Speaker 1: While the city council might only give you sixty seconds
Speaker 1: to where your grievance is.
Speaker 2: Oh hi, i'd like to start go to the first
Speaker 2: caller on the phone.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're lucky, now we're giving you a both
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. It's a KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang
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Speaker 2: with an issue very near and dear to my heart,
Speaker 2: and that is the welfare of little dogs and little
Speaker 2: cats in Los Angeles because the coyotes are coming out
Speaker 2: in full force. We have now seen video evidence of
Speaker 2: coyotes doing their worst in neighborhoods in West LA, which
Speaker 2: the last time I checked, that's nowhere near any kind
Speaker 2: of mountains or foothill, and the coyotes have come out
Speaker 2: to the suburban neighborhoods. And it's funny. You watch this
Speaker 2: piece from CBSLA and they're like, boy, I wish someone
Speaker 2: from the state could take these coyotes and put them
Speaker 2: somewhere where they're supposed to be.
Speaker 3: They don't do that.
Speaker 2: They don't do anything until they actually attack a child.
Speaker 2: Because I guess we don't care if they attack our
Speaker 2: dogs and cats. We don't seem to do anything. And
Speaker 2: I understand the argument of, well, you know, we've destroyed
Speaker 2: their habitat, and you know, because of all the wildfires,
Speaker 2: there's nothing for them to eat, the drought, what have you.
Speaker 2: They've got to go into the neighborhoods. But I don't care.
Speaker 2: They're a predator of two of the most important things
Speaker 2: to me in the world, my little doggies. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna protect myself no matter what. But what am I
Speaker 2: left to do? What can I do? Because I'll tell
Speaker 2: you this is something I deal with every single year.
Speaker 2: We're in one of those seasons once again where the
Speaker 2: coyotes are wandering around my neighborhood in the middle of
Speaker 2: the sanm Fernando Valley, and I feel really bad because
Speaker 2: this is a neighborhood where there's a lot of cats
Speaker 2: and a lot of outdoor cats. And this time of
Speaker 2: year you don't see as many outdoor cats, but you
Speaker 2: do see one or two coyotes wandering around. Now, the
Speaker 2: first time that I saw one, I was scared to death.
Speaker 2: I had never seen a coyote up close.
Speaker 3: And what it happened was.
Speaker 2: I was turning the corner and I was walking past
Speaker 2: a house that was kind of notable in the neighborhood
Speaker 2: for having way too much overgrown brush and overgrown trees,
Speaker 2: and you couldn't really see past the house. So as
Speaker 2: soon as I passed the wall and I'm about to
Speaker 2: walk past the next house, sitting on the lawn of
Speaker 2: the house next to the house I was walking while
Speaker 2: I'm walking my two little dogs at six point thirty
Speaker 2: in the morning, was a coyote just sitting there sleeping.
Speaker 2: I mean, he looked at me, and I looked at
Speaker 2: it realized what it was, and although I did not
Speaker 2: really know what to do at the time, I ended
Speaker 2: up doing the right thing. I started shrieking really, really loudly.
Speaker 2: I started screaming, which I have now taught my dogs
Speaker 2: to not worry about that if I'm doing it. But
Speaker 2: I freaked out and the loud noise and I acted
Speaker 2: really big. That does scare it away. When it happened
Speaker 2: the other day, I was a lot more aggressive about it.
Speaker 2: I was rounding the corner with my dogs, and I
Speaker 2: don't walk my dogs at six am. I do not
Speaker 2: walk them at dawn or dust specifically for this reason.
Speaker 2: I also don't walk my dogs at dust because that's
Speaker 2: when the skeeters come out, and I have the tastiest
Speaker 2: blood in the world, according to mosquitoes. But I'm walking around.
Speaker 2: This must have been eight thirty nine o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: It's summertime, so it's already hot out, the sun's out,
Speaker 2: and I'm walking around. On the corner I see on
Speaker 2: the other side of the street the coyote wandering. And
Speaker 2: we've already had evidence that the coyote's been around anecdotally,
Speaker 2: people have seen it at night. My neighbor wanted to
Speaker 2: make sure that I knew that the giant pile of
Speaker 2: you know what, that was made by a coyote, because,
Speaker 2: you know what, most of the people in this neighborhood
Speaker 2: pick up after their dogs, but who's picking up after
Speaker 2: the coyote. Anyway, I see it, and I immediately am like, well,
Speaker 2: I could pick up my little dogs in just head
Speaker 2: for the hills, or I can stand tall and just vent.
Speaker 2: I straight up went get out of here, started shaking
Speaker 2: my keys, dancing all around, and you know what, it
Speaker 2: got out of there. But I don't like that I
Speaker 2: have to do that, and I don't like that I
Speaker 2: have to be hyper aware, Like I'm getting to a
Speaker 2: point where I don't even feel comfortable walking my dogs
Speaker 2: while I'm listening to my news stories. They used to
Speaker 2: be the thing that I do. But I can't be distracted.
