May 7, 2025 • 13 mins
Thor steps up to bat for the people of the City of San Diego and asks the question, "where is the money going." He talks price increases and taxes and wont take it anymore! It's time for Thor's Midweek Meltdown!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now the show is happy to bring you have
some respectors midweek down.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right, heads up? Listen.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
There are times when Thor comes in with notes and
that's when it's like real, it gets really serious in here.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's very real.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is one of those times where I'm honestly I
might just leave the room because we have naw not
to three pages of notes an them like, I don't
even know have you been how long have you been
working on this?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well since last weekend? That's a small thought, That's what
I was gonna say. And it's it's it's top to
bottom small thought. And I've bold printed some things underline Jesus.
So I'm not happy.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I know when it's like this, this is gonna get crazy.
It's gonna get crazy. So I'm gonna step back then
let the man off his chain.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Listen. I don't live technically in the city of San
Diego anymore. I'm not sure that this demand, but my
heart is still in San Diego. I work in San Diego.
I have one friend that lives in San Diego that's
sitting right here, even though she's a part of a
place that wants to get rid of. That's leave San Diego.
We're gathering the signatures. I think we do you want to.
(01:30):
I do frequently visit San Diego, and I've come across
a couple of things that irritate the crap out of me,
because I understand that as a city we have financial
issues and they're madly searching to find new money because
they've already taken most of our paychecks. They've taken most
of the money that we make that leaves our paychecks.
(01:51):
They've they've raised that the taxes are insane, the airbnb prices,
the hotel prices are insane, the search arges are insane.
They've basically made it so you have to make one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to live comfortably
in San Diego, which is which is ridiculous. It's got
completely insane, and nobody's doing anything about it but just
(02:12):
asking for more money. And then I came across this
because I wasn't I don't live in San Diego, so
why would I know about this effect that doesn't affect me. Then, granted,
the sales tax and Chulavista is ridiculous. Oh my god,
Hi google the sales tax and Cheulavista I think it's
higher than in San Diego's googling it. That's have you
heard of daylighting tickets? I've heard of gas lighting? Yes,
(02:34):
which is what? Which is what? San Diego Council, everybody?
What's daylight? Daylighting tickets? Makes it illegal for drivers to
park their cars within twenty feet of a crosswalk. Now
you're saying to yourself, really, because there's as you see
some crosswalks and the curve is painted red. That's only
a few feet. That's not twenty feet. Now, what they
did was they're saying Aaron Logan or lodging, however the
(02:58):
hell you say? This person's last name says it's all
about pedestrian safety. She's the SDPD Parking Enforcement supervisor, and
she says, you approach a crosswalk, just think of any
little kid walk into school and you're not gonna be
able to see them because of the car that's parked
too close to the curb. Little Johnny's dead. Oh no,
Obviously the sentiment of that makes sense, But then you
(03:20):
start hearing wait a minute, because San Diego has about
two hundred and fifty eight million shortfall of their physical
growth that they need to make financially they don't there
two hundred and fifty eight million dollars short of their
physical goal. Okay, so then you throw out this little
parking ticket thing that we're doing now where if you're
not twenty feet from a crosswalk, you're gonna get fined.
(03:43):
So already from January, well, January to March, what they
did was they like warned people, hey, this is coming,
this is coming, and then on March first, which is
only two months ago, they start giving tickets away. Was
just some park in the red No, it's not the
red it's not the red Edward you mean, because this
parking ticket can be enforced even if there's no red
(04:05):
line there. You have to know your twenty feet from
the curve, from from any curve corner, from any corner.
Do you park with a measuring you have to have
to have measuring table or you have to have multiple
people laid down to make sure oka is five feet
equal to an actual It's insane, crazy, So it's not
about pedestrian safety, Aaron Lodging, or of the hell you
(04:27):
say your last name. It's about the city making more Monday,
because that's all they care about. And then you're saying
youself well, four, how much can they possibly make three
million dollars already? Oh, thirty million dollars. They said, I'll
through three million dollars annually. So they think they're going
to make three million extra dollars off of this, right,
And you're saying, wow, the ticket must want to be
like forty bucks. Well, initially the ticket's prices weren't supposed
(04:50):
to be that expensive, but the San Diego City decided
we're going to increase citation fees. Did you know this
to the ticket? To park twenty feet from a cross wall?
If you don't do it, and even if there's no
red there or crosswalk or white loading nothing, if you
just park, if you park eighteen feet from it, one
hundred and seventeen dollars. And then you're saying yourself, well,
(05:11):
what if I parking a loading zone, it's only like
forty five dollars, Well, it used to be emily. Now
if you're parking a loading zone, it's eighty one dollars.
