Speaker 1: Some might label us right wing. We we say clip
Speaker 1: our wings and just call us right.
Speaker 2: It's a John Phillip.
Speaker 3: Show and very happy Thursday to you at twelve oh
Speaker 3: six in the West, It's the China Phillip Show, Mister
Speaker 3: Randy Wings in Culver City.
Speaker 4: John, We're broadcasting live on the radio on seven ninety
Speaker 4: KABC in Southern California, eight ten KSFO in the Bay,
Speaker 4: and we're broadcasting live on video. You can watch us
Speaker 4: every single day at Johnny Don't Like dot Com. It's
Speaker 4: as simple as that takes you right to the YouTube
Speaker 4: channel Johnny don'tl Like dot Com, where you can subscribe,
Speaker 4: so all of our content goes to your homepage. You
Speaker 4: can hit the like button and push our content into
Speaker 4: the stratosphere, and you can comment on all of our
Speaker 4: on demand videos. We got lots to do here, and
Speaker 4: we got a big chat room, so play along with us.
Speaker 1: We're here. Tel three eight.
Speaker 3: Hundred two two two five two two two is a
Speaker 3: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 3: two two.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: The lead story today involves basement bakarea. The man who
Speaker 3: is hiding out behind shrubbery in cars at home behind
Speaker 3: Wilson's backyard fence on home improvement. Wherever it is that
Speaker 3: he can hide out, That's where basement bakarea is.
Speaker 1: Scrub it scrub a dub dub.
Speaker 4: Was at a press conference that he left twelve minutes
Speaker 4: in and literally started running away from reporters. Ashley Zaballa
Speaker 4: posted the first video on her social media.
Speaker 1: And that went everywhere.
Speaker 4: Bessarah, who has not had a actual press conference or
Speaker 4: an a veil for the media to ask him questions
Speaker 4: since the primary in June, doesn't want to talk to anybody.
Speaker 4: Let's find out what's going on here. Here is kc
Speaker 4: ra A three and you guessed it, Ashley Zavala.
Speaker 2: Governor Gubernatorial candidate Javier Bassera made his first public appearance
Speaker 2: at the state capital today since he advanced in the
Speaker 2: June primary election, and we were hoping to get a
Speaker 2: chance to.
Speaker 5: Ask him questions today.
Speaker 2: Our case Area three political director ash Zavala joins us, So,
Speaker 2: how did that go today, Ashley?
Speaker 6: You know Lisa Vetcetera dadds the California Capital Press Corps today.
Speaker 1: A sign of things to come.
Speaker 3: Well, if you don't read the newspaper, you don't have
Speaker 3: answers to any of the questions.
Speaker 6: Spokesman said he was running on a tight Schedulevetcea was
Speaker 6: there for a Voting Rights Act event. He's throwing his
Speaker 6: support behind two proposed state laws. One broadly prohibit city, county,
Speaker 6: or local agencies from any action that could result in quote,
Speaker 6: voter suppression.
Speaker 5: That Senate Bill eleven sixty four.
Speaker 6: Another would expand language access for voting materials of those
Speaker 6: who are limited in their ability to speak or read English.
Speaker 6: That's Senate Bill thirteen oh six. Here's a look at
Speaker 6: some of Vecerra's remarks at this event.
Speaker 7: Democracy lives in breeze on the vote.
Speaker 3: If he should stick to the glasses. How about this
Speaker 3: for democracy? Is it okay for the Attorney General to
Speaker 3: give a ballot initiative a completely misleading title in summary?
Speaker 3: Is that good for democracy? Sign trick people so they
Speaker 3: don't know how they're voting.
Speaker 4: Well, Bakaria would say so, because when he was Attorney General,
Speaker 4: he retitled the Repeal the Gas Tax Act the Defund
Speaker 4: Roads and Bridges Act Americans.
Speaker 7: If Californians don't vote, democracy dies.
Speaker 4: And fifty percent of Californians don't vote.
Speaker 7: Fortunately, we've seen too often how there are efforts underway
Speaker 7: by bad actors to diminish the vote, to interfere in
Speaker 7: the vote.
Speaker 5: Jech, So as you can see on your screen. Besides
Speaker 5: tall is he?
Speaker 1: By the way, he looks like a little guy.
Speaker 4: Let's see Javier beisera height you anyone want to guess
Speaker 4: in the chat. Javier Besera's official height is not widely
Speaker 4: documented in mainstream or government biographical records, but an unofficial
Speaker 4: profile estimates generally placing him between five seven and five nine.
Speaker 1: He looks about five to seven in this video.
Speaker 5: The event early about twelve minutes in.
Speaker 6: As the press conference continued, he refused to stop to
Speaker 6: talk to journalists. Vescera has not gaggled with reporters since
Speaker 6: June ninth in Los Angeles, shortly after he advanced in
Speaker 6: that June primary. When I asked, his spokesman said, Bassa
Speaker 6: couldn't make five minutes for reporters today because he was
Speaker 6: heading to Fresno for a healthcare related event.
