1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: on The John Phillips Show Mister Randy Wiggs and Culver City. 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 2: For some reason, Culver City won sixteen and seventeen year 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 2: olds to vote in local elections. Dumb idea, haven't We 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: pretty much spent the last decade discussing how people's brains 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: aren't fully developed. Tell they're about twenty five years old, 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 2: and we really want teenagers voting on city councils. The 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 2: only way eighty sixteen or seventeen year old should be 9 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: allowed to vote is if Simon cow gives him the 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 2: phone number to call eight hundred two two two five 11 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 2: two two two. 12 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: Is telephone number one eight hundred two to two five two 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: two two. So some time ago we did the story 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: of pirates taking over the Oakland Estuary. Well, the more 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: things change, the more things stayed the same. Randy. 16 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: There was a youth rowing team that had to scale 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 2: back their operations this summer because they're all freaked out 18 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 2: about the boat people living at the estuary. 19 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: And apparently they're very very angry for. 20 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: Mar on the Oakland boat people. Here is Kpix in 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 2: the Bay. 22 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 3: We begin in Oakland, where a rowing club is raising 23 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 3: serious concerns about the safety of kids attending their summer camp. 24 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 3: This is the reason why people living on boats have 25 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: set up shop right next to their doc at Jack 26 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 3: London Aquatic Center. 27 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 4: All right, Johnny, what do you think boat people smell like? 28 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: Oh? I can't even imagine. You can smell it right here, 29 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: probably worse than the seaweed. 30 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 3: Our John Bramos explains how those boats have already forced 31 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: the Rowing Club to make some big adjustments. 32 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: You have to watch out for all the derelict ships, 33 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 2: with all the people living off the grid. 34 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: I wonder if they have cannons. 35 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: I would like to interview the people that full time 36 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: live on a boat in a situation where they're just 37 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: outside the jurisdiction of where you're supposed to be, because 38 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 2: it's not like they're just parked at a slimp. 39 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 5: The number of derelic boats in the Oakland Estuary has grown, 40 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 5: and the operator of one youth camp says they're going 41 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 5: to have to move because the situation has become unmanageable. 42 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 5: This was the first day of the East Bay Rowing 43 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 5: Clubs Learned to Row summer camp for beginners. It operates 44 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,399 Speaker 5: out of the Jackland and Aquatic Center in Oakland, students 45 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 5: age twelve to eighteen. We're getting a week long introduction 46 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 5: into the sport, so this is like an. 47 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 6: Intro camp to the actual rowing team. 48 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 5: And on the rowing team, we use these docks every 49 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 5: practice when we're going out on the water. But it 50 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 5: was also the last day at this location because what 51 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 5: was happening on the dock this morning is causing the 52 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 5: camp to have to move. 53 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 7: Right now, the situation is fine, but this morning when 54 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 7: I was here at five, it was there was a 55 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 7: lot of activity there. 56 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 5: Heatherkrakora is the club's executive director. She took photos early 57 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 5: this morning of a pair of boats tied up to 58 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 5: the dock with about twenty people offloading debris from one 59 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 5: of them. 60 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: Totally normal thing. 61 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 2: I think we've got some salvagers out there just digging 62 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: up things they find on the floor of the ocean 63 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 2: and bringing them up to sea. 64 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: I would imagine there's no treasure chests in there. 65 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 5: The cove has become filled with so called anchor out 66 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 5: boats vessels serving as living spaces for otherwise homeless individuals 67 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 5: we have. 68 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: That's right, there's so many homeless in Oakland. They're even 69 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 2: homeless on the sea. 70 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: You wouldn't call that the love. 71 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 7: Boat at about six last year, and now we have 72 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 7: anywhere between twenty five and thirty six. 73 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: Just a few honeys. 74 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: That's a lot of darrel like boats to jodge. If 75 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 2: you're on the rowing team, oh you can't row down there. 76 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 2: That's like playing a game of Frogger with a bunch 77 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 2: of bums on boats. 78 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: Hundred yards away. 79 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 5: Small sunken boats clogged the inlet to Lake Merritt, and 80 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 5: next to it a decrepit two masted sailboat sits stuck 81 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:31,559 Speaker 5: in the shallow water. 82 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 4: You know what this looks like? And you got to 83 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 4: see the video. 84 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 2: It's on my Randy wangradio dot substack dot com. It 85 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:47,559 Speaker 2: looks like the aftermath of like the Miami Harbor after 86 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 2: a hurricane. But this is just people crashing and burning 87 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: their own boats. 