Speaker 2: I need to be seeing everything. I need to be
Speaker 2: hearing everything. Definitely won't be looking at my phone. I've
Speaker 2: got to keep my eyes and my ears on the
Speaker 2: prize because the most important thing to me is protecting
Speaker 2: my little dogs. And my little chihuahua is seven pounds.
Speaker 2: She would be breakfast. I wish there was more we
Speaker 2: could do. I really do. It drives me crazy that,
Speaker 2: in the name of protecting environmentalism, what have you? We
Speaker 2: have to allow the predator, which and I don't understand ecology,
Speaker 2: But what benefit does the coyote have? Like the stray
Speaker 2: cats have a benefit they eat the rats, but the
Speaker 2: coyotes just eat the cats, which means nobody's eating the rats.
Speaker 2: So I don't see why we can't just trap and
Speaker 2: exterminate these little predators. I don't care that they're just
Speaker 2: doing what they're supposed to do. Also, this is just
Speaker 2: another time for a public service announcement. If you're one
Speaker 2: of those people that just leaves out dry food for
Speaker 2: all the stray animals.
Speaker 3: Don't do that.
Speaker 2: You feed these things, they decide that, oh, I should
Speaker 2: stay here. You got to make life as uncomfortable as
Speaker 2: possible for all of them. And I feel bad for
Speaker 2: the outdoor cats, But the outdoor cats are better off
Speaker 2: having to scavenge food for themselves in a controlled environment,
Speaker 2: then having all the food out there for them to
Speaker 2: then be.
Speaker 3: The coyotes lunch.
Speaker 2: I hate that this is something that we have to
Speaker 2: deal with in Los Angeles. It's not like we're living
Speaker 2: in the mountains. I live in boring ass suburbia. Why
Speaker 2: is this happening in my neighborhood? And why is it
Speaker 2: happening in West la Now in Boyle Heights. The situation
Speaker 2: gets worse by the day. We have the fire that
Speaker 2: led to the rotting food, that has led to the rats,
Speaker 2: which is now leading to an infestation with flies, and
Speaker 2: all of this is happening at the same time while
Speaker 2: the typical other failures of Los Angeles just happened to
Speaker 2: be evident. So right down the street over the weekend
Speaker 2: from the burned out site of the warehouse where they're
Speaker 2: still trying to pull out millions and millions and millions
Speaker 2: of pounds of food. We had a water main break,
Speaker 2: and the last thing you want with all those rats
Speaker 2: and all of that diseased, disgusting food is standing water.
Speaker 2: And of course you know it took them over the
Speaker 2: weekend to fix it, but it is emblematic of another
Speaker 2: issue of the failure of Los Angeles. And these are
Speaker 2: so common that they don't even get as much attention
Speaker 2: as they should. But the water main breaks are something
Speaker 2: that we know is going to happen. We know how
Speaker 2: much destruction they could cause, how much water we can
Speaker 2: lose when these things are gushing and gushing and gushing.
Speaker 2: But the city has decided, with so many other things,
Speaker 2: and this is where the priorities of the city are
Speaker 2: completely whacked out. It makes more sense to just fix
Speaker 2: the one hundred year old water mains when they break
Speaker 2: than meticulously trying to replace the old infrastructure before it breaks.
Speaker 2: We don't fix the sidewalks. We just pay out the
Speaker 2: liability claims when people slip, trip and fall on them.
Speaker 2: There is nobody that is forward thinking. And sure your
Speaker 2: local elected officials will say, well, there's just no money
Speaker 2: in the budget for that kind of stuff. Well, then
Speaker 2: let's start re examining what we're spending our money on,
Speaker 2: because the government of the City of Los Angeles should
Speaker 2: be really taking care of the basics.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I was reminded as I watched the town hall in
Speaker 2: Boyle Heights where Karen Bass got booed and cussed out,
Speaker 2: where hildes Elise got booed and cussed out, where Barbara
Speaker 2: Ferrara got booed and cussed out, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: on the Accountability podcast on Wednesday, we're going to cover
Speaker 2: that entire town hall uncensored.
Speaker 3: You're gonna want to watch that.
Speaker 2: There was a moment where a lot of the residents
Speaker 2: were complaining about how many disasters seem to happen in
Speaker 2: the City of Los Angeles, specifically in neighborhoods like Boyle Heights,
Speaker 2: neighborhoods that are zoned next to all kinds of different
Speaker 2: industrial what have us. And a woman spoke up working
Speaker 2: for the city to give her take on what their
Speaker 2: department is trying to do about this issue, and it
Speaker 2: was Caprimattics. Caprimatics is the head of the Department of
Speaker 2: Civil Rights in the City of Los Angeles. What that
Speaker 2: department does, you ask, Well, that's a very good question.
