WEBVTT - Shengys Back On Trial 0:00:01.310 --> 0:00:02.949 Something's not right here. 0:00:03.770 --> 0:00:05.780 Crime is up all over the state. 0:00:05.860 --> 0:00:08.440 The homelessness in the city is out of control. 0:00:08.460 --> 0:00:09.879 The economy is sick. 0:00:09.900 --> 0:00:11.080 Taxes are high. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.450 Housing is expensive and businesses are leaving. California needs fixing. 0:00:17.070 --> 0:00:19.850 And John Phillips is just the man to lead the charge. 0:00:20.370 --> 0:00:24.470 It's the Fix California Hour with John Phillips and Randy Wang. 0:00:25.150 --> 0:00:28.710 It's the Fix California Hour on the John Phillips Show. 0:00:28.890 --> 0:00:32.260 Johnny's on vacation. It's Randy Wang here. And you can 0:00:32.340 --> 0:00:36.320 join us in the chat room at JohnnyDon'tLike.com. That's Johnny 0:00:36.340 --> 0:00:40.420 with a Y. JohnnyDon'tLike.com where you can comment on the 0:00:40.460 --> 0:00:43.900 news of the day. Chat with your fellow listeners. Make 0:00:43.979 --> 0:00:46.080 fun of me. Make fun of each other. Do whatever 0:00:46.100 --> 0:00:48.880 you'd like to. Make fun of Johnny because he's on vacation. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.200 We're having a great time here until 3 o'clock every 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:59.050 single day at johnnydontlike.com. I have to stop pre-promoting guests. 0:01:00.630 --> 0:01:04.030 I think I'm cursed. I usually don't do it. But 0:01:04.069 --> 0:01:06.450 the last couple of days I do it and then 0:01:06.910 --> 0:01:11.070 something happens. We're supposed to have Joey Tucci on the show. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.120 But I also just saw that he was at a 0:01:14.540 --> 0:01:17.800 puppy town hall with Steve Hilton in downtown LA just 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.030 a few minutes ago. So maybe he's busy. So if 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.250 he joins us, great. If he doesn't, we'll get him 0:01:25.290 --> 0:01:29.090 another time. But I really like talking to that guy, 0:01:29.150 --> 0:01:31.390 even though some of it's very hard to hear because 0:01:31.430 --> 0:01:34.009 the things that he has witnessed and documented in Skid 0:01:34.069 --> 0:01:38.110 Row is just, I mean, I use the term unacceptable 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.660 a lot on this show. But the kind of stuff 0:01:40.700 --> 0:01:43.920 that we tolerate in the city of Los Angeles in 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.750 the name of equity or because people are experiencing poverty, 0:01:47.770 --> 0:01:52.490 it is so insane to me. I don't care what 0:01:52.510 --> 0:01:55.530 you're going through. If you torture a dog, you should 0:01:55.550 --> 0:02:00.040 be in prison. It should be that simple. And for 0:02:00.060 --> 0:02:05.300 the out-of-control animal shelter crisis that we have in Los Angeles... 0:02:05.390 --> 0:02:08.549 The fact that we're not going after anybody who's illegally 0:02:08.630 --> 0:02:13.169 breeding dogs shows you that nobody cares. And it's interesting. 0:02:13.210 --> 0:02:15.350 I was going to ask Joey, too, about the fact 0:02:15.370 --> 0:02:19.110 that he just put out a video where earlier he 0:02:19.190 --> 0:02:22.210 said that he doesn't like his choices in Los Angeles, 0:02:22.230 --> 0:02:23.750 but he was going to suck it up for vote 0:02:23.770 --> 0:02:26.950 for Bass, even though he's been a disaster. He put 0:02:26.990 --> 0:02:28.770 out a video today, said he's not going to do that. 0:02:29.470 --> 0:02:33.370 He cannot in good conscience vote for Karen Bass. And 0:02:33.410 --> 0:02:38.070 if your big issue is animal welfare, I'm not surprised 0:02:38.669 --> 0:02:42.610 one bit because she has been a complete failure on 0:02:42.669 --> 0:02:47.730 this pretends to address the issue, completely ignores it. She's 0:02:47.790 --> 0:02:51.490 endorsed by Isabel Harado, who according to Joey has been 0:02:51.530 --> 0:02:56.049 a even bigger disaster, does not care at all. Nobody 0:02:56.130 --> 0:02:59.620 cares about the dogs on skid row. Nobody cares about 0:02:59.660 --> 0:03:03.560 the dogs in that encampment underground in our Lita. Nobody 0:03:03.580 --> 0:03:07.940 in elected office actually cares about animals and maybe it's 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.090 wrong to say this, but I'm going to say it. 0:03:12.180 --> 0:03:15.990 Me as a dog lover, I'd rather my money go 0:03:16.030 --> 0:03:18.389 to you taking care of the dogs than giving any 0:03:18.430 --> 0:03:22.090 more money than a drug addicts because the dogs are innocent. 