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In the old days, we used to vote 28 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 3: on propositions here in California in the primary and general election. 29 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 3: Then it was changed to put all the propositions on 30 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: the general election ballot, not the primary ballot, because the 31 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 3: ruling class and Sacramento figured it would easier to pass 32 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 3: things like tax increases with larger turnout. Well, one of 33 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 3: those tax increases, it's going to be on the November ballot, 34 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 3: is being pushed by the SCIU. It's the wealth confiscation tax. 35 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 3: This is the billionaires tax. There's a tax that would 36 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 3: go to one aspect, one portion of the SEIU, and 37 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: everyone else gets cut out of the deal. Just from 38 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 3: the debate, just from chatter that this could potentially happen, 39 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 3: has already caused a trillion dollars in wealth to move 40 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 3: out of the state of California, with more on the way. 41 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 3: If it looks like this thing is going to pass, 42 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 3: joining us to talk about. This is the economist and 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 3: research fellow at the Hoover Institution up at Stanford University. 44 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 3: You can get them online at Hoover dot org. Benjamin 45 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 3: Jarros Welcome. 46 00:02:58,760 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: Hi, Thanks for having me on. 47 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: John, Well, thanks for coming on. So this initiative has 48 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 3: already pushed, as I mentioned, a trillion dollars in wealth 49 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 3: out of the state and could potentially, I think likely 50 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 3: lead to more wealth, more productivity, more companies moving out 51 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 3: of the state of California. Is it as bad as 52 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 3: I have described, Well. 53 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: It's not great, John, I mean there's between the filing 54 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: date by the proponents and the snapshot date of who 55 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: would be due for the fact that was when an 56 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: initial five hundred is billion dollars left the state, so 57 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: that would be headlined by Sergey Brand, Larry Page, Peter Thiel, 58 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: among others. And then shortly after that, Mark Zuckerberg left 59 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: in February, adding another nearly two hundred billion today plus 60 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: to the total there and and there are plenty of 61 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: other self departures that gets you close to your number 62 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: there and so those are those tech innovators are the 63 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: backbone of the state's economy and who they employing. And 64 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: I don't need to remind you, John, or maybe many 65 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: of your listeners, but that the state of California already 66 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: taxes the top quite a bit. And in the last 67 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: you know, since two thousand, the state has lost about 68 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: five hundred billion dollars in about five billion dollars in 69 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: tax revenue. So it's five hundred billion dollars in taxicle 70 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: income and five billion in tax revenue to other states. 71 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: That's already happening on the income tax level. And you know, 72 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: net migration has been driven by the upper brackets, especially 73 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: posts you know, twenty twenty, but it's been throughout the incomespective. 74 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: So John, this is a you know, it's not it's 75 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: this really something missing in the contract here between what 76 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: the what the taxes are going to fund public finance 77 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: and and then who's actually paying them and and you know, 78 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: we can highlight any different part of the California budget 79 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: probably together, but that's that's really what This is a 80 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: continuation of that trend. It's taxing the few to pay 81 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: for you know, another another item on Sacramentos goody list. 82 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 3: I think a lot of people look at the state 83 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 3: of California and they see the population in the South, 84 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 3: and they say, Okay, that's where the tax dollars come from, 85 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 3: because that's where the people are. But the reality of 86 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 3: the situation is that that's really not true. The population 87 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 3: may be in the South, but it's Silicon Valley that 88 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: pays our bills. 89 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's certainly right. And then you even had 90 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: and the Democratic primary debate where you know, I think 91 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: believe it's Katie Porters said a quiet part out loud 92 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: to the last in several years. The people who are 93 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: moving here are not net contributors to the state in 94 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: terms of tax revenue. And that's not a great place 95 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: to be in for any states, you know, much less 96 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 1: the state of California. It's quite a revealing state, PAPAN 97 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: from the democredit questionary there. 98 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 3: What does California look like without Silicon Valley? If Silicon 99 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: Valley were to just pick up and move to Austin, Texas, 100 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 3: or move to Tallahassee, or move to Las Vegas, what 101 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 3: does California look like without that industry? 