1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: It is the News Plantz with Randy Wang on Talk 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: radio seven to ninety KABC. Let's get right into today's 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: California Report for Wednesday, March eleventh, and Karen Bass is 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: in reactionary mode. Where there have been so many destructive 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: street takeovers in the city of Los Angeles, notably ones 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: on the sixth Street Bridge and all over the place 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: leading to lootings of auto zones. 8 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 2: What have you? 9 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: When there was a street takeover in downtown La just 10 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: a couple of nights ago, and it edited into ended 11 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: up becoming a mob that was storming a luxury apartment 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: building in downtown La near La Live all of a 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: sudden in an election year. Enough is enough, and Karen 14 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: Bass has announced public safety improvements, including more patrols. How 15 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: novel is that more LAPD officers waiting around for something 16 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: like this to happen? Will it have any effect we 17 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: shall see? Is Karen Bass going to start letting Jim 18 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: McDonald do his job and crack down on this? I 19 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: don't think so. See, there's an issue when it comes 20 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: to street takeovers outside of we don't have the manpower 21 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: to arrest every single person that shows up at these 22 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: things in smaller counties like San Joaquin County, you can 23 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: get enough officers to block every exit of every part 24 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: of that intersection and tow every single car, but we 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: don't have the manpower here to do that. The other 26 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: problem is a lot of the people that are the 27 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: offenders are juveniles, and we really don't want to be 28 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: putting any juveniles in Juvie Hall. And if you're wondering 29 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,759 Speaker 1: why that is, look at all the settlements that La 30 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: County has to make currently. There is so much violence 31 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: going on there that whether you are a employee of probation, 32 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: you're probably suing the victims who are getting beaten up 33 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: at Juvie or suing. And then of course you have 34 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: inmates over the last fifty years that were victims of 35 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: some kind of abuse that are suing. But it is 36 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: a financial liability to keep any kids in juvie, which 37 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: is why we kind of let them do whatever they want. 38 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: Karen Bass also opened a new mental health center that 39 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: she says is going to change the game when it 40 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: comes to homelessness. What she wasn't prepared for was a 41 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: tenacious Matthew Sedorf with a microphone asking her questions. Matthew 42 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: Siedorf for Fox eleven has been asking for an interview 43 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: with Karen Bass for months and months and months, and 44 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: she says, no, too busy, don't have time. But he 45 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: got to answer. Ask her a whole bunch of questions 46 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: including are you happy with what you're seeing on the streets? 47 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: What would you grade yourself as mayor? She didn't answer 48 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: that one. Do you really trust the numbers that LASA 49 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: is putting out? And it's not looking great for Karen Bass. 50 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: It's also not looking great for Karen Bass because we 51 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: have now seen a new poll, the first poll that 52 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: we've seen in the mayor's race since candidates officially declared 53 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: their candidacies, that Karen Bass, an incumbent mayor in the 54 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: City of Los Angeles, is only polling at twenty percent 55 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: support for reelection. Those are bad numbers. Fifty percent are undecided, 56 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: twenty percent say Bass, ten percent say Spencer Pratt, nine 57 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: percent say Nithia. And then the other two candidates, Adam 58 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: Miller and Ray Huang, they both polled below that. But 59 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: it is not looking good three months out from the race, 60 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: that the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is pulling 61 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: it twenty percent those are Eric Adams kinds of numbers. 62 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: It's not a namsy pamsy thing, it really isn't. But 63 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: if you got time, you should definitely check out Matthew 64 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: Seedorf's many interview with Karen Bass because he did a 65 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: great job. And yeah, it's hard to believe it, but 66 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: Karen Bess is worse than any other mayor that we've 67 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: had in my lifetime in Los Angeles, including this guy. 68 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 2: I received things on both ends. 69 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: Now, we told you about lax wanting to jack up 70 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: the fees for lift and uber and taxis and limos 71 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: and pretty much anything except parking there, and they say 72 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: that it's time to do this to eliminate congestion. But 73 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: considering there's no actual alternative to getting to LAX, people 74 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: are just going to start paying through the nose. Notably, 75 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: while the fees for getting picked up and dropped off 76 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: at the Laxit lot will go into effect in thirty days, 77 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: they say the really egregious fee increases, the ones that 78 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 1: are going to take place at the curb drop off 79 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: and pickups those won't take effect until the people mover 80 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: actually