Speaker 2: She makes a healthy salary, she's probably got dozens of
Speaker 2: staffers under her, and she was responsible for the big
Speaker 2: campaign last year, do you remember, and we covered it extensively.
Speaker 2: It may have been my favorite show of last year,
Speaker 2: the just Say Hello campaign. The LA City Department of
Speaker 2: Civil Rights took your taxpayer money to put forth a
Speaker 2: public service announcement campaign with bus benches and bus paint
Speaker 2: overs and radio and TV to tell everyone around you
Speaker 2: to just say hello. That was a real thing that happened.
Speaker 2: And that is one of the many, many, many, many departments.
Speaker 2: Maybe their department isn't as big as the fire department
Speaker 2: or the police department, but all of these nonsensical departments
Speaker 2: that do not do the basics we don't.
Speaker 3: Have the money for.
Speaker 2: Tell me what the legitimate reasons are that we have
Speaker 2: a Department of Civil Rights in the City of Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and what it is they do that's not already protected
Speaker 2: by state law.
Speaker 3: I do not understand it.
Speaker 2: You think about some of the things that we pay for,
Speaker 2: for instance, Measure ULA, the highly debated mansion tax, although
Speaker 2: it's not really a mansion tax because it goes after
Speaker 2: any home. If it's multifamily and worth more than five
Speaker 2: million dollars, doesn't matter, it's not a mansion. Nope, it's
Speaker 2: still getting taxed at five ten percent of it's above
Speaker 2: a certain value. That money is supposed to go towards
Speaker 2: housing programs. But do you know where a big portion
Speaker 2: of the measured ULA money goes to the city of
Speaker 2: La allocated a whole bunch of money to it to
Speaker 2: eviction defense attorneys.
Speaker 3: So what that means is we have.
Speaker 2: Attorneys from nonprofit law firms like Betzedek and what have
Speaker 2: you that are getting paid by the city to then
Speaker 2: sue the city. And it's this cycle that goes over
Speaker 2: and over and over again. And if you ever watched
Speaker 2: the La City count meetings, which I don't recommend, you
Speaker 2: will not learn anything of value. But in between the
Speaker 2: gadflies of all the people who are saying obscenities into
Speaker 2: the microphone, you will see the eviction defense attorney showed
Speaker 2: up every single day for months and months and months.
Speaker 2: You must renew our contract. You must protect diviction defense
Speaker 2: because they're getting paid and they need that. And you
Speaker 2: have so many different NGOs and nonprofits that are getting
Speaker 2: money from some program that make sure they show up,
Speaker 2: which they have the free time to show up at
Speaker 2: ten o'clock in the morning on a Tuesday, to get
Speaker 2: their voice heard and to say very loudly, keep funding
Speaker 2: my program.
Speaker 3: We have so many of these things.
Speaker 2: The city is stretched so thin that we do not
Speaker 2: have money for the basics, which include replacing the water mains.
Speaker 2: If you've listened to this show for a while, you're
Speaker 2: well aware that I'm a big advocate of police surveillance.
Speaker 2: I'm a big advocate of the drone programs that we
Speaker 2: have in cities like San Jose and San Francisco in
Speaker 2: Orange County. In Sacramento, they just used drones to crack
Speaker 2: down our a whole bunch of fireworks. I'm also a
Speaker 2: huge proponent of the Flock camera system, the license plate
Speaker 2: reading cameras. These have made a huge difference in cities
Speaker 2: in the Bay Area, and it is cracked down immensely
Speaker 2: on a huge problem that faces up and down California,
Speaker 2: and that's Carthf's. In fact, a notable story, the city
Speaker 2: of Richmond in the Bay Area canceled their contract with
Speaker 2: Flock after the locals got all pissed off about government
Speaker 2: data being shared or the information being looked at by
Speaker 2: federal agencies. And they weren't even talking about ICE. But
Speaker 2: I guess we don't want to work with any federal agency,
Speaker 2: not the DEA, not the FBI, what have you when
Speaker 2: it comes to tracking the movements of criminals. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: here's the fun statistic. Richmond got rid of their FLOCK
Speaker 2: program and in three months car thefts went up fifty percent.
Speaker 2: So the city of Los Angeles doesn't really have a
Speaker 2: program like this. We don't have the money for it.
