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Go to Johnny don't Like dot com, 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.959 or go to Randywangradio dot com. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.839 I just figured I might as well buy two domains. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:25.000 There was a sale. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:32.839 La Metro has put out quite the challenge. They will 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:40.199 pay you six hundred dollars if you ditch your car, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.200 specifically ditch your second car, which is a little easier 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:50.080 of an ask. And this is a small pilot program. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.520 I think only two thousand people can sign up for this, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.320 but they are trying to encourage you instead of the 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.320 stick with the carrot, to get you out of your 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:06.960 car and onto public transit. And maybe six hundred dollars 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.480 is enough incentive for somebody who lives in an area 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.880 where Metro actually works for them to try it. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:15.360 Maybe. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.440 But if you live in I don't know, the San 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:26.000 Fernando Valley, good luck. Because one of the issues that 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:30.240 immediately came up is, well, if I don't have my car, 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:36.440 how do I get to the Metro station. Most people 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.080 do not live within walking distance of a Metro station 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:48.400 because this is not a city. The landscape of Los 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:53.560 Angeles is so big and so vast. It's why You'll 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.480 constantly hear La Metro tell you that we have the 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.800 largest light rail system in the country, but that doesn't 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:05.000 mean anything because it's still so big and so vast 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.079 that it doesn't go to a whole lot of places. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.559 Maybe the whole idea itself is just a little too ambitious. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.160 Maybe the city and the County of Los Angeles are 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:22.120 just too damn big, and this whole experiment of having 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.800 two million people live in the suburbs that have to 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.880 all commute into the city every single day doesn't make 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:30.800 sense anymore. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.760 Actually, I don't know if it ever made sense. Now. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.200 I'm not a Metro hater. I want the best for 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.320 public transit, for La Metro. I'll tell you right now, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:51.320 if Metro was convenient and safe, I would ride it, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:57.720 because I hate driving. I'm on the four or five 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.400 every single day. It takes up, you know, on my 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.560 workday is now around twelve hours with all the extra 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.400 work that I do for the video streaming. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.320 I get up at six am. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.640 I do my show prep between six and seven, then 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.880 I go to pilates my saving grace. Then let's say 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.480 I get back at eight. Between eight and ten, I'm 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.560 doing more show prep getting everything ready to go. Then 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.880 from ten thirty to eleven thirty, I'm sitting on the 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.359 freeway in Hell. I do the show from noon to three. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.960 From three to four, I'm sitting on the freeway in Hell. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.559 Then I have a little lunch, prep for this show, 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.520 do this show, get off the air, get all the 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:42.359 podcasts up. I'm done by like seven o'clock. It is 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:47.320 a very long day, and it drives me crazy that 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.919 of all the things that I have to do, that 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:55.200 two hours of it are wasted sitting on the freeway. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.760 You know, I used to be like, oh, well, that's 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.440 what I'm gonna do my show prep. I don't even 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.080 do that more because I get my show prep done 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.919 so early that, you know, I've gotten much more efficient 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.200 at this that I'm usually done with all my stories 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.960 before i even head to work. So I'll either listen to, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.400 you know, podcasts or what have you. Maybe I'll listen 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:18.479 to some music. But I'm not even making good use 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:24.360 of my time. I would love to be sitting somewhere 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.720 where I didn't have to drive that was faster than 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:32.120 the hour each way to go seventeen miles. I would 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.200 love it, but it doesn't exist. For me, and it 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:43.800 doesn't exist for so many people. This system will never 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.320 be built out to the point where it's actually convenient 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:53.880 for so many people. They're talking about maybe putting a 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:58.920 shovel in the ground for the Sepulvida line in what 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:06.080 ten fifteen years is when that project will start. That project, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.960 if it ever finishes, will not finish within well. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:12.320 I plan to live a long time. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.359 It will definitely not finish by the time I'm still 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.440 living in this city and in this county, and every 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.599 single day covering the news of Los Angeles. My timeline 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.080 to get the hell out moves up. Now. I'll still 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:31.760 cover LA, but maybe I could cover it from you know, 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:37.760 the South Bay or Orange County or San Francisco or 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.200 San Diego. LA is the worst part of the state 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:47.600 by far, and part of the reason is the traffic 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.920 is unbearable and there really is no other alternative. Now, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.719 I'm gonna give Metro some props. They have made some improvements. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.880 There was a story yesterday we did not get time 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:02.240 to cover it, but homeless incidents are way down on Metro. 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.760 Crime is way down on Metro. Things got really, really, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:11.440 really bad after COVID and during COVID when Gavin Newsom 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:16.520 said let's make transit free, and that turned every single 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.520 transit system into a gigantic homeless shelter, and God help 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:21.880 you if you're one of those cities. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.120 That's the end of the line. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.400 I'm looking at you, Santa Monica, because that's where they 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.080 get off at the middle of the night. But they've 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.240 come back from that. I think Janis Hahn was a 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.800 pretty good Metro director. I think Fernando Dutro was a 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.120 pretty good Metro director. And there was a lot of 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:45.240 focus on lowering crime, having visible presence of police officers, 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.720 even though it's going to take forever and I don't 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.200 know how exactly they're going to hire enough people for it. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.559 Maybe this program of having Metro's own police department something 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.920 that Bill Scott quit the San Francisco ped to go run. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:01.400 Maybe this will work. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.200 Now we're still wasting money on ambassadors and a whole 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.400 bunch of other nonsense, but things you're looking bright for 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.560 Metro except for and I guess, a bid to make 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.840 her look more important so she survives her reelection bid. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.680 Karen Bess getting the baton once again to become La 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:26.880 Metro director and Karen Bess, the horrible mayor of Los Angeles, announcing, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:32.400 maybe because she's trying to outrun Nthia Rahman to the left, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.920 that she wants to make transit free in Los Angeles. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.000 And while some people may have a pie in the 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:45.000 sky idea of hey, we should make it free, it 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.920 should be a public good. It will encourage so many 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.080 more people to ride. We've seen what happens when you 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.720 make transit free and you make no barrier to getting 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.360 on there, you make it really hard to get people 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.440 off of there, which include dudes when these things turned 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.480 into the drug dens. So I don't want to see 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.280 that happen again. But at least for right now, things 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.120 are looking better on the crime front. On the safety front, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.560 there's definitely less incidents in the news about incidents on 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:15.400 La Metro. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:15.840 Now. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.160 I think there's a distinction between the buses and the trains, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.040 and I think there's a lot of people that they 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.760 may get on a train, they may not get on 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.280 a bus, And I totally understand why. For instance, remember 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.599 when Janis Hahn was in charge of La Metro a 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.600 couple of years ago. Oh, of course you do, because 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.360 we would play this drop incessantly. I love the bus driver, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.240 and she said I'm going to actually ride the system, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.160 which was groundbreaking because of the members of the Board 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.439 of Supervisors, the mayor, City Council, the other cities that 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.280 are involved, very few of these people actually ride the system, 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.400 which should tell you something. It's not convenient and it 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.120 doesn't go anywhere. That jannishn was a big deal that 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.200 she was going to ride it once a month to 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.760 the Metro board meeting. But she came up with some 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:08.880 interesting ideas, including like weapons detection systems at Metro stations, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.480 and that might be a really good idea for Seventh 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.600 Street and Metro for Hollywood and Highland Hollywood and Vine 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.160 Union Station. But how do you exactly do you police 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.040 the hundreds and hundreds of bus stops for people with 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.280 weapons where the bus drivers kind of on their own 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:31.120 to do anything about it. That being said, I would 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.480 even consider getting on a bus if that was convenient, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.040 but it's not because for the most part, the buses 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.760 share the same exact roads as the rest of us. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:49.360 And I'm not advocating for bus only lanes. I think 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.640 they're kind of a joke, and I've seen how they 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.679 operate in places like Culver City, where I commute to 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.439 every single day, where there is just jammed up traffic 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.400 on the car lanes and empty lanes sitting completely doing 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:10.800 nothing with the bus only lane, maybe we need a 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.360 share the road kind of situation. You know, it's wild. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.240 I was just in Toronto and I kind of miss it. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.240 It was a lot of fun. Toronto's an interesting place. 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.880 So Toronto has cable cars that go all throughout the downtown, 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.560 but they don't have their own dedicated lane. You kind 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.400 of have to share the road with them, and sometimes 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.440 it can be a little confusing, but for the most part, 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.040 people make get work. So I don't love the idea 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:41.160 of the bus only lane. That being said, building tunnels 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.840 and building trains in the city and County of Los 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:53.360 Angeles is so slow. It is taking so long, big 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.200 massive accomplishment. That we finally got the D line going, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:58.800 how long did that take? 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.680 I'm Tom Sky, I'm about to ride the D. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.439 And it's still not finished. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.480 And we're talking about this new line that they approve 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:12.319 that's going to go from the Wilshire area all the 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.240 way up through the Brea and the Hollywood Bowl and 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.800 they're going to break ground for that in five years, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.120 and maybe it'll be done in fifteen years. Like this 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.640 stuff is taking too long to have any real difference 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.560 on our traffic system. You know, it makes me wonder 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.640 how did we build all these roads to begin with. So, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.880 while I don't love the idea of a bus only lane, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.679 if your goal is to have transit that is actually 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:46.080 faster than cars, that seems like a faster way to 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:50.080 get to that goal. Because building these tunnels and building 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.280 I don't understand why we're building so much light rail. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.320 Light Rail is slow. Light rail is not even you know, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.240 at least the subways. It may take a lot long 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:05.160 time to dig those tunnels, but the subway theoretically goes fast. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:10.000 These light rail systems do not go fast at all. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.600 So I think our system's kind of a joke. Most 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.280 people don't take it seriously. Most people don't ride it. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.880 And while the six hundred dollars incentive is a nice idea, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.920 I just tried to picture how I would use it, 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.360 you know, if I really was trying to live where 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.440 I live, which actively every day thinking about getting out 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.920 of the San Fernando Valley because I am not built 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.880 for the suburbs. Born and raised in the suburbs, and 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.880 at the ripe old age of forty one, I am 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.680 thriving to live in somewhere that's walkable, whether that be 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.200 a city, whether be a fund, something that has stuff 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.800 to do that I don't have to be in my 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.520 car because I don't like being in my car. So 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.000 I got to get out of where I am. But 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.480 right now I am where I am Popeye, And there 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.960 are so many people like me who do not live 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.199 anywhere near transit. So if I get if I wanted 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.960 that six hundred dollars, how am I getting to my 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.120 pilates every day? 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.840 How am I getting to the grocery store? 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:19.200 Do they expect people to take transit to the grocery store? 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.600 Because typically when I go to the grocery store, I'm 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.640 buying more food than I can carry. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.840 So how exactly is all this supposed to work. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.200 I don't know how many people are actually going to 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.800 take La Metro up on this offer six. I think 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.280 it's only limited to like two thousand people, because ultimately 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:47.240 the system is so inconvenient for so many people, and 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.600 with all the money that we spend on it, it's 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:55.480 not getting any more convenient for anybody anytime soon. I 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.120 just feel like by the time they fully build out 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:04.080 this system, transportation will have completely changed. And I'll give 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.800 you a perfect example. I've talked about them before. I'm 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.720 a big fan of them. I think in the next decade, 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.480 maybe decade and a half, the weaimo revolution is going 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.240 to completely change the way most regular car trips are. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.760 Of course, you can still have a car, and of 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.640 course you probably want a car for road trips what 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.920 have you, But for commuting, for that trip to the 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.240 grocery store, for going to Pilate's class, what have you. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.320 There definitely can be a future where we have made 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:45.960 autonomous ride hailing so affordable and so cheap that well, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.680 you don't need to own a car, because owning a 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:53.080 car is expensive. Even if you have an electric car, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:58.640 you still have the cost of keeping that car on 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:04.040 the road, registration fees, you still have tires, and you 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.760 got to deal with when you pop one of those, 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.400 which happens constantly. Never ever, ever drive on Veno and 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:15.040 Boulevard in the Lake Balboa area, just don't do it. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.840 It's so many potholes. You're definitely going to damage your tires. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.160 Sometimes my Apple maps will tell me that's the faster 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.280 way to say to go home. Never do it. It's 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.760 a It is a mess. And if it ever rains 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:34.600 vano and floods like crazy, you have insurance, which is 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.640 incredibly expensive. You know, there's just owning a car costs 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.160 a lot of money. Even if you own the car 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.360 outright now, a lot of people don't because cars have 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.280 gotten very, very expensive. So it would be nice if 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.680 there was another option. But for the most part, this 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.640 city wasn't built for transit, which is a very funny 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.440 thing to say because you go on YouTube and there 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.680 are so many channels of people who advocate for public 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.119 transit that would love to point out, and it is true. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.080 La used to be the public transit capital of the country. 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:15.000 The red car system was huge, but that's when Los 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.160 Angeles had a much smaller footprint. And while so many 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:22.640 people demonize urban sprawl, it's what we have, it's how 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.760 we have it. And you cannot build a public transit 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:33.159 system that can conveniently get people from the valley unless 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:38.280 you live specifically in North Hollywood on Lancasham to the 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.320 rest of the other side of the hill. And until 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.520 you can do that, all of this is just Pie 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:54.119 in the Sky Dreams. It's the news Blitz with Randy 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.840 Wang on KABC. Let's get this out of the way 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.160 seven to ninety KABC welcomes Jackson Brown to the Hollywood 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.240 Pantagious Theater on November nineteenth. Tickets are on sale now 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.400 at ticketmaster dot com. But right now collin number nine 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.560 at one eight at eight seven ninety five two two 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.640 two gets a pair of tickets to the show. Tickets 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:22.080 furnished by Nita Lander Concerts. 