1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Happy Monday. It's that time of day where 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: we take a moment and pause and say thanks to 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: everyone who's making the world run. Let's start with the 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: men and women in the military, police officers, firefighters, doctors, nurses, 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: lab technicians, hospital orderlies, small business owners, restauranteurs, truck drivers, 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: everyone working at the grocery stores and fast food joints, 7 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: the Port of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland and 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: Union Station, the pilots and flight attendants. Let's listen to 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: the national. 10 00:00:29,520 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: Anthem shining a spot bite on the insane asylum that 11 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 2: is modern day California. It's the John Phillip Show. 12 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: Hey, we had a very happy Monday to you. At 13 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: twelve oh seven in the West, It's the John Phillips Show. 14 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: Mister Brandy Wangs in Culver City. 15 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 3: John, We are broadcasting live on the radio on seven 16 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: ninety KABC and a ten KSFO, but we are also 17 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 3: streaming live on YouTube at Randy Wang Radio. We are 18 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 3: streaming on x at Johnny Don't Like. 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Make sure everyone 25 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 3: knows what you're going to be watching for the next 26 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 3: three hours because we are live and we are everywhere. 27 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: Okay, on a scale of zero to end times, how 28 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: loud were the explosions this weekend in the San Fernando Valley. 29 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 3: It was relentless. It was NonStop and off Mexico. Oh 30 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 3: what a want It would have been three days in 31 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 3: a row of it. But yes, it was pretty wild 32 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 3: in the same Fernando Valley on Friday and on Saturday, 33 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 3: my little Chihuahua shaking in my arms all night. That 34 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 3: was a lot of fun. But it's been worse. I 35 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 3: guess that's one way to look at it optimistically. 36 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: It wasn't too bad over here at Casa Day Phillips. However, 37 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: I did see something on the fourth of July that was, 38 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: let's just say, unusual. So I went golfing in the morning, 39 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: as I frequently do, and in the community where I 40 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: was playing golf, they had a Fourth of July golf 41 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: cart parade going on. Oh boy, where everyone got to 42 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: decorate their golf cart, and then they got a police 43 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: escort and they went all around their community with these 44 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: Fourth of July decorated golf carts. One of the golf 45 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: carts in the parade that just happened to park right 46 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: behind my car while I was getting ready, was decorated 47 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: with all the red, white and blue that you would expect, 48 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: but it also had a Betsy Ross inflatable sex doll 49 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: hanging off the back of it. Oh my yeah. Now, 50 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: after my round, I intended to stick around to find 51 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: out if that particular golf cart won because they had 52 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: a contest for the best decorated cart, but I didn't, 53 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: but in my heart they won. 54 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 3: Now I think the funniest Fourth of July story actually 55 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 3: comes from San Francisco, because San Francisco and Mayor Daniel 56 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 3: Lurry made a massive spectacle promoted everywhere that for the 57 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 3: first time since twenty twelve, they were going to do 58 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 3: a big firework show on the Golden Gate Bridge for 59 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 3: the Big Fourth of July America two fifty spec Tacular. 60 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 3: And that sounded like a great idea, except that sometimes 61 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 3: San Francisco is going to San Francisco and so much 62 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 3: fog rolled in at the Golden gate Bridge that nobody 63 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 3: could see the fireworks. 64 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: Okay, Randy, I just texted you a picture of that 65 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: particular golf cart. Oh my goodness, is there any way 66 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: you can post that in chat? Uh? 67 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 3: You know, I bet you there is. 68 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: Uh. 69 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 3: Let me figure that out. Let me figure that out 70 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 3: during the break, because there has to be a way 71 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 3: that I can get that up on the screen. That 72 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 3: would uh, that would be funny. I'll try to have 73 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 3: that going during a break. 74 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: All right, so we all have that to look forward to. 75 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 76 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 77 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: two two two. Well, we know that socialist candidates have 78 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: done well running for office in Seattle, in Chicago, in 79 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: New York, in house races house primaries all over the country. 80 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: But could a member of the DSA become elected mayor 81 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles? Well, the Poles say that's entirely possible, 82 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: if not probable. The candidate is Nitthia Rahman and Randy. 83 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: She's out campaigning all over the city. 84 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 3: She recently sat down with our friend Alex Michaelson over 85 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 3: at CNN and this interview is getting a lot of 86 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 3: play because he asked her straight up why she's a 87 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 3: socialist and she would not answer the question. For more 88 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 3: on this, we got to CNN. This story is and 89 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 3: our buddy Alex Michaelson at CNN Now in Los Angeles 90 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 3: is City council member Nythia Raman, a Democratic Socialist who 91 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 3: is running for mayor and is. 92 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 4: Challenging incumbent Karen Bass in November. Welcome to the story. 