0:03:22.690 --> 0:03:26.780 The drug addicts are not. I have some compassion for them. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.320 I wish we would stop enabling their habits and put 0:03:30.340 --> 0:03:31.960 them in a place where they can get clean and 0:03:32.460 --> 0:03:34.970 but we don't do that. So I would take just 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.450 a small portion of the money that we're using to 0:03:37.530 --> 0:03:40.950 indefinitely house people in motels. And I would use it 0:03:41.050 --> 0:03:46.710 to stand up our pathetic animal shelter system. But if 0:03:46.730 --> 0:03:50.260 Joey dials in, we'll get into all that for now. 0:03:51.300 --> 0:03:54.720 We're going to move on. There was a massive fraud 0:03:54.780 --> 0:03:59.920 bust yesterday in Southern California and the Fed's announcing a 0:04:00.180 --> 0:04:05.960 huge Medi-Cal scheme where a doctor and a chiropractor were 0:04:06.020 --> 0:04:12.170 performing unnecessary surgery on victimized patients so they could bill 0:04:12.350 --> 0:04:18.680 Medicare for millions and millions and millions of dollars. For 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.830 more on this, we go to Fox 11. in Los Angeles. 0:04:23.010 --> 0:04:27.740 Zanna Chiropractor is among several health care professionals arrested and 0:04:27.820 --> 0:04:31.560 charged in alleged health care fraud schemes. The Department of 0:04:31.580 --> 0:04:35.070 Justice says collectively the schemes amount to two billion dollars 0:04:35.110 --> 0:04:38.450 in losses. Fox 11's Rachel Aragon live in Tarzana with 0:04:38.470 --> 0:04:40.150 a closer look at the alleged crimes. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:40.660 Rachel. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.810 Hey, Christine, yeah, we know right now several defendants, in fact, 0:04:45.850 --> 0:04:47.990 are being accused of a variety of health care schemes, 0:04:48.110 --> 0:04:52.549 including billing Medicare for unnecessary procedures. But right here in Tarzana, 0:04:52.610 --> 0:04:54.970 we know one of those early morning raids happening here 0:04:55.290 --> 0:04:57.390 for one of the defendants who's been accused of just that, 0:04:57.750 --> 0:05:00.760 billing Medicare for procedures patients did not ask for. 0:05:00.779 --> 0:05:04.580 Boy, this doctor billed so much fraudulent Medicare money they 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.500 could afford a home in the Tarzana Hills. 0:05:08.570 --> 0:05:09.210 Some people may. 0:05:09.210 --> 0:05:11.310 Ask, is it necessary to go out and arrest a 0:05:11.310 --> 0:05:13.000 chiropractor or a doctor? 0:05:13.010 --> 0:05:13.860 The answer is yes. 0:05:14.500 --> 0:05:17.179 They are just as much a criminal as a bank robber. 0:05:17.220 --> 0:05:18.020 In fact, they're worse. 0:05:18.510 --> 0:05:21.580 First Assistant US Attorney Bill Sandley is talking about this man, 0:05:21.580 --> 0:05:23.460 61 year old chiropractor Dr. 0:05:23.500 --> 0:05:24.220 Haney Malek. 0:05:24.660 --> 0:05:28.620 Malek arrested Thursday morning in Tarzana for his alleged involvement 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.779 in a $ 135 million Medicare fraud scheme. He and surgeon Dr. 0:05:32.820 --> 0:05:36.219 Hill to be both accused of learning patients and subjecting 0:05:36.260 --> 0:05:40.940 them to unnecessary invasive procedures across several LA based clinics. 