It is the fixed California hour on the John Phillips Show. Johnny's on vacation, so it's Randy Wang here and the phone number is eight hundred two two two five two two two one eight hundred two two two five two two two. You can email us at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot com, search for the podcast of the John Phillips Show wherever you get in podcasts, and subscribe for free to my substack so you can see all the stories that we're talking about today, the California
Report at Randywangradio dot substack dot com. If you put in your email address, I'll it'll get sent to you for free every single day. Our next guest is running for Attorney General in the state of California against current Attorney General Rob Bonta. Excuse me Bonta. Michael Gates. His website is Gates the Number four ag dot com. Michael Gates, Welcome back to the John Phillips Show.
Thank you for having me.
So for a quick introduction in case people don't know who you are, who are you and why are you running for AG?
So, first of all, I want to thank you. I appear on the John Phillips Voter Guide. So that's super awesome. Excuse me very much. Appreciate being supported and getting the word out. So I'm a lifelong resident of Huntington Beach. I've lived in California nearly my whole life. I was the City Attorney of Huntington Beach for ten years. That's an elected position. I am a family man. I've been righted almost thirty years, have five kids and four grandkids.
But as I said, I was the City Attorney of Huntington Beach for ten years, and then I worked in the Trump administration last year at the Department of Justice, at the highest levels of government that you can serve. And then after about almost a year of that, I came home again to get into this race to fight for California. I spent ten years as the City Attorney of Huntington Beach fighting for California, fighting against Sacramento. I've had a number of battles against Rob Bonta, a number
of them in court. He never showed up, obviously, but his attorneys did and we beat him on a number of occasions. I'm the architect did the voter id lawn Huntington Beach. The architect of hunting to Beach's declaration that's a non sanctuary city, and Hunting to Beach is not a sanctuary city. In the crazy state of California. We consider it the land of the Free and home of the brave because we uphold and defend the rule of law.
We maintain law and order in hunting to Beach, and I was so tough on crime as the top prosecutor for the city of hunting to Beach that California. I'm sorry. Huntington Beach is now counted among the top ten safest cities in the entire state of California out of nearly five hundred cities. So Huntington Beach is extremely safe. And it is a large city. It's the twenty third largest city in the state of California. And even though it's one of the larger cities, we have made it one
of the safest cities. And that's because we were tough on crime. We prosecuted very aggressively and kept our streets and neighborhoods safe and clean. And so huntings to Beach is great, and I want to do that for every city in the state of California. Reduce crime, uphold uphold and defend the rule of law, uphold and defend election integrity throughout the state of California, and frankly, defend the
constitutional rights of everyday Californians. You can see with the Stop Nick Shirley Act, which is Rob Bonta's wife's pet project, and the legislature now they're trying to silence by depriving people of their constitutional rights, California their First Amendment rights. They're trying to silence citizen journalists and everyday Americans who live in California. And so I'm going to be there on the opposite side of that. I'm going to defend
the constitutional rights of our citizens in California. So you know, the bottom line is that could go on and on and on. There's a whole host of things that I'm going to do. Second Amendment compliance, First Amendment compliance, federal immigration law compliance, election law compliance. List is long. But at the end of the day, if everybody knows that if they elect me, Michael Gates for Attorney General, we are going to return to a law and order state.
California will be a law abiding state again when I'm the Attorney General.
Now, one of the things that You've got plenty of experience with being the former city attorney for Huntington Beach. That Huntington Beach was the target of a lot of attacks coming from not just Gavin Newsom, but specifically Rob Bont's office, And one of their big sticking points was while Huntington Beach is the twenty third biggest city, that
it wasn't big enough. They have used all kinds of different lawsuits and housing accountability units to go after cities that they say are not building enough housing based on Sacramento's goals. Do you think that is an appropriate responsibility from the Attorney General.
No.