88 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: I was in Saint Martin right after they got hit 89 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: by a Category five hurricane and I saw some of 90 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: what this man just described. But they have an excuse. 91 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: They got hit by a hurricane. There haven't been any 92 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: hurricanes in Oakland. 93 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 5: Listing dangerously toward the club's other dock, had their fears 94 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 5: that a low enough tide could cause it to topple 95 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 5: over onto the structure. 96 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 7: And if we lose this, we have no way to 97 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 7: get our coaches launches in the water. How do we 98 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 7: coach if we can't get our boats in the water. 99 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,239 Speaker 2: The situation of people living, it's a lot of debris 100 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 2: to have to deal with. 101 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: Imagine being a teenager and you just want a letter 102 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: in a sport because that's what the colleges want, and 103 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: you say, you know, I really like rowing. I'm fortunate 104 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: enough to live in a city that's right on the 105 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean. Why did I do that illegally? 106 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 5: On the estuary? Has been a difficult one for the 107 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 5: city to deal with. Right now, OPD has only one 108 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 5: marine officer patrolling the entire area only three days per week. 109 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: Okay, so the pirates take over. 110 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 2: They've got one boat cop and he works part time 111 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,239 Speaker 2: and he's the only guy that knows how to drive 112 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 2: the police boat. A guy he gets sick, no guy, Okay. 113 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: They need to have a full time staff on that 114 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: water to make sure that these pirates aren't doing anything illegal, 115 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: which I guarantee you they are. And OPD probably needs 116 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: a submarine too. 117 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 5: They've tried removing boats and got sued, resulting in a 118 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 5: two hundred and eighty thousand dollars settlement. 119 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 4: But wes wait, wait, how did that happen? 120 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: How is it that you can't move a boat that's 121 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: half sunk. 122 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 4: I'm going to guess the bums had a really good lawyer. 123 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: How do you live on a boat that's half under? 124 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 5: One Walker lives on one of the anchor outs and 125 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 5: says the activity at the dock this morning was people 126 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 5: removing material from the stranded sailboat as they prepare to 127 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 5: cut it up and dispose of it. He says they 128 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 5: have been given until Thursday to clear out of the cove, 129 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 5: and a sticker on the sailboat says it is scheduled 130 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 5: to be removed on July twenty. 131 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 8: First, everyone looks at us like we're some bad people 132 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 8: doing bad things. 133 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 4: And guess how many missing tiefs? 134 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: Wait, he has teeth. 135 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 2: You don't end up on an anchored boat outside of 136 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 2: the Oakland Estuary unless you've made some mistakes in life. 137 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, thirst and hal the third he's not you. 138 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 8: Know, we're just out here living on boats. 139 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: And just in case you're wondering, no, it's not a 140 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: carnival cruise. 141 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 8: Millions of people live on boats and marinas all over 142 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 8: the world, But just because we can't get into a marina, 143 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 8: they hate on us. 144 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: So we have the unhoused on land, and I guess 145 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: we now have the undocked on water. 146 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 2: They're just people without slips, that's awes all. Yeah, they've 147 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 2: had some trouble in their life. Who's pumping their sewage? 148 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 2: Or is that just going straight into the ocean. 149 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: Is there a way to get it to the Tijuana River? 150 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 5: You can smell it right here, he says. They were 151 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 5: trying to avoid the young rowers and that's why they 152 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,719 Speaker 5: were on the dock in the early morning. But one 153 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 5: of the derelict boats still remains at the dock, and 154 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 5: with the anchor outs getting closer and more intrusive, the 155 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 5: tenants at the Jack London Aquatic Center say they need 156 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 5: the city to take action before they are completely overrun 157 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 5: and are forced to abandon the facility. 158 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know how much help the City of 159 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 2: Oakland is going to be. They've got one boat cop 160 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: a guy. What happens when he goes on vacation. 161 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 3: The club says has reported issues with the illegal boats 162 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 3: for more than two years. In addition to the city, 163 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 3: they say they have appeal for help from the Coast Guard, 164 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 3: the Port of Oakland, and the San Franuisco Bay Conservation 165 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 3: and Development Commission. 166 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 4: So there you go. 167 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 2: A youth rowing club may have to abandon ship because 168 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 2: of all of the derelict boats that are anchored off 169 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 2: of the estuary, and. 170 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: No one can do anything about it. The pirates just 171 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: took over. And that's the way it is. 172 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 2: There is a lot apparently the boat people population has 173 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 2: exploded in Oakland. 