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Seth Barron, welcome. 0:01:43.180 --> 0:01:43.780 Hey, thanks. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:44.630 Thanks for having me on. 0:01:46.230 --> 0:01:49.940 Well, last night was the one and only debate that 0:01:50.060 --> 0:01:55.300 we are going to get here in California for governor. Unfortunately, 0:01:55.500 --> 0:02:00.340 it was not hosted by a California political reporter. It 0:02:00.380 --> 0:02:05.390 was hosted by two national reporters from CNN who cover 0:02:05.430 --> 0:02:09.910 Donald Trump, cover the White House, cover national politics. And 0:02:09.970 --> 0:02:13.090 by and large, last night's debate, the one and only 0:02:13.130 --> 0:02:16.850 that we're going to get, was all about Donald Trump, 0:02:17.650 --> 0:02:23.169 the subjects that plague California that we need real solutions on, 0:02:23.630 --> 0:02:28.070 whether it be the insurance crisis, the homeless crisis, the 0:02:28.210 --> 0:02:34.530 bullet train, the retail theft, the state budget, you name it, fires. 0:02:35.930 --> 0:02:39.110 We had scant coverage of those subjects last night, but 0:02:39.130 --> 0:02:41.310 a whole lot of talk of Donald Trump. 0:02:41.900 --> 0:02:42.460 Your thoughts? 0:02:44.180 --> 0:02:46.780 You know, it's funny, I caught a few minutes of 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.459 that on your show. I liked it when Becerra said, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:56.739 you want to deport people who look like me. That 0:02:56.780 --> 0:03:01.280 whole look like me theme, it's very popular now. It's 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.460 kind of like, I mean, isn't saying that all minorities 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.820 look alike, isn't that like kind of like a racist 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.620 thing to say? Like saying, oh, I like people who 0:03:11.660 --> 0:03:14.700 look like me. Well, I mean, It's not like all 0:03:14.740 --> 0:03:17.520 Latinos look the same or all black people look the same. 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.980 How about if I say, oh, I voted for Trump 0:03:20.139 --> 0:03:23.440 because I want a president who looks like me? I mean, 0:03:23.470 --> 0:03:26.470 it's just absurd. It's like the silliest thing to say. 0:03:27.669 --> 0:03:30.470 It sounds like that's the but that's the tenor of 0:03:30.510 --> 0:03:34.010 leftist politics in America today. Generally, it just becomes all 0:03:34.050 --> 0:03:38.320 about identity and accusing the other side of racism. 0:03:39.970 --> 0:03:43.270 After watching last night's debate, I came away with two 0:03:43.490 --> 0:03:47.170 conclusions regarding Javier Becerra, the heavy favorite in the race. 0:03:47.930 --> 0:03:53.050 He has no charisma, and he has no ideas. And 0:03:53.110 --> 0:03:56.820 I think that cut through the noise. Even among the 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.860 Democrats that I follow on X who are watching the debate, 0:04:01.620 --> 0:04:04.540 Katie Porter, for example, who went on CNN afterwards, was 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:05.880 asked about his performance. 0:04:05.940 --> 0:04:07.600 And she said, well, he showed up. 0:04:08.300 --> 0:04:09.580 Yeah. 0:04:10.570 --> 0:04:14.130 And it really is just good enough for them right 0:04:14.190 --> 0:04:17.420 now to hate Donald Trump, put a period at the 0:04:17.500 --> 0:04:20.140 end of that sentence, and that's all you need to know. 0:04:21.380 --> 0:04:23.820 Well, it's the same thing here in New York. We 0:04:23.860 --> 0:04:26.940 have Kathy Hochul, who's the governor. She wound up in 0:04:26.980 --> 0:04:32.640 that position because Andy Cuomo got forced out. Now she 0:04:32.670 --> 0:04:37.929 thinks she was born to it. She also has no charisma. Basically, 0:04:37.950 --> 0:04:41.470 the only thing she believes in is staying in power. 0:04:42.610 --> 0:04:45.730 And I think we're seeing that with Democrats across the country, 0:04:45.810 --> 0:04:49.950 which is why I feel like the socialists are on 0:04:49.990 --> 0:04:54.789 the upswing because they at least believe in something or 0:04:54.810 --> 0:04:58.060 they claim to. And so the rest of the Democrats 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.880 who don't believe in anything just kind of duck their 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.520 heads and they're like, okay, well, whatever you've got seems 0:05:03.540 --> 0:05:05.620 to be working and we don't have anything else, so 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:10.350 we'll just go along. So you see people like Mom 0:05:10.380 --> 0:05:14.630 Donnie or the gal who's running in Los Angeles, end 0:05:14.690 --> 0:05:15.790 up running away with things. 