I mean he's been using his office hoped as a weapon as a tool against cities that want to make decisions for themselves, against everyday Californians who just want to be law abiding and have their constitutional rights protected. And what Newsom has done with his political agenda to say, we want to have more housing, we want to have high density housing in every city in the state of California. But what he's really doing is targeting beach cities and
other well developed cities. So just so the audience knows, five percent of California's population lives in five percent, only five percent of the state of California. So those are the developed areas of the state. So the state is only about five to six percent developed, and ninety five percent of the population lives in that five percent. So rather than looking at areas that are undeveloped for new housing, rather than looking for those undeveloped areas of California for
new housing. Basically, these mandates are saying, we now, these cities that are fully developed have to redevelop into the image and likeness of Sacramento, into the image and likeness of what Newsom wants for us. But that's highly destructive. It destroys our environment. Our infrastructure can't handle it, It destroys the infrastructure, police and fire resources can't handle that kind of massive densification of our already developed cities. And
so it's highly destructive. And what is Rob Bonta do. He goes out and he's now suing cities and he sued Huntington Beach. I fought him for years court and frankly Todate. Even after years of litigation and fighting, Huntington Beach has not acquiesced, It has not surrendered, It has not adopted a high density housing program for the city.
Why Because we're fighting tooth and nail against Sacramento and rob Bont's weaponization of his office to preserve the way of life in hunting to Beach that the citizens when they moved here, brought into And so we're you know, we are at war. I mean we're war worth Sacramento. We're at worth rob Bonta. I have fought him many, many, many times, as you mentioned, including fighting him with Sacramento wrongfully withheld millions of dollars of tax reimbursements from Hunting
to Beach taxpayers. I won in court and got a judgment in Huntington Beach's favor against rob Bonta and Newsom and brought that thirty eight million dollars of tax payer money from Sacramento to Huntington Beach taxpayers. So when you fight, you can win. When you fight, you win. If you never fight, you never win. And so that's been my attitude. I've always been fighting for Hunting to Beach and now is Attorney General. I want to go to Sacramento to
fight for everyday Californians in Sacramento. I trust me. I'm not going there to make friends I'm gonna make plenty of enemies. I'm going to go there, represent the people, fight for the people, and return California to a law and order state.
We're speaking with Michael Gates, running for Attorney General. The website is Gates the Number FOURAG dot com. Now, one of the conversations that everyone in the state of California is having right now is dealing with the rampant waste, fraud, and abuse that we see with our taxpayer dollars, specifically when it comes to one of the biggest line items
in the budget, and that is medical. Of course, there's been a lot of headlines about the hospice centers specifically operating in Van Eyes, that we're doing all kinds of fake billing with st sole and Social Security numbers. But
there's even new ones that we have discovered. Just in the last week, NBC in the Bay Area did this incredible expose on how taxicab companies are billing medical four dollars a mile to pick up the homeless in San Francisco and drive them to a methodone clinic two counties away. And apparently this is all completely above So, as AG, what would you be doing to crack down on all different kinds of wastes of taxpayer money. They are going to nonsense like that.
We are going to come down hard on the waste, fraud, and abuse, and all the NGOs and third parties who are stealing from the taxpayer and also stealing from the people who are expecting to receive services from government programs who are now not receiving those services because the money has been stolen. This is not only unethical, it's immoral,
and it's illegal, and we're going to be tough. So what justice looks like for me is, and just to be abundantly clear about this, what justice means to me is not lengthy and protracted investigations that lead to nowhere. All of Americans and all of Californians are fed up with, oh, we see another problem, let's investigate. Whatever happened to that investigation. Nothing. What's going to happen in my book when I'm on the job is we are going to be swift and
diligent with justice. We already know where the fraud is, we know where the locations are. We are going to identify the individuals, we are going to indict them, we are going to prosecute them and put them behind bars, and I'm going to use the criminal justice system to claw back that money. We're going to get that money back.
