WEBVTT - Where Is All The Rotting Food In Boyle Heights Going? 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:05.000 The GNC News Blitz with Radi Wang starts No No, 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:05.320 No No. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.320 It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang, Top Radio 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:14.360 seven ninety KABC. This is your daily rundown of everything 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.119 you need to know that's going on in southern California 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.200 as well as the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, and 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:21.120 the Central Valley. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:22.759 I compile a list. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.639 Every single day of all the stories I found interesting 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.440 going up and down the Golden State, and in case 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.200 you have missed any of them, you can check it 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.280 out at Randywang Radio dot substack dot com. Every single 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.320 story that I talk about I have linked there. 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That devastating fire 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:20.200 started a month ago where the contractor who ran the 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.080 solar panel farm on the roof of the cold storage 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.920 facility was trying to reconnect some old solar panels that 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.640 were deactivated because they caught fire two years ago. And 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.360 what do you know, they didn't just figure out that, 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.679 even what I know about electricity work, you got to 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.640 turn off the breaker before you turn on and unplug 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.120 and plug back in any new lights. So a fire started, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.440 it got out of control, and that's when the real 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.720 disaster started. Because the response from the city and the 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:56.680 county at every single level has been horrific. From Karen 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.720 Bass saying that the smoke that is coming out from 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.680 this facility is okay and it is not harmful when 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.440 we know how harmful those chemicals are to the meager, Oh, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.080 we're going to give you an air purifier and that's 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.400 going to solve it. We're going to open up health 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:18.120 clinics and give you tile it all. It just unbelievable 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.239 amounts of incompetence. Look, the city didn't start this fire, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.280 but the city's response when it comes to any kind 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:29.160 of disaster is so lacking. And that is true when 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.400 we're also talking about the cleanup. You know, There's been 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.919 a lot of people who have recently made the offhand remark, 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.880 you know, it may have been better off if they 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.119 just let the warehouse burn to the ground, because then 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.640 all the food would have been cooked instead of rotting. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.880 It's an interesting thought process. Now, of course, they had 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.840 to put out the fire, that's the job of the 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.200 fire department. But the ensuing disaster of trying to remove 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:01.720 eighty five million pounds of rotting food food is moving 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.400 real slow. We've talked about the math, and in case 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.520 anybody asks you, over the weekend, we've cleared about one percent, 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.560 maybe a little more now, but as of two days ago, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.160 we've cleared about one percent of all the debris that 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.120 was out there. But you might be asking where is 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.960 all of this going? And that's a very good question. Well, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.000 thanks to our friends at CBSLA, we found out some 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.040 of all of this rotting food is going to a 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:36.880 landfill in Riverside County, specifically the Elsa Bronte Landfill, a 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.200 landfill that has been cited for all kinds of violations 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.080 over the last few years. Now, I don't know how 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.559 this works. I get to imagine if you're a landfill, 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.400 you're getting paid for every single load of rotting food 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.960 that's getting dropped off. Apparently the government had to sign 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.160 a waiver because they're bringing in way more food than 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.880 you know, way more trash at one time that's you 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.320 usually allowed. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.280 For this landfill. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.480 But now Riverside County has to deal with this problem, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.120 specifically people in Corona. And I understand that you have 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.320 to put it somewhere, but it is funny that like 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.960 it has to go all the way down the ninety 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:21.080 one to Corona. It's just it is a horrific situation. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.800 And it's not the only horrific situation, you know. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:24.520 It's interesting. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.479 We started this week with an update on the Boyle 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.080 Heights warehouse fire, talking about something that happened right next 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.320 to it, and that was when a water main broke 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.360 in Boyle Heights over the weekend, right next to the warehouse. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.839 And then just a few days later what happened. Oh 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:46.800 that's right, another big massive water main break, this time 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.240 in West Hollywood. If you've seen the video coming out there, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:55.880 it is so devastating as because Sunset is inclined street, 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.039 everything went somewhere and if you had an underground, if 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.120 you had a car and an underg I'm parking garage. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:07.040 Oh good luck. Restaurants destroyed. Car garage is destroyed. The 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.880 entire street's going to be torn up for quite some time. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.600 Just a complete mess. And I'm going to say it 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:21.240 another preventable mess. This is where the incompetence of the 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.640 City of Los Angeles really hurts all of us, including 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.960 people that don't live in the city of Los Angeles. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.719 Because here's a fun fact that you may not have known. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.000 Even though most of the destruction here is happening in 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.280 West Hollywood, West Hollywood does not have its own municipal 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.680 water agency. Half of West Hollywood is Beverly Hills and 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.839 half of West Hollywood is LADWP. Guest which side had 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.480 the one hundred and ten year old pipe that burst. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:55.960 And this is the failure to every level of our 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.760 government locally. And this goes way further than Karen Bass 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.479 goes back for decades. But everybody in charge now and 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.640 everybody in charge back then, this is what you get 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.760 for deferred maintenance, for this policy of well, it's probably 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:17.360 cheaper to just let these things rupture and fix them 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:22.520 then then proactively preventing destruction, which I don't think is 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:30.400 true at all this city is spending, like not spending 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:35.440 maybe five billion dollars over like ten years. I don't 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.559 know the exact number, but they're not spending nearly enough 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:44.120 to get these things fixed proactively. The LEDWP says we're 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.040 doing like fifty thousand feet a year. There's like seventy 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.599 thousand miles of pipe, and if we need to reallocate 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.720 some of our resources to take care of this, because 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.320 believe you me, I'm a rate pair of LEDWP. I 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.719 feel like I'm paying through the no. I would like 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.400 to know that my money is going to something, including 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:09.240 replacing the aged infrastructure. But I guess it's not all 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.160 the money that we pay in taxes here. I guess 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.760 it's not going to that either. Having the big infrastructure 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.760 bill from the Biden days, did anything go towards replacing 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:18.400 the pipes. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.280 Maybe we have to start reallocating some. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.800 Of the money that we're using in our city government, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.000 Like I don't know the money we waste on homelessness, 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.120 the money we waste on bloated salaries. You want to 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:34.080 talk about the LEDWP. Jenny's Kenyonis, who was Karen Bass's 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.800 hand picked leader of the LEDWP, costs seven hundred and 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.120 fifty thousand dollars a year before she ditched us to 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:41.960 go to Puerto Rico. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.360 How many pipes could have that paid for. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:51.280 These are the basics safety and infrastructure. And on infrastructure, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.640 whether it's potholes, water mains, we're not doing a damn thing. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.760 Civil engineers will tell you that these pipes that were 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.640 put in over a hundred undred years ago had a 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.480 shelf life of fifty to seventy five years. So we 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.559 know that LA is a ticking time bomb of water, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:08.880 and what are we doing about it. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.000 We're not doing anything about it. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.640 We're just waiting for these things to pop up and 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.840 then we'll just mitigate the damage when it happens instead 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.480 of proactively preventing all this destruction. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.720 It's unbelievable. In the Edon. 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:31.120 Canyon area, there's a new villain in the ever going 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.840 saga of insurance companies screwing over their ratepayers. We've talked 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.280 a lot about State farm We've talked a lot about 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:44.240 the Fair Plan. Well, now welcome farmers into the consule, 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:49.560 into the conversation. Farmer's insurance, by the way, is my 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.280 homeowners insurance company and my policy, and I don't live 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:58.880 anywhere near a wildfire area has doubled in the last 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:06.920 two years. So NBCLA talked to some homeowners who were 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.120 evacuated because of the devastating eat and fire. Their homes 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.920 deemed unlivable because of the smoke damage. They've had their 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:20.600 own testing done and found that there was so much 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.600 toxic chemicals inside the house that need to be stripped 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.520 down to the studs. So they submit that to the 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.760 insurance company, the insurance company they've been paying for decades. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.560 And what does farmers say, Well, sure, your report says 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.600 that we need to spend a million dollars tearing this 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.760 home down and rebuilding it. But instead we're going to 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.320 give you eighty grand and here's a vacuum. This is 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:43.080 what they're doing. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:44.679 And what has. 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.360 Become the issue now is that we're at the waiting 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:53.280 game because part of your insurance is the alternate living places, 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.720 where while your home is being repaired, while your home 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:01.880 is being while your home is being destroyed, what have you. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:08.079 You have a situation where you are getting money so 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.960 you can pay to live somewhere else. Well, all of 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.400 that money is running out, So now you have people 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.679 that are being forced to either sell everything, or go 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.280 back into a dangerous home, or pay out of their 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.400 own pocket for their mortgage and for rent for somewhere else. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.080 And it just shows you, you know, the people that were 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.920 interviewed in the story, one family is fighting, one family 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:31.880 is taking their small kids, and like, all right, I 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.280 guess we're moving back into the dangerous house. And people 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.439 shouldn't have to make these choices. And what is the 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:46.080 point of having our quote unquote overregulated insurance industry if 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:52.160 the insurance Commissioner cannot hold these insurance companies accountable for 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.920 not fulfilling their end of the contract, for further victimizing 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.760 fire victims, dragging this stuff out where you are having 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.400 people run out of their alternate location payments because you've 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.840 been dragging this out for a year and a half. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.559 Farmers even accused one of the families of the ones 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:14.319 dragging out this. I don't care who you are, if 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.320 you were the victim of one of these things, the 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.400 insurance company does not have your side, Get a public adjuster, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.240 get a lawyer, because you need to go after these people. 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:28.400 And I never ever ever want to assume malice. You 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.320 always want to assume that there's just a lot of 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:36.240 incompetence and bureaucratic nonsense. But when it comes to the 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:41.400 insurance industry, specifically homeowners insurance, but I will say it's 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.320 true for medical insurance too. Don't get me started on 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.559 that story about Blue Shield in San Francisco with the firefighter. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.920 With these kinds of denials and changing of adjusters and 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:58.200 low balling people that were victimized, all of this, it's 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.600 really hard to not assume malice, to assume that they're 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.840 doing this on purpose, that they do not have the 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.120 best interest of their customers at heart, that they actually 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:11.480 enjoy further victimizing these people. And here's all I'm going 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:17.000 to say, State farm Farmers Fair Plan, which again is 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.600 not a government plan, and it's good to make that distinction. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.200 I'm going to tell you right now, if the voters 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.439 in the state of California in the November election end 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:32.000 up voting for Jane Kim, the San Francisco supervisor, over 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.320 Ben Allen. If that happens, you know who, you have 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.880 to look at yourselves in the mirror. Because if the 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.280 state of California goes for the socialist plan of we 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.920 need a public option a medical for homeowners insurance, it 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:55.320 is because the majority of the voters of California do 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.920 not trust that, like a good neighbor state farm is 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.240 there that we are farmers dun da da da dun dum, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.240 like a good neighbor, all of this stuff. We have 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.440 your back, We're in your hands. We don't believe you. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:15.199 So if this state votes for a socialist insurance commissioner, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.200 which it may happen, I one hundred percent blame the 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.440 insurance companies who did not fulfill their end of the contract. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:28.400 That further victimize these people. You have yourselves to blame 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.640 for this. I'm not saying what Jane Kim is suggesting 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.680 is a good idea or not. It might be a 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.559 disastrous idea, but I understand where people would want to 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.280 vote for it, because if you cannot trust the insurance 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.760 industry to do what they're supposed to do, what is 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.240 the other option? And if they really can't make any 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.160 money without screwing everybody over, then what's the point anyway? 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.920 Hey, let's go to John and Long Beach. John. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.440 Hello, Randy, how are you, my friend? 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.160 I'm doing great? 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:03.960 Hey, nice haircut. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:05.320 If nobody told you. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.920 Thank you very much. I think it was a great one. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.160 I saw today. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.520 It looked like I thought Johnny was going to boot camp. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.160 But anyway, that's another story. 