opens, and who knows when that's going to be 81 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: because the people mover was a project that broke ground 82 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, and then in twenty twenty three when 83 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: it was supposed to be completed, it wasn't. Then in 84 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four it wasn't, Then in twenty twenty five 85 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: it wasn't, and here we are twenty twenty six. This 86 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: thing was supposed to open this spring. It's almost the spring, 87 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: and they have no idea. Apparently. One of the issues 88 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: is a big labor dispute between the Los Angeles Airport 89 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: Authority and all of the bus drivers that drive all 90 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: of the buses, for the rental cars, for the hotels, 91 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: for Wally Park. They all think they're going to lose 92 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of business, and LAX has catered to 93 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: them for long enough. I know LAX is hostile towards rideshare, 94 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: but that's what people use. And when we can finally 95 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: get to to a level where other airports are already at, 96 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: when you have Waimo coming to that airport, that's going 97 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: to be a game changer. But look, it's already so 98 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: expensive to take a ride share to LAX. It's still 99 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: worth it because you get to travel, but it has 100 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: gotten pricey, you know, most of my flights I pay 101 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: for with points, so they don't really mind paying for 102 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: the ride share because the flight's practically free. But it 103 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: adds up. It's like one hundred and fifty dollars plus 104 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: tip each way. When I'm taking my wife to Lax now, 105 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: I do use black and I use Black Suv because 106 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: it's got my wife, myself, all of our baggage, and 107 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 1: the two puppies because they fly with us everywhere. Because 108 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: we are suckers and it's going to get even more expensive. 109 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: Are we going to see better service? Are we going 110 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: to see better congestion? Probably not. Now, this next story 111 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: went everywhere, and it's actually an investigative piece from CBS 112 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: News nationally, and what they have found is that, as 113 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: they call it, Los Angeles is ground zero for hospice fraud, 114 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: specifically a three mile stretch of Victory Boulevard in the 115 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: valley in Van Eyes where so many of these businesses 116 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: are registered even though they're not real hospices, they don't 117 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: have any real patients. And the funniest part about the story, 118 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: the investigative reporter kept calling the numbers of all of 119 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: these hospice businesses just to find out that Oh, the 120 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: numbers not in service. Oh, it goes straight to voicemail. Oh, 121 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: the voicemails not even set up yet. And there's obviously 122 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: all kinds of fraud going on with all sorts of 123 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: different programs that build medicare and medical That's been true 124 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: for a very long time. But the thing is California 125 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,119 Speaker 1: said they were going to stamp this out. California said 126 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: that they were going to wipe out all of this 127 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: fraud by putting a moratorium on new businesusinesses that can 128 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: register in putting a six factor checklist of possible fraud 129 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: in these businesses. And the investigative reporters looked at the 130 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: list of companies, found ones with all sorts of red 131 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: flags with fraud, and where's Bob Bonta on this? Bob 132 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: BoNT is nowhere. But if you haven't seen that story already, 133 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: it's definitely worth a watch and worth the share because 134 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: while the im sure this kind of stuff is happening 135 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: in all other states, the fact that so much specific 136 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: hospice fraud where and it's not a victimless crime here. 137 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: It's not just billing medicare. They're stealing people's identities. So 138 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: you have people that want to use the health insurance 139 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: that they are paying for, or the health insurance that 140 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: they have worked for their entire life with medicare finding 141 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: out they can't use it because the system thinks that 142 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: they're three months from dying and they've been in hospice 143 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: for six months. So everyone should be on the same 144 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: page here. This should not be a partisan issue. We 145 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: should want to root out waste, fraud and abuse and 146 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: pretending it it doesn't exist does not work. Speaking of fraud, 147 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: and speaking of Uber our story before that, another strange 148 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 1: thing that's been going on is a lot of people 149 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: in tax season have been getting ten ninety nine's in 150 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: the mail from Uber and Lyft, except they don't work 151 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: for Uber and Lyft. Their identities have been stolen and 152 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: there are people and I believe this is mostly with Uber. 153 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is going on with Lyft, 154 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: but people's identities are getting stolen and people are using 155 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: those stolen identities to apply to be a ride share driver. 