1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: It is the News Blintz with Randy Wang on Talk 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: radio seven ninety KABC. Let's get into today's California report 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: at Randywangradio dot substack dot com and we start in 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: South Los Angeles with another great report from Fox eleven's 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: Matthew Seedorf, who is he is one of my favorites, 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: and he is always putting himself in harm's way, to 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: the point where he and his camera person went to 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: a situation where we now have homeless people living in 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: the sewers in South LA. This was discovered by friend 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: of the show, Juan Nala. We talked to him last 11 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: week from CLEANLA with me. He's also buddies with Seedorf, 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: and as he was doing yet another one of his cleanups, 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: he noticed people going in and out of the storm drains. 14 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: And this just goes to show that everything that our 15 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: elected leaders like Karen Bass has said that they've done 16 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: to get people off the streets is no because this 17 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: stuff is going on everywhere, and when you're not living underground, 18 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: this particular neighborhood is plagued by tents and RVs, and 19 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: nobody's getting any help with all the money that we're 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: spending with the seventeen thousand dollars per person per motel 21 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: room that's actually getting the motel. You'd figure there'd be 22 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: some way to actually help the people that are suffering, 23 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: or at least figure out a way to help them 24 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: when they won't help themselves, because as always evidenced by 25 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: these stories, and you don't want a stereotype, you really don't. 26 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: But whenever the news cameras start talking to the people 27 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: who are in those tents, who are in the RVs, 28 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: who are in the sewer, it's fairly obvious they're on math. 29 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: If we just had a baseline that there's zero acceptable 30 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: about of meth to be used, and if you're on 31 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: meth you need to go into an immediate detox or 32 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: you need to go to an idiot jail cell. Well, 33 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: then that's what we need to do. And if we 34 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: don't have the space for that, that's what we should 35 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: be putting our money into immediate treatment. But instead we 36 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: spend money on a whole bunch of organizations that enable 37 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: people to do things like live in the sewer. Now, 38 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: one story that's been getting a lot of attention, especially 39 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: in California, is the latest case that the Supreme Court 40 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: is looking at. It's based on a Mississippi trial or 41 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: a Mississippi court case that would challenge when mail in 42 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: ballots can actually be counted. See, we're in all mail 43 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: in ballot state in California, and the way that works 44 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: is that as long as your ballot is postmarked by 45 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: eight pm on election day, you get like seven to 46 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: ten days in case the mail is real slow before 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: we say that thing doesn't count. And that's part of 48 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: the reason why in very tight races it takes forever 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: to decide the results of an election. There are people 50 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: that are arguing that, hey, no, no, no, no no, 51 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: if the ballot is not in by election day, it 52 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: does not count. And we're talking about maybe three or 53 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: four percent of ballots and in very tight races in matters, 54 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: but in a lot of races it's not going to 55 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: matter that much. But here's what I would say, to 56 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: use the Tom styriism, Maybe what we need to do 57 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: is because I like the you know, I like voting 58 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: by mail. I don't ever use the mail, but I 59 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: vote absentee. I like sitting down at the table, being 60 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: able to go through the entire unbelievably long list, talking 61 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: through it with my wife of Okay, here's this person, 62 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: here's why they're running. Try to do some research and 63 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: all the people that I have no idea who they are, 64 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: because boy are there are a lot of things to vote for. 65 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: And then I go drop it off at the dropbox, 66 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: not the mailbox, but the ballot drop box. And for 67 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: the for the most part, those are pretty safe. What 68 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: I wonder is, since we have those, and you also 69 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: have the ability to take that ballot and drop it 70 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: off in an election center, could you maybe change this 71 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: so you don't involve the mail, which can be notoriously slow. 72 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: Maybe it's still you can remote vote, but you've got 73 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: to take it to a ballot drop off place. You 74 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: have a whole month to do it. You can take 75 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: it to a box, or you can take it to 76 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 1: a polling place. And maybe we just don't involve the 77 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: mail and that way no one can get they how 78 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: have to get them in on election day. Just something 79 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: to think about. 80 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 2: Now. 81 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: A lot of the new store news stations have been 82 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: covering what's going on in el Monty right now, where 83 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: a group of students has lawyered up and they are 84 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: going to sue the district and they specifically want the 85 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: superintendent to resign and most leadership to resign in the 86 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: El Monte School District because they say teachers were abusing 87 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: students for years and years, years and years, and nobody 88 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: seemed to get in trouble for it. Now the Attorney General, 89 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: mister Bob Bonta, has put an investigation into this as well, 90 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: but his investigation only goes back a couple of years. 