1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: And very happy Thursday to you. At twelve oh seven 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: in the West, it's the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: Wings across the Glass. Just a reminder, today Isday, not Friday. 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: We know it's not Wednesday, for sure. 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 2: Tuesday, Wednesday at day. 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: It's one of those days, but not Fridayday. Eight hundred 7 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: two two two five two two two is telephone number 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: one eight hundred two two two five two two two. 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: Did you see that Karen Bess, the mayor of Los Angeles, 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 1: now wants to rename Caesar Chaves Day to farm Workers Day. 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: It happened pretty quick. Did you see the legal opinion 12 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: on that? What's the legal opinion? Well, Jeffrey Tuban says 13 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: they can only legally name it after the eggplant pickers. 14 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: Oh boy, I don't know why. Starting early today, aren't we. 15 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: All right? 16 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: We told you that there's a lot of fraud going 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: on in the state of California. We are the warm 18 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: Minnesota in so many ways, and there's one specific neighborhood 19 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: in the San Fernando Valley that is the epicenter. We 20 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: know this because of an investigation from CBS News. There 21 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: was also an online expose that went all over the place. 22 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: Do you remember the name of that citizen journalist who 23 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: did that, Nick Shirley. Nick Shirley, that's right, no relation 24 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: to Laverne. He's doing great work out there in the valley. 25 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: And now, Randy, we've got an update. CBS News went 26 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: to investigate the building in Van Eyes that houses eighty 27 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: nine registered hospices. 28 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 2: That's right. 29 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: This is Van Eyes in the San Fernando Valley, the 30 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: area of the city of La represented by Amelda. 31 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: The neighborhood kids, the down ass kids don't like it. 32 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: By the way, if you put that many hospices in 33 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: one building, what do you call the building circling the 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: drain square? For mar on the investigation into fraudulent hospices 35 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: in Van Eyes, here is CBS News. 36 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 4: This was what we. 37 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 5: Refer to as ground zero. That building is considered ground 38 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 5: zero because it just was so blatant. 39 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 6: Hospice patient advocate Sheila Clark has been raising an alarm 40 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 6: on this one building in LA for years. This building, 41 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 6: our investigation found is home to eighty nine registered hospice companies. 42 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 2: How does that not raise any red flags? 43 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: Okay, I know nothing about this other than the basics. 44 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: How much do you want to bet that the guide 45 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: that owns that hospice is a guy with a shirt 46 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: that's unbuttoned down to his belly button, tons of chest hair, 47 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 1: more gold necklaces than mister t He's got a girlfriend 48 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: and a wife on the side. How many sports cars 49 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: do you think this guy has? Well, they're eighty nine 50 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: different businesses. They're all not one guy. Okay, so he's 51 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: got let's just say, seven or eight vehicles, yet sixteen 52 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: handicapped parking placards. 53 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 6: It's called the Morabie Professional Medical Plaza, and it's the 54 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 6: most extreme case of hospice clustering that we found. 55 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 5: And this particular building I noticed. I'm like, dang, dang. 56 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 2: I like her. 57 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 5: I noticed, I'm like, dang, how can there be that 58 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 5: many licensed and certified hospices in this tiny little building? 59 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: Well, how many of them use the online form with 60 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: Shirley Weber's office that they don't check to see if 61 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: you're legit to begin with? Boy, she doesn't get enough attention, 62 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: does she, Because she may be She's right up there 63 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: with Ricardo Laura and Karen Bass and bar arberal Lee 64 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: is one of the worst public officials in the state. 65 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: Don't forget about Bobby Bob Bonta. That's true. We went 66 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: to he makes an appearance in this story. 67 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 6: Later we went to the Vanni's address to find out 68 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 6: what's going on. We're going to try to go in 69 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 6: and see what we can find. There's a directory. 70 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 7: Hospice, home health agency, hospice, hospice, they don't come. Just 71 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 7: looking at this directory, you could see dozens of hospice 72 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 7: agencies coming up the state, federal. 73 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: It's just you know how they're all listed in alphabetical order. 74 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: So there's a couple of a's, b c'sds AJJJJJJJJ all 75 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: the hospices. Well, let's just say he was there to 76 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: visit relative, why are they showing him away? 77 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 6: The state and federal records for hospice agencies tell you 78 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 6: a lot. State auditors have identified warning signs when they're 79 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 6: looking for fraud, like multiple hospice offices packed into one building. 80 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: If only the state would actually listen to their audits, 81 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: but of course they don't. 82 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 6: State auditors have identified warning signs when they're looking for fraud, 83 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 6: like multiple hospice offices packed into one building, or caretakers 84 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 6: whose patients who are supposedly at death door are discharged alive. 