156 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: So just be I don't even know what you can do, 157 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: because they somehow made it through all the verification processes 158 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: on the app. But Uber doesn't really want to talk 159 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: about this again, as far as I know, it's not 160 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: happening with Lyft, and I prefer Lyft. Well, I prefer 161 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 1: Lyft because I get five X points on my Chase 162 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: card and I'm all about the points. But even when 163 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: it was, you know, they were the ones that had 164 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: the silly little uh didn't the cars used to have 165 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: like a little mustache or lipstick. It just like lift, 166 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: just something sounded like much more fun. Although it doesn't 167 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 1: really matter, does it, because every single ride share driver 168 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: works for both. And here's an interesting public service announcement. 169 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: Did you know that some of the wiring in your 170 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: car's electrical system is lined with a protective coating that's 171 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: made of soy? And did you know that that soy 172 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: coding is attracted to rats? And rats if you're in 173 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: a ratt and fisted area like I don't know, downtown 174 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: Los Angeles can chew through those wires, causing thousands of 175 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: dollars of damage to your car. Well, now you know? 176 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: And how about this in Newport Beach, The Newport Beach 177 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: School Board is considering banning students from riding e bikes. 178 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: And if you ask me, it's long overdue. I don't 179 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: think children should be riding these things. I think you 180 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: should have to be an adult or at the very 181 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: least get a motorcycle license because they are motorcycles. They 182 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: are motorcycles that are even less safe, and we are 183 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: putting children on them. I'm really, really, really excited about 184 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: the fact. Well I'm not excited about it, but I'm 185 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: glad to see an Orange County that the DA is 186 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 1: prosecuting that parent that illegally modified their kids e bike 187 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: and then they crashed and hurt themselves, because that straight 188 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: up is child endangerment. And none of these kids can 189 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: afford these e bikes on their own. They're thousands and 190 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars unless you got the you know, the 191 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: voucher program from Cap and Trade. But parents, you don't 192 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: need to buy your kid e bike. It's also not 193 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: exercise because they're not pedaling. Get them a regular bicycle, 194 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: or when they're a grown up, they can get an 195 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: e bike. But I don't see this as some transportation 196 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: solution that's taking cars off the road. I see it 197 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: as something that is turning teenagers into little monsters. Now 198 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: Here is an awful story in the San Fernando Valley 199 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: and LAUSD School in Chadsworth is closing one of their 200 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: buildings because all of the kids are coming home with 201 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: headaches and nose bleeds, and the parents are blaming a 202 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: huge mold problem. For all the money that our property 203 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: taxes go towards fixing the infrastructure of these schools, towards 204 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: all the money that goes to LAUSD. The fact that 205 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: you have mold that's so toxic that kids are getting sick, 206 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: it just makes you want to audit the entire system. 207 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:45,119 Speaker 1: Where is all the money in LAUSD really going? Alberto Carvallo, 208 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: we'd like to know, of course, the FBI would like 209 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 1: to know as well. And we've talked a lot in 210 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: the last few days about the emerging gas crisis in California, 211 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: where every state is seeing an increase in gas prices 212 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: because of the war in a row on, but because 213 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: of California's upcoming cap and trade regulations that were voted 214 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: on by the legislature in an effort to extend cap 215 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: and trade and meet our zero mission climate goals of 216 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: twenty forty five. You have every major refiner, including Marathon 217 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: and Chevron, saying we might have to leave the state. Well, 218 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: one of the executives from Chevron sat down with Fox 219 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 1: eleven's Marla Tas and you can watch that interview if 220 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 1: you'd like. I found it very interesting. And finally, in 221 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: southern California, there is a big home auction going on 222 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: in Riverside where you can get a whole house for 223 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: as low as one hundred dollars at the first bid. 224 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: But I think if you actually get the property, there 225 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: might be a whole lot of issues, including paying property 226 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: taxes and who knows what. But hey, you want one 227 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 1: hundred dollars house, get down to the auction block. In 228 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: the Bay Area, we're learning more about the man that 229 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: attacked Daniel Lurry's security detail, what led up to it, 230 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: and what Luriy is going to be doing going forward. 231 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: And one thing he says is it's not going to 232 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: stop him from walking through the tenderloin and good for him. 233 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: And this is a story that hits a little close 234 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: to home. A woman freaked out when she put her 235 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: baby in her Cadillac Lyric, which is the Cadillac Electric vehicle, 236 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: is the much fancier version of my Chevy electric vehicle. 