WEBVTT - California's Digital License Isn't Accepted By California? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.600 Well, the city council might only give you sixty seconds 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:05.720 to where your grievance is. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.600 Oh hi, I'd like to go to the first caller 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:09.360 on the phone. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.760 Well, if you're lucky, now we're giving you a both 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:19.000 sixty minutes. It's a KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.799 in our long recap of the day's top local stories 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.720 on your drive home. And unlike the city Council, we're 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.160 the perfect vehicle to actually. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:29.160 Get your voice heard. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.120 The KABC News Blitz with Randy Wang starts no. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.320 It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.960 radio seven to ninety KABC. 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You can also follow me on 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.840 Instagram and x at Randy Wang Radio and send me 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.119 an email. I bet you can guess Randy Wang Radio 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.280 at gmail dot com. It is day two of me 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:37.800 broadcasting from Toronto, Canada. And let me tell you, I 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:43.080 got to try poutine last night, legitpoutine from the Burgers Priest, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:48.400 a delicious smash burger place, and we got fries top 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.240 with gravy and cheese kurds. And by the time we 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.520 brought it back to the hotel room, the cheese curds 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:54.360 were all melty. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.720 It was amazing. It was incredible. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.600 But I'm not just here to talk about cheese curds, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.480 although I could do the whole hour on it if 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:07.920 you let me. But let's talk about digital driver's licenses. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.600 Govenor Gavin Newsom put out a little video over the 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.800 last couple of days showing. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:14.720 How easy it is. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:15.119 Now. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:21.120 The California DMV Digital driver License program is live. It 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.000 was in the testing phase and I actually tried to 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.000 use it during the testing phase and kept getting rejected. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.720 I was under the impression, oh, okay, maybe I'm getting 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:35.320 rejected because I'm way thinner than my photo in the 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.359 DMV picture on my driver's license. Turns out that's not it, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.840 because it worked out just fine today. So although it 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.080 is funny to look at that picture, because yes, I 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.280 am eighty pounds heavier in the picture, but I'm much 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.760 closer to the weight that's actually listed on my driver's 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.400 license now than when I took that picture, because I 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.720 was at two to eighty and I'm pretty sure I 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.960 told the DMV I was two thirty five, because nobody 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.520 is honest on the weight on your driver's license picture. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.560 So I did it. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:14.080 I downloaded this app, I logged into my DMV account, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.840 which I had to set up last year when I 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.040 had to get the real ID, and it was very, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.959 very simple. And I know there's a lot of people 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.400 concerned about you know, do you really want to have 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.440 a digital ID? Do you want to have even more 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.480 of your information online? All of my information is online. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.120 I am broadcasting this not just to the radio, but 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.680 I will also be recording this to upload to YouTube. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.640 Every part of my life is digital at some point, 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.920 so I don't have a problem with that. And I 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.040 can actually see a lot of advantages to having a 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:51.920 digital driver's license for me, specifically, I when I'm home, 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.720 get up every single morning, and the first thing I do, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.200 after you're doing a little show prep and feeding the 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.400 dogs and emptying out the dishwasher is I go to 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:07.600 my plate studio. And I love my pilate studio. I 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.360 am missing it a little right now. It's like the 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.840 one thing, Oh I'm missing my dogs. I am missing 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.440 my pilates studio. But other than that, I'm having a 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.279 great time in Canada this week. But when I go 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.880 to pilates, I've got the toe socks on, I've got well, 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.680 I don't do the toe socks, but I do the 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.640 stocks with the sticky stuff because I just it feels 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.279 wrong to me to have my toes separated in socks. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.760 It's just not my thing. And typically what you do 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.920 is you bring your You have a little cubby where 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.200 you can put your water, where you can put your keys, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.080 where you can put your phone, where you can put 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.440 your wallet. And while I feel totally safe having it there, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.360 there's usually somebody watching, and if there isn't, they lock 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.720 the door before the studio starts so nobody can steal 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.800 all the wallets and everything. It always assume to me that, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.960 like this seems kind of unnecessary. Why do I need 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.320 my wallet? And you could say, well, maybe you need 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.960 your wallet, Randy, because you're probably gonna go to Ralph's 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.360 next door afterwards and buy something, And I usually do 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.800 because I go through a lot of cottage cheets, or 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.479 I need some more sodas because I've gotten addicted to 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.000 sparkling water. At some point, we're gonna have to do 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.240 a new segment, Randy, sparkling water reviews, because I am 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:26.640 drinking all of it. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.520 For the longest time. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.360 I was, so I don't do flavored sparkling water. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.400 I don't do it. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.040 I just do plain sparkling water out of my soda stream, 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:42.880 or I get fancy imported mineral water from Germany. But 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.480 now I'm on the sparkling water flavor train. Trader Joe's 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.720 Black Cherry Vanilla, Oh, how I miss you. My wife 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.720 has been in Canada for the last six weeks, says 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.919 one of the things she misses the most next to 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:01.040 me and the dogs is Trader Joe's. She was actually 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.200 considering on a day off, driving two hours to Buffalo 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.280 to go to a Trader Joe's. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.120 The addiction is real. Anyway, I'm completely off topic, but 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.080 I started thinking about sparkling water. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.719 So yeah, I go to Ralph's after my pilates class 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.960 every single day, and so I would probably need a 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.360 wallet for that, except I don't because I can pay 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.000 for stuff at Ralphs with Kroger Pay, which is by 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:26.600 the way, I don't know if you know this hack. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.920 So I'm a big credit card hack guy, and one 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.360 of the simplest hacks in order to maximize your points 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:41.719 when you're going to Ralph's specifically or Kroger whatever. I 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.040 don't know if Safeway does this up in the Bay Area, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.880 but with Kroger specifically, any Kroger brand, you can download 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.000 the Ralphs app and you can use Kroger Pay. And 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.839 what you do is you use for the credit card 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.680 that's connected to your account, Chase Sapphire Preferred, which is 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.599 a great card that only has one hundred dollars annual 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:07.760 fee that has three X points on online groceries. But 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.520 guess what, when you use Kroger Pay, even though you're 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.600 buying your food in person, it counts as online groceries. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.400 So I get three X points on that Chase card 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.160 for everything I buy at Ralphs, even though I'm buying 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.600 it in person. It is a little hack that I 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.119 think they are all glad to know that is out there, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.240 because it makes me use that card instead of my AMEX, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.920 although I probably could just use my AMEX as well 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.400 because I get four X points on groceries, but I 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.080 use the Chase Sapphire there and I use the MX 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.840 at Trader Joe's and it all kind of evens out. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.400 I got lots of points and lots of different buckets, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.200 so I don't need to have a wallet with me 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.880 for any of my morning routine except for I'm driving 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:52.400 to and from the studio. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:53.440 It's not far. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:59.320 But still, if I ever got pulled over by law enforcement, 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.760 I should have my driver's license on me. That would 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.480 be important. I have my insurance card and my registration 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.640 in the car, but I should probably have my driver's license. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.320 And by the way, insurance is something you can also 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:13.440 get on your phone. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:13.880 Triple A. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.880 I have my insurance card on my phone and I 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.320 tried to show it to somebody when I was involved 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.080 in an accident a couple of years ago, and it 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:28.720 was very confusing. But here's the problem with this, because 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:33.199 what I just described is a perfect scenario for why 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:39.559 you would love to have a digital driver's license, specifically because. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.120 I don't need a wallet for any of that. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.920 I can use my digital driver's license if for some 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.600 reason I got pulled over, and I can use Kroger 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.600 Pay at the market. So now I do not need 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.160 to bring my wallet for my morning routine at Pilate's. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:09:01.440 But here's the problem. The California DMV digital driver's license 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:06.439 is currently only accepted at a handful of different establishments, 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.600 and a lot of bars and restaurants are not counting 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.840 this as ID. I think you can use it at airports, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.800 but you better already have global entry. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:15.440 Okay. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.520 Credit card hack number two, I should just do a 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.880 whole show of credit card hacks. If you have an 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.199 American Express card, whether it's the Gold or the Platinum, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.200 or you have a Chase Sapphire card, or you have 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.960 a Capital one card, all of them will give you 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:35.400 a one hundred reimbursement for applying for TSA pre check 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.319 or global entry it up to I think it only 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.760 costs you one hundred dollars and they'll reimburse you the 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.280 full hundred dollars. So getting that extra background check for 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.360 global entry is free, and when you have global Entry 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.760 it lasts for five years and then you get automatic 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.360 tsa pre check on all of your flights. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:10:01.080 Very very very important. But it's not accepted at bars. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.880 It's probably not accepted at Ralphs as I was going 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.080 to buy alcohol, but you cannot do it the self checkout, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.200 which apparently you can do in states like Texas, but 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:16.319 guess where it's also not accepted. The digital driver's license 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:26.360 is not accepted by California law enforcement. So Gavin Newsom 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.720 makes a whole deal out of how we have the 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.880 digital driver's license. We're finally living up to the promise 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:38.800 of Citizenville, Gavin Newsom's book that he wrote about modernizing government, 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.800 and the place where you would use your license the most, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.439 the place where it would be most needed as identification 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.719 to law enforcement. When you get pulled over, you cannot 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.680 use it. So I downloaded it. I have the digital 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.880 driver's license, but at this point there's no reason to 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:06.200 haven't because it doesn't actually do anything except if I 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.000 ever want to remember what I looked like eighty pounds heavier, 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.559 I can go look at that picture. That's pretty much 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:18.760 the only benefit the California Digital Driver's License has. Right now, 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.839 I have a very important health update for you. Even 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.760 though no Californians have been affected, it's on everybody's mind. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.560 The cyclosporiasis. I think I have pronounced that correctly. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:37.040 Outbreak that's mostly affecting people in like Michigan, which is 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.599 very close to where I am right now in Toronto. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:43.360 Here's the thing. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:50.120 The the organizations that are supposed to tell you where 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:55.520 this came from, specifically the FDA, they got it wrong. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.160 They told everybody that this came from a pause that's 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.120 aive test result from lettuce linked to Taylor Farms and 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.240 a farm in Mexico. Taylor Farms, which is based in 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:13.760 the part northern part of California, and Taco Bell got 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:19.600 the blame because the lettuce that Taylor Farms uses is 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:25.559 shredded into Iceberg lettuce and shipped to Taco Bell's nationwide. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.120 So you had all kinds of jokes about Taco Bell 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.360 now giving Chipotle a run for its money. Probably shouldn't 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.720 use the word runs in this story because you've all 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.120 heard about the explosive. You know what it happens with 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:44.079 the cyclospariasis, and so people started throwing away their lettuce, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.439 people started looking at up and trying to maybe avoid 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.959 leafy greens. This week, Taylor Farms took a massive hit 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.560 to their reputation, only to find out a week later 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.160 after everyone is not ordering lettuce on anything and people 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:02.440 are avoiding Taco Bell like the play that it was 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:08.640 a false positive. It wasn't the lettuce. We don't know 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:14.480 where the outbreak started. So Taylor Farms is still doing 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.560 the recall just out of an abundance of caution. But 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.319 I think you'll be okay having lettuce. Should you wash 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:26.520 it first? Probably? You know, it's a very good investment 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:31.040 a salad spinner, because with a salad spinner, you can 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.840 cut your lettuce and then you can wash it, and 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:39.080 then you can spin it dry and so it'll stay crunchier. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.320 Just a little tip from me to you. It turns 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.480 out it wasn't the lettuce all along. You're gonna be 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.920 fine if you have lettuce and you're not gonna get 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.080 cyclosporiasis if you go to Taco Bell. I was going 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:57.720 to say, you're going to be fine if you go 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.160 to Taco Bell. But I shouldn't be knocking Taco Bell. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.920 I know some people love it. I loved it for 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:10.000 many many years when I lived in Valley Village, I 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.560 was so recognizable to the people working at the drive thrus. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.960 We were almost on a first name basis because I 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.560 ate Jack in the Box or Taco Bell pretty much 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:27.720 every single night. I would if I was working back 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.120 when I was working at the radio station, I would 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.440 get home around eleven o'clock at night. I probably wouldn't 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.920 go to bed until like two or three in the morning. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:38.840 And then there was a year where I was working 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.200 overnights regardless if it was before three am, I had 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.440 the option of going to Taco Bell because the Taco 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.800 Bell on Collfax was open till three am, and if 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.760 it was after three, I had to go to Jack 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.560 in the Box. Either way, I was getting tacos because 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.520 it is impossible, physically impossible to go to Jack in 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:01.200 the Box and not get two tacos with ever you're ordering. Okay, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.200 I should be honest, four tacos with whatever you're ordering, 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.200 but oh boy, I love to get in that Taco 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.640 Bell line at two thirty and I'd figure out the 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.120 five things that I wanted, and that was like a 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.360 responsible meal for me because it would probably add up 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:23.800 to about ten dollars. Oh, how times have changed. But 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.400 back in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:31.080 twenty ten, yeah, you could order five big things at 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.520 Taco Bell and you'd spend eight to ten dollars. Now 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.080 I was hitting the drive throughs four times a day, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.040 so I was still spending forty dollars a day on 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.520 drive through. But you definitely got a lot more value 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.840 for you buck than you do today. It's actually funny too. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.600 I haven't been to a Taco Bell in well over 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.560 a year and a half, but they think the last 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.840 time that I went, I actually pulled into the drive 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.160 through and then said, nevermind, I don't want any of 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.200 this because the things that used to be on the 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.480 dollar menu now cost four dollars. I'm looking at you, 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.720 cheesy bean in rice burrito and beefy five layer burrito. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.800 I don't even know if they have those anymore, but 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.680 those were some of my staples, especially anything that was cheesy. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.560 And then I would always spring for the cheesy Gordiita 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.400 crunch even though it wasn't on the dollar menu. That 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.960 was some good eaton. Okay, I just made myself very 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.600 hungry It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:40.000 Radio seven ninety KABC. It's the News Blitz with Randy 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:45.400 Wang on Talk radio seven ninety KABC. We're here every 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.880 single day giving you the local news up and down 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.360 the state of California that you really need. And make 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.840 sure you subscribe to The Accountability Podcast, my podcast that 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.200 I do every single week with John Phillips talking about well, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.520 this week we're talking about Gavin news dirty diaper deal 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:06.760 and the incredible investigative reporting from Julie Watts over at 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:12.920 CBS News Investigates. The ruptured water pipe in West Hollywood 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.359 has been replaced. They're in the middle of pressurizing it. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.760 They don't know when everything will be back to normal 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.919 and you can actually drive on Sunset Boulevard. But this 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:27.720 has caused so many fears in LA about when's the 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.520 next one going to be because there were five in 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.000 the span of a week, and now everyone is well 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.240 aware of how aged our infrastructure is in the city 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.320 of Los Angeles, and there really is no plan. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:41.600 You know. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.400 Karen Bass went on KTLA the other day and I'm 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.919 waiting for KTLA to put up this full interview so 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:47.359 we can. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:47.919 Talk about it. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.720 But she loves to talk about all the things that 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.159 are wrong with LA, like she's not the one in 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.440 charge because and I'm going to tell you right now, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:03.439 the big difference in this race might be age. Policy wise, 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.480 Nythia and Karen are cut from the same cloth, even 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.240 though Nythia is DSA, tell me one policy that Karen 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.879 Bass supports that isn't also supported by the DSA. And 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.879 remember the other big DSA members have endorsed Karen Bass. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.280 But when it comes to age, the era of politician 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.800 that Karen Bass is, especially working in Congress, She's used 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.960 to things moving really slow and thinking that that's fine. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.359 So she talks about how there was no major infrastructure 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.879 plan in Los Angeles and for two years she was 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.640 developing one and they're still working on figuring out how 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:50.560 to implement it. Not good enough, Karen, Not good enough? Hey, 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.959 how about this? The graffiti towers, a tourist attraction if 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.119 there ever was one in downtown LA is finally getting 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.080 taken care of. The down ass kids don't like it, 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.320 but they're finally gonna start cleaning up the graffiti because 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.080 the bankruptcy court has allowed the sale of that building 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:13.400 to go forward, where the project will maybe finally get finished. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:14.600 We'll see. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.400 The question is, if they start really cleaning up the graffiti, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:20.240 how quickly. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.040 Is it going to come back? 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.400 Unless I mean they're gonna have to have twenty four 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.600 to seven security because think about the six Street bridge, 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.320 which gets a lot of attention for having no lights 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.800 which are still not replaced by the way, but it 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.800 also gets tagged so often that when they clean it up, 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.240 the graffiti comes back in two days. So they have 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.680 to have graffiti cleanups two to three times a week. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.440 We've got a lot more coming up on today's news Blitz, 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.760 so keep it right here. It's the News Blitz with 0:19:48.920 --> 0:20:00.000 Randy Wang on KBC. It's the Newsplitz when Randy Way 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:04.760 hang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. This is your 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.480 daily rundown of everything you need to know that's going 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.560 on in southern California. So check out my list at 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.600 Randywangradio dot substack dot com. You get subscribed for free, 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.520 and that just means that it gets emailed to you 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.600 when I post it, which because I'm in Toronto right now, 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:24.160 it's getting posted at like seven am LA time. Okay, 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:29.439 I love this story. We're seeing a huge spike in 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.800 couples that want to get married do it at the courthouse, 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.920 go to specifically, they're going to the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:43.280 which is gorgeous, because Santa Barbara is gorgeous. But one 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.640 of the reasons that we are seeing this maybe it's 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.439 because of the uncertainty in the economy, but more and 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:54.480 more young people are realizing that a big. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.719 Expensive party is just not worth it. 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:03.679 And look, I have had some fun at some big weddings. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.720 My brother in law and sister in law's weddings were 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:11.440 massive productions with lots and lots of people, and I'm 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:13.520 sure there are lots of memories. I mean, we have 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:19.760 like photo booth pictures, so we remember it. But I'm 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:24.080 so glad that I did not have a big wedding, 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.800 and we were almost on track to have one. So 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.400 if you don't know my story, my wife and I 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:37.919 got engaged in twenty nineteen in December, just a couple 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:43.760 of months before the world shut down. In fact, in February, 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:46.800 we went up to Santa Barbara wine country, to the 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.639 Santynez Valley. We went to Foley Winery, which at the 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:54.480 time was one of my wife's favorite wineries to talk 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:57.160 about what it would look like to get married there, 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.720 because that's a thing that they do. And I think 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:01.600 part of the deal is you have to buy like 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:05.080 one hundred bottles of pinot or something. Oh, I think 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.639 we'll get through that. And it was going to be 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.159 the good stuff too. But you could host one hundred 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.600 people and they had vendors that you could contract with. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:15.560 There's a place up there, I think it's called the 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:19.200 Valley Piggory that could have done some pork dishes for us. 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:22.960 And it was looking at like just rent the venue 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.080 was a couple thousand dollars. Then you got to buy 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:27.760 the wine on top of that. Then you have to 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.280 pay for the food. Then you have to worry about 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.840 getting travel for all these people to come out to 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.560 Wine country booking rooms. It's just it was a hole 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:40.760 to do, but there was no way around it. My 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:46.560 wife's family wanted to have another big, fancy celebration. My 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:50.520 sister in law got married in a beautiful ceremony near 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:53.400 the Trinity River in Dallas, and my brother in law 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:58.400 got married in Santa Fe at the Inn and Spot Loretto. 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:01.960 They actually got married at the famous Loretto Chapel. 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:04.080 And it is the cutest thing. 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:09.840 When we walk our niece along Santa Fe, we pointed 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.520 it out once to her that hey, that's where your 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:15.919 mommy and daddy got married, and she remembers that. So 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:18.480 anytime we walked past the Loretto Chapel, she'll say, that's 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:22.000 where mommy and daddy got married. It is the cutest thing. 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:24.560 I don't want any of my own, but I love 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:29.520 that kid. So we were on track to have to 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:34.560 do something as spectacular, but then the world shut down 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:40.399 in March, specifically what March fifteenth, sixteenth of twenty twenty, 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:44.160 and so we had to put all of those plans 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:46.720 on hold, which was fine because I think like a 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:50.320 week before we get a call from the events coordinator 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.200 at Foley who was like, you know, we really much 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:58.479 rather have you do this at what firehouse? And I 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:00.320