85 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing how many of these hospice patients have 86 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: a miraculous recovery. So what is the rule for hospice care. 87 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: It's my understanding that you can only go into hospice 88 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: care if you have six months or less to live. 89 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: That's how it's supposed to be. But if you fudge 90 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: the documents, you can have somebody that's perfectly healthy go 91 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: into hospice care and then have a miraculous recovery and 92 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: they didn't even know about it because their identity was stolen. 93 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 1: And I also believe that if you're on hospice care, 94 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: you are foregoing all medical treatment. So they're not even 95 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: supposed to take a look at you at the hospital. 96 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: Your doctor's not supposed to see you and give you 97 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: a physical or whatever, because they know the answer. 98 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 2: The end is near. 99 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: It's supposed to make the end very comfortable, but it's 100 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: pretty much that it's over. But turns out it is 101 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: a hotbed for FAVAN. 102 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,159 Speaker 6: According to our analysis, seventy two of the eighty nine 103 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 6: registered hospices in Robbie Plaza have at least three of 104 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 6: those potential warning signs. 105 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 5: This isn't possible. This It made no sense because I 106 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 5: know what a license and certified hospice looks like. 107 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 6: We weren't the first ones to come to this building. 108 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 6: Federal inspection records show that regulators visit in multiple suites 109 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 6: and Robbie Plaza between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five, 110 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 6: and they found nearly four hundred violations. 111 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: Then how are these businesses still existing? It's so crazy. 112 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: Look at what the people of the Pacific Palisades are 113 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: going through, where they get fined right and left because 114 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: they haven't cleaned up the rubble in front of a 115 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: house that no longer exists, and the city comes down 116 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: on you like a ton of brick. You have all 117 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: of these hospices in one neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, 118 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: and no one bothers to care if they're following any. 119 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 2: Of the rules. 120 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 6: At one a nurse wrote that a patient's family was 121 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 6: satisfied with the care, but inspectors found no one from 122 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 6: the hospice ever even visited that patient. 123 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: This is like the Phantom student scandal. This is going 124 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: on all over. Of course it is because you can 125 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: build medicare and no one's paying attention. 126 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 6: At another, the patient's chart listed medications for malaria and diabetes, 127 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 6: but the patient told inspectors he wasn't taking either one, 128 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 6: and at that. 129 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 2: He didn't even have diabetes. 130 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 6: But the patient told inspectors he wasn't taking either one. 131 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 6: And at that same company, a hospice social worker wrote 132 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 6: about a family's grief when their loved one had passed, 133 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 6: but there is no evidence the patient was actually dead. 134 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: Wait, so they're killing people that are still alive. On 135 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: the Medicare reimbursement forums, they are what happened to your 136 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: diabetic patient? Well, we can't produce them right now. 137 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 2: Why is that? 138 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: Well, they're on vacation. Where'd they go? Hershey, Pennsylvania. 139 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 6: These hospices have been building Medicare for rebursement with your 140 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 6: tax dollars for years. 141 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: And whenever Gavin's trolls on the Internet see people posting 142 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: about this story, they say. 143 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. 144 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: Gavin put a moratorium on new businesses in hospice since 145 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. But it seems like we haven't done 146 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: a damn thing to root out the existing fraudulent ones, 147 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: including probably the vast majority of the eighty nine businesses 148 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: in this one building, and he's not even here to 149 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: deal with it because he's traveled around the country running 150 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: for president. 151 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 2: He went to south By. 152 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 6: Why are we still seeing such, you know, rampant signs 153 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,839 Speaker 6: of this. Why hasn't more been done? We're committed to. 154 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 8: Oh it's Bobby Bob Bonta. 155 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: You knew he'd make an appearance. 156 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 6: You know, rampant signs of this. Why hasn't more been done? 157 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 9: We're committed to tackling the issue until we rooted out 158 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 9: and extinguished all fraud. 159 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: He wasn't even aware that this was going on until 160 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: it ended up on the news. This is the purview 161 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: of the attorney general. But our attorney general does not 162 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: care about investigating fraud, doesn't care about investigating crime. He's 163 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: got one purpose, and it's not that instead of dealing 164 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: with this, he's been suing the Trump administration over and 165 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: over and over again and going after the card clubs 166 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: because that's what his benefactors over at the Indian casinos 167 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: want them to do. 168 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 9: We're committed to tackling the issue until we root it 169 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 9: out and extinguished all fraud. 170 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 6: So who's working to fix this? Well, the state Attorney 171 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 6: general is the one responsible for investigating the industry here 172 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 6: in California. 