Speaker 2: LAPD certainly doesn't have the money. But you have different
Speaker 2: neighborhood organizations, different homeowners associations that have bought these cameras
Speaker 2: and put them in their neighborhoods, allowing LAPD to access
Speaker 2: the data and use it to fight crime. And the LAPD,
Speaker 2: which is controlled by the LAPD Commission, which is controlled
Speaker 2: by a bunch of anti police wackos, have decided that
Speaker 2: we should cancel our contract with flock because we care
Speaker 2: more about making sure that the data we collect is
Speaker 2: not being accessed by the federal government than making sure
Speaker 2: we have every data PA Police possible on the people
Speaker 2: that are stealing cars. Left and right in the city
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. I think that is a failure. I
Speaker 2: think we need to lean into technology, not steer away
Speaker 2: from it. And look, I know there are disputes when
Speaker 2: it comes to ICE, I get that, But shouldn't we
Speaker 2: be wanting to work and wanting to share data with
Speaker 2: the FBI and the DEA, especially when it comes to
Speaker 2: tracking some of the gangs that are trafficking drugs and
Speaker 2: women and what have you. If the license plate readers
Speaker 2: can help with that. Shouldn't we be all on the
Speaker 2: same team. But the privacy advocates, which again I find
Speaker 2: that term to be hilarious in twenty twenty six, when
Speaker 2: everyone is broadcasting every second of their life. I'm broadcasting
Speaker 2: right now on the radio and recording this for a
Speaker 2: video to post on YouTube later. Yes, we all care
Speaker 2: about our privacy so much. I find it all to
Speaker 2: be nonsense. Culver City, place that I drive to every
Speaker 2: single day, has made an interesting decision based on the
Speaker 2: complaints of constituents. They've decided to shut down a proposed
Speaker 2: drive through on Supulvita and Sawtel. The problem they're going
Speaker 2: to have is that proposed drive through is an in
Speaker 2: and out burger and there's a reason that the in
Speaker 2: and Out Burger on Venice and Culver City wraps around
Speaker 2: the block. It's because it is that popular. And I
Speaker 2: understand that there may be concerns about traffic, although the
Speaker 2: local people that don't want this are like, well, we're
Speaker 2: complaining about tailpipe emissions, which is pretty sweet. You're worried
Speaker 2: about the tailpipe emissions from the fifteen cars that are
Speaker 2: waiting in line at in and Out Burger, and not
Speaker 2: the tailpipe emissions from the two hundred thousand cars that
Speaker 2: are sitting on the four h five Freeway that you
Speaker 2: live next to. Okay, I don't think this is going
Speaker 2: to last long. I think there is going to be
Speaker 2: a massive flow back. We should be encouraging more. If
Speaker 2: another in and out burger can be successful in Culver
Speaker 2: City and based on the lines on the one on
Speaker 2: Venice Boulevard and based on the lines of the one
Speaker 2: in that Costco parking lot in Marina del Rey, yeah,
Speaker 2: they could probably use it. You know, it's gonna do well.
Speaker 2: It is a fantastic job creator. It's one of those places,
Speaker 2: like a Costco, where without much of an education, you
Speaker 2: can have a real life. You can make a decent living.
Speaker 2: You can get healthcare, you can get benefits, you can
Speaker 2: get vacation. In no way should we ever be stifling
Speaker 2: in in and out Burger from going in anywhere in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles County or the state of California. So I
Speaker 2: don't think that one's gonna go well. And I feel
Speaker 2: like Culver City is going to backpedal on that decision.
Speaker 2: And finally, in southern California, the TikTok and teen trends continue.
Speaker 2: This time, posters emerged of a planned takeover It Not'sperry Farm,
Speaker 2: but law enforcement was proactive, not reactive.
Speaker 3: After what happened in Newport Beach.
Speaker 2: Huntington's Beach made sure that didn't happen in their town,
Speaker 2: and Buena Park made sure this did not happen in
Speaker 2: their town.
Speaker 3: They were patrolling.
Speaker 2: They were watching out for all the kids, because the
Speaker 2: last thing we need is the chaperone policy going back
Speaker 2: because the kids all want to beat each other up
Speaker 2: on TikTok And have said it before, I'll say it again.
Speaker 2: How are the social media platforms not being held responsible
Speaker 2: at all for profiting off of people promoting illegal activity?
Speaker 2: But that's the hill that I like to fight on
Speaker 2: every single day. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang
Speaker 2: on Talk radio seven ninety KABC. It's the News Blitz
Speaker 2: with Randy Wang on Talk radio seven ninety KABC. If
Speaker 2: you'd like to email us, you can do so at
Speaker 2: Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com. Ed Wright saying
Speaker 2: about coyotes. My experience from years ago in the La
Speaker 2: Times was delivered to individual homes. I had a route
Speaker 2: and burbankle above Glen Oaks and daily saw coyotes. Oh,
Speaker 2: when I lived up there, I saw them too, but
Speaker 2: you're in the foothills at the time. One thing I
Speaker 2: learned is they run in pairs. One would be on
Speaker 2: one side of the street and one would either be
Speaker 2: further up or behind. In this way, they would scarecats
Speaker 2: to run across the street and the other would catch them.
Speaker 2: Be sure to look around and make sure there is
Speaker 2: a partner close by. Just wanted to give you a
Speaker 2: heads up too, because I have a couple of small dogs.