174 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: How come? How come on land the homeless want to 175 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: set everything on fire? You put them on boats where 176 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: if they set that on fire would solve a great, 177 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: big problem for the rest of us. And they won't 178 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: light the boats on fire. 179 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 2: Some of them get let on fire, and then those 180 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 2: end up on the floor of the ocean. 181 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: And then they just take over a new dilapidated vessel. 182 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 2: And then a boat tries to dock and it crashes 183 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: into the debris and the wreckage of the old boat, 184 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 2: and that creates another crashed boat. 185 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: So we're just sinking boats right and left in that estuary. Yes, 186 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: let that sink in for a minute. Let's go to 187 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: uh Travis and Oakland real quick, Travis. 188 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 9: Hello, hey guys, I just wanted to make a correction 189 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 9: for you. In the spring of twenty twenty five, a 190 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 9: huge hurricane hit the city of Oakland. It was called 191 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,839 Speaker 9: Hurricane Barbara Lee. And after that it took off to 192 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 9: Germany for a little while. I close back once in 193 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 9: a while to fight uh Cole. 194 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, Sar. 195 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 4: Hurricane Barbara Lee speaks for me. 196 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: All right, let's move from Oakland to Alameda, where they're 197 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: having more trouble on the beach. 198 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 2: The mayor of Alameda wants to crack down on the 199 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 2: beach takeovers, the last one where a bunch of kids 200 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: started shooting at each other with actual guns. 201 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 4: For more, here's kpix right now. 202 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 3: At five point thirty. The Bay Area struggle to get 203 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 3: a handle on street takeovers for years now. Rowdy crowds 204 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 3: are taking over a local beach. Just a few weeks ago, 205 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 3: two people were shot during the beach takeover. This happened 206 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 3: in Alameda. Our Brad Hamilton spoke with a mayor about 207 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 3: how she plans to take back control of the sand. 208 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 4: It's not a good time to be in the water 209 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 4: in Alameda. 210 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: County. 211 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 10: No. 212 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,599 Speaker 1: And by the way, if the cheetagers are having shootouts 213 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: right there on the sand, what do you think the 214 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: odds are At some point one of those stray bullets 215 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: is going to sink one of these homeless vessels. 216 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 11: Outside of Alameda City Hall, Mayor maryland Ezi Ashcraft lights 217 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 11: up talking about the city. In eight years at the helm, 218 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 11: she says, the yops have far outweighed the downs, but 219 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 11: lately one issue has been hard to ignore. They're called 220 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 11: beach takeovers, and the mayor says not to be fooled 221 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 11: by their innocent nickname. 222 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 12: Not like a group of friends said, Hey, everybody, we're 223 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 12: having a picnic at the beach, playing volleyball whatever. It's 224 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 12: just come one, come all, and you don't know who's 225 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 12: in the group. 226 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 11: Mayor Ashcraft tells us that these events are frustrating because 227 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 11: they aim to overwhelm. Over the past several months, she says. 228 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 2: I don't know why the teenagers of this era seem 229 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 2: to be solely motivated by filming on TikTok them beating 230 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 2: the crap or shooting at each other. 231 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, someone needs to tell them that. We have a 232 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: word for that. It's called evidence. 233 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 11: The city and police have been sounding the alarm warning 234 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 11: about these planned swarms that are drawn in by social media. 235 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 11: Then on June eleventh, the mayor says those warnings turned 236 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 11: into reality. Gunfire erupted during a takeover at Alameda Beach, 237 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 11: leaving two people injured. 238 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 12: This is why I would say to any young people 239 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 12: who think, oh that might that might be fun, it 240 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 12: wouldn't be fun. 241 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:50,239 Speaker 1: Za be That'll tell them, boy, this mayor is Paullyanna 242 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: and so yeah, the kids love coming down to the beach. 243 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: Oh look there's an Nette food of cello with an 244 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: AK forty seven. 245 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 12: I think, oh that might that might be fun. It 246 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 12: wouldn't be fun. 247 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 11: These events are organized online. They spread quickly and they 248 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 11: bring crowds just as fast. 249 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 2: I don't understand why it's so hard to have the 250 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 2: online platforms police when people are organizing and posting illegal 251 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 2: activity on their platform. 252 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not an invasion of privacy. It's not overreach 253 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: to act on illegal activity when you become aware of it. 254 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: It's not like they're hiding. They're publicizing these things all 255 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: over the internet. 256 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 11: F harp Or, retired FBI agent, says that online footprint 257 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 11: can be a double edged sword, helping organizers build momentum, 258 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 11: but also giving investigators a trail to follow when things 259 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 11: go wrong. 