237 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: Because she put the baby in the car and then 238 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: she was locked out because all of a sudden there 239 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: was a battery failure. And I don't know if you 240 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: know this, but electric cars still start with a traditional 241 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: car battery that turns on the EV battery. I learned 242 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: this because I went to Trader Joe's and parked, got 243 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: all my groceries, loaded up my car. My car wouldn't 244 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: turn on. I panicked. I'm like, wait, I've only had 245 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: this car for a couple of months. It has failed. 246 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: What is happening. I'm gonna need to get this toad. 247 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: I can't go into work today. So I called Triple A, 248 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: and even though I said I need a toe, they 249 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: knew exactly what I needed. So they sent the battery guy, 250 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: and the battery guy replaced my regular ass car battery. 251 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: And this is true for a Chevy. It's also true 252 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: for a Cadillac. But of course the family panicked and 253 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: they were trying to figure out how to open the 254 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: car because there's no key holes in the doors. Turns 255 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: out there is a key hole in the trunk, but 256 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: most people don't realize that their keyfob has a real 257 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: key inside. So the mother panicked and she's trying to 258 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: get out of this lease, claiming lemon laws, but I 259 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: don't think it really has to do with that. I 260 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: think just like any car, just because it's an electric 261 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: car doesn't mean it's not originally started by a regular battery. 262 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: The Dublin teachers strike us in its second day and 263 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: there is a twenty one million dollar difference between what 264 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: the district says they have and what the union says 265 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: they want. So expect that to go for quite some time. 266 00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: And there's been so many stories in the news about 267 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: flock cameras, including El Cerrito thinking, Hey, maybe we have 268 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: to get rid of these things because of privacy concerns 269 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: San Jose. The federal government access this data without us knowing. 270 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: We got to get rid of these things. But here's 271 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: what happens when you actually get rid of these things. 272 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: In Richmond, police say there has been a huge uptick 273 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: in stolen cars and they directly tie it to the 274 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: fact that they shut down their flock camera program three 275 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: months ago. So what do you care more about privacy 276 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: or not getting your car stolen? If it's up to me, 277 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 1: I care more about not getting my car stolen. Barbara 278 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: Lee sat down with kron Fod to talk about all 279 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: the crime concerns and the OPD concerns, and she said, 280 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: quite frankly, a whole bunch, So you can check that out. 281 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: And in Sacramento, although this is really a San Francisco story, 282 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: but it was covered heavily by our Sacramento stations. JJ Smith, 283 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: who is a photojournalist in San Francisco documenting what's going 284 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: on in the ten he caught on camera something completely wild, 285 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: a line of homeless people being offered five dollars to 286 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: sign a petition. But they weren't being offered five dollars 287 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: to sign their own name on a petition. Oh no, 288 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: they're being offered five dollars to sign a different person's 289 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: name with their address and their signature from a voter role. 290 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,719 Speaker 1: And this is highly illegal, and the campaigns that we're 291 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: doing it are all disassouting, disassociating from this firm that 292 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: was doing this. But it makes you wonder how many 293 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: things got on the ballot this way, Like why is 294 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: there a kidney bill on the ballot every year? Could 295 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: it be because so many homeless people are getting paid 296 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: to steal your identity and make you look like you 297 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: sign that petition. Could be a lot of California Democrats 298 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: that voted for the cap and trade extensions are now 299 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 1: backpedaling because the gas price hikes mean in an election 300 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: year they could get kicked out of office. Vacaville has 301 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 1: approved an ordinance for battery storage for facilities, because when 302 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: you put these things in neighborhoods, if they catch on fire, 303 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: they're full of toxic materials. Part of the reason the 304 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: debris was so awful in the Palisades was there were 305 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: so many electric car batteries in Tesla power walls. And 306 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: in Nevada County leaders are trying to figure out an 307 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 1: ordinance to legalize living in your RV. I would advise 308 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: against that. In San Diego, Uber is getting sued over 309 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: their new feature that would allow a woman to choose 310 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: a woman driver, and I don't think there's anything wrong 311 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: with that, and the guys bringing this suit get over yourselves. 312 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: Women sometimes feel safer with other women. And finally, in 313 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: Riisin City in Fresno, a local is fighting with their 314 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: water district over an insane water bill and they're not 315 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: budging one bit because they're unelected bureaucrats who care nothing 316 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: about helping out the little guy. And that's today's California Report. 