0:05:16.830 --> 0:05:18.950 That's such a good point. And I think it's not 0:05:19.070 --> 0:05:22.110 only true in New York and in California. I think 0:05:22.170 --> 0:05:26.850 it's true in blue states across the country where they 0:05:26.890 --> 0:05:29.790 control everything. They can pick anyone they want for these 0:05:29.850 --> 0:05:34.310 top positions. And they pick these remedial people, people like 0:05:34.370 --> 0:05:38.440 Kathy Hochul, people like Javier Becerra, We've seen it in 0:05:38.500 --> 0:05:42.540 other blue states and blue cities. God forbid, look at Oakland, California. 0:05:43.060 --> 0:05:45.870 Look at Los Angeles and our mayor's race. They pick 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.909 these people who are incapable of doing the job. And 0:05:50.050 --> 0:05:53.990 the DSA is lurking in the shadows because no Republican 0:05:54.029 --> 0:05:56.930 is going to win in these places in the current climate. 0:05:57.510 --> 0:06:01.770 But you can lose to a DSA candidate. And it 0:06:01.850 --> 0:06:07.159 seems like the Democratic candidates all use the same playbook. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.200 which is that Donald Trump is the central villain in 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.640 every story. And if they just talk about Donald Trump enough, 0:06:13.980 --> 0:06:16.739 that will save their bacon. I mean, look at Diana 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.900 DeGette in Colorado, who talked about. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.020 Being an impeachment manager. 0:06:20.460 --> 0:06:23.339 Same thing with Goldman in New York in his House race. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.690 And if they thought if we just kept talking about 0:06:26.020 --> 0:06:29.130 how much we antagonize Trump, that'll be enough to save us. 0:06:29.990 --> 0:06:33.010 And when you spend all of your time talking about that, 0:06:33.610 --> 0:06:36.210 the only people in those races who are talking about 0:06:36.250 --> 0:06:40.870 public policy... who claim to have solutions for problems, who 0:06:40.930 --> 0:06:44.090 claim to have been thinking about and reading about all 0:06:44.110 --> 0:06:46.390 of the issues that are top of mind for voters, 0:06:46.930 --> 0:06:52.150 are the DSA candidates. And it seems like election after election, 0:06:52.310 --> 0:06:54.990 where these Democratic candidates go down and defeat to these 0:06:55.050 --> 0:06:58.870 people for the same reasons over and over, they learn nothing. 0:06:59.330 --> 0:07:03.470 No. Well, the Democrats have an issue, which is that 0:07:03.970 --> 0:07:06.870 they've always felt this way, that there's no enemies to 0:07:06.910 --> 0:07:11.130 the left. Like they're not allowed to say that's that 0:07:11.210 --> 0:07:14.230 one of their opponents is too far to the left 0:07:14.250 --> 0:07:17.930 because what to them is too far. Like there's no 0:07:17.990 --> 0:07:22.590 such thing. So that being the case, you can always want. Look, 0:07:22.610 --> 0:07:27.260 Dan Goldman, he ran as the impeachment manager against Trump 0:07:27.820 --> 0:07:33.100 and he was like a hugely staunch enemy of Trump. 0:07:33.180 --> 0:07:35.280 And he just that was all that was his whole thing. 0:07:36.390 --> 0:07:43.030 Now he lost his primary to another leftist, Brad Lander, 0:07:43.090 --> 0:07:49.600 who's basically DSA aligned, like a hardcore liberal anti, liberals, 0:07:49.660 --> 0:07:52.720 what he calls a liberal Zionist. Like he's very far left, 0:07:53.340 --> 0:07:56.740 but he still calls himself a Zionist. I predict in 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.360 the next two years or four years, he's going to 0:08:00.380 --> 0:08:04.560 get pushed out by someone who says, I'm like, we 0:08:04.580 --> 0:08:09.160 can't have anybody who calls themselves a Zionist. Like we 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.280 have to be anti-Zionist. So I think even like the left, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.160 I mean, they're even mad at Mamdani now, the left, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.860 because he's agreeing that anti-Semitism in theory is a bad thing. 