WEBVTT - Another Shakeup and Shakedown at the High Speed Rail 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.680 And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:07.520 on The John Phillip Show, mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:12.680 Well, John, it's happened yet again. A sewage pipe ruptured 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.440 in Tijuana. So you know what that means for the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:17.680 river valley in San Diego County. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:19.239 You can right here. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.600 Do those poor people ever get good news? 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.320 No, you are living in what seems like a third 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.400 world country if you are living right on the border 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:35.639 with Tijuana. My favorite part of this story is that 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.479 everyone's willing to do everything to fix this problem except 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:44.080 ask Mexico to stop dumping raw sewage directly into the river. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.600 Apparently their sewage treatment plant was built when Tijuana was 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.840 a third the size that it is today. Maybe we 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.360 got to buy them a new plant. Why do we 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:04.240 have to buy Mexico infrastructure? They're a country, they collect taxes. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.800 Why can't they do it because they're not gonna What 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:13.000 what leverage do we have for Tiwana to clean up 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:13.480 that river? 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.119 What? What exactly can we do to them? I don't know. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.800 There's gotta be ways we can threaten them and punish 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:20.680 them if we want to. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.880 Well, doesn't seem like we're even trying. And this has 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:29.160 been a failure of several different administrations, including the current 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.320 federal one, the last federal one, the wonderful this has 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.040 been going on for forty years? 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.520 When was it? Didn't We have Mike Netterer on the 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.360 program and he said that he used to live at 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.200 Imperial Beach a long time ago, and he said it 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.160 was unbearable back then. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:45.960 You can smart right here. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:56.480 It covers a lot of geography too. Eight hundred two 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.560 two two five two two two is a telephone number? 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.600 What a one hundred two to two five two two two. Well, 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.240 this week everyone has been focused on the election here 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:12.160 in California. However, that doesn't mean that other things have 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:18.400 just gone by the wayside. Right now in Sacramento, there 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.240 was a big change that took place over at the 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.720 high speed Rail that not a lot of people know 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.880 about because they've been focused on the governor's race and 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.720 the mayor's race and everything else. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.480 For the latest shakeup in management at California's high speed 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.480 rail authority, here is case a three. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.400 Leadership shake up at the California High Speed Rail Board 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.320 of Directors. Now, the board voted unanimously today for a 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.000 new board chairman Steve Kawa. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:47.800 Ger, I wonder how much they're all getting paid. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:50.639 Good question. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.040 We've been working to figure out what happened to the 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.119 board's previous leader, Tom Richards. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:55.399 Yeah. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.520 He hadn't been on the board since twenty ten and 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.160 was board chairman since twenty twenty. Our case here, THR 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.480 political director ash Zavala was there for the vote, and 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.520 you tried to speak with the board's new leader. Are 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.280 they talking to you? What did he have to say? 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.160 Well, I mean, I'm going to guess they're not talking 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:10.680 to Ashley. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:13.480 I think that's a safe bet. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.720 The number one qualification to be on the board of 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.000 directors for high speed Rail it doesn't matter if you 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:23.280 have an engineering background, you know how to procure government contracts. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:28.280 Your one qualification is you do not talk to Ashley Savalla. 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:30.480 King to you. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.320 What did you have to say, Well, I mean, so, 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.800 for the second time in about a month, board leaders, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.760 project leaders, I should say, are dodging interviews with US 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.400 Governor Gavin Newsom abruptly appointed Steve Kawa to the board 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.480 last month to replace Fresno developer Tom Richards as its leader. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.640 Kawa's career has been mainly in politics, in San Francisco. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.920 He has worked in the San Francisco Mayor's office under 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.360 a few different leaders, including Gavin Newsom. He has worked 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:57.960 with Newsom for decades. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:03.280 Oh great, it's another news So it's a political crony. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.000 It's a political patronage job for someone who doesn't know 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:08.160 anything about trains. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.680 That's what that board is. It is a place for 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.200 people to land who are termed out and who are 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:15.080 not electable. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.840 The board unanimously voted for him as the leader of 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.520 the High Speed Rail Authorities Board of Directors, and Kawa 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.719 there vowed to move this embattled bullet train project forward. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.480 And the meeting today the board specifically approved a three 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.400 point five billion dollar contract for tracking systems to try 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.360 to start laying down track this year. 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:38.120 They haven't even procured a contract. Who laid down the track, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.160 And there's already questions about who got this contract because 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:43.560 that's a whole lot of money. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.440 This is so stupid that we're even fooling around with 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:48.000 this still. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.760 And the meeting today, the board specifically approved a three 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.599 point five billion dollar contract for tracking systems to try 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.599 to start laying down track this year. The board also 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.039 approved a controversial business plan that will be in effect 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.760 for the next two years. It includes proposals that would 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.960 allow the state to take over land and tax money 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:07.960 from local governments. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.440 It also proposed Yeah, the cities like Bakersfield, like Merced, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.680 like Fresno, they were up in arms about this. The 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.520 high speed Rail Authority says through their new business plan 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.000 that Hey, any tax money that comes from the economic 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.840 development that we're creating from this rail, we're taking that 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.560 tax money. You're not getting that tax money. How is 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.679 that even legal? Good question. 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.839 It also proposes to allow the construction of data centers 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.720 and battery storage facilities to help pay for the project. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.520 Well, again, that's how we're going to pay for this thing. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.640 Amazon's going to build a bunch of server farms all 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.159 along the rail trail. And by the way, just think 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.120 about how liberal that language is there for a second. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.640 If they think that they're entitled to tax dollars because 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:03.360 they're bringing work into the region, then what are they 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.080 entitled to If there's a McDonald's that's selling big macs, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.680 they get a cut of that. Because the guys working 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.400 on the train are buying the big mas, so they 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.239 should be able to get a cut of the tax 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:20.080 dollars from the McDonald's. There is no proper funding plan 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.960 for this train, So this is the latest idea shake 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.920 down all the local governments that are along the initial segment. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.040 And you're talking about a bunch of local governments that 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.040 don't have a lot of money to begin with. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.920 No, and I would imagine that this project is unbelievably 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:42.160 disruptive to so many of those communities because you have 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.080 a lot of construction trucks, and you have a lot 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.200 of people who are there, but you don't have a 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.720 product the public can use. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.320 You remember the story we did a couple of years 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.880 ago about the tattoo artist in downtown Fresno who had 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.719 a shop that's right across the street from the future 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.320 Downtown Fresno high speed rail station. And not only did 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.400 all the construction crews take over his parking spaces, but 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.000 he has to close up shop and cannot do any 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.720 tattoo and in the middle of the day because there 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.960 is so much dust in the air, it could get 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.080 into somebody's blood. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:23.280 People think because there's something that is famous or something 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.240 that is people are talking about that's going on in 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.960 your community, that it's always a good thing for example, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.280 I live very close to Barack Obama. When he left 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.560 the White House, he spends some of his time here 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.280 in California, and he lives very, very very close to me. Now, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.520 when you say Barack Obama, do you mean the former 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.080 president or the guy who changed his name to Barack 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:49.880 Obama to run for governor. The former president. And when 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:54.680 he first moved out here, every time he would go someplace, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.960 it was a massive pain in the ass where they 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.720 would shut down the roads, and they would shut down 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.920 the roads that led to the road that he was 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.480 going to be driving on. And if he went to 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.840 the gym, they shut down the gym, they shut down 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.760 the golf course, they took all the cards. It's a 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.920 massive pain in the ass. And you go, well, you know, 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.440 he put your city on the map because the president 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.440 moved there. Yeah, maybe it sounds cool to someone who's 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:24.600 not here, but if you're here, it's unbelievably disruptive. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.440 Well, again, these are just proposals. During the meeting, Kawa said, 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.200 it's important to be transparent about all of this. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.840 I actually love this theme about communication. I've talked to 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.720 a lot of you, and I've said in my thirty 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.880 five years in public service. A lot of issues and 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:45.960 problems are a result of two things. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.880 It's this guy from Boston. It sounds like it sounds 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:50.800 like Jim McDonell. 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.560 Miscommunication and a lack of communication. So I know the 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.040 Authority and ian and the whole staff as well as 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.000 this Board of Directors wants to make sure that we 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:07.360 double down and triple down on communicating to aipatns throughout 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:08.400 the state of California. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.520 Okay, So we got Cliff Claven run on the High 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:12.400 speed rail. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.880 Okay. So then we followed up on that. We asked 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.720 High Speed Rail Authority staff before the meeting started for 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.920 an interview with Kawa. I also waited for Kawa after 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:23.720 the meeting to talk. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:30.000 Here's what happened, mister. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.480 Chair, mister chair, do you have time to speak with 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:33.240 us on camera? 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.400 What was that about communication and transparency? 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.480 And then the reporters are chasing him down because he 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.360 won't talk to him and he doesn't open his mouth 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.880 when he walks by the reporters. Yep. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.760 In that Cliff Kauwa is seen walking away with the 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.480 High Speed Rail Authorities chief spokesman Peter Whippy. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:10:00.920 As we reported, there's a name Peter Whippy, the spokesperson 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.000 for the High Speed Rail's name is Whippy. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.160 I wonder if he's ever hired a dominatrix. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.160 In that clip, Kawa is seen walking away with the 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.280 High Speed Rail Authorities chief spokesman Peter Whippy. As we 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.120 reported last month, Whippy on behalf of California's High speed 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.040 Rail CEO, Ian Chowdry. Whippy tried to limit the questions 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.200 we could ask the CEO in an interview. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:29.360 Yeah, so in Chawdre, the CEO of high speed Rail, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.439 the guy they brought in from Europe that was supposed 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.400 to fix this thing, who had the weird domestic incident, 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.360 was all set to do an interview with Ashley Zabala, 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.160 but Whippy said, if you're going to interview our boy, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.319 Ian Chawdrey, you do not get to ask any questions 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.400 about his fiance who works at the contractor that is 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.120 getting paid by the High Speed Rail. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.360 Well, I don't think they wanted to know about the 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:53.720 nine to one one call either. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.360 We would not agree, so that interview didn't happen last month. Meanwhile, 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.080 we have reached out to Tom Richards repeatedly. He is 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.680 the ex chairman of the board. We've asked him for comment. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.080 We are still waiting to hear BACKT. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:05.880 Cospiracy. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.280 Okay, how much do you think Tom Richards, who's been 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.680 on this board since twenty ten, has made on a 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.559 project that still does not exist. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.559 And Gavin Newsom regards this as a massive win, as 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.199 a success story because people are making money off of it. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.880 No one can use the train. The train will never 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.800 actually be completed. No one will ever ride this thing. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.200 It's just a figment of our imagination. But if you 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.319 say that it's a failure, they'll snap at you on 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.000 social media. They'll come after you viciously because they think 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:45.319 it's a huge success. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.800 It's a big jobs program and it will lead to 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:53.839 economic development. And the high speed rail. Just authorize themselves 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.840 to steal all that tax money to continue to fund 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:57.880 the high speed rail. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.440 Add this to the list of things this state just 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.880 cannot do right. Everyone else can count the votes in 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.280 one night, it takes us a month and a half. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.400 Everyone else can send a black and white to a 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.600 seven eleven when someone drives a stolen Kia through it. Well, actually, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.320 in most places that doesn't happen. Just here in the 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.120 insane asylum. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.720 We've asked him for comment. We are still waiting to hear. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:23.720 Back t conspiracy. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.839 The Governor's talked a lot about transparency, So. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:27.360 What's he saying? 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.280 Yeah, well, I've reached out to his office about the situation, 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.200 laying out what happened with the new board chairman. What 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.640 does the governor make of this new leadership so far, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.080 the handling of transparency so far the Governor's office at 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:41.439 this point is it commenting? 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:42.240 Boy? 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:42.599 Is he? 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:47.360 And Gang? We'll talk about anything in everything except anything 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.920 pertaining to what's actually going on in the state of California. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:57.920 All they want to talk about is Washington, d C. Trump, Florida, Texas. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.080 They're really, really, really quiet when it comes to their 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:02.480 own massive failures. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.240 And I essentially just what I've the feedback that I 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.320 have received just basically is that, you know, this is 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.840 call's first day. Peter Whippy did send me a statement 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.720 saying that he was focused on getting this board activity 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.240 done and so hopefully we can hear from at least 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:19.160 mister kwas. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:21.040 There. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.520 You go, that's the latest on Zavala getting stone walled 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:25.120 by Whippy. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.880 Let's go to Cindy and coast to Mesa Cindy. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:35.040 Hello, Yeah, just a comment about the border. Maybe the US, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.720 until Mexico costs up some money for their own infrastructure, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.880 can limit the number of people coming in and going 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.199 across the border in Tijuana. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.679 Yeah, then where are people going to buy their medication? 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.200 Very true, they'll have to go through Tikati, but it 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.400 will but it will impede Tijuana for the time being. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.360 And I don't think that the people doing business in 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.280 Tijuana on either side is going to like that. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.240 Well, how about this, You really want to put pressure 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:07.480 on them. Ban the banks from allowing remittances to Mexico 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.400 until they stop polluting that river. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:15.600 Just shut off the money line at the Walmart, at 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.200 the Walmart customer service, all the money going back and 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:19.440 forth out of the country. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.600 That's right. Shut that down until they figure out how 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.560 to put a sewage treatment facility that works into Juana 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.240 so they stop polluting that river. And what's wild to 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.000 me is you have so many of these politicians who 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.600 are all about the environment. All they want to talk 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.880 about is global warming and the fishies and why we 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.560 all need to get out of our SUVs and we 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:48.160 shouldn't be able to barbecue in the backyard all that stuff. Well, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.800 how come you're not offended when there is a river 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:56.760 in your state that is polluted for no good reason 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.520 other than Mexico doesn't want to upgrade their infrastructure and 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.560 people have to breathe in those toxic fumes and get 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.960 sick because you know, people are going to get cancer 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.760 from this, because it's not just the raw sewage that 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.240 Mexico's jumping in there. They're also putting chemicals and other 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.320 things that should be dealt with in different ways directly 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.880 into that river, and so people are going to deal 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.280 with long term health consequences as a result of that, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:24.960 and nobody seems to care. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.200 And you have all those beautiful commercials about San Diego, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:30.280 but they don't talk about that. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.840 Huh yeah. I mean we talk about a lack of 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.840 housing here and how we don't have enough units for 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.320 people to live in. Well, that's a whole area that 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.040 no one is willing to live in that can avoid 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.840 it because of that nasty smell. But if all of 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.400 a sudden you make Imperial Beach smell like the rest 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.400 of the beaches in California, that would be a highly 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.680 desirable place for people to live. People would be flocked 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.760 into that community and want to live in Imperial Beach. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:02.680 But no one's going to want to live there if 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:03.960 it smells like an outhouse. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:06.080 Yeah. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.480 Well, you could say the same for Tujuana. If the 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.200 coast off of Tujuana were clean, then they might have, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.640 you know, people coming and building things there too. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.280 Oh yeah, oh yeah. But can you imagine being a 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:24.840 realtor down there, come to Imperial Beach where your entire 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.880 city is going to smell like a porta potty and 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.720 the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:30.960 is you're gonna get cancer? 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.880 Yike, not good. I'm not going. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.320 Yeah, me too. Thank you for the call. I appreciate it. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.240 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.560 a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.360 two two two. If you'd like to email the show, 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.600 you can do so at Johnny Don't Like show at 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.600 gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.480 dot com. And Randy. 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Pictures of your cat? 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.199 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.680 the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.960 two two two. And right now it's time to open 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.160 up the California Crime Blodder. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.040 It's happened yet again. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:58.800 This Wow, Wow, what's up here? 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:05.640 Dundun Dundun Dunk rereads the Califonia Crime Bladder. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:06.560 With John. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.200 And this edition takes us to the land of John 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.320 Wooden and Bill Walton. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.320 A homeless man has been arrested and is currently being 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:21.040 held without bail after trying to break into the dorms 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:25.920 and attack UCLA students, mostly females. More on this, we 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:27.520 go to NBCLA. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.600 A sex assault sausage is in jail with al bail 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:31.800 after he allegedly. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.320 That rhymed maybe she could be there. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.280 A sex assault sauspage is in jail with al bail 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.680 after he allegedly attacked several women on UCLA's campus. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:42.680 NBC fours Macy isn't. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.960 The UCLA campus where they're planning to have the Olympic 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:47.080 Village in two years. 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:49.240 That's the plan. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.240 NBC four is Macy Jenkins live in Westwood tonight with 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.680 more details. Macy Hi Kathy Well. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.159 Campus police say that a twenty year old man is 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:05.440 responsible for at least four assaults on female students. He's 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.960 now behind bars, but the school says it's increasing patrols 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.920 and warned students to stay alert when walking at night. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.919 Even on the campus of one of the most famous 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.200 schools in California. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.440 You would expect this kind of thing at USC but 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.199 not UCLA. Yeah, this is supposed to be the one 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:24.400 that's in the good part of town. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.280 UCLA is a bustling campus home to more than forty 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:33.000 five thousand students, but lurking in the dark, targeting women, 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:34.440 police say has been. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:35.960 A I remember the first time I went to a 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.760 Rams game when they came back to USC for those 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:42.680 few years before they built so far, and boy, oh boy, 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.879 was I not prepared for the neighborhood that surrounds USC. 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.080 Oh, that's an experience. 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.800 Ucla is a bustling campus home to more than forty 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.520 five thousand students, but lurking in the dark targeting women. 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.560 Police say has been a homeless man with no connection 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:01.640 to the university. 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.760 He's not a dropout, has been a homeless man. 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.600 With no connection to the university. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:10.399 It obviously makes me really nervous. 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:11.320 I think that's. 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:12.480