260 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 13: As an undercover agent, I can join that platform. 261 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: I can watch and monitor, and I can sort of 262 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: make determination as to whether this is preoperation planning. This 263 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: is all just chatter and talk. 264 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 11: Back in her office, Mayor Ashcraft sits at her desk, 265 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,359 Speaker 11: she says, her inboxes flooded with messages from concerned residents. 266 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 11: She responds to every email, reassuring people action is coming. 267 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 11: But how she says she's not ready because she feels 268 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 11: it would tip her hand. 269 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 4: A willing super She doesn't have a plan. 270 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: She has a zero plan. 271 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 2: I can't tell you what I'm gonna do because then 272 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: the kids will find out. 273 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 4: No no, no no no. 274 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 12: Pursue both civil and criminal actions against participants. 275 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 11: What the mayor will say is there will be consequences. 276 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 11: She told us that's how she's always led, and now 277 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 11: she's betting it'll work again. 278 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 3: We reached out to Yellamea police for an update on 279 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 3: their investigation into this June eleventh shooting. They told us 280 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 3: there was nothing to share this time, and the next 281 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 3: update will be posted to the department's social media pages. 282 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 4: So there you go. 283 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 2: The Alameda mayor says she's gonna crack down on the 284 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 2: beach takeovers, but won't tell us how. 285 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: And this is just another example where the cops are 286 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: in a no win situation because if the cops show 287 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: up to the beach when the teenagers have taken it 288 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: over and they start throwing them in the back of 289 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: the Black and Whites and they start wrestling with the teenagers, 290 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: the teenagers are gonna get hurt and then the mayor 291 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: is going to go well, I never said to do that. Yep. 292 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 4: Let's go to Chris in San Francisco. 293 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 14: Chris, Hello, Hello John, Randy, Yes, sir, Hello John. 294 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 15: Hey. 295 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,239 Speaker 14: I just wanted to say I used to live in Alameda, 296 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 14: and we've got the Coast Guard based right there on 297 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 14: the estuary, So I don't understand why they can't go 298 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 14: in and take care of this problem and keep that 299 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 14: open for people and boats. 300 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd think that this could be part of the 301 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: job of the Coastguard because the waterways in theory belong 302 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: to the country, correct. 303 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 14: Yeah, And they've got huge container ships that come in 304 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 14: and out of there, so it's a danger to them 305 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 14: and it's a danger to the guys living on the boats. 306 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: Now here's the thing. The military is known for having, 307 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: let's just say, a heavy hand, And if we send 308 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 1: the military in to get the bums out, it's not 309 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: going to go well for the bums. And I think 310 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 1: you end up in the same place as with the teenagers, 311 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: where the local authorities are going to go nuts if 312 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: the military comes in and uses a heavy hand with 313 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: the bums, and you'll hear the same phrase. Well, we 314 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: didn't say to do that. 315 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,360 Speaker 14: Yeah, but I was just thinking, I mean, they don't 316 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 14: have to be heavy handed with the bums and stuf. Oh, 317 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 14: just take them off the boats and tow the boats 318 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 14: away and scrap them. 319 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. But here's the thing. When people are on met 320 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: they're not let's say cooperative. 321 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 14: That's true, it's a sticky it's a sticky situation. But 322 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,439 Speaker 14: they could also assign them to the beaches on the 323 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,159 Speaker 14: other side of the island and have them handle the 324 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 14: beach takeovers too. Maybe. 325 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now that would be a meeting of the worlds, 326 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't it. 327 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 14: Oh God, put those taxpayer your taxpayer dollars at work. 328 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: Let the bums go to war with the teenagers. 329 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 14: That's a good one. I'd like to see that and. 330 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: The bums would come in by sea. 331 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,120 Speaker 14: Yeah, mutiny on the mutiny on the bounty. I think 332 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 14: it was. 333 00:18:52,960 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: That's true. All right, thank you for the call, Sarah. 334 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: It's the Chid Philip Show. Let's go to Josh and Oakland. 335 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: Josh Low, how's it going good? 336 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 15: So, I was just making a comment about your last caller. 337 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 15: So I actually am a contracting company that has contracts 338 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 15: with the City of Oakland, and when we sign our 339 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 15: contracts with the City of Oakland, there's actually affidavid that 340 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 15: are a part of that contract that stipulate that we 341 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 15: could not have had any interaction or done any work 342 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 15: for the Department of Homeland Security ICE, or even done 343 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 15: any work or provided material for the border wall in 344 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 15: order to be awarded a contract with the City of Oakland. 