0:08:21.980 --> 0:08:24.780 They're like, well, that's, you're just selling out to the Zionists. 0:08:26.550 --> 0:08:32.469 So until the Democrats and the left pull the reins of, 0:08:33.330 --> 0:08:37.270 They're just going to be completely dominated by the craziest crazies, 0:08:37.309 --> 0:08:41.949 like the people you see in those DSA conventions wearing 0:08:42.050 --> 0:08:45.910 three masks and complaining about the smell of perfume. And 0:08:47.750 --> 0:08:52.640 can the comrades please stop applauding? It's triggering my sensitivities. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:58.800 You know, they're just going to be run by crazies. 0:09:00.250 --> 0:09:03.510 Let's put Trump aside for a moment because another hallmark 0:09:03.550 --> 0:09:08.010 of the democratic candidates, non DSA, just regular democratic candidates 0:09:08.730 --> 0:09:11.920 is if I get into office, I'm going to deliver 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.959 for the unions. I'm going to give the unions everything 0:09:14.980 --> 0:09:19.560 they want and more. And because I deliver for the unions, 0:09:19.980 --> 0:09:23.430 that makes me a good Democrat. You look at these 0:09:23.470 --> 0:09:27.220 DSA voters though, you look at the purple hair demons and, 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.980 And when they talk about these people, they're not the 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.340 pro-union Democrats that you would expect them to be in 0:09:36.380 --> 0:09:40.600 many cases. Because the people they despise the most, or 0:09:40.620 --> 0:09:43.179 the people they seem to despise the most, to my eye, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.220 are the boomers. They don't like the fact that the 0:09:46.260 --> 0:09:49.040 boomers own the property. They don't like the fact that 0:09:49.059 --> 0:09:51.840 the boomers have the pensions. They don't like the fact 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.660 that the boomers have money in their bank accounts. They 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.920 don't like the fact that their boomer parents live a 0:09:56.940 --> 0:10:00.699 better life than them. and that they are downward, mobile 0:10:00.740 --> 0:10:03.160 despite the fact that they have more college degrees than 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.980 their parents. They think they deserve a better life, not 0:10:06.020 --> 0:10:09.540 a worse life. And when you talk about delivering for 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.490 the unions, well, there's a lot of unionized professions out there. 0:10:13.590 --> 0:10:19.559 There's police officers, there's firefighters, there's college professors, there's architects 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:24.480 and engineers. There's all kinds of professions that these people despise. 0:10:25.260 --> 0:10:27.570 So if you're a Democratic candidate, you go, well, I 0:10:27.610 --> 0:10:30.610 delivered for the unions. I got the firefighters a massive 0:10:30.670 --> 0:10:33.770 raise and a plum for their pension. 0:10:34.330 --> 0:10:37.170 You should be happy with me. I don't think that 0:10:37.610 --> 0:10:39.329 that pleases the purple hair crowd. 0:10:39.490 --> 0:10:42.579 I think that they believe that they're working for the enemy. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.280 Yeah, absolutely. 0:10:44.420 --> 0:10:44.979 Absolutely. 0:10:45.370 --> 0:10:48.030 I mean, think about the way in which, okay, Medicare 0:10:48.070 --> 0:10:52.680 for all, that's a key, that's a signature leftist program, right? Well, 0:10:53.340 --> 0:10:56.220 what stops it from moving forward, like in a place 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.780 like New York, at least, is that the public sector 0:10:59.980 --> 0:11:06.000 unions and their retirees would get worse healthcare if they 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.670 had to get what everybody gets. So they want carve-outs. 0:11:09.910 --> 0:11:13.699 They want, okay, yes, everyone should get Medicare for all 0:11:13.980 --> 0:11:17.000 except us because we can't step down. We don't want 0:11:17.020 --> 0:11:20.140 to take a cut in our benefits. That's not fair. 0:11:20.420 --> 0:11:23.550 So it puts the Democrats in this really difficult position. 