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Speaker 2: slash at Randy Wang Radio. Let's start with the latest
Speaker 2: update from the Boil Heights warehouse facility. We have been
Speaker 2: dealing with this now for a month. That devastating fire
Speaker 2: started a month ago where the contractor who ran the
Speaker 2: solar panel farm on the roof of the cold storage
Speaker 2: facility was trying to reconnect some old solar panels that
Speaker 2: were deactivated because they caught fire two years ago. And
Speaker 2: what do you know, they didn't just figure out that,
Speaker 2: even what I know about electricity work, you got to
Speaker 2: turn off the breaker before you turn on and unplug
Speaker 2: and plug back in any new lights. So a fire started,
Speaker 2: it got out of control, and that's when the real
Speaker 2: disaster started. Because the response from the city and the
Speaker 2: county at every single level has been horrific. From Karen
Speaker 2: Bass saying that the smoke that is coming out from
Speaker 2: this facility is okay and it is not harmful when
Speaker 2: we know how harmful those chemicals are to the meager, Oh,
Speaker 2: we're going to give you an air purifier and that's
Speaker 2: going to solve it. We're going to open up health
Speaker 2: clinics and give you tile it all. It just unbelievable
Speaker 2: amounts of incompetence. Look, the city didn't start this fire,
Speaker 2: but the city's response when it comes to any kind
Speaker 2: of disaster is so lacking. And that is true when
Speaker 2: we're also talking about the cleanup. You know, There's been
Speaker 2: a lot of people who have recently made the offhand remark,
Speaker 2: you know, it may have been better off if they
Speaker 2: just let the warehouse burn to the ground, because then
Speaker 2: all the food would have been cooked instead of rotting.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting thought process. Now, of course, they had
Speaker 2: to put out the fire, that's the job of the
Speaker 2: fire department. But the ensuing disaster of trying to remove
Speaker 2: eighty five million pounds of rotting food food is moving
Speaker 2: real slow. We've talked about the math, and in case
Speaker 2: anybody asks you, over the weekend, we've cleared about one percent,
Speaker 2: maybe a little more now, but as of two days ago,
Speaker 2: we've cleared about one percent of all the debris that
Speaker 2: was out there. But you might be asking where is
Speaker 2: all of this going? And that's a very good question. Well,
Speaker 2: thanks to our friends at CBSLA, we found out some
Speaker 2: of all of this rotting food is going to a
Speaker 2: landfill in Riverside County, specifically the Elsa Bronte Landfill, a
Speaker 2: landfill that has been cited for all kinds of violations
Speaker 2: over the last few years. Now, I don't know how
Speaker 2: this works. I get to imagine if you're a landfill,
Speaker 2: you're getting paid for every single load of rotting food
Speaker 2: that's getting dropped off. Apparently the government had to sign
Speaker 2: a waiver because they're bringing in way more food than
Speaker 2: you know, way more trash at one time that's you
Speaker 2: usually allowed.
Speaker 3: For this landfill.
Speaker 2: But now Riverside County has to deal with this problem,
Speaker 2: specifically people in Corona. And I understand that you have
Speaker 2: to put it somewhere, but it is funny that like
Speaker 2: it has to go all the way down the ninety
Speaker 2: one to Corona. It's just it is a horrific situation.
Speaker 2: And it's not the only horrific situation, you know.
Speaker 3: It's interesting.
Speaker 2: We started this week with an update on the Boyle
Speaker 2: Heights warehouse fire, talking about something that happened right next
Speaker 2: to it, and that was when a water main broke
Speaker 2: in Boyle Heights over the weekend, right next to the warehouse.
Speaker 2: And then just a few days later what happened. Oh
Speaker 2: that's right, another big massive water main break, this time
Speaker 2: in West Hollywood. If you've seen the video coming out there,
Speaker 2: it is so devastating as because Sunset is inclined street,
Speaker 2: everything went somewhere and if you had an underground, if
Speaker 2: you had a car and an underg I'm parking garage.
Speaker 2: Oh good luck. Restaurants destroyed. Car garage is destroyed. The
Speaker 2: entire street's going to be torn up for quite some time.
Speaker 2: Just a complete mess. And I'm going to say it
Speaker 2: another preventable mess. This is where the incompetence of the
Speaker 2: City of Los Angeles really hurts all of us, including
Speaker 2: people that don't live in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Because here's a fun fact that you may not have known.