Does that a lot?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
If you park, if you're parking your standing in a
fire lane, it used to be sixty five dollars. Now
it's one hundred and four and fifty cents, So they're
raising prices left and right, and it doesn't stop there.
It doesn't stop there because if you go to a
meter for an hour, you used to be a dollar
twenty five. Guess how much a meter is now two
dollars and fifty cents for a parking meeter. For a
parking meter for an hour for two dollars and fifty cents.
(05:41):
So all this money that they just keep sucking like
leeches from the residents of San Diego, it doesn't stop there.
You're thinking, oh my god, the stupid daylighting thing that
they're clearly screwing everyone over with by not painting the
curves red because they care about safety. They don't care
about Johnny, they don't care about Erica, they don't care
(06:02):
about not being seen. They don't care about those things.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Erica.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay, because now Sky telling them about the trash can bill,
Oh well, talk about the trash can bill. Book doesn't
stop there. This is a big hubbub right now. So
I gotta give out. I gotta give organs on the
black market if I want to live in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
At this point, yeah, it's pretty crazy with the trash
right now. So allegedly in San Diego. Trash is free,
but it's not really free. We pay for it in
our property tax if you own a home, so we
pay for trash. But now they want to double charge you.
And they basically said, we're gonna start charging you for
trash even though you already pay for it. And the
only way you can protest this is we're gonna send
(06:43):
you a five page mailer and on page four and
a half there's a tiny piece of paper you have
to cut out, fill out, put in your mail, put
a stop. And that's the only way that stamp complain
that you don't want to be double charged.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And guess how much it is for a bin? People
are about forty seven dollars a month.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, extra, well, and it goes to a small trash bin.
Right now, we have the normal full size give it
to like the thirds.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Give it to me. And if you want a full
sized trash bin, throw you have to pay even x
even so then they get this straight sky yep, let
me get this straight talent. First, there's day lighting tickets, yep,
where we're just screwing the residents over who parked nineteen
and a half feet from across walk not twenty. Then
there's oh, we're gonna increase the citations fees everything for everything,
(07:36):
basically doubling citation fees for everything. Then we're also gonna say, oh,
meters that were dollars twenty five. I have some quarters
in my car, they're now two fifty. Who has two
fifty worth of quarters? Who has that? No, it has that.
Now we're also we're gonna do this proposed trash cam
bill and screw you for throwing away trash. What's next
is Gloria gonna come out and say, hey, we're gonna
(07:56):
charge you fifty cent of breast. We're calling it in
San Diego air tax. Anytime you're in San Diego, it's
fifty cents to breathe because the city's falling short of
their financial physical goal. Well, you know what, I got
two words for you, Gloria suck. And it's okay because
I started googling where's all the money going, and you go,
(08:18):
I've been googling. I've been I've been googling for weeks
where the money's going, and all I could find is
that it goes to the city's general fund, and in
the past decade it's for parking citations. It's for libraries,
it's for parks and parking enforcement. That's all it says.
I want a breakdown to the tea of where all
(08:40):
the money is going, because I don't see it. Who
sees it? And why are these people making what they're making?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, you know, we're also closing a bunch of stuff,
you know, like parks and all these lates, and.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't know where the money's going. To have a
question of where's the money going. I don't know the money.
Where else are they making? What else are they paying?
We're paying formal there's property taxes. And you say, well,
San Diego has a lower than national average property tax.
Your acuity, you'r acuity if you believe that. I don't. So. Technically,
our property tax is a zero point seventy two percent,
(09:18):
which is lower than the national average. But we do
a thing called assessed value rise, so your property tax
goes up insanely. My property tax for house on the
ocean side was four thousand dollars when I bought it,
and out of the blue, they went back and it
just doubled the eight thousand and there was nothing I
could do about it. Wow, how could you then there's
(09:39):
sales tax, which the California state sales tax six percent,
San Diego seven point seventy five percent eight percent. Don't
even get me started on Cheula baby. Then there's the
Transparency Occupancy tax or the TOT tax, which it's a
tax for airbnbs hotels, and the closer you are to
(09:59):
the convention center, the more they just tell you to
bend over and take you because that's against but people
might want to come here as much because if you're
near the convention center, you could be paying thirteen point
seventy five percent for two nights of taxes. That's insane.