317 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: You can subscribe at Randy Wangrady do substack dot com. 318 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's 319 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. I put 320 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: together the California Report every single day, and I'd love 321 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: for you to subscribe to it. 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Our next guest 345 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: is the president of an organization called Courage Is a Habit, 346 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: Alvin Louie. Welcome to the News Blitz. 347 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 2: Hey, it's great to finally talk to you. I appreciate 348 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 2: you having me on. 349 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: Well, why don't we go ahead and start and introduce yourself. 350 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: Tell us about your organization, Courage is a Habit and 351 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 1: their mission for school children. 352 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 2: Absolutely. We do two things. The first one is we 353 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 2: create actionable tools and tactics for parents because there's so 354 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 2: much lies in gaslighting and deflections and emotional blackmail that 355 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: happens in K through twelve that especially parents with school 356 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 2: age children, they're very busy. It's a very busy time 357 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 2: in life, and we make these tools and tactics so 358 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 2: that parents truly understand what's happening. In schools because oftentimes 359 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 2: what they tell parents is not how parents think about it. 360 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 2: And then we also give them these actionable things to do, 361 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 2: whether it's an opt out or a letter, or how 362 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 2: to have meetings with the principal, how to do a 363 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 2: school board meeting, and trying to get through this emotional 364 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 2: blackmail and these deflections that schools do. So that's the 365 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 2: first thing. The second thing my organization does that encourage 366 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 2: it to have it is we often talk about how 367 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 2: children are being brainwashed in school, which is true with 368 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 2: all this ideology, the sexual doctrination and political indoctrination, but 369 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 2: it's parents that are brainwash first, because parents get brainwashed, 370 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 2: and this is how they get parents out of the 371 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 2: way so they can get to your children. Obviously, California 372 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 2: leads that, you know, the crystal ball to the rest 373 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 2: of the nation. I'm from California, so I very much know, 374 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 2: you know, how how saturated it is in the schools. 375 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: But it's happening all over the country. Even if there 376 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 2: are some you know a lot of states might be 377 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 2: behind California, it's still happening in all fifty states. And 378 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 2: so courage is to have it really is a national 379 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 2: organization that helps parents understand exactly what's happening to their 380 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 2: children when they're there at these government institutions for seven 381 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 2: hours a day, five days a week. 382 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,199 Speaker 1: Why don't you go and expand on that. What do 383 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: you mean when you say the parents are getting brainwashed first? 384 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: And what are they getting brainwashed into by a California 385 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: public schools? 386 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 2: The very first thing is that they always weaponize parents' 387 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 2: kindness and their empathy. So when parents start to get 388 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: when that something's really wrong, and it's hard to it's 389 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 2: hard not to know, especially when you're in a place 390 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 2: at California, they start to go to this schools, and 391 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,719 Speaker 2: the schools will going, no, we're not doing that. Well, 392 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 2: that's not what we're doing. We're just teaching empathy. We're 393 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 2: just teaching how to be kind and so at courages 394 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 2: to have it. This is called what we call language contamination. 395 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 2: And the easiest way to remember this is that they 396 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 2: usual vocabulary, but not your dictionary. They usual vocabulary, but 397 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 2: not your dictionary. So when they say I'm teaching your 398 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 2: children how to have empathy, most parents, well, I would 399 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 2: say all parents will say, Okay, that's great, because I 400 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 2: teach my child to have empathy as well. But the 401 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 2: way you and I teach a child, or any parent 402 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 2: teach child empathy is very different. Because what the schools 403 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 2: do is that they teach especially the girls, but they 404 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 2: teach children to have empathy for let's say, when a 405 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 2: man walks into their bathroom, but they don't teach children 406 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 2: to have empathy for the daughters, for the girls. And 407 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 2: so if you raise your son, Randy, if you say, hey, listen, 408 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 2: my boy doesn't believe that a child can be born 409 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 2: in the wrong body, because there's no such thing as 410 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 2: a trans child. This is all this is all brainwashing, 411 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 2: this is all social Canadian. If your boy does not 412 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 2: want to hall, the schools do not have only have 413 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 2: empathy for one direction. They don't have empathy for white 414 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,959 Speaker 2: children when they start talking about critical race theory and 415 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 2: America's oppressives and white people are racist. And so that 416 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,360 Speaker 2: is an example of how they brainwash parents because they 417 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 2: parents believe that they're teaching kids all these values that 418 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 2: they find very valuable to teach. But these values are 419 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 2: not taught through the lens of a parent or a 420 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 2: lens of somebody who loves America and wants children to growth, 421 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 2: to be independent of government. Government K through twelve is 422 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 2: teaching your child to only have values for one way, 423 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 2: which is left leaning, very radical, and to vote only 424 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 2: one way. 425 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: And how do you think you would advise parents going 426 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: about adding more balance to that equation. 