0:05:41.460 --> 0:05:45.860 There's always been this talk of you assume that if 0:05:45.900 --> 0:05:49.560 you go to the dentist, And there are plenty of 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.950 reputable dentists out there. I love my dentist. But you 0:05:53.970 --> 0:05:56.450 always are under the assumption, or I've had it once before, 0:05:56.490 --> 0:05:58.910 I'd switch dentists because one dentist said I had to 0:05:58.950 --> 0:06:00.680 have my wisdom teeth out and it was going to 0:06:00.740 --> 0:06:03.080 be an expensive procedure and cost a lot of money 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.760 and bill my insurance. I got a second opinion and 0:06:05.820 --> 0:06:08.620 he said, no, you don't. And my teeth are much 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.080 better now. But think of that on the much more 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.839 invasive scale of doctors claiming that you need surgery when 0:06:16.900 --> 0:06:20.400 you don't, because if they cut you open, they can 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.290 bill millions and millions of dollars. Look, I've said it 0:06:24.330 --> 0:06:27.990 before and I'll say it again. Our health care system. 0:06:28.670 --> 0:06:33.070 is terrible. And anyone who says they like our system 0:06:33.510 --> 0:06:34.370 is full of it. 0:06:34.670 --> 0:06:36.770 This is the worst type of healthcare fraud because you 0:06:36.790 --> 0:06:39.320 have doctors who are supposed to be doing no harm. 0:06:39.860 --> 0:06:43.580 They are putting their financial interests again over the interest. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:43.940 Of their patients. 0:06:44.380 --> 0:06:47.060 Neighbors in Tarzana reacting to the fraud allegations. 0:06:47.950 --> 0:06:51.470 Was not shocked at all because of all the Medicare 0:06:51.510 --> 0:06:54.690 fraud that I'm hearing about right now. It's really bad. 0:06:55.230 --> 0:06:58.050 Thursday's federal rate in Tarzana, part of a larger takedown. 0:06:58.330 --> 0:06:59.669 The DOJ charging. 0:06:59.350 --> 0:07:01.650 15... Hey, one of those was a hospice. We know 0:07:01.690 --> 0:07:03.170 about all those kinds of frauds. 0:07:03.410 --> 0:07:05.570 People for a variety of healthcare fraud schemes. 0:07:05.870 --> 0:07:09.890 California takes fraud seriously. Oh yeah, this was the funniest 0:07:09.930 --> 0:07:15.280 thing yesterday. So... The feds make this big bust, some 0:07:15.460 --> 0:07:20.840 huge cases, including that chiropractor in Tarzana. And then our 0:07:21.100 --> 0:07:24.480 attorney general, who is usually asleep at the wheel on 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:30.620 stuff like this, Babathi Banta, throws together a hastily put 0:07:30.670 --> 0:07:34.830 together press conference, say, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, we're 0:07:34.870 --> 0:07:38.050 going after fraud all the time. We just don't make 0:07:38.110 --> 0:07:43.180 a big deal about it. And no, they're not. You 0:07:43.220 --> 0:07:47.180 have to wonder how much of our costs, all the 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.420 money that we spend, all the money we put into 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.120 health care, whether it's the private plans, it's Medi-Cal, it's Medicare, 0:07:53.140 --> 0:07:55.880 it's Medicaid, what have you. How much does all of 0:07:55.930 --> 0:07:58.770 this really cost if you got rid of all the 0:07:58.830 --> 0:07:59.990 fraud that is out there? 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.250 About an hour after the federal officials held their press conference, 0:08:04.590 --> 0:08:07.730 California Attorney General Rob Bonta held a separate press conference 0:08:07.810 --> 0:08:10.910 announcing results of a statewide Medi-Cal fraud sweep. 0:08:11.350 --> 0:08:14.850 Notice how Bobathee and Bill Asseli are never in the 0:08:14.890 --> 0:08:18.700 same room together, and Bobathee is always playing catch-up, saying, no, 0:08:18.740 --> 0:08:20.960 we're doing our job, what are you talking about? 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.940 Bonta claiming that the state was not giving credit for 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.800 their involvement in the federal government's crackdown on Thursday. 0:08:26.820 --> 0:08:31.430 While the White House spreads myths about rampant fraud... It's 0:08:31.490 --> 0:08:34.860 not a myth. We literally have all these arrests and 0:08:34.900 --> 0:08:38.400 the fraud is pretty rampant if doctors can make billions 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.870 of dollars off of it. But this is Bob Bonta. Oh, 0:08:41.900 --> 0:08:44.080 there's people that are being arrested for voting illegally. Well, 0:08:44.100 --> 0:08:46.620 that shows there's no proof of it. Oh, there's people 0:08:46.660 --> 0:08:48.660 being arrested for fraud. Well, that shows that the fraud 0:08:48.700 --> 0:08:52.220 is a myth. And look, Bob Bonta is not going 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:56.189 to go after fraud aggressively because Bob Bonta is compromised. 