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We 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:18.399 start with a scary story in Claremont, which, by the way, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:25.800 if I haven't said it enough, Claremont is a fantastic place. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:32.000 Claremont is gorgeous, and if I didn't have to worry 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.280 about commuting, it would be one of the places I 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.480 would consider living or keeping a footprint in southern California. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.280 Like you know, the master plan is to live in 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.600 Santa Fe part time, have a little place somewhere in 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.560 southern California, and maybe have a little place in the 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:49.160 Bay Area. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.120 Let's see how successful this whole YouTube thing is for us. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:57.040 But the last time I was in Claremont for the 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:04.120 governor's debate, it was so beautiful, especially like not just 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.760 the neighborhoods. We stayed at a friend of John's to 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.040 record the show or to do the show live from 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.520 noon to three, and then went to you know, put 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.760 on a college to watch the debate. But I love 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.280 everything about a college town like that, especially how walkable 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.800 it is. You know, that's something that I really love. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.680 And it's there's great restaurants, there's great bars. It's just 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.120 got a beautiful vibe and you feel very safe, unlike 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.120 a lot of parts of La County. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.120 Claremont is gorgeous. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:41.560 But one thing that you'll know about me is while 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.960 I am an avid walker. In fact, I walked five 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.560 miles in Toronto this morning before I started doing my show. Well, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.280 I was listening to all the stories, but before I 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.519 come back to the hotel room, compile the blog, get 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.200 all the graphics together for the John Phillips Show, all 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.600 the other stuff I have to do. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.560 I walked for five miles. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.120 Walking has been one of the best things that I 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.080 have done in the last I really got into walking, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.400 you know, maybe only four or five years ago, but 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.760 it has been a game changer. When I started doing 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.160 those eight to ten mile days in Santa Fe. I 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.240 just every day that I walk for at least a 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.839 half hour is a day I fall asleep easier, even 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.800 if that's the only exercise I'm doing. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.720 And you know, I also do pilates and stuff. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.680 I believe so much in the power of walking, not 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.560 just for your physical health, not just for sleep, but 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.240 also your mental health. It just it is such a 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.440 good feeling. And I love walking around a city, whether 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:49.040 it's a big metropolis like Toronto or a little town 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.760 college town like Claremont. But one thing that you won't 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:58.840 hear a lot from me is me talking about going hiking. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.119 I don't have a great track record with going hiking 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:10.360 because well, I'm not the most coordinated person, and when 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.920 the footing can be uneven, I've had some incidents. Now, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.600 most of these incidents happened when I was in way 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.200 worse shape. And when you're in way worse shape and 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.360 you're not used to walking all the time and your 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.560 wife takes you to Switzer Falls, yeah you might twist 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:25.000 your ankle. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.320 I've had a few of those incidents. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.320 I also used to not like hiking because I used 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:36.200 to buy really cheap shoes, and one thing about hiking 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.520 is you've got to make sure you have really, really 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.640 good traction. I actually have actual hiking boots now if 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.239 I will go hiking, But even then, it's not something 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:51.000 that I choose to do very often, because while I 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:57.159 love being outdoors and I love walking around, I like 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.359 managed nature. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.960 I like curated nature. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:08.479 I like the Mission trails hiking in Carmel by the Sea, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:14.640 very very very very taken care of lands with you know, 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.000 almost like like mulch. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:18.719 For the footing. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.040 It's so soft it's just you know, it's well taken 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.359 care of, it's well manicured. That's what I like. I 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:30.800 like manicured wildlife. I like Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.240 one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.839 And if you walk just a little north, or you 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.120 walk just a little south, all of a sudden, now 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.080 you're back in the city. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:42.800 I like that. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.600 When it comes to like driving all the way out 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:51.080 to a remote location, maybe you don't have cell service, 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.040 you're going out into the woods, you're left alone to 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.680 the elements. I know there's a lot of people that 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.560 love that. I'm not one of those people. I like 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.000 a little bit of nature in an urban environment, but 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.839 I can't handle full on nature. You'll never see me camping. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.200 That's just not who I am. And one of the 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:21.720 reasons for that is snakes. I'm Indiana Jones in one 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.919 very specific way. I don't like snakes, and stories like 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.360 this are gonna keep me away from hiking for a 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.840 very long time. When it comes to all kinds of wildlife, 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.560 I'm just not used to it now. I mean the 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.160 times that I've actually seen a snake on a hiking 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:44.120 trail two but I remember them very well. I saw 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.520 a snake once when I was hiking Griffith Park, and well, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.320 for a while I was like, you know, I could 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:55.080 just walk around my neighborhood less chances for wildlife except 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.160 for coyotes. But that's a whole other story for a 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:02.479 whole other day. And then I remember very specifically we 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.160 had moved from Burbank to Recita in a townhouse. And 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.520 the one thing that changed for us when we moved 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.720 from the house in Burbank was we had a pretty 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.440 big backyard. We had two little dogs, so it's not 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.720 like we needed a big backyard, but this townhouse had 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.960 a tiny, little front yard, so you really if you 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.960 wanted to walk the dog, you had to walk them. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.480 And there were you know, we had little, tiny dogs. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.600 And one day I was like, you know, I'm getting 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:33.240 kind of bored of Balboa Park, and uh, well you either, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.800 can you know how this is another thing. I know, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.640 I bag on La and the Valley all the time, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.679 but you go to a place like Golden Gate Park, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.560 which you know is the central park of San Francisco, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.320 and you just see amazing splendor. It is gorgeous, it 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.720 is beautiful. There's a waterfall in the middle of it, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.680 there's a buffalo farm. And then you go to the 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.680 biggest park in the San Fernando Valley, Balboa Park, the 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.240 one where they put in the fake lake, and well, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.080 it's so overrun by ducks that if you're on the 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.560 main path you will be stepping on duck poop the 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.080 entire time. Or you can go outside of the main 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:23.320 path into the more wildy areas where you'll see people 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.200 living there. And I stop going to Balboa Park and 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.360 I stop bringing my dogs there because one day I'm 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.720 walking around on the outside areas because I don't want 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.920 to deal with the ducks, and there were several homeless 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.480 people living there, including one guy who had a loose pitfall, 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.800 and my dogs looked like lunch, so I picked them 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.320 up and I turned the other direction and stopped doing that. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.480 So at one point I was like, Okay, maybe I'll try. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.760 You know, there's lots of hiking trails up in Porter 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:56.720 Ranch that's not too far. So I find a hiking trail, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.000 I park, put the leashes on the little doggie, and 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:06.040 within two minutes I see a snake and I say nope. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.880 I turn around and I say I'm not doing this. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:15.040 So what happened in Claremont, Well, a college athlete was 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.480 hiking and taking in the beauty of nature and he 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.880 got attacked by a rattle steak. He got bit by 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:28.679 a rattle steak. It is caution if you actually go 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.760 watch the story that I have on the website, it 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.280 will make your skin crawl. What happened to the sky 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.360 because luckily there was a nurse also in the area 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.360 that was helping to calm him down. He went to 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.400 a hospital to get anti venom and then needed more, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.200 so he got flown to La County General Hospital to 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.000 get even more anti venom, and he was like his 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.240 muscles were twitching all over the place. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.439 He survived, He's going to be okay, but. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.839 I don't want to take that risk so for his 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.760 As much as I love the act of walking, and 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.800 I really love walking in urban environments, hiking's just not 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:14.400 my thing. Never really has. Whether it's the uneven footing, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.920 it's the wildlife of it all, the lack of self reception. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.760 I'm just I don't need to be in that much 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.440 wildlife if you're into that, and I'm sure there's lots 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.160 of people listening that are I'm so happy for you, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:30.040 but that's just my thing. I've also I've really come 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.720 to the realization this week. And I may have said 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.880 this in the past, I was born in the wrong city. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:43.280 I really really was, because I love walking around cool 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:48.119 urban environments. Just seeing the sideline of Toronto it is incredible. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.080 But I don't need a big skyline. I mean, I 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.440 love walking around Santa Fe and there's no building there 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.600 taller than three stories. I love walking around Dublin. There's 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.960 no building they're taller than like four or five stories. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:02.280 But it is pretty cool being in because you can 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.880 just kind of wander and look up see the c 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.120 N Tower and know kind of where you are and 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:09.960 how to get back to where you're going. Like, I 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.640 haven't looked up a map the entire time I'm here, 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.280 except to like jot down. Okay, I should check out 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.319 the menu at this restaurant or check out the menu 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.000 at this bar. Made it over to the Stillery District 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.960 this morning. It was beautiful. So just a warning to 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.240 all you ad hikers out there. I've seen way more 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:32.000 stories this year than in recent past about rattlesnake bites 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:37.040 and that is going to keep me inside a big 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.800 city and do my walk in that way, or you 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.199 get to San Francisco. You get a little taste of both. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.480 And you could also do that at Griffith. No knocking 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.439 on Griffith. Griffith is great, it's just getting to Griffith 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.800 if you live in the valley is a colossal pain. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:53.479 In the ass. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.280 When I did the morning show, I could do Griffith 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.120 because I'd get off at ten am and it was 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:00.200 easier to get there. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.520 But nowadays, oh boy, especially with my schedule. 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.720 I mean, I can't really do a whole lot of 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.240 traveling because. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.600 It's impossible to get anywhere. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:19.040 Even once we tried going to this hiking trail in 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:24.600 Tarzana south of Ventura Boulevard at Resita the Cabeero Canyon, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:25.760 which is very beautiful. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.480 Another thing that I don't like about. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.880 Hiking is sometimes, especially if you're walking dogs, they start 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.040 stepping in some water and maybe there's something in that water. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.320 I have had my dog get sick from that, So 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.840 just another thing. But even just trying to get there 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:46.360 it would take like twenty minutes. Now there is so 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.520 much concern up and down the state of California with 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:56.479 the company Flock Flock operates the license plate reading cameras 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.760 that have assisted law enforcement up and down the state 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:05.280 of California in things like recovering stolen cars, which if 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.760 you look up how many cars are stolen every single 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.920 day in Los Angeles, it is it is a crazy, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.920 crazy number. In fact, let's look it up together right now, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:24.280 how many cars are stolen in Los Angeles every day. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:30.000 Let's see, on average, more than sixty vehicles are stolen 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:35.960 every day in Los Angeles, totaling twenty five thousand in 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:41.000 a year. Twenty five thousand cars are stolen in the 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:46.240 city of Los Angeles every single year. I am not 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.920 surprised by that number, but that is insanity and that's 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.960 why you need this kind of technology. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.160 But there have been a lot. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:59.040 Of privacy advocates that are freaking out about this new 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.920 world of ser that we're in. First off, I'm glad 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.400 that the CEO of Flocks sat down with the news 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.920 to talk about what these cameras do and what they 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.280 don't do. These aren't AI facial recognition cameras that they 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.000 have at grocery outlets to make sure you're not a shoplifter, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.640 and they're not even capturing video it takes a picture 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.360 of a car and it can identify the license plate, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.080 and if it gets flagged because that car was stolen, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.200 it alerts law enforcement. I don't see what the problem 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.360 is here, but because of all kinds of privacy concerns, 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:34.960 especially because these databases have been accessed by the federal government, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.600 and how we can't work with a federal government. I 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.359 don't even know if it was Ice accessing these databases, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.280 but people have conflagrated all of that stuff with well, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.760 we cannot work with the feds. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.640 It's just it's insane. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.560 I also find it just incredibly hypocritical that we're all 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:58.240 concerned about drone programs, like people freaking out about two 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.320 drones instead of one operation by the police an ocean 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.040 side or the flock cameras which currently we don't have 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.200 a contract in the city of la because oh, we're 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.480 freaking out about what these this data can be used for, 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.960 But we don't care that we're surveilling ourselves. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:17.760 All day long. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.520 How many of you have a Fitbit or an Apple Watch. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.960 You're literally wearing a tracking device. How many of you 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.840 people have an iPhone or a Galaxy, You're literally wearing 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.480 a device on you at all times. That is listening 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.720 to every word that you say, and don't tell me 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.200 that they're not. We've all had the phenomenon where you're 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.840 talking about something and then it shows up in your 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.000 Google ads. This is listening to you all the time. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.400 And we're also actively putting our lives on social media 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.680 every single day, posting our locations, posting what we're doing, 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:55.400 posting our food. I've been guilty of it myself, so 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.280 I don't care at all about any of this stuff. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.320 I want law enforcement to have all the tools that 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.520 they need to stop the twenty five thousand cars a 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:11.520 year that are stolen in Los Angeles, which is just 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.920 a crazy, crazy figure. It's the News Blitz with Randy 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:25.920 Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. It's the News 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:30.880 Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. We are still paying 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:35.360 for George Gascone's reign of terror. George Gascon was the 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.600 LA County District Attorney for four years from twenty twenty 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:44.280 one through the end of twenty twenty four. And there's 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.360 some great reporting out there from the people at LA Material, 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.760 which was the news organization. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:50.800 They're relatively new. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.520 I think it's a lot of people that were laid 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.480 off by the La Times in a few years ago. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:56.600 And it's a great website. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.960 They'd one that did that piece of like the Yelp 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.200 reviews of politicians, and yeah, we had a lot of 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.320 fun with the Katie porter Ones, I'll tell you that. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.000 But they just did a great piece uncovering how much 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.600 money the County of Los Angeles has had to pay 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:15.800 out in retaliation lawsuit settlements from George Gascone's time as 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:21.000 La County DA. Because George Gascone was and is a petty, 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:26.760 petty petty man and would actively retaliate against any Deputy 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:31.280 District Attorney that was concerned about his policies, spoke out 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.600 against him, and they all lawyered up because they were 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.960 sometimes transferred to other positions, denied promotions, what have you. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.560 It was an incredibly toxic work environment, which is why 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.760 like ninety percent of the union members of the Deputy 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.880 District Attorneys wanted to support the recall of George Gascon 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.240 because this was the era where you had crooked das 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.840 like Gascon and Pammy Price and Chase A. Boudin, whose 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.920 whole idea was to destroy the machine from the inside out. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:09.560 In this nonsensical criminal justice reform insanity that I think 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.400 we have recovered from. But the after effects are all 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.159 those deputy das that were defamed, that were harassed, that 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.159 were transferred, that were demoted. Well now they're getting huge 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.480 payouts from the county because if the county fights these lawsuits, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.080 they'll have to pay even more. Notably, a friend of 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.080 the show and a guy who ran against George Gascon 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.520 did not win, but John Hattammy he got one of 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.840 those settlements for like one point five million dollars. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.440 So nice little payday for mister Hittami. There. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.919 Hey, if you don't get to catch every second of 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.159 this show, well we podcast all of it. But I 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.760 also now post the video of every single show so 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.480 you can watch me stare at you romantically while we 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.600 talk about the news. Check it out at Randy Wang Radio, 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:03.040 excuse me, YouTube dot com, slash at Randy Wang Radio. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.960 I put the video version of the show up every 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.320 single night as well as the radio version in case 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.240 you don't get to listen live at five o'clock and 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.360 we're here for you. Make sure you check out all 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.119 the stories I have today. Because I yammer on so 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.920 much I can't even get to all the stories that 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.040 I put on the list, I would need like two 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:21.719 hours to do all twenty stories. 