93 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 4: It's great to see you. 94 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 5: Thank you for having me on your show again. 95 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 4: So when I talked with Spencer Pratt, I asked him, 96 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 4: why are you a report? So I want to ask 97 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 4: you simply, why are you a Democratic Socialist? 98 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 6: You know I'm a member of the DSA. I'm also 99 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 6: a member of the Democratic Party. 100 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 3: Not answering this question at all at the beginning, are 101 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 3: we starting out with a dodge? 102 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 6: And I really got into this work to make sure 103 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 6: that we are serving the people of Los Angeles. And 104 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 6: I don't think there's particularly a Democratic Socialist way or 105 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 6: a Democratic Party way of fixing a street light or 106 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 6: fixing a pothole or. 107 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: Making well, we just don't do it. Yeah, how about 108 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: a DSA way of not doing any of those things. 109 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 6: I'm sure that we're delivering for the residents of the city. 110 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 6: But what is clear to me at this moment is 111 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 6: that the residents of Los Angeles are frustrated with the 112 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 6: status quo, that they want change, and that's exactly what 113 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 6: I want to deliver for them as their mayor. I 114 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 6: want to make sure that people don't have to work 115 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 6: two jobs to afford a home here in the city 116 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 6: of Los Angeles. I want to make sure that people 117 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 6: feel safe in their neighborhoods. 118 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 3: That essentially, you know, by defunding the police. 119 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: Wait, she's the one that didn't want to kick the 120 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: bombs out of the encampment were right next to the schools. Yes, 121 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: she said that policy is ineffective, idiot. 122 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 6: Social services are functioning across our city. And if that's 123 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 6: a democratic socialist vision of Los Angeles. 124 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 4: So be it. 125 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 5: But that's the city I want to deliver for these residents. 126 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 4: But you choose to be a democratic socialist and. 127 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 3: Good on Alex not letting her just get away with that. 128 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: Oh, you can't let the snake slither out of this one. 129 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 4: To be a part of that. Why why a democratic 130 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 4: socialist and not just a regular Democrat. 131 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 6: You know, here in Los Angeles, the DSA was the 132 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 6: only place where people were really talking about tenants rights 133 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 6: and renter's rights in the context of a political movement. 134 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 5: And in my work. 135 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 6: On City Council I have delivered for residents across the 136 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 6: city who are renters. 137 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is quite an answer. Why are you DSA? Well, 138 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: I want to burn mister Fairley at the stake. 139 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 3: Well, and Nithia is behind so many of the renter 140 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 3: protections in including the eviction moratorium that lasted for three 141 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 3: years that drove so many mom and pop landlords to 142 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 3: sell to black Rock and Blackstone and all the private 143 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 3: equity firms that in turn raised the cost of rent 144 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 3: in the city of Los Angeles. 145 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: And when you do that, the entire city looks like 146 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: a dump because no one's going to invest in their properties. 147 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: There's no point in doing that. A tenants certainly aren't 148 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: going to improve the properties, So you end up with 149 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: a city that looks like it's a shantytown. 150 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 6: You have passed the strongest suite of tenant protections in 151 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 6: forty years in the city. And that perspective was something 152 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 6: that the Democratic Party simply many of the people in 153 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 6: the Democratic Party. 154 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: Simply, when was it ever too easy to evict a 155 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 1: deadbeat in Los Angeles? 156 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 3: Not any time recently that I can remember. In fact, 157 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 3: we have gone so far in the other direction that 158 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 3: now it is near impossible to evict someone. In fact, 159 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 3: the city of Los Angeles makes it imposs pssible to 160 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 3: build apartment buildings thanks to Measure ULA, the mansion tax 161 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 3: that Nitia championed. And not only that she they also 162 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 3: use that money for Measure ULA to hire eviction defense 163 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 3: attorneys that then sue the city over evictions. 164 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: I think Fred Mertz is spitting so fast in his 165 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: grave right now, he just build his scotch on the rocks. 166 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 6: I think also, what we've seen here in Los Angeles 167 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 6: is that so much of what defines establishment politics has 168 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 6: been pay to play Airbnb. 