173 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,359 Speaker 1: By the way, Bobby's up for reelection kids, Bob Bonta. 174 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 2: Well, if he's in charge, we're screwed. 175 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 9: California is always going to have the biggest numbers. We're 176 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 9: the biggest state or the fourth large economy in the world. 177 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 9: We have the most that's. 178 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 2: Not an excuse. 179 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: By the way, if he's going to be the one 180 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: that's going to be in charge of investigating this, then 181 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: all of us should apply for licenses for hospices in 182 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: that building. 183 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 2: Start building medicare for everything. 184 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: I mean, if they're just sending checks out, why not 185 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: have it go to OZ. We here at the John 186 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: Phillips Show did not advise you to commit any illegal activity. 187 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 9: California is always going to have the biggest numbers. We're 188 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 9: the biggest state or the fourth large economy in the world. 189 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 9: We have the most people of any state, and. 190 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: We also have the most criminals and the most hospice 191 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 1: facilities in one building. 192 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 9: But this issue is unacceptable and we need to keep 193 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 9: tackling it and do more. 194 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 6: We're also following the money here. Medicare is federally administered. 195 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 6: It's your federal tax dollars going to these hospices. So 196 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 6: we sat down with doctor So we sat down with 197 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 6: doctor man Em and as who heads this. 198 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 2: Oh boy, it's doctor oz Teime. 199 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: Well remember he got in trouble because he said, before 200 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: all this happened, that there was a ton of fraud 201 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: going on with these hospice care facilities and it was 202 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: the Armenians that were doing it. Yeah, the Armenians don't 203 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 1: like him because he's Turkish. 204 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,719 Speaker 2: Oh so there's a history there. Yeah, but is it 205 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 2: Armenians that are doing it? 206 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,719 Speaker 1: We have there's nothing in this story that says it's 207 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: the Armenians that are doing this. So there are some 208 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: Armenians that thought he was painting with a very broad brush. 209 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: All right, well let's find out if it's the Armenians 210 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: or not. I mean, it's not like this building was 211 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 1: in Glendale. 212 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 6: So we sat down with doctor mem and Az, who 213 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 6: heads the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. Is this 214 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 6: accelerating the enforcement the shutting down of these hospices. 215 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 10: We have dramatically accelerated our ability to take out the 216 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 10: bad guys by. 217 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: Stopping their pace. I just thought of that should big 218 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: mindset shift. Yeah, maybe it is the Armenians. And this 219 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: is how the Kardashians got all their money. They're bill 220 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: and medicare. There's a lot of money there. 221 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 10: We have dramatically accelerated our ability to take out the 222 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 10: bad guys by stopping their payments, and that's the big 223 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 10: mindset shift. 224 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, the Armenians don't like him because he won't recognize 225 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: the Armenian genocide. 226 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 11: Ah. 227 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: Yes, well there is a long, long, long history between 228 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: those two, and. 229 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 10: That's the big mindset shift. I want to make it clear, 230 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 10: we're not going to pay you money just because you 231 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 10: sent me a piece of paper with a bill on it. 232 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 10: We're going to check to make sure that's legitimate and 233 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 10: that document is evidence that you actually perform them that's 234 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 10: helpful to the American people, or you're not getting money 235 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 10: from us. 236 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: And that's something that every level of government should be doing. 237 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 1: We shouldn't be rubber stamping checks to anybody when there 238 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: is obvious fraud going on. But go back to what 239 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: Shirley Weber said in the initial report. She said her 240 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: office doesn't verify anything on any of those business licenses 241 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: and it's not her job, so stop asking her. 242 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 6: When we went back to Morabi Plaza, he found the 243 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 6: building's owner, Comby's Morabi. 244 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 4: I have vacancies. Tenant would come in as long as 245 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 4: they're legit, they have valid things that we need, I rent. 246 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,959 Speaker 4: I'm not a police or keeper of what they do, 247 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 4: how they do business. 248 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 2: He's just the landlord. Oh yeah, he's mister. 249 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 6: Fairly so from your perspective, they're licensed, you know, that's 250 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 6: obviously the first sort of barometer of you know, measuring 251 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 6: whether whether business or not. 252 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: Absolutely, and these are not illegal businesses. These are licensed 253 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: businesses with the State of California. The things they're doing 254 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: are illegal, but nobody's paying attention. In his defense, if 255 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: someone comes to him with a business license, my assumption 256 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: would be that it's legit. 257 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 2: It's sure only Weber. 