening. It at least 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.040 in the next few years. 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We want to hear from you. 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.919 It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:47.840 It's the News Blitz. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:52.120 With Randy Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. This 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.480 is your daily rundown of everything you need to know 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.520 that is going on in southern California as well as 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.280 the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, and the Central Valley. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:04.960 I compile a list every single day of all the 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.000 stories that I think you need to know about, the 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.119 stories that I found interesting. You know, I usually go 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.000 through about thirty stories and I whittle it down to 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.679 fifteen to twenty. So there's plenty of stuff that I 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.160 listen to them like this is not worth your time, 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.800 but there is stuff that I find interesting that you 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.240 find interesting that affects us, and it's all local. You 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:29.760 will almost never hear me talk about national or international politics, 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.120 and there's a specific reason for that. There are plenty 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.640 of other places where you can get that information on 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:40.119 every side of the political spectrum. But for the most part, 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.880 this show is apolitical. It's about what's going on locally, 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.240 and we talk about things that affect you, maybe in 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.160 a lot bigger sense than what goes on in Washington 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:56.320 or what goes on around the world. One of the 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.960 things that California is known for is being the big 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:04.720 bigas state in the Union to have legal cannabis. We 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.880 weren't the first, but we definitely are the biggest, and 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.520 cannabis tourism is a thing, and we have done a 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.919 whole lot of things recently to make it easier in 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:20.959 the state of California to consume cannabis, including now you 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.199 can buy food and drink at the pot lounges and 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.880 make it feel like Amsterdam at a coffee shop. Yeah, 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.679 spoiler alert, if you're ever in Amsterdam, the coffee shops 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.680 are not coffee shops, and if you're actually looking for coffee, 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.240 it can be kind of confusing. And no, I did 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:43.200 not parteke in any space cakes or hashish or smoking 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:47.879 in Amsterdam, because well, that part of my life is over. 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.560 I did have Heineken and let me just tell you 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.280 if you're ever in Amsterdam and you think Heineken taste 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:58.200 like butt, which I did for many years, it's because 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.760 it does not travel well. If you have it at 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.720 the source, it's one of the best beers you will 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.120 ever taste. Am still light the exact same thing. 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:06.240 You know. 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.320 We'll get to the legal cannabis industry in a second, 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:11.440 but I feel like I have to make this pitch 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.680 to you. One of the things that I have really 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.960 really loved in my travels around the world, which is 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.800 something that I've only been doing for a little while now, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.840 is trying the local beverages. And while I do love 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.800 wine and I do love spirits, and even in when 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.359 I was in Amsterdam, I learned about Jinnvader, the Dutch 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.040 version of gin, and I thought it was very good, 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.400 especially when you do a kopstut, which is Dutch for headbutt, 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:45.080 where you drink the Jinnovader with the beer back. Not 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:50.040 as a shot, because again I'm forty, but I really 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.200 love trying the local beers of a foreign country. I 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:55.400 feel like you get a really good flavor not only 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:57.960 for the country that you're in, but also the city 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.600 that you're in and of course, when you're in Dublin, 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.000 you're gonna try the Guinness, and I love the Guinness. 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:07.479 Guinness was like, oh yeah, it's pretty good. And then 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.520 you go to Dublin, you go to Ireland where it 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:12.440 is made, and it is fantastic. But there are other 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:16.240 Irish stouts that you may not know about. Beamish. I 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:19.000 thought Beamish was fantastic. I tried a whole bunch of 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:22.040 different Irish beers and was very happy, including a lot 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.760 of Irish craft beers and some IPAs. When I was 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:28.560 in Amsterdam, of course you had Honeken and amstell Light. 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:32.080 And when I was in Toronto last week, I tried 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:36.320 so many different Canadian beers and specifically all of them 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:40.480 from the Ontario province and local ones. Found this bar 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:44.000 called beer Town, which was it was maybe my favorite 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:46.880 place we went to. Well, the steakhouse was pretty good, 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:50.560 but that place was pretty excellent, and you could get 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:53.160 a plank of four different local beers and they had 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:56.240 one that was all different kinds of loggers, one that 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:58.800 was all different kinds of IPAs, one that was all 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.760 different kinds of sour. I got such a great taste 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:04.280 for it, and I'm not a big beer drinker at 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:07.200 home because my wife has a glute analogy. But when 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.679 I'm traveling, it is a fun way to experience what 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:13.760 the locals enjoy, especially when you're talking about the craft 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:17.119 beer world, which you know it's huge here, especially in 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:18.360 places like San Diego. 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:19.879 But I love. 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:24.160 Trying that stuff internationally Anyway. Some people don't like to drink. 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:28.000 They like pot and whatever works for you. I learned 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:30.560 about eight years ago that pot does not work for me. 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:34.639 It makes me way too lazy, It makes me way 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:41.720 too what's the opposite of ambitious? That But if it's 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.080 good for you, I mean, it also gave me crippling 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:47.280 anxiety the older I got. So I feel like for 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:49.280 a lot of people it turns on you at some point. 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:51.399 But if it's what you like, and maybe you just 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:54.600 do the CBD, what have you. The problem with the 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:59.840 legal cannabis industry in California is the way that we 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:04.840 implemented it was incredibly stupid. Now there are some major 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:08.160 hurdles because it's still illegal at the federal level, and 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:10.639