Speaker 2: Thank you for continuing to bring up this problem.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Ed. We all got to stick together as the city
Speaker 2: and the county and the state don't care at all.
Speaker 2: They seem to care more about the coyotes, and I
Speaker 2: don't understand that one bit. We got a half hour
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Speaker 2: gonna have a brand new episode on Wednesday where we
Speaker 2: will cover the Uncensored town Hall where Karen Bass and
Speaker 2: Barbara Ferrara got cussed out for their failures and boil Heights.
Speaker 2: Now in the Bay Area, Daniel Lurie had a major
Speaker 2: pushback to supervisor billal Ma Mood, who's the supervisor who
Speaker 2: took over for Dean Press and the Tenderloin.
Speaker 3: Supervisor Ma Mood.
Speaker 2: Wanted to do a very Zoron Mamdani kind of idea
Speaker 2: in San Francisco publicly funded grocery store. So the idea is, well,
Speaker 2: there are neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, like Soma, like the
Speaker 2: Mission where you don't see a lot of grocery stores.
Speaker 2: And Supervisor my Mood claims that while the grocery stores
Speaker 2: that have closed, the grocery companies are not giving up
Speaker 2: those leases. They're leaving those buildings vacant because they don't
Speaker 2: want competitors to move in. So what we need to
Speaker 2: do is tax those businesses that are keeping those vacant
Speaker 2: spaces and use that money to give to nonprofits to
Speaker 2: open up public corner stores. And Daniel Lurry thought that
Speaker 2: was not a great idea, it was kind of half banked,
Speaker 2: and used his political capital, to which he has lots of.
Speaker 2: He's the most popular mayor in America to shut this
Speaker 2: thing down before a vote was even started on it.
Speaker 2: And there's a couple of things here. One, if these
Speaker 2: neighborhoods were safer, the grocery stores and the Walgreens would
Speaker 2: feel safe to open and operate. You can't really blame
Speaker 2: the Walgreens for shutting down when they had to literally
Speaker 2: lock up the ice cream and the pizza with a chain.
Speaker 2: That is not hyperbole, that really happened. But let's say
Speaker 2: that even then, maybe it's too expensive to operate, maybe
Speaker 2: it's just not making sense. Well, the city can work
Speaker 2: with that. The city can definitely make it easier to
Speaker 2: operate and incentivize. But even if that's not working, then
Speaker 2: maybe what we need to do is the pop up model,
Speaker 2: the farmer's market model. I think that's the way to
Speaker 2: go here. Farmers markets are fantastic and something that I
Speaker 2: feel that our government, federally and state doesn't promote nearly enough.
Speaker 2: Is that if you're on food stamps, if you're on EBT, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can use that at Ralph's. That's pretty obvious for
Speaker 2: some reason. And people love to cite food deserts for
Speaker 2: the reason that you're allowed to use it at McDonald's
Speaker 2: and Pizza Hut and what have you. Although I think
Speaker 2: that is the complete wrong message, and I do not
Speaker 2: like the idea that. Remember, food stamps are a double subsidy.
Speaker 2: In fact, if you're Walmart, they're a triple subsidy because
Speaker 2: Walmart pays their people so little that they're on food
Speaker 2: stamps and then they use their food stamps at Walmart.
Speaker 3: Gee.
Speaker 2: I wonder how that became America's biggest employer. That's not
Speaker 2: a rip off or anything, but one of the things
Speaker 2: that we should encourage, at least make people publicly aware
Speaker 2: is those EBT cards, those food stamps. You can use
Speaker 2: it farmers markets to get fresh produce from local farmers.
Speaker 2: And if we're going to be subsidizing somebody, it should
Speaker 2: be the local farmers. Anyway, that's a whole point in
Speaker 2: saying we should have more pop up farmers' markets events.
Speaker 2: They have them in places in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: You've ever been to the.
Speaker 2: One in Culver City near the Culver City Steps. It's massive,
Speaker 2: it's huge. More events like that, you're gonna get more
Speaker 2: opportunities for people to have more healthy food. But this
Speaker 2: program here, the publicly funded grocery stores, I agree with
Speaker 2: Mayor Luriy it is half baked at best. The Bay
Speaker 2: Area Rapid Transit Agency BART says, even though ridership is
Speaker 2: way up thanks to things like making sure they have
Speaker 2: safety gates in every single station, including the one where
Speaker 2: the lady got stuck in trying to sneak through, their
Speaker 2: revenue is still below what it was in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: And they say they are driving off the proverbial fiscal
Speaker 2: cliff and if you don't pass that transitt tax, we're
Speaker 2: going to see a cut in service. Notably, we've talked
Speaker 2: to Deborah Allen, who was a BART board member, and
Speaker 2: she says she's not necessarily so sure that's the case
Speaker 2: that they would have to cut service. Part of the
Speaker 2: problem here and whether they get another tax increase or not,
Speaker 2: they have labor contracts that are way too generous and
Speaker 2: like so many other agencies. This is true with police,
Speaker 2: it's true with fire. It's also true with transit agencies.