169 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 3: Okay, she's not wrong about that. 170 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 1: Okay, but she's on the council, she's participated in that. 171 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: She's going to say, I'm not on the take. 172 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 6: Gives a donation to a powerful political figure, as they 173 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 6: did to Mayor Bass, and new legislation comes up that 174 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 6: takes precious housing units off the market as part of 175 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 6: her budget. That's the kind of pay to play politics 176 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 6: that has defined the Democratic Party in so many ways, 177 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 6: establishment politics here, and I think Angelinas are ready for 178 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 6: something new, and that's what I want to deliver for them. 179 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 4: So the California Post has a new op ed out 180 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 4: today and it says La needs to stop the next 181 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 4: Mandani from taking power. 182 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 3: She's not nearly as charismatic as mom Donni, So that's 183 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 3: the first thing you got to think about with those comparisons. 184 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:24,719 Speaker 1: No, but she is just as dangerous. 185 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 4: It is an author named Sharin Yadigar who says this 186 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 4: is about far more than socialism, is about a worldview 187 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 4: that increasingly casts America as the villain. Capitalism has inherently 188 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 4: oppressive and Israel, America's closest democratic ally in the Middle East, 189 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 4: as uniquely illegitimate. How do you respond to that? 190 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 6: You know, I'm running for mayor of Los Angeles, and 191 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 6: people here in this city are not caught up about 192 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 6: political worldviews or ideologies. 193 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 5: They want the city to work for them. That is 194 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 5: the chance. 195 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 3: Well, most people who live in the City Angeles, when 196 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 3: they're asked about politics, no, I don't know enough to 197 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 3: give you any good information, but good luck finding someone 198 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 3: who does. 199 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: It's interesting that she is now trying to separate herself 200 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: from that branding as opposed to leaning into it, which 201 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: is how she started out. She loved the comparisons with 202 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: Mom Donnie when she initially became a candidate, and now 203 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: I believe she must assume that the Pratt voters will 204 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: be the ones who decide who wins, and by openly 205 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: embracing socialism, you're pushing those voters away. 206 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 6: Ames that I'm promising to deliver exactly as I've delivered 207 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 6: in my district. 208 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 3: We've rede I've been to your district, Nathea. You don't 209 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 3: have that much to be. 210 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: Proud of, I'll tell you. And I know it's just 211 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: because it's based on my social network. Everyone I know 212 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: who owns a business in her district or who lives 213 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: in her district hates her. She manages to get elected 214 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: and re elected, so clearly the people I know are 215 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: in the minot already. But they not only hate her, 216 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 1: they hate her with the hot, hot hate of a 217 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: thousand suns well. 218 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 3: And one of the things that we've heard over and 219 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 3: over again for so many people is that she is 220 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 3: impossible to get a hold of. If you're a constituent. 221 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 3: She will ignore any of your complaints, especially if they're 222 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 3: about dangerous homeless encampments. She is not responsive to her constituents. 223 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 3: That being said, she did win reelection in twenty twenty 224 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 3: four outright in the primary, so I guess this one's 225 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 3: on usduced. 226 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 6: Tens and encampments by fifty four percent in just three years. 227 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 6: The district feels different than it did when I first 228 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 6: started the world. 229 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: Is she living in? 230 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 3: Well, it definitely does feel different. You didn't have to 231 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 3: usually look down when you walked in Sherman Oaks to 232 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 3: make sure you didn't step in something. 233 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 6: Fiverored renter protections in a city which is majority renters. 234 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 3: This is the issue, though, and this is why she 235 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 3: has done so well well and why she may very 236 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,839 Speaker 3: well win. The demographics of the city of Los Angeles 237 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 3: have changed so drastically over the last couple of decades. 238 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 3: This is a majority renter city, and the renters hate 239 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 3: the homeowners. 240 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: She is clearly trying to use that as her framing. 241 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: She is trying to frame this as a renters versus 242 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: homeowner election, and she represents the renters. And I forget 243 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: who it was, but there was something I read I 244 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: think I was in graduate school that said that the 245 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: balance that you want in any healthy city is to 246 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: have at sixty forty homeowners versus renters. You don't want 247 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: many more homeowners than that. You don't want many more 248 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: renters than that. That is the proper balance. And what 249 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: did we find out the balance was in the city 250 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. It was like seventy thirty in the 251 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: other direction or something like that. 252 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 3: It is gone very far in the other direction. And 253 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 3: it was all of those apartment buildings where the DSA 254 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 3: ballot harvesters showed up at five o'clock on election day saying, hey, 255 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 3: have you voted yet? And that's where a lot of 256 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 3: that turnout happened at the very last minute to push 257 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 3: Nithia over the top, pass Spencer Pratt. 