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She is the professor of political science emeritus 0:01:39.970 --> 0:01:43.630 at California State University at Fullerton, Professor Barbara Stone. 0:01:43.870 --> 0:01:44.230 Welcome. 0:01:45.490 --> 0:01:45.990 Hi, John. 0:01:47.330 --> 0:01:51.080 So we've been playing the sound of Rick Caruso on ABC7. 0:01:53.390 --> 0:01:57.310 shilling for Karen Bass. He's letting the world know that 0:01:57.430 --> 0:02:00.330 he voted for her. He thinks you should vote for 0:02:00.370 --> 0:02:03.990 her too, but he's not endorsing her because all of 0:02:04.050 --> 0:02:08.010 his public criticism of her stands, and he's not moving 0:02:08.050 --> 0:02:09.209 away from any of that. 0:02:10.250 --> 0:02:11.489 What the hell is he doing? 0:02:14.130 --> 0:02:18.549 I thought about that, and the best answer I can 0:02:18.710 --> 0:02:22.450 come up with is, other than he thinks they're both awful, 0:02:22.550 --> 0:02:26.650 but thinks Bass is a little less awful. Closest I 0:02:26.690 --> 0:02:29.220 can come is we need to remember Rick Caruso is 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:36.120 a developer. And he has done, I presume is doing, 0:02:36.300 --> 0:02:40.100 and I presume will do, projects in the city of 0:02:40.180 --> 0:02:44.790 Los Angeles. Nithya Raman not only is not going to 0:02:44.830 --> 0:02:49.530 be remotely friendly to Rick Caruso, but everything she says 0:02:49.660 --> 0:02:54.480 she wants will create an environment in which people like 0:02:54.520 --> 0:03:00.020 him just can't remotely thrive. So while he's not enthusiastic, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.919 I don't know it, but I suspect that that background 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.940 has a reasonable amount to do with what he's doing. 0:03:05.970 --> 0:03:11.309 If you're Karen Bass... Why don't you come out and 0:03:11.550 --> 0:03:15.820 make an offer to Spencer Pratt voters, something tangible that 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.299 they can hang on to, as to how they could 0:03:18.380 --> 0:03:21.260 justify a vote for her? Because I want to read 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.300 for you a quote. When she was asked point blank 0:03:24.340 --> 0:03:28.140 by CNN's Alex Michelson what she is offering to Pratt 0:03:28.180 --> 0:03:31.570 voters who are unhappy with her performance, here is what 0:03:31.630 --> 0:03:35.610 she said. Quote, It's a binary choice here. You could 0:03:35.650 --> 0:03:39.510 go with the unknown. the inexperienced, the new to LA, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.520 the person who is okay with encampments being in front 0:03:42.540 --> 0:03:45.340 of schools and doesn't like police, or you can go 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.200 with the leader who has tried true, honest, who has 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:52.630 made mistakes, absolutely made mistakes, but is ready to continue 0:03:52.670 --> 0:03:56.170 to lead, end quote. If I were Karen Bass, I 0:03:56.190 --> 0:04:00.250 would call Spencer Pratt and Roxanne Hogue, the chair of 0:04:00.270 --> 0:04:04.440 the party, and maybe Rick Caruso into a room, and 0:04:04.540 --> 0:04:07.610 I would Bring a notepad in there and a pen 0:04:07.750 --> 0:04:10.210 and go, what do you want? You want a seat 0:04:10.290 --> 0:04:12.430 on the airport commission? You want a seat on the 0:04:12.530 --> 0:04:15.990 police commission? You want a seat on public works? You 0:04:16.029 --> 0:04:19.089 want to pick an accounting firm to audit the NGO spending? 0:04:19.770 --> 0:04:20.530 What do you want? 0:04:21.130 --> 0:04:23.690 And give them something that they can then go to 0:04:23.730 --> 0:04:28.770 their people and say, this is tangible. This will make 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.119 life better for you. And this is the difference between 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.500 her and Nithya. She never did that. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:45.040 Let me offer multiple possible explanations, which somewhere begin with, John, 0:04:45.100 --> 0:04:52.779 she's not that bright. So that's one problem. Well, that 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.789 takes some thought. Secondly, to the extent she and her 0:04:56.820 --> 0:05:01.830 people are thinking about it, remember her challenge in her 0:05:01.890 --> 0:05:07.350 mind is from the left. It would be a version 0:05:07.870 --> 0:05:13.390 of a Democrat in a close race with. 0:05:14.029 --> 0:05:14.169 A. 0:05:14.230 --> 0:05:16.370 I don't want to say leftist, because they both are, 0:05:17.010 --> 0:05:22.560 but someone, well, a Democratic socialist, going and going, Donald Trump, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.400 what do you want to say nice things about me 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:30.240 and endorse me? From my perspective as a very liberal 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:35.770 Democrat running against a far-left Democrat... making anything that can 0:05:35.970 --> 0:05:40.370 connect me in public to Trump in that case would 0:05:40.529 --> 0:05:45.550 be a death sentence. And for her to, I think 0:05:45.650 --> 0:05:49.310 she would think, for her to throw up an obvious 0:05:49.410 --> 0:05:56.330 connection to like Spencer Pratt, I think she would see 0:05:56.410 --> 0:06:00.089 it as a net negative. And probably to the extent 0:06:00.130 --> 0:06:03.210 she thought about it, she would go, those people have 0:06:03.270 --> 0:06:04.130 nowhere else to go. 0:06:05.890 --> 0:06:07.910 I want to read for you a poll that was 0:06:07.950 --> 0:06:11.609 just published by the University of Southern California, your alma mater. 0:06:12.470 --> 0:06:16.839 They polled Congressional District 34. That's the Jimmy Gomez seat. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:21.700 That's Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Eagle Rock, a large portion 0:06:21.740 --> 0:06:25.420 of East L.A. and downtown L.A. It's an incumbent Democrat 0:06:25.460 --> 0:06:29.350 congressman who's been engulfed in sex scandals. And there is 0:06:29.380 --> 0:06:32.349 a Democratic challenger who is in the lead in that race. 0:06:33.089 --> 0:06:36.370 But when they conducted that poll, they also polled those 0:06:36.430 --> 0:06:37.670 respondents on the L.A. 0:06:37.710 --> 0:06:38.349 Mayor's race. 0:06:39.110 --> 0:06:43.980 And they found that if the election were today, Nithya 0:06:44.130 --> 0:06:49.480 would defeat Karen Bass 61-33. Now you go, okay, there's 0:06:49.500 --> 0:06:53.520 some overlap between that district and Nithya's council district, so 0:06:53.540 --> 0:06:56.779 you would expect her to be in the lead. All right, well, 0:06:56.820 --> 0:07:00.700 look to the primary. In the primary, Rahman beat Bass 0:07:00.740 --> 0:07:05.510 in that district. 38 to 30 by eight points. Now 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.460 she's ahead by almost 30. Are we looking at a 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:09.100 blowout here? 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:17.360 Very possibly. And believe it or not, well, have I 0:07:17.420 --> 0:07:20.800 ever told you don't own property in the city of L.A., John? 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:22.560 Only about a million times. 0:07:23.620 --> 0:07:27.690 Yeah, well, I thought maybe. But partly even before this 0:07:27.810 --> 0:07:33.060 latest surge, it's too big, it's too badly managed. services 0:07:33.140 --> 0:07:37.900 are terrible, and it's just not going to come out 0:07:37.940 --> 0:07:44.370 well in the end. But somehow or another, now, two things. 0:07:44.810 --> 0:07:48.350 Let me slow down. Assuming the polling, even in a 0:07:48.430 --> 0:07:54.750 district like that, is remotely accurate, then Nithya is going 0:07:54.810 --> 0:08:00.790 to destroy Karen, and probably because she's new. because people 0:08:00.950 --> 0:08:04.810 don't know much about her, because people such as live 0:08:04.870 --> 0:08:09.270 in her district do not go reading on the internet 0:08:09.390 --> 0:08:14.080 or even watching ads on TV. They sort of futz 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.620 around however they're doing it. And who's going to give 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.640 me the most? Who hasn't come through for me? I 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.580 don't have a new television this month that Karen gave me. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:30.700 And that somehow or another, it's to the extent they vote, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.510 going with what for them is a new face. It 0:08:35.550 --> 0:08:38.850 seems to me that's quite possible. The other thing that's 0:08:38.870 --> 0:08:44.410 going to be interesting, how's that, is how accurate the 0:08:44.450 --> 0:08:48.620 polls turn out to be. And believe me, SC's trying 0:08:48.660 --> 0:08:52.300 to do it fairly. In this case, there's no inherent 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.730 bias when it's those two against each other. But I've 0:08:55.770 --> 0:09:00.150 been trying on some other races, other places, fortunately for 0:09:00.210 --> 0:09:06.910 our cause, outside California, where I'm comparing polling by more 0:09:07.010 --> 0:09:12.410 right-leaning pollsters as opposed to more left-leaning pollsters, which affects 0:09:12.490 --> 0:09:15.230 the people they talk to. And it's going to be 0:09:15.250 --> 0:09:18.330 interesting what the actual results are because you get different 0:09:18.390 --> 0:09:22.120 results depending on what pollster you look at. And I 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.990 don't think it has to do with the pollster going, ooh, 0:09:25.090 --> 0:09:30.630 I'm going to turn up this left happy result. I 0:09:30.690 --> 0:09:37.580 think it's the people they're talking to. And one, they 0:09:37.620 --> 0:09:40.500 may or may not vote. People always lie to pollsters. 0:09:40.540 --> 0:09:44.800 They say, oh, yeah, I'm voting. Uh-huh, sure. And then 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.150 I would be surprised how many actually know who Nithya 0:09:48.190 --> 0:09:51.260 Raman is. even if part of it is her district. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.969 So I don't know, John. We're going to know a 0:09:54.020 --> 0:09:56.690 lot more after the election, but that makes it hard 0:09:56.730 --> 0:09:57.170 going in. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.800 How would you describe the current political climate right now 0:10:02.020 --> 0:10:05.319 among Democrats in L.A.? And I ask that question because 0:10:05.980 --> 0:10:10.340 when Mamdani won the election in New York, I had friends, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.120 Democratic friends, in New York who swear up and down, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.480 the city is not going socialist. He just has a 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:22.670 dynamic personality. And Andrew Cuomo had more baggage than Southwest Airlines. 0:10:23.130 --> 0:10:27.120 And between the combination of those two factors, Democrats decided 0:10:27.140 --> 0:10:30.360 to vote for the Socialists. Okay, fine. Well, they did 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.179 it in Chicago, too. And they did it in Seattle. 0:10:33.540 --> 0:10:36.000 And they're about to do it in Los Angeles. And 0:10:36.020 --> 0:10:40.360 people go, okay, well, Karen Bass is historically unpopular because 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.800 of the fires and Boyle Heights and the homeless and 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.660 everything else. And that's the reason that she's going to 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.020 get dumped. Well, that doesn't explain what's going to happen 0:10:49.070 --> 0:10:51.910 in the controller's race. That doesn't explain what's going to 0:10:51.950 --> 0:10:55.229 happen in the city attorney's race. I think right now 0:10:55.330 --> 0:10:57.829 the betting money says the DSA is going to have 0:10:57.850 --> 0:11:00.790 a clean sweep in all of the citywide elections in 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:05.740 Los Angeles. That's not just the public rebuking Karen Bass. 0:11:06.100 --> 0:11:09.500 That is the public affirmatively moving in the socialist direction. 