That's not good. Then there's the franchise fee taxes, which
is like SDG, they get taxed. But here's what's crazy
about this, because we get a one point one percent
(10:21):
customer bill charge on our SDG NE bill and then
the city of San Diego makes residents pay a five
point seven per eight surcharge to cover their higher franchise
fee requirement. So we're getting double taxed on our SDG
bill on top of already having larger SDG bills. So
my point of all this is, if you're listening right now,
my point of all this is if you're listening right now.
(10:42):
I understand things are important. I understand that the government
has a job to do and they're doing the best
they can. But it's time for change. Oh what are
we doing? I think we need to go down a
city hall and protest for more answers. I think of
the Ocean saying, I don't know if we still do that.
(11:02):
This isn't all glorious fault. But he's the face of
the operation. So I love to sit down with old
Todd and have a conversation with you. I know, I
don't like singing skep.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Going.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Need answers, and I'm not going to rest until I
get these starting a revolution. I say this government is
ruining a great city, and we march on city hold.
Enough enough, march on city Hall. I'm not throwing out dates,
but I don't know. June sixth I wouldn't say I
(11:41):
don't know about marching. I don't know. Gives us a
full month. It gives us a full month plan march.
That's a weird chance. I don't like where this is going.
I just can't take it anymore. We're getting screwed. Five
(12:01):
ways from Sunday. It used that's a really old saying
that I just did. It used to not always be
like this, and it's not fair. And I would love
to have a conversation with somebody from from the city.
Let's just sit down and talk to me. Sit down
to me. Are you the face of the of the revolution? Okay?
What about what about your boy newsom Gavin? Well, he's
(12:25):
too busy with this podcast with Marshawn Lynch because he's
so hip with this podcast with Marshaw Lynch. Yeah, he's
doing a podcast with Marshaun Lynch. Wow, that's what did
you get all your notes in? And I'm sorry if
I confuse people, I apologize, But just I want to
know where the money's going. I want to break down,
(12:46):
and until that's happened, I'm not going to rest. I'm
not going to rest. It's not fair. Look at your paycheck, people,
know where your paycheck's going. Because I don't general we
do we need libraries. I didn't know about that one
percent tax on the SGG that means we're taxed over
six percent in our St. Genie bill, on top of
(13:08):
it having the highest killowats in the country. It never ends, bro,
I don't know what way, we had a march. We
have to march on the sixth. I'm not doing June.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'm not. It was a June still a jan month, yea. Anyway, well,
that that was crazy, that one that was hot. Alright,
you take a deep breath, thanks you all right,
And now the show is happy to bring you have
some respectors midweek down.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right, heads up? Listen.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
There are times when Thor comes in with notes and
that's when it's like real, it gets really serious in here.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's very real.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is one of those times where I'm honestly I
might just leave the room because we have naw not
to three pages of notes an them like, I don't
even know have you been how long have you been
working on this?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well since last weekend? That's a small thought, That's what
I was gonna say. And it's it's it's top to
bottom small thought. And I've bold printed some things underline Jesus.
So I'm not happy.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I know when it's like this, this is gonna get crazy.
It's gonna get crazy. So I'm gonna step back then
let the man off his chain.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Listen. I don't live technically in the city of San
Diego anymore. I'm not sure that this demand, but my
heart is still in San Diego. I work in San Diego.
I have one friend that lives in San Diego that's
sitting right here, even though she's a part of a
place that wants to get rid of. That's leave San Diego.
We're gathering the signatures. I think we do you want to.
(01:30):
I do frequently visit San Diego, and I've come across
a couple of things that irritate the crap out of me,
because I understand that as a city we have financial
issues and they're madly searching to find new money because
they've already taken most of our paychecks. They've taken most
of the money that we make that leaves our paychecks.
(01:51):
They've they've raised that the taxes are insane, the airbnb prices,
the hotel prices are insane, the search arges are insane.
They've basically made it so you have to make one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to live comfortably
in San Diego, which is which is ridiculous. It's got
completely insane, and nobody's doing anything about it but just
(02:12):
asking for more money. And then I came across this
because I wasn't I don't live in San Diego, so
why would I know about this effect that doesn't affect me. Then, granted,
the sales tax and Chulavista is ridiculous. Oh my god,
Hi google the sales tax and Cheulavista I think it's
higher than in San Diego's googling it. That's have you
heard of daylighting tickets? I've heard of gas lighting? Yes,
(02:34):
which is what? Which is what? San Diego Council, everybody?