91 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: There are allegations that this has been going on for 92 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: over twenty years, and it's just one of these things 93 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: where we've seen this at LAUSD. When you have a 94 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: very bad actor, somebody that's accused of doing the worst 95 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: or the worst to a child, the union sticks up 96 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: for them and that never looks good and so it 97 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: makes it really, really really hard to even fire a 98 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: problem teacher. So we put them in the rubber room 99 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: and hopefully everybody shuts up. But we need to have 100 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: a zero tolerance policy for any kind of abuse from 101 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: anybody who is paid by the government to work with 102 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: our children. And if you think sweeping things under the 103 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: rug is the right move because you don't want to 104 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: deal with the blowback or the embarrassment, you gotta go. Now. 105 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: We told you about the sewer problem in South LA 106 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: with the homeless living in it. There's a different kind 107 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: of sewer problem in Huntington Beach. There's a neighborhood where 108 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of homes are being told, Hey, I 109 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: know you have a backyard and you have stuff you 110 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: like back there, maybe even have an above ground pool, 111 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: But we actually have an easeman on an old sewer 112 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: line that is on your property. And even though this 113 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: thing's been around since the nineteen fifties, we feel like 114 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: finally enforcing this. So Orange County has told these homeowners 115 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: in Huntington Beach to move anything that you have on 116 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: that easement, including one homeowner that had an above ground pool. 117 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: You got to get rid of it. That's our backyard now. 118 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: And it's just a little strange because why are they 119 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,119 Speaker 1: enforcing this now. Especially the guy with the above ground pool. 120 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: He put everything there knowing that it could be moved 121 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: if they needed to get in there for access for 122 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: this old steward line. But if there's one thing that 123 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: I've learned today, it's when you're buying property, find out 124 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: if there's an easement on any of it. Because apparently 125 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: the government can twenty forty sixty years later say hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, 126 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: that's not your backyard anymore. And we hate seeing business 127 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: closures and especially the ripple effects of it, including in Monrovia, 128 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: a beloved movie theater is closing, and that only affects 129 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: the movie theater, but all the surrounding businesses because most 130 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: people don't eat their dinner at the movie theater because 131 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: you'll get sick on those movie theater nachos with the 132 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: nacho cheese with a Z, or you're just going to 133 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: fill up on candy that's overpriced. No no, no, no no, 134 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: you're going to enjoy yourself, but you and I found 135 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: funny in this story. They talked about a lot of 136 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: the local businesses that are going to feel the effects 137 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: of this movie theater going away, and one of the 138 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: places that's going to feel it is the coffee shop. 139 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: And if you're in your twenties, that doesn't make any 140 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: sense to you. If you're in your thirties or your 141 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: forties or your fifties, yeah, in order to see a 142 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: movie that starts at eight or nine o'clock at night, 143 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna need to do some grown up pregaming and 144 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: load up on caffeine. I just I think about how 145 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: late I used to stay up at night and even 146 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: to do things like going to a movies. Remember midnight screenings. 147 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine doing that now and I'm only forty. 148 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. 149 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: Now, I love this story because it is a true 150 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: sign of the times. But vinyl has had a huge 151 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: comeback in the music world, and for a few reasons. One, 152 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:52,719 Speaker 1: it's retro cool. It's great for collecting. People that get 153 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: into it, they really get into it, and all of 154 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: a sudden they have this massive collection and they're going 155 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: to thrift shops. But it's also and it's the wild thing. 156 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: This old technology that's been around forever and ever and 157 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 1: ever produced a higher quality of sound then you get 158 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: from tapes. Oh boy, remember when the tapes would screw 159 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: up and then you'd have to use a little pencil 160 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: to wind all the reel back in. And way better 161 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: than CDs, which is compressed audio and they can scratch, 162 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: and way better quality than streaming. Streaming compresses audio. You're 163 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: never going to get lostless audio the way that you're 164 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: going to get from vinyl. So what I found really 165 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 1: cool was in twenty twenty five, vinyl record sales hit 166 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: a billion dollars, and a lot of that is collector's editions. 