258 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 6: For residents across the city. In my time in office, 259 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 6: we've delivered governance reform. This is the kind of change 260 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 6: that people are asking for. This is not about ideology. 261 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 6: This is about making a city that really works for 262 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 6: working people here in the city of Los Angeles, and 263 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 6: that this. 264 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 3: Has been a lot of her campaign is So what's 265 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 3: the difference between you and Karen bass I'm just going 266 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 3: to be more focused. 267 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: Okay, what does that mean. Yeah, it's not an answer. Nope, 268 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: that's what. 269 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 5: I'm committed to delivery. 270 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 4: Would you consider yourself a capitalist? 271 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 5: You know we are in a capitalist system. 272 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 4: It's city. 273 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: That's also not an answer. Boy, she doesn't answer any questions, 274 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: does she. 275 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 3: Nope, And that's how you come off as incredibly inauthentic. 276 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 3: But of course this is a two person race, so 277 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 3: between her and Bass, I don't know how you make 278 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 3: that choice. 279 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 5: The government, the role is the mayor of Los Angeles. 280 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 6: You operate within this context, and I'll do whatever it 281 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 6: takes in order to deliver for my residence. So on 282 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 6: the issue of housing, I'm a strong fighter for renter protections, 283 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 6: but I strongly believe that we also need to build 284 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 6: more housing in order to build the reduce the cost 285 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 6: of housing, which is one of the biggest issues shaping 286 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 6: Los Angeles. 287 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 3: Right She campaigned heavily for Measure ULA, which you ask 288 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 3: any developer is the reason that they're building apartments in 289 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 3: Pasadena and not Los Angeles. 290 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 6: Right now, and the private real estate market has a 291 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 6: role to play. I will do anything it takes and 292 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 6: put into place any policy that we need to in 293 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 6: order to make sure that Los Angeles is a more affordable, 294 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 6: more ambitious, and more functional city for its residents. 295 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 5: That's the mayor that I want to be. 296 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 4: So there is a big issue happening here in Los Angeles. 297 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 4: In the Boyle Heights neighborhood. 298 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 3: There was this what issue is that alex. 299 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 4: Can massive fire and now there is left behind eighty 300 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 4: five million pounds of rotting food that smells really bad. 301 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 4: It's unhealthy air for the community. Mayor bass It put 302 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 4: out two executive orders that require the owner of Lineage 303 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 4: Warehouse to put out a comprehensive plan for removal of 304 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 4: rotting food within forty five days. She says, that's the 305 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 4: fastest that she can legally do this. 306 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 3: They're actually not moving anything out right now because the 307 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 3: company that owns the solar panels, like, we don't want 308 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 3: you touching anything. We still need to investigate this for 309 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 3: our insurance. 310 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: Well, and just to be clear, it's not the owner 311 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: of the building's fault that this happened. It was the 312 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: people who were fooling around with the solar panels. Yep, 313 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: how would you handle this differently? 314 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 3: They really got to stop showing the pigs feet. 315 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: I can't look at that anymore. 316 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 6: If you were mayor, you know I people deserve and 317 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 6: answers about how they can keep themselves safe and how 318 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 6: they can keep their family safe during a crisis. I 319 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 6: think firefighters, welly, she talks in generality. 320 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: She spends so much time saying nothing. 321 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 3: Ers. 322 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 6: The council office people were working hard on the ground 323 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 6: to address immediate needs, and we saw that happening. But 324 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 6: as smoke poured into Boil Heights and into the surrounding neighborhoods, 325 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 6: there was contradictory evidence being shared about whether that smoke 326 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 6: was dangerous or not. The mayor said the smoke was 327 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 6: not dangerous, contradicting information from public health officials and from 328 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 6: air quality management experts. People need accurate, clear information. 329 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 3: Well, it's tough to get that in the County of 330 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 3: Los Angeles when you're either going to see what Karen 331 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 3: Bass tells you to do or babs no, thank. 332 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 6: You about how they can keep themselves safe, how they 333 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 6: can keep their family safe, how they can keep their 334 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 6: children safe during a crisis. That's the minimum that a 335 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 6: city needs to provide. That is what I will provide 336 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 6: as mayor. 337 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 5: The mayor is. 338 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 6: Responsible for emergency response in the city, and I will 339 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 6: take that responsibility extremely seriously. 