Speaker 2: Even though most of the destruction here is happening in
Speaker 2: West Hollywood, West Hollywood does not have its own municipal
Speaker 2: water agency. Half of West Hollywood is Beverly Hills and
Speaker 2: half of West Hollywood is LADWP. Guest which side had
Speaker 2: the one hundred and ten year old pipe that burst.
Speaker 2: And this is the failure to every level of our
Speaker 2: government locally. And this goes way further than Karen Bass
Speaker 2: goes back for decades. But everybody in charge now and
Speaker 2: everybody in charge back then, this is what you get
Speaker 2: for deferred maintenance, for this policy of well, it's probably
Speaker 2: cheaper to just let these things rupture and fix them
Speaker 2: then then proactively preventing destruction, which I don't think is
Speaker 2: true at all this city is spending, like not spending
Speaker 2: maybe five billion dollars over like ten years. I don't
Speaker 2: know the exact number, but they're not spending nearly enough
Speaker 2: to get these things fixed proactively. The LEDWP says we're
Speaker 2: doing like fifty thousand feet a year. There's like seventy
Speaker 2: thousand miles of pipe, and if we need to reallocate
Speaker 2: some of our resources to take care of this, because
Speaker 2: believe you me, I'm a rate pair of LEDWP. I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm paying through the no. I would like
Speaker 2: to know that my money is going to something, including
Speaker 2: replacing the aged infrastructure. But I guess it's not all
Speaker 2: the money that we pay in taxes here. I guess
Speaker 2: it's not going to that either. Having the big infrastructure
Speaker 2: bill from the Biden days, did anything go towards replacing
Speaker 2: the pipes.
Speaker 3: Maybe we have to start reallocating some.
Speaker 2: Of the money that we're using in our city government,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know the money we waste on homelessness,
Speaker 2: the money we waste on bloated salaries. You want to
Speaker 2: talk about the LEDWP. Jenny's Kenyonis, who was Karen Bass's
Speaker 2: hand picked leader of the LEDWP, costs seven hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars a year before she ditched us to
Speaker 2: go to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3: How many pipes could have that paid for.
Speaker 2: These are the basics safety and infrastructure. And on infrastructure,
Speaker 2: whether it's potholes, water mains, we're not doing a damn thing.
Speaker 2: Civil engineers will tell you that these pipes that were
Speaker 2: put in over a hundred undred years ago had a
Speaker 2: shelf life of fifty to seventy five years. So we
Speaker 2: know that LA is a ticking time bomb of water,
Speaker 2: and what are we doing about it.
Speaker 3: We're not doing anything about it.
Speaker 2: We're just waiting for these things to pop up and
Speaker 2: then we'll just mitigate the damage when it happens instead
Speaker 2: of proactively preventing all this destruction.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. In the Edon.
Speaker 2: Canyon area, there's a new villain in the ever going
Speaker 2: saga of insurance companies screwing over their ratepayers. We've talked
Speaker 2: a lot about State farm We've talked a lot about
Speaker 2: the Fair Plan. Well, now welcome farmers into the consule,
Speaker 2: into the conversation. Farmer's insurance, by the way, is my
Speaker 2: homeowners insurance company and my policy, and I don't live
Speaker 2: anywhere near a wildfire area has doubled in the last
Speaker 2: two years. So NBCLA talked to some homeowners who were
Speaker 2: evacuated because of the devastating eat and fire. Their homes
Speaker 2: deemed unlivable because of the smoke damage. They've had their
Speaker 2: own testing done and found that there was so much
Speaker 2: toxic chemicals inside the house that need to be stripped
Speaker 2: down to the studs. So they submit that to the
Speaker 2: insurance company, the insurance company they've been paying for decades.
Speaker 2: And what does farmers say, Well, sure, your report says
Speaker 2: that we need to spend a million dollars tearing this
Speaker 2: home down and rebuilding it. But instead we're going to
Speaker 2: give you eighty grand and here's a vacuum. This is
Speaker 2: what they're doing.
Speaker 3: And what has.
Speaker 2: Become the issue now is that we're at the waiting
Speaker 2: game because part of your insurance is the alternate living places,
Speaker 2: where while your home is being repaired, while your home
Speaker 2: is being while your home is being destroyed, what have you.
Speaker 2: You have a situation where you are getting money so
Speaker 2: you can pay to live somewhere else. Well, all of
Speaker 2: that money is running out, So now you have people
Speaker 2: that are being forced to either sell everything, or go
Speaker 2: back into a dangerous home, or pay out of their
Speaker 2: own pocket for their mortgage and for rent for somewhere else.