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:17.599 I saw it. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:26.720 I saw Lucy Jones last night, the seismologists that we 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:31.080 all know, on one of the news channels, commenting on 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.920 the water situation with the main break, and she said, 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.200 if we have an earthquake over five or six in 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.560 LA which it's not a matter of if, but when 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.840 all those water means are going to break, and we're 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.200 not only going to be dealing with earthquake damage, we're 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.520 going to be dealing with massive flooding. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.280 Oh you're one hundred percent right about that. Just think 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.960 about how long ago ninety four was the last time 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.960 we had an earthquake that was that big. All those 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.320 pipes were thirty years younger than they are now, and 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.000 we haven't done a good job at all of replacing them, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.280 as evidence by the one hundred and ten year old 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.800 one in West Hollywood. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.400 So yeah, it's going to be a man. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.080 You could talk all you want about building codes and 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.480 making sure that our buildings and homes and offices are 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.520 retrofitted to deal with an earthquake. If the infrastructure underground 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.920 is from one hundred years ago, we're in for a 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.240 bigger disaster than we can ever imagine. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.560 Well, I have a friend that lives down in Mission 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.080 Viejo in a two million dollar home. He's a retired 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.320 sheriff's deputy friend of mine, and he and his wife 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.360 saw a little bit like in their kitchen on the ceiy. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.360 It looks kind of wet, you know, and it got 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.840 kind of like from small to maybe about you know, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.160 five or six seven, And so they called insurance right away. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.000 They said, okay, well we need to tear the wall out. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.640 So they come in, they send some hondy, they tear 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.640 the wall out. They said, oh, well, you're you've got 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.960 a leak in your wall. He said, well, okay, well 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.520 I want to put in a claim. Oh no, you 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.160 should have known that was leaking. He's been going around 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.360 with him for four years on this and they're refusing 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.200 to pay. If you've got a small leak in your wall, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.520 How do you know that it's leaking until you see 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.040 that the wall or the wall wherever is wet. They 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:30.920 will not pay him State Farm and they canceled him. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.880 Yeah, that sounds exactly like the stories that we hear 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.880 every single day. It's a product you have to pay 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.640 for and if you are unlucky enough to have to 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.600 use it, you're going to get dropped and you're going 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:44.480 to get screwed over. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.000 What kind of fare system is that? 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.400 It's not fair at all. And the other day I 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.560 was listening to your show, your other show when you 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:59.600 guys were interviewing the gentleman that's running against the miss 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.720 Kim lady. And he happens to be my friend who 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.520 I've mentioned on you when I've called in. He works 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.160 for the insurance Commandon. He's an arbitrator. If you've got 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:15.680 an issue between your company and a complain about him, 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.800 he's the guy you call. And he told me that 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.560 everybody that he works with are just keeping their fingers 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.679 crossed and holding their breath. Does that she does not 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.680 get elected because he told me that California fair plan. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.000 He said, first off, they don't have any money and 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:34.359 they never pay. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:39.200 Ever, you're totally right about that. We hear those all 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:39.919 the time. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.640 Every single day. Oh yeah, Well, anyway, I like your 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.679 show and I like the Eye, and I'm enjoying the 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:46.600 live broadcast. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:51.200 So thank you, Thanks so much, John, have a wonderful weekend, buddy. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:53.280 Okay, you too. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.720 Bye by Now, It's the. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:07.000 News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's the News 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.720 Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.000 If you'd like to send me an email, you can 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:18.880 do so at Randy Wangradio at gmail dot com. Catherine 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.639 writes in at Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.800 Your hair looked great today and John's he needs it 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.800 short for the weather he's in. I made a comment 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.119 during the live show that nobody had noticed that I 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.640 got a haircut this morning and was I phishing for compliments? 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.240 Yes, I was. Love the live shows. Just want to 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:37.800 let you know. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.120 But the reason I'm emailing is my mom just got 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.160 her bill for earthquake insurance and went up quite a bit. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.080 So I know what you're saying. The insurance companies are 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.239 really bad. I just hope that we don't have a 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.239 socialist anything. I'm very scared about at all, but I 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.800 don't want to be fearful. Have a great weekend. I 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:00.440 understand that fear and it may be a complete disaster. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:06.000 Jenkim's idea of having a public option for homeowners insurance 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.920 because we've seen how California runs all kinds of different departments. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:15.879 That being said, if it happens, if this is the 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:20.200 person that gets elected, I totally understand why the insurance 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:24.200 companies have nobody to blame but themselves. They have treated 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.440 rate payers so terribly, and our system to regulate them 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.520 is a it is not there. There really isn't any 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.640 actual strict regulation holding these people accountable. 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:39.160 So if we get the. 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.080 Socialists and we get the public plan, it's because the 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:46.919 insurance companies brought it on themselves. It's the News Blitz 0:19:47.000 --> 0:20:00.120 with Randy Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. It's 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:05.520 the Newsplinz with Randy Wang on Talk Radio seven ninety KABC. 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.240 If you want to join us on the phone, the 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.800 phone number is eight hundred two two two five two 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.280 tube two. You can send me an email at Randy 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.520 Wang or Radio at gmail dot com, follow me on 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.679 the socials at Randy Wang Radio, on Instagram and on 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.720 x my YouTube channel. 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You should be the thirteen 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.040 hundred subscriber. You can you that right now. YouTube dot 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:07.439 com slash at Accountability Podcast. Let's go to Stewart and 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:08.640 Seal Beach Stuart. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:13.000 Hello, Hi Randy, thank you for taking my call. First 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.600 of all, on the sewer issue. You know, the people 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:19.040 in LA don't realize that they are paying through the 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:23.240 roof for sewer compared to Orange County. My sister has 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.119 a similar size homepace, but seven times the amount for 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.560 sewer that I pay in a month. So it's absolutely 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.080 ridiculous that they haven't replaced sewers with all the money 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.640 that they're taking. So somebody should be looking at where 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.439 the money is going. And then the second issue that 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:44.200 you mentioned was about socialist taking a command of the 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:49.360 insurance department, and then offering the public option for liability 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:53.960 insurance for homeowners. That would create such a nightmare for 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.879 the state of California to be under that kind of 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:01.840 risk and obligation that they have about one point three 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:05.280 trillion according to what I'm reading on the internet in 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.919 debt that would be rated junk and they could not 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:11.480 sell any more debt. That would bring the state to 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.400 a complete halt. So what you need is you need 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:18.080 an insurance commissioner that can enforce the law and not 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.439 be out of the country on every junket like this 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:25.280 imbecile Ricardo Lara one of the dumbest people I've ever met, 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:27.800 by the way, So you know that's what you need 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:32.560 to do. You need to reduce the fire problems by 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:36.080 getting the goats out there and getting things cut down 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:39.439 and all sorts of things. But putting a socialist in 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.440 that office is a recipe for a complete disaster. 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:46.840 Stuart, How California is it that we passed a bill 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.760 that might actually wipe out all the goat herders because 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.560 we want to give them a minimum wage. 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:57.159 Well, I didn't tell you they were intelligent in this state. 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.000 But that's what we need to do, is get the goats. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.280 Get rid of the bear on the flag and put 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:06.199 a goat on the flag and start letting him do 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.280 some fire control like they do over in Catalina and 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:12.240 Palaverdis and other places. We just need a hell of 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:13.120 a lot more of them. 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:18.000 Yes, we do, you too, Thanks so much for the call, Stewart, 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:22.960 appreciate it. It is interesting to me the debate between 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.199 Jane Kim and Ben Allen, if they actually have a debate, 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:31.000 because the average California knows how bad California is at 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:36.720 implementing certain programs. So the fact that people would choose 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:40.360 the state the idea of a state run plan over 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:45.000 the insurance industry. Again, I'm admitting it's probably a terrible idea, 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.440 but I just understand why people would vote that way 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:53.680 because the insurance companies have been doing nothing to help 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:56.639 out the people that have been paying them for years 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.720