427 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 2: Well, the first thing you have to do is understand 428 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 2: that there is no such as inclusion when it comes 429 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 2: to parenting. Good parenting has always been about exclusion. You 430 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 2: decide what you bring into your child's life, they when 431 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 2: it's appropriate. And so the first thing that parents have 432 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 2: to do to steal themselves from this emotional blackmail is 433 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 2: to understand that good parenting is about exclusion, so encourages 434 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 2: to have it. One of the things that we really 435 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 2: drive home is embrace exclusion and to remind parents that 436 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 2: at every step of the way, from the second you 437 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 2: brought your baby home, it's about excluding things from them, 438 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 2: not including the world. And at the age because you 439 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 2: know your child, then you decide what's appropriate. Even if 440 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 2: you have multiple children. Everybody knows that you have multiple children. 441 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 2: Each child develops, the maturity is different, and so that's 442 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 2: the first thing. You cannot let your empathy be weaponized 443 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 2: because every time the government K through twelve wants to 444 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 2: bring in something that's really radical, left wing and radical. 445 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 2: They will always dangle kids that need help. They'll say, 446 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 2: these kids need help. This is why we got to 447 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 2: do it. These kids don't feel included. This is why 448 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 2: these kids feel bullied, they don't feel seen their marginalized group. 449 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,400 Speaker 2: You have to steal yourself and say I don't care 450 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 2: about that, I care about my child, because it's not 451 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 2: honest anyway, because everything that they bring in don't actually 452 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 2: help kids who need help. It actually simply drives more 453 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 2: of this mental insanity, especially the transgenderism in schools. And 454 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 2: then they start keeping secrets from parents because they believe 455 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 2: the parents are unsafe. And so it's really important that 456 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 2: parents embrace exclusion and remember that it's been about exclusion, 457 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 2: not inclusion, because as little children, they don't have the 458 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 2: wisdom to know who or what to include in their life, 459 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 2: and us parents need to draw those boundaries, and schools 460 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 2: are always eroding those boundaries, and so remembering things such 461 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 2: as language contamination, the usual vocabulary, not your dictionary, and 462 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 2: the one kind of last question I would have parents 463 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 2: ask that that will help kind of keep you from 464 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 2: falling into that emotional blackmail vortex. Ask us to one question. 465 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 2: Every time the school says we're just teaching X whatever 466 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 2: excess is going to sound great, I want you to 467 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 2: ask yourself and ask them, through whose lens are you 468 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 2: teaching that? Oh, we're teaching anti bullying? Okay, through whose lens? 469 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,159 Speaker 2: Through the lens of a a classic teacher and a 470 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 2: classic coach, or through the lens of transgenderism, because in 471 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,439 Speaker 2: schools today they're not they're not actually doing anything for 472 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: kids who are actually bullied. So when they say anti 473 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 2: bullying is always through the lens of the transgender cult, 474 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 2: meaning that your son or your daughter needs to succumb 475 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,400 Speaker 2: to the transgender ideology and the language and the pronouns. 476 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 2: If you don't, they're the bullies. So when you ask 477 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 2: through whose lens, it helps you not get sucked up 478 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 2: into that vortex. 479 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: We're speaking with Alvin Louie. He's the president of an 480 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: organization called Courage is a Habit. You can follow them 481 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: on social media at at Courage Habit on X. I 482 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: get to imagine Alvin. A lot of parents got their 483 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: first insight into what was really being taught in kids' 484 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: schools when COVID happened and the Teachers' Union said we 485 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: all need to stay home for as long as possible. 