0:11:13.300 --> 0:11:16.240 You make a really interesting point that I think has 0:11:16.340 --> 0:11:20.510 a whole lot of validity to it. Now, some of it, 0:11:21.550 --> 0:11:25.030 you always got to be a little careful. But the 0:11:25.070 --> 0:11:31.929 Mondami thing, I can more or less buy. Chicago, well, 0:11:31.990 --> 0:11:35.170 it had to do, wasn't he an organizer for the 0:11:35.190 --> 0:11:40.010 teachers union? Somehow or another, you had a powerful interest 0:11:40.050 --> 0:11:45.060 group dragging you over there. That idiot in Seattle, I 0:11:45.100 --> 0:11:47.490 have no idea where they came up with her. She 0:11:47.540 --> 0:11:52.750 makes Karen look sharp. And I may be entirely wrong, 0:11:52.850 --> 0:11:56.010 but I can't explain her. But we come back around 0:11:56.050 --> 0:11:59.420 and you go, well, yeah, that's three of them. Out 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.439 of three big cities with mayor's races, why do you 0:12:02.500 --> 0:12:07.130 suddenly have to come up with another explanation? And for 0:12:07.210 --> 0:12:13.370 whatever reason, that's where the enthusiasm on the left is. And, John, 0:12:13.490 --> 0:12:17.060 it's been there quite a while. Go back and think 0:12:17.140 --> 0:12:24.760 about Occupy Wall Street. Then you had the riots during COVID. 0:12:24.780 --> 0:12:28.870 The same people all the way around. It's where the 0:12:28.950 --> 0:12:32.590 energy is and the movement is in the Democrat Party. 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.900 And then you get, okay, like, look at L.A. Where 0:12:36.980 --> 0:12:40.300 should the opposition be coming from? By the way, just 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.140 a complete aside note, it does not help Karen Bass 0:12:43.179 --> 0:12:48.010 that she's black because the black population, the functioning black 0:12:48.050 --> 0:12:51.929 population of L.A. has been going steadily downward. So she 0:12:51.970 --> 0:12:55.030 doesn't even have that large block out there ready to 0:12:55.070 --> 0:12:57.750 vote for. You look. 0:12:59.330 --> 0:12:59.500 At.... 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.890 The answer is, for whatever reason, that's where the excitement is, 0:13:06.929 --> 0:13:09.230 and the people who should be going the other way 0:13:09.730 --> 0:13:12.670 are the people who are like Hollywood, who it really 0:13:12.750 --> 0:13:16.150 does matter when the city just all goes to a 0:13:16.260 --> 0:13:21.740 bad place. But they think of themselves as these— they' re what 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.700 limousine liberals have always been. They think of themselves as 0:13:25.820 --> 0:13:31.250 the beneficent— people with money who will make life better 0:13:31.410 --> 0:13:35.350 for those less fortunate. So it never occurs to them 0:13:35.410 --> 0:13:37.429 that maybe they want to be safe in their homes 0:13:37.510 --> 0:13:40.250 or have their business work. So what should be the 0:13:40.309 --> 0:13:45.410 countervailing elites are totally worthless. And therefore, you get what 0:13:45.429 --> 0:13:45.809 you get. 0:13:47.010 --> 0:13:50.309 Here's what Gavin Newsom had to say about the DSA. 0:13:50.370 --> 0:13:51.430 This is from Town Hall. 0:13:52.140 --> 0:13:55.360 He said, quote, the DSA, the energy and the desire 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.780 and the demand for bold change, not incremental change, is 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.850 very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going 0:14:01.890 --> 0:14:06.310 to be mainstream democratic movement. Absolutely, no question about that. 0:14:07.010 --> 0:14:09.350 No one is arguing to manage the status quo and 0:14:09.410 --> 0:14:13.070 fail more efficiently. You can't play in the margins anymore. 0:14:13.450 --> 0:14:17.440 The system's broken, it's completely unbalanced, and we can't manage 0:14:17.500 --> 0:14:21.120 the decline. We have to completely reimagine, end quote. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.330 How pathetic. I partially agree with Gavin. But the only 0:14:27.570 --> 0:14:31.750 thing going wrong here is, Gavin, who did it? You 0:14:31.790 --> 0:14:35.930 guys did it. And why you think doubling down and 0:14:35.990 --> 0:14:41.630 tripling down is going to make it better absolutely escapes me. Actually, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.220 I guess I would take the position that Gavin would 0:14:44.340 --> 0:14:48.020 never hit, that he's right. You can't just keep doing 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.960 what we're doing, and you need a revolution. And the 0:14:51.020 --> 0:14:55.920 revolution needs to get rid of all these leftists to 0:14:56.090 --> 0:15:00.290 actually reestablish that those— oh, I remember John Schmitz is where 0:15:00.330 --> 0:15:04.350 I got this— that those who work should make more than 0:15:04.410 --> 0:15:08.770 those who don't. and that for an economy to produce 0:15:08.870 --> 0:15:11.990 jobs and money to give to your poor, you have 0:15:12.050 --> 0:15:17.460 to encourage entrepreneurs, you have to encourage people to concentrate capital, 0:15:17.940 --> 0:15:20.800 you have to encourage people to think they can get ahead, 0:15:21.220 --> 0:15:25.380 and you guys are going hell-bent in the opposite direction. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.770 And I can't believe anybody thinks that, except, of course, 0:15:30.830 --> 0:15:32.890 all he's doing is pandering, so who cares? 0:15:35.060 --> 0:15:38.320 All right, let's shift gears to the gubernatorial election here 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:42.800 in California, where Steve Hilton is working like I haven't 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.880 seen a Republican candidate work in a very long time. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.900 Certainly not John Cox, certainly not Steve Garvey, certainly not 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.060 Brian Dolly. He's showing up to the opening of an envelope. 0:15:53.340 --> 0:15:57.360 He's going on right-leaning media, he's going on mainstream media, 0:15:57.420 --> 0:16:01.740 he's going on left-wing media, and Javier Becerra is hiding 0:16:01.780 --> 0:16:04.979 in his basement and not coming out. And according to 0:16:05.020 --> 0:16:07.900 the polls, it's not hurting him one bit. He is 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.640 up by north of 20 points in just about every 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.250 single poll that I have seen. And there's no indication 0:16:14.610 --> 0:16:17.450 out there that suggests that the result will be any 0:16:17.530 --> 0:16:20.230 different than that. What do you make of the fact 0:16:20.290 --> 0:16:23.490 that he just hasn't campaigned and the public doesn't seem 0:16:23.530 --> 0:16:23.890 to care? 0:16:23.910 --> 0:16:30.740 The public is paying virtually no attention. And I'm going 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:35.410 to modify that in a second. The public doesn't know 0:16:35.470 --> 0:16:39.480 who either of these guys are. The public, such as 0:16:39.550 --> 0:16:43.380 it is. Remember, L.A. is your largest city, so we've 0:16:43.420 --> 0:16:48.480 already talked about those people on the whole. And the 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.730 way it works is they see a D, they vote 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.220 for it. They see an R, they don't vote for it. 0:16:55.810 --> 0:16:57.450 And there are going to be those that would blame 0:16:57.510 --> 0:17:00.750 it on Trump. I think that's not correct. over how 0:17:00.820 --> 0:17:05.439 many elections has the Republican candidate received within a very 0:17:05.580 --> 0:17:09.399 narrow range of votes because that's the number willing to 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.000 vote for a Republican in this state. You have to 0:17:13.060 --> 0:17:18.200 change the basic dynamic in order to change that. Now, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.640 having said that, it sounds like I'm going, so what's 0:17:21.660 --> 0:17:25.679 Steve Hilton wasting his time for? From the point of 0:17:25.740 --> 0:17:31.989 view of the party... he's doing something really good because, one, 0:17:32.050 --> 0:17:36.330 he's reminding anyone remotely paying attention that Republicans do exist 0:17:36.410 --> 0:17:40.150 in this state. Two, he's doing a good enough job 0:17:40.869 --> 0:17:44.350 that there are people out there that will go, oh, look, 0:17:44.410 --> 0:17:47.929 Republicans walk and talk and don't breathe fire, and they 0:17:47.970 --> 0:17:50.020 aren't really going to throw us all in the river. 0:17:50.820 --> 0:17:54.580 So to the extent he's working the way he is, 0:17:56.230 --> 0:17:59.430 In terms of electoral success this time, he's not going 0:17:59.470 --> 0:18:02.950 to have it. There are too many Democrats. But if 0:18:02.990 --> 0:18:06.850 things will work right, he's laying the foundation for the 0:18:06.910 --> 0:18:09.730 future that we should all be thankful he's willing to 0:18:09.790 --> 0:18:10.119 do it. 0:18:11.170 --> 0:18:15.660 I read somewhere recently that every four years, 100,000 Republicans 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.580 in California move out of state. So just to maintain 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.859 being 3 million votes behind the Democrats, Republicans have to 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:31.020 register 100,000 new voters every presidential cycle. It seems like 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.939 that is just a treadmill that gets faster and faster 0:18:33.980 --> 0:18:38.880 and faster that you can't keep up with. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.090 Thought of that way, I believe that that's correct. So 0:18:44.150 --> 0:18:47.410 what you basically have to do, and John, I don't 0:18:47.450 --> 0:18:50.170 know that it can be done, and you need a 0:18:50.250 --> 0:18:52.990 person to do it, and I'm not real sure where 0:18:53.010 --> 0:18:56.640 we're going to look for that person. But you need 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:04.369 groups who will change and understand that their future and 0:19:04.430 --> 0:19:09.710 their well-being does not lie with what passes for the 0:19:09.750 --> 0:19:15.200 Democrat Party. Okay, if you want to start with that thought, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.260 I will deny I ever said this. then if that's 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.560 the thought and where you're looking, then you need to 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:30.830 vote for Nithya Raman. Because you need to gamble that 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:35.010 the whole city of Los Angeles will collapse in ways 0:19:35.109 --> 0:19:38.390 people can't miss. And one reason they won't be able 0:19:38.430 --> 0:19:40.350 to miss it is because the Olympics are going to 0:19:40.369 --> 0:19:44.129 be here in two years. And I can only imagine 0:19:44.190 --> 0:19:48.270 what it will be like. And that basically it has 0:19:48.290 --> 0:19:53.129 to get so bad that you... Asian voters in particular 0:19:53.250 --> 0:19:58.510 understand your shops, your businesses, that they're in trouble now. 0:19:58.530 --> 0:20:02.359 They're going to basically be gone. Some of your silly 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:07.720 Hollywood types, including a couple who late announced they were 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.480 voting for Spencer Pratt because people kept robbing them. Well, 0:20:12.540 --> 0:20:17.180 why do you think that happened, Dumbo? And until you 0:20:17.270 --> 0:20:22.250 come around and understand that until you change your voting patterns, 0:20:23.590 --> 0:20:26.850 then it's going to keep happening, so stop complaining to me. 0:20:27.490 --> 0:20:32.570 You have to find, though, groupings. where it becomes obvious 0:20:32.650 --> 0:20:35.930 to them that it may make them feel not quite 0:20:36.010 --> 0:20:43.560 as warm and loving, but maybe more prosperous and generally successful. 0:20:43.580 --> 0:20:45.199 That's the only way it's going to happen. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:47.020 We've got to run. 0:20:47.220 --> 0:20:49.899 Professor Barbara Stone, thank you so much for stopping by. 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:50.840 A pleasure, as always. 0:20:51.020 --> 0:20:53.000 Okay, John. Sorry to rant and rave. 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:54.879 It's the John Phillips Show. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.080 If you want to watch us perform the show live, 0:20:57.100 --> 0:21:00.850 go to johnnydontlike.com and click that like button. 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So spend 0:24:00.850 --> 0:24:04.690 election night with us at johnnydontlike.com. 0:24:05.810 --> 0:24:08.650 And right now it's time to open up the California 0:24:08.730 --> 0:24:09.449 crime blotter. 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:13.880 It's happened yet again. It's wild, wild west out here. 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:17.420 <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:22.890 It's the California Crime Blotter with John and Randy. 0:24:23.690 --> 0:24:27.410 And Randy, this edition involves a police officer who was 0:24:27.630 --> 0:24:28.630 very Randy. 0:24:29.710 --> 0:24:33.169 This police officer wasn't caught by Black Biden, but it 0:24:33.210 --> 0:24:34.530 was very similar to that. 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:37.200 Not today. Not on Black Biden's watch. 0:24:37.580 --> 0:24:40.720