Speaker 2: And it just shows you, you know, the people that were
Speaker 2: interviewed in the story, one family is fighting, one family
Speaker 2: is taking their small kids, and like, all right, I
Speaker 2: guess we're moving back into the dangerous house. And people
Speaker 2: shouldn't have to make these choices. And what is the
Speaker 2: point of having our quote unquote overregulated insurance industry if
Speaker 2: the insurance Commissioner cannot hold these insurance companies accountable for
Speaker 2: not fulfilling their end of the contract, for further victimizing
Speaker 2: fire victims, dragging this stuff out where you are having
Speaker 2: people run out of their alternate location payments because you've
Speaker 2: been dragging this out for a year and a half.
Speaker 2: Farmers even accused one of the families of the ones
Speaker 2: dragging out this. I don't care who you are, if
Speaker 2: you were the victim of one of these things, the
Speaker 2: insurance company does not have your side, Get a public adjuster,
Speaker 2: get a lawyer, because you need to go after these people.
Speaker 2: And I never ever ever want to assume malice. You
Speaker 2: always want to assume that there's just a lot of
Speaker 2: incompetence and bureaucratic nonsense. But when it comes to the
Speaker 2: insurance industry, specifically homeowners insurance, but I will say it's
Speaker 2: true for medical insurance too. Don't get me started on
Speaker 2: that story about Blue Shield in San Francisco with the firefighter.
Speaker 2: With these kinds of denials and changing of adjusters and
Speaker 2: low balling people that were victimized, all of this, it's
Speaker 2: really hard to not assume malice, to assume that they're
Speaker 2: doing this on purpose, that they do not have the
Speaker 2: best interest of their customers at heart, that they actually
Speaker 2: enjoy further victimizing these people. And here's all I'm going
Speaker 2: to say, State farm Farmers Fair Plan, which again is
Speaker 2: not a government plan, and it's good to make that distinction.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you right now, if the voters
Speaker 2: in the state of California in the November election end
Speaker 2: up voting for Jane Kim, the San Francisco supervisor, over
Speaker 2: Ben Allen. If that happens, you know who, you have
Speaker 2: to look at yourselves in the mirror. Because if the
Speaker 2: state of California goes for the socialist plan of we
Speaker 2: need a public option a medical for homeowners insurance, it
Speaker 2: is because the majority of the voters of California do
Speaker 2: not trust that, like a good neighbor state farm is
Speaker 2: there that we are farmers dun da da da dun dum,
Speaker 2: like a good neighbor, all of this stuff. We have
Speaker 2: your back, We're in your hands. We don't believe you.
Speaker 2: So if this state votes for a socialist insurance commissioner,
Speaker 2: which it may happen, I one hundred percent blame the
Speaker 2: insurance companies who did not fulfill their end of the contract.
Speaker 2: That further victimize these people. You have yourselves to blame
Speaker 2: for this. I'm not saying what Jane Kim is suggesting
Speaker 2: is a good idea or not. It might be a
Speaker 2: disastrous idea, but I understand where people would want to
Speaker 2: vote for it, because if you cannot trust the insurance
Speaker 2: industry to do what they're supposed to do, what is
Speaker 2: the other option? And if they really can't make any
Speaker 2: money without screwing everybody over, then what's the point anyway?
Speaker 3: Hey, let's go to John and Long Beach. John.
Speaker 1: Hello, Randy, how are you, my friend?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great?
Speaker 4: Hey, nice haircut.
Speaker 1: If nobody told you.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I think it was a great one.
Speaker 4: I saw today.
Speaker 1: It looked like I thought Johnny was going to boot camp.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's another story.
Speaker 3: I saw it.
Speaker 1: I saw Lucy Jones last night, the seismologists that we
Speaker 1: all know, on one of the news channels, commenting on
Speaker 1: the water situation with the main break, and she said,
Speaker 1: if we have an earthquake over five or six in
Speaker 1: LA which it's not a matter of if, but when
Speaker 1: all those water means are going to break, and we're
Speaker 1: not only going to be dealing with earthquake damage, we're
Speaker 1: going to be dealing with massive flooding.
Speaker 2: Oh you're one hundred percent right about that. Just think
Speaker 2: about how long ago ninety four was the last time
Speaker 2: we had an earthquake that was that big. All those
Speaker 2: pipes were thirty years younger than they are now, and
Speaker 2: we haven't done a good job at all of replacing them,
Speaker 2: as evidence by the one hundred and ten year old
Speaker 2: one in West Hollywood.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's going to be a man.