What's daylight? Daylighting tickets? Makes it illegal for drivers to
park their cars within twenty feet of a crosswalk. Now
you're saying to yourself, really, because there's as you see
some crosswalks and the curve is painted red. That's only
a few feet. That's not twenty feet. Now, what they
did was they're saying Aaron Logan or lodging, however the
(02:58):
hell you say? This person's last name says it's all
about pedestrian safety. She's the SDPD Parking Enforcement supervisor, and
she says, you approach a crosswalk, just think of any
little kid walk into school and you're not gonna be
able to see them because of the car that's parked
too close to the curb. Little Johnny's dead. Oh no,
Obviously the sentiment of that makes sense, But then you
(03:20):
start hearing wait a minute, because San Diego has about
two hundred and fifty eight million shortfall of their physical
growth that they need to make financially they don't there
two hundred and fifty eight million dollars short of their
physical goal. Okay, so then you throw out this little
parking ticket thing that we're doing now where if you're
not twenty feet from a crosswalk, you're gonna get fined.
(03:43):
So already from January, well, January to March, what they
did was they like warned people, hey, this is coming,
this is coming, and then on March first, which is
only two months ago, they start giving tickets away. Was
just some park in the red No, it's not the
red it's not the red Edward you mean, because this
parking ticket can be enforced even if there's no red
(04:05):
line there. You have to know your twenty feet from
the curve, from from any curve corner, from any corner.
Do you park with a measuring you have to have
to have measuring table or you have to have multiple
people laid down to make sure oka is five feet
equal to an actual It's insane, crazy, So it's not
about pedestrian safety, Aaron Lodging, or of the hell you
(04:27):
say your last name. It's about the city making more Monday,
because that's all they care about. And then you're saying
youself well, four, how much can they possibly make three
million dollars already? Oh, thirty million dollars. They said, I'll
through three million dollars annually. So they think they're going
to make three million extra dollars off of this, right,
And you're saying, wow, the ticket must want to be
like forty bucks. Well, initially the ticket's prices weren't supposed
(04:50):
to be that expensive, but the San Diego City decided
we're going to increase citation fees. Did you know this
to the ticket? To park twenty feet from a cross wall?
If you don't do it, and even if there's no
red there or crosswalk or white loading nothing, if you
just park, if you park eighteen feet from it, one
hundred and seventeen dollars. And then you're saying yourself, well,
(05:11):
what if I parking a loading zone, it's only like
forty five dollars, Well, it used to be emily. Now
if you're parking a loading zone, it's eighty one dollars.
Does that a lot?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
If you park, if you're parking your standing in a
fire lane, it used to be sixty five dollars. Now
it's one hundred and four and fifty cents, So they're
raising prices left and right, and it doesn't stop there.
It doesn't stop there because if you go to a
meter for an hour, you used to be a dollar
twenty five. Guess how much a meter is now two
dollars and fifty cents for a parking meeter. For a
parking meter for an hour for two dollars and fifty cents.
(05:41):
So all this money that they just keep sucking like
leeches from the residents of San Diego, it doesn't stop there.
You're thinking, oh my god, the stupid daylighting thing that
they're clearly screwing everyone over with by not painting the
curves red because they care about safety. They don't care
about Johnny, they don't care about Erica, they don't care
(06:02):
about not being seen. They don't care about those things.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Erica.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay, because now Sky telling them about the trash can bill,
Oh well, talk about the trash can bill. Book doesn't
stop there. This is a big hubbub right now. So
I gotta give out. I gotta give organs on the
black market if I want to live in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
At this point, yeah, it's pretty crazy with the trash
right now. So allegedly in San Diego. Trash is free,
but it's not really free. We pay for it in
our property tax if you own a home, so we
pay for trash. But now they want to double charge you.
And they basically said, we're gonna start charging you for
trash even though you already pay for it. And the
only way you can protest this is we're gonna send
(06:43):
you a five page mailer and on page four and
a half there's a tiny piece of paper you have
to cut out, fill out, put in your mail, put
a stop. And that's the only way that stamp complain
that you don't want to be double charged.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And guess how much it is for a bin? People
are about forty seven dollars a month.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, extra, well, and it goes to a small trash bin.
Right now, we have the normal full size give it
to like the thirds.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Give it to me. And if you want a full
sized trash bin, throw you have to pay even x
even so then they get this straight sky yep, let
me get this straight talent. First, there's day lighting tickets, yep,
where we're just screwing the residents over who parked nineteen
and a half feet from across walk not twenty. Then
there's oh, we're gonna increase the citations fees everything for everything,
(07:36):
basically doubling citation fees for everything. Then we're also gonna say, oh,
meters that were dollars twenty five. I have some quarters
in my car, they're now two fifty. Who has two
fifty worth of quarters? Who has that? No, it has that.