345 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 15: So the chances of the city going to DHS, which 346 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 15: is what Coast Guard is under, and asking them to 347 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 15: help clear a homeless problem is probably slim to none. 348 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: Sadly, I think you're right. 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However, data centers got 394 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: voted down in some cities, including right here in California, 395 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: and I believe it was what Monterey pork. In Monterey Park, 396 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: they voted to ban data centers from their city. The 397 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: residents of Paris with an E want to do the 398 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: same thing. This is over concerns that I get conflicting reports, 399 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: whether legitimate or not, about oh, it's going to use 400 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: up too much water. Well, if it's reclaimed water, it 401 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. But yes, there is a whole lot 402 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: of pushback against anything AI or data center related. Some 403 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: of it's warranted, some of if it's not warranted. But 404 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: when you look at how the election went for Silicon 405 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: Valley in totality Randy, it looks more like a mixed bag. 406 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 2: Let's see how the tech billionaires fared in the June primary. 407 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 2: Here's a report from Monica Madden and ABC seven in 408 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 2: the Bay. 409 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 16: Turning out of your voice, your vote. Big tech made 410 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 16: some big investments in the California June primary. Did it 411 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,199 Speaker 16: pan out? While established candidates are calling victory at the 412 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,199 Speaker 16: top of the ticket, Silicon Valley's pointing to down ballot 413 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 16: success as a sign of progress. 414 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 2: The progress was not. Matt Mahon, that was a failure 415 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 2: to launch I'll say. 416 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 16: BC seven eyewitness to his political report of Monica Madden 417 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 16: looks at the playbook heading into the midterms. 418 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 17: At a March launch party in Mountain Via Tech ceo 419 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 17: Gary tan vowed to shake up Sacramento through his new 420 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 17: political nonprofit, Real Accountability. 421 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 4: Hey, there's that word. 422 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: It seems to pop up again and again and again 423 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: and again. 424 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 2: It was a choice between the quite Frankly podcast, the 425 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: uh absolutely absolutely podcast, or the accountability accountability, accountability. 426 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 4: And we went with accountability. 427 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 1: Well, I voted for you can Smell It right here podcast. 428 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 18: You can smell it right here. 429 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 2: Every week it'll be just John Phillips reacting to old 430 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 2: videos of Katie Porter. Well, sometimes we'll do videos of 431 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 2: pirate ships battling one another in the Oakland Estuary. 432 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 17: Through Gary's list, tann is hoping to bolster what he 433 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 17: calls radical centrist candidates and policies. 434 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: But even with that'll inspire the nppiece to vote. Oh no, 435 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: it didn't, and they're surprised that they lost. 436 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 17: The boost of thirty three million dollars from Silicon Valley, don't. 437 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 17: Matt Mayhon finished sixth in the crowded race for governor, 438 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 17: and in the. 439 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 4: Second Katie Porter got more votes than him. 440 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: And she did what four point four percent? Yep. 441 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 17: Alf Bay Congressman ro Conna cruised to reelection. 442 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Remember all the tech bros were trying to 443 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 2: primary ro Conna. That didn't work either. You know that 444 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 2: guy is always over television. He's on the television, he's 445 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 2: all over social media. He must have some of the 446 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 2: highest name idea in the state. 447 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 17: Iight opposition from tech donors who backed his challenger. 448 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 10: People don't want to be told by tech billionaires who 449 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 10: their representatives are. They're tired of it. 450 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 2: I caught up with Conna, which is funny because who 451 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 2: did he support for Governor John. 452 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: He supported Tom Steyer, didn't he? 453 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:55,880 Speaker 4: Yep. 454 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: I love that all the people who think that it 455 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: should be illegal to be a billionaire got behind that guy. 456 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 17: Last week after winning his primary with more than sixty 457 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 17: two percent of votes. 458 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 10: I think that sometimes he's tech leaders. 459 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 4: It is a funny, funny thing. 460 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 2: Congress has the lowest approval rating of pretty much any 461 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:24,439 Speaker 2: governmental body regardless. Incumbents win again and again and again 462 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 2: and again and again. 463 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: But here's the thing, though, they do until they don't. 464 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: You could have a bunch of the incumbent Democrats get 465 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: kicked out in New York State today, they're having their 466 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: primary election right now as we speak by the DSA. 467 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: The Mayor of New York City, who's probably the most 468 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: high profile elected DSA member in the country, was very 469 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: actively involved in many of these races, and he's trying 470 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: to dump the old school Dems and replace them with 471 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,360 Speaker 1: DSA candidates. 