Speaker 1: Sure don't forget.
Speaker 3: This is the guy that Grampy Joe would outsmart every
Speaker 3: time they'd have a cabinet meeting, and Grampy Joe would
Speaker 3: pepper him with questions. He wouldn't have the answers to
Speaker 3: any of them, and he would turn in embarrassing performance
Speaker 3: after embarrassing performance, to the point to where it became
Speaker 3: painful to attend those meetings. According to the people who
Speaker 3: were there, these are professional democratic political operatives.
Speaker 4: He has been described by his colleagues in the cabinet
Speaker 4: as the kid doing the book report that obviously didn't
Speaker 4: read the book. And I should know, I used to
Speaker 4: be one of those kids.
Speaker 5: That event was not open to the press.
Speaker 6: The group of reporters that he avoided today are the
Speaker 6: same ones he'll have to work with for the next
Speaker 6: four years if he's elected governor.
Speaker 2: Lisa Okay, So, besides the other event in Fresno, does
Speaker 2: he have any other public appearance scheduled in the Sacramento
Speaker 2: area soon?
Speaker 1: It's almost like he's not running for governor.
Speaker 3: Well, he knows at this point that the campaign is over,
Speaker 3: so why bother.
Speaker 6: Yes, he is expected to speak at the at a
Speaker 6: summit that's hosted by Politico Net here in Sacramento next week.
Speaker 5: When I asked if we could expect to be.
Speaker 6: Able to ask him questions there, his spokesman said, stay tuned,
Speaker 6: we'll see all right.
Speaker 5: We'll be waiting and watching us.
Speaker 1: That's a no.
Speaker 4: Get ready for the most transparent administration you've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Of course, it wasn't just Savalla that Besarah was running from.
Speaker 4: He was also running from Jenny ha of ABC ten.
Speaker 4: So let's see what she had to say.
Speaker 8: Well, Democratic candidate for governor Javier Basera made a public
Speaker 8: appearance in the Capital City today. ABC ten State Matters
Speaker 8: political reporter Jenny Huss spoke to him and so, Jenny,
Speaker 8: what is he saying about a possible debate?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, Chris.
Speaker 9: A group of reporters, including myself, followed Bisarah as he
Speaker 9: rushed to his car. I asked him the looming question,
Speaker 9: will he commit to a debate with Republican opponent Steve Hilton?
Speaker 10: He proposition thirty nine.
Speaker 11: You know what this is like?
Speaker 3: This is like someone is accused of murder and they're
Speaker 3: walking from the courthouse while the trial is going on,
Speaker 3: and they can't get away from the press corps fast enough.
Speaker 12: Here's the vote, Secretary, your challenger, Steve Hilton has challenged
Speaker 12: you to a series of debates.
Speaker 5: Can we just get your reaction to the challenge?
Speaker 11: Will you be accepting? Secretary?
Speaker 4: He is straight up. He's not running, but he is
Speaker 4: power walking, that is for sure.
Speaker 1: He's acting like Casey Anthony.
Speaker 4: This is usually you know when you see this, this
Speaker 4: is like a purp walk. This is not what you'd
Speaker 4: expect from somebody that is actively trying to get your vote.
Speaker 1: Speaking of purp walks, what do you think BoNT is
Speaker 1: doing today? Bob Bonta.
Speaker 4: Probably going through all of his emails over the past
Speaker 4: fifteen years and deleting anyone that has the name Dong
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 11: We doing a debate, We'll be through.
Speaker 12: Lots of debates, so you're accepting the challenge by your opponent.
Speaker 4: And by the way, Bessarah's influencer crowd is trying to
Speaker 4: trash Jenny haff for doing this kind of interview or
Speaker 4: trying to follow him and ask him questions. That's her job.
Speaker 4: When a candidate refuses to do interviews, that's when you
Speaker 4: do the ambush interview. Only when they say I'm not
Speaker 4: going to talk to you, the reporter's going to do
Speaker 4: their job. And a lot of reporters in the California
Speaker 4: Press Corps, including our friend Julie Watts, are sticking up
Speaker 4: for Jenny.
Speaker 12: Hah Democratic candidate for Governor Halvier. Bessarah got into his
Speaker 12: car and drove off, leaving behind a group of reporters
Speaker 12: with unanswered questions. This was Wednesday morning at the state capitol.
Speaker 12: Bisarah spoke at an unrelated press conference on election integrity,
Speaker 12: but he left early with no media availability.
Speaker 4: Nothing says election integrity like refusing to talk two reporters.
Speaker 3: This is the Party of Democracy and they want to
Speaker 3: deny California voters a conversation over what the next four
Speaker 3: years will look like.
Speaker 1: Just let that sink in for a moment.
Speaker 12: ABC ten followed him to his car and asked whether
Speaker 12: he would debate Republican opponent Steve Hilton. Basara said yes,
Speaker 12: but when and how many times? Still unknown? Campaignspookes.