340 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 4: Well, this is such an important race. We look forward 341 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 4: to hopefully many more conversations in the months ahead. Nittha Raman, 342 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,719 Speaker 4: thanks for coming in tonight. We really appreciate it. 343 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me there. 344 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 3: You go, Nitthia or Ramen running for mayor of Los Angeles. 345 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: We are so screwed. It's the John Phillip Show. 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But first, we have an update 414 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: for you on all that rotting food and boil heights. 415 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: Here with those details, mister Randy Wing. 416 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 3: Katie Porter, I think we're gonna need you for this 417 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 3: one over the weekend as the people in charge of 418 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 3: the cold storage warehouse we're trying to remove all the 419 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 3: rotting pigs feet and other food. The company who operates 420 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 3: the solar panel farm that caught fire and started this 421 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 3: disaster told the cold storage people now don't do anything. 422 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,360 Speaker 3: We haven't finished our investigation yet, so is this thing 423 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 3: really going to be done in forty five days? 424 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 1: Not likely. 425 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 3: For more, here's a report from CBS in Los Angeles. 426 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 6: Just in here at four, the cleanup of that massive 427 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 6: fire ridden warehouse and boil Heights has come to a. 428 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 5: Stock that's right, CBSLA A summon editor Mike Rodgers. 429 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 3: Are not really good for the day before Karen Bass 430 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 3: being like, this will be cleaned up in half month 431 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 3: and a half. 432 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: Could you imagine if you lived in that neighborhood and 433 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 1: you can't escape that smell. It's like when you have 434 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: something in your trash can that stinks and it's been 435 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: sitting in there a little while and you come home 436 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 1: and you go, what's that smell? And then you take 437 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: the trash out and then the smell goes away. Well, 438 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: this is one of these situations where you can take 439 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: the trash out, the smell doesn't go away. You can't 440 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: escape it. 441 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 2: There's at the desk of Mike Lineage Logistics, who was 442 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 2: leasing the warehouse, is now pleading with elected leaders for 443 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 2: help here. 444 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, look, Wan and Amy, this was built 445 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 7: as a twenty four hour operation and we're gonna get 446 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 7: this cleaned up within forty five days. The work won't 447 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 7: stop because of the holiday, but it's not exactly what's 448 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 7: going on at Live pictures now from Skycow, where in 449 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 7: fact the work has stopped. There is nobody doing any 450 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 7: of the clean. 451 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 3: Yikes, the overhead shots of this thing. 452 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: It's just one of these stories that that's bad and 453 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: every time they do an update it just gets worse 454 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: and worse and worse. 455 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 7: Up there, we have seen a very limited amount of 456 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 7: crews that have been primarily focusing on this white tarp 457 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 7: that they've kind of put on the outside of the 458 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 7: building there you kind of see. 459 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: Them that doesn't do anything, just looks like a crime scene, yep. 460 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,719 Speaker 7: Hanging out Lineage Logistics. 461 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 3: Said, especially when the tarp has holes, the smell is 462 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 3: going to escape. 463 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 7: Late last night they received a letter from out to Power, 464 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 7: which is the people that own the solar panels on 465 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 7: the roof, order them to stop any of the work 466 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 7: that they were doing. I'll show you some of the 467 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 7: video because this is the massive amount of work that 468 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 7: they are trying to get done. Get those millions and 469 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,360 Speaker 7: millions of pounds of food that are sitting there. 470 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 3: The lysol canisters aren't doing anything. 471 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: Well. The only thing that that company's worried about is 472 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: getting sued or maybe I guess being held criminally responsible. 473 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: So the stench that's existing right now in that neighborhood 474 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: is really of no concern to them. 475 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 7: Rotting stinking up the neighborhood, causing health problems out of 476 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 7: the burned up warehouse. Now, Lineage said, as of this morning, 477 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 7: they were ready to go. They had people in place, 478 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 7: they were going to do all the work that all 479 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 7: the permits, and were following the orders by the mayor 480 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 7: and the county. But then they got that letter from 481 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 7: Altis ordering them to stop. 482 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 3: I love how the solar farm people seem to have 483 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 3: more authority than the city and the county on this issue. 