472 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 10: Oh boy, interesting, let's raise a lot of money in 473 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 10: that money in and that doesn't work. People look at 474 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 10: who's going to improve their lives. 475 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 17: How you explain losses for candidates like Tom Steyer. 476 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 10: Then, well, I think Styer, who I supported, you know, 477 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 10: self funded and that was a hurt him. You know, 478 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 10: people don't like big money. 479 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 4: That's true. 480 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 2: People were turned off by the fact that already because 481 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: he had bad ideas and really didn't have a platform, 482 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: he just went with what he thought was popular right now, 483 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,479 Speaker 2: and it turns out it wasn't. But it is a 484 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 2: huge turnoff to know that somebody had two hundred million 485 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 2: dollars to waste on a political campaign. 486 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: There's just something that smacks people as being unfair when 487 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: someone does that. Now that being said, sometimes it does work. 488 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: Are you familiar with Gilsis Naros, the congressman from the 489 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 1: San Gabriel Valley. 490 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 4: Oh, tell us about that one. 491 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: Okay, So his wife used to work over at KNBC. 492 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 1: I think she was the assignment editor there, and he 493 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: was a big, fat guy that just stayed at home. 494 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: I think he was like four hundred pounds. And then 495 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 1: he bought a lottery ticket that turned out to be 496 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: a winner, and then that's when he decided he had 497 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: something to live for. So he lost the weight and 498 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 1: then he ended up with millions of dollars. I think 499 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: it was powerball. It was one of the big ones, 500 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 1: and he had all this money and now he had 501 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 1: a reason to live. And then he lost the weight, 502 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: and he thought, you know what, I belong in Congress. 503 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: So he just went and spent gobs of money to 504 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,239 Speaker 1: knock out Young Kim and then he beat her, and 505 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 1: then she came back a term later and then beat him. 506 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: And then when Grace Neapolitano retired and there was a 507 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: Democrat seat that opened in that area, he just moved 508 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: over there and outspent everyone else, and now he's back 509 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: in Congress. 510 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 17: Results aren't so simple. 511 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 13: They put a lot of money into two campaigns that 512 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 13: were not going well, anyway, they did accomplish a significant 513 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 13: number of victories and legislative races around the state. 514 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 17: Tan touting those wins in a statement to ABC seven, saying, 515 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 17: in part quote, the big picture is that centrist scored 516 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 17: big victories. The story of this primary is that the 517 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 17: pragmatic center is gaining ground. 518 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 4: Except in the governor's race. 519 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: Well, there was a whole bunch of them where that's 520 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: not true. How about the LA mayor's race. How about 521 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: all those races for city council where the DSA candidates 522 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: did well. Yep. 523 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 17: Political watchers say results may reflect a growing skepticism toward 524 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 17: the tech industry's expanding role in politics. 525 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 6: We don't have great data on all the nuances of 526 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 6: how voters decide ultimately to pull the lever. There's a 527 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 6: lot of skepticism. 528 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 2: I think we had to do away with that phrase. 529 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 2: Does any state actually have a lever anymore? 530 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: No, you're just color in the bubbles. It's like taking 531 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: a college history test. 532 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 2: I know it's not as fun to say, but I 533 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 2: would love to hear these pundits say, you know, we're 534 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 2: not sure what goes through somebody's mind when they fill 535 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 2: in the dot. 536 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 4: I guess it just doesn't ring the same way some. 537 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 6: Of tech money and tech moving into the realm of 538 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 6: politics and becoming more and more. 539 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,479 Speaker 17: Powerful, while progressives like Kana argue voters are rejecting the 540 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 17: influence of billionaires so. 541 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 10: They don't understand the anger and the pain and the 542 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 10: frustration of ordinary Americans. 543 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 17: The reality is more complicated. 544 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 13: All in all, primary day was a mixed bag for 545 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 13: technology donors. 546 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 17: And the billionaire tax will be the next big test 547 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 17: since it just qualified for the November ballot. Supporters like 548 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 17: Kana say the measure tackles growing economic inequality, and one 549 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 17: Democratic strategist, on the other hand, it tells me he 550 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 17: thinks that if passed, it would wake a sleeping giant 551 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 17: and deepen divisions in the state now both sides. 552 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 2: Yes, those divisions would be between the healthcare union and 553 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 2: the teachers' union. 