Speaker 4: There have been six proposed debates by different outlets, television
Speaker 4: or radio stations or newspapers, what have you. There have
Speaker 4: been six proposed over the next three months. Steve Hilton
Speaker 4: has agreed to all of them. Javier Bakaria has agreed
Speaker 4: to none of them.
Speaker 3: You know, as much as this it pains me to
Speaker 3: say this, he's probably better off doing what he's doing
Speaker 3: than answering questions, because it if you're as remedial as
Speaker 3: he is getting asked basic questions could cause the needle
Speaker 3: to go off the record, and it could cause negative
Speaker 3: attention to come raining down on you. If you just
Speaker 3: avoid the press corps, then the tiny percentage of the
Speaker 3: state population that follows the news will know that you're
Speaker 3: not answering any questions. But that's not going to be
Speaker 3: enough to deny you victory in the election. If you
Speaker 3: constantly put your foot in your mouth, that could cause
Speaker 3: an upset to occur. But if you just appear to
Speaker 3: be an elusive guy who's thumbing his nose at the
Speaker 3: news media, you're definitely going to get dinged over it.
Speaker 3: But you're going to get ding for being arrogant. And
Speaker 3: I think he's perfectly fine being ding for being arrogant.
Speaker 3: If he proves to the public that he has a
Speaker 3: room temperature IQ, that could cause some people to not.
Speaker 4: Vote for him well, and his handlers definitely know this.
Speaker 4: After two weeks ago, when he was speaking at that
Speaker 4: Latino conference and boldly claim that you should never get
Speaker 4: a taco from a brick and mortar restaurant, only a
Speaker 4: street cart, it didn't go very well for him, So
Speaker 4: he definitely is being advised to shut the hell up
Speaker 4: for the next ninety days.
Speaker 3: Every once in a while, you know where you see
Speaker 3: this as you see this in professional athletics. When you
Speaker 3: have a sport where let's just say, the athletes take
Speaker 3: a lot of hits to the head and they weren't
Speaker 3: that bright to begin with and they end up with
Speaker 3: a seventy five IQ. You don't want to put them
Speaker 3: in front of the sports press corps. You don't want
Speaker 3: to have them call into a sports talk show. You
Speaker 3: don't want to put them in a situation where they're
Speaker 3: speaking off the cuff. You take them and you put
Speaker 3: them in the children's hospital, and you take the pictures
Speaker 3: of them with the kids and the casts, and then
Speaker 3: you put that out and you leave it at that,
Speaker 3: and you allow pictures to speak for themselves, and you
Speaker 3: never allow that individual to open their mouth, or if
Speaker 3: they're from another country, you just claim that they don't
Speaker 3: speak English. That well, everything goes through a translator, and
Speaker 3: the translator says things that are appropriate. It's common in sports.
Speaker 3: You don't see it happen too often in politics, But
Speaker 3: when you're dealing with someone like him, I guess that's
Speaker 3: how you have to package him.
Speaker 4: There's a word that's being floated around in the chat
Speaker 4: that we can't say on the air, but it seems
Speaker 4: like a lot of people are agreeing with that word.
Speaker 12: Person Jonathan Underland, walking alongside with Sarah in the video
Speaker 12: told us but Sarah how to rush out due to
Speaker 12: an event visiting a rural health care clinic in Maderra.
Speaker 13: So the Vassarah campaign might be tempted to sit on
Speaker 13: a lead and not rock the book during this campaign.
Speaker 4: They call it the shift strategy. Shifts stop campaigning. After
Speaker 4: he won the primary for Senate, and so did Steve Garvey,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers were hot, and he wanted to go to
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium a lot.
Speaker 13: I don't blame him, but I will say that voters
Speaker 13: don't want to be taken for granted.
Speaker 12: Political ANALYSTI Swat says despite the built in advantage Democrats
Speaker 12: have in California with nearly double the number of registered
Speaker 12: Democrats as there are Republicans, as well as recent polling
Speaker 12: showing Bessara with the near double lead among likely voters.
Speaker 13: But Sarah has no reason not to get involved because
Speaker 13: he has a nice cushion to work on. Even if
Speaker 13: he should make a mistake or two. I mean, he's
Speaker 13: got the most important message in California, which is he
Speaker 13: is against Trump and Hilton is a Trump disciple, Stephen.
Speaker 4: And when we break elections down like that, no matter
Speaker 4: what's going on in the state, well then it's all
Speaker 4: just about partisanship.
Speaker 3: And that's why Besarah doesn't care that he looks bad.
Speaker 3: He doesn't care, and he's going to drive the press
Speaker 3: corps crazy and maybe they'll kill him in their reports.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but from his point of view, it's
Speaker 3: not going to cost him the election, So what does
Speaker 3: he care?
Speaker 12: Elton, responding in part quote, Javier Bassara seems to think
Speaker 12: he can be elected governor of our state without taking
Speaker 12: questions from the press. What an insult to every voter
Speaker 12: and the democratic process. I won't believe him until he
Speaker 12: actually shows up.
Speaker 4: The big difference between this campaign and that shift Garby campaign.