258 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: That has the problem because she's the one that's handing 259 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: out all these licenses. If anyone belongs in one of 260 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: those hospice care facilities, it's her political career, whether correctly 261 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 1: business or not. 262 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 4: Absolutely, and look maybe state and the federal government. It's 263 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 4: becoming restrict on many businesses. And I'm all for it 264 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 4: because at the end of that you and I are 265 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 4: paying for all those things. That are not right. 266 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 6: Moraami wouldn't let us walk the halls on our own 267 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 6: to talk with hospice employees, but why not? 268 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: Well, in theory, they're legitimate businesses where you have people 269 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: who are in bed dying there. 270 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 2: This guy on the take. 271 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 6: Miami wouldn't let us walk the halls on our own 272 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 6: to talk with hospice employees, but told us this about 273 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 6: any possible fraud. If you learn of hospices in your 274 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 6: building that are accused of fraud, I would immediately you 275 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 6: get rid of an Okay, yes, but that hasn't happened yet. 276 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 4: No, I have No one has ever come to me 277 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 4: tell me that, Okay, this sort that is doing fraud? 278 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 2: Can you legally even do that? Do what? I think? 279 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 2: Your license? 280 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: Business is not in fact legal, So I'm going to 281 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: break your leaves. 282 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 2: I don't know if you can do that. 283 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: California does have very strong eviction protections. So that is 284 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: the latest piece from the continuing series of CBS News 285 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: looking at the building in Van Eyes that has eighty 286 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: nine registered hospices in it. 287 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 2: Let's go to Jeff and Fremont. Jeff, Hello, Yeah, hi John, Randy. 288 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 12: You guys are confusing palliative care with hospice care. My 289 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 12: month's in hospice, I got the whole speech when the 290 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 12: nurses came out. A typical hospice agency, just a bunch 291 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 12: of nurses and doctors on staff. They don't have patients 292 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 12: in bedstying, and the state of purpose is to keep 293 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 12: older people out of the hospital. So a nurse comes 294 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 12: out once a week, checks the medications, takes vitals, and leaves. 295 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 12: Takes about fifteen thirty minutes. And like the lady that 296 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 12: was running the autism clinic that was building outrageous amounts, 297 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 12: I happened to look at my mom's bill. They're charging 298 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 12: for those, you know, four visits a month for about 299 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 12: fifteen minutes. They're charging Medicare six thousand dollars a month. 300 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: That's totally outrageous for that level of care that you 301 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: just described, right. 302 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 12: So yeah, this, you know, I can imagine there could 303 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 12: be a building with eighty three hospice cut these because 304 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 12: you're just basically clearing houses for these nurses and doctors. 305 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 12: They don't have any patients. 306 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 2: All right, thank you for the call, SIRT. We appreciate it. 307 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 308 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: the telephone number one eight hundred two to two two 309 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: five two to two two. If you'd like to email 310 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like 311 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show 312 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: at gmail dot com and Randy. On Saturdays, you can 313 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: listen to us in Fresno. There's gotta be a reason 314 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: you guys keep promoting this. It's cause we love the 315 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: Central Valley and we love that we get to put 316 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: one hour of this nonsense on the Central Valley Saturdays 317 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: at noon on Kmjanfresno. It's the Fix California Hour replay. 318 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: You can listen to it on five eighty on the 319 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: AM dial one A five point nine FM, or stream 320 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 1: at at kmjnow dot com. Eight hundred two two two 321 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: five two two two is telephone number one eight hundred 322 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: two two two five two two two. What are you 323 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: laughing at him? 324 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 13: There? 325 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about what I'm gonna say for my 326 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: next Santa Fe commercial. Oh, I have the TVs on 327 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: in the background here. Now that everyone's on ozimpic, I 328 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: don't know who anyone is. For the last thirty minutes, 329 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: I thought I was sitting here watching al Sharpton. It's 330 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: Sherry Shephard. You should see what it's like when I 331 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 1: go out and people see me. I have to explain 332 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: to everyone I didn't do o zempic. I don't know 333 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: what day it is, I don't know what I'm watching 334 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: on TV. I'm very confused today. What do you say 335 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: we make a couple of listeners very happy? Well, let's 336 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: do that right now. Seven ninety KABC Welcomes the Pussycat Dolls. 337 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,919 Speaker 1: The PCD Forever two are at the Acquazer Arena on 338 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: June fifth. Tickets are on sale Friday at ticketmaster dot com. 339 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 1: But right now, calling number nine at one eight at eight, 340 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: seven ninety five to two to two too gets a 341 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: pair of tickets to the show. Tickets furnished by Live Nation. 342 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: Good Luck Dilight coming up later today. Spencer Pratt joins 343 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: us in studio. You might have just cursed it, and 344 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: Dan Walters is here at two o'clock. It's gonna be 345 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: real funny if it doesn't happen. Now, I've been pretty 346 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 1: good at cursing guys, haven't I Yes, you have, all right. 