Now we're also we're gonna do this proposed trash cam
bill and screw you for throwing away trash. What's next
is Gloria gonna come out and say, hey, we're gonna
(07:56):
charge you fifty cent of breast. We're calling it in
San Diego air tax. Anytime you're in San Diego, it's
fifty cents to breathe because the city's falling short of
their financial physical goal. Well, you know what, I got
two words for you, Gloria suck. And it's okay because
I started googling where's all the money going, and you go,
(08:18):
I've been googling. I've been I've been googling for weeks
where the money's going, and all I could find is
that it goes to the city's general fund, and in
the past decade it's for parking citations. It's for libraries,
it's for parks and parking enforcement. That's all it says.
I want a breakdown to the tea of where all
(08:40):
the money is going, because I don't see it. Who
sees it? And why are these people making what they're making?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, you know, we're also closing a bunch of stuff,
you know, like parks and all these lates, and.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't know where the money's going. To have a
question of where's the money going. I don't know the money.
Where else are they making? What else are they paying?
We're paying formal there's property taxes. And you say, well,
San Diego has a lower than national average property tax.
Your acuity, you'r acuity if you believe that. I don't. So. Technically,
our property tax is a zero point seventy two percent,
(09:18):
which is lower than the national average. But we do
a thing called assessed value rise, so your property tax
goes up insanely. My property tax for house on the
ocean side was four thousand dollars when I bought it,
and out of the blue, they went back and it
just doubled the eight thousand and there was nothing I
could do about it. Wow, how could you then there's
(09:39):
sales tax, which the California state sales tax six percent,
San Diego seven point seventy five percent eight percent. Don't
even get me started on Cheula baby. Then there's the
Transparency Occupancy tax or the TOT tax, which it's a
tax for airbnbs hotels, and the closer you are to
(09:59):
the convention center, the more they just tell you to
bend over and take you because that's against but people
might want to come here as much because if you're
near the convention center, you could be paying thirteen point
seventy five percent for two nights of taxes. That's insane.
That's not good. Then there's the franchise fee taxes, which
is like SDG, they get taxed. But here's what's crazy
about this, because we get a one point one percent
(10:21):
customer bill charge on our SDG NE bill and then
the city of San Diego makes residents pay a five
point seven per eight surcharge to cover their higher franchise
fee requirement. So we're getting double taxed on our SDG
bill on top of already having larger SDG bills. So
my point of all this is, if you're listening right now,
my point of all this is if you're listening right now.
(10:42):
I understand things are important. I understand that the government
has a job to do and they're doing the best
they can. But it's time for change. Oh what are
we doing? I think we need to go down a
city hall and protest for more answers. I think of
the Ocean saying, I don't know if we still do that.
(11:02):
This isn't all glorious fault. But he's the face of
the operation. So I love to sit down with old
Todd and have a conversation with you. I know, I
don't like singing skep.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Going.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Need answers, and I'm not going to rest until I
get these starting a revolution. I say this government is
ruining a great city, and we march on city hold.
Enough enough, march on city Hall. I'm not throwing out dates,
but I don't know. June sixth I wouldn't say I
(11:41):
don't know about marching. I don't know. Gives us a
full month. It gives us a full month plan march.
That's a weird chance. I don't like where this is going.
I just can't take it anymore. We're getting screwed. Five
(12:01):
ways from Sunday. It used that's a really old saying
that I just did. It used to not always be
like this, and it's not fair. And I would love
to have a conversation with somebody from from the city.
Let's just sit down and talk to me. Sit down
to me. Are you the face of the of the revolution? Okay?
What about what about your boy newsom Gavin? Well, he's
(12:25):
too busy with this podcast with Marshawn Lynch because he's
so hip with this podcast with Marshaw Lynch. Yeah, he's
doing a podcast with Marshaun Lynch. Wow, that's what did
you get all your notes in? And I'm sorry if
I confuse people, I apologize, But just I want to
know where the money's going. I want to break down,
(12:46):
and until that's happened, I'm not going to rest. I'm
not going to rest. It's not fair. Look at your paycheck, people,
know where your paycheck's going. Because I don't general we
do we need libraries. I didn't know about that one
percent tax on the SGG that means we're taxed over
six percent in our St. Genie bill, on top of
(13:08):
it having the highest killowats in the country. It never ends, bro,
I don't know what way, we had a march. We
have to march on the sixth. I'm not doing June.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'm not. It was a June still a jan month, yea. Anyway, well,
that that was crazy, that one that was hot. Alright,
you take a deep breath, thanks you all right,
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An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.