Steve Byrne

It's no good.

And that's the way we're wired, and I understand it.

So I had a chapter called Why I Hate L.A., and what happened to it is it got yanked, and then it got sort of cannibalized.

Little bits and pieces of it ended up in other places.

chapters of the book, but I will tell you what I wrote about two years ago about leaf blowers.

You have an article there that somebody tweeted me, and you can dig into that a little bit, Allison Rosen.

I would say Los Angeles is probably the tip of the spear in whatever the nanny state is.

You know, you drive around, you go to Florida, you see guys riding motorcycles, and you're like, where's his helmet?

He's got no helmet.

Oh, he's going to get into trouble for sure.

It's like I turn into a nine-year-old, someone's going to tell on him, and he's going to get into trouble.

And it's like, oh, yeah, they don't have helmet laws in Florida, which...

I'm neither here.

Look, I'm fine with put a helmet on.

But you realize we are the tip of the spear in the nanny state when it comes to here's what you can put, you know, if you want to build something or if you want to start a business or whatever it is.

We have a law and a lot of them have to do with safety and a lot of them have to do with health and a lot of them have to do with.

If you are removing something and there's some minute amount of asbestos involved in the flooring, then you have to call a hazmat team over.

We're very lung-oriented as well.

We're safety-oriented, but we're nutty lung-oriented.

We have some of the highest air quality standards as far as automotive emissions.