484 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 7: As we look back live at Skycow, who is still 485 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 7: overhead here, this is the work in this area has 486 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 7: been feverishly going on now since they were allowed to 487 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 7: start doing this. In fact, our photographer who's in Skycow 488 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 7: right now, Oliver usaid he was standing on that corner 489 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 7: yesterday when there were truckloads of people getting things done, 490 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 7: taking things out. But as you can seize now it 491 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 7: is at a standstills. We come back out here to 492 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 7: the desk, Lineage Logistics has sent this letter. Their CEO 493 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 7: has sent this letter to Mayor Bass as well as 494 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 7: a war of Supervisor's person hild to so Lase, asking 495 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 7: them for help and to intervene in this matter so 496 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 7: they can. 497 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 3: Get Shaney once again. Soothsayer, my girl, the baraucracy is real. 498 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,239 Speaker 1: I think I would have to move if all of 499 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: a sudden my neighborhood, and sometimes it does happen for 500 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: one reason or another. Where I live, the Sultan Sea 501 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: smells horrendous, and if the winds are just right, it 502 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: gets blown right into my city and it becomes just 503 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: about unbearable because it smells like rotting eggs and you 504 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: can't escape it. But thankfully the winds just change and 505 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: then the foul oder go somewhere else. There's no changing 506 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: winds in this neighborhood. It's just what it is. I 507 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: would have to move. I would have to use every 508 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: single hilt and honors point. I have go find a 509 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: Hampton in in some other part of town, and then 510 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: I would have to find a new lease. 511 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 3: The thing is, when you talk about the neighborhood that 512 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 3: this happened in Boyle Heights, you're talking about almost every 513 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 3: single building there being in a rent stabilization ordnance rent 514 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,719 Speaker 3: control situation. So you have people in there that are 515 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 3: paying way below the market rate that they will live 516 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 3: with this disaster because they're not paying three thousand dollars 517 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 3: for a one bedroom apartment. 518 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 1: Well there's a reason it's cheap. 519 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 7: Yip things back on track and get that cleanup ongoing. 520 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 4: Again. 521 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 7: In the letter they talk about here evidence preservation. They 522 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 7: say that they're not trying to touch anywhere that Alti's 523 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 7: powers solar panels may have been there. Fired apart has 524 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 7: said the work that they are doing is not interfering 525 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 7: with any of the investigation into the fire. So they're 526 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 7: not sure. 527 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 3: I mean, all of that's going on on the roof, 528 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 3: so why can't they take out the pigs feet? 529 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: And let's be honest. I understand that they're concerned about 530 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: the lawsuit, but you have an active disaster going on. 531 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: It's not like there's a fire and the fire department 532 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: shows up and they go, oh, we can't put those 533 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: flames out because there might be evidence that we need. No, 534 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: you take care of the immediate problem as it presents itself, 535 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,479 Speaker 1: and then you worry about collecting evidence later on. 536 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 7: Or why Altis has ordered them to stop. We reached 537 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 7: out to Altis, we have not heard back. Remember, neither 538 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 7: Altis or Lineage own the building. So my question that 539 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 7: I just asked Lineage is what's actually preventing them from 540 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 7: doing the work anyway, even if Altis doesn't want them to. 541 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 7: Is there any legal. 542 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 3: Well, if a company says, hey, we need you to 543 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 3: put the brakes on this, and it's a long holiday weekend, 544 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 3: and you're like, yeah, that sounds good to me. I'd 545 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 3: much rather be roasting hot dogs than dealing with rotting pigs. 546 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 7: Feet preclusions here from them continuing that work. We're waiting 547 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 7: to hear back from them. We're waiting to hear back 548 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 7: from Altus, and of course the mayor's office as well 549 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 7: as Supervisor Hilbleslasa's office. 550 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: The never earning nightmare for this community continues. 551 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 7: Right, and all of these people play it out. It's 552 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 7: the neighbors that are suffering. 553 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 3: Indeed, all right, Mike, thanks, including that lady that we 554 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 3: saw in the story last week that apparently she was 555 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 3: getting rashes from bathing, because this stuff is so dangerous. 556 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 3: But that is the latest on everything that is going 557 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 3: on in this complete health hazard in Boyle heights that 558 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 3: is not getting any better any time soon. 559 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: And this is one of these stories where you probably 560 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: don't want the visual elements that we now provide because 561 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: everything is gross. 562 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 3: We're trying really hard to make sure we don't freeze 563 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 3: frame on the pigs feet. 564 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: It's the John Phillips Show. It's the John Philip Show. 565 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 566 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 567 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: two two. And Randy, it looks like we have a request. 