We're going to sell the small islands, the mansions, the yachts, We're going to liquidate all the assets, and we're going to return it to the taxpayer, because that's where that tax money belongs, with the taxpayer or with those in need of services who are expecting those services. Rob Bonta was installed. He was appointed by Newsom in twenty twenty one, so five years ago as a political appointment. He was a professional politician. Before that, he spent ten years in
the legislature. Rob Bonta is not a real lawyer. He has a JD. But he's a professional politician. Newsom put him there literally to run interference on the truth, on justice and on criminal justice and to cover for corruption. And what has happened over the past five years since Bonta has been in office, the waste Fronen abuse has ballooned to nearly five hundred billion dollars over the past
the same five years. The same five years, so the waste Fronden abuse has now ballooned owned to nearly five hundred billion over the last five years, and Rob Bonta has been there the whole time. A state auditor just came out with a report. So in California we have a state auditor. It's an independent agency. They audit government agencies, including with this waste Froeden abuse issue. The auditor's report identified that Newsome and Bonta had been told about reports
of waste frauden abuse and did nothing about it. So, quite literally, Bonta has known about this for years. He has known about the waste fraden abuse for years and has done nothing about it. He hasn't announced any investigations or even asked any tough questions. He's literally let it happen. Why because he knows who's taking the money, who has benefited from the money. A lot of it are partisan groups, far left partisan groups who have benefited from the money.
He knows that, so he let it happen so that they would be funded at the expense of taxpayers and at the expense of the needy. Those in the programs who are supposed to benefit from the programs now not getting those service. So Rob Bonta is a terrible actor. And I just want people in California to wake up and realize everybody's pointing the finger at Newsome. He's definitely a bad actor and all this. He's got his fingerprints all over this. But Rob Bonta has known about it.
As a top law enforcement officer in the state, he should have been investigating and stopping this, and he has done nothing for five years. Rob Bonta is as guilty as anybody else. And so we need a new Attorney general so I can get in there and I can clean things up. And this gravy train of voice rodden abuse to all these third parties who are doing wrong by the taxpayer and by the services. It's coming to an end.
We're speaking with Michael Gates. Let's talk about the homelessness issue, where a couple of years ago the Supreme Court changed course on the Grant's past decision, where once again cities and counties were able to enforce anti camping laws and be able to enforce anti camping ordinances. Nobody can just sit there and take over public space. You've heard Gavin Newsom on press conference after press conference, without naming any names, saying no more excuses. We all need to be held accountable,
clean up the dam encampments. But you have the largest county in the state, that being Los Angeles County, where the Board of Supervisors and the City of Los Angeles, the mayor, and the city council all refuse to be enforcing those laws. As attorney general, should it be the state to be able to hold those counties accountable when they refuse to enforce the law.
Yeah. So the way it works that the Attorney General is not just a figurehead or the lawyer for the governor. The Attorney General has a whole host of independent authority. I will have purview over all fifty eight sheriffs for the counties and all fifty district attorneys throughout the state of California. I will work with the sheriffs and the district attorneys on a daily basis, and we will work
with local law enforcement agencies to enforce the law. What I did in Huntington Beach a city attorney and the top prosecutor, I enforced the law aggressively. We got our homeless population dropped by over sixty percent because we enforced the anti camping, anti loitering, and other anti vagrancy laws on the books. So there are anti homelessness laws on the books statewide and in localities that are not being enforced.
And that's a political choice. But when i'm attorney General, like I said, I'm going to work with the Sheriff's department and all the district attorneys and even local law enforcement. We will get people off the streets. It's inhumane to have them on the streets. People say they're living on the streets. Honestly, let's be honest, ladies and gentlemen. They're not living on the streets. They're dying on the streets. And if they're not dying quickly, they're just dying of
slow death. Nobody survives on the streets like that. We've got to get these people. The human thing to do is get them off the streets into county level services, which there are plenty of resources for. We see at Orange County, LA County and other counties, plenty of resources for these to help these people, whether it's food, shelter, mental health, VA services, legal services, all kinds of services
develop at the county level. Get them up off the street into county services and oftentimes back we saw on Hunting to Beach when we were aggressive about enforcing the laws and getting people in a humanitarian way, up off the street and into county level services. They got back home, they were reunited with their families. So it's all about rolling up your sleeves and doing the work. It's all about a lot less talk and a lot more action. The laws are there, you just need the willpower and
the effort to actually do it. I did it hunting to Beach very very successfully. I will do it for the state of California.
