WEBVTT - A Crunchy Groove Thursday (Hour 1) 12/18/25 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.680 How's the stream stream commencing broadcasting on a M five 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:07.160 to seventy LA Sports and streaming on the iHeartRadio while it's. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.640 The longest running afternoon sports show in the city. No 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:14.200 congratulations necessary. All traces of Fred Rogan have been removed. 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:19.079 This is Petros in Money, Thank You, Thank You, hosted 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.840 by Petros Papadas terrible person, He's the worst and Matt 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:24.079 money Smith. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.840 The pipes, the pipes, the pie. Don't miss an episode. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.040 We're with you. Yeah, follow the Petros in Money Show. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.720 Wherever you get your podcasts now Here's Petros Papadacus and 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:37.960 Matt money. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:01:02.800 Smith Petrousen Money. When you compare, there is no comparison. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.360 I's right, gone me out. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.840 Yes, Petro some Money live in West Covina. 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:08.920 We love being here. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.520 Yeah, we will be here for the next two hours. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.400 It is our final live remote of the twenty twenty 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.240 five calendar year. We had hoped it to be four hours, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.959 but alas our partners gave us the short shrift. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.040 And it will be but two boom. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:31.400 But may it be the greatest two hours of December seventeenth, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.280 and we could ever December eighteenth that we could ever 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.080 experience together we're going till four pm. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:38.679 We'd love to see. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.440 It's right off the ten freeway at Citrus or Barenka 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.760 and we will be here until four PMP and we 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.480 have got a slew of prizes stacked up behind us. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.279 We have a whole bunch of stuff. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.720 First of all, thank you each and every one of 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.120 you for being here. And many of you have been 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.120 to remotes before. Many of you this is the first time, 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.320 or you brought a family member or something like that. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.960 We are a very local and we're very grateful to 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.240 everybody that comes out from the area and the surrounding area, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.440 So thank you very much. We have prizes that are stationed, sanctioned, 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.600 and then we have some prizes that have already been 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.800 tieck on by the people here and come up. This 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:20.720 guy's got our marijuana and ashtray and the Tiger Woods bobblehead. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.000 Some people came over with special I mean, fortune does 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.280 favor the bold and it is it is a little 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.519 weird to have adults come and ask for like a toy, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.400 but it's okay. So the people that came over and ask, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:41.000 yeah for Joe Davids. So people that have come over 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.200 and now you know, it's been hard for other people 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:44.880 like Clyle, who doesn't walk. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:46.200 Clyle's here. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:51.560 It's rondom applause for Clyde. Yeah, Lyle, she doesn't walk, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.840 so you got to go over to her. And she 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.040 couldn't come up and ask for anything. So if you 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.639 got your legs and you come up, you know you're 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.960 likely to get this stuff is dwindling and it went away. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.920 It started to go away the second I showed up. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.840 People started coming up and asked it for stuff. Matt 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.560 is dressed like Buddy the Elf, which is awesome. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:15.000 Thought it'd be appropriate last time you came dressed to 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.079 the nines when we were at the DJ's wrestaurant in 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.160 brew House in Downey. I let us down. I didn't 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.320 buy an outfit on Amazon though. This is really impressive. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.160 This is an adult onesie. They seem to be popular 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.320 this time of year, and I find it to be 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.680 sexual in nature, yes, most definitely, and incredibly hot. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:33.680 It is not a breathable fabric. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.400 And I'm gonna go vision Quest style and lose about 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.560 four to five pounds and make weight for my wrestling 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:39.840 match against shoot in free Hot. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.600 All right, Matt, so tell everybody what we have available 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.920 that is sanctioned through the raffle tickets, because already more 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.200 than one person has come up to me and asked 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:50.280 me for raffle tickets. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.120 And that is not my department, no here at the station. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.400 But this is what we have to give away until 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.120 four o'clock when we go to Clippers. And are you 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.160 guys going to stick around to continue to give stuff 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.560 away or are we just doing it within these two hours? 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.440 Just doing it within the two hours? All right? So 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.680 we do have a lot of fine prizes. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:09.440 Here's so we got. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.520 The commissioner of prizes, Matt Smith is. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.080 About to tear's what we got A number of BJ's 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.440 Restaurant in brew House gift cards fifty dollars a poff. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:18.440 That's number one. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.080 A big thank you to missus January and all of 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.360 our friends at BJ's for hosting us. We love being 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.880 out with you the people, and they make it possible 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.840 for us to do this, and on top of that, 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.080 they want to flip a handful of you fifty bucks 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.960 for the efforts. So we have a number of those. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:38.400 Number two, the party responsible for our celebration being trimmed 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:45.320 from four to two hours Clippers tickets, and I don't 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.400 know if you heard now listen, wait a minute, are 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.679 you telling me you ain't got no love for Doctor 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.400 Dre and Snoop dogg im no love for death Row? 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.400 Really nobody wants to go see the Clippers at the 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.159 end to it Dome. I know, mister mckimth punkin right, yeah, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.240 A handful of people. Well, all right, so we have 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.520 Clipper tickets. We have tickets. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.160 Don't say you'll no love for Doctor Drant Snoop. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:11.000 Don't a nationally televised prime time Saturday affair one week 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:15.840 from this Saturday, the Chargers versus the Texans at Sofi Stadium. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.000 We have tickets for that event, all right. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:25.800 And finally, our big grand prize, one person, do we 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:26.400 have it with us? 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:26.760 Kates? 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:27.200 Is it here? 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.560 It is on site, it is. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.440 En route, it is on site. You will take it 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:32.520 home with you. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.120 Hopefully your vehicle will be able to carry such a large, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.200 bountiful prize. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.680 I might stick out if you're in a convertible black 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:42.600 rain Man. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.880 Or if you're blind and travel by bus, you'll have 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.360 to take it on the bosses our listener in Fullerton 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.280 did back in the day of fifty eight inch Westinghouse TV. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.360 Right, it is a Westinghouse fifty eight inch Zumo TV, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.840 a smart TV that simplifies streaming so you could spend 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.000 more time watching and less time app hopping, which you hate. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.840 I hate that hop Find. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.680 Your Western House TV at best Buy or on Amazon, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.920 or win it here on the Petrosen Money Show courtesy 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:13.599 at Weston House. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.240 Yeah, thank you, Brett our man. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.479 Brett hooks us up with Western House TVs whenever we 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.360 hit the road. We love passing them on to you. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.119 That'll be our grand prize, And of course we also 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.760 have a collection a lot of stuff of other awards. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.640 We have a Matt Smith bobblehead. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:28.720 Look at that. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.760 Look at how many look at the arms go up 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.560 like the Oasis reunion from. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:34.040 Team at Kings. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.920 We have assigned Jane's Addiction CD. They just broke up 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.120 last week, the bandit just broke up for good. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.080 That's gonna be worth something there, my dear. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:47.200 Grand prize here is the Sea Hunt Complete first season 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:52.919 box set on DVD that look at this and you 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.520 people walked right past this, just like the guy in 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.839 the Last Crusade with the Holy Grail, and he died 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:00.400 because he chose poorly. 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.640 This is the gift. And then we have Hondys. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.720 We have many Petrosen money content relevant t shirts. This 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.680 one comes all the way from high Point, North Carolina. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.680 The Red House. We have a T shirt from the 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.440 Red House. So one of you can win that. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.400 Can we all just get along at the Red House 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:29.800 furniture We can at the Red House. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.400 Now we did bring we did bring the Red House. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.840 The whiskey. This whiskey is far. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.160 Sweet James Berger who's coming, Sweet James Bergener is gonna 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:43.720 be here. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:44.840 With the T shirt cannon. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.960 So we're gonna hold off on these T shirts and 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.400 start launching them at your heads. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.200 And before we bring in our next guest. What a 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.120 guest we have for you. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.440 We have so many distinguished people here. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:08:01.720 But unlike Brian Gutierres, unlike Letty lopezby Oh, we have 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.080 no dueling local politician. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:03.800 Do not. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.280 We wanted to get someone right down the middle. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.760 We wanted to get somebody who's a real mover in shaping, 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.400 someone to celebrate West Covina, to set aside petty differences 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:13.600 at city council meetings. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.080 A man that can look forward, not back. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.520 West Covina is a raucous town and it is controlled 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:21.000 by Tony Wu. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.800 City councilmen. We're going to bring on in a moment, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.520 and we are here to get along. We're here to 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.120 put smiles on people's faces. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:30.280 We aren't here to. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.080 Steal anybody's gavel, so they have to use the heel 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:34.960 of their hand to get order. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.160 In a meeting, they did say it was a subcommittee 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.920 that assumed the gavel was theirs, and that is why 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:39.560 they took it with him. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:40.600 I find that to be bs. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.840 We aren't here to accuse anyone or censure anyone. We're 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.440 not here to try to turn West Covina into a sewer, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.719 which is what Covena tried to do some decades ago. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.480 They wanted a swimming in feces like Matt does every day. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.120 I do, and I find it rewarding. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.160 We are here to spread Christmas cheer and giveaway prizes, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.839 some of which are worth a lot and some are 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.880 The Sea Hunt Complete first season box set. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.800 Now listen if you've got a DVD player that does 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.199 have tremendous value. We are here also to pack four 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:20.240 hours into two hours, the reverse of the double up, 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.320 so you perhaps in your life if you don't drink 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.079 too much and feel like you're gonna float out of 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.320 here and eat Adobe pizza and then feel like the 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:30.239 state puff. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.760 Domain one legendary remix. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.360 You can double up and hit this party and another 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.720 one and feel like you exhausted all of your avenues 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.000 here and then move on. So we are not doubling up, 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.319 so you can double up tonight, right, Yeah, we have 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.120 had our production. Now, don't expect any West Covina political 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.080 fireworks because we have a guy here who holds those 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:58.280 things down. Now, Matt Smith does want local political fireworks. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:02.000 I do. I like strife, I like dicord I like censures. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.359 But we're only here to spread good cheer. I like recalls. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:09.120 No political censure again, ferendums. We apologize again for the 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:13.640 scheduling issue, and in retrospect, I do regret saying that 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.400 nobody has the balls to sit here for four hours, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.240 because frankly, it's not gonna happen anyway. What it was 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.040 doing a two hour show, it's not happening. But like 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.240 the kids, Matt, we're gonna go quick. We're gonna bang 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.640 bang TikTok style two hour blowout leading into what we 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:35.040 expect even if it's on TV, here will be another 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:35.920 Clipper loss. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.920 It's almost guaranteed six and twenty. But they did say 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.240 when Derek Jones Junior comes back, they expect everything to 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:44.920 turn around. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.400 It is a tough pill to swallow for the very 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.400 few people that make up Clipper Nation. It's kind of 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.920 like like a very. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.360 Small country, like that one you talked about in the 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.480 seat games that we did that just was founded in 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:00.520 like two. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:06.600 Now if Letty Lo Pezbiano or the Goot Brian Gutierrez here, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.400 Tony Wu and they want fair and balanced time and 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.120 they fight the holiday traffic down here to the curves, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:13.800 which is called here in West Covina. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:15.839 I mean there's a lot of stuff around here. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.600 I can see Letty doing that. I'm not sure about 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:18.040 the Goots. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:19.720 You don't think Goot's gonna make it better. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.320 Goot's gonna make it I think Letty could. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.439 Everyone is welcome here in West Covina, Everybody here in 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.160 the San Gabriel Valley, everybody off the ten Freeway and 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.680 beyond is welcome to partake in great sports talk because 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.400 we have truly a. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.760 Table, great sports table of plenty. 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.960 Tonight, now the display of items to give away that 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.920 Tim put out. Tim got here very early and put 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.920 out all these items like a garage sale. It's beautiful. Yeah, 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.240 good job today. It's truly beautiful. It's truly something to 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.880 be proud of. It is the spore or the detritus 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.600 of twenty years of great sports. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.160 Talk, great sports talk. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:05.040 In fact, this bobblehead was created even before I joined. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:06.120 The radio show. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:07.679 That is twenty years old. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.640 There was another one of Joe Grande yes and all disappeared, 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:13.880 and another one. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:14.559 Of Wayne Cook. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.559 But we do have just a few Matt Smith's left, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.800 and this sign Jane's Addiction CD again. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.560 They broke up this week. It is very it's. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.120 Humbling to see all this stuff, and it's nice to 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:32.760 watch it go away, piece by piece by piece. In fact, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.920 it feels like a bit of a purge. So thank 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.240 you so much for being here. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.160 Matt. Let's bring on the city councilman, because I. 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.920 Brought I brought a story to everybody's attention yesterday. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.240 It was one of the great stories. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.959 I did a little digging about West Covina politics, and 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.800 Matt got very excited and watched hours. 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:52.720 Of West Covina. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:58.000 Literally City Council meetings literally and and and now we 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.880 have our favorite. I think it's easy to say our 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:05.840 favorite West Covina politician of all time. Former mayor city 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.600 councilman Tony Woo joins the show. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:17.160 Yeah, Tony, party, party Party, he says, party, party, Party. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.840 You're Southern California, Toyota dealer, celebrity guest, local politician, had set. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:30.720 When I say West, you say Covina, West West. When 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:36.120 I say Tony, you say Woo, Tony Woo. Tony, thank 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.040 you for the front of your local politics. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.920 Exactly right. Welcome to the show, Tony. How's it going. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:42.679 Everything's so great. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.760 Thank you so much to come to West Kobean, the 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.079 gal Win's Govina. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.280 We love Weskovian. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.680 Don't forget the crazy guffin West Covina. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:52.079 That's why we heal. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:56.400 That's right, crazy, yes, girlfriend, Wes right, show exactly right now. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.920 How did you get involved in local politics? How did 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.480 you get involved Tony in West Covina. You're obviously a 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:02.800 well put together businessman. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.960 Yes, okay, I never think about a selfish businessman would 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.320 become a Politician's about twenty fifteen people want me to run? 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.760 I said, why why me? If they said, why not 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.199 you have money, I have big mouse. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.000 You should you have money in a big mouth. You 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.199 need to be in politics. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.640 Yes, okay, I say, whoa, you're right and you have 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:21.880 the ego so you will win. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.120 And they're right. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.240 So the first time I ran in the twenty fifteen, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.880 I ran okay, and I got elected first time okay. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.200 And then I got elected in twenty fifteen. I beat 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:34.480 that time the current mayor. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.080 Really, yes, did you just outspend them like ten to 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.280 one because you had all that money? 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:45.440 True, okay, yes, I'll spend him big time. I self 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.040 founded I have money, So I just you saw money, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.120 and I said, okay, and this is how you win 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:51.600 the election in the United States. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.280 And so now you've been at it for almost ten 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.280 years here in West Covina and you've come to love 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:56.960 the city. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.440 Well, I always love the city. I'm moving in nineteen 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:00.240 eighteen nine. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.720 And then yes, okay, and that I got fired from 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.480 the studio I work for COVID Studio that time. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.920 What yeah, I working in hollywo for three years. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.720 What were they thinking? Why would they fire you? 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.840 Well, because they think I'm not crazy enough politics. It 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.720 is exactly so. So I decided to okay. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.440 At that time, I just purchas a house in West 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.920 Covina in nineteen eighty nine, and I have a pregnant 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.080 wife and no job. So I decide to see find 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.320 another career. And then and it happened. I decided to 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.280 go into the real estate and I become a mortgage 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.000 banker and the real estate investors. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.200 Yeah, and how I become here today? And you built 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.040 up the city of West Covina. Is that where all 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.920 your real estate is? Do you own like half of 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.360 this town or what is it? No? 