167 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: Even when new artists like Taylor Swift or Chapel Roam 168 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: they put out an album, they not only put it 169 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: out digitally, but they are putting it out on vinyl, 170 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: and people think that's really cool. I love that. I 171 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: don't have a record player, but I would. But what 172 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: I found funny about this story is that Vinyl not 173 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: only hit a billion dollars, they surpassed CDs. And for 174 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: the life of me, when I heard that, I started 175 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: thinking about it. I don't own one thing in this 176 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: house that can play a CD. Nothing. My laptop does 177 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: not have a CD drive. I don't think laptops have 178 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 1: had CD drives for ten years. I don't have a 179 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: DVD player some people do. I pretty much watch everything 180 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: on streaming, so I don't have anything there. My car 181 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: doesn't have a CD player. There's no way for me 182 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: to play a CD, and I probably have a book 183 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: of CD somewhere that are just completely worthless. But it 184 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: surprises me that it's taken this long for vinyl to 185 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: surpass CDs, because in twenty twenty six, who is still 186 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: buying CDs? 187 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 2: Now? 188 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: I love this next story, because I really enjoy anything 189 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: that helps create a sense of community, and we're also 190 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: preparing for the future when we don't know what life 191 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: is going to be like when AI takes all the 192 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: jobs away. So there's a neighborhood and West LA that 193 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: has created something and I think it's pretty cool. It's 194 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: called a time bank, and you register with this neighborhood 195 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: time bank with who you are and what some of 196 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: your special skills are. For instance, maybe you're really good 197 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: at trimming trees, or you're really good at gardening, or 198 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: you're really good at fixing somebody sink, Not in that way, 199 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: I mean literally fixing somebody's sink or fixing a broken bicycle, 200 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: what have you. And you can put your services on 201 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: this and what do you get. You get time credits. 202 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: And with those time credits other people that have other 203 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: skills that you may be in need of, they will 204 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: come to you and they will do whatever you need. 205 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: Don't make this dirty. This is a really nice thing. 206 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: And if we ever get to a point where the 207 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: AI is taking so many jobs away, where we don't 208 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: really know what to do with our lives, we don't 209 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: have money to spend on certain services, let alone repair people. 210 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: It would be cool. I'll tell you right now, I 211 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: would love a service like this because sometimes you come 212 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: into a situation where you don't know what to do. 213 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: You know, like when your gardener jam's one of your 214 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: sprinklers with the lawnmower and now your backyard is flooding. 215 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: That's fun. Or I don't know, for some reason, your 216 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: oven that you just bought three years ago is not 217 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: heating up properly. It'd be great if I could, you know, 218 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 1: put on there that Hey, would someone like to come 219 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: out and check out my oven if you know what 220 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: you're doing with that? 221 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 2: Now? 222 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: What is the skill that I have that I would 223 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: provide to the Time bank? I mean, I'm a decent cook, 224 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 1: I can make a pretty good drink. I can yammer 225 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: about local politics. I don't think that's worth anything to anybody. 226 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: I don't know what skills I have, but I really 227 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 1: love this idea and I think it's very cool. And 228 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: I love anything that adds a sense of community, including 229 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: this story. A woman moved to Los Angeles realized that 230 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: she needed to brush up on her Spanish, so she 231 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: started a group through TikTok of women that all meet 232 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,959 Speaker 1: together and they do flashcards with each other and they 233 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: help each other learn Spanish. And I'm all for everybody 234 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: learning more Spanish, even if you don't think you need 235 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: it just to live in La There are so many 236 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: countries that you travel to where it'd be fun if 237 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: you knew at least a little bit of the language. 238 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,199 Speaker 1: I learn that when I was in Madrid. My wife 239 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: speaks very well in Spanish. I do not, and now 240 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: I am learning every single day Unduolingo because I want 241 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: to know more. I want to be able to talk 242 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,599 Speaker 1: to those people, because they're very friendly. And if I 243 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 1: learned Spanish, I cannot only go to Spain. I can 244 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: go to Argentina, I and go to Mexico. I can 245 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: go to most of South America. So that's pretty cool. Now, 246 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: moving onto the Bay Area, UC Berkeley poll has found 247 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: that a majority of Californians would vote yes on the 248 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: proposed billionaire wealth tax if it gets on the ballot, 249 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: and I'm not surprised one. I don't know how the 250 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 1: poll respondents are being told about everything about the bill, 251 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: considering that you don't actually you know where the money 252 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: goes in this proposal is specifically to the Union that 253 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: wants to put this on the ballot, So that's kind 254 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: of weird. But ultimately I don't think voters are going 255 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: to read that much into it. I think this is 256 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: an f you to the billionaires year, which is why 257 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: it'd be really weird if this thing makes the ballot 258 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: and Tom Steyer is one of the top two candidates 259 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: to be the governor, because are you really going to 260 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: have people vote few billionaires and hey, this billionaire can 261 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: be our governor. I don't think