568 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 3: Ray from livermore right, Zin and on uh, I think 569 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 3: he's on axaid. Johnny, don't like where's that golf cart? 570 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: Pick? 571 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 3: Strictly for informational purposes only? All right, we're gonna put 572 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 3: it up on the screen right now in case you 573 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 3: missed it. Johnny, explain what is going on here? 574 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: Well, I went golfing on the morning of the fourth 575 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 1: of July and at the golf course where I was 576 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: playing at, they had a parade for people to decorate 577 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: their golf carts for the fourth of July and then 578 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: they take the parade all around the development. Well, as 579 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: I was preparing to golf and it was in the 580 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: parking lot. That's where all the golf carts met and 581 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: one of the golf carts, it was right next to 582 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: my car, was all decorated for the Fourth of July, 583 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: and the decorations included a life size blow up Betsy 584 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: ross Sex doll that they then tied to the back 585 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: of the golf cart. 586 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 3: That is pretty fantastic. 587 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: Now. I don't know if you can see it in 588 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: that particular picture, but it wasn't just a creepy guy 589 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: that was driving the golf cart. It was a couple. 590 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 3: It was a man and a woman, so other swingers. 591 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Did they have any 592 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 1: upside down pineapples? No? No, and neither did Betsy. All right, 593 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: so we know that Newsome has been going to war 594 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: with the unions in Sacramento over coming back to work, 595 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: not working from home, working in the office. The unions say, now, 596 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 1: wait a minute, We've had a deal with the state 597 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 1: that allows our employees to work from home for a 598 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,439 Speaker 1: long time and there's nothing wrong with it. Gavin wants 599 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 1: us to come back because all the sandwich shops in 600 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,839 Speaker 1: downtown Sacramento are going under, but it's not our job 601 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: to keep the sandwich jobs open. 602 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 3: The areas in downtown Sacramento, specifically K Street, are facing 603 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 3: a whole lot of more problems than just the state 604 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 3: workers don't want to come back to the office for more. 605 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,879 Speaker 3: Here is KCRA three in Sacramento. 606 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 8: For the last decade, a section of downtown Sacramento's K 607 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 8: Street has been considered the heart of the city's entertainment district. 608 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 8: But with several businesses now closed or rebranding, questions are 609 00:34:55,200 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 8: growing about what's next for one of Sacramento's most visible corridors. 610 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 8: Andres Vaya's Live Downtown with a look at how city 611 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 8: leaders are trying to address these changes undress. 612 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 9: Yeah, so Edi Koja Kitchen right behind me over here 613 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 9: is the latest business to permanently close here on K Street. 614 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,399 Speaker 9: Now the owners did let us. 615 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 3: Know Koja Kitchen on K Street. There's some alliteration for you. 616 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: Now, this is why Gavin Newsom is doing this. He's 617 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: running for president and he does not want the images 618 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 1: of empty downtown city scapes in California to be used 619 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 1: against him, particularly Sacramento, because that's where his office is. 620 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: Think back to all of those politicians from Detroit that 621 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 1: would run for higher office and they had to deal 622 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: with the images of a downtown Detroit that was a 623 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: ghost town. 624 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,279 Speaker 9: That they've plan on reopening up in a few months 625 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 9: as a new concept. But again, a lot of people 626 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 9: that we spoke to in downtown say that a lot 627 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 9: of closures and the empty stourtfunds are bringing this out. 628 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,840 Speaker 4: A turning point. 629 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,359 Speaker 3: I feel like those trains are. 630 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: A little too loud. Oh yeah, imagine trying to enjoy 631 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: a meal with that going. 632 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 9: Off on Sacramento's downtown K Street. The empty storefronts are 633 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:11,840 Speaker 9: hard to miss. 634 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:12,800 Speaker 1: Everything is closed. 635 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 3: They get is sach ur tee always that loud? Because 636 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:16,800 Speaker 3: that's super annoying. 637 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 1: It must feel like you're dining at the bus depot 638 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 1: if you have to listen to that the whole time, 639 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: don't have such an abrupt time. I'm still focused on that. 640 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,400 Speaker 1: I'm still processing that there isn't a lot of food 641 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: traffic during Monday through Friday. 642 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 10: If we haven't come down here for any night life 643 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 10: in a hot minute, because it's just not it's safe, goaj. 644 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 3: Your kitchen and now, well, that doesn't have anything to 645 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 3: do with state workers. 646 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,399 Speaker 9: I think it's permanently closed. The ownership saying they plan 647 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,840 Speaker 9: to reopen with a new concept in a few months. 648 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:50,480 Speaker 4: But next door, John. 649 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,359 Speaker 9: News Canteena says on the Mud shut its stores in May, 650 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 9: nightclub Tiger shut down the same month, and brewery Rust 651 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 9: Dollar closed last September. 652 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 1: And there, let's pop here for a second, because the 653 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:07,359 Speaker 1: problems with downtowns are similar to the problems with let's say, 654 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,200 Speaker 1: public transit. And why do people not go to libraries 655 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 1: anymore because they're not safe. If you let the criminals 656 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,600 Speaker 1: and the homeless take over, normal people will not go there. 