Speaker 4: Steve Hilton is actively campaigning. He is doing hits up
Speaker 4: and down the state of California, going on local television,
Speaker 4: going on radio shows, going on podcasts. He was just
Speaker 4: on our podcast. He is definitely putting his voice out
Speaker 4: there and giving this thing a shot.
Speaker 12: He is are you saying there could have been a
Speaker 12: smarter tactic the Massara campaign could have implemented Van essentially
Speaker 12: run away from reporters.
Speaker 13: I would say so, I think the optics are not
Speaker 13: good when any candidate or anyone runs it away from
Speaker 13: a report.
Speaker 1: You can't go if it's Gavin.
Speaker 3: Gavin has a million and one problems, but he can
Speaker 3: think on his feet. You can put him out there
Speaker 3: and have him innswer questions. He doesn't do a ton
Speaker 3: of press with the California Press Corps, but he does
Speaker 3: appear from time to time. He'll do the national shows.
Speaker 3: He answers questions, and he repeats a lot of the
Speaker 3: same phrases, a lot of the same words, over and
Speaker 3: over and over again. But the guy can talk, but
Speaker 3: Sarah cannot talk.
Speaker 4: We have seen him in the few long form interviews
Speaker 4: that he has done in the primary, including when he
Speaker 4: first announced his candidacy to Alex Michaelson of then Fox eleven,
Speaker 4: and this was his answer to every single.
Speaker 1: Question, scrub it. We were dumbfounded.
Speaker 4: We were honestly dumbfounded that this guy was this stupid.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, when you hear him talk, it's not Is
Speaker 3: this guy smart enough to run the state it's how
Speaker 3: did this guy tie his shoes and make a baby.
Speaker 12: Trary to opponent Steve Hilton. Besarah has been rather inaccessible
Speaker 12: to medius since the primary. We confirmed with this campaign,
Speaker 12: Butserah's lost media availability was.
Speaker 9: June ninth, almost two months ago, and his campaign tells
Speaker 9: me next week Masserah will have a media appearance at
Speaker 9: an event alongside other politicians for Politico, but they did
Speaker 9: not commit to him being available to media for Q
Speaker 9: and A after that event.
Speaker 1: Chris, Okay, Jenny, thank you.
Speaker 4: It's not everything, but it definitely is something that the
Speaker 4: story right now of the election is that one candidate
Speaker 4: is running away from answering questions.
Speaker 3: They're doing what they have to do. I mean, what
Speaker 3: would you do if you were running his campaign? Would
Speaker 3: you put him out there?
Speaker 4: I would lock him in the basements. I mean, look
Speaker 4: what happened with Grampy Joe. Remember when Democrats first started
Speaker 4: to say maybe he should step down, And it was
Speaker 4: after that first debate performance and they thought, Okay, we're
Speaker 4: going to send him out for a network interview and
Speaker 4: show that Grampy Joe can be quick on his feed
Speaker 4: and I forget.
Speaker 1: Who it was with.
Speaker 3: Was it George Stephanopolis. I think it was George Stephanopolis.
Speaker 3: They sent him out for a sit down with George Stephanopolis,
Speaker 3: and it was crash and burn because that was what
Speaker 3: he was capable of doing. And you go, why in
Speaker 3: the world would you send him out to do an
Speaker 3: interview with George Stephanopolis when you know he can't do it.
Speaker 3: But they sent him out there and he did it anyway,
Speaker 3: and that was just another nail in the coffin. Imagine
Speaker 3: if they kept him more in the basement the second
Speaker 3: time around, if they delayed that debate until late in
Speaker 3: the process and they just didn't put him out there
Speaker 3: in front of reporters, he would have been the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 3: I don't think they would have replaced him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they would have done any worse.
Speaker 4: And you know whose idea it was to have that
Speaker 4: debate in June, Biden.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, being self aware was not something he was
Speaker 3: known for. It's the Giant Phillips Show. It's the Giant
Speaker 3: Phillips Show. Eight hundred two two two five two two two.
Speaker 3: Is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two
Speaker 3: five two two two.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to email the show.
Speaker 3: You can do so at Johnny don't Like show at
Speaker 3: gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail
Speaker 3: dot com and Randy. If you want to watch the show,
Speaker 3: participate in the chat and click dot like button. Go
Speaker 3: to Johnny don't Like dot com.
Speaker 4: That's where we're broadcasting live every single day on YouTube
Speaker 4: all over the world. We've got tons and tons of
Speaker 4: people hanging out in the chat room, including listener Ron
Speaker 4: who writes in with all this John and Randy AI images.
Speaker 4: Randy is doing his best is single handedly empty at
Speaker 4: Lake Mead. We do have a lot of fun with this.
Speaker 4: We're here every single day so you can watch us.
Speaker 4: You can react to the videos along with us player
Speaker 4: Lounger in the chat room. You can support the show
Speaker 4: by simply hitting that like button and considering that this
Speaker 4: show is completely free, it's the least you can do.