347 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: We told you earlier this week that lausd was stirring 348 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: the pot when it comes to UTLA, the union representing 349 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: the teachers and wanting more money from the district. 350 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 2: We demand higher pay. 351 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: Cecily, my Art Cruz and the UTLA had a big 352 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: old rally yesterday at Grand Park to announce that if 353 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: they don't get exactly what they want by mid April, 354 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 1: they're going on a big all strike. Now here's the 355 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: good news. Although some might say it's the bad news, 356 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: some might say it's the great news. They held a rally, 357 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: and yes, they posted the entire video on Instagram, but 358 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: the speakers were so loud that they blew out the 359 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: speakers and you can't understand a word anybody saying. So 360 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: by the time Cecily got up there, the sound was 361 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: so grating and so terrible, I decided I cannot use. 362 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 2: Any of it. 363 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: Did any of them invoke se Chavez his name? I 364 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: don't think that happened. 365 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 2: Get that money. 366 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: But for mar on the looming teachers strike at the 367 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: nation's second largest school district, LAUSD, here is Fox eleven 368 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: and ho, how lucky are we it's at Lasco's How 369 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: crazy is that? Right? 370 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 3: Adam? Thanks? Thousands turn out in downtown LA to fight 371 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 3: for LA. 372 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 2: It's Randy Marla. 373 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 3: Adam Adam thanks. Thousands turnout in downtown LA to fight 374 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 3: for LA schools. Teachers, parents, students and community members banding 375 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 3: together tonight demanding higher wages and an end to LA 376 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 3: USD layoffs. Otherwise they're talking about a PAS. 377 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: What do I They do these at Grand Park and 378 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: not MacArthur Park. Yeah, it's a great park. Didn't you 379 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: hear that from Gavin Newsom? 380 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 3: A possible strike? Fox loves at Laskos live there in 381 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 3: Grand Park when the story the heat did not keep 382 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 3: people away? 383 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 8: Ed No very big crowd here, Marlon. 384 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 14: Think about it, LA, with its second largest school district 385 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 14: in all the country, could be hit by a teacher 386 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 14: strike next month. That threat coming from the UTLA, the 387 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 14: teachers union, saying if there is not an agreement by 388 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 14: April fourteenth, then April fourteenth will be strike day in LA. 389 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: And they're doing the same thing that they did three 390 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: years ago where they're threatening to go on strike the 391 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 1: exact same time that the classified employees are threatening to 392 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 1: go on strike SEIU Local ninety nine, and that of 393 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: course was the three day strike on Juesday Wednesday where 394 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: the SEIU got everything they wanted and Cecily mayerk Cruz 395 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: went from getting a twenty percent raise to a twenty 396 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: two percent raise. If I'm not mistaken, I think the 397 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: administrators are going to go on strike with them because 398 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,959 Speaker 1: they have a union. That's the praise a LA union, 399 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: remember that one, Yes. 400 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 2: L me or deadline? Oh faith, a strike line? 401 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 8: A deadline now looke. 402 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: Those rallies are so obnoxious and everyone has what do 403 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: you call those moroccas? 404 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 8: A deadline now. 405 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 2: Some of them have tambourines, some of them have a 406 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 2: big gong. 407 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 8: A deadline. 408 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 2: I want to have the OBO. 409 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 14: A deadline now looming to strike LAUSD. The threat issued 410 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 14: by the district's powerful teachers union, the UTLA, with its 411 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 14: nearly thirty thousand members, all of. 412 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 15: The social workers and all of the educators that I've 413 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 15: talked to, They're all like, if we need to strike, 414 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 15: will strike our students des ob it? 415 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: How many social workers do we have at LAUSD? I 416 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: thought they were all doing the policing now too bright. 417 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 15: Will strength our students stop? 418 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 2: Stay there? You can hear the big all drums, Oh yes, break. 419 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 15: Will strength our students stop it? 420 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 2: Our students deserve it. No no no, no, no, no 421 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 2: no no. 422 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: No, just be honest and say you're striking because you 423 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: want more money. 424 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 2: Don't say that this is for the kids. 425 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 1: All of that went out the window when UTLA kept 426 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: the schools closed for two years. Now here's a question, 427 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: and typically we talk about the budget constraints and how 428 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: the district can't give them what they want because they 429 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 1: simply don't have the money. What if we went in 430 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: the opposite direction, and what if we just decided, all right, 431 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: let's let it collapse, Let's give them everything they want 432 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: and then some and go bankrupt. Do you think, as 433 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: a candidate for president, Gavin Newsom would want to bail 434 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: out LAUSD, Because then it's going to look to the 435 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: nation like your state's a basket case and big city 436 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 1: school districts are producing awful results and going bankrupt. What 437 