0:08:56.730 --> 0:09:03.730 He is one of several very corrupt attorney generals. He 0:09:04.170 --> 0:09:08.370 has been doing all kinds of self-dealing and pay for 0:09:08.429 --> 0:09:12.230 play politics. And of course, he's not going to go 0:09:12.370 --> 0:09:16.439 after the real problem here. We'll keep dispelling them, not 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.140 with words, but with work. 0:09:18.809 --> 0:09:21.490 Asaley claimed the state should not be allowing this elect 0:09:21.510 --> 0:09:23.330 for medical fraud in the first place. 0:09:23.770 --> 0:09:25.610 California regulates doctors. 0:09:26.450 --> 0:09:29.510 These doctors should never have been in practice this long. 0:09:29.970 --> 0:09:32.840 Well, I got, I got some news for you. You 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.979 want to know how the medical board actually works? We've 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.679 done plenty of stories of corrupt crooked doctors, including that 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.960 woman that got convicted for the fake butt implants and 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.840 she still kept her medical license. 0:09:48.390 --> 0:09:50.229 Now, we can tell you, though, federal officials have not 0:09:50.250 --> 0:09:53.479 disclosed the number of patients that underwent those unnecessary procedures, 0:09:53.540 --> 0:09:55.859 according to prosecutors. But they did tell us that some 0:09:55.900 --> 0:09:58.689 are still in pain and underwent more than one of 0:09:58.730 --> 0:10:01.630 those kind of procedures. Pretty Life in Tarzana tonight. I'm 0:10:01.650 --> 0:10:03.449 Rachel Aragon. I'll send it back to you. 0:10:04.150 --> 0:10:07.430 And these weren't just like simple procedures. We're talking about 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.130 like different kinds of heart procedures, like cutting people open 0:10:11.170 --> 0:10:13.359 and doing all kinds of things that they didn't need 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.540 to do because they could bill Medicare for it or 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:21.920 they could bill Medi-Cal for it. Our healthcare system is garbage. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.439 I don't know if any it's better anywhere else. Maybe 0:10:24.500 --> 0:10:29.880 it's awful everywhere, but our system is terrible. People pay 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.410 through the nose for insurance and are afraid to use it. 0:10:32.820 --> 0:10:35.520 The fraudsters are able to bill for millions and millions 0:10:35.580 --> 0:10:38.500 and millions of dollars. If you make no money, you 0:10:38.540 --> 0:10:41.990 have better coverage than people that are working for a living. 0:10:42.620 --> 0:10:46.080 It is just an insane system that we have here. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.880 And the fact that we don't crack down on the fraud, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.939 the fact that we have, thanks to reports from Nick Shirley, 0:10:52.980 --> 0:10:56.340 thanks to reports from CBS news investigates, the fact that 0:10:56.380 --> 0:11:01.780 you have a section of van eyes on victory Boulevard 0:11:02.140 --> 0:11:07.920 that houses 70 different hospice facilities, most of them with 0:11:08.110 --> 0:11:14.150 non-existent phone numbers, not actually taking patients. You have nobody watching. 