Speaker 4: Share the show with your friends, hit subscribe, hit the
Speaker 4: hype button if we have that. I don't know if
Speaker 4: we got the hype button yet, but other videos have
Speaker 4: the hype button, So hype us and comment on all
Speaker 4: of our on demand stuff, including the Accountability podcast. YouTube
Speaker 4: loves it when we get comments and we love it too,
Speaker 4: So let us know what you'd think by commenting on
Speaker 4: everything we do at Johnny don't like dot com?
Speaker 1: What do you say we make a couple of listeners
Speaker 1: very happy.
Speaker 4: Let's do that right now as I look up at
Speaker 4: the screen to see if the prize pig's going to
Speaker 4: call in seven ninety KABC welcomes Jason bonhams led Zeppelin
Speaker 4: Evening at the Pacific Amphitheater on August twenty second. Tickets
Speaker 4: are on sale now at pacamp dot com. But right
Speaker 4: now caller number nine at one eight A eight seven
Speaker 4: ninety five two to two, do get some pair of
Speaker 4: tickets to the show. This does not get you into
Speaker 4: the OC Fair, because the OC Fair will be over
Speaker 4: by then, but you get to go to the concert.
Speaker 4: Tickets furnished by the Pacific Amphitheater. Good luck dialing.
Speaker 3: The people of San Francisco have had it with the
Speaker 3: permissive attitude about drugs and randy. They're now taking to
Speaker 3: the streets to show it.
Speaker 4: They've had enough with us just allowing people to do
Speaker 4: the fentanyl fold up and down places like the Tenderloin
Speaker 4: and Soma in San Francisco, and people that are specifically
Speaker 4: in the recovery world would like to see something different.
Speaker 4: For more on this, here is ABC seven in the bed.
Speaker 14: Today in San Francisco, more than one hundred people rallied
Speaker 14: urging city officials to do more to tackle the drug crisis.
Speaker 14: Some are questioning the success of a key part of
Speaker 14: Mayor Lori's strategy, the Reset Center, which.
Speaker 5: Is an alternative.
Speaker 4: Why does everything in local politics have to have some
Speaker 4: stupid acronym attached to it.
Speaker 3: Because there are entire departments that exist to come up
Speaker 3: with them.
Speaker 4: You know who is the best at that was La
Speaker 4: Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Speaker 11: I received things on both ends.
Speaker 4: The nonviolent responders, that's the Circle program. And I don't
Speaker 4: know if you remember this one because he definitely didn't
Speaker 4: follow through on it. When Eric Garcetti was mayor of
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, he started a program to examine reparations and
Speaker 4: it was called repair. Guess what it went nowhere to.
Speaker 14: Jail for people arrested for using drugs or alcohol on
Speaker 14: city streets.
Speaker 1: Has anyone opened drinking in San Francisco?
Speaker 4: Which, by the way, that's an interesting thing to just
Speaker 4: put out there, because in certain areas and the entertainment
Speaker 4: zones were actively encouraging open drinking.
Speaker 14: Witness News reporter Loose Pania has been following the story
Speaker 14: and joins US Live to explain Loose.
Speaker 15: Yes, I'm at the research center. It's meant to be
Speaker 15: a new strategy to tackle the drug and mental health
Speaker 15: crisis on the streets. Were instead of arresting people and
Speaker 15: putting them in jail, it allows people to get sober
Speaker 15: and unstable and then connect them with resources.
Speaker 4: And part of this was, well, it's going to be
Speaker 4: a lot easier for SFPD to do a lot more
Speaker 4: when they're not constantly stuck in traffic trying to drive
Speaker 4: to the jail to drop somebody off. So we dropped
Speaker 4: them off at the Reset Center in the Tenderloin, wherein
Speaker 4: they're offered services. But Johnny, guess what those services are.
Speaker 4: You guessed it voluntary.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure they subscribe to harm reduction too, so
Speaker 3: they're just facilitating the drug use.
Speaker 15: But those who see their need our closed are saying
Speaker 15: the center is not living up to his potential and
Speaker 15: want more accountability.
Speaker 4: Hey, that's the name of our podcast, the most hollow
Speaker 4: word of the English language. That's why we named it
Speaker 4: the Accountability Podcast, because everyone uses that word and it
Speaker 4: means nothing. Check out our up and so with Steve Hilton,
Speaker 4: it was a blast on the.
Speaker 15: Same streets in San Francisco where about two people die
Speaker 15: from a drug overdose every day.
Speaker 4: This group LA is so much better. We've got seven
Speaker 4: that die every day.
Speaker 15: Rallied for change it.
Speaker 11: We're fed up. As a recovery community.
Speaker 15: Cedric Akbar runs the Eleonora Fagan Center in San Francisco,
Speaker 15: a recovery focus, transitional housing and health facility also known
Speaker 15: as a stabilization center. He joined over one hundred formally
Speaker 15: incarcerated individuals, people in recovery and advocates.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the people that are the most pissed about the
Speaker 4: permissive culture that we have towards drugs are people that
Speaker 4: got off of drugs, because the whole ideology of harm
Speaker 4: reduction is that people can't get clean. Gavin Newsome thinks
Speaker 4: that's the thing, because obviously he ain't clean when he
Speaker 4: went to rehab. But the people who actually did turn
Speaker 4: their lives around, it's got to be such an insult
Speaker 4: that our policies in the cities, the county, and the
Speaker 4: state of California is to make it easier for you
Speaker 4: to do Heroin.