Speaker 2: There is so much overtime being paid out and sometimes
Speaker 2: completely unnecessarily so that the labor budgets get soaked up
Speaker 2: from that. And when you talk about you know, what
Speaker 2: really is the cost who operating these systems? Because it's
Speaker 2: not like you know, BART is expanding a little, but
Speaker 2: most of it's already built out. You understand the cost
Speaker 2: of La Metro. They're still building it and it still
Speaker 2: goes nowhere in the Bay Area. Most of it's built,
Speaker 2: and it does go to a lot of places. So
Speaker 2: most of your costs are labor. And if the labor
Speaker 2: costs are that outrageous and you cannot make your money
Speaker 2: through it, we'll see if the sales tax passes. I
Speaker 2: don't know if there is an appetite for it, let alone.
Speaker 2: In San Francisco, it's a double one. They want the
Speaker 2: sales tax for BART and they want a separate sales
Speaker 2: tax for MUNI. There is a horrific story in Vallejo
Speaker 2: of a jackass young driver driving around with his girlfriend
Speaker 2: doing stunts in Vallejo, doing donuts, what have you. He
Speaker 2: ends up getting into a place where she gets thrown
Speaker 2: from the car. He runs her over. And what do
Speaker 2: you think the dumbass boyfriend does when he runs over
Speaker 2: his girlfriend. He takes off and he speeds away, and
Speaker 2: now she's in a coma. We need to get rid
Speaker 2: of the incentive structure for people to do these kinds
Speaker 2: of dangerous things.
Speaker 3: We know why they're doing it.
Speaker 2: They're doing it for social media clout, and they're doing
Speaker 2: it for money, and they're doing it for clicks. We
Speaker 2: cannot have a system where we incentivize all kinds of
Speaker 2: illegal activity. I hope they catch this guy, and I
Speaker 2: sure hope they break up. Here's one of those stories
Speaker 2: that's perpetually, always a thing. Oakland is always just about
Speaker 2: to sell the coliseum, you know, thee that used to
Speaker 2: house the A's, the coliseum that used to house the Raiders,
Speaker 2: the coliseum that also used to house the Raiders. They
Speaker 2: just lost another team, the Oakland Roots, the soccer team.
Speaker 2: They're not going to be playing there either. But back
Speaker 2: in the Shang Tao days, Oakland said, we're going to
Speaker 2: sell this thing to Ray Bobbitt and the aa SEG
Speaker 2: and it's going to solve all our budget woes. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: aa SEG never had the money to get this thing
Speaker 2: to begin with. And here we are two years later
Speaker 2: and the city still trying to figure out how to
Speaker 2: finance this company that does not have the money to
Speaker 2: buy the stadium. And part of the deal is well
Speaker 2: Oakland would get six percent of any ticket sales.
Speaker 3: Ticket sales to what there's no teams there.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of knocking on California on
Speaker 2: this show, on this station, But California is an innovator.
Speaker 2: There is so much research and development that happens in
Speaker 2: this state. To use a Gavin newsomism, that is true,
Speaker 2: even though when he says it it makes you irritated.
Speaker 2: The future does happen here first. And the Bay Area
Speaker 2: is about to be home to the world's first fusion factory.
Speaker 2: You heard about this probably a year ago, where we
Speaker 2: have finally shown a way to generate energy from fusion,
Speaker 2: not fission, which is how nuclear power plants are done,
Speaker 2: but fusion apparently, and I don't know the science for this,
Speaker 2: I'm in radio, forgive me, but you have a laser
Speaker 2: that heats up to a certain incredible hotness that ends
Speaker 2: up generating its own energy. Kind of reminds me of
Speaker 2: whatever Doctor Octopus was working on in Spider Man two.
Speaker 2: That's where my reference goes immediately. But if we have
Speaker 2: this energy source, they could be self perpetuating. We're starting small,
Speaker 2: by the way, you have to start with a vast
Speaker 2: amount of energy to even create a increment mental increase,
Speaker 2: But this could be a game changer. And if any
Speaker 2: advancements really do happen in creating a clean energy future
Speaker 2: where we're not fighting over oil in the Middle East
Speaker 2: and we're not putting up solar panels in such a
Speaker 2: mass that they're a massive danger to a neighborhood. If
Speaker 2: we actually have real new technology, clean ways to do
Speaker 2: these things, it could be a massive game changer. And
Speaker 2: these kind of things are being researched every single day
Speaker 2: in the Bay Area and in California. And finally, it's
Speaker 2: not an encampment. It's a movie set people in the
Speaker 2: business district in San Francisco, where I have stayed at before.