We're speaking with Michael Gates, who's running for Attorney General gatesfourag dot com. Here's an interesting that one I'd like to get into here. You know, you're a b to charge of enforcing the laws that are on the books
in the state of California. And several years ago the state of California voted to legalize recreational marijuana, but the enforcement of the illegal market has been laxed to almost nonexistent to where the idea passed to voters was if we legalize and regulate and tax this product, it will get rid of the black market. The black market today is bigger than before Props sixty four past. So what do you think is the Attorney general's role in cracking
down on illegal grows, illegal storefronts, what have you. The illegal cannabis market that is thriving in the state of California, putting the legal market out of business.
Yeah. Again. So I'm going to work with all my fifty eight district attorneys, and that means all of their agencies, all of their departments. So every prosecutor in the state of California ultimately will have to answer to me, frankly, whether their deputy prosecutors achieved, assistant whatever. Working for the district attorneys, they will all be working with me. Is likewise with the sheriff's department, They're all going to be
working with me. So there's a tremendous a tremendous law enforcement apparatus present in California that's not being utilized by the ag because he's not only absent on criminal law enforcement, but he's also absent on civil law enforcement. He's really checked out, and frankly, he caddles criminals and really has created a lawless society here in California. And he hasn't that he's not ashamed of it. He has embraced it.
And that's to your point. There are laws on the books that can be enforced, and we are going to enforce them. If nothing else. I want people to know that when I have served and leave office, that they say Michael Gates returns California to a law and order state. And when you enforce the law, a lot of good can happen. I see exactly what you're talking about with the illegal to black market. It's only proliferated. And you'll see too that if you follow the money all that,
a lot of that money goes back to politicians. And so we're going to put an end to that. Like I said, we have to be a law and order state. If we're going to prosper, if our families are going to be safe, if our businesses are going to be safe in business districts. We can only be safe and prosper if we are a law and order state. And so that's the theme right here, and that's what that's my highest priority. It protects the vulnerable in our society.
It protects our businesses, it protects our families, it protects every aspect of society when we uphold and defend the rule of law. And we are a law in order state. Right now, we are lawless, not thanks to Newsom but thanks to Rob Bonta, our current attorney general, he has got to go. His poll numbers are tanking. Everybody knows he's a disaster, but we need the voters to actually replace him, replace him with somebody who's gonna hold and
defend the rule of law, and that's me. I will absolutely return California to a law and order state.
The website is Gates the number four AG dot com. Gates the number four AG dot com. Michael Gates running for California Attorney General. Thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
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This is a strange thing to say, but San Francisco is making it really hard for fishermen to fish at Fisherman's Wharf. I guess it really is just going to turn into a tourist trap. I mean, if you just walk up and down the Embarcadero, it's gorgeous, so you know, you can call it a tourist trap all you want. But all right, let's see what's happening to Fisherman's Wharf. Here is ABC seven the Bay and they're building a better Bay Area reporter, the wonderful Leanne Melendez.
Fisherman's Wharf is being transformed into a modern, vibrant public space, but local fishermen are concerned that the encroaching commercial developments will push them out.
And you still call it Fisherman's wharf if no one's fishing.
ABC seven eyewitness use Building a Better Bay Area reporter Lean Melendez here to explain why are they're concerned that the wharf will no longer be a fishing hub that it has been for decades.
I can't even And if you're not even gonna have the fishing at the Fisherman's Wharf, are you even gonna need the casting club at Golden Gate Park, which I just found out that was a thing that is really cool. There's a little pond where you can learn how to fish at Golden Gate Park.
I can't even imagine that right now. They have such a hard career, hard job. I mean the elements, it's cold, the fog, the water, I mean, unpredictable from your yeah, exactly. So we are not talking about restrict.
Usually fishermen got to get up at like four am to be able to get that first catch. And yeah, those cold San Francisco mornings, that is rough.
The elements, it's cold, the fog, the water, I mean, yeah, exactly. So we are not talking about restrictions on commercial crabbing or the fact that fishing for salmon was closed to them for the past three years. Of course, all of that hurts.
Wait, we do California salmon? No thanks? I mean, what does it say about the salmon in the Pacific Ocean that pretty much every grocery store you're getting it from Europe?