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.280 I don't own anything in the real estate is a 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.720 comfortable interest, so so I own all the same. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.560 It's a conflict. I got you own real estate in 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.280 West Covina. Yes, be the mayor or city council person 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:56.520 right in West Covine. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:56.800 I would. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.280 I would assume mat that you know that certainly with 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.560 all your local political backgroundly. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.880 So Petros match And you were the mayor? How long 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.840 were you the mayor? When were you last the mayor? 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.560 Can you be the mayor again? And when do we 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:08.600 start that campaign? 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:09.960 I can be the mayor again. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.840 The mayor is a rotation, right, And I got elected 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.720 in twenty fifteen, and I came out earlier again. Twenty 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.280 eighteen I ran as a district I got elected again. 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.520 And twenty twenty two when the Kinster and the Union 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.600 they tried to spend three hundred thoud and try to 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:26.240 get rid of me. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.080 They can outstand you. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.920 I know they can't somebody. But I only spend seventeen thousand, 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.480 and you still want I still want the elect Yeah, okay, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.600 So because okay, reform the city. And when you have 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.600 the chance you serve the city, you have to do 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:47.440 a very okay, okay, very determine so meaning what meaning 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.240 you want to fire everybody and make sure you're city 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.320 manager doing their job, if. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.400 Not, make the city run efficiently, get rid of corrupture. Correct. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.200 So that's what I did, Okay. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.880 I cleaned up the house in the swamp and bring 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.440 new in twenty eighteen, we almost bankrupt by in twenty 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.199 nineteen when I have a three out of five budget 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.439 services council, then I okay, we fire the old city 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.120 management team, we hire the new team, and we still 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.520 pss they said, they said, so here's what I'd like 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:17.800 to know. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.400 When you were running against the candidate that was spent 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:22.959 on a hundred, it was getting a hundred fifty rand 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.520 from the teamsters in the union on your campaign, did 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.840 you say, hey, they're taking that dirty teamster money. Don't 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.240 let those dirty teensters buy your vote. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.560 I didn't quit this idem I know. I think I 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.120 spend all the money they want. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:37.920 You just want to what America's about? 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.040 Yeah, and you walk, you don't knocking. You tell them 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.440 I will continue to serve you. I'm going to continue 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:44.200 to the reform. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.800 We are going to bring the pride back to West Covine. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.639 Now what what does West Covine that need? Tony, what 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.360 what is West covid? What's next for West Covina? 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.040 I think West Covine I need the thing? 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:57.919 Is this okay? 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.080 And then what's the job of them? Not only the 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.960 public safety? Public say okay, public health. It's about you 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:06.639 bring unity. How you bring unity? 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.359 You bring happiness to the people. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.800 So Melli and while bring party to the to the 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.480 to the bringing party, green party, party, party. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.520 Party, bring a party. What kind of party were bringing? 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.080 So when I'm doing the event like the moon Festival, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:20.560 Spring Festival. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.639 That's like the party of the year in West Covina. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.560 Right, the moon Festival, ten twenty other people show people 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:25.320 the party. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:26.680 Yes that beats us. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.000 Yes, there's the biggest party in West Scovilla, in San 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.840 Gabriel Valley. And then we put all the people, all 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.760 different races, all different kinds of cultural program. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:41.560 And all together in one night and dance and performed. 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.160 To everybody when all the children, everybody is so happy, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.840 be proud about your heritage. And we're here to make 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.480 sure you have that kind of satisfaction, that happiness. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:52.760 And that's what we're here for. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.240 A debt again, why you pay Texas for Why are 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:57.760 you paying Texas for the party? 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:02.120 The party, party, the party. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:05.040 See no politician where they led? 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.720 Right, let's park it. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:09.760 I don't care. 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:10.919 Just don't vote for me. 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:11.440 Who cares? 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:11.720