0:11:14.210 --> 0:11:16.050 And you know what? For a long time, the feds 0:11:16.070 --> 0:11:19.260 weren't paying attention as well. It was just rubber stamping 0:11:19.500 --> 0:11:22.340 all this money going out the door. The state has 0:11:22.380 --> 0:11:24.479 done this themselves as well. Whether you want to talk 0:11:24.500 --> 0:11:27.040 about the fraud that's at Medi-Cal, you want to talk 0:11:27.059 --> 0:11:31.140 about the rampant fraud that we saw during COVID when 0:11:31.380 --> 0:11:35.809 EDD was given out ridiculous amounts of money to criminals 0:11:35.950 --> 0:11:39.170 and not giving it to the people who legitimately needed it. 0:11:39.660 --> 0:11:42.160 And that, of course, was something that was brought up 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.110 years before COVID in an audit that, hey, our system 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.790 is ripe for fraud and nobody cares. Nobody cares because 0:11:50.210 --> 0:11:53.809 it's not their money. So who cares if it's just 0:11:53.910 --> 0:11:55.830 all going out the door, even though this is one 0:11:55.850 --> 0:11:58.929 of the reason that it gets more and more expensive 0:11:59.170 --> 0:12:03.210 every single day. And I just love the idea of 0:12:03.290 --> 0:12:07.470 Bob Bonta getting so offended that nobody thinks he's doing 0:12:07.530 --> 0:12:10.760 his job. even though he'll still probably win for reelection, 0:12:11.330 --> 0:12:14.830 that he has to put together his own press conference 0:12:14.850 --> 0:12:18.150 to say, no, no, no, we're going after this all 0:12:18.210 --> 0:12:20.770 the time. I just don't talk about it as much 0:12:20.830 --> 0:12:24.010 as me suing the federal government a hundred times or 0:12:24.070 --> 0:12:27.160 my pathetic attempt to derail the Skydance merger. 0:12:27.260 --> 0:12:27.980 Bob Bonta. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.390 Rob Bonta, you know, he, I didn't want to play it. 0:12:34.380 --> 0:12:37.000 I really, really didn't because I've had enough of him 0:12:37.059 --> 0:12:40.400 this week. But he sat down for a 10-minute interview 0:12:40.500 --> 0:12:45.880 on KTLA. And for 10 minutes, he went there and 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.460 talked about how great he is at his job and 0:12:48.500 --> 0:12:51.179 was asked, well, why didn't you run for governor? I 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.800 know why he didn't run for governor. In case you're 0:12:53.830 --> 0:12:57.270 wondering why Bob Bonta didn't run for governor, he was 0:12:57.330 --> 0:13:00.370 thinking about it. He was telling donors, hey, I'm running 0:13:00.410 --> 0:13:05.189 for governor. He was lining everything up. And then Oakland 0:13:05.230 --> 0:13:08.120 Mayor Sheng Tao got indicted. Well, at that point, she 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:14.970 was former Oakland mayor, Shang Tao and Bob Bonta spent 0:13:14.970 --> 0:13:18.969 $ 500, 000 of his campaign money on high priced private attorneys 0:13:19.370 --> 0:13:22.330 to help him while he was being deposed. First, he 0:13:22.390 --> 0:13:24.870 lied about it and said that he hired those attorneys 0:13:24.929 --> 0:13:28.930 to assist the feds in their investigation. Then he backed 0:13:28.980 --> 0:13:31.020 away and said, no, it's because I was being deposed. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.809 And he knew that that while there's a certain amount 0:13:34.830 --> 0:13:38.090 of attention paid on you if you're running for statewide office, 0:13:39.010 --> 0:13:42.429 it's nothing compared to what happens when you're running for governor, 0:13:42.910 --> 0:13:46.210 especially going through a brutal primary. I mean, look how 0:13:46.290 --> 0:13:49.430 long Eric Swalwell was able to operate doing all the 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.140 horrific things he had done to staffers and other women 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.040 for years and years and years as a sitting member 0:13:55.059 --> 0:13:57.900 of Congress. He could have probably kept doing that for 0:13:57.940 --> 0:14:01.750 another two decades, but he ran for governor. And then 0:14:01.809 --> 0:14:04.010 all of a sudden, a lot more attention is being 0:14:04.070 --> 0:14:06.970 paid to him. And then it all came out. The 0:14:06.990 --> 0:14:09.630 things that people knew for years and years and years. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.520 And while we do make a joke about it, there 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.179 really is something going on with Bob Bonta's hair. I mean, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.179 I rewind it in the piece where I have Bonta 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.060 on the screen. Let me see where I have it. 0:14:20.100 --> 0:14:23.460 Let me see where I have Bonta in here. 0:14:23.820 --> 0:14:24.060 Yeah. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.360 Look at Bonta's hair. Look how white it has gotten 0:14:28.500 --> 0:14:32.920 in just the last two years. That is straight up guilt. 0:14:33.500 --> 0:14:36.940 That is him knowing that at some point, maybe during 0:14:36.980 --> 0:14:40.140 this five week trial in the city of Oakland, that 0:14:40.180 --> 0:14:43.640 the other shoe was going to drop because don't forget. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.660 The two people that are on trial next to Shang-Yi 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.770 and her boyfriend are David and Andy Dong, who are 0:14:51.250 --> 0:14:55.590 the biggest benefactors of Bob Bonta. They've donated more money 0:14:55.650 --> 0:14:58.700 to him than anybody else. And he, when he was 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:04.120 in the assembly, crafted legislation to specifically help the Dong family. 0:15:04.380 --> 0:15:05.120 Bob Bonta. 0:15:05.820 --> 0:15:10.280 It's Randy Wang on The John Phillips Show. It's The 0:15:10.350 --> 0:15:14.630 John Phillips Show. Johnny's on vacation and he'll be back 0:15:15.030 --> 0:15:19.229 on Monday. And we have such a busy couple of 0:15:19.290 --> 0:15:23.260 weeks for you here because Johnny will be back on Monday. 0:15:23.660 --> 0:15:25.740 There's going to be lots of updates of the Shangi 0:15:25.780 --> 0:15:29.820 trial by then. And then Thursday night, we both fly 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.160 up to the Bay Area so we can be in 0:15:34.340 --> 0:15:39.880 San Francisco for our first big live remote in the 0:15:40.060 --> 0:15:45.080 Bay Area. We're going to Johnny Foley's Irish Pub in 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.920 Union Square next Friday from noon to three, a week 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.980 from today. And if you're in the Bay Area, we 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:57.040 really want to see you. Johnny Foley's easily accessible by BART, Muni. 0:15:57.060 --> 0:15:59.470 You could take the ferry to the Embarcadero and then 0:15:59.550 --> 0:16:02.830 take Muni down from there. You could take a Waymo. 0:16:02.910 --> 0:16:05.710 We just, we would love to have you. It's going 0:16:05.730 --> 0:16:07.850 to be an exciting time. We've got a lot of guests, 0:16:07.870 --> 0:16:10.770 a lot of Bay Area guests who I'm excited because 0:16:10.810 --> 0:16:12.450 I don't think I've met any of these people in 0:16:12.530 --> 0:16:16.420 person before. But one person who's going to be there 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.860 that I've met in person many, many, many times is 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.980 our friend Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association. 0:16:23.730 --> 0:16:27.550 We're going to be spreading the word about Proposition 43. 0:16:27.550 --> 0:16:31.690 You know it as the Local Taxpayer Protection Act. The 0:16:31.730 --> 0:16:34.250 courts have made it a lot easier to raise your taxes. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:38.740 It has led to devastating tax increases like Measure ULA 0:16:38.820 --> 0:16:42.620 in the city of Los Angeles. And we are going 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.790 to get rid of those loopholes. Prop 43 makes it 0:16:46.890 --> 0:16:50.710 harder to raise your taxes. A yes on 43 makes 0:16:50.770 --> 0:16:55.010 it harder to raise your taxes. It's as simple as that. So... 0:16:55.630 --> 0:16:59.630 We're very excited for y'all to come down and join us. 0:16:59.790 --> 0:17:01.180 If you want to get a free yard sign, you 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.620 can get one in person. I also, I have a 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.980 stack of those Johnny don't like.com bumper stickers that I'm 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.979 going to bring to San Francisco. So you can get 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.560 one of those. One of our listeners made those for 