486 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 1: And so you had all of these kids on zoom 487 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: school and then the parents start hearing terms like LATINX 488 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: throwed around and like what does that mean? 489 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 2: Yes, definitely true. That's the first time parents started to 490 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 2: get a little glimpse of it, even though it's been 491 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 2: going on for you know, over a decade for sure 492 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 2: in California, and you know, probably about at the time 493 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 2: of COVID was probably having what was happening probably between 494 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 2: five to six years, you know, in most other places, 495 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 2: even even Red states. And so one of the reasons 496 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 2: why it was such a shock for most American parents 497 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 2: is because most parents still believe school is when what 498 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 2: it was when they went to school, and government K 499 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: through twelve has always been designed to create fairly mindless 500 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 2: citizens and not critical thinking. And if you think about 501 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 2: the way the government K through twelve system is set up, 502 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 2: the only you know, you got to sit down, you 503 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 2: got to get up, you got to ask to use 504 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 2: of athroom when the bell rings, and the whole system. 505 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 2: If you think about from the time you step into 506 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 2: the building that the time you leave, the rules and 507 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 2: everything there's only one other system that behaves that mimics 508 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 2: a government K through twelve, and that's prison. So it 509 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 2: was always meant to be that way, but it took 510 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 2: them quite a long time to get to this level 511 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 2: of indoctrination. This is why for a lot of people 512 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 2: who went to school, let's say in the you know, 513 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: late you know, nineties or early two thousands or whatever, 514 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 2: they still believe school was that way because it was 515 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 2: still a fairly like okay, you know, it was still 516 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 2: a fairly decent experience. And that's the that's that's where 517 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 2: a lot of parents get fooled because when they drop 518 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 2: these kids, you know, to drop the kids off, they 519 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 2: still have a high trust in the system. Now, obviously, 520 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: in the last five plus years, that trust has eroded, 521 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 2: it down to almost none, and rightly so. And it's 522 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 2: not just the teachers that's in the classroom. One of 523 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 2: the things that we at Courage is a habit. Uh 524 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 2: did a did a big report and we've been exposing 525 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 2: them for the last you know, almost three years, is 526 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 2: the school counselors. In our opinion, the school counselors and 527 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 2: the mental health initiatives are far more dangerous than any 528 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 2: active as teachers. Because not to say the teachers are 529 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 2: not and not to say that the teachers' union don't 530 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 2: deserve every single you know, heat that they get, they 531 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 2: certainly do, and we need to dismantle the teachers unions. 532 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 2: But the school counselors and the mental health is where 533 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 2: all the monies are, all the billions are poured in, 534 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 2: and the mental health initiative is what drives the culture 535 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 2: of the school. So the b kind, the anti bullying, 536 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,719 Speaker 2: all the social emotional learning, all that feelings beyond anything 537 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 2: else that raise it's very focused on race that's coming 538 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 2: in through the mental health. And that's one of the 539 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 2: things that parents miss because again you and I, when 540 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 2: we talk about mental health, language contamination is very different 541 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 2: than when they talk about mental health. When you and 542 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 2: I talk about mental health, we're talking about, you know, 543 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 2: if you have an anger problem, or you know, you 544 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 2: learn how to you know, calm your anxiety and those 545 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 2: different type of things. Not letting past situations weigh down 546 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 2: good mental health. But the way the schools do it 547 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 2: is mental health is you have to use the right 548 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 2: pronouns where this child can't learn so and it's through 549 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 2: whose lens that's where a lot of parents, you know, 550 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 2: between the trust of a system they believe is still 551 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 2: when they went to school, and then hearing terms like 552 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 2: mental health, thinking okay, well, who doesn't want good mental 553 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 2: health for kids? Not really understanding that K through twelve 554 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 2: today uses those vague terms as a trojan horse to 555 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 2: bring in all this inductrination. 556 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: We'll speaking with Alvin Louis from the organization Courage Is 557 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: a Habit. 558 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 2: Now. 559 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: This conversation made it all the way to the Supreme 560 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: Court this year, where an injunction has temporarily blocked California's 561 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: Safety Act. I'm not going to tell you what the 562 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,960 Speaker 1: acronym stands for, but can you quickly explain what TO 563 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four bill was and why you're opposed to it? 564 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 2: Well, I'm assuming you're talking about the Supreme Court case 565 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 2: that just recently passed where they said that because California 566 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 2: schools are trying to force teachers to keep transgender secrets 567 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 2: from parents, and the teacher sued, and the Supreme Court 568 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 2: came down with the injunction and saying that schools cannot 569 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 2: force teachers to keep transgender's secrets from parents, and that 570 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 2: you know, it's funny, right, because we're talking about language 571 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 2: contamination and the usual vocabulary, not your dictionary. Safety Act. 572 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 2: Safety Act is the support Actdemic futures and educators for 573 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 2: today's youth. Who doesn't want to do that, Who doesn't 574 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 2: want to support academic futures and educators for today's youth? 