Speaker 2: You could talk all you want about building codes and
Speaker 2: making sure that our buildings and homes and offices are
Speaker 2: retrofitted to deal with an earthquake. If the infrastructure underground
Speaker 2: is from one hundred years ago, we're in for a
Speaker 2: bigger disaster than we can ever imagine.
Speaker 5: Well, I have a friend that lives down in Mission
Speaker 5: Viejo in a two million dollar home. He's a retired
Speaker 5: sheriff's deputy friend of mine, and he and his wife
Speaker 5: saw a little bit like in their kitchen on the ceiy.
Speaker 1: It looks kind of wet, you know, and it got
Speaker 1: kind of like from small to maybe about you know,
Speaker 1: five or six seven, And so they called insurance right away.
Speaker 1: They said, okay, well we need to tear the wall out.
Speaker 1: So they come in, they send some hondy, they tear
Speaker 1: the wall out. They said, oh, well, you're you've got
Speaker 1: a leak in your wall. He said, well, okay, well
Speaker 1: I want to put in a claim. Oh no, you
Speaker 1: should have known that was leaking. He's been going around
Speaker 1: with him for four years on this and they're refusing
Speaker 1: to pay. If you've got a small leak in your wall,
Speaker 1: How do you know that it's leaking until you see
Speaker 1: that the wall or the wall wherever is wet. They
Speaker 1: will not pay him State Farm and they canceled him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds exactly like the stories that we hear
Speaker 2: every single day. It's a product you have to pay
Speaker 2: for and if you are unlucky enough to have to
Speaker 2: use it, you're going to get dropped and you're going
Speaker 2: to get screwed over.
Speaker 3: What kind of fare system is that?
Speaker 1: It's not fair at all. And the other day I
Speaker 1: was listening to your show, your other show when you
Speaker 1: guys were interviewing the gentleman that's running against the miss
Speaker 1: Kim lady. And he happens to be my friend who
Speaker 1: I've mentioned on you when I've called in. He works
Speaker 1: for the insurance Commandon. He's an arbitrator. If you've got
Speaker 1: an issue between your company and a complain about him,
Speaker 1: he's the guy you call. And he told me that
Speaker 1: everybody that he works with are just keeping their fingers
Speaker 1: crossed and holding their breath. Does that she does not
Speaker 1: get elected because he told me that California fair plan.
Speaker 1: He said, first off, they don't have any money and
Speaker 1: they never pay.
Speaker 2: Ever, you're totally right about that. We hear those all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: Every single day. Oh yeah, Well, anyway, I like your
Speaker 1: show and I like the Eye, and I'm enjoying the
Speaker 1: live broadcast.
Speaker 2: So thank you, Thanks so much, John, have a wonderful weekend, buddy.
Speaker 4: Okay, you too.
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Speaker 2: Your hair looked great today and John's he needs it
Speaker 2: short for the weather he's in. I made a comment
Speaker 2: during the live show that nobody had noticed that I
Speaker 2: got a haircut this morning and was I phishing for compliments?
Speaker 3: Yes, I was. Love the live shows. Just want to
Speaker 3: let you know.
Speaker 2: But the reason I'm emailing is my mom just got
Speaker 2: her bill for earthquake insurance and went up quite a bit.
Speaker 2: So I know what you're saying. The insurance companies are
Speaker 2: really bad. I just hope that we don't have a
Speaker 2: socialist anything. I'm very scared about at all, but I
Speaker 2: don't want to be fearful. Have a great weekend. I
Speaker 2: understand that fear and it may be a complete disaster.
Speaker 2: Jenkim's idea of having a public option for homeowners insurance
Speaker 2: because we've seen how California runs all kinds of different departments.
Speaker 2: That being said, if it happens, if this is the
Speaker 2: person that gets elected, I totally understand why the insurance
Speaker 2: companies have nobody to blame but themselves. They have treated
Speaker 2: rate payers so terribly, and our system to regulate them
Speaker 2: is a it is not there. There really isn't any
Speaker 2: actual strict regulation holding these people accountable.
Speaker 3: So if we get the.