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:23.439 Because we're having fun together. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:44.440 It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:49.000 the Newsplitz with Brandy Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.119 This is your daily rundown of everything you need to 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.960 know that's going on in Southern California as well as 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.399 the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, and the Central Valley. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:19:59.960 I compile a list every. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.000 Day of all the stories that you may have missed 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:08.399 that I found interesting at Randywangradio dot substack dot com. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.120 Check out the YouTube channel YouTube dot com, slash at 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:18.600 Randy Wang Radio. A new study shows that weaimo is 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:23.000 safer than human driving. And I know there are a 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.680 lot of people that are very antsy about this technology 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.840 and I was one of those until I got into 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.480 a Weimo. Waimos, of course, have been around in San 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.120 Francisco for quite some time now. You can pretty much 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.000 go around the entire Bay Area. When we go up 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.719 to San Francisco in a couple of weeks, we're gonna 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.440 hopefully be able to take one from SFO because last 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.080 time we couldn't do that, but we're gonna try to. 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.000 Like it says that you can. 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:52.720 But then when you go on the app, it's like 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:54.320 just outside of the service area. 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:55.520 Because I would love to do that. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.880 It's as soon as we got in one, we felt 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:01.160 very safe. 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.760 Now. I haven't taken these things on the freeway. 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:05.960 And I know that there's a lot of kinks to 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.640 be worked out as they're expanding this stuff all over 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:12.600 the place. But when you're inside and you see all 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.719 the censors, how they're working. Like when you're driving on 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:20.879 the street and you see people on the sidewalk, the 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.840 little graphics show it's picking up the people. 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:25.200 It can pick up a dog. 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.720 It does a very very good job because it's paying 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.280 attention at all times. 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:33.439 That is its job. 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:39.480 And as a California driver, I don't pay attention at 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:44.240 all times. I'm a terrible driver, and so is everybody 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:50.200 else in Los Angeles, although my wife convinced that Canadian 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.840 drivers are terrible, specifically in Toronto. And yeah, there's some 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:56.640 bad driving here, you know what, I think. I think 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:58.720 we all think, oh no, this is the town with 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:03.280 the bad drivers, but it's just everywhere. There's terrible driving 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:09.200 all the time. Everywhere. People are running late, they're impatient, 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.720 they're staring at their phones, they're coming off of a 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.479 weed high, what have you. There is a lot of 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:21.320 reasons why there's so much bad driving, and thank goodness 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:26.520 for technology like automatic breaking when you get too close 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:30.000 to another car, which, by the way, I think you 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:33.520 tell me if I'm crazy here, But I think if 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.760 I was in charge of, you know, regulating, let's say, 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:45.160 the car insurance industry, I would voluntarily invest in every 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:49.160 policy holder that I had. I would pay to get 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:54.919 your car retrofitted with an emergency braking system, because I 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:59.760 have one of those on my Chevy Bolt and it 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:04.439 is this incredible. It will make sure that you're not 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:09.280 tailgating a little too close, and if you're not paying attention, 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:12.920 because we're all awful drivers, it will stop the car 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:14.840 and scream at you, and then you're not allowed to. 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:16.000 Use supercrews anymore. 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:22.080 But I think you would cut down greatly on car 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.720 accidents if you had more of this technology in more cars. 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.080 They're in modern cars, but they're not in older cars. 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:31.239 So if there was a way to retrofit that, I 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:34.720 think that it would be advantageous to the insurance companies 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:37.040 to pay for that, just like I think it should 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:39.280 be on the insurance companies who don't want to pay 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:43.080 out for fire claims to help you pay for hardening 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:43.600 your home. 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:45.360 Why does it have to be on you? 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:47.800 What is that premium actually going towards if you don't 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:50.680 want to pay out anybody? Okay, don't need to sit 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:55.159 here ranting on insurance, which I tend to do because 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:57.639