Speaker 2: I was at the Hilton Business District right there at
Speaker 2: Portsmouth Square. They were all freaking out because an encampment,
Speaker 2: a homeless encampment, was erected overnight. And wait a second,
Speaker 2: Daniel Laurie, you said you were cracking down on this.
Speaker 2: San Francisco's seen a notable reduction in tents in street homelessness.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't a homeless encampment. It was a set
Speaker 2: piece for a zombie movie being directed by Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Speaker 2: Because apparently filming in the Bay Area is up, filming
Speaker 2: in San Francisco is up. There was that Letters from
Speaker 2: Isabelle movie in San Francisco where a lot of it
Speaker 2: was actually shot there, and it takes place there, and
Speaker 2: it's It's one of the reasons why I'm not as
Speaker 2: like worried or I'm not as upset about runaway production
Speaker 2: is because every major city has some kind of story
Speaker 2: to tell. Having everything shot in Los Angeles seems just shortsighted.
Speaker 2: In the days where production is easy to be mobile,
Speaker 2: you can move gear, you can get cruise to go
Speaker 2: to different places, but shooting things for different locales it
Speaker 2: gives a different flavor. And so I'm all for that again.
Speaker 2: I've made the point before and I'll make it again.
Speaker 2: Like people say that New York was a central character
Speaker 2: to the Sex in the City, Albuquerque was a central
Speaker 2: character to the Vince Gilligan Universe, whether that be Breaking Bad,
Speaker 2: Better Cross Saul or Plurbius, and those shows would have
Speaker 2: hit just a little differently if they were as originally
Speaker 2: intended shot in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: So anyway, good on San Francisco.
Speaker 2: They get more production, LA can make it easier to
Speaker 2: do more local shoots and more productions, but as of
Speaker 2: right now they're not. And we don't have time to
Speaker 2: talk about how the unions keep shooting themselves in the
Speaker 2: foot by asking for demands that the answer from the
Speaker 2: studios is okay, We'll just go to Canada. It's the
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Speaker 2: Good luck dialing this Thursday, there is a very very
Speaker 2: very cool fundraiser going on with the Los Angeles Dodgers
Speaker 2: and the Habit Dodgers' relief pitcher Alex Besia joined Habit
Speaker 2: at Dodgers ex Habit home base, the Dodgers themed Habit
Speaker 2: restaurant in Echo Park to announce a beautiful fundraiser twenty
Speaker 2: percent of all net sales benefielding the Children's Hospital of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. This is happening Thursday, July sixteenth, from four
Speaker 2: to nine pm benefiting the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: And all you have to do to participate is eat
Speaker 2: at the Habit and the Habit is fantastic.
Speaker 3: I love their burgers.
Speaker 2: Any one of one hundred and forty three participating habits
Speaker 2: in La Orange County and Riverside on Thursday between four
Speaker 2: to nine pm use the promo code give back. Twenty
Speaker 2: percent of net dinner sales will be donated to Chill
Speaker 2: Aildren's Hospital, Los Angeles. Our own Trisha Cruz talked to
Speaker 2: Alex Beasia about the event and here is what she
Speaker 2: had to say.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for talking to us at ABC
Speaker 4: News Radio. We're big fans and that like Dodgers yourself.
Speaker 4: So what makes this partnership with private home base and
Speaker 4: Children's Hospital of l A. Meaning, Yeah, so when I
Speaker 4: first got the call, it's funny because growing up and
Speaker 4: and uh, like my dad would always take me, you know,
Speaker 4: child ball games and you know, baseball and burgers is
Speaker 4: what we did. So he loves kind of absolutely loves
Speaker 4: how he loves the char burgers. He'd always taken there
Speaker 4: when I was younger. So you know when I when
Speaker 4: I called him and asked him about it, he was
Speaker 4: to the moon. So yeah, it kind of goes back
Speaker 4: to the rooms of me a little bit. And you know,
Speaker 4: and obviously coming here is the first time I've venue
Speaker 4: to the home base and I didn't know it was
Speaker 4: this close to daughter stadium, you know, and I think
Speaker 4: this is such an awesome thing to kind of get
Speaker 4: everybody in the community here and uh, you know, it's
Speaker 4: not too important the stadium so to act.
Speaker 2: So what's your favorite thing of the men?
Speaker 4: So I do the the double chart burger, So I
Speaker 4: don't I'm not a big onion guy. Guy. You know,
Speaker 4: cheese and catch up. You know, I'm paying enough fries.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we we keep it keeping simple and my wife,
Speaker 4: my wife will say she's like do you even taste it?
Speaker 4: And like I'm just eating for the calories. But this
Speaker 4: is this is this is so good. So what about
Speaker 4: your teammates?
Speaker 2: Is there anything I've been trying to computer charge?
Speaker 4: So obviously with like show and Yam, there's been a
Speaker 4: sushi that's been introduced to us a lot more. What
Speaker 4: is it ka Ni Geary when we went to Japan
Speaker 4: and then ever since then, every time we go.