657 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: It is as simple as that. And if you want 658 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: normal people to use it, then it needs to be safe. 659 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,800 Speaker 1: And you can say that it's safe all that you want. 660 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 1: Word gets out real fast if it's not. And if 661 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 1: it's not safe, they will not come all. 662 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,240 Speaker 4: On that side of the streets. 663 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 5: So I'm definitely curious as to what's going on. 664 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,839 Speaker 1: You know, we're shuggling right. 665 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 9: Zakimeno City Council member Phil Pluckybaum, who represents the area, 666 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 9: says downtown is dealing with a mix of challenges affordability, safety, 667 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:52,560 Speaker 9: and homelessness. 668 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,440 Speaker 3: Well, none of that has to do with state workers. 669 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,719 Speaker 1: No what Gavin wants to do. It was forced them 670 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,279 Speaker 1: into a dangerous environment, so he doesn't have pictures used 671 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 1: against him when he runs for president. Oh, he'll have plenty. 672 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,040 Speaker 7: What we're going to do is a pretty concerted push 673 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaker 7: here over the next few months to provide places for people. 674 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,600 Speaker 1: To be there. 675 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,200 Speaker 3: You know, I never really paid attention to people's offices 676 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 3: that are on zoom until we started doing this live 677 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,240 Speaker 3: video stuff. Plunckybomb's office is kind of a mess. 678 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,840 Speaker 1: Oh, it looks like a cat lady lives there. 679 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 4: Experiencing homelessness or just having other challenges. That's not k Street, 680 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 4: he says the city. 681 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,000 Speaker 9: He's working on short term activations to help improve foot 682 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:40,680 Speaker 9: traffic downtown this summer. 683 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 3: What we need is more open drinking. That'll do it. 684 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,879 Speaker 3: That's the answer to every problem of struggling downtowns. Well, 685 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,800 Speaker 3: we should really make every downtown Bourbon Street. 686 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: Well that is quite a philosophy when in doubt turned 687 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,480 Speaker 1: to alcoholism. 688 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 7: You know, we'll be able to do something some you know, activations, 689 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,320 Speaker 7: some events, But the long term program. 690 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 4: Here for downtown it's going to take some years. 691 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,279 Speaker 7: It took us years to get to this place, and 692 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:11,919 Speaker 7: it's going to take a few more to get away 693 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:12,279 Speaker 7: from it. 694 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 9: For now, those who freaking downtown. Hopefully come back. 695 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,359 Speaker 10: I've always said the Sacramento bounces back. As soon as 696 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,080 Speaker 10: a business closes down, one comes in in its place. 697 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,879 Speaker 1: I'm going for a new ambios. Okay, but just think 698 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,400 Speaker 1: about this for a second. In terms of affordability, the 699 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: places where you get the cheap drinks and you get 700 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 1: the cheap sandwich and you get the cheap whatever are 701 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: places that have been there forever and they either own 702 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,839 Speaker 1: the building or they have rent that is way below 703 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:46,040 Speaker 1: market value. As those places go under, they're replaced with 704 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 1: new businesses that don't have that luxury. So instead of 705 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: getting the six dollars drink, you now have to pay 706 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: twenty two dollars for that drink because that's what they 707 00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,959 Speaker 1: have to charge you the new group to make money 708 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,840 Speaker 1: to cover their costs. When you have that kind of churn, 709 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: the result is everything gets more expensive. 710 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 3: You ever have that culture shock where you go anywhere 711 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 3: else that's not California. For instance, I remember going to 712 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,960 Speaker 3: New Bronfels, Texas at the Gristmill restaurant and I was like, 713 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 3: all right, let's get a couple of drinks, and the 714 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 3: margaritas were six bucks, and we're like you know what 715 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,240 Speaker 3: we're buying around for the whole group. 716 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:29,759 Speaker 2: Now. 717 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 9: Council member Fuckingboam says that there'll be working with a 718 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,760 Speaker 9: downtown partnership dos more events to get more people downtown. 719 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,920 Speaker 9: But again we just have to wait and see we're 720 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,680 Speaker 9: lighting downtown sacon my Now, I'm gonna sorry. 721 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:40,080 Speaker 4: In case of. 722 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 3: Rapeerious, you can have all the activations you want. If 723 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 3: the issue is crime and homelessness, the activations are not 724 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:47,720 Speaker 3: going to work. 725 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,440 Speaker 1: Nope, you got to clean it up. You have to 726 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,279 Speaker 1: make it safe and unless it Until you do that, 727 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,719 Speaker 1: people will not go there and spend their money. All right, 728 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: We've got two more hours to go on the John 729 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 1: Phillips Show. The Fixed California Hour is next. John Coopaul 730 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,040 Speaker 1: from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association joins us, don't you 731 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 1: go anywhere 732 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:34,640 Speaker 10: M