0:11:24.250 --> 0:11:27.189 Like they can't say, oh, it's the insurance companies. It's 0:11:27.230 --> 0:11:30.970 the billionaires who are stopping everybody from having really great 0:11:31.030 --> 0:11:33.830 health care. No, it's it's the unions. It's the public 0:11:33.850 --> 0:11:36.890 sector unions who have who don't have to pay at 0:11:37.030 --> 0:11:40.040 least in New York. They don't have, they get lifetime 0:11:40.900 --> 0:11:43.370 health insurance. They don't have to pay a dime, nothing, 0:11:44.020 --> 0:11:45.179 nothing towards their premiums. 0:11:45.850 --> 0:11:48.090 So, yeah. 0:11:48.270 --> 0:11:53.170 And like you said, the, like the, the, the, the 0:11:53.210 --> 0:11:58.970 DSA types radical, I mean, they're basically radical communist third worldists. 0:11:59.630 --> 0:12:03.870 They don't get like, they're, they want revolution. They're not 0:12:03.929 --> 0:12:08.229 interested in getting a few more like home health workers, 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:16.130 signed up as union workers, union members, who, frankly, just 0:12:16.170 --> 0:12:21.470 want to cooperate with, like, big government, you know, which, 0:12:21.510 --> 0:12:24.390 you know, the DSA is okay with, but they don't 0:12:24.429 --> 0:12:27.570 necessarily have, like, a radical revolutionary point of view. I mean, 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.339 this kind of goes back to the 60s, like the 0:12:29.420 --> 0:12:33.320 hardhat riots, when you would have the hippies and anti-war 0:12:33.380 --> 0:12:37.800 protesters getting beaten up by the construction workers, because they're 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.670 just like, you know, oh, yeah, you're on our side? Well, 0:12:40.710 --> 0:12:46.410 we don't think so. I mean, maybe. It's not exactly 0:12:46.450 --> 0:12:48.140 a parallel, but it's similar. 0:12:49.820 --> 0:12:53.360 Talk to me about the frustration right now that people 0:12:53.460 --> 0:12:57.160 who are Republicans, who are independents, who are conservative Democrats 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:02.550 in blue states like California, like New York, where you are, 0:13:03.150 --> 0:13:06.510 you could apply this logic to Massachusetts and other places 0:13:06.590 --> 0:13:09.949 as well, where I get it. If you have a 0:13:10.010 --> 0:13:13.970 race where the party doesn't field a candidate who is 0:13:14.190 --> 0:13:17.589 actively campaigning or credible in any way and you get 0:13:17.670 --> 0:13:22.590 blown out, well, that's expected. But in this cycle, for 0:13:22.610 --> 0:13:26.750 the LA mayor's race, Spencer Pratt did everything right. Spencer 0:13:26.790 --> 0:13:31.910 Pratt won the debate. Spencer Pratt, I think, was unbelievably 0:13:32.030 --> 0:13:35.100 impressive in just about every interview he did. He never 0:13:35.179 --> 0:13:37.910 fell on his face. He never came off as ignorant. 0:13:38.030 --> 0:13:40.410 He never came off as someone who hasn't done the reading. 0:13:40.990 --> 0:13:43.829 He came off as someone who was a serious candidate 0:13:44.230 --> 0:13:47.990 who was giving it his all. His ads went viral, 0:13:48.570 --> 0:13:52.110 not just locally, but nationally and internationally because of their 0:13:52.150 --> 0:13:55.730 creativity and because of the point that they made in 0:13:55.770 --> 0:14:00.150 a user-friendly way where everyone could understand how the city 0:14:00.370 --> 0:14:03.990 of Los Angeles is failing and how the Democratic majority 0:14:04.330 --> 0:14:05.060 has failed us. 0:14:06.090 --> 0:14:07.110 He didn't make the runoff. 0:14:08.309 --> 0:14:12.390 Steve Hilton is working his keister off, running for governor 0:14:12.429 --> 0:14:15.670 in California. He is so much more active than John Cox, 0:14:16.370 --> 0:14:19.150 who ran against Newsom the first time, so much more 0:14:19.310 --> 0:14:22.670 active than Brian Dolly. He went on with the Pod 0:14:22.710 --> 0:14:26.330 Save America guys. He's going on every left-leaning forum that 0:14:26.390 --> 0:14:30.190 is willing to have him. Becerra is doing virtually no interviews, 0:14:30.870 --> 0:14:34.190 and his performance when he does show up is remedial. 0:14:34.550 --> 0:14:35.490 It is awful. 0:14:35.990 --> 0:14:39.530 It is embarrassing. He's going to win by 20-something points. 0:14:41.050 --> 0:14:44.130 Pratt didn't make the runoff. People look at this and 0:14:44.150 --> 0:14:48.480 they go, okay, I get it if we're not doing 0:14:48.500 --> 0:14:51.000 what we're supposed to do and we lose. We're doing 0:14:51.140 --> 0:14:54.200 everything and more of what we're supposed to do, and 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:58.480 we're losing to not their best and brightest, but to 0:14:58.500 --> 0:15:01.920 their worst. And it's just a foregone conclusion. You don't 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.420 even really need to have an election in these places. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.200 because you know what the result's gonna be, and then 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.500 people think it's not gonna get better. And I can't 0:15:09.540 --> 0:15:12.070 tell them that it is, because it's not. Nothing is 0:15:12.110 --> 0:15:14.910 gonna get better in these states until people start voting differently. 0:15:15.770 --> 0:15:18.330 What do you tell people in these blue states who 0:15:18.370 --> 0:15:19.390 have that frustration? 0:15:20.690 --> 0:15:25.470 Well, I mean, all of the voters for a moderate 0:15:25.550 --> 0:15:28.910 Democrat or a conservative Democrat or just a moderate Republican 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:36.510 now live in Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Arizona, they've left. They 0:15:37.010 --> 0:15:39.850 couldn't take it anymore. And this is, I mean, we're 0:15:39.870 --> 0:15:42.350 seeing it in New York and California. They're both losing 0:15:42.550 --> 0:15:48.850 congressional districts. I mean, it's remarkable. California's population actually went down. 0:15:50.290 --> 0:15:52.450 That's the first time that's ever happened in the history 0:15:52.470 --> 0:15:57.130 of California. New York State is losing population, not just 0:15:57.230 --> 0:16:05.950 relative to the Nobody who makes any sense or has 0:16:06.010 --> 0:16:09.790 any common sense wants to stay in these places. 0:16:09.950 --> 0:16:10.700 Okay, sure. 0:16:10.750 --> 0:16:13.740 In both places, you're going to have billionaires and very 0:16:13.820 --> 0:16:18.040 rich people who are fine. And you're going to have 0:16:18.220 --> 0:16:23.160 very poor people who like what the benefits are. They 0:16:23.180 --> 0:16:25.220 get a lot. You're going to have a lot of 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.600 homeless people in Los Angeles because the weather is great 0:16:27.620 --> 0:16:29.250 and you can camp on the streets, I guess. 0:16:29.260 --> 0:16:31.980 So.... 0:16:33.990 --> 0:16:36.170 You know, if you're in the middle there, you leave. 0:16:36.290 --> 0:16:38.870 So who, what do you, what, what, what do you get? 0:16:38.930 --> 0:16:43.150 You get like these feudal type societies and bread and 0:16:43.210 --> 0:16:46.690 circus type politicians who just say the same kind of 0:16:46.750 --> 0:16:50.970 things and promise more and more and more benefits. And, 0:16:51.010 --> 0:16:52.850 you know, I suppose if you're really rich and it 0:16:53.210 --> 0:16:58.090 doesn't bother you to pay whatever in taxes, or, you know, you, you, 0:16:58.170 --> 0:17:00.690 you're some kind of, you know, you feel like you're 0:17:00.730 --> 0:17:03.770 a class traitor and you, and you welcome it. Um, 0:17:05.090 --> 0:17:05.869 I don't know what to say. 0:17:06.050 --> 0:17:06.670 I mean, you're right. 0:17:06.930 --> 0:17:08.929 It'll keep going until it can't go anymore. 0:17:10.460 --> 0:17:13.280 You know what it reminds me of? My family came 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.760 to this country from England. And England is a country 0:17:16.820 --> 0:17:20.440 where all the ambitious people left. The ambitious people came 0:17:20.460 --> 0:17:23.369 to the United States. And the people that stayed are 0:17:23.380 --> 0:17:26.389 the people who were already established, who already had their wealth, 0:17:26.430 --> 0:17:29.209 who already had their money, who had no reason to 0:17:29.270 --> 0:17:31.929 leave because they had a very nice life there, and 0:17:31.970 --> 0:17:35.010 the poor of the poor who lacked the ambitions. And 0:17:35.070 --> 0:17:38.489 that's essentially the politics of that country. That's what you 0:17:38.510 --> 0:17:42.130 were left with. And we're the ones that innovate. We're 0:17:42.150 --> 0:17:44.969 the ones that create because all of the people who 0:17:45.030 --> 0:17:48.870 wanted to make a better life for themselves came here. 0:17:49.670 --> 0:17:52.090 And I kind of feel like California is becoming the 0:17:52.130 --> 0:17:56.730 New England where people with initiative are now leaving because 0:17:56.770 --> 0:18:00.860 they know that regulation and taxation will strangle them. And 0:18:01.430 --> 0:18:04.280 what's the point of sticking around for that? Let's go 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.159 to places that will celebrate innovation and celebrate someone who 0:18:08.180 --> 0:18:10.020 wants to work hard instead of punish them. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.389 Sure. Or people who own property or have money to 0:18:15.450 --> 0:18:19.370 invest and want to invest it in property. Why would 0:18:19.390 --> 0:18:27.180 you invest in a state where they openly promise that 0:18:27.220 --> 0:18:30.020 they want to destroy the rental market, that they don't 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.740 think housing should be done privately? that it should all 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:39.179 be a question of social housing where all housing is 0:18:39.220 --> 0:18:43.949 either owned by the government or by friendly nonprofits, politically 0:18:43.970 --> 0:18:54.080 amenable nonprofits. So, yes, these states are doing it to themselves. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.520 And look, I live in one, you live in one. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:03.939 I don't know what's wrong with us, But, you know, 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.179 we're stuck there right now. I'm stuck where I am 0:19:06.220 --> 0:19:11.500 right now. But, you know, this is an old question. Like, 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.439 if people vote with their feet, and that's what we're seeing, 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.720 there's a major realignment across the country. 0:19:20.380 --> 0:19:23.700 Seth Barron, author of the book Weaponize! The Left's Capture 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:29.340 and Destruction of America's Sacred Institutions, available online at Amazon.com. 0:19:29.700 --> 0:19:33.359 You can follow him on X at SethBarronNYC. Seth Barron, 0:19:33.410 --> 0:19:34.580 thanks so much for stopping by. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:35.960 Thanks a lot. 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.080 If you'd like to watch us perform the show live, 0:19:39.100 --> 0:19:42.600 go to johnnydontlike.com and click that like button. It really 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.230 helps spread the show far and wide. 0:19:45.470 --> 0:19:48.730 And we're at over 330 likes at the half, so 0:19:48.750 --> 0:19:53.439 we're killing it today. 343 likes, so keep it up. 0:19:53.580 --> 0:19:55.980 If you don't have a whole three hours to hang 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.419 out with us, stop by for a couple of minutes, 0:19:58.530 --> 0:20:00.570 check in with the chat, hit the like button, make 0:20:00.609 --> 0:20:02.609 sure you're subscribed, and then go do whatever you got 0:20:02.630 --> 0:20:04.730 to do. Or stay here for the three hours and 0:20:04.770 --> 0:20:07.050 get nothing done. We got plenty of people doing that. 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.560 And yesterday, the newest edition of the Accountability podcast dropped. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:13.780 And it is getting a lot of response. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.659 Accountability, accountability, accountability. 0:20:15.700 --> 0:20:20.810 Daniel Goss from danielgoss.substack.com has an interesting strategy for the L.A. 0:20:20.869 --> 0:20:21.530 Mayor's race. 0:20:21.869 --> 0:20:25.010 Vote for both Karen Bass and Nithya Raman and cancel 0:20:25.070 --> 0:20:28.090 out your vote. So watch that episode, see what he 0:20:28.150 --> 0:20:30.570 has to say, and help do me a favor. If 0:20:30.609 --> 0:20:33.580 you can go in the chat, comment. the comment section 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.500 of that video. And anytime someone says, why can I 0:20:36.540 --> 0:20:39.030 just write in Spencer Pratt, tell them that you cannot 0:20:39.070 --> 0:20:41.609 write in Spencer Pratt. I don't even have time to 0:20:41.670 --> 0:20:43.949 respond to all the comments of all the people that 0:20:43.970 --> 0:20:46.490 keep asking if we can write in Spencer Pratt. Johnny, 0:20:46.510 --> 0:20:48.510 there's somebody on the phone right now that wants to 0:20:48.530 --> 0:20:50.540 know if we can just write in Spencer Pratt. You 0:20:50.580 --> 0:20:52.600 cannot write in Spencer Pratt. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.760 Maybe we should just stop saying that and just tell 0:20:56.780 --> 0:20:57.940 them to go ahead and do it. 0:20:58.890 --> 0:20:59.149 All right. 0:20:59.170 --> 0:21:01.070 And then let it be a surprise when there's no 0:21:01.130 --> 0:21:02.689 space on the ballot to write it in. 0:21:03.530 --> 0:21:06.950 Go ahead. Write in Spencer Pratt. You do you. 0:21:07.570 --> 0:21:09.290 Write it in twice. How about that? 0:21:09.950 --> 0:21:14.250 Just scribble across the entire ballot, all the bubbles, Spencer Pratt. 0:21:17.369 --> 0:21:19.350 And Randy, we're going to be in Long Beach soon. 0:21:19.369 --> 0:21:22.330 A week from tomorrow. How soon is that? We're going 0:21:22.369 --> 0:21:25.389 back to Gladstones in Long Beach, hopefully on the patio. 0:21:25.430 --> 0:21:27.820 I think the weather's going to be great. We love 0:21:27.859 --> 0:21:30.330 being down there. There's great food, great drinks. Have a 0:21:30.430 --> 0:21:32.850 wonderful afternoon with us. We'll be hanging out with Susan 0:21:32.890 --> 0:21:36.669 Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association talking Prop 43, 0:21:36.660 --> 0:21:41.600 the Local Taxpayer Protection Act. Local governments have figured out 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.060 all kinds of loopholes with Prop 13 to make it 0:21:44.180 --> 0:21:47.330 easier to raise your taxes. This reverses that and makes 0:21:47.390 --> 0:21:49.890 it so it's once again harder to raise your taxes. 0:21:49.950 --> 0:21:53.030 So if anyone around you is confused about the ballot 0:21:53.050 --> 0:21:55.449 and there's a lot of propositions, all you need to 0:21:55.490 --> 0:21:58.730 tell them is Prop 43, if it passes, makes it 0:21:58.830 --> 0:22:01.570 harder to raise taxes. And I think we can all 0:22:01.609 --> 0:22:04.600 get behind that. The John Phillips Show live at Gladstones 0:22:04.660 --> 0:22:07.600 in Long Beach next Friday from noon to three. 0:22:08.890 --> 0:22:10.889 It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to 0:22:10.910 --> 0:22:15.010 the program. He is the publisher of so does it matter.com, 0:22:15.470 --> 0:22:19.250 which is a great place to learn about California politics. 0:22:19.290 --> 0:22:22.950 You can read the excellent commentary of Mr. John Fleischman. 0:22:23.710 --> 0:22:26.250 You can get it online at so does it matter.com. 0:22:26.350 --> 0:22:27.109 John Fleischman. 0:22:27.310 --> 0:22:27.710 Welcome. 0:22:29.109 --> 0:22:31.110 Hey, it's great to be with you guys. I love 0:22:31.150 --> 0:22:34.040 this new entertaining format where I can see you guys 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:36.020 while I talk to you guys. Although apparently when I 0:22:36.060 --> 0:22:39.780 come on, um, I only get Batman and not Robin 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.920 on the, I guess there's a, there's a limit. There's 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:46.179 a limit to the, to the, how many people can 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:48.530 be on, but you're here in spirit. The, um, I guess, 0:22:48.650 --> 0:22:50.450 and then I'm sure he, can he chime in from 0:22:50.530 --> 0:22:52.449 off camera? Oh, there he is. 0:22:53.210 --> 0:22:55.330 I can hang out, but I'm letting you guys have 0:22:55.369 --> 0:22:58.210 a little fun conversation. If you want me to be here, Fleischman, 0:22:58.320 --> 0:22:58.990 I'll be here. 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.900 I'll hang out. I want you here. All right. Now, 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:02.840 wait a minute. 0:23:02.980 --> 0:23:05.340 What about Ann B. Davis? Can we put her in too? 0:23:06.300 --> 0:23:07.400 Let me see if I can work on that. 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:12.169 She's with Sam. They've got a thing going on. But 0:23:12.210 --> 0:23:14.149 it's kind of funny because before I came on, I 0:23:14.170 --> 0:23:16.810 heard you talking about this vote or not vote thing. 0:23:17.430 --> 0:23:20.710 And it seems to me that if you don't really 0:23:20.770 --> 0:23:23.500 want to cast a vote in the mayor's race, just 0:23:23.540 --> 0:23:25.580 don't cast a vote in the mayor's race and leave 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:27.919 it empty. I mean, I don't know about you, but 0:23:27.980 --> 0:23:30.180 I would need like a vomit bucket next to me 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:33.160 to check the box next to either one of those people. Now, 0:23:33.540 --> 0:23:33.830