so, and I don't 262 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: have anything to prove this, but let me just tell 263 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: you it is my personal theory that support for the 264 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: billionaire tax has gone up because people keep seeing Tom 265 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: Steyer ads all day long on their TV and they 266 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: want to stick it to that guy. They want to 267 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: make it so that guy doesn't have so much money 268 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: to waste on ads over and over and over again. Also, Tom, 269 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: you can always buy radio. You know, we got an 270 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: audience here in Oakland. They are shutting down a safe 271 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: RV parking site. And that's such a weird term. Safe 272 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: RV parking, which you imagine these to be very temporary 273 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: places where we're gonna let you stay there with your 274 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: RV for a couple of weeks while we figure out 275 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: what you're gonna do with your life, how we're gonna 276 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: get you off the street, and what do we find 277 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: out some people in this safe RV parking site have 278 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: been there for seven years. Completely unacceptable. We have no 279 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: focus and no general plan at the city level in 280 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: places like Oakland or Los Angeles as to what to 281 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: do with this problem. But somebody who is sitting in 282 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: their RV in a safe parking site for seven years, 283 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: just sitting there in inertia while they're waiting for a 284 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: million dollar apartment, that doesn't make any sense. Speaking of 285 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: housing in San Francisco, the housing market is exploding again 286 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: because well, AI, it's going to take all our jobs 287 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: and it's going to make it really expensive for the 288 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: people that will have jobs to live in San Francisco. 289 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: Oh boy. And we're seeing more expansion of public transit 290 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: in the northern part of the Bay Area as the 291 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,239 Speaker 1: Smart Train in Marine County is going to extend to Healdsburg. 292 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: Although there are people that are like, that's great if 293 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: you want to visit Healdsburg, which we all should want 294 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: to visit Heldsburg. Healdsburg is super fun, but the train 295 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: will never have enough ridership to really justify its cost 296 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: because it doesn't connect to any major cities, Like you 297 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: can't take San Francisco to it, so you're just going 298 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: from what Santa Rosa to Healdsburg. Cool. I don't know. 299 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: I feel like in California we have to rethink transit 300 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: in a way. That these trains are so expensive to build, 301 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: they take so long to build. There has to be 302 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: an easy way to do this. You think of how 303 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: long they've been tunneling under Beverly Hills to finish out 304 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: the used to be called the Purple Line, now it's 305 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: called the D Line with La Metro. There just has 306 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: to be an easier, simpler way to do this, or 307 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: are we going to get to the point where there's 308 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: flying cars and all. This is completely irrelevant, and health 309 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: advocates are really starting to push all of the effects 310 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: of mushrooms, and the wellness scene is getting all into mushrooms, 311 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 1: and I've even fallen for this. I bought that mushroom 312 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: coffee Rise, that caffeine free version. I like it. H 313 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if it does all the things that 314 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: it says it does, but the one thing that I 315 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: know that it does is something I don't want to 316 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: talk about on the radio. But let's just say everything's 317 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: good and regular. But of course when people about mushrooms, 318 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: there's the wellness scene of how the lion's main mushroom 319 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: helps you with your focus, and that inevitably leads the discussion, well, 320 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: you want to talk about mushrooms and wellness, we should 321 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: all be doing psychosyllabin or psilocybin. Psilocybin. That was it. 322 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: And you know what, as someone who did that a 323 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: bunch of in their twenties, yeah, it's pretty cool till 324 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: you have a bad trip and then you will never, ever, ever, 325 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: never ever do it again. Ultimately, though, I'd say I'm 326 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: glad I did it, kind of expanded horizons. But I 327 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: don't know. I'm such a lame person now. Don't do 328 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: any of that stuff. I barely even drink too much. 329 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: I drink a little, but I got boring, and I 330 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 1: like being boring. I was not nearly as interesting when 331 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: I was doing all these drugs, and I had to 332 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: put this story in there. A family had the trip 333 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: of a lifetime, planned to go to the Bahamas seven 334 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: nights at a resort, but first when they get in 335 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: spend one quick night at a courtyard by Marriott where 336 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: they found out that their hotel was all over booked 337 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: and what did that mean? That meant that they didn't 338 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: have a room, so they had to go find a room. 339 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: It cost them fourteen hundred dollars at the Margaritaville, and 340 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: Marriott didn't want to pay for it till, of course, 341 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: they reached out to NBC in the Bay Area and 342 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: they made it right. There's a lot more in Today's 343 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: California Report. Check it out at Randywangradio dot substack dot com. 344 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk Radio 345 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: seven ninety KABC. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang 346 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: on KABC. Another thing that I put in Today's California 347 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: Report at Randywangradio dot substack dot com was the first 348 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: mayoral debate in air quotes, not with Karen Bass, not 349 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: with Spencer Pratt, but with Nitia Ray Huang and Adam Miller. 