Speaker 3: You' a sushi guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been really good. So because usually, like before,
Speaker 4: I would just up with California, so it's very but yeah,
Speaker 4: now I'm I'm definitely broadening that.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: So we're setting in for the mural by Al the Gonzalez.
Speaker 4: He was to make a mural of you in your life.
Speaker 4: It's you got to have the scream, You got to
Speaker 4: have the emotion coming out of the mound, okay, you know,
Speaker 4: or the intensity you know. And I think just what
Speaker 4: I would like to see is like the crowd in
Speaker 4: the background, because I always feel like when I run
Speaker 4: out on the mountain, like I hear that, I hear
Speaker 4: my my walkout song, and then I hear the crowd
Speaker 4: and they're always super loud, and you know it's just
Speaker 4: it's I know how much they support for myself and
Speaker 4: my life, and so yeah, I definitely like that never
Speaker 4: goes unnoticed for me. We all know al A Dodgers
Speaker 4: have them, those die hard fans and they do what
Speaker 4: would you tell them to get involved with You'll just
Speaker 4: talk a little. I mean it's just you know overall
Speaker 4: cause right and with the children and one on especially
Speaker 4: with my myself and k and our situation. You know,
Speaker 4: they do really good job. It's even you know past
Speaker 4: players and have always told me really good things and
Speaker 4: so yeah, it does touch a pretty special place in
Speaker 4: our heart. So you know, take this cornership off like this.
Speaker 4: It's been a great And can you tell us about
Speaker 4: the donation because it's going to be kicking off this Thursday.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we proceeds twenty percent of the process. If
Speaker 4: you're going by, well we'll be going to c HL.
Speaker 4: So it's it's definitely donate, right.
Speaker 2: And one last question, if you weren't an amazing picture picture.
Speaker 3: What career were doing?
Speaker 4: Well, I did get my degree in recreational management in college,
Speaker 4: so yeah, I wanted to open up my own gym
Speaker 4: and like training facility because I always thought like when
Speaker 4: I was younger, I never had a place like workout
Speaker 4: or like do anyting like small specific, So I definitely
Speaker 4: that was like my senior project. My mom was a
Speaker 4: compositive tool maker, so she makes uh a pot like
Speaker 4: the carbon fiber outsides for the Predator drone. So I
Speaker 4: would have probably gone into that feel first and then
Speaker 4: make money so that I could potentially fund the gym
Speaker 4: and the training facilities. So something in that lines. I
Speaker 4: definitely like working with kids and doing the kids camps
Speaker 4: and stuff. We've been a tale dating a quite a
Speaker 4: few times and it's fun and you know, it just
Speaker 4: it's not boring, right. You get to smiles on children's faces,
Speaker 4: and I should inspire a lot of lager things for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it just seems natural, I think. I
Speaker 4: mean every time I seem, you know, like when I'm
Speaker 4: in the bullpen, there's kids that will come up and
Speaker 4: ask about pitch grips and pitching and mentality and stuff
Speaker 4: and wat conversations just right in the bullpen. So there's
Speaker 4: a lot of stuff that goes in notice down there
Speaker 4: that we're trying to let the people know that's amazing.
Speaker 4: Thinking that's so much. Think this is a good radio
Speaker 4: any lasts for your fans? We uh three pet.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's our own Trisha Cruz who talked with Alex
Speaker 2: Facia about this great fundraiser. Dodger's ex Habit home base.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Any habit in southern California, most every habit this Thursday
Speaker 2: from four to nine pm. If you order from the Habit,
Speaker 2: which is great because that's an easy idea for dinner,
Speaker 2: use the promo code give back. Twenty percent of their
Speaker 2: net dinner sales would be donated to the Children's Hospital
Speaker 2: Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: That is great.
Speaker 2: Now we get a minute here to check out the
Speaker 2: box office. Mowana came in first place, but didn't do
Speaker 2: very well at forty three million dollars. That I don't
Speaker 2: even think that covers the Rock Salary, Minions and Monsters
Speaker 2: coming in second place. Toy Story five and in third
Speaker 2: place that has made four hundred million dollars. So for
Speaker 2: Evil Dead Burn which I didn't know there was a
Speaker 2: new Evil Dead coming out, that came in fourth place.
Speaker 2: In the fifth place movie Young Washington Mondo saw Supergirl
Speaker 2: said it was pretty good, had a great soundtrack as
Speaker 2: soon as it's on HBO Max. I will be watching it.
Speaker 2: Thank you all so much for being a part of
Speaker 2: this show. If you want to watch this later on,
Speaker 2: I will have it up probably tomorrow morning at YouTube
Speaker 2: dot com slash at Randy Wang Radio, where you can
Speaker 2: also see all kinds of segments and clips from the
Speaker 2: John Phillips Show. It's the News Splitz with Randy Wang
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