102 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: From a revenue perspective to the state, it is cooked 103 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: highly reliant on that tax spase and it showed through 104 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: right especially in the last five years and twenty. Between 105 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty and twenty twenty two, we had really high 106 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: income tax receipts, mainly in capital gains to seconds. That's 107 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 1: a run up. And then we had the immediate you 108 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: know year after twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, not 109 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: as you know, great for the stage potentially, and so 110 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: we're actually suddenly look at TOT programs. So in the 111 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: long run, if for NOA, if the state's no longer 112 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: employing individuals paying high income taxes, you know, hot burning 113 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: high high salaries and then subsequently paying high income taxes, 114 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: you know, the whole state budget would have to be restructured, 115 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,239 Speaker 1: and potentially already should be, but it could get worse. 116 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: And that's part of what this measure is about. 117 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 3: One of the arguments that the proponents of this build 118 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 3: that they use, and it's not just even really for 119 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 3: this particular tax, it's for high taxes in California in general, 120 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 3: is it's a good weather tax. People love to live here, 121 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 3: and it's hot in Arizona, and it's muggy in Texas, 122 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 3: and there's hurricanes in Florida. If you want to live 123 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 3: where the good weather is, you just have to deal 124 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 3: with the taxes that we decide that you're going to pay. However, 125 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 3: the reality is you can spend time here, you can 126 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 3: own a home here, you can have fun here, but 127 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 3: you don't necessarily have to establish residency here. You can 128 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 3: go get residency somewhere else and have a vacation home 129 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 3: here and spend forty nine percent of your time here 130 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 3: without having to pay California taxes. 131 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then generally that's generally correct, John, with the 132 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: exception of that, so it's a one hundred and eighty 133 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: three days. But if they're earning income lall in California, 134 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: so potentially a lot of tech workers, if they common 135 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,839 Speaker 1: or remotely, they would still be paying on that fact 136 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: of the day. But in general, you're right, certainly with 137 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: the residency for the well tax. If the billionaires established 138 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: residency in another state prior to the cutoff, California is 139 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:59,599 Speaker 1: not going to touch their assets. 140 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 3: When it comes to defeating this thing, it seems like 141 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 3: there is a golden opportunity here in a deep blue 142 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 3: state to put together let's call it, an unconventional coalition 143 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 3: on the no side, where you certainly have Silicon Valley, 144 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 3: you have billionaires, you have people who have done well. 145 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 3: You have people who are below them who are theoretically 146 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 3: going to get hit next the next time they decide 147 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 3: they want to go for a cash crab. But you 148 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 3: also have all of the unions, the public employee unions 149 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 3: who were cut out of this deal, which is essentially 150 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 3: all of them except for this particular branch of the SCIU. 151 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 3: So that includes the Teachers Association, which is one of 152 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 3: the most powerful unions in the state of California. It 153 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 3: involves public safety, the prison guards, the firefighters, the police officers. 154 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 3: There is an opportunity here to put together a coalition 155 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 3: that is broad and diverse and well fund did that 156 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 3: really has an opportunity to get the message out to 157 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 3: make the argument that this would be catastrophic. 158 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: Exactly, John, I am it's still quite I'm not sure 159 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: exactly my full feelings on the matter, but the fact 160 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: that our work was and has been cited by the 161 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: California Teachers Unions and Planned Parenthood affiliates at California is 162 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: is already quite quite a broad coalition. I'm perhaps at 163 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: a lost for words, John, Can you remember the last 164 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: ballot initiative that united newsome Planned Parenthood California teachers unions 165 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: against the tax you know, don't. I can't think one 166 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: if you can't play share, And. 167 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 3: I'll tell you if it works. If this is successful, 168 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 3: there might be pearls of wisdom for future tax fights 169 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 3: that the no side can learn from and maybe duplicate 170 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 3: the results if in fact, we are successful as a 171 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 3: no side in this, which I think we're learning right 172 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 3: now from what happened with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association 173 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 3: with their initiative where they scared Sacramento to death, to 174 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 3: the point to where Sacramento gave them things that you 175 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 3: would never assume Sacramento would be willing to give an 176 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 3: organization like the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. But they held 177 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 3: strong and they didn't blink, and there was a victory 178 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 3: for taxpayers there. And maybe we'll get a second one. 179 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think in some ways the other 180 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: thing to always talk about ballot measures fail and succeed 181 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: based on what the money's going to. And maybe your 182 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: listeners know this, maybe they don't, But the revenue is 183 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: going ear mark to go to funding losses, losses and 184 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: quotes from one big beautiful bill. But what are those losses? 185 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: The first two thirds of the reduction is from work 186 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 1: requirements for able bodied individuals. They don't have dependence, they 187 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: don't have medical conditions, all those exemptions, there's fifteen plus 188 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: exemptions for this. So two thirds of the money it's 189 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: functionally going to pay for individuals who don't meet a 190 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: work requirement. And there was an era in this country 191 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: where work requirements for some type of welfare was just 192 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: understood and it's twenty hours of work a week or 193 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: literally eighty hours a month, but you know, functionally twenty 194 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: hours a week, and that's where two thirds of the 195 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: money is it's going to. And so there should be 196 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: shouldn't can be an honest debate around, you know, a 197 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: ballot proposition rather than though the Trump administration is imposing 198 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: draconian cuts, it's a reasonable discussion when the federal government 199 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: itself is running eight you know, structural deficits. You know, 200 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: along with the state of California, you know what we 201 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: should be funding and what we should expect able body 202 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: individuals to do in order to get healthcovers. 203 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 3: How much of a problem do you think the greed 204 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 3: is going to be for the SEIU. Here the fact 205 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 3: that instead of involving these other unions, they specifically cut 206 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 3: them out of the deal. And I asked that question 207 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 3: because you go back to the two competing initiatives that 208 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 3: we've had on the ballot here in California for legalizing 209 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 3: sports betting, and instead of putting together a clean initiative 210 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 3: that would just legalize it and allow whomever to get 211 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 3: involved in the action, they had two initiatives that wrote 212 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 3: in monopolies for whoever it was that was funding it, 213 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 3: and they wrote everyone else out of the deal. And 214 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 3: because of that, everyone else opposed to each of the initiatives, 215 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 3: and they ended up going down in flames. 216 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: Well, I certainly think that's part of the it's certainly 217 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 1: in part what the California Teach's Association is thinking that 218 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: they own like ten percent of the take here, and 219 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: you know, state state law in the constitutions that it's 220 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: supposed to be you know, forty cents of every dollar. 221 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: So I imagine that's part of their motivation, and that's 222 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: a great, great question to ask. Highlights that exact issue 223 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: is that by not just doing the clean we need 224 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: this for all. I mean, the state of California is 225 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: running a structural deficit, not that you know, the state 226 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: needs the money. Since twenty nineteen, California tax revenues are 227 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: up fifty five percent, but unfortunately for the state, California 228 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: spending is up sixty eight percent. So, you know, Golden 229 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: Goose Kip laying eggs, but I guess found noth of them. 230 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: And yeah, and that context, the fact that they wanted 231 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: to restrict more of the funds has actually created some 232 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: some opposition for them. 233 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom is now making the argument that we should 234 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 3: vote again against this particular initiative, but that we need 235 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 3: a national version of this to come from the Congress 236 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 3: in Washington. Obviously, that is a play for him in 237 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 3: the Democratic primary for president, so that he doesn't look 238 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 3: like a business friendly Democrat or a billionaire friendly Democrat, 239 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 3: or a Silicon Valley friendly Democrat. He doesn't want to 240 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 3: be on the wrong side of the DSA. I just 241 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 3: don't know how you can intellectually make that argument if 242 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 3: you're going to actually campaign up and down the state 243 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 3: against this initiative, Like who's going to take you seriously? 244 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 3: If you're saying no at the state level, but yes 245 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 3: at the federal level. 246 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, not just who's going to take 247 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: you seriously? An interesting point for you and your listeners 248 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: to know is that it might be easier for him 249 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: to make that statement is because well currently ends the Congress. 250 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: In both the House and I believe the Senate, there 251 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: is a The bill has been introduced and sponsored by 252 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders and Rocanna. It's called to Make the Billionaires 253 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: Pay their Fair Share Act. It is a federal wealth tax. 254 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: And perhaps it is easy for Gavin Newsom to get 255 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: behind a federal wealth tax because currently as that law 256 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: is written, as it is written currently, it is almost 257 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: patently unconstitutional and in conflict with Article one, Section nine 258 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: of the Constitution. It's called the capitation clause that requires 259 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: that all direct taxation must be proportional among the states, right, 260 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: and the income tax is an exception of that. But 261 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: a wealth tax is not realized income, so it's not 262 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: going to fall under the income tax amendment. And so 263 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: potentially for Gavin, it's easy for him to say, oh, well, 264 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: you know, don't support this tax that could plausibly happen 265 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: and impact the state or potentially impact his donor base. 266 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: And I'm going to simultaneously support a tax that on 267 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: its face is unconstitutional. But you know, we'll see see 268 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: what happens in the next decade primary Supreme Court nominees. 269 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: But you know right now, I would I would not 270 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: I would not weigh at being a heel of this 271 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: constitutional at this court. 272 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 3: Benjamin Jarros, economist and research fellow at the Hoover Institution 273 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 3: up at Stanford University. You can get them online at 274 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 3: Hoover dot org. Benjamin, thanks so much for stopping by. 275 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: John, Thanks so much for having me. 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When we come back after the news, 312 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 4: we will have thanks to you, the audience that did 313 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 4: what we needed them to do. Hit that subscribe button, 314 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 4: hit that like button. You put us over the limit 315 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 4: for what we needed. Today, you're getting a world premiere 316 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 4: of a little video I put together last night. It 317 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 4: is a visual representation of the Katie Porter story thanks 318 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,719 Speaker 4: to an AI slide show. 319 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 3: Oh my, all right, Katie Porter and all our glory 320 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 3: up next right here on the John Phillips Show, eight 321 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 3: hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number. 322 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 3: What eight hundred two two two five two two two. 323 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 3: If you'd like to email the show, you can do 324 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 3: so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. 325 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 3: That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail dot com. All right, Randy, 326 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 3: you're an honest man. You made a challenge, you made 327 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 3: a promise, the audience delivered, and now it's your turn. 328 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 4: It's time for us to thank you. By the way, 329 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 4: I love this comment from YouTube listener gons I love 330 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 4: watching the show, but I don't get much accomplished in 331 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,199 Speaker 4: the afternoon like I did when I was just listening 332 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 4: to iHeart over the internet. That's on us, so we 333 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 4: asked you to do us a favor and subscribe to 334 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 4: our brand new Accountability podcast. We have brand new episodes 335 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 4: every single week. It's pretty much exactly like this except 336 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 4: the logo at the top says the Accountability Podcast and 337 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 4: Johnny can say curse words if he wants to. And 338 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 4: we asked if we could get that over five hundred subscribers, 339 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 4: and we started like, what three hundred two seventy five 340 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 4: I think? And you guys delivered, and you delivered quite well. 341 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 4: We are currently now at on the Accountability Podcast up 342 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 4: to five hundred and thirty two subscribers. And by the way, 343 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 4: on the channel that you're watching this right now, YouTube 344 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 4: dot com slash at Randy Wang Radio, we're at two 345 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,959 Speaker 4: and twenty subscribers. That channel had like barely over one 346 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 4: thousand two weeks ago. So thank you all so much 347 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 4: for that. It means a lot for us as we 348 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 4: try to spread the word. So now it's time for 349 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 4: our end of the bargain. 350 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 3: Buckle up. 351 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 4: So a listener yesterday said, Hey, instead of reading Katie 352 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 4: Porter's YELP reviews, why don't you just play the tape 353 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 4: of the caller who called us back in March of 354 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 4: twenty twenty four with that story of the buddy of 355 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 4: his that hooked up with Katie Porter, and I thought, yeah, 356 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 4: I can do that, but that's just an audio tape. 357 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,719 Speaker 4: We are now a visual medium. I feel like we 358 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 4: can do one better. So I spent way too much 359 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 4: time during the show in the commercial breaks yesterday trying 360 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 4: to just upload that file to Google Gemini and be like, 361 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 4: can you make slides from this? 362 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 2: It wouldn't do it. 363 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 4: But when I said, hey, get me a couple of 364 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 4: pictures from this, it spat out a couple of pictures, 365 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 4: and then I gave it a few other prompts that 366 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 4: had to do with the story, and well, here we go. 367 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 4: I hope you enjoy it. I spent way too much 368 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 4: time on this yesterday. Without further ado, here is a 369 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 4: video representation of the Katie Porter story. 370 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 3: Let's begin with Mike in Valencia. Mike, you're on KABC. Hello, 371 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 3: a good. 372 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 5: Friend of mine. 373 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 6: We're at a party down south, Okay, and he's a 374 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 6: a chubby chaser, shall we say, And he had won 375 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 6: three mini to drink and we noticed he started talking 376 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 6: to this young lady and it was Katie Porter, and 377 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 6: he wound. 378 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 5: Up let's just say they left together. 379 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 6: And he was really and we're trying to explain to him, 380 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 6: do you know who that is? But he once he 381 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 6: gets drinking, he ain't listening. 382 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 5: And he left with her. And the next morning we 383 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 5: saw him. He asked us to come get him, and 384 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 5: we had to explain to him who it was. 385 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 2: Oh no, they didn't do it in the minivan, did they? 386 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,479 Speaker 5: No? No, no, But let's just say that we asked him, 387 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,719 Speaker 5: but he doesn't remember anything until he woke up, and 388 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 5: that's when he called us to come get him. And 389 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 5: we told him we were warning knew who that was 390 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 5: because we swing to the right, you know, we're conservative. Well, 391 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 5: we asked him how to go and go out and 392 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 5: remember nothing because I just remember waking up, and he goes, God, 393 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 5: she's dunk. You can smell it right here. 394 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 2: That's for you, audience. That was all for you. 395 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 4: Thank you so much for everything that you've done for us. 396 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 4: That's what we can do for you is bring you 397 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 4: a visual representation of the famous Katie Porter story. I 398 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 4: will make that video live on my YouTube channel at 399 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 4: three o'clock so you can watch it all you want. 400 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 4: You can share it. Hell, you can even smell it 401 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 4: right here? 402 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 5: Who can smell it right here? 403 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 7: You can smell it right now? 404 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 3: You think that guy is listening right now? 405 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 2: Oh, Mike in Valencia. I sure hope. 406 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 4: So he ended up becoming one of our most famous callers. 407 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 4: That and the crazy Lady from Alta Loma. Maybe I'll 408 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 4: do a visualization of that one, including him asking that 409 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 4: you couldn't do her, asking what you couldn't do with Madonna? 410 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 3: You think that guy has PTSD? 411 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 4: It sure sounded like it. The call continued to say 412 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 4: that to this day, when he goes to a bar, 413 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 4: he looks to make sure that she's not in there. 414 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 3: And don't they give him all kinds of hell every 415 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 3: time one of her ads comes on the television. 416 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 2: Especially when she was running for governor. 417 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 3: Had to remind him of that night every time he 418 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 3: turned the television on. I will set that right now. 419 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 4: That video is set at private because I wanted to 420 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 4: make sure nobody saw it before the big premiere. But 421 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 4: I will make sure that that video is available on 422 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 4: our YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash at Randy Wang 423 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 4: Radio at three o'clock. Oh, we got a request here? 424 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 2: Can we get a you can smell it right here? 425 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 2: With a that's right. I like that. 426 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 7: That amazing. 427 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 3: You know that could be a new series on the 428 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 3: Cartoon Network. 429 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 4: Have you ever thought of that slide shows of weird 430 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 4: calls from this radio show. 431 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd watch that. 432 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 2: It took quite a lot. 433 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 4: Wow, the amount of live viewers we've had has exploded 434 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 4: in the last hour or so, and I'm guessing it's 435 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,120 Speaker 4: because everyone wanted to see the world premiere. 436 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 3: A Just imagine you turn it on Cartoon Network and 437 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 3: you see an old episode of Looney Tunes, then you 438 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 3: get Dark Wing Duck, and then you get Katie. 439 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 2: You know what. 440 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 4: Just so I make sure that I hold myself accountable here, 441 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 4: let me go ahead and right now change this video 442 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 4: from private to public as of it's lie tenth at 443 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 4: three pm. Another reason you want to subscribe to the 444 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 4: John Phillips Show by going to at Randy Wang Radio 445 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 4: on YouTube. It's going live at three o'clock and you 446 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 4: can watch it as many times as you want. 447 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 3: You know what I call that video, Randy? What's that artistic? 448 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 3: There are people that go to museums and they sip 449 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,239 Speaker 3: on wine and they eat let's begin with you, and 450 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 3: they wear berets and they walk around and they just 451 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 3: stare at paintings and they stare at paintings, and they 452 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 3: stare at paintings. But I've never been into that. No, 453 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 3: the kind of art I like is the art that 454 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 3: you just played on this radio program. 455 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 2: You know what. 456 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 4: We got a minute until break. Let's play it one 457 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 4: more time in case you missed it, in case you're 458 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 4: just tuning in. It's only a minute. Let's watch it again. 459 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 4: I'm pretty proud of this. Also, look how fit Ai 460 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 4: me is. 461 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 3: Let's begin with Mike in Valencia. Mike, you're on KABC. Hello, 462 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 3: a good. 463 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 5: Friend of mine. 464 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 6: We're at a party down south, okay, and he's a 465 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 6: chubby chaser. 466 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 2: Shall we say that's my favorite picture? 467 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 4: By the way, trying to type into Google Gemini, give 468 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 4: me an accurate description of a chubby chaser, okay. 469 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 6: And he had won three mini to drink, and we 470 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 6: noticed he started talking to this young lady and it 471 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 6: was Katie Porter, and he wound up. 472 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 5: Let's just say they left together, and he was. 473 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 6: Really and we're trying to explain to him, do you 474 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 6: know who that is? But he wants he gets drinking. 475 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 5: He ain't listening, and he left with her and the 476 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 5: next morning we saw him. He asked us to come 477 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 5: get him, and we had to explain to him who 478 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 5: it was. 479 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 2: Oh no, they didn't do it in the minivan, did they. 480 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 5: No? No, no, but let's just say that. Uh, we 481 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 5: asked him, but he doesn't remember anything until he woke up, 482 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 5: and that's when he called us to come get him. 483 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 5: And he told him we were warning. Knew who that 484 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 5: was because he we swing to the right, you know, 485 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 5: we're conservative. Well, we asked him how to go and 486 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 5: to go out and remember nothing because I just remember 487 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 5: waking up, and he goes, God, she's dunk. 488 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 2: The Wonders of the Future. That is Ai. 489 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 4: Monica writes in saying I need to meet a nice 490 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 4: chubby chaser. 491 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 3: Well there's one in the audience. 492 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 4: Buddy writes, My favorite part is the dirty minivan. I 493 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 4: specifically put in the prompts a dirty minivan speeding away 494 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 4: from a party. dB writes in on YouTube, we're having 495 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 4: a good Friday? 496 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 3: Who needs soccer? When you have this? 497 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 2: Is that game over yet? 498 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 3: Go on forever? I've never understood that too. In basketball, 499 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 3: you have four quarters all the same length. In soccer, yes, 500 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 3: sometimes it's ninety minutes. Sometimes it's ninety five, sometimes it's 501 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 3: ninety eight. Who knows soccer. 502 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 4: The game is over Spain beat Belgium, so if you 503 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 4: prefer Charizo to Belgian fries, you win. 504 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 3: All right. If you'd like to email the show, you 505 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 3: can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail 506 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,479 Speaker 3: dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. 507 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 4: A lot of people driving asking can you send me 508 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 4: those websites? I want to see that video later on 509 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 4: it goes live at three o'clock. 510 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 3: All you have to do is subscribe to the YouTube 511 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 3: page and it's right there, and you can share it 512 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 3: with your friends, tell them to subscribe, to tell them 513 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 3: to like it. It's all about an algorithm and trying 514 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: to get better placement on YouTube so the message can 515 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 3: go out to a broader audience. 516 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 4: There's also on there a edited video of us doing 517 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 4: Katie Porters YELP previews from yesterday, so if you did 518 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 4: not get to see that segment, check it out at 519 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 4: YouTube dot com, slash at Randy Wang Radio. I am, 520 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 4: by the way, I am scrolling through my email to 521 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 4: try to find the crazy Lady caller from years ago, 522 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 4: and if I can find it, maybe I'll have a 523 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 4: new project for the we can't but I don't know 524 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 4: if I know where that is. It's from a long 525 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 4: time ago. 526 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 3: Apparently they used to replay it all the time. 527 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 4: Well yeah, okay, so apparently what would happen is they kept, 528 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,960 Speaker 4: like what, running the same best of over and over 529 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 4: and over again. This is before I started doing them, 530 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 4: and people would say, we heard her again, we heard 531 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 4: her again at five o'clock. She became famous, yes, and 532 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 4: then she started calling in under different names, but always 533 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 4: from Alta Loma. 534 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 2: She might be listening. 535 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 3: Gavin Newso and the missus have lawyered up. 536 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 4: Gavin Newsom, the current but not for long governor of California, 537 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 4: announced at a press conference talking about education spending, that 538 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 4: he and his wife have hired a private attorney in 539 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 4: the investigation and against him and his wife and all 540 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 4: of the nonprofits that they are associated with. For more 541 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 4: on this, let's go to report from kse A three 542 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 4: and our friend. 543 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 8: Governor Gavin Newsom held a news conference today in the 544 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 8: Sacramento region, and it was his first since announcing he's 545 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 8: under investigation by the US Department of Justice. KSERO three's 546 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 8: Ashley Zavalla has what the governor is saying about the investigation. 547 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 9: Here at an elementary school in Davis, Governor Gavin Newsom 548 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 9: held a press conference to highlight how the state budget 549 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 9: will uplift public schools this year. 550 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 2: But you know the usual. 551 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 4: Well, we're spending more money than ever who cares about results, and. 552 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 3: By the way, we have declining enrollment. 553 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 9: Governor faced a barrage of questions about the US Department 554 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 9: of Justice investigation into him and his wife, Jennifer Sebel Newsom. 555 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 9: Neither have been subpoenaed yet, and they have not been 556 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 9: contacted by investigators for interviews. 557 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 4: If kids, I got to warn you, if Gavin asked 558 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 4: to play basketball, if you don't do. 559 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 3: It, oh yeah, he knocked those little Chinese kids over 560 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 3: like bowling pins. 561 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 9: As of this moment, the governor announced almost a month 562 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 9: ago that he's under investigation and that authorities have been 563 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 9: contacting friends and associates. The governor today signaled he and 564 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 9: his wife have hired an attorney. Here's what Elsie had 565 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 9: to say when asked for an update. 566 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 7: Not much more than that has already been provided. 567 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 2: I mean this is he's looking a little pinkish. 568 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,359 Speaker 3: I wonder what attorney he's going to hire who's that 569 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 3: one that got Casey Anthony and off? 570 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 4: I wonder if he's going to hire the guys that 571 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 4: Bob Bonta paid five hundred thousand dollars to assist with 572 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 4: the Shang Tao investigation. 573 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 3: Bob Bonta, I know, I'd get that Cuban that got 574 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,760 Speaker 3: Casey Anthony off. What was his name, Wannie Cochrane. 575 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 7: Purely political? 576 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 2: You've seen so on the point. Didn't this investigation start 577 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:53,360 Speaker 2: during the Biden days? 578 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 3: It did, and it started from a California whistleblower two, although. 579 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 2: That could be purely political too. 580 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 4: Let's not forget that his friend of me was the 581 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 4: vice president at the time. 582 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 7: Forty I'm not sure. Maybe you guys have reported it 583 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 7: as well. People have stated pretty clearly they were directed 584 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 7: to find something. I have more people have been contacted 585 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,760 Speaker 7: near your circle to find something. 586 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 4: You mean, like the crooked dealings of your chief of 587 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,320 Speaker 4: staff Dana Drinki Williamson. 588 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,840 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she'd get lit at night and call everyone 589 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,720 Speaker 3: up and threaten them on your behalf. Remember that one Gavin. 590 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 7: Just directed find something. It says everything you need to 591 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,760 Speaker 7: know about the United States of America under Donald Trump. 592 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 7: And so we continue to, you know, maintain vigilance as 593 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 7: it relates to the just weaponization by the Department of 594 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 7: Justice and other power ministries under the Trump administration. And 595 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,399 Speaker 7: a lot has been reported and I don't have much 596 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 7: more to add except it's pretty disgraceful. 597 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 9: The US Department of Justice isn't commenting. 598 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 3: He's going to try to turn himself into the victim here. 599 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,320 Speaker 3: Have you noticed that, Oh, that's what this is all about. 600 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 3: He was the one that announced that this was even happening. 601 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 3: The FED didn't say anything. 602 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 4: He holds the press conference because he hadn't gotten any 603 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 4: attention in a while. 604 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,280 Speaker 2: Look at me, he can't. 605 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,320 Speaker 4: He will not be able to handle the fact that 606 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,319 Speaker 4: people are going to stop paying attention to him the 607 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 4: second he stops being governor, regardless if he runs for president, 608 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 4: the attention that he gets on a daily basis is 609 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 4: going to go real quick. It's like going to be 610 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 4: all over again, like when he stopped being mayor of 611 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 4: San Francisco and he went to be lieutenant governor and 612 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 4: no one gave two craps about him. 613 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 9: On any investigation. Meanwhile, the governor from here is kicking 614 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,840 Speaker 9: off a summer tour to campaign for Democrats ahead of 615 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 9: the midterm elections. 616 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 4: His first step, of course, because he's got nothing to 617 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 4: do with his day job. Including he tells says it 618 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 4: the press conference that you know, I've got like two 619 00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 4: hundred appointments on you to fill before the end of 620 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,839 Speaker 4: my term. I'm going to go take the summer off 621 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 4: to campaign in Nevada. 622 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 9: Off over the next three days is Nevada reporting in 623 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,320 Speaker 9: Davis Ashley's Valla case. 624 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 4: Harry three new So there you go, Gavin Newsome lawyering up. 625 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 4: When it comes to the investigation into him and his wife. 626 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,400 Speaker 4: You wonder if this has anything to do with the 627 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 4: diaper contract, because that's very possible as well. 628 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 3: I love the fact that all the attentions on his 629 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 3: old lady, she. 630 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 4: Brought that attention on herself. Remember she got national coverage 631 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 4: when she took the mic out of Gavin's hand to 632 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,880 Speaker 4: chastise the room of female reporters who are asking the 633 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,960 Speaker 4: governor about questions about the governor's office when they were 634 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 4: doing a press conference about abortion. 635 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a strange one. And you notice he always 636 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,520 Speaker 3: has the weird gesticulations with his hands. 637 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,879 Speaker 4: She does the same thing. Maybe he got it from her. 638 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 4: Sometimes we tend to emulate our significant others. 639 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 3: You see her standing there at the podium, and you 640 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,320 Speaker 3: think she's bored at the press conference and practicing karate 641 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 3: or something. 642 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,280 Speaker 4: Gravity writes in he should call free Legal, Bay Area Legal. 643 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:19,840 Speaker 4: He's already paid. 644 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 3: Them, called better call Saul. 645 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,799 Speaker 4: I was about to post this comment from Klaus, but 646 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 4: it is. I don't know if I feel comfortable posting 647 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 4: curse words on the screen when we can't say them 648 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:36,520 Speaker 4: on the radio. Maybe we'll save that for the Accountability Podcast. 649 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 3: Already a OJ's attorney still alive. Carl Douglas, I think 650 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,279 Speaker 3: is maybe that's who he should get. 651 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 4: Most of them are gone. I think Carl Douglas is 652 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,400 Speaker 4: still alive. What about f Lee Bailey. I think he 653 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,879 Speaker 4: didn't he go this year? All right, now, I got 654 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 4: I think his liver went about three or four years 655 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:01,879 Speaker 4: before him f Lee Bailey. He was Yeah, he died 656 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one. Okay, might have been might have 657 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,800 Speaker 4: been a COVID thing. That's not an option. 658 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,080 Speaker 3: All right, have a good weekend, everyone. We'll see on 659 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,360 Speaker 3: Monday for another edition of The John Phillips Show. 660 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,800 Speaker 2: And listen to the Accountability Podcast. If you have it. 661 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,719 Speaker 4: This weekend, we talk about San Francisco trying to ban 662 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,479 Speaker 4: whippets YouTube dot com. 663 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 2: Slash Out Accountability Podcast