350 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 1: And no, you don't know who half of those people are, 351 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: but it was a debate hosted by Streets for All 352 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: and the Housing Action Coalition. And I will tell you 353 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: as for listening to the entire thing. I learned nothing 354 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: except that the special interests that want to make sure 355 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: that you get out of your cars hold a lot 356 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: of cards. Luckily, not a lot of people got to 357 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,959 Speaker 1: watch that debate because it was streamed live and nobody 358 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: checked to see if it was working properly, and the 359 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: sound was all screwed up. The recorded versions available now, 360 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 1: and I can tell you right now it is not 361 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: worth your time. Coming up next, we continue our series 362 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: of interviewing people that are going to be on your ballot. 363 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: Attorney General candidate Michael Gates will be here, so stick 364 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: around for that. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang 365 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. It is the News 366 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. 367 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe to the Substack at Randywangradio dot 368 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: substack dot com for your daily dose of the California Report, 369 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: and search for the KABC News Blitz wherever you get 370 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 1: your podcasts. Our next guest is running for Attorney General 371 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: in the state of California, challenging the incumbent Rob Bonta. 372 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: Oh excuse me, Bob Bonta. Bob Bonta. Michael Gates welcome 373 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: back to KABC. 374 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 2: Great, thank you for having me. 375 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 1: All right, let's first have you reintroduce yourself to the audience. 376 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: To anyone that doesn't know you, who are you and why, 377 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: oh why do you want to run for Attorney general. 378 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 2: Well, so, thank you again for having me on. So 379 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 2: it's such a pleasure to be here. I know your 380 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 2: audience is fantastic. I am a lifelong resident of California. 381 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 2: I've grown up in Huntings Beach here and it's just 382 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 2: been California's just been amazing. And that's, you know, frankly, 383 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 2: why I'm in the race. I think there's a really 384 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 2: incredible opportunity right now to save California. To rescue California. 385 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 2: The Democrats, Independence and Republicans alike are pretty fed up 386 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 2: with our leadership in Sacramento and saying list in the 387 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 2: large cities. So I'm in this because I want to, 388 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 2: not because I need to. I was a successful litigator 389 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 2: and trial attorney in private practice. I became partner at 390 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 2: a firm, and then I ran for city attorney of 391 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 2: Huntington Beach in twenty fourteen and got elected. And I 392 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 2: spent ten years as the elected city attorney before I 393 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 2: resigned in the middle of my third term because I 394 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 2: was summoned by the administration to work in d C 395 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 2: at the Department of Justice, where I worked at the 396 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 2: highest levels of government there, largely on electing integrity work 397 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 2: and forcing federal elections laws. So that was fantastic experience there. 398 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 2: I did that for about a year and I came home. 399 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 2: When I wrote to Pambondi about my resignation, I said 400 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 2: I needed to go back to Huntington Beach to fight 401 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 2: for California. People know me in Huntington Beach in Orange 402 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: County as a fighter. I spent my ten years as 403 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 2: the city Attorney of hunting To Beach, fighting, fighting every day, 404 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 2: fighting in court, fighting you know, in the media, fighting 405 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 2: fighting fighting Sacramento, all the nonsense that's coming out of Sacramento. 406 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 2: I was the architect of Huntington Beach's through ide law 407 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 2: there in Huntington Beach, I started a prosecutor program there 408 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 2: to reduce crime by double digits, so we supported our police. 409 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 2: I defended police in court on a regular basis when 410 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 2: they were sued for doing their jobs, and I won, 411 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 2: you know, against great PLAINTUS attorneys in multimillion dollar cases. 412 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,479 Speaker 2: I beat them, defending our police officers and exonerating the 413 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 2: work that they did. I was I reduced crime in 414 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 2: Hunting to Beach by double digits. I reduced homelessness in 415 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 2: Hunting to Beach by over sixty percent. I fought Newsome 416 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 2: and he came to Huntington Beach with his high density 417 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 2: housing mandates, and so we spent years in litigation fighting 418 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 2: the overreach from Sacramento, the one size fits all for 419 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 2: housing and high density housing. We fought back. Huntington Beach 420 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 2: still has not adopted a high density housing program to date. 421 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 2: I also sued the State of California and brought back 422 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 2: thirty eight million dollars from Sacramento to Hunting to Beach 423 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 2: taxpayers when the state wrongfully withheld tax reimbursements from Hunting 424 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 2: to Beach taxpayers. That's thirty eight million dollars. So I've 425 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 2: practiced in a lot of different areas of law. I 426 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 2: sued state to protect parents' rights in Huntington Beach when 427 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 2: the state passed laws to mandate that teachers keep secrets 428 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,719 Speaker 2: from parents with regard to their children's gender identity issues. 