Or the fact that fishing or Alaska.
If you want to spend a whole lot of money, or the.
Fact that fishing for salmon was closed to them for the past three years. Of course, all of that hurts the local fishermen. What they have been complaining about are the conditions at the wharf that have made it hard to operate what they wanted, simple to preserve a way of life. Tourists from all over the world come to Fishermen's Wharf to eat dungeness, crab and seafood. Call it a tourist trap, but without commercial fishermen, this attraction would probably not exist.
They lean into the tourist trappist of it, you know, but I have heard so many places that I enjoy being called a tourist trap. It's just if you know where you're spending your money, you're fine.
It was first set aside in nineteen.
Ex except for Hollywood Boulevard, that is a tourist trap. There's nothing fun about Hollywood Boulevard.
It was first set aside in nineteen hundred for commercial fishing boats. Several years later, Italian immigrant fishermen dominated the area using the Monterey Clipper boat. One of those was Nino Alioto, seen here repairing his nets. Today we found his great grandson cleaning the same boat used by Nino the Golden Gate.
South Boy. A whole line of fishmongers. I respect that, but that's that's a family stench.
Sell Alioto is Nino's grandson. He showed us a picture of the boat carrying five tons of herring. Back then, the Monterey Clipper boats were made and maintained right here at this machine shop at Fisherman's Wharf that no longer exists.
Don't have a mission. What happens if you get a hole in the boat.
Don't have a machine shop, but don't have a shop that we could do some woodworking on our boats. Okay, besides the machine shop, you also need a shot that we can work on our boats. He's a wooden boast. They don't last forever. These boats are almost one hundred years old, and they need love.
The prize they're lasting now, wow.
And they need love.
They need care where do you take them.
Right now, there's only one place left.
We found that place between the Mission Bay and dog Patch neighborhoods. Boat owners have to take the boats out of the water and bring them here, an expense they would rather not incur.
There's nowhere near Fisherman's Wharf to get your boat having maintenance done on it, getting it fixed, So you have to put it on the land and you have to drive it to dog Patch.
Boat owners have to take the boats out of the water and bring them here, and expense they would rather not incur. In the nineteen seventies and eighties, the wharf transitioned into a tourist destination. Since then, fishermen have complained that it has been a challenge to coexist.
But if you're driving a trailer full of gear down the highway or down one of these roads and there's waymo cars stopped and pedestrians acrossing the street, it can take you a long time just to navigate the local roads.
Okay, someone's got sour grapes. I don't know if you can blame the plight of the fishermen on the Weymos. I was in so many waymos over the weekend in San Francisco. They drive better than the human drivers. You can blame that though there's so much pedestrian traffic. I can't get to the dock. But I don't think you need to blame it on the robots. You're just coming off as anti robot.
Logistically, it's been even harder to operate in the last few years. Currently, there is no working fuel dock at Fishermen's Wharf.
Okay, so you can't get your boat maintenance done at Fisherman's Wharf, you can't fuel up at Fisherman's wharf. Yeah, these are some essential facilities what we might want if we want to continue to have fishermen at Fisherman's Wharf, and if we don't think you got to change the name.
A twenty twenty diesel leak forced its closure and cleanup is still ongoing. For the past six years, they have relied on this diesel truck that goes back and forth to bring them the fuel needed for their boats. The San Francisco Port has promised to have the fuel dock once again operating by spring twenty twenty seven.
Has a long time to have to deal with that process.
And then there's the bok.
To add to the already nightmares traffic of San Francisco, a giant diesel truck has to constantly go back and forth because the fuel deep boat's been busted for six years.
And then there's the matter of the ice machine. Any sensible person knows that freshly caught fish should be placed on ice immediately to keep it from spoiling.
Yes, unless you are a fish purist from Alaska and you try to off the books get some unflash frozen fish. I'm not saying that I would try it because I don't like parasites, but the Alaska fish purists claim that the fish will taste better than anything you've ever tried in your life.
Any sensible person knows that freshly caught fish should be placed on ice immediately to keep it from spoiling.
