WEBVTT - California's 500 million dollar next gen 911 disaster 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.160 And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.440 on The John Phillips Show Live from Las Vegas, Nevada. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.399 Mister Randy Wang's in Culver City. All right, here's the 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.840 latest AI scam. A ride share driver tried to get 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.279 a passenger to pay a seventy five dollars fine for 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.920 damage to a vehicle that was faked by an AI picture. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.880 I'm telling you this AI is a can of worms. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.199 Although you know what, it's made much easier for me. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.479 What's that travel? 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:37.440 Oh? 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.199 Yeah, Because typically you go to a new place and 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.080 you don't know what restaurants to eat at, you don't 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.360 know what part of town to stay in, and you 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:52.400 tell AI what you'd like, and AI, I use GROC 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.360 will tell you. We'll give you a list of restaurants, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.959 a list of hotels to stay at, and so far 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.440 are the advice has been spot on. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.319 So what did you type into GROC for this trip? 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.360 Who's got the loosest slots in Vegas? 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.520 Answered? None of them? 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.560 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.640 telephone number? What eight hundred two to two two five 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.880 two two two. Well, despite the fact that we have 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.319 spent a fortune on the nine one one system. Here 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.640 in the state of California, the nine one one system 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.800 doesn't really work in many parts of the state. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.039 The state of California has spent over a half a 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.720 billion dollars trying to upgrade their nine one one system 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.760 to something called next Gen nine one one, and the 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:50.640 rollout has been a complete disaster, and whistleblowers are now 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.120 speaking out about why it was such a total disaster. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.440 And what do you know, it all goes back to 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.120 a guy appointed by Newsome Ugh. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.880 For more, I don't say. For more on this, we 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:07.880 go to NBC in the Bay. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:09.119 For the first time. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.720 We're learning what may have led to the ouster of 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.480 the man behind California's nine to one to one system 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.320 overhaul and why this high price project went sideways. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.639 The upgrade has been a technical mess and a money pit. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.120 It cost Californians a half billion dollars and counting. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.400 See, and that's just to upgrade the system while we're 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.640 still paying for the existing system. So we're paying double 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.680 and this system doesn't work great. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.280 Senior investigator Candace Win has been pouring over those internal 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.560 records to find the answers and she joins us. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.960 Now, Candace, we have been fighting for these records from 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.160 the California Office of Emergency Services for more than a year. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.760 After sixteen months of filing requests even a demand letter 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.880 from NBC attorneys, the office finally released them. Some of 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.840 these records suggest serious problems with leadership and oversight of 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:05.400 the state's Next Generation one upgrade. In Sacramento, California, emergency 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.959 management leaders struggled to answer lawmakers questions about what's exactly 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.280 wrong with the state's nine one one overhaul? 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.040 Is the system operating properly? Now? 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:21.640 I think the system is operating the way we've experienced. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.680 It, So now, what the hell does that mean? 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.800 They also couldn't say who's responsible for the problems. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:35.600 Who's accountable for the delays and the costs overrun because 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.240 nobody's there that was there when this started, Right. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.280 Yeah, I believe that's probably true. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.680 Yes, Now new details about that accountability are coming to light, 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.720 and government records exclusively obtained by the NBC Bay Area 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:54.720 Investigative Units. The California Office of Emergency Services, or CALOES, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.800 manages the project called Next Generation nine one one that's 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.160 supposed to modernize our aging nine to one one calling system, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.880 adding video and better location capabilities. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.800 And it didn't do any of that. So funny. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.640 This is the kind of stuff that was straight out 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.920 of Gavin Newsom's book Citizenville, that we're gonna and one 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.680 of the things he ran on when he ran for 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.039 governor in twenty eighteen is we're going to modernize the government. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.280 We're going to upgrade our computer systems. And at every 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.800 angle where they actually were going to do that, it 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.159 was a total disaster. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.679 Well look at this, Look at what happened with edd. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.839 Look at what's going on with the Secretary of State 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.040 giving out all of those fraudulent business licenses to the 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.880 hospice facilities in the San Fernando Valley. No one is 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.920 minding the store across the board. And that's not even 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.880 to mention the bullet rainex term alone. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.000 Look at the emergency. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.800 But seven years and nearly a half of billion dollars later, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.040 it's years behind schedule and as we've reported, was plagued 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.000 with misrouted and dropped call problems that delayed emergency response. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:04.320 Me either a mediating work. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.000 Can you imagine getting that when you're calling nine one 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:09.800 one because you're having a heart attack. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.880 Well, especially if you think about who's using nine one 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:18.040 one Old people have a lot of medical problems. So 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.480 you're eighty something, you're having a stroke, you're having a 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.080 heart attack. You have it in you to go to 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.479 the phone to call nine one one, and. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:27.560 That's what you hear. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.360 Is me medial war work. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.080 This twenty twenty four email from a next Gen nine 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.119 to one one regional coordinator to a top project leader 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:41.880 corroborates what we've heard. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.000 And just remember when you hear all of this. We 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:50.400 are in the technology capital of the world. How hard 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.560 would this have been to go to Google and say, hey, 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.200 can you create a new nine to one one system 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:56.640 for us? 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.520 Keep in mind this is why whenever they ask you 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.440 for a tax increase, whenever they ask you for a bond, 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.279 the answer is no. It's not that you don't think 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.120 that whatever it is that they're asking for money for 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.120 doesn't deserve it. These people, the people in charge right now, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.840 cannot be trusted to spend the money correctly. This is 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.599 what they do with the money. Imagine if they came 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.560 to you and go, hey, our nine to one one 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.520 system is old. We need an upgrade. Let's put a 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.880 tax on the ballot to pay for it. That seems reasonable. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.400 I think most people would vote for it in California, Okay, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.400 But then this is what you get, and this is 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.880 why you can't give them any more money. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.080 This twenty twenty four email from a next Gen nine 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:45.160 one one regional coordinator to a top project leader corroborates 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.760 what we've heard from inside sources who say state officials 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:53.080 knew about serious issues and knew who was likely responsible 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.360 as far back as six years ago. The coordinator wrote, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.200 when she started her role in twenty twenty, she learned 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.480 quickly that the project lacked clear direction, operational knowledge, and 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.120 the one person really in control was willing to risk 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.720 lives for the sake of innovation. She says she was 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:15.120 talking about Budge Courier, the visionary and architect who Governor 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.560 Gavin Newsom appointed as Assistant Director of Public Safety Communication. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.200 This is the power that the governor has. They can 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.720 make all kinds of appointments to all different kinds of bureaucracies. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.360 And when you put your friends in charge of very 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:34.200 important projects instead of somebody who's qualified, disaster strikes. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.560 And this is also an argument that I use against 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.800 people who are mad at me for arguing in favor 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:45.120 of the Democrat lockout in November, and they say it 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.280 doesn't matter because if there's a Republican elected governor, the 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:54.680 legislature is going to block everything that they want to do. Well, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.320 you can appoint people to very sensitive positions. You have 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.520 that power as the chief executive of the state. And 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.520 one of those positions is the one that was just described. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:10.200 And just imagine, if nothing else, if a Republican governor 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.360 can't do anything about the bullet train, can't do anything 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.800 about the budget, can't do anything about crime or homelessness, whatever, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.720 if they can fix nine to one one by putting 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.679 a competent person in that position, at least we get something. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.640 The visionary and architect who Governor Gavin Newsom appointed as 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.880 Assistant Director of Public Safety Communication, he. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.719 Had professional network engineers that would tell him this is 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:43.120 not going to work, we need to talk about this, 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.880 we need to change this. And he told them that 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:46.920 we're not going to change this. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.080 The insiders we've been touching. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.079 So the idiot that Gavin puts in charge won't listen 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.840 to the experts when they say his thing won't work. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.800 And these are the same people who tell us that 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.000 we can't trust an outsider to be elected to office 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.800 because they don't have the experience. Look at what the 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.280 people with the experience are doing when lives are at stake. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.000 The insiders we've been talking to, including this man on 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.120 the next Gen team, say Courier knew some of the 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.600 technology was problematic, but forced it through caloes's nine one 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.680 one tech certification process and into real world environments. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.120 Anyway, Oh yeah, I was definitely hostile. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.280 This thing was not ready for prime time. Every place 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.839 where they rolled it out it was a disaster, and 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:35.360 they knew it would be and they don't care because 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.280 they figure in a one party state there is no punishment. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.320 Oh yeah, I was definitely hostile. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.920 Separately, two high level CALOES sources tell our investigative units 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.400 they tried sending out two dozen contract violation letters to 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.400 hold vendors responsible and presented Courier data that they say 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.800 identified critical flaws with the nine one one technology. But 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.920 Courier dismissed the data, they say, and rejected many violations 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.400 or is demanding that the project keep going. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.400 The guys they were afraid to make a move. They 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.319 feared upsetting Budge. I heard him threaten them once. 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:13.680 Who names their kid Budge al Bundi named his kid Bud. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.480 I heard him threaten them once or twice while he 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.080 was there that he could fire all of them if 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.520 they didn't do what he said. I heard him threaten 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.520 them even after he left. Calloees said different conventions, pulling 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.240 people aside, saying they're going to mess up the entire 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.200 plan that he laid out and they could lose their jobs. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:33.160 How do you know this? 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:34.440 I was there. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.600 I saw it. He was very loud. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.920 Okay, So Gavin Newsom is going to run for president 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.079 as the guy who can bring the Democrats out of 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.880 the wilderness. And he knows how to govern because he 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:54.079 governed a big state. Look At how his team operates. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.319 Look at how abusive this individual is. Look at what 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.160 Dana Williamson, his chief staff, was doing, which we learned 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.079 only because she was charged with federal crimes. And we 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.960 found out that she would get lit late at night 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.000 and call people up and threaten them on behalf of 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.439 the governor. This is the type of behavior that is 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.319 allowed in a one party system. You can be abusive, 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.720 you can be disrespectful, you can cross every ethical line 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.560 known to man, and it's all fine because you're going 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.199 to win the election regardless. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.480 This is what you're voting for California. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.199 I heard him threaten them once or twice while he 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.760 was there that he could fire all of them if 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.240 they didn't do what he said. I heard him threaten 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.199 them even after he left. Caloees said different conventions, pulling 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.920 people aside, saying they're going to mess up the entire 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.880 plan that he laid out and they could lose their jobs. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:51.839 How do you know this? 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:53.839 I was there, I saw it. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.600 He was very loud, truly going to save a lot 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:57.160 of time in. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.360 The Courier didn't answer our questions about how he treated 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:04.600 employees or allegations he dismissed warnings. He texted us saying 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.440 the process to address employee grievances and contract violation letters 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:13.040 were enforced. So what eventually happened to Currier? These text 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.160 messages show he left the agency, but it was likely 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.000 not his choice. Shortly after he parted ways with Callos 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.440 in twenty twenty four, a manager at another agency texted 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.960 the number two person on the project, well, is he gone? 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:28.360 Access removed? 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:31.680 Okay? 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.439 How is this not on the front page of the 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:40.719 La Times? This is a big deal and the La 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.079 Times runs piece after piece. How many pieces did they run? 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:50.000 Calling Larry Elder the blackface of white supremacy? Now they're 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.839 going after Spencer Pratt because he no longer lives in 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.440 his house after Karen Bass burned it down. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.600 They have time for all of that, but they don't 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.599 have time to report on this. Luckily NBC in the 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.080 Bay does is he gone? 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:06.520 Access removed? 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:07.520 Spill the tee. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.040 The manager wrote, he upset executives a few too many 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.559 times and got ahead of being fired by retirements. The 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.520 next Gen official responded, this was Calleyes's organization, right. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.640 So we're paying for this buffoon's pension now, Oh great? 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.400 This was Calleyes's organization chart at the time. And these 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.280 leaders are no longer with the agency since we started 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.559 reporting on next Gen nine one one a year and 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.679 a half ago. The people who've left include the agency's 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.920 director and deputy director Caluis, and the Governor's office, which 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:43.040 oversees the agency, sent us the same statement, saying through 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.439 personnel changes, increased oversight and contractor accountability, the state is 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.360 now working towards a renewed vision for next Gen nine 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:50.760 to one to one. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.120 They're still going to try to roll this thing out 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.160 even after we've wasted half a billion dollars and it 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.760 doesn't work, and patting themselves on the back talking about 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:01.280 what great leadership they have. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.439 I think it raises a lot of questions and it 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.360 underlies exactly why we need an audit of the next 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:09.560 generation nine one one. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.480 System nine one one is so important with. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.880 A nine to one to one project too big to fail, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.720 we cannot blow this. State lawmakers and analysts now say 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.960 they question if the agency in charge should be in charge. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.400 And to just sit there and say that we're going 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.880 to have the people who blew it with the last 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.960 six years or so manage that even more seems to 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.400 be very risky for the state of California. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.680 State legislative analysts recently recommended a total pause on the 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.800 project until oversight issues are addressed. Meanwhile, the clock is 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.400 ticking until KLAWEA says it wants all LA Area nine 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.120 one one centers on next Gen. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.760 Oh boy, they want it to be here. These people 0:14:55.960 --> 0:15:00.400 are so stupid. It's really hard to believe. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.120 This is just one department in the many, many, many, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.160 many many departments that Gavin Newsom gets to appoint people too. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.800 And the results have been nothing short of a disaster. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.960 Everything they do is the bullet train. We know about 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.200 the bullet train because we voted on it, and it's 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.760 way past when you're supposed to be able to write it, 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.720 and so there's attention on it. And Trump has taken 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.760 an interest in the subject, and because Trump has taken 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:38.120 an interest in the subject, it becomes national news. But 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.640 here's the dirty little secret. Everything else is run the 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:47.640 exact same way. All of the cost overruns, all of 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:53.760 the money that's being stolen, all of the cronyism, all 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.920 of the incompetence. It's edd it's at the Secretary of 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.400 State's office, it's in the Department of Insurance, it's all 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:03.760 over the state of California. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.440 It's with the nine to one to one system. This 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.840 is how they run shop, and. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:14.000 From their point of view, they keep getting rewarded by 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:20.240 being re elected until there are consequences for this behavior. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:27.040 Nothing is going to change nothing. And when you run 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:31.040 shop like this, I might add, taxes can only go 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.240 one way, and that's up because if everything costs triple 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.720 what it's supposed to cost, and you have to pay 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.240 for two systems at once, because the system that you're 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:48.120 wed to doesn't work, then the costs explode and you 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.640 didn't budget for any of that, so you constantly need 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.840 to go to the public and ask for more money, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:17:00.560 and it becomes never ending. There's never enough. Because the 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:10.200 incompetence is widespread. This state does not function. Think about 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.800 the stories we've done today. You can't use the libraries 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.160 anymore because the homeless have taken it over. Downtown Los 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.359 Angeles is seeing buildings blow up four on one block 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:27.200 in a short period of time because of squatters that 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.240 the city refuses to remove. And now nine to one 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.359 one doesn't work. We have a system that we know 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.520 doesn't work, and now the state of California is going 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.840 to try to force it on the largest county in 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:48.119 the country, knowing it doesn't work. It's really hard to believe. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.560 When I travel and I tell people how the state 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.920 is run, they don't believe me. The fact that Gavin 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:04.080 Newsom is guarded as a top tier presidential candidate after 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.440 producing all of this failure shows you how about a 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.960 shape the Democratic Party is in nationally. They shouldn't want 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:19.479 anything to do with this guy, Yet if the polls 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:23.320 are accurate, they might nominate him to be president, and 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.800 now Javier Bessera is the next one on the pipeline, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.000 the one that the Biden administration said was the worst 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.840 pick Joe made. And think about all the bad decisions 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.359 he made in four years, and that one was supposed 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:37.080 to be the worst. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:38.159 Scrub it. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.760 And he may be the next governor. God help us. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.560 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.880 a telephone number. What eight hundred two two two five 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.640 two two two. If you'd like to email the show, 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.639 you can do sell it. Johnny don't like show at 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.320 gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail 0:18:58.600 --> 0:18:59.120 dot com. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:00.639 And Randy. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.119 Now that we're approaching the long weekend, we're not going 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.920 to be doing live shows on Saturday, Sunday or Monday. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.119 But if you want to listen to us, you can 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:10.560 do that quite easily. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.440 Well, and a lot of people are doing it. They're 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.600 downloading the podcast of this show. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:19.119 Fun fact, over the last thirty days, our podcast of 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.320 this noon to three show has been downloaded one hundred 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:27.080 and fifty nine thousand times by thirty four thousand unique listeners. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.440 That's according to the statistics on the website where we 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.680 post this stuff. That is exciting, so be part of 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.119 the team here. Subscribe to The John Phillips Show on 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.480 Apple Podcasts, Subscribe to the John Phillips Show on iHeartRadio, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.960 Subscribe to the John Phillip Show on Spotify. Although only 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.200 five percent of our listeners do that, thirty four percent 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.080 of them use Apple Podcasts, thirty three percent use iHeartRadio. 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.240 So there's some fun stats for you. And if you 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.159 want to know who's listening from where, well, we have 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.159 the vast majority of our listen and our downloads are 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.480 happening in the United States, of course, in California, in 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:09.040 cities like La and Oakland in San Jose, and Irvine 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:13.200 in Pasadena. But Johnny, check this out. We have in 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:17.000 the last thirty days six hundred and fifty five downloads 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.360 in the UK, four hundred and ninety in Canada, three 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.199 hundred and fifty in Singapore, two hundred and eighty two 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.320 in South Korea, two hundred and fifty four in Australia, 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.400 and two hundred and six in Mexico. 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:31.960 Do you think that those are people who live in 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.800 those countries who are listening to us or our listeners 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:37.320 from southern California on vacation. 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.359 I think it's a little of both. We had one 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.520 hundred and thirty four downloads in Croatia, specifically eighty four 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:50.359 downloads in the city of Clarkovac. Will it show you 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.880 our top ten? Yes, if you want the top ten 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:59.800 cities that we're in. LA's number one, then Pasadena, Irvine, 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:05.400 Long Beach, Oakland, San Jose, Riverside, San Francisco, Sacramento, Berkeley. 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.160 And then Okay, and then that would make sense. 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:14.520 Vegas is up there, Phoenix is up there, Hutchinson, Kansas 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.640 is up there, Portland is up there. We're all over 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.840 the place. So the point is, subscribe to the podcast 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.400 so we can brag about it and you know, hopefully 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.919 make some money for the station. And on election night 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:29.280 we're coming back for round two. Yeah, but we don't 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.320 get paid extra for it, so you damn well better 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:35.200 listen for it. It's The John Phillips Show Election Special 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:40.760 seven to nine pm on Tuesday, June second. I know 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:45.159 you probably want to watch the new season premiere of 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.080 Love Island, but it's on streaming. You can watch it 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:53.280 after nine o'clock. From seven to nine, you gotta be 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:55.800 here with us as we give you the election results. 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.480 When the polls close at eight. We're gonna be broadcasting 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:05.200 live on kab KSFO and KMJ for this very special show. 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.520 Now, speaking of trash TV, there's a new reality show 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.320 or I don't know if it's new actually, but it's 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.600 new to me, where everyone goes on a blind date 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.800 in the nude. Are you familiar with this Dating Naked? 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:18.720 Yeah? 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:20.520 Is it? 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.480 Are you watching the American version or the UK version? 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:23.920 No? 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:25.960 I'm not watching it, but a friend of mine is 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:30.680 going to be on it. Oh my, let me just 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.919 tell you. There are many different versions of Dating Naked, 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:38.960 but the version that's that the UK errors and the 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:42.600 first season of it is on Paramount Plus. They don't 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:49.359 blur anything out. Really you see everything of everybody and 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:54.240 it is fascinating. What if you need to do something 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:57.160 like uncork a bottle of wine, they just know if 0:22:57.160 --> 0:22:59.919 that would look good in the nude, They show all 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:00.639 all of it. 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:06.520 What if you drop something, they show that too interesting 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:09.200 if you're looking, if you were curious as to what 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:13.320 that looks like. There's also on HBO Max they have 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:18.320 this British show that is another naked dating show called 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:22.280 Naked Attraction, where you stand in a room and They 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.000 have six people that are on a stage and they 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:29.720