429 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 2: So a whole host of issues, whether it's election integrity, 430 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 2: protecting parents rights, reducing crime, reducing homelessness. I've done all 431 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 2: for Huntington Beach, and now I want to do it 432 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 2: for the state of California. Rob Bonta, the incumbent, is 433 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 2: very vulnerable. He is miirred in his own corruption and controversy. 434 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 2: He spent a half a million dollars on criminal defense 435 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 2: attorneys to defend himself when he was being investigated or 436 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 2: questioned by the FBI and other agencies. And you know 437 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 2: who spends a half a million dollars on criminal defense attorneys? 438 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 2: Not usually not the innocent folks, you know. So he's 439 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 2: got a lot of issues. He's also been you know, 440 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 2: way out there, uh, you know, parading rounds suing the 441 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: Trump administration, which you know, without commenting on on the 442 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 2: merits of those lawsuits, you know, just the fact that 443 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 2: he takes that as a source of pride and joy 444 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 2: when everyday Californians are suffering from high crime rates, high 445 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 2: homeless rates, high taxes, high gas prices, high high high 446 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 2: and yet we're the worst when ranked amongst other states 447 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 2: in opportunity, in business, in education, and so Californians have 448 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 2: really had enough. Rob Bonta is responsible for a lot 449 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 2: of this, including the five hundred billion dollars that we 450 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 2: know has been lost part five hundred billion of hard 451 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 2: earned tax payer money that's been lost through waste frauden 452 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 2: abuse that's happened on his watch over the past five years, 453 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 2: and he hasn't launched a single investigation to try to 454 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,360 Speaker 2: find that waste fraud abuse of our hard earned tax 455 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: payer money. So there's a long list of issues. He's 456 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 2: got hands. He's guilty, you know, he's got his hands 457 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,360 Speaker 2: all over the corruption and Sacramento He now is now 458 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 2: trying to sue Riverside to stop their investigation into a 459 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 2: bunch of election integrity concerns surrounding the Prop fifty special elections. 460 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 2: So I know I'm rambling off a lot of issues 461 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 2: to suffice that to say the time is right right 462 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 2: now for a challenger like myself that has had so 463 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 2: much success in Hunting to Beach, fighting for everyday Californians, 464 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,439 Speaker 2: fighting for sanity, fighting the lower crime, fighting for a 465 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 2: free city. We call Hunting to Beach Land of the Free, 466 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 2: home of the brave in crazy California, and I want 467 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 2: to do more for California and other cities in California 468 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 2: what I have done for Huntington Beach and so and 469 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 2: it's it's been a great campaign so far. It's only 470 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,479 Speaker 2: nine weeks old and we've raised four hundred thousand dollars. 471 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 2: I've got over a thousand individual donors. My list of 472 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 2: endorsements is growing by the day. Campaign's only nine weeks old. 473 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 2: So Californians are hungry for a change. I represent that change, 474 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 2: and I also represent being a fighter, willing and able 475 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 2: to go to court and actually fight and actually take 476 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 2: it to Sacramento. And now I want to go to Sacramento 477 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 2: and fight for every day Californians from Sacramento. 478 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: Now, let's start with, because you touched on it, the 479 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: waste fraud and abuse that we've seen at this state, 480 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: from including massive levels going out to unemployment fraud during 481 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: the COVID days, but more recently there's been a lot 482 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: of investigations, including from CBS News, about these fraudulent hospices 483 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: operating in Los Angeles County, specifically in Van Eyes, and 484 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: specifically over eighty nine hospice businesses registered to one building 485 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: in Van Eyes, which seventy nine of them, according to 486 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 1: state auditors, have at least three of the red flags 487 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: for fraud. Rob Bompt is interviewed in the story. He says, well, yeah, 488 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: we need to do better on this. What does Attorney 489 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: General Gates do about the rampant fraud that we're seeing 490 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: specifically in that industry in California. 491 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 2: Oh, We're going to be full tilt, full scale pressure investigations. 492 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,199 Speaker 2: And let me tell you something. When I bring justice 493 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 2: to these fraudsters and investigate these complaints of fraud, waste, 494 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 2: and abuse, justice is not going to look like these lengthy, 495 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 2: protracted investigations that go to nowhere. I am going to 496 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 2: make sure that our investigations are swift, that we act diligently, 497 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 2: and I want people to go to jail. And beyond that, 498 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 2: the criminal justice system allows for the clawback of that money. 499 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 2: So when we're talking about five hundred billion dollars of waste, fraud, abuse, 500 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,959 Speaker 2: and that's just look, that's not some sort of like 501 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 2: you know, amorphis esoteric like you know, that is real money. 502 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 2: Those are harder taxpayer dollars. That amounts to over ten 503 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 2: thousand dollars per person in the state of California. So 504 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 2: that's real money. That's real taxpayer money lost through waste 505 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 2: broad abuse, and so Sacramento is responsible for all of that. 506 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 2: And the reason Rob Bonte hasn't looked into this during 507 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 2: his time in office his five years in office, is 508 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 2: because he knows who has been taking money. They are 509 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 2: his associations, they are his political connections, they are people 510 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 2: known to him, and that's why he has not launched investigations. 