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All right, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.359 I got a special edition because this actually showed up 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.800 on my feed after I published the news blitz. But 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:30.359 it is something very important to me as an electriccar owner. 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:36.919 Gavin Newsom had a big announcement today that EV rebates 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:42.199 are back, and you know what, I don't have a 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.959 huge problem with this now, just full disclosure. When I 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:51.000 bought my electric car in twenty twenty two, after the 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.359 electric car that I had before that got totaled in 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.400 an accident and that one was used, I didn't get 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.880 any rebate. I well, my wife helped me pay for 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.240 the car that I am driving. Now, I didn't get 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.720 a rebate. Now, there was a manufacturer discount because at 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.359 the time, Chevy didn't qualify for the federal rebates or 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.600 the state rebates because we only wanted to incentivize the 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:18.200 smaller companies to get one. So, you know, vinfest when 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.160 that goes out of business, good luck, is that still 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.240 a thing? I know they had a shore room at 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:27.960 Westfield Topanga or the Tapega or the Tapanga Plaza. No 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:34.320 What is it called Tapega Village? My goodness. There's the 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.639 Westfield Topanga, which is also called the Tapanga Plaza, and 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.440 they have a food hall called Tapega Social, but the 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.480 outdoor mall across the street is called the Tapanga Village. 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:45.960 Too much Topanga. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:46.960 Uh. 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.639 They had a showroom for Vinfest and that's gone. Is 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.480 vin Fast still a thing? I know? They're still lucid. 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.640 And there's a Rivian. You got a neighbor of mine 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:56.440 that's getting a Rivian. They're very excited. 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:57.919 What have you? I like my Chevy. 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:02.520 But Gavin Newsome when talking about these rebates, and I 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:05.080 think it's like thirty five hundred dollars for a new 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.920 EV and seventeen hundred dollars for a used EV. Okay 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:13.119 incentivize more people to get these. That still compared to 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.240 how much they cost, quite a lot of money. 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:16.400 Now there is savings. 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.680 I I wonder if I could do the math, Let's 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:26.919 find out on average I was spending probably two hundred 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:30.639 dollars a month on gasoline. No, it had to be 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.359 less than that. Let's say let's say let's round down. 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:36.800 Let's say it's one hundred and fifty dollars on gas 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:43.360 times twelve times four. I've saved just in a rough estimate, 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:47.840 probably seventy five hundred dollars on gasoline that I have 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.560 not had to buy because I've had my electric car 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:55.680 for four years. That's awesome. Electric bill really hasn't gone 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:59.640 up because I only charge overnight. But while I love 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:03.679 my are and I'm lucky I do, because then I 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:08.199 really would hate driving to work. I know what the 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:12.920 limitations are of EVS, and Gavin would love to paint 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:13.960 a different picture. 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:16.920 But let's tell you the real story. First. 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:19.439 Let me tell you the thing that I heard Gavin 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:24.600 say while I was folding laundry that well caused me 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:28.600 to have to respond to it. This was Gavin Newsom 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:29.800 this morning, as a. 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:32.720 Guy who you know, two thousand and six' seven was 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:36.520 a mayor across the bay here with my old SATURN ev. 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:39.320 One i've long believed in this vision and to see 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:43.280 it now. Materialize two hundred and sixteen thousand now public 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:48.760 charging stations In. California that's just public one hundred and 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:52.720 twenty thousand gas novels. Nozzles i'll repeat, that it's only 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.800 one hundred twenty thousand gas. Nozzles there's already two hundred 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.680 and sixteen thousand public charging, places. 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.600 So that was the number that kind of stuck out of. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.640 Me and of course public charging is different from having 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:06.720 a charger at your, home and if you add, that 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:09.760 there's a whole lot of. Them but that sure sounds, Like, 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.320 wow you, know the electric revolution is. Here we have 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:18.080 built out the. Infrastructure but let me tell you. Why 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:19.440 AND i know you're not. 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:22.520 Going to be. Surprised Gavin newsom is full of. 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:30.080 Crap while there may be technically more public charging stations 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:33.960 than gas, pumps And i'm guessing he's meant, pumps not, 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:37.160 stations but, wow you would think there would be. More 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:48.240 here's the. Thing gas pumps can turn over in about five. 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:55.520 Minutes and the vast majority of the public charging that 0:24:55.600 --> 0:25:01.520 we have the infrastructure that has been built In, california 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:05.240 which is supposed to be the leader of the ev, 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:08.600 Revolution and To gavin's point that he makes later in, 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:11.440