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.850 us because we don't actually have a marketing department here 0:17:15.470 --> 0:17:20.399 or a budget to do anything, but I'm very excited 0:17:20.420 --> 0:17:23.370 to be down there. So Johnny Foley's Irish pub from 0:17:23.430 --> 0:17:26.490 noon to three next Friday. We would love to see you. 0:17:27.070 --> 0:17:29.869 And then we have a weekend. I'll be partying around 0:17:29.930 --> 0:17:33.129 San Francisco. I already, I already have like all the 0:17:33.190 --> 0:17:34.930 list of all the places we need to go eat 0:17:34.970 --> 0:17:38.149 while we're there. Lovely's burgers and coal Valley. They also 0:17:38.170 --> 0:17:41.490 have a location in Oakland, Tony's pizza and a Polo Donna. 0:17:41.970 --> 0:17:44.480 I really like that otherwise brewing in North Beach. That 0:17:44.540 --> 0:17:48.600 place is really good. El Lopo is this great tapas 0:17:48.660 --> 0:17:51.500 bar in Knob Hill. That place is so much fun. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.940 And they have legit vermouth. And I do love me 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.260 some vermouth. I looked it up because we went to 0:17:57.300 --> 0:18:00.230 Madrid over last winter. And we were on such a 0:18:00.270 --> 0:18:02.409 vermouth kick that I was like, I wonder if there 0:18:02.450 --> 0:18:05.590 are any vermouth bars in San Francisco. And El Lopo, 0:18:06.070 --> 0:18:11.889 fantastic one. Go into the Ferry Building for sure because... 0:18:11.810 --> 0:18:13.969 There's a great little wine shop where you can get 0:18:14.010 --> 0:18:15.950 a wine or a beer while you're just sitting there 0:18:15.990 --> 0:18:18.760 in the Ferry Building. But there's also a great bakery, 0:18:18.820 --> 0:18:21.800 a gluten-free bakery. My wife is gluten-free, so we're excited 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:26.399 about that. It is a great food city, and we 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.439 love being able to get around. Maybe it's because I'm 0:18:28.540 --> 0:18:32.540 from Los Angeles, and L.A. is the antithesis of a 0:18:32.660 --> 0:18:38.480 walkable city that I get so enchanted by a walkable city. 0:18:38.510 --> 0:18:40.790 And a walkable city that's much safer. I've got to 0:18:40.810 --> 0:18:44.110 tell you a true story. I was at Pilates this 0:18:44.170 --> 0:18:48.630 morning and I had mentioned to my Friday trainer, Daniela, 0:18:48.650 --> 0:18:51.670 that I wasn't going to be there next Friday because 0:18:52.470 --> 0:18:55.170 I had to go to San Francisco. And she said, 0:18:55.260 --> 0:18:58.880 San Francisco, is that safe? I heard everyone's car gets 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:03.179 broken into. And I had to tell her at one 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.760 point it was like that during the London breed years. Yeah, 0:19:06.780 --> 0:19:10.850 it was definitely like that, but it has greatly improved. 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.159 Union Square specifically was like the epicenter of all the 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.680 car break-ins. They're way down. I stayed in Union Square 0:19:17.820 --> 0:19:20.960 in May, and I was shocked how clean it was. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.260 You know, the business improvement districts down there, they literally 0:19:24.340 --> 0:19:27.810 hire people to just sweep and pick up the trash, 0:19:27.850 --> 0:19:30.190 something that I see in other cities around the world, 0:19:30.250 --> 0:19:35.390 like Madrid, like Dublin, like Amsterdam. And they really, the 0:19:35.430 --> 0:19:38.629 city is clean, as long as you don't go to 0:19:38.650 --> 0:19:41.600 the Tenderloin, the Mission, or SOMA. The rest of the 0:19:41.660 --> 0:19:44.330 city looks great, and I think it is a heck 0:19:44.410 --> 0:19:46.970 of a lot of fun. So join us. And if 0:19:46.990 --> 0:19:50.220 you have, you're in the Southern California area, it's cheap 0:19:50.260 --> 0:19:53.820 to fly up there. You can even drive, go and joke, 0:19:53.859 --> 0:19:56.540 go see what San Francisco is like. San Francisco to 0:19:56.580 --> 0:19:58.600 me is one of the best food cities in the 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.420 entire state of