511 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 2: I will not be beholden to people when I am 512 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 2: in office. I am going to investigate everybody, and people 513 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 2: are going to go to jail for this because nobody 514 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 2: should be abusing the taxpayer, especially on this scale. But 515 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 2: nobody should be abusing the taxpayer. And when I use 516 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 2: the criminal justice system to get the billions of taxpayer 517 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,479 Speaker 2: money back, when I have the yachts sold and the 518 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 2: mansions seized that were purchased with this taxpayer money, I 519 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 2: am going to claw that money back and we're going 520 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 2: to return it to the taxpayer, the taxpayers to deserve 521 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 2: every dime back that we could possibly get back through 522 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 2: the criminal justice process. Yes, and I have making a 523 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 2: promise to everyday Californians that when I am in office, 524 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 2: when I am in the Attorney General, I am going 525 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 2: to fight for them. People will go to jail. I 526 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 2: will claw back that money. The billions of dollars that 527 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: of taxpayer money that's been lost through waste frount abuse. 528 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 2: I'm going to claw that back and we're going to 529 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 2: return it back, issue checks back to the taxpayer to 530 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 2: give them that money back. I guarantee that. 531 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: We'll speaking with Michael Gates. He's running for Attorney General 532 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: in the state of California. His website is Gates the 533 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: Number four ag dot com. Now you mentioned you are 534 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: the former city attorney for Huntington Beach, so you've got 535 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: quite a lot of experience of having to deal with 536 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: Rob Bonta as a citywide elected dealing with a state 537 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: elected And of course Bonta and Newsom love to chat 538 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: about how many times they've sued Huntington Beach. What was 539 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: all that, especially the fights over housing, Like on your end. 540 00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we obviously they sued us. They meating Sacramento. 541 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 2: Rob Bonta sued Huntington Beach to try to force Huntington 542 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 2: Beach to adopt a high density housing program. The high 543 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 2: density housing program that was made by the state was 544 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 2: so ownerous, so burdensome, that Huntington Beach would literally have 545 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 2: to increase its housing supply by fifty percent practically overnight. 546 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 2: Huntington Beach is a twenty seven square mile city, It's 547 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 2: got eight miles of beautiful coastline, beautiful beach, and the 548 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,719 Speaker 2: high density housing mandate that was coming down from Sacramento 549 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 2: quite literally meant that we would have to destroy our city. 550 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 2: Huntington Beach is ninety five percent already built out, it's 551 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 2: already developed, and yet Sacramento was saying, well, that's not 552 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 2: good enough for us. We're not going to leave you alone. 553 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 2: We're going to cram down thirteen three hundred and fifty 554 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 2: eight units of arena, which is the Regional Housing Needs Assessment. 555 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 2: But in order to plan for and develop that thirty 556 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 2: over thirteen thousand units of high density housing, you actually 557 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 2: have to plan for and develop forty thousand new units. Now, 558 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 2: hunting Beach's housing supply is already at about eighty five thousand, 559 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 2: so the forty thousand represents a fifty percent increase. Environmental 560 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 2: studies on that plan that the state was mandating that 561 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 2: Huntington Beach adopt basically said that that was going to 562 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 2: destroy our environment, it was going to destroy our city, 563 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 2: and it was going to complete even our water table, 564 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:27,479 Speaker 2: our drinking water supply. So the Sacramento has had and 565 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 2: demonstrated a wanton disregard for the well being of hunting 566 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 2: To Beach, a wanton disregard for the preservation of our 567 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 2: precious environment, our beachtown community. And it really is not 568 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 2: a plan to increase housing and reduce you know, or 569 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 2: increase affordability but reduce costs. That's not really what the 570 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 2: plan is. It's a plan to destroy cities like Huntington 571 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 2: Beach that are known to be conservative and known to 572 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 2: have high property ownership. And so Sacramento has a design 573 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 2: for California that we basically rest control of property ownership, 574 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 2: property ownership away from people and get them into more 575 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 2: transient living type of cities. And so To Beach has 576 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 2: been fighting back on that. We do not want to 577 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 2: be a high density housing mecca in California. We want 578 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 2: to keep our sleepy beach beachtown community lifestyle here, and 579 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 2: so we've been fighting back. So I have seen Rob 580 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 2: Bonta in court, not literally him, but his attorneys in court, 581 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 2: been in court arguing those cases myself, and we're going 582 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 2: to do everything in Huntington Beach and we have done 583 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 2: for years to fight back on Sacramento and try to 584 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 2: preserve our way of life in Huntington Beach. And so 585 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 2: now the time is for us to have new leadership 586 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 2: in Sacramento, so that leaders like myself and hopefully a 587 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 2: new governor will remove the boot of Sacramento from the 588 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 2: throat of beachtown communities like Huntington Beach and other cities 589 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 2: and allow for more low local control. Allow local city 590 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 2: councils to make decisions about lambs, to make decisions about housing, 591 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,359 Speaker 2: to make decisions about zoning and planning. Those should all 592 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 2: be local decisions, not ones made by elitists in Sacramento. 