They're just trying to keep it going. But the parts have to be fabricated. They you can't order apart. It has to be made.
It's that old fishermen say. The port is doing what it can, but more often than not, it doesn't work. So fish markets continue to wait.
So we don't even have the ice machine working. You can buy those things at costco now.
So fish markets continue to produce their own ice on a small scale. You won't find a full time specialized diesel mechanics stationed apth of wharf like there used to be. Those who come here are more like your jack of all trades engine mechanic.
What we have are people who know how to fix diesel engines. Sort of they do it as a hobby and not as a real mechanic that used.
To be here.
This is a real thing that happens for so many different kinds of categories. You know, as technology improves, as equipment changes, you actually get to a point where you run out of people that know how to fix all of this aged infrastructure.
Sort of they do it as a hobby and not as a real mechanic that used to be here. We also don't have a channery where you can go in and actually buy fishing gear and materials that you need for you both.
The old chandlery used to occupy the entire block that's been downsized, and today T shirts and hoodies are the main items, and any fishing supplies are found in the back of the store.
Okay, that's pretty sad. Gotta make way for the T shirts and hoodies, so put the bait and the tackle and the hooks, keep that all on the back.
That's been downsized and today T shirts and hoodies are the main items and any fishing supplies are found in the back of the store. Fishermen would like to have a larger storage facility. Some are forced to keep their gear outside where they can be damaged by the elements. With so many challenges, will this ever be the commercial fish hub that it once was?
To get it beat It.
Doesn't sound like it, but we should do something to preserve it if we're going to still call it Fisherman's wharf.
To get it back to where it used to be will never happen. That we have to realize. To get it back as best we can a long run, we have to wait and see.
We really thought that there was going to be a need for the port to invest.
Last week, commercial fishermen came to listen to the ten million dollar plan by the Port to modernize the wharf and how it will impact them. Part of that transformation included the demolition of the iconic Aliotos restaurant, which will now be a public plaza. The future of the other older businesses is unknown, but the port has promised to support the fishing industry by upgrading some of the facilities.
I'm not sure what the future brings, but we do have to work together with the port and with the tourism part aspect or part of this harbor as well.
Barnett, like most of us, refuse to even speculate that this may well be the end of a storied era. And what is true is that for decades they have learned to adapt in order to survive. But for some that could mean shifting to other locations like Half Moon Bay or even Bodega Bay.
I mean, I hear great things about the fish and Bodega Bay, but that's in a whole other county.
Now. What I heard them say is keep it authentic.
Yeah, well, you know, there are are as much a part of the warf in so many ways as the sea.
Lions, just part of the fact, and you would think that their success and the modernization should just go hand in hand. We're keeping the history there.
If it's just the aquarium and a bunch of restaurants and T shirt shops, it does lose a little bit of that authentic flavor, right, and.
History that has I mean spanned for more than one hundred years.
Are it's a treasure?
All right?
Thanks man?
So there you go some the issues affecting the actual fishermen that are still trying to do their job at Fisherman's Wharf. A major milestone happened over the weekend when it comes to La Metro, as they finally unveiled the extension of the D Line. They used to call it the Purple Line, and in fact, in every story years later they'll say, you know the one that was the Purple Line. This is the one at Wiltshire Boulevard. It
went to Koreatown. Now it goes all the way to the Miracle Mile and to Beverly Grove, almost hitting Beverly Hills. So is this the big game changer everyone was waiting for for La Metro or does it still not really go anywhere? For more, here is CBSLA. Oh boy, don't make me play that old tape of ride in the Expo Line.
Metro's much anticipated D Line extension is now open.
It's anaugural trip. Was it twelve thirty today.
And cbsla's Joy Benentt joined the excited riders.
She's live at the woolsher and Fairfax Station with how it all went down.
Joy you guys, it was so fun. I've realized I've covered quite a few of these since I've been here, the first one back in twenty twelve when they opened the Expo line, and it's just been amazing to see how much Metro has expanded since then and today.