554 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: And someone has to explain to these idiots that if 555 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: you kick out the most important industry in the state 556 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: that's paying all the bills, who's going to be left 557 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: to pay for your worthless social programs. 558 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 17: Are about to find out just how much political power 559 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 17: Silicon Valley really has. 560 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 16: Do you think they'll be taking out a lot of 561 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 16: ads and we'll see kind of the same kind of 562 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 16: jousting that we had with the Stier ads and the 563 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 16: Basera ad. 564 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 17: I think it's going to be even worse already, Yes, 565 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 17: we're I'm hearing that there's going to be spending that 566 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 17: matches Styer, if not even more. It's hard. 567 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe we'll get to buy this time. Now, all 568 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 4: we got was those young Kim ads. 569 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 17: The track since there's not a prop name yet, but 570 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 17: we've already seen about one hundred and thirty million poured 571 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 17: in from pro and again support, isn't it And he 572 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 17: spent two hundred. 573 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 4: Million right, and there could be a blowback for that. 574 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 2: If the tax billionaires spend millions and millions of dollars 575 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 2: on ads saying that the billionaire's tax is awful, there 576 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 2: may be voters out there that say, well, if you 577 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 2: have money to buy all these ads, you have money 578 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 2: to hey the tax. Again, I don't think most voters 579 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 2: care where the tax is going. It's about revenge. 580 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: Well, the SCIU also has essentially unlimited amounts of money 581 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,959 Speaker 1: to spend, so it's not as if the billionaires are 582 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: going to be the only ones to have their say 583 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: It's going to be during every commercial break on every 584 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: show on the radio and television. 585 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 2: And you could argue, if the SCIU has this much 586 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 2: money to spend on advertising, couldn't they lower the union 587 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 2: dues so their members could breathe a little easier. 588 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: No kidding, Wow, it's a. 589 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 12: Lot of money, aerot Monica, thank you so much. 590 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 2: So there you go. We get a little break right now. 591 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 2: But as soon as the summer's over, the political advertising 592 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 2: is about to go to ludicrous speed. 593 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: It's the John Phillips Show. Eight hundred two two two 594 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,719 Speaker 1: five two two two is telephone number one? Eight hundred 595 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: two two two five two two two. Well, every once 596 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: in a while, you buy a house that turns out 597 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: to have an interesting history. Randy, you're aware of the 598 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: fact that I once did that. 599 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 4: Oh yes, tell us that story. 600 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: Well, a house I bought at one point in time 601 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: used to be used to film pornographic films. 602 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 4: You don't say, but there was. 603 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: An elderly couple that lived there in between me and 604 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: the porn people. Every so often people buy homes it 605 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: once belonged to celebrities and that becomes part of the 606 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: lore of the house. Well, Randy, there's now a house 607 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: on the market in San Francisco that has a well, 608 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: let's just call it a very interesting history. 609 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 2: This will tell you how hot the real estate market 610 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 2: is in San Francisco right now with the AI tech boom. 611 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 2: An abandon home that had been taken over and pretty 612 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 2: much destroyed by squatters is listing for sale one point 613 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 2: three million. If you're the realtor, what do you say 614 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,399 Speaker 2: when you take people on a showing, Oh, that it's 615 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 2: a teardown. That's what you say. Nobody is buying this 616 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 2: house to keep it. They're buying this house to destroy 617 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,360 Speaker 2: it and build something new. 618 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I would want to do 619 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: a walk through. 620 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 4: For more on this, we've got to NBC In the. 621 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,359 Speaker 19: Bay, an abandoned house near San Francisco's Castro neighborhood has 622 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 19: been popular with squatters for years. Now it's on the market. 623 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 19: Even in the bad shape, this home is in the 624 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 19: one point three million dollar asking price. Isn't a problem. 625 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 19: In today's hot real estate market. 626 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 2: Abandoned dilapidated homes are asking for over a mill that 627 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:49,960 Speaker 2: is wild. 628 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 19: Here's NBC Barrius Sir Hillkantana. 629 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 20: At the edge of Kite Hill, in San Francisco's Eureka Valley. 630 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 20: This house with arched windows over the garage, including one 631 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 20: that's broken. Everything's boarded up, has become a bit notorious 632 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,879 Speaker 20: with neighbors. There was no running water or power at 633 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 20: this house, but neighbors have reported to the city that 634 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 20: squatters decided the best place to relieve themselves was at 635 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 20: the top floor atrium. 636 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 21: They needed a place to do it, so they had 637 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 21: the nice manners to do it in one basket, and 638 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,279 Speaker 21: unfortunately it was an outside basket right in front of 639 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 21: one of the neighboring houses. 