California and explore it for yourself. It's 0:20:02.460 --> 0:20:06.240 also got great walking, great hiking. You want to really 0:20:06.340 --> 0:20:10.790 challenge yourself. Try walking up Leavenworth, Some of the steepest 0:20:10.850 --> 0:20:15.119 streets I've ever walked up my entire life. We did it. 0:20:15.650 --> 0:20:17.590 And then we felt like we earned a giant breakfast 0:20:17.630 --> 0:20:20.060 burrito and it was great. We got an hour and 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.189 a half to go. So keep it right here. It's 0:20:22.260 --> 0:20:25.780 Randy Wang on the John Phillips show. It's the John 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:30.320 Phillips show. It's Randy Wang here. And oh boy, have 0:20:30.420 --> 0:20:34.700 we got an exciting week and a half ahead for you. 0:20:34.980 --> 0:20:38.430 Going to San Francisco next Friday. Got our big, exciting 0:20:38.490 --> 0:20:41.450 election special a week from Tuesday. We're going to be 0:20:41.670 --> 0:20:46.380 on KABC, KSFO, and KMJ from 7 to 9 p.m. 0:20:46.780 --> 0:20:50.179 We'll also be doing it live on video, johnnydontlike.com from 0:20:50.180 --> 0:20:53.699 7 to at least 10 p.m. That's right. We'll keep going. 0:20:53.820 --> 0:20:57.120 If the results get really interesting, I will make everyone 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.230 stay awake because I'll be doing it from home, so 0:20:59.270 --> 0:21:02.470 it's not like I have to go anywhere. So election night. 0:21:02.609 --> 0:21:06.270 Spend it with us at johnnydontlike.com. And this weekend, if 0:21:06.290 --> 0:21:08.250 you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, we 0:21:08.330 --> 0:21:11.830 highly recommend you check out our latest episode of the 0:21:11.890 --> 0:21:16.970 Accountability Podcast, where John Phillips and myself went down to 0:21:16.990 --> 0:21:18.810 the Tijuana River Valley. 0:21:18.830 --> 0:21:20.340 You can smell it right here. 0:21:20.540 --> 0:21:24.760 We smelled it. And we were lucky it hadn't rained 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.020 in a while because it would have smelled way worse. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:32.379 I bet you it smells real bad this week. The 0:21:32.420 --> 0:21:37.990 city of Los Angeles... likes to study things over and 0:21:38.250 --> 0:21:42.179 over and over and over again. And one of the 0:21:42.220 --> 0:21:45.820 things the city of Los Angeles wants to always study is, 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:51.660 should we have our own public bank? Because, you know, 0:21:52.460 --> 0:21:56.390 banking is so out of reach for certain people. The 0:21:56.450 --> 0:21:59.890 city should be the one to loan people money. Maybe 0:21:59.930 --> 0:22:02.090 even help people get a mortgage at a lower rate. 0:22:03.210 --> 0:22:08.760 Let's see... Why this is a terrible idea, here is 0:22:08.820 --> 0:22:10.420 Fox 11. 0:22:10.420 --> 0:22:14.970 Tonight, a debate over a proposed city-owned bank controversy. A 0:22:14.990 --> 0:22:17.550 study on it would cost nearly half a million dollars 0:22:17.630 --> 0:22:18.429 for the study. 0:22:19.230 --> 0:22:23.850 Do you think the L.A. city-owned bank would be FDIC-insured? No, 0:22:23.930 --> 0:22:26.350 I don't, because it's definitely going belly up. 0:22:26.630 --> 0:22:29.130 Bank passes, we could be the first U.S. city with 0:22:29.170 --> 0:22:32.550 a public bank. Fox 11's Matthew Seedorf has more. 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.960 We can't even manage our own damn finances. You're not wrong, 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:38.720 Tracy Park. 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.140 He did emotions at LA city hall. 0:22:42.140 --> 0:22:43.639 11 eyes, three nose. 0:22:43.820 --> 0:22:48.800 Council members approving $ 460, 000 to study whether the city should 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:50.260 open its own public bank. 0:22:50.700 --> 0:22:53.399 And this is the crux of everything that's wrong with 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:57.729 the city of Los Angeles. Even just studying the idea, 0:22:57.790 --> 0:23:00.750 which again, we've done before. I believe we've studied this 0:23:00.790 --> 0:23:04.670