Speaker 2: Socialists and we get the public plan, it's because the
Speaker 2: insurance companies brought it on themselves. It's the News Blitz
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Speaker 4: Hello, Hi Randy, thank you for taking my call. First
Speaker 4: of all, on the sewer issue. You know, the people
Speaker 4: in LA don't realize that they are paying through the
Speaker 4: roof for sewer compared to Orange County. My sister has
Speaker 4: a similar size homepace, but seven times the amount for
Speaker 4: sewer that I pay in a month. So it's absolutely
Speaker 4: ridiculous that they haven't replaced sewers with all the money
Speaker 4: that they're taking. So somebody should be looking at where
Speaker 4: the money is going. And then the second issue that
Speaker 4: you mentioned was about socialist taking a command of the
Speaker 4: insurance department, and then offering the public option for liability
Speaker 4: insurance for homeowners. That would create such a nightmare for
Speaker 4: the state of California to be under that kind of
Speaker 4: risk and obligation that they have about one point three
Speaker 4: trillion according to what I'm reading on the internet in
Speaker 4: debt that would be rated junk and they could not
Speaker 4: sell any more debt. That would bring the state to
Speaker 4: a complete halt. So what you need is you need
Speaker 4: an insurance commissioner that can enforce the law and not
Speaker 4: be out of the country on every junket like this
Speaker 4: imbecile Ricardo Lara one of the dumbest people I've ever met,
Speaker 4: by the way, So you know that's what you need
Speaker 4: to do. You need to reduce the fire problems by
Speaker 4: getting the goats out there and getting things cut down
Speaker 4: and all sorts of things. But putting a socialist in
Speaker 4: that office is a recipe for a complete disaster.
Speaker 2: Stuart, How California is it that we passed a bill
Speaker 2: that might actually wipe out all the goat herders because
Speaker 2: we want to give them a minimum wage.
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't tell you they were intelligent in this state.
Speaker 4: But that's what we need to do, is get the goats.
Speaker 4: Get rid of the bear on the flag and put
Speaker 4: a goat on the flag and start letting him do
Speaker 4: some fire control like they do over in Catalina and
Speaker 4: Palaverdis and other places. We just need a hell of
Speaker 4: a lot more of them.
Speaker 2: Yes, we do, you too, Thanks so much for the call, Stewart,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. It is interesting to me the debate between
Speaker 2: Jane Kim and Ben Allen, if they actually have a debate,
Speaker 2: because the average California knows how bad California is at
Speaker 2: implementing certain programs. So the fact that people would choose
Speaker 2: the state the idea of a state run plan over
Speaker 2: the insurance industry. Again, I'm admitting it's probably a terrible idea,
Speaker 2: but I just understand why people would vote that way
Speaker 2: because the insurance companies have been doing nothing to help
Speaker 2: out the people that have been paying them for years
Speaker 2: and years and years, and anecdotally, every single one of
Speaker 2: you know somebody that has been screwed over by their
Speaker 2: insurance company. And it's not like these companies are broke.
Speaker 2: They actually had record profits in twenty twenty five. I
Speaker 2: understand why there is that sentiment out there. Is the
Speaker 2: solution a terrible idea, probably, but I can see people
Speaker 2: voting for it because the insurance industry is that unpopular.
Speaker 2: Something that I'm a big fan of. Whenever I go
Speaker 2: up to San Francisco. Are the Waymos, big fan of Waymos.
Speaker 2: I think much fun really is its own little tools attraction.
Speaker 2: And I know they have them here, but not really
Speaker 2: because in La they're only in downtown La Culver City
Speaker 2: in Santa Monica, and they can only take you to
Speaker 2: downtown La Culver City in Santa Monica, so they're not
Speaker 2: really feasible or usable yet. But when you're Cisco, you
Speaker 2: can take them around the entire city. Now, San Francisco
Speaker 2: is a much smaller city than La. San Francisco is
Speaker 2: the side of a postage stamp. But something about hailing
Speaker 2: the robot and having it take you from Union Square
Speaker 2: over to Golden Gate Park to hike around the most
Speaker 2: beautiful natural splendor there is with your dogs, and then
Speaker 2: going to get brunch at Coal Valley and then taking
Speaker 2: the Weymo back, maybe taking it up to North Beach
Speaker 2: and getting some cocktails at Tony Nicks before you go
Speaker 2: to Tony's Pizza Topolitana. I can't wait to go back
Speaker 2: to San Francisco. I'm a big fan of the Weymos,
Speaker 2: but the Waymos have had some bad press lately, and
Speaker 2: now they're getting called out by San Francisco mayor, the
Speaker 2: most popular mayor in the United States, Daniel Lurry. But
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna hundred percent blame this one on the Weamos.
