WEBVTT - Clean LA with Juan Naula 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.320 It is the John Phillips Show at Johnny's on vacation. 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.280 He'll be back on Monday. It's Randy Wang here and 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.720 the phone number to join us is eight hundred two 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:12.160 two two five two two two one eight hundred two 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.400 two two five two two two. You can email us 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.279 at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot com, or 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.599 my personal email is Randy Wang radio dot substack dot com. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.160 Excuse me, Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com. The 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.920 substack is Randywangradio dot substack dot com. 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You 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.600 can hear it in Southern California on seven ninety KABC, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:07.920 and if you're in the Bay Area, you can stream 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:13.319 it at KABC dot com. Our next guest, and I 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:18.400 don't use this term lightly, is a true hero in 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.039 the city of Los Angeles because he is on a 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:27.920 mission to clean up La one trash bag at a time. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.119 You can go to his website and find out everything 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:38.120 that he's doing at Cleanla with Me dot org Wan 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.319 Nala of Cleanla with Me. Welcome to the show. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.720 Thank you so much. Yeah, it's it's a pleasure to 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.920 be here, and thanks for having me at your show. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.360 So Wand for people that don't know you, don't know 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.240 your story, tell us about your background and how you 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.640 got into the world of deciding to pick up all 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.560 the trash yourself in La. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:05.000 So. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.520 I moved to Los Angeles sixteen months ago from Virginia 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:15.080 looking for an investment for my tech company. When I 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.160 got here, I started driving all around, you know, going 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.960 like north to east, east west, and I see trash everywhere. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.320 So it kind of shocked me because when I was 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.440 in Virginia and I'm Ecuadorian. Backing home, you don't see 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.400 this type of trash on the street parks at this everywhere, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.080 you know, so that kind of shocked me. And because 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.239 I used to see every year street and sidewalk clean. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.760 And I was five weeks here in Los Angeles and 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.760 I decided to start cleaning, you know, because it's It 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.880 was a lot of things, you know, because I moved 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:53.240 to Los Angeles with a dream to try to build 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:57.480 this tech company. And then I had my wife also 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.520 I was praying it, but there are back back then 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.600 they would live be backing in Ecuador. And then my son, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.960 you know, born in February, and it was a lot 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.000 of things. I got to calm with money in when 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.760 I was three weeks in Los Angeles, so you know, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.920 start start cleaning and then could keep going cleaning. For me, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.960 it was like a trap and I was really enjoying. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.040 So that's how I get involved in trying to make 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.080 a cleaner straits of Los Angeles, you know. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.480 And uh, you know, we definitely need it. Even though 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.160 this is such an expensive city to live in and 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.640 everyone who lives here pays exormitant sales taxes and property taxes, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.320 business taxes, what have you. The city of La does 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.000 not pick up the trash that is illegally dumped all 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.200 over and this city is filthy. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:52.120 Yes. When I when I started, you know, doing the cleanups, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.680 I didn't know have to. I was, you know, I 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.520 post on social media and I was asking people because 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.240 I was leaving. I started with parts. You know, I 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.040 start cleaning up with the park. That was easy because 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:03.560 I would clean the park and I would just leave 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.840 the trash bus rid there by the trash can and 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.440 they would come up and pick it up. But then 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.360 I going into the streets and then you know, part 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.680 mean Hollis, and then I was like, I need to 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.719 know how I can dispose of this trash because I 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.800 didn't know, I'm new, and then people started giving the information. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.159 I got to call three one one up and you 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.679 know and put the request there. But it was a mess, 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.120 to be honest, because I had a lot of problems 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.799 with three one one up. I was putting the requests, 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.880 they were not coming to pick it up the trash, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.240 and then the homeless come and open the bags and 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.280 the trush was all over again. So many times I 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.880 got to go back and re clean it out sput 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.279 you know, and and you know, it was kind of 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.080 a little bit, you know, I was like, Okay, I'm 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.919 doing the world, just come and pick it up the trash. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.559 You know, I mean you were doing the hard part. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.760 You were picking up the garbage, you were sort of it, 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.960 you were putting into bags and just having the City 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.599 of La respond to the app that they tell everyone 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.640 to use three one one and they don't do a 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.800 damn thing, I know. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.560 And it was like that. So then I used to, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.360 you know, go back and I will used to another video, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.760 said hey, I put a request, why you do not 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.400 you know, why you're at the La city l sentitation, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.240 why three one one is not come and pick it 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.800 up the trash? And then they will come and you know, 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.760 and I will talk to them, all the officials, all 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.120 the websites, all the social media page, and they will 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.520 start doing it. And then, you know, more and more 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.920 and more I went on news. I was complaining between 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.600 one one up. I was like, why don't you come, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.839 just pick it up? And eventually now when I put 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.000 a request to live it or not, it used to 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.880 take about a week, two weeks to come and pick 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.320 it up my trash. In these days they do next day. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.120 That That is definitely an improvement, But like so many 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.359 things with the City of La, the way that you 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.760 get an improvement is you have to unfortunately embarrass the 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.200 city into doing their job. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.400 I see, that's the only way to do it. And 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.520 I don't want to do this, you know, in bars officials. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.960 I'm used to something else. You know, do the officials 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.640 do the job. We don't even have to do this. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.200 And East Coast, you know, I was twenty years living 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.680 in DNB area and then back home, same thing. But 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.479 here you have to go on social media tell them 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.880 and then eventually they start doing it. But they don't 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.880 like me at this time. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.680 Now, one, when you're doing these cleanups all throughout the 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.360 city of Los Angeles, I'm sure people are curious to know, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.760 like what are the things that are being illegally dumped? 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.040 Is it food? 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.159 Is it stuff that with people where people are living at? 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.440 Is it stuff from contractors? What are you finding at 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:47.560 all these dump sites? 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:56.600 So the most of illegal dumpiness contractors, food venders, fruit venders. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.400 And eventually people want to leave in the you know, 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:05.080 they're moving from one apartment to another, partment buildings, I 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.240 mean one building to another building. They are living, you know, 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.160 all the furniture. They don't want to say they just 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.920 live it outside I'm not really sure if those people 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.720 doesn't know they can put a request in three one 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.880 one one three one one or the three one one 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.280 doesn't come and pick it up. So what happened is, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.000 you know, when they leave all the furniture outside, the 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.320 homeless come and pick it up and just take it 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:31.840 with them. That's right. You see mattresses, chairs, tables everywhere 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.480 because the homeless are taking all these choices being sitting outside. 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.760 But you know it's also the people. When people see 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.559 a trash, other people coming just put in their normal 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.320 people I'm talking about normal people. Just they see trash, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.200 they just come and put it right there. Like, come on, 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.960 everybody has to do their part, you know, everybody to 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.360 have a better city, everybody has to do the part. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:58.320 But the most illegal illegal dumping is contraction foot vendors 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.080 and fruit vendors, and it's disgusting. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.720 I gotta imagine. I know in the produce district there 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.080 are just pallettes and pallettes and palettes of fruit and 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.680 vegetables that are dumped on a street corner every single day, 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.600 and we obviously know where it's coming from. But it 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.280 seems that there just really isn't any enforcement going on 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.040 for people doing this. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.400 It should be like it should be many like you know, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.559 I'm right now, I was going to dump the trash 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.200 that I picked it up. You know, I gotta I 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.280 gotta one truck donate, but one one guy from Lawn Beach. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.959 He don't pickup truck. So now I can put the truck, 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.520 put all the garbage and back on my truck and 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.320 go dumped. So I've been emailing back and forth with 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:48.439 the city, city Hall, the mayor offices, and public workers 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.920 over I don't know every forty fifty emails, I think. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.439 And I asked them for grant. I asked them for funding. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.040 I asked them some help so I can stop paying 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.560 the fees, you know, because one hundred and fifty doors 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.480 every time when I go dump this trush. Uh. And 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.680 then also I'll find out you know that right now, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:14.400 I I can go dump at the city fills eighty 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:20.719 seven dollars. But it should be, you know, it should be. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.200 I don't know a program where people said, Okay, you 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.320 know you're gonna go damp over there, We're gonna give 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.480 you fifty percent, So that will they will eliminate all 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.079 the illegal dumping with the contractors. You know what's the 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.240 problem because they're not making enough money, so they don't 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.520 get enough money to go and dump the trush because 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:38.920 of one hundred and fifteen dollars. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:39.720 Uh. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.720 But if they said, okay, you're just gonna pay fifty percent, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.600 I think all the contractors they're gonna go and dump 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.360 br You know, there should be more programs, or it 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.840 should be cameras, because one time I wasn't I was 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.839 not looking for parking lot by city hall, and by 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.880 accident I was standing by by the you know, bus line, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.160 so they took they took a photo, se me a 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.680 bill for three hundred dollars, I have to say. And 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.920 now I was like, why don't you have these cameras 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.200 for people who are doing illegal dumping? You know why 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.400 they don't do that? Why did not you know? I was, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.800 I know I was in the wrong place, but I 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.360 was like for two minutes and I got to take 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.000 a three hundred dollars secret. But they don't do any 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.960 any other enforcement for the people who is illegal dumping. 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.640 There's many hottest spots, many had spots that have cleaned 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.199 it two weeks. It's even worse. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.640 Sometimes you're totally right about that, and we have the 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.160 technology to do this. We know where the spots are 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.679 because the same spots seem to pop up over and 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.439 over and over and over again. But it seems that 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.600 two things can be true at the same time. Enforcement 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.120 is very, very very seldom. And what you see in 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.640 cities where the cost of dumping trash is so prohibitively 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.360 expensive is some people just say screw it, I'm dumping 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.440 on the street. The same exact situation is going on 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.480 in the city of Oakland, and Oakland has some of 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.600 the most expensive trash fees in the entire state of California. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.720 Yes, so it should. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You know, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.719 some people and on the contraction there's a lot of 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.880 you know, a lot of competition. Because I've been twenty 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.560 years doing contraction, but I don't do anymore, so I 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.840 know it should be a program where, you know, the 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.040 contractor look at discount. And also for the food vendors, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.199 because the food vendors get when they get the license, 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.200 they should be like, you know what, this is the 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.880 place where you can go and dump all the waste 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.920 and it's fifty percent discount, and there's many things to 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.320 do it. They just don't want to do it. I 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.200 think I'm thinking, like they don't want to do it 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.440 these things because they can do it so many they 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:45.040 go you know, the office, the city the Leela City Hall. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.320 They can do it these things very easy, you know, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.800 and they just they see me as like a tread 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.160 like I'm the guy. I'm the bad guy. You know, No, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.600 like you guys, you have to do it. There's many 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.280 other programs. I've been at city hall. I talked two 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.440 three times. I went there, like you have to do this. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.880 You have to fix the three one one up. It's 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.319 easy for me to use it, but many people doesn't 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.880 know how to use it and they haven't. It's still 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:14.080 people han problems with the request because at this time 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.720 right now, I have one hundred addresses that I have 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:19.480 to go and clean and the people are sending me 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.160 on my social media. But because they had to put 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.440 a request on three one one up and they never 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.000 show up, three four, five months, they never show up. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.920 So people now I'm the three one one up for 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.640 LA like they're sending me all their requests. You know. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.360 It's kind of crazy. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.200 Well, and it is just wild what has been going 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.760 on at here you know, you make a really good 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.040 point about the street vendors and that you know, these 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.200 are supposed to be permitted and regulated businesses, and we 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.360 have so many of them that if they're using any 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.280 kind of oil or grease, they're sometimes just dumping that 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.040 on the side of the road and then that's going 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.960 into our sewer system, that's going into the ocean. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.439 Exactly. And I'm a Latina. I'm not against anybody that. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.600 You know, everybody needs to make money, but it should 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.080 be some regulations for everybody, you know, the small businesses 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.560 or they are paying so many taxes, rent and all that, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.360 and you know, it should be on other regulations for 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.240 everybody that's selling stuff in the streets. And I'm not 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.880 against that, but it should be regulations with trash fees, taxes, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.760 you know, all this kind of stuff, because they are 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.560 they are making the cities. It's so sad to say this, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.520 you know, because sometimes it's my people in my community, 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.040 in a community. But I'm not again, I'm not against them, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.240 but it should it should be education. It should be 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.280 like when they get the permit, when they're getting you know, 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.000 the permits to do a vendor, we can get really 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.480 I mean, it's like I think one hundred and twenty dollars. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.640 Then you can get a permit to sell the stuff 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.839 on the street. At that time, when they get in 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.480 the permit, it should be some regulations like you know what, 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.320 if you do this, we're going to cancel your your 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.400 license or your permit, things like that. That is going 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.920 to help to educate to the people, you know who 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.440 with illegal dumping everything on the streets, and it's and 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:10.720 it's really really bad. Actually it's really bad because everywhere 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:15.120 I haven't picked it up, meat, chickens, and there's stinks, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.000 been there for weeks, fruits, been there for weeks and 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.520 really stinks. And you know, it's not just illegal dumping. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.800 We got to understand that it's not just illegal dumping. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.720 When we have all that trush right there, it brings rats, 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.960 it's not healthy, it may look bad the city. It's everything. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.720 It's not just a try. It brings many other problems 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.440 for the city, the health. It just makes looks really 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.840 ugly to the city. So people, we have to understand 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.120 those things, you know. And I'm trying to see if 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:52.800 I can educate my community, my Latino community, you know, everybody, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:58.000 because I even't seen people driving cars, really expensing cars, 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.400 just putting the window down and then just allway the 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.480 trash on on the on the highways, you know, on 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.880 the freeways. I was like, what's going on with the 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:10.280 people in California. This is this is like I don't 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.440 even like you know, the Goblin says we are the 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.680 four economy in the world, but it doesn't look like 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.480 the people. The officials is like a mess. Everything is 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.600 a mess. I'm sorry, but it is it truly, you. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.440 Know, it really is. We're speaking with one Nala. His 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.720 website is clean la with me dot org. Now, there 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.720 was a really strange moment a few months ago where 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.320 as Mayor Karen Bess is looking to seek re election, 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.560 she held a state of the City address and she 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.320 actually gave you a huge shout out and says how 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.400 she wants to partner with you and talked about what 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.000 a great job you're doing. But ultimately, if the city 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.280 was doing its job, you wouldn't have to be doing this. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.400 Yes, that's what at the first place, right, I won't 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.240 have to do this if they were doing you know 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.800 the word. But after the uh, you know, when I went, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.680 you know, the mayor current bass and buy me to 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.840 the sale of the city. They give me a big 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.840 shot out. They said they're gonna help me, they're gonna 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.800 support me, they're gonna partnership with me. But after that, 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.000 we've been backing for like thirt emails. I'm not sure. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.200 The other one is all the addresses that I have 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.000 on my list on my data, that's all the one 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.440 because they want to go and clean it so I 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.840 don't have to play to clean and again, I've been 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.440 emailing with seven eight people at city Hall, public workers 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:37.000 and other members from the city Hall over to fort emails. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.280 The last email that we I had with them, it 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.840 was about six months ago. Six weeks ago, they said 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.080 they're gonna look into grants or funding for clean alay 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.720 with me. I haven't here since then. So if city 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.760 said they want to support me, you know it will 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.960 be finalist one. You know what, We're gonna help you 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.080 with the fees to them. You don't have to pay 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.640 any fees for dumping, you know. I'm not I'm not 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.040 saying give me a couple of millions. I'm just asking 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:11.159 for simple things, you know, and they're not. They're not helping. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.560 I don't know because to be honest, I don't understand 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.280 sometimes what they want to be a part of them. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.639 They try to I said, no, I want to be 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.639 doing clean lives with me. I'm not going to be 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:27.439 part of China. We can partnership, yes, go great, but 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.840 they all they want again, they want all my addresses 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.400 that I have in my phone because I think they 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.080 want to go and clean it before I got And 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.600 it's been happening already because about two months ago I 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.080 started posting like, Okay, I need help. I'm going to 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.600 be in these addresses tomorrow. I'm going to be cleaning 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.199 if anybody has some time come and helped me, and 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.879 just what the city is showing up and cleaning the 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.239 fire'clock in the morning, five am in the morning, they 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.680 show up and clean it. Oh wild. 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.280 They're like they're trying to be in competition with you 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.840 right now. At the same time, they're the ones that 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.960 say they wanted to partner with you, but they obviously 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.720 don't like that. You are shining a light on what 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.400 is a complete failure in the city of Los Angeles. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.160 Now one if there's anybody listening that wants to help 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.720 contribute to your organization or join one of your mingas 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.440 where a bunch of volunteers come and clean up together. 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:23.639 How can they do that? 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.439 So they can go on my website clean Alive with 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.520 me dot org. Or they can go on my social 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.000 media and all the platforms same name, clean alay with me. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.720 There is a link tree with all my links, donation links, 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.360 all my other social media links, every everything they can 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.560 find there and then they can go They can go 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.919 from there and then I post every I was posting 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.120 every Wednesday with the addresses for the mingas on Saturday 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.240 from nine to eleven. But now because the cities are 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.840 doing this now, I'm not putting every Thursday every Wednesday. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.000 Sometimes on Thursdays. Sometimes I do on Friday because people 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.600 know already mean that we have minasit Saturday, so they 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.200 just wait for me to see the address and then 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.000 just come, you know. So now I post sometimes on Thursday, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:12.359 sometimes on Friday morning. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:18.359 The website is cleanla with me dot org, Cleanla with 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.080 me dot org. Well, the city's not going to give 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.040 you the proper things that you deserve, but I'll do 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.760 it here. Thank you so much one for what you 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:30.639 were doing every single day with your literal hands, trying 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.600 to make La, a cleaner place, clean La with me 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.080 dot Org wan Nala, thank you so much for joining 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:37.600 us today. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.159 No, thank you so much for having me. I was 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.440 a pleasure and let's make a change. Hopefully in a 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.639 couple of years we can see a different only wan Nala. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.000 Everybody you like to comment on what you just heard, 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.160 give us a call. Eight hundred two two two five 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.800 two two two one. Eight hundred two to two two 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.240 five two two two. It's Randy Wang here on the 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.959 John Phillips Show. Let's take some calls. Eight hundred two 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.920 two two five two two two one eight hundred two 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:09.680 two two five two two two. Let's start with Anca 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.199 in La Onca. Hello, Hi, Randy. 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.040 I think it's the first time I'm talking to you, 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.280 but I'm a long time listener. I talked to John 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.720 and I talked to a lot of different al Rantel 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.400 and over the years that I've been listening, I've been 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:33.080 in La now forty six years this year and originally 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:38.159 from Germany. And what this man was just describing, I 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:43.520 felt every inch and frustration that was coming from him, 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:47.400 because it's like kind of disbelief. Its just totally disbelief. 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:51.080 When I drive through the streets. When I see things 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.159 and I said, this is impossible. People living in a 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.800 bus stop. Uh you know, but like like building a 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.920 little house. And I passed by free day my grandkids 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:03.400 on their way to kindergarten. 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:05.159 The guy a naked. 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.399 Guy rolling in the middle of on the way to school. 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:12.000 A La tijara. This is a nice neighborhood. This is 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:17.480 like single family homes. And people don't understand that's what 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:23.440 LA was built for, single family homes. It's fairly small streets. 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:26.879