575 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 2: But it is a transgender It is purely a transgender 576 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 2: cultist act that basically forces schools to keep transgender secrets. 577 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 2: And that's AB nineteen fifty five for those who want 578 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 2: to look it up. And so the Supreme Court came 579 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 2: down and said, no, you cannot force teachers or any 580 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 2: school officials to keep transgender secrets. And so that's great. 581 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 2: We were very obviously, very happy that the Supreme Court 582 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 2: came down with that injunction. However, here's a big caveat 583 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 2: the injunction does not say the schools cannot do it. 584 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 2: What they're saying is you cannot force someone to do it. 585 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 2: So if a teacher or a school counselor says no, 586 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 2: that's not right, I'm not going to keep secrets from parents, 587 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 2: they the schools cannot force them to do it or 588 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 2: punish them for it. But what that means for parents 589 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 2: is that you cannot sit back and say gay. The 590 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 2: Supreme Court saw it the common sense way. So then 591 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 2: that's it. Because these school counselors and these activist teachers, 592 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 2: they are missionaries. They are all trained. And when I 593 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 2: say all, I mean they are all trained. Now, some 594 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 2: of them, like five percent of them, may not agree 595 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 2: to it, and I not agree with it, which is 596 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 2: what the two teachers that caused the Supreme Court case did, 597 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 2: but by and large, I would say ninety eight percent 598 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 2: of them are will believe it, believe it meaning the 599 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 2: transgender ideology and keeping the secrets from parents. So these folks, 600 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 2: these people, these transgender cultists, are not going to go. Well, 601 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 2: we gave it the old college trialist's time to pack 602 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,360 Speaker 2: up all the trans flags and all the books and 603 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 2: all the curriculums and all the materials the Supreme Courts 604 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 2: that we can you know, we shouldn't keep secrets anymore. 605 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 2: That's not going to happen. And so one of the 606 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,400 Speaker 2: tools that we give parents, and we created this toolkit, 607 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,240 Speaker 2: and you can actually find it right now on Courage 608 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 2: is a habit dot org and it's right in our 609 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 2: front page under tool of the week. You can see 610 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,320 Speaker 2: it right in the front page, and it's a toolkit 611 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 2: called Cease and Desist Policies Concealing Student Social Transition. And 612 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 2: if you click on that, we give you a pdf. 613 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 2: We give you instructions on how to flood your schools 614 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,840 Speaker 2: to leverage this injunction. When the Supreme Court or any 615 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 2: you know, Congress or whoever, when they when they pass 616 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 2: a law like this is simply giving you a shield 617 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 2: and a sword. So you've got to pick it up 618 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 2: and use it. If you don't use it, the schools 619 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 2: will pretend it never happened. And so we give you 620 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 2: this toolkit so that you're not just on Facebook going, 621 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 2: you know, sharing and saying yay, this is great, but 622 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 2: you have to do something with it, and it has 623 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 2: to be micro and actionable in your schools. And you've 624 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,319 Speaker 2: got to get other parents to do it. And I'm 625 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,719 Speaker 2: not talking about you know, five or ten parents. I'm 626 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 2: talking about hundreds of parents in every school district needs 627 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,359 Speaker 2: to use our toolkit. And only then can you put 628 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 2: enough pressure on the school that they know they're going 629 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 2: to be sued, because now they're going to be they're 630 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,879 Speaker 2: going against a junction, they're breaking the law. And this 631 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 2: is also I want to remind everybody, and not just 632 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 2: about this injunction, but laws in general. A law is 633 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 2: not proactive, it's reactive. For example, we have laws on 634 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 2: the book to not commit murder, but the law of 635 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:22,920 Speaker 2: not committing murder, making murder illegal literally does not stop 636 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,799 Speaker 2: anybody from committing murder. What it does is that when 637 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 2: someone does commit murder and you catch this person, then 638 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,520 Speaker 2: you punish them to the full extent of the law, 639 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,879 Speaker 2: unless you have a bunch of sorels judges that keep 640 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 2: letting people out for committing horrible crimes. But I now 641 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:42,440 Speaker 2: we're going to. 642 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: Have to leave it there. We are out of time, 643 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: but thank you so much for joining us. The website 644 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 1: is Courage is ahabit dot org. Courage is ahabit dot org. 645 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: Alvin Lewie, thank you so much for joining us. 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