Speaker 2: See Daniel Lurry set a letter to waimos saying that
Speaker 2: Weimo needs to do better when there's insane gretck like
Speaker 2: happened on the fourth of July. And you know what,
Speaker 2: there were real issues on the fourth of July, including
Speaker 2: a Weimo that drove through somebody shooting, like, drove through
Speaker 2: an active firework going off that shouldn't have been in
Speaker 2: the street. And also Weymo's being stuck in awful, awful
Speaker 2: traffic for so long that some of them actually ran
Speaker 2: out of juice and had to get towed away. Now,
Speaker 2: the firework one, that's definitely okay. We need to learn
Speaker 2: about that. Everything Weymo is doing, it's always constantly learning
Speaker 2: and constantly evolving. I guess it's never been faced with
Speaker 2: that situation. Just like when they started putting them on
Speaker 2: the freeway. The one thing they weren't prepared for is
Speaker 2: what do they do during a construction zone. Okay, so
Speaker 2: there's more things that we have to add into the
Speaker 2: algorithm or things we have to add into the things
Speaker 2: that WEIMO needs to think about. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to the weimo's ran out of juice because of the
Speaker 2: horrific traffic. That one might be more on Lurry than
Speaker 2: anybody else. See on the fourth of July, it was
Speaker 2: San Francisco and Daniel Lurry, who again I'm a big
Speaker 2: supporter of I think he's doing a very good job.
Speaker 2: He made a huge deal out about we're going to
Speaker 2: have this massive fireworks show on the Golden Gate Bridge
Speaker 2: which San Francisco is going to San Francisco, and the
Speaker 2: fog world in and nobody could see anything. But still
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people came out for this and
Speaker 2: the city was not prepared. They weren't prepared with public
Speaker 2: transit munibuses were late, They weren't prepared to deal with
Speaker 2: the increased flow of traffic, which led to all kinds
Speaker 2: of insane gridlock, which then included the waimos being stuck
Speaker 2: in traffic to the point where they ran out of power.
Speaker 2: So that one's a little more on how the city
Speaker 2: mishandled or maybe underestimated how many people would show up
Speaker 2: to the you can't see the fireworks festival.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The other issue that Lauri pointed out was going back
Speaker 2: to December of last year when there was the giant
Speaker 2: PG and E power outage, and one of the stories
Speaker 2: that was reported from that big power outage is you
Speaker 2: had dozens of waymos that were stranded in the street.
Speaker 2: And here's what's interesting about that, because a power outage
Speaker 2: shouldn't really affect a autonomous vehicle that runs on a battery, right, Well,
Speaker 2: what had happened was.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 2: The way weymos are regulated in California is that the
Speaker 2: autonomous vehicle, which has all this technology and all these
Speaker 2: cameras and all these sensors, if you're inside one, it
Speaker 2: is really impressive. You may be scared to death of
Speaker 2: these things. You get inside one. I loved it.
Speaker 3: You may not.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan. But one of the regulations that
Speaker 2: California has on the weimos is that even though you
Speaker 2: have all this technology and all these sensors, just to
Speaker 2: make sure that everything's working okay, the weimo cannot operate
Speaker 2: unless it is connected to the Internet one hundred percent
Speaker 2: of the time, which also means we're not getting WEIMO
Speaker 2: in Wine Country anytime soon because internet connection and cell
Speaker 2: phone reception in Wine Country, whether you're talking about Napa,
Speaker 2: Sonoma or Santa Nez, is a disaster. Don't ever try
Speaker 2: to drive an electric car up to Santa Barbara Wine
Speaker 2: Country unless you have a Tesla and you get a
Speaker 2: charge of the Builton Marriotte.
Speaker 3: It is a nightmare.
Speaker 2: So if the weimo can only operate if it's connected
Speaker 2: to the Internet, that means that when there's a massive
Speaker 2: power outage which knocked out Internet service for several parts
Speaker 2: of San Francisco, especially in the sunset, the weaimos, even
Speaker 2: though they had plenty of juice, couldn't move because, like
Speaker 2: you trying to download a video but your AT and
Speaker 2: T dropped, is just sitting there buffering, So that one
Speaker 2: we might have to actually look at the current regulation,
Speaker 2: like is it necessary does the WEMO have to be
Speaker 2: connected to the Internet the whole time. Look, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that WEMO isn't blameless, and weimlow can definitely improve.
Speaker 3: I just think for the first.
Speaker 2: Time in a while, Luriy has a little egg on
Speaker 2: his face from the July fourth situation, including how many
Speaker 2: people were shooting off illegal fireworks in the mission and
Speaker 2: nobody was arrested. That he's trying to place the blame
Speaker 2: somewhere else. That being said, this next Weimo's story is
Speaker 2: pretty horrific. A big guy, a guy in San Francisco
Speaker 2: who is a big fan of Weimo, even with post
Speaker 2: on social media how much he loved his weymos. He
Speaker 2: was up in the Marina, according to him, late at night,
Speaker 2: about to take the Weaimo home, stops in an intersection
Speaker 2: when all of a sudden, some anarchist vandals start assaulting
Speaker 2: the Weymo while he's inside it, trying to lift the bumper,
Speaker 2: put some foam around the sensor, smash the windows. And
Speaker 2: the story that he talks about it is scary, is harrowing.
