WEBVTT - Speed Dating For Roommates? 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.000 The city Council might only give you sixty seconds to 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:04.040 where your grievance is. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.520 Oh hi, i'd like to start go to the first 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:07.680 caller on the phone. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.000 Well, if you're lucky, now we're giving you a full 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:17.360 sixty minutes. It's a KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.120 and our long recap of the day's top local stories 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.080 on your drive home. And unlike the City Council, we're 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.159 the perfect vehicle to actually get your voice heard. The 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:33.120 KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang starts no, no, No. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.400 It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:41.280 Radio seven ninety KABC. 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And 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.000 we announced our brand new soundboard, cashier is dummy dot com, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.240 where you can play all the silly sound drops that 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.280 you hear on this radio station for free. Cashier is 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:26.200 dummy dot com. Let's start with this ridiculous story in 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:31.560 downtown LA near the Orphium Theater, which I think I've 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.600 been to the Orpheum Theater once and it was for 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.280 a cat convention. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:41.960 I'm not totally sure why I went. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.119 I think I went just to because this is when 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.640 I was hosting a podcast and I would just do things, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.280 just say that I did stuff on the weekend. So 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.320 my weekend recap episodes weren't just well, I played a 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.880 lot of Xbox three sixty and complained how I didn't 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.840 have a date, although I'm sure a lot of my 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:05.080 own podcast episodes were that. But CBSLA captured quite a 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.200 wild scene outside of the Orphium Theater, and this is 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.320 something that you see not just at the Orphium, but 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:16.680 something that you see at so many different venues in 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:22.799 Los Angeles where even though there's supposed to be different rules, 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.239 there's supposed to be different regulations for things that you're 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.840 not really supposed to be doing out in the open. Well, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.040 people seem to not care, and they actually get offended 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.280 if you complain about it. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:37.640 What was the scene out there? 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.400 People standing outside the Orpheum Theater for whatever concert was 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.919 going on inhaling big old balloons. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.400 That's right, whippets. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.400 And I don't know if you have seen this, or 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.720 maybe you didn't even know what was going on. About 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.600 about a year and a half ago, I went to 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.720 one of the best concert I've ever been to in 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:07.680 my life, the Willie Nelson ninetieth Birthday celebration at the 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.960 Hollywood Bowl. Might have been over two years ago now. 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.079 We went both nights. It was one of the coolest 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.640 things I've ever seen. But I always have this memory 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.240 sticking out in me going to the Hollywood Bowl for 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.520 that event because as we were walking down Highland because 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.840 I think one of the nights we parked at Hollywood 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.400 and Highland and then took the shuttle because the first 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.400 time we parked on Ventura Boulevard and took the shuttle, 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.680 and the shuttle took so long it got stuck in traffic. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.280 It was trying to make that left turn on Kowanga 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.640 and it just was not happening. So we're like, all right, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.360 let's try Hollywood and Highland, maybe that will be better. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.840 Of course, the thing with Hollywood and Highland is you 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.960 can take the shuttle, but you can also just hoof 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.840 it down there. And I remember seeing all of these guys. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.480 Of course, you have your hot dog cart, and I'm 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.920 sure in some of those hot dog carts someone's selling 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.320 a beer even though they're not supposed to, because they're 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.520 really not supposed to be selling the hot dogs either, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.560 but nobody stops that. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.440 But I saw all of these people. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:10.680 Selling big clear balloons, you know, not like mylar balloons 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.320 for somebody's birthday, but big clear balloons. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:15.520 Like what is that? 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:21.640 And then when I realized what that was, I was like, wow, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.520 So we've come to this and it's happening out and 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.560 open in front of all kinds of different concert halls. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.680 Some people like to get a little drink gone before 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.640 the show. Some people like to get a little smoke 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.360 gone before the show. Hey, and I'm not knocking it. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.560 I was one of those people that thought it would 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.360 be really cool to bring a joint to the Hollywood 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:48.000 Bowl and smoke that joint while I was seeing earth 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:53.560 wind and fire fireworks. In fact, you know what, I 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.599 also remember, I remember going to the Greek Theater and 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.760 going to see Steely Dan in twenty fourteen, and let's 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.000 just say you didn't need to bring anything, because if 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.840 you were going to see Steely Dan at the Greek 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.640 Theater in twenty fourteen, there were joints getting passed around 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:13.880 from every which direction. But I don't know, maybe I'm 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:14.640 just a prude. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:15.920 There seems to be. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.240 A slight difference from the people that are drinking wine, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.560 beer or spirits, the people smoking pot, and the people 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:30.200 inhaling nitrous oxide before they go to a show. Maybe 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:35.080 I'm just old fashioned. Maybe I just don't understand it. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.880 But it's something by the way that while pot is 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.520 legal and drinking is legal, although openly drinking in the 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:47.200 middle of the street isn't. Nitrous oxide use outside of 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:52.440 medical use, like if you're at the dentist is not legal, 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.680 and yet it doesn't stop anybody from doing it, because 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.960 when the CBSLA camera is pulled up on this scene 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.880 of people just inhaling nos balloons outside of the Orpheum Theater, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.400 they got threatened by those people who then decided, you 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.240 know what, let's go do the live shot a mile away, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.960 and law enforcement, where are they with this. I mean, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.520 I know it's a low priority thing, but when you 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.280 have no enforcement, that means that everything is to fact illegal. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.680 Now let's move on to just kind of a sign 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:33.039 of the times. Look, things are expensive. If you live 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.960 in a big city like Los Angeles, and things are 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.960 only getting more expensive, housing costs only go up in 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.039 one direction, and if your income is not also going 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.240 up in that same direction at the same rate, it 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.400 might be time for you to realize that there is. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.360 Value in taking some. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.279 Of the space that you have, cutting it in half, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.280 getting a little roommate. And currently there's a new trend 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:08.000 in getting roommates. It's something called speed roommting, where you 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.520 go to an event like you're going to a speed 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.720 dating event for singles, but you're not there to hook up, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.000 although you know some guys are doing that. You know, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.040 some guys are going to these things thinking that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.000 I'm looking for a roommate, but really they're trying to 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.480 pick up on somebody because young guys are stupid. I know, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.600 I was a young guy and I was stupid. But 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.560 it's kind of a cool idea where the whole process 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:39.520 of you know, putting out an ad going down apartments 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.320 dot com. I don't know craigslist. I mean asking a 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.360 friend of a friend. You go to an event with 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.600 a whole bunch of like minded individuals who all are 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:53.000 looking for someone to have a place to live, and 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.840 you quickly realize in fifteen minutes, can you vibe with 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.760 this person? Can you not vibe this person? And I 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.000 think that's really great. I think that is smart. And 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.760 you know, as things do get more expensive, if you 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.880 can deal with living somebody, that's a huge deal. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:13.240 Now. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.520 Look, I have lived alone, I have lived with roommates, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.040 I have lived with my spouse. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.040 I know there are. 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:26.000 Pros and cons to all of these things, and whether 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.360 it's a good roommate or not really tells you everything 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.280 you need to know. But the thing it's funny is 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.959 even when they are the best roommate, there's still some 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.600 things about living alone that are just that are just 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.240 so special that everyone needs to do it once, but 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.160 don't do it for that long because when you live alone. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.319 For as long as I lived alone, and I meant 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.400 alone alone, I mean I had people that would come 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.360 over because I was almost on a podcast out of 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.640 my studio apartment, but I didn't have any pets, I 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.200 wasn't really dating anybody, and uh, I would get real 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.439 stoned by myself and do nothing but eat and feel 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.440 sorry for myself. Then I got a cat, and uh 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.320 out magically, It's like I opened all the world into 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.520 my life. And just a couple months later, I met 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.240 my girlfriend, who then became my wife. So but you know, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.600 in the times where I even was living with my wife, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.560 we had roommates, and I've had really good roommates, and 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:31.439 I've had roommates from hell. Even in the best of situations, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.600 there's tiny little things that will always irritate you. And 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.840 unlike a spouse, you cannot solve these situations with sex. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.880 You have to have the uncomfortable conversations or you just 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.440 ignore it because it's not worth having the conversation. Like 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.520 I was living, we had somebody staying with us very 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.840 recently for a few months because you know, we're nice 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.520 like that, and we have the extra bedroom and the 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.200 tiny little is little thing we get on my nerves. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.120 But I was never enough of a thing where I 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.240 wanted to bring it up, because well, I'm not confrontational 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.040 and I don't want things to be awkward. But It 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.079 would bother me when I would put my keys on 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.840 my key ring and the person that was living with 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.440 us would put their keys on my key ring right 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.520 on top of my keys. Too small to care about, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.080 but it was like, what's that about. Also, this person 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.679 would not fill up the britta. They would drink from 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:31.800 the britta, but they would not. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:32.480 Fill the brita. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.000 These are very small complaints, and I never really said 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.319 anything because I felt like I have it good. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.440 I know it. Having a roommate from hell is like. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:52.360 At one point I was living with somebody who, well, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.400 you couldn't keep booze in the house because they would 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.720 drink it. If you get wine, they wouldn't take that, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.760 but if you had any spirits in the house, they'd 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:09.680 be gone. At the time, I was a pot smoker 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.720 and I was trying to cut down and this person 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.320 liked to go at my stash all the time. And 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.480 one time I kind of got sick of it, and 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.040 so I hid my stash and said, oh, I'm not 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:28.200 doing that anymore, and I got revenged upon. This person 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.320 that I was living with got so mad at me 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.680 for hiding my pot from her. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.319 This is a true story. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:43.040 They unplugged my stand up outdoor pool that I had 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:48.520 that summer. Unplugged it, so the filter stopped working, and 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.600 all of a sudden, about a day and a half later, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:56.280 without me realizing it, my pool that I had loved 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:01.440 all summer long had turned green, and there was no 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:06.560 amount of shock treatment that could have made that any better. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.240 I ended up having to get rid of the pool, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.960 and well, a few months later we decided to change 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:14.120 that living situation. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.720 But you know, it's funny. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.199 I think about it all the time about how we 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.160 have extra space here and we should be It's nice 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.320 to have a guest room. I'm using up my guest 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.480 room this week, my sister in law staying with me. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:32.480 But for the most part, it's like we have an 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.200 extra room that we almost never use and we should 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.079 be using it because, you know. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:39.240 We could. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.280 You know, sure, we can make a little money off 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.400 of it, but also it would give somebody a place 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.760 to live that's decent, and we wouldn't charge that much. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.839 I don't know. Part of me. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.200 Loves just me and my wife and our pets, but 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.360 there are some benefits to having a roommate or a 0:12:55.360 --> 0:13:00.160 shared living situation and pets being one of them. You know, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.480 when we lived with roommates, including that roommate from Hell, 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.720 there were positives. We could go on vacation and we 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.920 could leave the dogs there, and we trusted that person 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.360 with that. So there are benefits. You know, when we 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.760 had this person staying with us for six months, I 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.120 didn't have to bug my neighbors to watch my cat 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.400 because the person staying in the other room could watch 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.360 the cat. So there are some benefits. But I like 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.960 the idea of the speed roommting. You have to find 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.960 your match. It's only going to get more expensive to 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:38.040 live here, so and you know what's funny is the 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:42.840 biggest growing demographic of people looking for roommates are seniors, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.600 are older people, and I understand that, especially if you're 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.120 on a fixed income and you don't want to leave. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.599 Maybe your family still here and they don't want to 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:53.880 put you up and they don't want to do a 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.760 granny flat. Maybe getting a roommate is the right thing 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.600 to do, and if you're a certain age, you probably 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.600 feel like you can trust the person a little more. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.880 I don't know, could also have a real odd couple 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.520 situation going on. It's the news blitz with Randy Wang 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:16.720 on talk radio seven ninety KABC. It's the News Blitz 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:23.440 with Randy Wang on Talk radio seven ninety KABC. It 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.440 is getting a lot more expensive to be a small 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.800 business owner in the state of California, and that is 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:35.160 because medical insurance costs are increasing, not just for the payer, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.040 but also for the employer because that's how our system works. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:45.720 Employers have to pay into this system, which I hate that. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:50.760 It really the the I can't stand our current system. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.520 I don't know if there is a better way, but 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.880 I hate that your healthcare is tied to your employment, unless, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.720 of course, your destitute and then you qualify for the 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:05.240 best healthcare medical It's just our system doesn't make a 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.640 whole lot of sense. And part of the reason that 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.840 the rates are going up is because Gavin Newsom has 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:16.080 passed on new increases too. What employers are paying and 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.720 it's already so difficult to operate a small business in 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.800 the state of California. And you look at how much 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.920 we have to pay, or you have to pay. I'm 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.960 not a small business owner, I'm a employee and I 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:35.240 guess a content creator whatever that means. But you have 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.840 to pay so much in payroll taxes. It increased amount 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.440 in payroll taxes because the state of California still hasn't 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.640 paid back the federal government for the loan they took 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.560 out for unemployment money that went out the window to fraud. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.400 But our healthcare system is so expensive and the coverage 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.120 that people get. I know people who have employer based 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.520 healthcare where they're so afraid to use it, to even 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.920 go for a checkup because they don't know what anything 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.960 is going to cost. Even if there's medication that they need, 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.640 they don't want it. They don't feel like they know 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:14.000 it will cost, so they're afraid to do it. I 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.360 think that I'm supposed to have pretty good health care 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.600 where I have low premiums with my union health care, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.320 but it's not great. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:23.440 I used to be. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:28.640 When I'd go to get a physical, I would pay 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.520 the twenty dollars Copey or I think when I first 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.280 got SAG after insurance, I didn't pay any Copey and 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.920 then all right, I got my physical. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.040 Now when I get a physical, I. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.600 Get nickel and dime for every single blood test, every 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.160 single one, I get some twelve dollars charge from some 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:45.600 company called lab Corp. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.160 And if you're an updateate on those. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.160 They will send you the most amount of mail you 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.680 have ever seen to get ten dollars out of somebody 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.680 when it's like, send me an email. So I don't 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.240 love it, but gosh, we just make it harder and 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:06.680 harder and harder. And for the employee too, our system sucks, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:12.520 you know. I remember being a part time employee when 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:17.240 I was working at a different radio station, KAFIVE. I 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.840 was a part time employee right around the time that 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.480 the Affordable Care Act passed. And look, there are some 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.000 very good things about the Affordable Care Act. There are 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.679 some very dumb things about the Affordable Care Act. But 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.760 one of the things that personally screwed me over. Now, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.720 I was somebody that was paying my own health care 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.480 because I thought Kaiser was better than whatever planned clear 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.679 Channel was going to give out. And I think I 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.879 was paying like two hundred dollars a month or something. Well, 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.240 the Affordable Care Act passes, and it says that any 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.280 employee working more than twenty hours a week, you have 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.679 to provide them healthcare. And this was true for a 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.400 lot of employers, whether it's small businesses that just can't 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.399 afford it or very greedy corporations like the one I 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:10.040 used to work for. They just decided, all right, nobody's 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.760 working more than twenty hours a week, so now you're 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.959 going to make three hundred dollars a week. Great, and 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:17.639 two hundred dollars a month that that's going to go 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:18.200 to healthcare. 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.080 Great. And I still didn't make it. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.159 I still made too much money to qualify for food stamps, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:25.960 which if I had that, that would have been six 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.800 hundred dollars a month that could have spent on McDonald's. 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.200 But no, didn't qualify for that either. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.879 It's just our whole system is a mess, and I 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:43.720 don't think it's getting any better any time soon. Hey, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.320 I've got something exciting for you. Let's get this out 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:50.640 of the way right now. Seven ninety KABC welcomes. Oh, 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.119 it's a big one. Get ready The Gypsy Kings featuring 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:59.760 Nicholas Reyes at the Greek Theater on August seventh, twenty 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:00.680 twenty six. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.560 Now, that's gonna be a great show. 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Our next guests are trying to raise 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:04.479 the alarm potentially very dangerous development going on in the 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:08.359 Woodland Hills area in the Santa Monica Mountains. There are 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:13.359 two volunteers from the Woodland Hills Neighborhood Collective. I'd like 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:19.240 to welcome to the show Alison Charle Lambis and Matt Heise. 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:23.399 Let me just put you both on here. Allison and Matt, 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:24.600 Welcome to the show. 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:27.879 Hello, Hello, thanks so much for having us on. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.560 Why don't you go ahead and tell us about the 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:35.240 situation that's going on here and what are your big concerns, 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.520 like give an overview for anyone that doesn't know about 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:38.240 this situation. 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:44.320 Definitely already this development really should scare anyone who lives 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:47.480 in a fire zone, not just us. A developer is 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:51.120 applying to put three hundred and ninety eight high density 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.280 condo units on the Wooden Hills country Club golf course, 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:57.680 which is inside a canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains. 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.600 Right now, it's ninety acres of brush in a very 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.880 high fire severity zone. We were evacuated from the Pali 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.520 States fire and homeowners here can't even get fire insurance. 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:12.480 The developers are not asking permission. They're using new state 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.960 law AB twenty eleven and others to make ministerial or 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.720 to get ministerial approval for this project, which means no 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:24.480 environmental review, no fire department input, no hearing, not even 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.119 the city council can weigh in. And I'm happy to 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.000 get into the details of how they did it because 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.000 this really affects neighborhoods all over Los Angeles. 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:35.520 Well, yeah, please do, because you know, with all of 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:37.800 the reforms that we've made over the years, you would 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.600 think that, especially when you're building in a fire zone, 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:44.000 that's exactly when you would want an environmental review or 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:48.000 to use the California Environmental Quality X. So, how exactly 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.200 did this developer skirt all of that. 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.639 You would think that that would all be included in 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.440 the law, but there's loopholes and these developers know them. 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.480 In this case, AB twenty eleven says that you can 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:04.639