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: kind of manager are you? Well, you're caught in quite 438 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: a pickle because if you don't bail them out and 439 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: the district fails, you may have a whole bunch of teachers' 440 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: unions who refuse to support you. If you do bail 441 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: them out, the rest of them are like, what are 442 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: you doing? I don't think he can. It's like supporting 443 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: a tax increase as much as he would love to 444 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: support a tax increase, I don't think he can do 445 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: that right now. And I don't think he can bail 446 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 1: them out either, because the moment they get what they 447 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: want and they go bankrupt and they need to bail out, 448 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,199 Speaker 1: Oakland's going to be right behind them, Sacramento is going 449 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: to be behind them. San Diego, all the big city 450 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: school districts are just going to do the same thing. Well, 451 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: and that's what we're already seeing. Oakland just got out 452 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 1: of receivership for making way too attractive deals and not 453 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: making cuts, and now they might go right back into 454 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: receivership with the deal that they just made to end 455 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: that teacher strike. Sax City Unified made deals that they 456 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: could not afford, and now they're about to go into receivership. 457 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: And because of those sweetheart deals, all the surrounding school 458 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: districts decided to go on strike because they want the 459 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 1: deal that sax City Unified has, And of course Cecily 460 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: sees all this striking and she wants. 461 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 2: Hers, and I want you to be all the way this. 462 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: At the same time that LAUSD is facing a I 463 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 1: think it's like an eight hundred million dollar deficit. 464 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 15: Right will strike our students just op it and we 465 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 15: just can't stop at this point. 466 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 2: Well, you definitely win. 467 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 1: I mean, also, who are they negotiating with right now 468 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: because Carvallo's on administrative leave for whatever went on with 469 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,479 Speaker 1: the FBI. Yeah, who's the understudy? 470 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 8: It's the battle cry at this huge route. 471 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: See, they screamed so loud that they blew out the speakers, 472 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: they blew out the microphones. So when Cecily took the stage, 473 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: you can't understand a word of it. Between the screaming 474 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: and the pounding of the drums and all the people 475 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 1: in the audience, it sounds like they're getting ready to 476 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: sacrifice a virgin. 477 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 14: It's the battle cry at this huge rally, grand park, 478 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 14: covered in a sea of red, all union members with 479 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 14: their signs of what could hit LAUSD? 480 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 1: Do you think YOU'DA is doing the same thing that 481 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: Oakland Unified did, where the teachers have just a room 482 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: full of all their old strike signs because they go 483 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: on strike so often, probably with. 484 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 14: Their signs of what could hit LAUSD? We can't wait, 485 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 14: it says, and this one strike ready all a sharp 486 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 14: rejection of the district threat of planned layoffs. 487 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: Yes, this district is broke right now and they just 488 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: sent a whole bunch of layoffs and that's when Cecily says, well, 489 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: we're gonna need more money. 490 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 11: Then it is really shocking because the district has been 491 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 11: has ten billion dollars and they beginning to outside contract. 492 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 11: They haven't been meeting the rate of who they should 493 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 11: be staffing in schools, and why can't they have this? 494 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they're onto something with this crooked deal 495 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: with Carvallo and the AI chatbot that was supposed to 496 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: teach the kids algebra. Maybe the district is wasting a 497 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: whole bunch of money on nonsense. Well I'm sure they are, 498 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: but that still doesn't mean they have money for raises. 499 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 11: Why can't they have the talented people in the district 500 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 11: in the schools helping the student. 501 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 14: It's the latest firestorm to hit the second largest school 502 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 14: district in all the country. It's in battled superintendent Alberto 503 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 14: Cavallo still suspended with pay under investigation by the FEDS and. 504 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: The You know, the thing that is not talked about 505 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,239 Speaker 1: enough is why are their projected layoffs? Why is it 506 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: tough to be giving out raises because the enrollment decline 507 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: is happening more and more and more. This district is 508 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: forty three percent smaller student wise than it was twenty 509 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: years ago. And don't think that's just because people are 510 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: moving out of California because of the cost of living 511 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: and they've just had it for a variety of reasons. 512 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: That is certainly a huge part of it. But another 513 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: part of it is that the people of means, people 514 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: who have alternatives choose not to send their kids to 515 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: those schools because they're so awful. So they'll send them 516 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: to private schools, they'll send them to charter schools, they'll 517 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: homeschool them, they'll about their address and send them to 518 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,719 Speaker 1: different school districts. They find other ways to get their 519 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: kids educated. Just look at this. In twenty twenty five 520 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, LAUSD dropped four percent in enrollment. That 521 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: means sixteen thousand kids. And on the lower end, you 522 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: can assume that we spend about twenty five thousand dollars 523 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: per student. If you're spending twenty five thousand dollars per 524 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: student and you lost sixteen thousand, that means that LAUSD 525 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: has four hundred million dollars less than it did. 526 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 2: Got to cut. 527 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 8: Something under investigation by the FED. 528 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: The reason I can do that math it's two things. 