Speaker 2: And the problem that he had was because the Weimo's
Speaker 2: number one primary directive is to make sure it doesn't
Speaker 2: run anybody over. Even if you're being attacked while inside
Speaker 2: the wei Mo, it can't drive away, it can't do it.
Speaker 2: So this guy came real close from the windows shattering
Speaker 2: and him getting attacked. I don't know what brought this
Speaker 2: on outside of just some people just want to attack
Speaker 2: these robot cars. Look how many weimo's got burned in
Speaker 2: the ice protests last summer. But he called nine to one.
Speaker 2: One took SFPD a while to get there. He hit
Speaker 2: the emergency button on the and they didn't really know
Speaker 2: how to respond to that. It's the News Blitz with
Speaker 2: Randy Wang on talk radio seven to ninety KYABC. Let's
Speaker 2: see what's going on this weekend. Football for the People,
Speaker 2: a live screening of the final game of the World Cup.
Speaker 2: Street Food Cinema will once again be hosting a big,
Speaker 2: free community screening at the Autry Museum, co presented by
Speaker 2: Nithia and the La Parks Foundation. Football for the People
Speaker 2: pairs the action shown on a large screen and the
Speaker 2: lawn with food trucks, photo ops, a vendor marketplace, and
Speaker 2: the kind of communal sports energy that Angelinos can't get
Speaker 2: enough of lately. That's at the Autry Museum of the
Speaker 2: American West and it's free to go there. The Plumeria
Speaker 2: Festival at the Arboretum hosts twelfth annual celebration of fragrant
Speaker 2: flowers that are a hallmark of Hawaii. Though they're actually
Speaker 2: native to the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. Shop for
Speaker 2: exotic plants and floral souvenirs. Walk them in more than
Speaker 2: one hundred flowering trees in the Blue Maria Grove. Listen
Speaker 2: to talks by botanical experts, make your own lace, Enjoy
Speaker 2: live entertainment think Tahitian drumming and Polynesian fire dancing, food
Speaker 2: trucks and cocktails.
Speaker 3: Fun.
Speaker 2: It's about eighteen dollars to get in. That is the
Speaker 2: La County Arboreta and Botanical Garden between nine am and
Speaker 2: two pm on Saturday, or between four and eight today.
Speaker 2: And at Gloria Molina Grand Park, We've got Gloria Marina
Speaker 2: Grand Parks Sunday sessions wind down this weekend with a
Speaker 2: five hour late afternoon dance party on Grand Park's performance
Speaker 2: long during the summer tradition, Who is going to be
Speaker 2: Hot for that? On two Sundays this summer, July nineteenth
Speaker 2: and August sixteenth, head on over to the segment of
Speaker 2: the park just north of Hill Street. Live DJ set
Speaker 2: celebrate the evolution and diverse history of house music.
Speaker 3: Oh Boy, bring.
Speaker 2: Your own picnic gear, hit up the on site food
Speaker 2: trucks there's also a local makers market, a DIY Arts
Speaker 2: and Crafts, and a beer garden, and that's going to
Speaker 2: be free between three and eight pm. Just some of
Speaker 2: the fun things that are going on. If you'd like
Speaker 2: to send us an email, you can do so at
Speaker 2: Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com. Sean says, weimos
Speaker 2: are everywhere in La now, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, all
Speaker 2: over the west side, the Valley. They used to be
Speaker 2: in a limited part of town, not anymore now. I
Speaker 2: will say I have not seen in the valley yet,
Speaker 2: and I have the weimo app, and I know they're
Speaker 2: testing in a lot of those areas, but I don't
Speaker 2: think you can actually get one in those areas yet.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, believe you me.
Speaker 2: If I could use one in the valley and I
Speaker 2: could take one to Lax, I'd be using that tomorrow
Speaker 2: instead of a Uber Black or a Lyft Black. But
Speaker 2: let's just see. Let's open up my weimo app. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you right now where I can use it, because
Speaker 2: I'm in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3: Can I use it?
Speaker 2: You're outside of our service area? Yeah, okay? The current
Speaker 2: service area is it is Beverly Hills. It is West Hollywood,
Speaker 2: It's Santa Monica, it's Marina Delray, It's Inglewood. But no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no, it does not go to the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2: Does go to a little bit of Los Felis in
Speaker 2: Echo Park and downtown LA of course, you've got it
Speaker 2: in skid Row.