593 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 2: And so i've you know, if anybody were to characterize 594 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 2: my time as City Attorney of Huntington Beach, they would 595 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 2: say he was a fighter. He was a fighter for 596 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 2: local control. He was a fighter for local decision making 597 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 2: among the people of the city and among the elected 598 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 2: leaders in the city, and fighting back on elitists in 599 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,919 Speaker 2: Sacramento who know nothing about our cities, They know nothing 600 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 2: about hunting Speech yet they were cramming down these mandates. 601 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 2: I mean, it's so it's they've got such a wanton 602 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 2: disregard for us as everyday Californians. In fact, I have 603 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,399 Speaker 2: said on social media, the elitists and Sacramento actually hate Californians. 604 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 2: They don't care for us, They're not looking out for us. 605 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 2: During COVID, Newsom was so angry with Huntington Beach that 606 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 2: we actually had people on our beaches during the summer 607 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 2: of COVID, enjoying the warm weather in the warm sand 608 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 2: to try to escape from the lockdowns. That he shut 609 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 2: down our beaches with armed state troopers, bulldozers and concrete barricades, 610 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,240 Speaker 2: not to criminals off of our beach, but to keep 611 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 2: every day law abiding citizens who pay taxes off of 612 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 2: our beach. And so I sued him, and a couple 613 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 2: days later he opened up the beaches because he realized 614 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 2: it was a bad look for him to be shutting 615 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 2: down our beaches with armed state troopers and concrete barricades. 616 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 2: And so, you know, the lesson here is every day Californians, 617 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 2: every city, we have got to be fighting back against 618 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 2: the nonsense coming out of Sacramento, or we're gonna be 619 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 2: steamrolled by the nonsense coming out of Sacramento. And so 620 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,080 Speaker 2: if you don't fight back, you're gonna get steamrolled. And 621 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,839 Speaker 2: if you don't fight, you don't win. And we've had 622 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 2: a number of wins in Huntington Beach, including opening up 623 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 2: our beaches. Like I said, the thirty eight million dollars 624 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,719 Speaker 2: that the state wrongfully withheld from Huntington Beach taxpayers are 625 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 2: thirty million dollars that we won in a court judgment. 626 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 2: Now news writing checks to Huntington Beach taxpayers because we 627 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 2: prevailed in court. Most cities wouldn't take those fights on 628 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 2: and we did. And we've been fighting the high density 629 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,840 Speaker 2: housing mandates. We've been fighting and fighting and fighting, fighting 630 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 2: the sanctuary state policies. So there's a whole bunch of 631 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 2: different fights we have taken to Sacramento, and honestly, I've 632 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,839 Speaker 2: been in court for most of these battles and we've 633 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 2: been winning. And I think Huntington Beach is a great record. 634 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,720 Speaker 2: And like I said, I want, I want what Huntington 635 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 2: Beach has enjoyed. I want for other cities in the 636 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:35,920 Speaker 2: state of California. 637 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 1: Michael Gates he's running for Attorney General in the state 638 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 1: of California. The website is gatesfoag dot com. If you 639 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 1: want to check out more about his campaign. Michael Gates, 640 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:48,480 Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. 641 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,240 Speaker 2: Thank you, It's been a pleasure. 642 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's 643 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,239 Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. Thanks so 644 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: much to Michael Gates for joining us. We will continue 645 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: to educate you about so many different people appearing up 646 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: and down your ballots. And have you got a candidate 647 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: to suggest to us? Email us at Randy Wang Radio 648 00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,479 Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. It's the News Blitz with Randy 649 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,800 Speaker 1: Wang on KABC. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang 650 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 1: on KABC. Like a lot of people try to do 651 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year, you always try to 652 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 1: improve yourself, whether that's mentally, whether that's physically, and I've 653 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: been doing a little bit of both lately. Starting at 654 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 1: the beginning of February, I joined a pilate studio. And 655 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,439 Speaker 1: I had done this years and years and years ago, 656 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: but at one point decided that I was never going 657 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 1: to go to an exercise class again because I hate 658 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 1: driving to studios and I hate parking. Well, I found 659 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,880 Speaker 1: a place that's actually easy to do all of that, 660 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 1: especially at seven am, because it's close to my house, 661 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: and I've been loving it. I've been thriving in it. 662 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,359 Speaker 1: In fact, since I got back from New Mexico about 663 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,160 Speaker 1: a month ago, I've gone every single day, not even 664 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 1: a break. And I got to a point where one 665 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,319 Speaker 1: of my instrus directors went up to me and said, hey, 666 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 1: you have to start taking the harder classes because you're 667 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,560 Speaker 1: getting a little too good at this, And that felt 668 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 1: pretty darn good. So I'm really enjoying it, and I'm 669 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,879 Speaker 1: enjoying the community that i'm building up. And as much 670 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,719 Speaker 1: as I love exercising at home, exercise classes have just 671 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,440 Speaker 1: been so much fun. It's the Newsplitz with Randy Wang 672 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 1: on KBC