529 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: One I have a calculator, but two, I didn't go 530 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: to LAUSD. Neither did I william S Hart School District 531 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: for life. 532 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 8: Under investigation by the FEDS. 533 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 14: And now this labor threat with a district saying it's 534 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 14: quote actively engaged in negotiations with our labor partners and 535 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 14: remains committed to reaching agreements that balance the needs of students, families, 536 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 14: and staff while ensuring long term fiscal stability. 537 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 2: I don't know. 538 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: I think Cecily wants to strike because if you strike 539 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 1: in mid April, you know what that means. That means 540 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 1: they're going to continue this thing all the way down. Well, 541 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: what do you think works out better for Cecily negotiating 542 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: with the district when the superintendent is under investigation and 543 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: I guess there's a temporary superintendent or waiting until whatever 544 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: happens to Carvallo happens to Carvallo and they replace him 545 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: with someone new. No, now's the time to strike because 546 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,479 Speaker 1: the district has a whole lot of answering to do. 547 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 2: But again, I don't know what they do. 548 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: You can do what they did in San Francisco and Oakland, 549 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: where you can give the teachers what they want and 550 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: immediately announced layoffs because you do not have the budget. 551 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: They lost four hundred million dollars last year, and by 552 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: the way, every time there's more strikes, you have more 553 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: parents that say, screw it, I'm going to a different district. 554 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: So they're probably going to lose another four hundred million 555 00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: dollars next year. 556 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 14: Our offers are among the highest in California. Still, the 557 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 14: union line has now been drawn. 558 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 16: Need a bad line. 559 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: Oh, they got a twenty two percent raise three years ago. 560 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: Anybody else get a twenty two percent raise over the 561 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: last three years? Nut in radio April, Oh, need the 562 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: stright line. 563 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 14: Now, I meet the strike line. Part of the rallying 564 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 14: cry here. But so you know, they're still talking back 565 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 14: and forth, both sides in the union stresses while they 566 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 14: have that deadline. If there's an agreement before April fourteenth, 567 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 14: they'll call off the strike. But right now, at this hour, Marla, 568 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 14: that April fourteenth deadline. 569 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 3: Still stands, and it's impacting so many people, to your point, 570 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 3: and we're talking bus drivers, teachers, assistants, cafeteria workers, janitorial staff. 571 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 3: The list goes on and on ed. 572 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 14: Yeah, on and on Marl and then you look at 573 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 14: it as it really goes down the line, all the parents, 574 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 14: all their children and everybody infected. 575 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 8: Huge impact here. 576 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, But do the teachers union care about the fact 577 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: that the kids are not going to get an education? 578 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 2: They do not. 579 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: Nope, it's not about the kids. It's about the teachers. 580 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: Just be honest with that. Don't say that this is 581 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: about the kids. There is nothing about keeping the schools 582 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 1: closed for two years that was about the kids, especially 583 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,959 Speaker 1: when the demands to reopen included defund the LAUSD Police 584 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: Department and they were back on campus in other states. 585 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 586 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: a telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five 587 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: two two two. Spencer Pratt joins us after the news 588 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: it won You can't jinx it now because he's already here, 589 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: all right. So we know that the cost of gasoline 590 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: in California is so much higher than it is in 591 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: other states, including neighboring states like Arizona and Nevada. So 592 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: there is a push in the legislature to suspend the 593 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: gas tax so that Californians would get a little relief 594 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: at the pump. But Randy, we have some bad news. 595 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: The California Legislature has rejected Tony Strickland's motion to suspend 596 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: the gas tax, and the gas tax the gas price spikes. 597 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: For more on this here is CBSLA. 598 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 3: Prices at the pump continue surging amid the war with Iran, 599 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 3: and the battle has made its way to Sacramento, and 600 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 3: Republicans made another pust. 601 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 2: Not the war battle, the battle over gas. 602 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 17: Yes, and Republicans made another push to suspend the states 603 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 17: of gas tax, but Democrats shut it down. CBSLA political 604 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 17: reporter Tom Wade is live in Valley Village where he 605 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 17: spoke with drivers who they just want to relieve hunt. 606 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 13: Tom absolutely padded rue De Bay prices are so high 607 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,239 Speaker 13: right now, about a dollar on average higher than it 608 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 13: was this time last year, and. 609 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 2: Gas almost a dollar higher than it was this time 610 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 2: last month. 