640 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: Okay, she's part of the problem. Squatters have taken over 641 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: a home and hung that basket next to someone's house, 642 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: and she refers to them as being blight. 643 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,839 Speaker 2: John real estate agent's whole jobs are is to put 644 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 2: lipstick on pigs. They find the silver lining in every 645 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 2: single issue. 646 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 1: Well, I don't think there's enough lipstick over at the 647 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: mac counter. 648 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,800 Speaker 20: Sting agent Zara Robotham and her brother James put together 649 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,760 Speaker 20: a promotional video highlighting its fixer upper potential. A fixer 650 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 20: upper with the listing price of one point three million dollars. 651 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 2: I spoke, here's a house that you definitely can't just 652 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,719 Speaker 2: move into How about a million and a half? 653 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 1: Okay, here's the thing though, if people on math are 654 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: used to living there, and let's just say relieving themselves, 655 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 1: they are, you think just because you move in, they're 656 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,200 Speaker 1: gonna stop showing up. 657 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,920 Speaker 20: Camera with a neighbor who was recently at one of 658 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,800 Speaker 20: the regularly scheduled open houses. I can't use the language 659 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 20: he used to describe the shape of the house, but 660 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,320 Speaker 20: basically it's in pretty bad shape inside. 661 00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 2: I'm going to guess the second word was hull. I 662 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,520 Speaker 2: think you're probably right still. 663 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,240 Speaker 20: With the nature of San Francisco's red hot housing market 664 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,360 Speaker 20: right now, Robotham says they've already got a potential buyer. 665 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: Bloy, are they in for a surprise. 666 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 2: I've got homes in my neighborhood in the San Fernando 667 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 2: Valley that have been sitting on the market for like 668 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 2: a year. 669 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 4: No offers a. 670 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:28,239 Speaker 2: Home that is practically unlivable, that's got its own pooh 671 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,440 Speaker 2: pooh bucket has already got a potential buyer and it 672 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 2: just went on the market. It's not practically unlivable, it's 673 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 2: definitely unlivable. 674 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 20: Homeowners who live nearby aren't surprised. 675 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,320 Speaker 18: It's a teardown, right, and nobody's buying and paying anything 676 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,279 Speaker 18: for this building. It's a they're gonna knock it down 677 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 18: and build something else. And if you look at the 678 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,319 Speaker 18: place next door, they could go up pretty high and 679 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,239 Speaker 18: build a pretty good sized house on this lot. So 680 00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,320 Speaker 18: or several houses or yeah, hope that would be nice. 681 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 20: Andy deck Er lives just over the hill in Noe Valley. 682 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,759 Speaker 20: He says he often gets unsolicited offers on his home there, 683 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 20: adding to a situation. 684 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,480 Speaker 2: You ever gotten that You ever get a weird piece 685 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,880 Speaker 2: of mail that's like, I would love to buy your house? 686 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh at my old house. I got it 687 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 1: all the time. 688 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 2: One time someone sent me a letter and it had 689 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 2: a picture of my house and the non existent listing 690 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,120 Speaker 2: on Zillo with a sticky that said, I would like 691 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,320 Speaker 2: to pay you over this. Please call me so creepy. 692 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 2: Although I probably should have taken him up on it, 693 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:34,919 Speaker 2: his niece just. 694 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,359 Speaker 20: Moved in after taking a job with Open AI. Those 695 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,440 Speaker 20: unsolicited offers for your home in Noe Valley? 696 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 1: What are they? 697 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 4: What are they? 698 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 19: Like? 699 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 18: I mean a lot more than I ever thought, you know, 700 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 18: probably a million or two beyond what my wife, and 701 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:50,680 Speaker 18: I thought our house was. 702 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,360 Speaker 2: Worth Really there's a new gold rush in San Francisco, 703 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,680 Speaker 2: and it's if you already own a home, you can 704 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 2: sell it for a hell of a lot of money. 705 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,799 Speaker 1: But it's only going one right now, with AI being 706 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,560 Speaker 1: the dominant industry, not just in the state, not just 707 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,280 Speaker 1: in the country, but on the globe. 708 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,319 Speaker 20: Ill estate agent Robotham says the city is swirling with 709 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,400 Speaker 20: money right now and very few places to buy, so 710 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 20: properties like this one on Yukon Street, even with the 711 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 20: history of squatters, are being snapped up quickly. She says 712 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,720 Speaker 20: they're going for millions of dollars and lots of times 713 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,479 Speaker 20: people are paying cash in San Francisco, said Hukindana NBC. 714 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:27,359 Speaker 15: They are in US. 715 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 2: You know what I learned from this story, I think 716 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,120 Speaker 2: I know why they call them squatters. 717 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: On that note, that'll do it for us today. We'll 718 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,120 Speaker 1: be back tomorrow at noon for another edition of The 719 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 1: John Phillips Show.