WEBVTT - Joey Tuccio on skid row animal abuse 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.040 It's the fixed California hour on the John Phillips Show. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.920 Johnny is back on Monday. It's Randy Wang here. The 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.200 phone number to join us is eight hundred two two 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.240 two five two two two one. Eight hundred two two 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.680 two five two two two. 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They want to pretend like 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.759 it doesn't exist, but it's one of the beautiful things 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.880 of the age that we're in now. It's really hard 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.440 to pretend something doesn't exist when there is so much 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:16.480 video out there on social media of the most unspeakable things, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.960 and the one person who's been really shining a light 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.960 on this to the point where you're hearing Spencer Pratt 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.240 reference the animal abuse on skid Row on almost every 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.839 interview and debate that he's doing. It all comes down 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:34.399 to Joey Tuccio, who has been on the streets every 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.720 single week, not only trying to save those animals, but 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:42.360 documenting the horrific abuses that our city and our county 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:47.560 don't seem to care at all about. Joey Tuccio, you 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.680 can follow him on Twitter at Joey underscored Tuccio, and 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.360 you can check out his rescue's website at starts with 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.559 onetoday dot com. Joey, Welcome to the John Phillips Show. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.520 Hey, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. And yes, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.840 a warning is always needed because what we talk about 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:06.760 is pretty horrendous. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.920 Why don't we start off with what you've been uncovering 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:11.000 in Compton. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.760 Yeah, I mean I do a lot on the skid 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:20.800 Row area, but I mean Compton, in my opinion, is worse. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:25.280 I mean, I've been going to Compton for years and 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.560 there's people that I've been going to Compton way more 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:32.520 than I have and just uncovering horrors that you couldn't 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.959 even imagine. We just went recently and we just saw 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.800 chained up piples, all down in alleyway, no food, no water. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.000 We saved one puppy that had to detox from the drugs, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.480 and seeing the video of this puppy shaking for hours 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.880 was a thing of nightmares. Dogs that are being electrocuted, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.600 dogs that are being bred, and then the mom is 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:57.640 being dumped in canals. I mean, it's horrific. And a 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.400 few days ago I made a post calling out Emma Cherif, 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.080 who is the mayor of Compton, and she blocked me. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.600 Instead of instead of bringing it up and talking about it, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:07.240 she blocked me. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:14.600 The mayor, instead of addressing a massive, legitimate concern about 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.720 animal abuse that's happening on the streets of her city, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.720 decides the best thing to do is bury her head 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.400 in the sand and block you on social media so 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.280 she can't see the pictures. That's unacceptable. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.520 It's unacceptable, and I actually it might even be illegal. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.240 And she's blocking so many people deleting comments. So yesterday 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.480 I called up her office and I said, why did 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.320 she block me? And then all of a sudden, her 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.360 assistant said, oh, Emma actually wants to meet you. And 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.680 what I did is I declined the meeting and I 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.040 said no with no more closed meetings. This has to 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.680 be all public. She has to make a public statement 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.000 on why animal abuse is running rampant in her district, 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.960 which is Compton, why she's ignored it, and what she's 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.360 doing yesterday to fix it. She still hasn't posted about it. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.680 No, it seems like ever reelected official thinks that the 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.120 best course of action here, whether it's the City of 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.840 la the County, the City of Compton, is to just 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.120 completely ignore it, like they do not want to address 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.200 this problem at all, and the suffering seems to be 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.520 getting worse on a daily basis. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.120 We just went to skid Row yesterday or actually two 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.279 days ago. We rescued two dogs, one dog that had 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.400 so many parasites in her stomach because she was eating feces, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.520 another dog that was literally hyperventilating on the streets because 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.040 it was so hot out. Meanwhile, counsel woman Hisabohado has 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.160 ignored all my pleas for help and even ignored reporters. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.200 Council Member Nitthie Rahman has walked out of city hall 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.520 meetings when rescuers like myself and Rebecca core has come 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.520 asking for help. Karen Bass has ignored everything. They just 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.080 keep on ignoring the problem. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.400 Well, and let's talk about Nithia for a second, because 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.400 I saw that video where you actually were able to 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.960 confront her outside of the debate she did with Karen 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.839 Bass at the Sherman Oaks Homeowners So where Nythia Rahman, 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.440 just of who is running for mayor against Karen Bass 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.760 last week, randomly posted I have a plan to fix 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.440 our shelter system in Los Angeles. And what you found 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.719 out when you asked her why this is the first time, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.000 even though she's been in government for the last six years, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.240 she's paying attention to this. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:18.680 She told you. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.120 I believe the first time she ever visited an LA 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.280 animal shelter was five days before. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.440 Yep, So I confronted her, and I mean I think 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.080 confronts harsh. I mean I just said, Hi, my name's 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.200 Joey Chuccio. I just want to talk about you know, 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:34.919 I go to skid row and why are you so 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.720 silent about this? And her response is well, I went 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.000 to an LA City animal shelter five days ago and 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.479 my friend schier Astrov, who runs the Animal Rescue Mission, said, 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.560 when you're running for mayor and you've only been to 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.360 a city shelter once, and she also does I mean, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.400 Snythia is part of the committee that oversees the budget 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.160 and she's never been to a city shelter before. I mean, 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.840 it's disgusting. And she chairs the homelessness committee, I mean, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.000 does she not know that a lot of these dogs 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.560 that are going into the shelters that straining our system 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.800 is because homeless people. Not all of them obviously, but 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.480 you know, there's a large group of homeless people, especially 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.960 on skid row and surrounding areas, that are breeding these 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.320 dogs and ending up in the shelters. It was so discussed. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.360 When I asked why, she had no answer, she walked away, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.279 like everybody else does. They just walk away. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.719 Well, and we claim that we have all these regulations 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.279 that we want to make sure we're going after backdoor, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.279 backyard breeders, and we're making sure that we're controlling this 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.560 population that already we cannot support because we've cut the 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.320 budget of our shelter system over and over and over again. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.680 And even when our electeds and law enforcement are presented 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.640 with the evidence, they say there's nothing they can do. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.280 Yep, there was. And this next story is sad, so 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.960 I apologize in advance. But there was a there currently 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.920 is a dog on skid Row that's being bred over 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.719 and over again. Somebody who lives on skid Row send 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.560 meed the picture, so I went. We brought the dog 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.960 and the puppies to the vet with the drug autic 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.599 owners and I say that because I think they're despicable. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.560 These two people in particular are despicable. And then we 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.560 got the dog back to that said told me that 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.880 if the dog keeps getting bread, the dog's going to die. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.200 I went back the next day to tell the owners 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.960 that they said she still has two to three litters 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.840 left in her being confronted with the fact that this 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.560 dog will probably die if she has one more litter. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.600 So animal services went because I demanded they do. I 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.240 facetimed them and when they were there, because I was 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.200 at my house at the time, they said there's nothing 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.360 we could do and they left. Now was that that 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:34.640 happens all the time? 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:41.360 It is completely unacceptable. There are all kinds of law violations, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.000 animal cruelty that is documented on a daily basis, and 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.320 for some reason, we've decided that the population on skid 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.920 row or incompeted there a protected class and the law 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.400 does not apply to them when they are hurting and 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.000 killing innocent creatures. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.840 Yeah, and it's you know, it's also too we get calls. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.840 We don't just drive to content and skid row rubbing 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.000 our hands together like what kind of mischief can we start? Today? 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.360 A lot of times we get called from people living 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.160 on skid row or living on contents, living in Compton saying, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.920 please help. My neighbor is literally abusing this dog, throwing 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.280 water on the dog, electrocuting the dog. I can't say 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.600 anything that I could get killed. That's what we hear 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.400 all the time, is that we're afraid of our neighbors 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.520 because if we tattle on them, we could get killed. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.600 So we have to go with independent rescuers and risk 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.480 our lives to go because nobody else is helping. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.439 All while this is going on, and our current elected 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.800 leaders are completely ignoring this issue. Almost every single candidate 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.120 for mayor is ignoring this issue. That is except for one, 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.520 because Spencer Pratt has taken what you have been doing 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.840 and pushing out to his massive audience and also making 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.720 these stories told on interviews, on television and on the 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.400 debate stage, and he is actually getting the word out 0:08:59.440 --> 0:08:59.920 about this. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.800 Yes, yeah, I mean we've done we don't normally do 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.360 adoption events. It's not it hasn't been fruitful in the past. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.640 One of the last times we did an adoption event, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.800 three people showed up and it was very you know, disappointing. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.480 But then the last adoption event we had, Spencer was 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.360 promoting it and talking about the horrors on skid Row. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:26.920 Over two hundred people showed up and it was so refractioning. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.360 We got dogs adopted, It raised awareness. I mean, it 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:35.280 was so great. And meanwhile Karen Bass is saying there's 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.880 no neglect on skid Row. Nithia Rumman, I don't think 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.199 even knows where skid row is, and Spencer is the 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.200 one that's shouting it out from the rooftops, and it's 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.440 it's sad that nobody's taking this seriously. And as always, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.120 the ones that suffer and die are the animals. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.880 It's just of anything that you know, of the incompetence 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.319 and the just lack of care that we see for 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.240 so many differ, diferent issues in city Hall. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.360 For me at least. This is the litmus test. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.640 If you are not speaking out about this and you 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.200 are in elected office and you're not trying to do 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.319 something about this, or worse, you're pretending it doesn't exist. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.720 That disqualifies you from public office because you are not 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.640 serving the public when you are allowing these crimes against 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.960 animals to happen over and over and over again. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.439 Yeah, and when people say, oh, you know, to me, oh, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.280 you just care about a single issue, which is animal abuse, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.280 and my answer is yes, that is something that I 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.400 care truly a lot about. But also a lot of 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.760 these people that are abusing animals, this is just one 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.840 of the many things that they're doing that's criminal. We 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.360 just fortunately saw I got a video of this guy 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.920 punching an innocent Tuala in the face to the dog 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.559 with yaiping. Read the video and viral. The police step 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.400 in and they said, yeah, he has a laundry list 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.080 of other crimes against him. One week later, somebody sent 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.560 me a picture of that same abuser. He has another dog. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.680 That happens all the time. Ninety five percent of the 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.559 abusers that we are lucky enough to remove the dogs 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.400 from currently has another dog. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.520 It is just completely unacceptable. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.600 So Joey, what can if people are listening and they're 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.880 moved by this, what can they do to help? What 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.320 can they do to help with your organization and what 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.600 you're trying to do every single week on skid row. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.800 Don't be silent anymore. And I know a lot of 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.480 people out there have not been silent and screaming from 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.720 the rooftops, but everybody needs to be loud. This also 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:36.040 goes for the celebrities of Los Angeles. I mean there's 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.640 so many times, you know, I'll ask some an A 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.400 list celebrity to post about what's happening, and if they 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.960 do respond, they'll say, oh, okay, I'll put it in my stories, 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.800 which disappears in a few hours. And we can't. We 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.480 have to stop with the narrative that, oh, it's too sad. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.040 I don't want my audience to see it because I'll 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.440 lose followers. It's more sad that you could do something 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:57.760 about it. When I say you, and I mean you 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.880 always think, but like you know, anybody out there that 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.440 raise awareness as well, and they don't do anything about it, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.240 that's more sad. So people have to scream from the rooftops, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.240 what's going on post about it, if you see animal abuse, 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.080 post about it. The word has to continue to get 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.199 out there, and not just skid Row, Compton, North Hollywood, Venice, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.319 I mean all over Los Angeles. It's quite literally a 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.280 state of emergency. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.120 Now, what about for people that want to help out 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.120 the rescue when it comes to fosters, Yeah, so. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.360 We always need fosters and adopters. That's how we can 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.160 do this. So if anybody wants to foster or adopt, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.280 please visit Starts with One Today and fill out an app. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:42.480 We have a pretty intensive vetting process, so you'll fill 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.640 out an application, we'll see which dog makes the most sense. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.240 We'll do an intro with our trainer with you, and 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.320 if you have any other animals, we do a two 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.400 week trial to make sure it's a good fit for 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.880 everybody and the dogs obviously, and if it works out, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.360 then we move forward with the adoption. So we don't 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.160 just throw a dog at you and we say okay, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.160 good luck. We take everything step by step. But we 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.439 definitely need fosters in the southern California area, so please, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.880 please please if you could, that'll literally save a life. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.800 The website is Starts with One Today, dot com starts 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.199 with one today dot com. If you can help out, 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.440 you can foster, you can also donate to help out 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.319 this organization that is saving lives every single day on 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.400 skid row. Joey, I can never thank you enough for 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.040 what you're doing every single day, not just helping these 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:32.000 innocent creatures, but exposing the indifference of our elected officials 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.880 of just the most unbelievable things that they do not 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:38.440 care at all about. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.559 Yeah, and I mean thank you. I mean I could 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.520 be shouting into an abyss for the rest of my life, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.160 but without people like you that's letting me tap into 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.480 your audience like nothing will get done. So thank you 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.800 so much as always. I think this is my second 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.120 or third time talking with you, and I really really 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.760 appreciate it. And more importantly, the dogs really appreciate it. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.319 I'm so glad follow them on social media, share those videos. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.600 The more people that see it, the more people won't 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:08.000 be able to ignore it. Joey Underscore Tuccio, Joey Tuccio, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.679 thank you so much as always for joining us. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.480 Thank you. We'll talk soon. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:13.280 We will. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.560 That was really really important for us to do. I 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.720 know it's hard to hear, but when you see these videos, 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.240 when you hear these stories, you cannot ignore it. And 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:31.640 for Karen Bass and Nthia Robin and almost every member 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:37.240 of city government Isabel Harado to completely ignore what is 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.960 right in front of our eyes, what is happening every 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:46.080 single day, because of this nonsensical ideology that when you're 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:50.280 committing animal abuse and you're homeless, well that's a crime 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.640 of poverty. Well we can't issue citations to people that 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.440 don't have an address. Crime is crime. The law is 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.480 the law, and we should somebody. The district Attorney, by 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.160 the way, has been asked about this and he claims, well, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.520 there's nothing he can do unless they bring him cases. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.240 But if somebody is preventing the arrests of all the 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.480 animal abuse that's going on, whether it's at the City 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.360 of la and skid Row or the County of la 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.880 and the City of Compton, those people need to be 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:24.280 thrown out of office immediately. The phone number to join 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.960 us is eight hundred two two two five two two 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.360 two one eight hundred two two two five two two two. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:39.080 Let's go to Vince in Vacaville. Vince, Hello, Hello, howdy, Hi, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:39.440 how are. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.240 You doing doing great? How about you. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:47.320 Pretty goody. I want to comment on the uh stordash 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.480 fraud that's been taking place. Yeah, and I want to 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.440 let you folks know it's been going on for a 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.840 good three to four years. It all started right after 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.640 Biden took over and opened up the borders. We're a 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.240 little town east of San Francisco, about sixty miles and 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.320 overnight we got flooded out by a bunch of people 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:14.120 from Venezuela and Columbia. And now that kind of subsided. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.240 But we have a bunch of people from the Middle 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:22.000 East and they have fake ideas. They have driver's licenses 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.440 that say no name given. They don't lots of them 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.760 don't have any auto insurance. In order to be a 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.480 door dasher, you have to have auto insurance, auto registration, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.680 social Security number, and a background check, and a lot 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.200 of these people don't have any of that, you know, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.560 So doordasher's policy is actually bringing criminals straight up to 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.240 your front door, because in order to deliver the food, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:54.080 they get your first name, last initial, and your address. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.400 Yeah, you're they're totally right. That could be one way 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.880 the criminals are actually case neighborhoods for break ins because 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.720 they're actually just they're drivers even though they're not supposed 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.080 to be. And I got to imagine it's extra frustrating 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.040 as you're a legitimate driver and you have to compete 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:12.880 with all these criminals for business. 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.040 Oh absolutely. In fact, you know what, I'm a single 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.760 dad living on my own, taking care of my son 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.040 who's in college right now, and so I flipped. I 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.120 take care of all the bills and such. And not 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.840 only was I doordashing, I was working at a warehouse. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.680 So I was working at a warehouse forty hours a week, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.280 and in door dashing all the extra times I was 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.720 putting in about seventy hours a week to make ends meet. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:42.600 As just unbelievable. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.840 And one of the things I've noticed too is a 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:53.000 lot of these door dashers they steal people's food. I mean, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.600 it's it's bad enough that the restaurants have to pay 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.680 a thirty percent feet to door dash, but these fake 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.320 call them fake doordashers. They will go out, they'll pick 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.600 up the orders, and as soon as they leave the store, 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.960 they unassign themselves from the order, so it goes back 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.800 into the system thinking it needs to be picked up, 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.439 when in reality, it's already been picked up and the 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.840 doordasher walks off with the food, or what they do 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.479 is they place it at someone's door, take a picture 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.760 of it, right, and they grab it before the customer 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.200 even has a chance to get there. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.320 What do you think, in your opinion, is the reason 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.960 that DoorDash doesn't seem to care at all about what's 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.800 going on in their platform. 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:43.600 They don't have enough people work in the platform because 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.240 you can only have so many people get in here 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.119 and work it. So when you have those late night orders, 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.359 you know that people are ordering from like Denny's at 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.920 one o'clock in the morning, most people are at home sleeping, 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.240 So I think what they want to do is just 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:02.879 flood the led to system, and in fact not In 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:07.160 addition to I believe it's the currency rate. I've seen 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:11.160 people here from South America show a lot of one 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.160 hundred dollars bills on their phone to their family back home. 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.400 It's just wild. We're out of time, Vince, But thank 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.800 you so much. I'm so sorry that that's going on. 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.399 But hopefully shining a line on this will get at 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.520 least some attention paid to what's going on in the 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.480 world of door dash. Thanks so much for the call. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.000 Can you think of anything more depressing than someone who 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.440 doordashes Denny's at one am? 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:34.480 I can't. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.840 The phone number to join us is eight hundred two 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.120 two two five two two two one eight hundred two 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.240 two two five two two two. You can email me 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.080 at Randy way Well email the show at Johnny don't 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.080 like show at gmail dot com. But I also have 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.159 another email address, which is Randy Wang Radio at gmail 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.240 dot com. You can also get my substack, the California 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.600 Report all the stories that I found throughout the state 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.960 of California that I found interesting at Randy Wangradio dot 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:06.840 substack dot com. Our next guest is one of my favorites. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.560 She is an anchor on Fox eleven weeknights at six 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.120 o'clock eight to ten and does a lot of these 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:18.359 long form interviews of different candidates in different offices throughout 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.520 La City and La County on the Foxlocal app. You 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:27.800 can follow her on social media at marloteas marloteas Welcome 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:28.960 back to the show. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.919 Randy Wag or should I call you Ryan Long? 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.159 You can call me that. 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:37.200 Hi. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.320 Thank you for having me and what a perfect introduction 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.400 to a lot of people because of my changing schedule 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.880 and streaming versus on Fox eleven, it's hard to keep 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:48.280 track of So you nailed it. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:49.760 Of course you did well. 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.879 I got to say, I'm a big fan of what 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.680 you guys are doing with the Foxlocal stream, where I'm 0:20:54.760 --> 0:21:00.000 sure you have been frustrated with the constraints of television also, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.280 where you've got to take commercial breaks every five to 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.840 ten minutes. You can't really have a segment that's longer 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.680 than ten minutes. And sometimes you really want to get 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.960 in deep with a candidate, you want to really draw 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.320 them out, and you're going to need fifteen twenty minutes 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.600 to do that, which is why now you guys are 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:17.959 just turning on the Fox Local stream and like, all right, 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:19.760 let's go twenty minutes, here we go. 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.720 Isn't it wonderful? I absolutely love it. So that's what 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:28.959 the Fox Local stream is all about, these long format interviews. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.919 We do take breaks, but it's two minutes. I mean, 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:34.960 every single break on the stream is exactly two minutes, 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:36.040