It has expanded a lot, but it still doesn't really go to a whole lot of places. If you live in the San Fernando Valley, which two million of the four million residents of the city live in, it still doesn't really go anywhere. In fact, they don't even have a train in most of the valley. They have a bus, and the bus only does a small portion of the spatial area that is the valley.
And today was just more icing on the cake, so to speak. Not a lot of folks out here now as I turn around, but that was not the case just a few minutes ago. As this place has been packed since twelve thirty.
I will say, if there's any neighborhood that could use some public transit that's not already impeding traffic, getting to the Miracle Mile is a nightmare. It's not close to any freeway so you've either got to cut through West La, you've got to cut through Hollywood. There's no good way to get down there. And I should know because I
used to work down in that area. I used to work at kls X ninety seven point one, the FM talk station, when they were at fifty six to seventy Wilshire Boulevard, and I commuted twice a day, every single day to Houser and Wilshire, right next to Fairfax in Wiltshire. And it was a nightmare. You know how much emotional eating I had to do in the drive through to just deal with that commute.
It felt like a party on the boulevard welcome line as folks waited in line on Wilshire Boulevard.
Oh yeah, they call it the D Line now. And they started selling these shirts that say ride the d yep. They sold out.
And went underground and the platform please to ride the hottest ticket in town.
We live in downtown and we've been waiting. Of course, let's all forget that this project is way over budget and way late, but sure, let's celebrate that we finally are opening something. We live in downtown and we've been waiting for this opening.
On board than d.
Lie And look, it is nice that we are connecting more parts of the city, but that can be a double edged sword because we don't strictly enforce who gets on and who gets off of these trains. You don't want to have happened to the West LA area where this thing is going to end up. What happened to Santa Monica. There's been a lot of problems with Santa
Monica over the last ten years. But you ask anybody in the know and they will tell you when the Expo Line went all the way from downtown LA to downtown Santa Monica, it was a quick trip for the drug addicts and the homeless to relocate to that city.
On board than D Line with Greg Cher.
In La we don't have cars, so we take public charge station everywhere, so there's a whole new neighborhood of opportunity.
I don't know how you do that in La I really don't. I can see how you can do it in a city like San Francisco. I do not know how you get around this city without a car. There's a whole new neighborhood of opportunities for us.
There are new ways to explore our City, which is the premise of the campaign and the project, because I feel like a lot of public transportation focuses on work and school and stop, but.
Not really the fun corridors.
Intel Now, that's right. You can take this thing to the Lebrea tarpits woo right intil now until now, and it's just going to keep going.
I work in Century City, so I'm so excited for when Face two opens next year.
It's a sentiment we found on every platform as droves of people rush to explore the artwork at the stations and what stood above them Wilsha Boulevard.
Even want to go to lack One not have to pay twenty dollars for parking.
People who are visiting from out of town in LA. This is so important because I want to go to like the tourist areas in downtown and I don't.
Have a car. You don't want to go to downtown. No no, no, no, no, no no no. I don't know what touristic things you think there are to do downtown. Don't do it.
Car.
The d Line, formerly known as the Purple Line, will now connect passengers from downtown to Korea Town, the Miracle Mile, and eventually Beverly Hills.
Century City Westwood.
At Beverly Hills is going to have to make sure there is all kinds of security at that station, because the last thing that city wants is the riff raff ending up in Bevere. It's got to Henry and Anaheim. Henry, Hello, Hello, how are you Randy doing great?
Hey? You know what, I love your show. I'd love it when you fill in for John. I'm a longtime listener and I think you do a great job. I kudos to you, thank you. But I have to do a little bit of questioning, you know, you say about the pot shops and how bad they are and the illegal ones and everything else. First of all, I want to qualify this. I live in Orange County, so there is a huge difference. I have been a pot smoker for a very long time.
And.
Yeah, the illegal stores would pop up on a fairly regular basis, but the state controlled stores are very expensive and you can get some of the bootleg stuff for a little bit less.
Oh. That's one of the major problems here, Henri, is that we have all ver tax this product immediately, and because we don't enforce going after the illegal market, people that want to do it the right way at a total disadvantage. We're at a time, but thank you so much for the call, my friend. It's Randy Wang here on the John Phillips Show.