611 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 13: And gas stations are trying some well, let's you say, 612 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 13: confusing tactics to get people to come in. Take a 613 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 13: look at this sign here the lidup Marquee shows prices right, 614 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 13: but that's only if you're getting a car wash, if 615 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 13: you're just coming in to get gas. Check it take 616 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 13: a look at that sign there that's not well lit. 617 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 13: The prices are a little higher. 618 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: That's false advertising right there. You know where gas is cheap, 619 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: that one Chevron station in Long Beach. It's free if 620 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: you take it out of the ground and don't give 621 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: them any ideas safety. 622 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 2: Cashier's dummy. 623 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 13: As gas prices soar a fight in Sacramento over what 624 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 13: to do about it. 625 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 18: Trump's disastrous war in Iran is obviously causing a huge 626 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 18: amount of pain at the pump, and I hope to 627 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 18: see that result as soon as possible. 628 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 13: On Wednesday, Huntington Beach Republican State Senator Tony Strickland put 629 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 13: forward legislation to temporarily suspend the state gas tax. 630 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 2: Members, this bill is about affordability. 631 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 16: It's about immediate relief for California families. 632 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 2: Well, Tony, I got news for you. 633 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: The California legislature only likes to say the word affordability. 634 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 2: They don't actually mean it. 635 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 16: It's about immediate relief for California families. 636 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 18: Your bill is not going to help decrease the the 637 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 18: transportation of foreign oil coming into California. 638 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 13: According to Triple A, the average price for a gallon 639 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 13: of gas in Los Angeles is hovering around five dollars 640 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 13: and sixty five cents. It's a little less in the 641 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 13: Inland Empire, Orange and Ventura counties, but overall, drivers are 642 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 13: paying about a dollar more for a gallon than they 643 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 13: did a year ago. At this time, but at a. 644 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 16: Time when Democrats and Republicans in California said the number 645 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,439 Speaker 16: one issue is affordability, my bill was the only way 646 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 16: that we could actually immediately drop gas prices. And my 647 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 16: bill would have drop gas prices by a dollar eight gallon. 648 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 13: State Democrats blocked suspending Yeah, but then Tony, we wouldn't 649 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 13: get to fund the high speed rail. 650 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 1: And don't forget the reason that we get from Gavin 651 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: as to why gas is so much more expensive here 652 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: than other places is not because of the taxes and 653 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 1: cap and trade and all that jazz. He claims that 654 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: the oil companies all got together and colluded against this 655 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: one state. 656 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 2: I'm sick and tired of being screwed. 657 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 13: State Democrat blocked suspending the gas tax, claiming the savings 658 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 13: for drivers would be far less and the impact of 659 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 13: the lost revenue would be far worse. 660 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 1: The state of California's budget is three hundred and fifty 661 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 1: billion dollars. The gas tax brings in about eight billion. 662 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,800 Speaker 1: It's nothing kill it. 663 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 18: It funds things that include housing, transportation. 664 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: Housing, well, I guess if you considered the freeway overpasses 665 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:28,240 Speaker 1: to be housing. 666 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 18: It funds things that include housing, transportation, air monitoring, CalFire, California. 667 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 2: None of those are paving the roads. 668 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: No, And also shouldn't we be funding all those other 669 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,359 Speaker 1: things with other taxes? Oh no, No, that's all going 670 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,319 Speaker 1: to the hospice facilities over in the Valley, California. 671 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 13: Drivers already pay some of the highest prices for gas 672 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 13: across the country, and with refinery closures, the costs could 673 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:54,800 Speaker 13: go even higher. 674 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 2: It has been a sticker shock. 675 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 6: Yeah, especially in my particular area that I live in, 676 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,720 Speaker 6: which is the Inland Empire, it's been it's been unusually pricing. 677 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,279 Speaker 13: As for suspending the gas tax. 678 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 8: It's over my pay grade, That's what I'm saying. 679 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,360 Speaker 13: Expert say, can expect continued volatility as the war in 680 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 13: Iran rages on? 681 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,800 Speaker 2: They don't expect? Say that rhymed, he could be mayor. 682 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 13: Experts say, can expect continued volatility as the war in 683 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 13: Iran rages on? They don't expect gas prices to go 684 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 13: down by any significant amount anytime soon. Reporting live in 685 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 13: studio are a valley village. I'm Tom Waite, CBSLA. 686 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 2: It's practically studio city. You're fine. 687 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're going to be joined in studio 688 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:40,280 Speaker 1: for the full hour by candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, 689 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:41,200 Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt. 690 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 2: Don't you go anywhere. It's the John Phillips Show.