Speaker 3: Well, they know what the reality is, and they know
Speaker 3: these politicians are full of.
Speaker 15: It, demanding for the city to hold those on the
Speaker 15: streets accountable.
Speaker 1: There it is again, the last time I checked.
Speaker 11: Sleeping on the street, using drugs on the street is
Speaker 11: against the law.
Speaker 1: That is true.
Speaker 3: Put this guy on the city council, so I expect
Speaker 3: the law to be uphill.
Speaker 15: In May of this year, San Francisco opened the Research Center,
Speaker 15: an alternative to jail or the emergency room for people
Speaker 15: arrested for using drugs or alcohol.
Speaker 3: All your pants up, his parents are so low it's
Speaker 3: beneath his underwear.
Speaker 1: Look at that. At what point is the belt even necessary?
Speaker 15: All on city streets? At Barsett?
Speaker 4: You know, our police officers are Sheriff's deputies in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: They have very dangerous jobs. But when I see them
Speaker 4: having to put on the gloves and stick their hands
Speaker 4: in the pockets of the bums, they need a raise.
Speaker 3: Okay, if I'm the cop that's arresting that guy, I
Speaker 3: don't care that he's technically wearing pants. I'm putting some
Speaker 3: newspaper down on the back seat for him to sit on,
Speaker 3: lighting it like a bird cage.
Speaker 4: We've talked about this before, but someday we're going to
Speaker 4: take calls from current and former police officers on just
Speaker 4: some of the things they've seen in the back of
Speaker 4: their patrol vehicles, because I'm sure there are some stories
Speaker 4: to tell.
Speaker 1: Lots of bodily fluids.
Speaker 15: See, he hasn't sent anyone to his center and questions
Speaker 15: its effectiveness.
Speaker 4: So this guy has a place where you can get
Speaker 4: clean right next to the Reset Center, and he has
Speaker 4: at exactly zero referrals from the Reset Center.
Speaker 3: How about this, Instead of giving money to the end,
Speaker 3: how about helping this guy out?
Speaker 11: We spend fourteen million dollars sort of reset center and
Speaker 11: the Reset Center. I was told that it was going
Speaker 11: to be.
Speaker 4: How did that cost fourteen million dollars? It was a
Speaker 4: room with some massage chairs.
Speaker 1: Because everyone gets their cut.
Speaker 4: Come on, Lurie, I thought you were better than this.
Speaker 4: This is very, very very close to London Breed's Safe
Speaker 4: Consumption site. Buy another name, make that money. She was fun,
Speaker 4: but she wasn't great for San Francisco.
Speaker 1: No, she wasn't.
Speaker 4: The spirit did move her at the Tony Tony Tony
Speaker 4: concert to ditch the mask, and that was fun.
Speaker 11: You should be able if people refuse to help while
Speaker 11: the treatment that they would be arrested. So the RESET
Speaker 11: Center is not there.
Speaker 4: We went, yes, the whole idea is if you refuse treatment, well,
Speaker 4: then you're going to jail. That's also the ideology behind
Speaker 4: Prop thirty six. But instead you get to refuse treatment,
Speaker 4: sit on the lounge chair for eight hours and till
Speaker 4: you're back to normal, and then we send you on
Speaker 4: your way to go do more drugs.
Speaker 1: And it cost us a fortune to.
Speaker 15: The Reset Center and saw people occupying some of the therapy recliners.
Speaker 15: The Sheriff's office runs the site and said at least
Speaker 15: seventeen of the twenty five recliners were occupied. Is the
Speaker 15: Reset Center working?
Speaker 16: So I believe these centers working. Since we opened May
Speaker 16: fourth to twenty twenty six, basically we had twelve hundred
Speaker 16: and forty five arrivals, eleven and ninety two were actually admitted.
Speaker 15: Since May close to four hundreds.
Speaker 4: So what's the definition of success? People showed up.
Speaker 3: To notice the look on his face when she asked
Speaker 3: him the question. It was almost as if he knows
Speaker 3: what the truth is, but he knows what the right
Speaker 3: answer is, because don't forget he works for the mayor
Speaker 3: and the council, and he gave the quote unquote right answer.
Speaker 4: If you're watching us on the live stream right now,
Speaker 4: they have a pie chart up from the Sheriff's department
Speaker 4: about people admitted to the Reset Center, people who stayed
Speaker 4: for eight hours at the Reset Center. And it looks
Speaker 4: like most people that get taken there by police are
Speaker 4: staying there because I'm sure the chairs look real comfy.
Speaker 4: But Johnny, notice how many people are declining treatment, declining
Speaker 4: care And what's the point.
Speaker 1: Of all of this.
Speaker 3: No, I would just send him over to Cedric Akbar,
Speaker 3: although I wouldn't send him to his brother Alaho.
Speaker 15: People have been referred to other places for help.
Speaker 4: By the way they break down the demo, it's like
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the analytics of our show, but they
Speaker 4: break down the demo of who's getting admitted to the
Speaker 4: Reset Center. Guys, it's a sausage fest.
Speaker 15: For two other places for help by this center. So
Speaker 15: there's over six hundred people who just get a pamphlet
Speaker 15: that says come back if you need help.
Speaker 16: Yes, And like I said, if we don't have consent,
Speaker 16: we provide them with the information that they need.
Speaker 4: This is the exact same nonsense behind Gavin Newsom's game
Speaker 4: changer around conservatorship care cord, where all of this treatment
Speaker 4: that's supposed to be mandated by a judge is voluntary.
Speaker 4: Voluntary treatment for this severely addicted and mentally ill does
Speaker 4: not work.
Speaker 3: And this is what they mean when they talk about
Speaker 3: quote unquote accountability.
Speaker 15: So adv could say that's not enough.
Speaker 1: We need to dis enforce the law, and we don't.
Speaker 11: We allow people to do things that are illegal.
Speaker 4: There are places that do you know, I know he
Speaker 4: got made fun of a hell of a lot for
Speaker 4: his half baked govenatorial campaign. But Matt Mayhan, the mayor
Speaker 4: of San Jose, they enforce the law. San Francisco has
Speaker 4: improved from where it was. But you go to the
Speaker 4: drug dens, they do not enforce the law.
Speaker 1: And look at this.
Speaker 3: Another guy who's a recovery advocate who's been through it himself,
Speaker 3: understands the reality.
Speaker 16: Nobody is held accountable and our solution in any public
Speaker 16: form is to provide more housing.
Speaker 4: You know, friend of the show, Tom Wolf, who's probably
Speaker 4: the most well known recovery advocate in San Francisco right now,
Speaker 4: you know how he finally got clean, He went to jail,
Speaker 4: changed his life, and then was offered to go to
Speaker 4: an actual treatment facility at the Salvation Army where you
Speaker 4: are not allowed to bring your drugs, and they turned
Speaker 4: his life around. We're denying that to thousands and thousands
Speaker 4: of people every single day because we think that it's
Speaker 4: better to let them decide on their own when they're
Speaker 4: done injecting themselves full of poison.
Speaker 7: That is not the answer to San Francisco's drug and
Speaker 7: homeless crisis.
Speaker 15: And according to the Sheriff's Office, on average, people stay
Speaker 15: in the Recent Center for about eight hours and if
Speaker 15: they don't want help, they cannot be forced.
Speaker 1: But and what's the point, just get rid of it again.
Speaker 15: Doing drugs will be taken back in.
Speaker 4: At this point, we wasted fourteen million dollars on something
Speaker 4: that is giving people pamphlets. Let's just go back to
Speaker 4: taking them to jail, even if the judges are going
Speaker 4: to let them out right away. Let's at least go
Speaker 4: back to that, because the Reset Center is a joke.
Speaker 3: It's a glorified visitor center to give you a pamphlet
Speaker 3: of how you could tour the Grand.
Speaker 4: Canyon or where the Hondos are that you can buy
Speaker 4: more smack from.
Speaker 3: It's the John Phillips Show. It's the Giant Phillip Show.
Speaker 3: If you want to watch us perform the show live,
Speaker 3: go to Johnny Don't like dot com And while you're there,
Speaker 3: be sure to click that like button. It really helps
Speaker 3: us push the show far and wide. Eight hundred two
Speaker 3: two two five two two two is the telephone number
Speaker 3: one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well,
Speaker 3: Mexico's pollution is causing southern California.
Speaker 1: Well, you can smell it right here.
Speaker 4: It's time for the og installment of you can smell
Speaker 4: it right here, as we're going back to the southern
Speaker 4: tip of San Diego. Katie, are you ready?
Speaker 15: You can smell it right here.
Speaker 4: Coronado Beach has been closed over eighty five days this year.
Speaker 4: For more, here is NBC seven in San Diego.
Speaker 5: It continues to be a rough year for South Bay beaches.
Speaker 14: Toxic raw sewed from Mexico continues to flow north along
Speaker 14: our shores, making the water unsafe at some popular beach.
Speaker 5: NBC seven Salve reporter.
Speaker 1: What is the foam? What is that? I don't understand
Speaker 1: why this is that hard?
Speaker 3: You go down to Mexico, and clearly the carrot is
Speaker 3: not working, so it's time to start threatening them.
Speaker 1: It's time to start cutting off.
Speaker 3: Remittances going back to Mexico until they stop dumping raw
Speaker 3: sewage and dangerous chemicals into waterways that end up in
Speaker 3: our oceans. For a state that bills itself as an
Speaker 3: environmental estate, I can't, for the life of me understand
Speaker 3: why they allow this to happen. The state's got complete
Speaker 3: inaction on this. The federal government has complete inaction on this.
Speaker 3: This is an international incident every single day and it's
Speaker 3: been going on for years, and people are just allowed
Speaker 3: to suffer.
Speaker 14: Joe Little gives us an update on where we stand
Speaker 14: with repairs in Mexico and just how bad it got
Speaker 14: this summer at one of our premiere beaches.
Speaker 10: Except for the marine layer. This is how Coronado Beach
Speaker 10: is supposed to look. It's elite, it's one of the
Speaker 10: most popular beaches in the country, but it hasn't been
Speaker 10: for a third of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: What do you do if you're the hotels, you know what,
Speaker 3: we should just go down there and build a sewage
Speaker 3: system for Mexico. They're clearly incapable of doing it, and
Speaker 3: then just bill them.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 10: The birds are happy, tourists are happy, Coronado is happy.
Speaker 10: It wasn't happy two months ago when it was easy
Speaker 10: to see the toxic tide from that.
Speaker 1: Oh, just the color of the water.
Speaker 3: It's so disgusting. It is so disgusting that they allow
Speaker 3: this to happen. And you look at those hotels in Coronado.
Speaker 3: Those hotels cost a fortune. People are paying a fortune
Speaker 3: to look at that and smell that Mexico storm.
Speaker 10: The beach right outside the Hotel del Coronado.
Speaker 17: It's like yellow and brown there. I feel like it's
Speaker 17: more of a tragedy than anything. It just feels like,
Speaker 17: how can we not get this fixed.
Speaker 1: Matt Henry lives in Imperial Beach.
Speaker 10: I saw him surfing near the IV Pier Wednesday with
Speaker 10: a handful of others.
Speaker 1: Mat, Oh, not a good idea. No stay out of
Speaker 1: that water out there, man.
Speaker 17: Yeah, my mental health suffers so bad.
Speaker 11: If I don't serve.
Speaker 10: Matt says he's built up a bit of a tolerance,
Speaker 10: but he's not indestructible.
Speaker 17: Last year I got gaillardia. I got to think I
Speaker 17: got it ear infections. I got I've had a staff infection.
Speaker 1: This guy really loves surfing. I'm telling you.
Speaker 3: When I used to do those open water swims nowhere
Speaker 3: near San Diego, in Venice and in the South Bay
Speaker 3: Hermosa Beach Pier in Manhattan Beach Pier, I was getting
Speaker 3: so sick all the time. I'd get ear infections, I'd
Speaker 3: get eye infections. I had these weird rashes on my skin.
Speaker 3: And the moment I stopped doing it, I got better immediately.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the other part of this story. This is
Speaker 4: very obvious raw sewage that's getting dumped into the ocean,
Speaker 4: but based on how the way Los Angeles works whenever
Speaker 4: it rains, with all the homeless encampments, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of raw sewage getting dumped into the ocean on a
Speaker 4: daily basis.
Speaker 10: Bling this heavily polluted water flowing from Mexico through the
Speaker 10: Tijuana River and out to the Pacific.
Speaker 1: If you still want to do a live remote down there.
Speaker 3: Well we're getting closer to five thousand subscribers.
Speaker 1: Destroyed the water and the air.
Speaker 17: There's times when we can't even open the window. It's
Speaker 17: like it's no good, no good.
Speaker 10: From Imperial Beach to Coronado, where the County of San
Speaker 10: Diego says the beaches have been closed for more than
Speaker 10: eighty four days this year. That's a third of twenty
Speaker 10: twenty six.
Speaker 1: You know what this is.
Speaker 3: Mexico has some of the most beautiful beaches on planet Earth.
Speaker 3: You go down to Portovarta, you go down to Ixtapa,
Speaker 3: you go to Mazatln you can find some five star
Speaker 3: hotels and amazing places. And because you see this grand
Speaker 3: opulence in certain parts of Mexico, you assume that Mexico
Speaker 3: is a first world country. Mexico is essentially a third
Speaker 3: world country with beautiful beaches. So imagine if we were
Speaker 3: we had Zimbabwe to the south, if we had Zimbabwe
Speaker 3: to the south, we wouldn't assume that they could do
Speaker 3: something like have a sewage system that worked, because we know.
Speaker 1: That's just not going to happen.
Speaker 3: So if you want them to have a sewage system
Speaker 3: that works, you have to go in and do it yourself.
Speaker 3: But because the framing of Mexico is that it's a
Speaker 3: first world country, we just tell them to do it
Speaker 3: and expect them to do it. Well, how many years
Speaker 3: has this been going on. They're not capable of doing it,
Speaker 3: so if they're not capable of doing it, you just
Speaker 3: have to step in and do it yourself and then say, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're going to cut this from whatever aid we're giving
Speaker 3: you for whatever reason, and we're just gonna keep doing
Speaker 3: it until you.
Speaker 1: Pay us back.
Speaker 4: That's the latest on the Tijuana River and Coronata. If
Speaker 4: you can get us to five thousand subscribers, John and
Speaker 4: I are going to do a podcast from there.
Speaker 1: It's The John Phillips Show.