Speaker 3: But it does not go to the valley. Ah, too bad.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: This is the beginning of a weekend and the beginning
Speaker 2: of interesting time for me. I'm not taking next week off,
Speaker 2: but I am going on kind of a vacation.
Speaker 3: I'll be working.
Speaker 2: You'll hear brand new shows of this show every single day,
Speaker 2: and I'll be live with John Phillips every single day
Speaker 2: from noon to three next week. But I'll be doing
Speaker 2: it from Canada. I am flying up to Toronto, which
Speaker 2: is probably not the best timing considering that all the
Speaker 2: wild buyers that have been talked about the last couple
Speaker 2: of days, so I better bring a mask. But I
Speaker 2: had this trip planned and it cost me an arm
Speaker 2: and a leg, so I gotta go. I am going
Speaker 2: to be spending the week because my wife has been
Speaker 2: working up there the whole summer and I have not
Speaker 2: seen her in six weeks, so I'm going to get
Speaker 2: to spend the week up there. I'll be broadcasting from
Speaker 2: the hotel room and then you know, at night, get
Speaker 2: to go hang out enjoy the town. I have never
Speaker 2: been to Toronto. I have never been to Canada, so
Speaker 2: I really have no idea what to expect outside of
Speaker 2: the few things that I've talked about that my wife
Speaker 2: is enjoyed. She really likes this Italian chain up there
Speaker 2: called Scatabush where they make their own fresh mozzarella.
Speaker 3: Sounds pretty darn good to me. But I don't know
Speaker 3: what I'm in for.
Speaker 2: I have no expectations, and sometimes that's really exciting. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be right in the middle of downtown for most
Speaker 2: of the week, and I'm just gonna kind of as
Speaker 2: long as it's safe to go outside, wander, explore, maybe
Speaker 2: get to know the locals and see what they have
Speaker 2: to say. I have no expectations. I don't know what
Speaker 2: I'm about to experience in Toronto, but I am very
Speaker 2: excited it is. I haven't really taken an actual vacation
Speaker 2: this year, and I won't be taking one where I
Speaker 2: actually take time off for quite some time because we're
Speaker 2: trying to get this video stuff launched, and well, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't be wise to get all this stuff going and
Speaker 2: then take a week off. So I'm doing a few
Speaker 2: working trips here and there. Of course they do a
Speaker 2: lot in Santa Fe. But I love exploring a new city.
Speaker 2: I love exploring a new place, and you know, I'm
Speaker 2: maybe it's because I didn't do a lot of when
Speaker 2: I was younger, and maybe because I'm still like active enough.
Speaker 2: I like every aspect of travel. I don't find the
Speaker 2: airport to even lax. I don't really find it to
Speaker 2: be that big of a headache. I find things that
Speaker 2: I look forward to. Maybe that's because I have lounge access.
Speaker 2: Having the lounges really does make it that you look
Speaker 2: forward to it because you know you're going to have
Speaker 2: a comfortable as soon as you get your bags dropped
Speaker 2: and you're checked in and you're through security until you
Speaker 2: have to get on the plane, you can enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2: You can have a drink as many as you'd like
Speaker 2: within reason. You can have usually free food. I usually
Speaker 2: do the American lounges because I have that American card
Speaker 2: that gets you Admirals Club. It's like a six hundred
Speaker 2: dollars annual fee and I have made that money back
Speaker 2: in free margaritas and Bloody Mary's. Let me tell you
Speaker 2: that I'm going to be using my admost card that
Speaker 2: I just hit my bonus on and trying the Alaska
Speaker 2: Lounge because I am flying porter Air, which my wife
Speaker 2: has flown up to Canada a bunch recently, and it's
Speaker 2: either porter Air or it's Air Canada, and she said
Speaker 2: porter Air is the much better experience, and I am
Speaker 2: pretty excited about it, especially because apparently even in economy
Speaker 2: you have a good leg room seat, you don't have
Speaker 2: a middle seat, and you.
Speaker 3: Get like free beer and wine.
Speaker 2: That being said, their app is terrible and doesn't work
Speaker 2: at all, so I had to make sure I checked
Speaker 2: in on the computer because I could not do it
Speaker 2: on the phone. Hopefully that doesn't mean any kind of
Speaker 2: ill omen Have a wonderful weekend everyone. The next time
Speaker 2: you hear from me, I'll be in Canada. It's the
Speaker 2: News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC.