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We're at over 6,800 subscribers on the channel 0:00:42.140 --> 0:00:45.100 and growing every single day. Your like button and your 0:00:45.140 --> 0:00:48.080 chats help push us to new people every day. And, Johnny, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.199 we start with some big breaking news in the L.A. 0:00:51.260 --> 0:00:57.430 mayor's race because Karen Bass is cratering in the election 0:00:57.690 --> 0:01:02.450 betting odds on Kelshi. She is taking some big, big, 0:01:02.690 --> 0:01:04.150 big dips right now. 0:01:05.290 --> 0:01:09.850 Well, a number of reasons are factoring into this. One 0:01:10.330 --> 0:01:13.450 is there are a number of polls that were released 0:01:13.590 --> 0:01:17.830 in recent days. Some public polls showing Bass up by 0:01:18.110 --> 0:01:21.369 one point, well within the margin of error of the poll. 0:01:22.150 --> 0:01:24.590 And there are other polls that have come out that 0:01:24.650 --> 0:01:30.090 show Nithya Raman in the lead over Karen Bass. Whether 0:01:30.569 --> 0:01:33.230 one poll is right or the other poll is right 0:01:33.390 --> 0:01:37.470 is almost immaterial. What they're all showing is that the 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.860 movement right now is all going in the direction of 0:01:40.940 --> 0:01:45.180 Nithya Raman. In addition to that, a lot of people, 0:01:45.260 --> 0:01:49.059 including people in the Bass camp, one of her strategists, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.450 Michael Trujillo, or at least someone who is a public 0:01:52.470 --> 0:01:56.050 supporter of Karen Bass, has been talking about how they 0:01:56.110 --> 0:02:00.210 believe that the Pratt vote will go overwhelmingly to Karen Bass. 0:02:00.660 --> 0:02:05.100 Trujillo tweets about that all the time. So far, Spencer 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.930 Pratt has not endorsed either candidate. But today, Randy, he 0:02:09.990 --> 0:02:13.850 went on the record as to what he thinks his 0:02:13.930 --> 0:02:16.070 voters should do in November. 0:02:16.590 --> 0:02:20.970 I'm calling this segment Bass in the Basura. Bass pisses 0:02:21.090 --> 0:02:27.650 off Spencer Pratt. If you go on X on Spencer 0:02:27.710 --> 0:02:31.510 Pratt's Twitter account, which is full of just the best 0:02:31.570 --> 0:02:36.690 information about going after people like bonehead Bob Bonta, Spencer 0:02:36.750 --> 0:02:41.660 Pratt put out a lengthy statement, not who he's endorsing 0:02:41.700 --> 0:02:45.200 in the race, but who he definitely wants to lose 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:50.250 in the race. Well, for all of my voters struggling 0:02:50.330 --> 0:02:55.180 to decide who to vote for as L.A. mayor, Karen 0:02:55.240 --> 0:03:00.839 Basura just made the choice really easy. Three months later... 0:03:01.330 --> 0:03:06.850 She's still campaigning against me instead of her incompetent DSA opponent. 0:03:07.460 --> 0:03:11.100 Imagine how dumb you have to be to trash me 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:16.340 and alienate 30% of the actual voters in your city 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.420 when you're already down in the polls. When I went 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.440 to the president. and remarked about Karen, quote, she's nice 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.690 and everything, she's just really dumb, just a very slow person, 0:03:29.070 --> 0:03:33.970 not a whole lot going on upstairs. Turns out he's 100% right. 0:03:34.510 --> 0:03:37.850 I often refer to this election as the dumb and 0:03:37.990 --> 0:03:46.270 dumber election. Now we know who is the dumber. This 0:03:46.350 --> 0:03:51.900 incompetent communist burned down my town. She's wrecked the city. 0:03:52.460 --> 0:03:58.840 Homelessness is getting worse. She must be fired. Vote out 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:04.180 Karen Bass. Bleep whatever Caruso says. He only cares about 0:04:04.260 --> 0:04:08.900 getting his little sidewalk permits rubber stamped. He's not relevant. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.330 Bass must go. At Michael Trujillo, you should have spent 0:04:13.350 --> 0:04:17.070 more time coaching Karen instead of wasting your time lecturing me. 0:04:17.089 --> 0:04:23.599 She is legitimately a bleeping moron. And then he attached 0:04:23.710 --> 0:04:28.599 a video of Karen Bass going on a podcast this week, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:34.040 the flagrant and funny podcast with Cab Champion and Jemele 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.539 Hill trashing Spencer Pratt. 0:04:37.220 --> 0:04:37.500 You know. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:43.339 He is 100% correct in so many different ways. We 0:04:43.420 --> 0:04:47.200 know at this point that the Spencer Pratt voters will 0:04:47.260 --> 0:04:50.930 decide who's going to win the election. And instead of 0:04:51.010 --> 0:04:55.109 doing everything they can to court those voters into voting 0:04:55.190 --> 0:04:58.950 for them, all she has done is gone out of 0:04:58.990 --> 0:05:04.120 her way to alienate them and to fight over DSA 0:05:04.180 --> 0:05:08.970 voters who are going to overwhelmingly vote for Rahman. The 0:05:09.070 --> 0:05:14.010 logic that goes into that, I don't understand. But that's 0:05:14.050 --> 0:05:17.279 what Karen Bass is doing. And if she's as dumb 0:05:17.339 --> 0:05:19.900 as he says she is, that would make sense. 0:05:20.460 --> 0:05:22.500 I think she is as dumb as he says she is. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.680 Who else would release a video saying how you're going 0:05:26.700 --> 0:05:29.880 to mom Donnie fix a pothole and then in the 0:05:29.940 --> 0:05:32.030 video you don't fix the pothole? 0:05:32.650 --> 0:05:35.730 You know, it sounds like Spencer Pratt has settled on 0:05:35.810 --> 0:05:39.120 the position that I have taken recently. some time ago, 0:05:39.860 --> 0:05:43.380 and that is that neither one of these candidates deserves 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:48.660 to win, but Karen Bass deserves to lose. Karen Bass 0:05:48.740 --> 0:05:53.120 burned down the Palisades. Karen Bass made homelessness her number 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.089 one priority, and the number of people living on the 0:05:56.130 --> 0:06:00.830 streets has gone up. Karen Bass has not repaved roads 0:06:00.970 --> 0:06:02.430 in what, Randy, over a year? 0:06:03.290 --> 0:06:07.849 Haven't repaved a single mile of road since 2024. Part 0:06:07.890 --> 0:06:10.070 of that is because we have a new road diet 0:06:10.110 --> 0:06:11.870 law that says when you repave a road, you got 0:06:11.890 --> 0:06:14.980 to put in a bike lane. But regardless, the infrastructure 0:06:15.010 --> 0:06:17.220 has gone to hell. You know, I just spent the 0:06:17.260 --> 0:06:19.960 weekend up in San Francisco and a lot of people 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.940 like to say that San Francisco has a lot of 0:06:21.980 --> 0:06:24.840 the same issues as the city of L.A., Outside of 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.440 the Tenderloin, which is scary, and my Waymo did take 0:06:27.490 --> 0:06:30.130 me through Gary, and that was a wild scene. San 0:06:30.150 --> 0:06:33.910 Francisco is clean. The infrastructure works in San Francisco. You 0:06:33.950 --> 0:06:36.850 can hop on Muni, and it's actually effective, and it's 0:06:36.970 --> 0:06:39.890 much safer than it was before. You don't see all 0:06:39.930 --> 0:06:43.089 this insanity in the streets everywhere, except for the Tenderloin. 0:06:43.450 --> 0:06:46.130 In LA, it is rampant, it is constant, and it 0:06:46.170 --> 0:06:48.500 has only gotten worse over the last four years. 0:06:48.750 --> 0:06:50.719 Well, you don't even have to go all the way 0:06:50.820 --> 0:06:54.369 up to Northern California. Just go right across the city 0:06:54.450 --> 0:06:58.290 limit line into Burbank or go to the South Bay 0:06:58.450 --> 0:07:02.000 or go to other independent cities in Los Angeles County. 0:07:02.460 --> 0:07:06.380 Those cities function just fine. But you go inside the 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.440 city limits of Los Angeles and it's like a third 0:07:09.500 --> 0:07:12.860 world country or maybe President Trump would call it something else. 0:07:15.460 --> 0:07:17.780 I would include Culver City to that list, but that 0:07:17.780 --> 0:07:21.290 10 outside the Del Taco is back. And it seems 0:07:21.350 --> 0:07:22.890 to be growing in size. 0:07:23.180 --> 0:07:23.540 Uh-oh. 0:07:23.980 --> 0:07:27.720 So, Johnny, this wasn't exactly what we planned on starting 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.960 today's show with. We were going to start with scrub-a-dub-dub-baccaria 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:31.920 in the basement. 0:07:32.180 --> 0:07:32.680 Scrub it. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.860 But should we go ahead and find out what Karen 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.770 Bass said on this I Heart Sports podcast that pissed 0:07:39.810 --> 0:07:42.870 him off to the point where he officially declared Karen 0:07:42.890 --> 0:07:44.390 Bass needs to be the loser? 0:07:44.690 --> 0:07:46.050 Let's hear from Mayor Dummer. 0:07:46.650 --> 0:07:47.230 All righty. 0:07:47.670 --> 0:07:51.020 Hear what you're saying. You're saying that Those who should 0:07:51.060 --> 0:07:56.440 support her support you. However, this runoff in particular is 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.060 the first time that an incumbent Los Angeles mayor has 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.560 been forced into a November runoff since 2005. Why do 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:04.320 you think that is? 0:08:04.780 --> 0:08:07.040 Well, because you're terrible at your job. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.420 Yeah, I'd put that at the top of the list. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.550 I mean, she's so bad, she makes people forget how 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.960 bad of a mayor Eric Adams was in New York. 0:08:18.150 --> 0:08:21.090 Was it the element of Spencer Pratt or was it 0:08:21.110 --> 0:08:22.530 because they just want something new? 0:08:23.090 --> 0:08:25.590 Well, I think it's again, I think it's the mood 0:08:26.070 --> 0:08:29.120 that people are in that funk and want to see 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.860 something different. It's ironic. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.179 Why are we in that funk, Karen? 0:08:33.179 --> 0:08:37.240 You know, what's funny is like Joe Biden. She ran 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.729 on the platform of being the I've been in government 0:08:40.770 --> 0:08:43.689 forever and I'm a steady hand and I will keep 0:08:43.790 --> 0:08:47.959 the car from going off the cliff candidate. And she 0:08:48.020 --> 0:08:51.780 has been anything but that. It has been nonstop chaos 0:08:51.830 --> 0:08:53.209 since this woman got elected. 0:08:55.290 --> 0:08:58.270 The last mayor that faced a runoff was in a 0:08:58.350 --> 0:09:01.870 similar situation to me. He wasn't here during 9-11. 0:09:02.510 --> 0:09:06.949 And you weren't here when the city burned down. She's 0:09:06.970 --> 0:09:08.450 not really helping her case. 0:09:08.929 --> 0:09:09.550 No, she's not. 0:09:10.290 --> 0:09:15.000 That carried a pall over him the entire time of 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:19.850 his term. So, you know, I think that voters go 0:09:19.929 --> 0:09:23.650 through these periods. What I'm describing, though, is that this 0:09:23.770 --> 0:09:27.740 is not a shockingly new trend. We go through these 0:09:27.860 --> 0:09:32.000 every 10 years or so where people just get so disgusted. 0:09:32.380 --> 0:09:36.460 And it usually has economic roots that people are so mad. 0:09:36.500 --> 0:09:40.240 They're mad about wars. Typically, they're mad about the economy. 0:09:40.650 --> 0:09:42.880 which are interconnected between the two. 0:09:43.020 --> 0:09:46.300 I'm a sitting resident born and raised here. I am 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.280 a voter in the city of Los Angeles. I'm pissed 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.740 off about the issue you campaigned on that you said 0:09:51.780 --> 0:09:54.650 you would fix by 2026, the bums. 0:09:55.510 --> 0:09:58.250 It's so wild to me how they think that the 0:09:58.370 --> 0:10:03.180 criticism is always misplaced. They think that the public is 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.120 manipulated by bad actors into hating them. And if the 0:10:07.179 --> 0:10:10.040 public was smart, they would know that they're doing a 0:10:10.090 --> 0:10:11.179 crackerjack job. 0:10:13.490 --> 0:10:15.510 And then they go through periods where they just want 0:10:15.610 --> 0:10:17.630 all the bums out. I mean, and that's the slogan. 0:10:18.290 --> 0:10:20.650 That would be a great slogan. Can we try that? 0:10:21.150 --> 0:10:23.140 How about all the bums out of the encampments? Can 0:10:23.179 --> 0:10:23.640 we do that? 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.000 And anybody that's an elected official, I would rather vote 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.100 for somebody like Spencer Pratt, who has no experience with anything. 0:10:32.460 --> 0:10:35.160 As a matter of fact, his only credentials is he 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.760 was in a pretty poor reality show. 0:10:38.059 --> 0:10:40.900 Wait, why are you now trashing the reality show he 0:10:40.940 --> 0:10:42.530 was on when he was in his 20s? 0:10:42.940 --> 0:10:48.270 This is so dumb. This is beyond dumb. This is 0:10:48.610 --> 0:10:50.830 her going to the people who are going to decide 0:10:50.870 --> 0:10:56.150 the election and rattling the hornet's nest at the most 0:10:56.270 --> 0:11:01.030 critical possible time right before the ballots go out. She 0:11:01.110 --> 0:11:04.090 decides to do this. What a fool. 0:11:05.150 --> 0:11:08.180 It shows you how deep the idiocy of tribalism is. 0:11:08.550 --> 0:11:12.209 She is a terrible, terrible, terrible campaigner. She was a 0:11:12.270 --> 0:11:15.390 terrible campaigner against Rick Caruso, but, oh, he used to 0:11:15.429 --> 0:11:18.550 be a Republican, and she's been a lifelong Democrat. She's in, 0:11:19.230 --> 0:11:22.890 and she is awful at this. She is awful at campaigning. 0:11:23.250 --> 0:11:26.710 For somebody who is running as the incumbent, is making 0:11:26.970 --> 0:11:32.360 every possible wrong move, including deciding to trash the 30% 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.560 of the electorate that you need to win the race. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.860 What's wild to me also is is if she wants 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.819 to speak to the Spencer Pratt voters, you're not going 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:47.090 to talk to them on podcasts like this. You're talking 0:11:47.130 --> 0:11:50.350 to people who are already voting for you here. You 0:11:50.390 --> 0:11:54.030 need to go talk to Spencer Pratt voters where they are, 0:11:54.570 --> 0:11:57.950 which is a forum like this or other radio programs 0:11:58.010 --> 0:12:02.950 in Los Angeles, other podcasts in Los Angeles, television shows, 0:12:03.970 --> 0:12:09.410 live forums, whatever. I'm not seeing her going to any 0:12:09.630 --> 0:12:11.970 of those forums. I guess she did one talk show 0:12:12.350 --> 0:12:15.230 here in Los Angeles that's not particularly a political one, 0:12:15.770 --> 0:12:20.740 but that was basically it. Outside of that, she's not 0:12:20.980 --> 0:12:25.080 asking these Pratt voters for their vote. She's sticking her 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:25.960 thumb in their eye. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:32.120 And did good artificial intelligence work? That demonized me. I mean, 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.559 in the most vile, vicious ways. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.420 They painted you as the Joker. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.250 That added to people's, you know, it made me a 0:12:44.370 --> 0:12:46.929 focal point of anger. 0:12:47.830 --> 0:12:50.090 Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait 0:12:50.110 --> 0:12:53.920 a second. Is Karen Bass alleging that the reason people 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.960 are so pissed off at her is that somebody made 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.599 a video with Karen Bass as the Joker because of AI, 0:13:00.940 --> 0:13:02.500 and that's why people don't like her? 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.750 I think she buys into that. I think that she 0:13:05.790 --> 0:13:09.850 believes that she would be popular in Los Angeles if 0:13:09.910 --> 0:13:13.970 it weren't for Spencer Pratt and his online campaign against her. 0:13:15.250 --> 0:13:19.520 He only started running in February. She's been unpopular for 0:13:19.580 --> 0:13:24.199 a very long time. I would argue she was unpopular 0:13:24.260 --> 0:13:25.820 before the Palisades fire. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.240 Also, go back to when she took office. I would 0:13:31.260 --> 0:13:33.690 have voted for Rick Caruso over her if I lived 0:13:33.730 --> 0:13:35.950 in Los Angeles County. I would have not voted for 0:13:35.990 --> 0:13:39.070 her in the last election. But when she was elected, 0:13:39.530 --> 0:13:43.810 there was still this sense of optimism of, okay, Eric 0:13:43.850 --> 0:13:47.980 Garcetti is gone. It couldn't possibly get any worse than that. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.590 Let's give the woman a chance. At least she wants 0:13:51.650 --> 0:13:54.540 to address homelessness. She wants to do something about it. 0:13:54.929 --> 0:13:58.370 And it was just crash and burn from the moment 0:13:58.429 --> 0:14:01.489 she put her hand on the Bible. And she had 0:14:01.750 --> 0:14:05.990 all of this goodwill that extended all across the city. 0:14:06.410 --> 0:14:08.090 And she managed to screw that up too. 0:14:08.110 --> 0:14:13.120 On that though, I remain optimistic. I feel positive going 0:14:13.220 --> 0:14:15.439 into the election. And the other thing is, is that 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.960 it's not just that I'm in a runoff, but it's 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.440 a tight, it's a tight runoff. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.020 Although Bass won't release her internal polling and Nithya had 0:14:23.060 --> 0:14:26.110 internal polling that showed her beating Bass by like five points. 0:14:26.330 --> 0:14:29.430 Yeah. What does that tell you that Bass's internal polling 0:14:29.510 --> 0:14:29.930 is showing? 0:14:30.550 --> 0:14:34.010 Expected her to be number two. Everybody expected it to 0:14:34.050 --> 0:14:37.980 be Spencer Pratt. He raised all of this money. But 0:14:38.020 --> 0:14:40.080 look at what he did with the money that he raised, too. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.960 He was living in luxury hotels. 0:14:41.980 --> 0:14:47.660 Because you burned his house down. For heaven's sake, you 0:14:47.710 --> 0:14:49.430 think this makes you look good? 0:14:50.250 --> 0:14:53.770 Talk about kicking someone when they're down. He's not even 0:14:53.810 --> 0:14:55.990 in the race anymore and you're trashing him. 0:14:57.910 --> 0:15:02.440 He was spending their money, their campaign contributions, very foolishly 0:15:03.260 --> 0:15:07.640 And we are, you know, where we are. But she's 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.020 been in City Hall, and listen to this, she's been 0:15:11.070 --> 0:15:12.910 in City Hall twice as long. 0:15:12.730 --> 0:15:13.270 As I have. 0:15:14.110 --> 0:15:16.650 That's not really a sound endorsement of either. 0:15:16.470 --> 0:15:18.570 Of you idiots. This is why it's the dumb and 0:15:18.610 --> 0:15:19.410 dumber election. 0:15:20.330 --> 0:15:23.229 She has been a pretty poor member of the City Council. 0:15:23.290 --> 0:15:25.920 As a matter of fact, I spent half of my 0:15:25.980 --> 0:15:29.960 day cleaning up a problem in her district because she 0:15:30.180 --> 0:15:33.630 was not known to be a good She didn't pay 0:15:33.670 --> 0:15:36.830 a lot of attention to her constituents. So I'm running 0:15:36.890 --> 0:15:39.980 around being the council person to clean up a mess 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.620 in her district. But yet she now wants to run 0:15:43.660 --> 0:15:46.720 the city. She's been in Los Angeles for 13 years, 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.830 six of which was in city council. And now she 0:15:49.870 --> 0:15:52.890 wants to run the city. I'm born and raised here. 0:15:53.010 --> 0:15:55.430 I've been a progressive my entire life. 0:15:56.230 --> 0:15:59.250 She's trying to run to the left of Nithya, which 0:15:59.310 --> 0:16:01.490 includes her being on the Metro board and saying that 0:16:01.530 --> 0:16:03.170 we need to make transit free again. 0:16:03.790 --> 0:16:07.400 They are pretending as if the Pratt voters won't decide 0:16:07.420 --> 0:16:10.460 who the winner is going to be. Both camps seem 0:16:10.500 --> 0:16:13.760 to believe that DSA voters are the swing vote here. 0:16:14.540 --> 0:16:17.400 And that's the block of voters that they're both appealing 0:16:17.460 --> 0:16:19.880 to as we get closer to election day. 0:16:22.230 --> 0:16:25.870 Every instinct for this campaign is the wrong one. 0:16:26.110 --> 0:16:29.650 Of the receipts, I think people have to ask her 0:16:29.730 --> 0:16:33.020 for her receipts. What has she actually done in her time? 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.620 Of all of the issues that she's raising in the 0:16:35.660 --> 0:16:40.420 mayoral race, what is her track record on those same issues? 0:16:40.940 --> 0:16:41.680 What are yours? 0:16:42.700 --> 0:16:47.730 This is beyond depressing because one of these two foals 0:16:47.830 --> 0:16:49.430 is going to be the next mayor of L.A. for 0:16:49.450 --> 0:16:52.600 the next four years. And I don't think the city 0:16:52.620 --> 0:16:53.660 can take either one of them. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.240 I can't believe I flew home last night from San 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.760 Francisco to come back to this dump of a city. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:04.900 I'm telling you, traveling around this city is so depressing 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.820 right now. This is like a city without a pulse. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.770 You travel around the country. You go to different places. 0:17:12.980 --> 0:17:16.950 Even here in Southern California, you go to different cities 0:17:17.310 --> 0:17:22.770 and there's vibrancy. There's life. There's blood that's flowing. In 0:17:22.830 --> 0:17:27.750 Los Angeles right now, it's like a dead and decaying city. 0:17:28.910 --> 0:17:32.409 And it needs someone to bring out the defibrillator and 0:17:32.450 --> 0:17:37.490 bring life back to it. And these two women just 0:17:37.530 --> 0:17:40.830 want to have a seance. They seem to be happy 0:17:40.869 --> 0:17:43.429 with the fact that we're dead. And they don't want 0:17:43.470 --> 0:17:44.470 to bring us back to life. 0:17:46.030 --> 0:17:48.130 And this is the choice that we have in November. 0:17:49.730 --> 0:17:54.550 It's awful. Awful, awful, awful. All right, if you want 0:17:54.570 --> 0:17:57.410 to watch us perform the show live, go to johnnydontlike.com 0:17:57.450 --> 0:17:59.830 and make sure to click that like button. 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Someone wants to know 0:19:02.780 --> 0:19:04.440 in the chat if Stossel's coming on today. 0:19:09.070 --> 0:19:10.850 You never know what's going to happen on this show. 0:19:12.430 --> 0:19:14.970 Anything can happen, really. It's live radio. 0:19:15.270 --> 0:19:18.490 Truer words have never been said. All right, so we 0:19:18.530 --> 0:19:23.230 know that Javier Baccaria, who is the Democratic candidate for 0:19:23.310 --> 0:19:27.510 governor here in California, thinks that because of the registration 0:19:27.570 --> 0:19:31.730 advantage that Democrats have over Republicans in this state, him 0:19:31.790 --> 0:19:35.770 winning the election is a foregone conclusion, so why bother 0:19:36.010 --> 0:19:39.770 to campaign around the state? He's been hiding in his basement, 0:19:40.310 --> 0:19:43.440 and he came out of that basement just briefly. 0:19:44.100 --> 0:19:47.770 Scrub it. You now have consultants who are analyzing this 0:19:47.869 --> 0:19:53.510 race who are saying, on tape, on the record, Becerra's 0:19:53.570 --> 0:19:56.629 best strategy is just to go on vacation. 0:19:58.030 --> 0:19:59.770 Because then he can't screw anything up. 0:20:00.410 --> 0:20:04.199 Because he's got such a lead. because people are so tribal. 0:20:04.260 --> 0:20:06.540 It's going to be a hard year for Republicans. Let's 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.479 all just be honest about that. But the registration advantages 0:20:10.609 --> 0:20:14.290 are so in one direction. What's the point of even campaigning? 0:20:14.710 --> 0:20:20.669 Even though we are, let me double check this, one, two, three, four, five, 0:20:21.190 --> 0:20:23.429 six weeks away from the end of the election, the 0:20:24.590 --> 0:20:28.109 ballots go into your mail in two weeks. The guy 0:20:28.170 --> 0:20:31.060 who's supposed to be the governor is nowhere to be found. 0:20:31.730 --> 0:20:35.170 More on this, we go to ABC 10 in Sacramento. 0:20:35.190 --> 0:20:40.340 Let's turn now to the race for governor with a 0:20:40.390 --> 0:20:42.619 face-off between a Democrat and Republican. 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:43.960 But in a blue. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.980 State like California, what is the uphill battle the Republican 0:20:47.020 --> 0:20:49.840 candidate faces? ABC 10 State Matters Political. 0:20:49.859 --> 0:20:51.859 I'll tell you what the uphill battle is. Steve Hilton 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:56.330 this weekend did a 45-minute interview with Ashley Zavala. Javier 0:20:56.350 --> 0:20:57.889 Becerra slept in. 0:20:57.910 --> 0:21:01.609 Ha, ha, ha, ha. Javier Becerra wouldn't even do the 0:21:01.670 --> 0:21:03.350 pod Save America Bros. 0:21:03.930 --> 0:21:05.869 Yeah, he doesn't want to go on with John Lovett. 0:21:06.369 --> 0:21:09.439 Reporter Ginny Ha spoke to political insiders and has the 0:21:09.460 --> 0:21:10.160 breakdown now. 0:21:10.700 --> 0:21:12.680 Well, Chris, what we have to wonder here is what 0:21:12.740 --> 0:21:15.459 is the messaging we're hearing from each candidate? How do 0:21:15.500 --> 0:21:19.080 their promises differ? And where in the state are they campaigning? 0:21:19.300 --> 0:21:21.080 What are the promises for Becerra? 0:21:22.290 --> 0:21:26.270 So you talk to people in Sacramento and a lot 0:21:26.310 --> 0:21:29.450 of people who work for the interest groups are concerned 0:21:29.470 --> 0:21:33.180 that Because he's not really taking a position on a 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.879 lot of subjects that are going to come up in 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.280 front of the next governor. They don't know how he's 0:21:38.300 --> 0:21:40.540 going to react to a lot of these things. And 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.179 that's making them very concerned. 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:46.389 I think it's pretty much going along the lines that 0:21:46.430 --> 0:21:47.170 we thought it was going to go. 0:21:47.430 --> 0:21:51.470 Hilton trying very much to get attention. And Becerra's being 0:21:51.510 --> 0:21:52.810 very conservative. 0:21:56.250 --> 0:21:57.369 That's one way to put it. 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:00.119 Wow, that was charitable. 0:22:00.790 --> 0:22:04.429 This between Democrat Javier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton to 0:22:04.470 --> 0:22:08.910 be California's next governor is going as expected, political strategists say. 0:22:09.230 --> 0:22:11.690 A race in which poll after poll and the state's 0:22:11.730 --> 0:22:15.600 voter registration indicate a significant advantage for the Democrat. 0:22:15.820 --> 0:22:18.280 And even though a big portion of the voting block 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.379 is no party preference, they're skewing towards Becerra too. 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:26.180 Well, people assume that no party preference voters are people 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:31.520 who are moderates, or people who are disaffected Republicans or 0:22:31.580 --> 0:22:34.860 disaffected Democrats, and they're willing to vote for both sides. 0:22:35.420 --> 0:22:40.280 And the answer is that's largely not true. Many of 0:22:40.340 --> 0:22:45.080 the no-party preference voters or independent voters in California are 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.840 actually to the left of Democratic voters. If you think 0:22:47.900 --> 0:22:51.320 about it, there are many DSA types out there who 0:22:51.340 --> 0:22:54.119 think that the Democratic Party is not far left enough. 0:22:54.750 --> 0:22:57.330 They don't want to associate with the Democratic Party because 0:22:57.369 --> 0:23:01.400 they see them as being an agent of corporatism. Well, 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.560 if that's the case, then I guess you're a no 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:06.820 party preference voter. But it's not like you're a down 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:11.100 the middle moderate. You're an extreme left wing ideologue. And 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:13.050 that's what you're talking about with a lot of these 0:23:13.230 --> 0:23:15.050 NPP voters in California. 0:23:16.590 --> 0:23:19.290 We've always known that this is an uphill battle. So 0:23:19.330 --> 0:23:22.939