WEBVTT - Is Xavier Becerra this cycle's Joe Biden? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.440 And we continue at twelve oh seven in the West 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:08.160 on the John Phillips Show, mister Randy Waggs in Culver City. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.040 Yeah, you can say, and we continue because we were 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:12.080 here last night. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.960 And I was up early in the morning doing a 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.239 hit on the radio talking about the election. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.759 John. It looks like, as we're still counting ballots, that 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.080 it is a short thing that Javier Bessera is going 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.000 into the runoff in November. And here's one thing you 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:37.320 may not have known about Javier Besera. He's kind of creepy. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:46.519 The California Dream It's alive tonight and you see I 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:47.879 get to hug it and kiss. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.919 It every night. Oh whoa, I don't want to know 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.120 what that means. What do you think Tom Styer's doing 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:55.520 at night? 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.440 Well, I mean he definitely needed to to relieve some stress. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.240 His speech was very angry. He was very upset at 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.840 all the corporations that spent against him, even though he 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.720 spent way more than they did, so he probably needed 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.119 to go get to Koreatown. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.160 And I'm Tom Steyer. I'm about to ride the team. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.160 I love the fact that all that guy does is 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.560 go off on rich people and he's a billionaire. He's 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:27.720 a self hating richie. He's like Clayton Bixby. Remember him. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.440 Oh, was that the the Dave Chappelle sketch the black 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:33.640 white supremacist. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.520 Yes, yes, he is the billionaire Clayton Bixby. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.840 Well, Johnny, we have a lot of electure results as 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:51.360 the counting continues, and the counting will continue for several days. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.640 How do we allow this to happen? I guess it's 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.680 not just our roads that are third world? So is 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.280 the way we count ballots. How do they do this 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.040 in one day in Brazil but we can't do it here. Well, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.360 we allow people to sign up at the last minute, 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.320 and we allow people to show up at the last minute, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.119 and then it takes a month to figure out who 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.240 went wins the election. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.959 I mean, yes, the election gets certified in a month. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.080 That's true, and it's been true forever. It's been true everywhere. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:26.080 But the projections you can usually see out because most 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.520 of the ballots are counted before the last minute. But 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:34.280 from what we have right now, and these numbers will update. Currently, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.320 in the California governor's race, Steve Hilton in first place 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:43.079 with one point three to eight million votes, Javier Bakaria 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.280 in second place with one point two six million votes 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.680 twenty seven percent Hilton twenty five percent Bisera, and then 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.480 below him it's Tom Steyer with under a million votes 0:02:54.560 --> 0:03:00.000 so far at nineteen percent. Could those numbers change, possibly, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:01.640 but probably not. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.520 Well, go back to the LA Mayor's race the last 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.760 time around, when we all went to bed thinking that 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.359 it was Rick Caruso who was going to be the mayor, 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.040 and then it was like a ten point swing. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.880 Well, if we had a ten point swing for Tom Steyer, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.160 then that would knock Besera out right. Now, Steve Hilton 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.440 with the percentage of votes that he has, we'll see 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.799 what happens now. It is true that these smaller, more 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.799 Republican counties count their ballots faster. So maybe what was 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.240 we're waiting to come in is a lot of Los Angeles, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.640 which is a heavily Besera area, the Bay Area, which 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.360 is also a heavily Besera area. The only places where 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.280 tom Styer has been leading so far is like Eureka. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.440 Okay, so think about this though for a second. Let's 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.800 just assume that there's some avalanche of ballots that exist 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.280 that we don't know about right now. In theory, the 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:06.000 Democratic vote is going to be split between Bessarah and 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:11.040 Steier and to a lesser extent, Mayhan, Porter, Vira Gosa, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:11.920 and Thurman. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:13.160 I mean barely. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.360 But he's not going to get one hundred percent of 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.760 the Democratic votes like he would if it was one 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:24.240 on one. Just because a Democratic ballot comes in doesn't 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.919 mean he's going to get that vote. It means he 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.159 may get a portion of those votes, but he's not 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.640 going to get all of them like he would into 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.359 straight up Republican versus Democrat matchup. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.000 It could be one of the eighteen thousand people that 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.720 voted for Eric Swalwell. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.960 That's true. Who the hell is voting for Eric Swalwell 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.599 at this point. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.920 You either have people that are so checked out they 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:55.039 didn't know that story, or they took his side on 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.520 the rape allegations. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:02.040 Imagine being that guy. Imagine taking up one morning. You're 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.200 drinking your coffee, you're eating your cereal, you're looking at 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.479 the morning paper, you have the Today Show on in 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.600 the background, and you go, this state has a million 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:21.160 in one problems. Homelessness, crime, the budget, affordability, you name it. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.400 We have a problem. You know who would be a 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:29.080 great steward of this state to fix what's broken. A rapist, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.600 that's who. What California needs is someone who won't take 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:34.560 no for an answer. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.560 I mean, currently it is zero point three seven percent 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.080 of the vote, but that's something. And how about our 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.719 poor girl, Katie Porter, who officially conceded last night, not 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.320 even breaking five percent. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.599 Okay, so what do you think she's doing right now? 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.200 Do you think she's punching holes in the wall or 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.000 do you think she's watching more porn on the television 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.600 in the living room. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.920 Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots. Well, typically when 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.400 you go through something like that, you got to let 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.159 off some steam. And for some people the way you 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.800 let off some steam is with some heated rivalry on HBO. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.960 Why do you have to watch porn in the living room? 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.239 Well, in the old days, it would have been little 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.520 Debbie to blow off some steam. But now that that 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.640 is pharmaceutically prohibited, I don't know what she's gonna do. 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.040 I'm just glad I'm not Irvine right now. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.400 Also, one thing that at least as the as the 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.560 numbers hold, and the numbers have been pretty close to 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.920 what the polling has looked like over the last couple 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.560 of weeks, it doesn't look like at least at this point, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.600 there's a whole lot of danger of a D lockout 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:53.120 or an R lockout. No, No, And Tom Steyer though, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.919 claims that he is not dropping out of this election 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.440 until he is officially knocked out of the race by 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.800 the Secretary Area State. And you look at the betting 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.800 markets which are still going on right now, and Spencer 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.000 Pratt is certainly a heavy favorite to move on in November. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.400 Steve Hilton is a heavy favorite to move on in November, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.560 but they aren't at one hundred percent yet. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:16.040 No. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.560 And in fact, on Calshi, which this is what the 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.160 news organizations do, we go to the betting markets. CNN 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.640 does it, so we might as well. Tom Steyer currently 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.400 still has a twenty six percent odds to advance. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.200 Yeah, let me tell you something. If you really want 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.720 to destroy public confidence in the elections here in California, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.560 you have two candidates who are up by like ten 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.440 points on election night and then a month later you go, oh, yeah, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:46.320 that guy lost. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.640 Well, it's been working that way for a while in California, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.800 and I don't see that changing anytime soon, but at 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:59.120 least for right now in the California governor's race, with 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.120 the amount of results that we have in Steve Hilton 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.440 is in first place with twenty seven percent of the vote. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:11.040 That we'll probably go down a bit, but it looks 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:12.400 like he's making the top two. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.400 Well, here's another thing to think about. If you're worried 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.040 about shenanigans, like I know many of you are, and 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.640 I am too, one of the things that would prevent 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.560 that from happening in this particular cycle is that I 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.440 don't think the Democrats want a Democrat on Democrat matchup 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:36.240 in November, particularly against Tom Steyer, because what would you 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:41.520 would end up with is a very rich Democrat spending 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.120 whatever it takes to knock Besarah out and destroy his reputation, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.640 and then you'd have the unions and the Democratic Party 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.600 interest groups all getting behind Besserah to try to keep 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.880 him in the catbird seat, So it would cost them 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.760 a fortune, it would result in his reputation being ruined, 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.880 and it would be a never ending nightmare that would 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.920 go on through November. So I don't even think they 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:07.320 want that. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.880 There is a finite amount of money that can be 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.880 raised that can be spent on all kinds of races. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.240 As we go into November, nobody wants to spend any 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.280 money if they don't have to on the California governor's race, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.440 and if it is Besara versus Hilton, they don't really 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.960 have to spend a lot of money. The more I 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.080 watched Bessera, and I watched him on television last night, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:34.120 and we've certainly been watching him throughout this election, he 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:39.680 is the California Joe Biden. You go back to twenty twenty, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:45.160 when Joe Biden initially won that Democratic primary, he was 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.839 not the guy who looked like he was going to 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.480 win when that thing started. Oh and in fact, he 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.000 came in fifth place in the Iowa caucus. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.319 Yeah, fifth place in the first one. Then he went 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.040 and got wiped out in New Hampshire, and then he 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.240 got wiped out in Nevada, and then it all came 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.360 down to South Carolina. And what saved him in South 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:13.160 Carolina was that Jim Clyburn endorsed him and through the 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:17.840 black vote to Biden, which in South Carolina is a 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:22.360 sizable portion of the Democratic primary. And then after that, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.640 a bunch of Southern states voted also with large black populations, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.560 and it was black voters that saved Joe Biden. They 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.280 voted for him over Kamala. By the way, Well. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.520 I think Kamala had dropped out before the first vote 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:37.280 was even cast. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:41.160 But yes, that is true. Yes, so he was just 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:45.120 the sole survivor. He was last man standing. He wasn't 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.320 the one that they wanted. He was the one that 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.880 they ended up with. And you look at Besserah. Nobody 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.680 wanted him. The people who have worked with him throughout 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.440 the years in Congress, in the Biden administration, they all 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.280 think he doesn't have two brain cells to rub together, 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.280 and they're perfectly happy to tell that to any reporter 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.319 with a pen and paper, and those stories you've been 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.080 all over the place ever since Besarah became the guy. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.439 But go back to the beginning of that election. They 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.920 all thought Kamala was going to run and it was 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:27.360 going to be a coronation, and then she took forever 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:32.400 because she's selfish, and then decided that she wasn't going 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.560 to do it. And then Alex Padilla was the guy. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.880 Everyone thought he was going to jump in the race 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.720 and he was going to be the next governor, and 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.720 then he took forever to decide that he wasn't going 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:48.280 to do it. And then it became Eric Swallwell, and 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.319 he ran as the guy who knew nothing about California 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.440 but was the number one Trump hater in the country, 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.480 and that was good enough for them. And then we 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:02.120 found out that Eric's Well has some let's call them 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:08.760 personal problems, and we had story after story after story, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.680 and it became such an avalanche that he had to 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.480 get out of the race. And now he might go 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.960 to prison if he gets charged with one of these allegations. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.680 So then the Democrats go, okay, well, what do we do. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.520 We have Tom Steyer, we like his money, but we 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.920 hate his guds, and we have Katie Porter, who you 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.400 think might kick you in the crotch at any given moment. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.040 And they knew they didn't want either one of them. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:44.800 So your options were Mayhan, Bessarah Thurman, or via re Goosa. 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.280 Viaa Goosa was too long in the tooth. Tony Thurman 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.920 never got beyond one percent, and Matt Mayhan is a 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.400 moderate and competent which the Democrats have no tolerance for. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:02.040 So that left them with Besarah. It was a marriage 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.640 of convenience. It wasn't that they fell in love with him. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.920 It wasn't that they thought that he had the answers 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.840 to California's problems. That's how they ended up with him. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.600 And now that he's the guy, and he just kind 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.040 of got there by being the last man standing, the 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.800 same way Joe Biden did. I get the distinct impression 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.640 they're going to run him like Joe Biden. They're going 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.720 to put him in the basement and you're barely going 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.400 to see him the next several months, and they're going 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.320 to come up with all kinds of excuses as to 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.560 why he can't debate, as to why he can't sit 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.480 down for interviews with reporters, because every time the guy 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.800 does that, the needle goes off the record. Don't forget. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.720 They wouldn't let him speak at the press conferences in 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.280 Washington when he was Secretary of Health and Human Services 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.800 because they thought he was more prone to gaffs than Biden. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.120 Scrub it. So they looked at him right the eye 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.839 and they go, you're too dumb to talk. We're gonna 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.760 let Joe do it. And now this is the guy 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:17.320 that's the nominee. So in a democratic state. To get 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.080 him over the finish line, what you have to do 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:25.560 is portray him as the generic Democrat. If you just 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.000 say he's a generic Democrat and he's going to do 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.640 and say whatever it is Democrats are doing and saying 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:35.520 that's good enough for him to win. The risk for 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.040 him in his campaign is if you put him out there, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:46.200 if he sits down in these interviews and delivers performances 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:51.680 like his performance with KTLA, and he goes out there 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.200 and makes a fool of himself, then he opens up 0:14:55.240 --> 0:15:02.840 the door for criticism. Then he starts creating liability that 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:08.760 otherwise wouldn't exist. So my guess is the way they're 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.760 going to run him is they're gonna put him in 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:15.640 front of small crowds, very friendly crowds. He's not going 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.000 to debate, or if he does, it'll be one and 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.680 it's gonna be on a Saturday when I don't know, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.520 a Sunday when the super Bowl's going on or something, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.880 and you're just not gonna see him. That's what I 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.800 would do if I was running him. Do you think 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.360 they're going to put him out there in a blitz Randy. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.200 Well, it opens you up to strange statements like this. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:48.280 The California Dream. It's alive tonight and you see I 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:49.120 get to hug. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:54.320 It and kiss it every night. And if you're Steve Hilton, 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.080 I don't know how you drag him out of the 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:01.240 basement and force him to sit down interviews and debates. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.040 But that's what he's going to have to figure out. 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.560 He's going to have to figure out how to get 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:12.000 Besarah out there as much and as often as possible. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.920 And maybe you play on his ego and you're get 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.840 in his head and you start putting stories out there 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.360 that it's his handlers that don't trust him, so they 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.440 don't want him doing interviews, and you make sure that 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.280 he reads that in the paper. I don't know, but 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.080 that is the sixty four thousand dollars question that the 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.000 Hilton people are gonna have to wrestle with, assuming that 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.200 a month later they don't find votes that knocks him 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.760 in the third place. So that's what we know about 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.120 last night's election. If you went a weigh in on 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.440 what you saw and heard last night, give us a 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.720 call at eight hundred two two two five two two 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.000 two one eight hundred two two two five two two 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.280 two eight hundred two two two five two two two 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.400 is telephone number one eight hundred two two two two 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.080 two two. If you'd like to email the show, you 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.640 can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.359 dot com. 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Well, let's do that right now. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:48.480 Seven ninety KABC Welcomes the Head and the Heart at 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.359 the Pacific Amphitheater at the OC Fair August fourteenth. Tickets 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.000 are on sale now at pacamp dot com. But right 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.560 now caller number nine at one eight at eight seven 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.800 ninety five two two two gets a pair of tickets 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.520 to the show. All concertickets include admission to the OC Fair. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:09.800 Tickets furnished by the Pacific Amphitheater. Good luck, Giling, Let's 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:11.320 go to Kirk in point a Parte. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:18.320 Kirk, Hello, Hello, gentlemen. Yeah, I was calling about the 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.439 presumptive winners and a change, a slight change of the 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.040 format for the debates. First of all, I think that 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.359 they need to challenge them. They can't double dog dare them, 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.840 but they can challenge them if they just invite them 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.439 to do it, they can say no. But Sarah doesn't 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.399 have excuse not to go. He doesn't even have a job. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:38.600 And I don't know if there's going to be any 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.040 kind of a wedding reception in Uganda for bas to 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.960 go to. But the change would be there'd be five 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:51.560 topic three debates and have five topics that only the 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.000 moderators will know, and they get to have a half 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:00.560 hour to concentrate on that particular topic. So that way 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.880 it tests the knowledge of the candidates on each thing, 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.960 so they don't stand their And but you've got to 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:11.080 get us some strong moderators who don't let them go off. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.240 And well there's all Trump's falters this is that. No, 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.600 this is what we're asking because this is what you're 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:18.000 gonna do. 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.640 Yes, Okay, I don't see that happening. And I'll tell 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:26.679 you why. Last time around, when Newsom ran for reelection 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:31.919 against Brian Dolly, I think Dolly got one debate and 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.960 Newsom wasn't even willing to do that until he really 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.720 got pressured by the news media. And if I remember correctly, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.879 and Randy you can look this up to fact check me. 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.160 I think what they did was they did a debate 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.119 at a public radio station on a weekday morning. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.320 I think it was on Yeah. 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.160 Yeah, there was a debate over whether or not they'd 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.479 even let cameras in there. He did not want it 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.479 on television. He only wanted it on public radio. And 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.000 that was it. And I believe he did the same 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:08.240 thing against John Cox. And when you have a Democratic incumbent, 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.800 either in the Senate or in the House of Representatives 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:16.320 here in California, where it is a heavy the Democrat 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.240 is a heavy favorite most of the time, they just 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:20.800 refuse to debate altogether. 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.240 Well, to get to that point is a sense it's 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:30.119 going back to grade school. But what Pratt and Hilton 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.240 have to do Basically, if they say they don't want 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.199 to debate, just say, what are you chicken? What are 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:41.159 you afraid of? You? You don't want your inadequacies exposed. 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.000 You're here to serve the people. The people have to 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.600 know what you think needs to be done, not just 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.000 your platitudes and your canned answers. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.920 Yeah, I mean that is the pickle that they're in. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.760 How do you get in their head to get them 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.600 to debate in front of the people California so you 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:05.479 can expose their flaws? My guess would be to appeal 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.960 to their narcissism and hope that that works out. Thank 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.800 you for the call, sir. All right, let's dip into 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:16.240 Steve Hilton's speech last night before a very warm audience 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:17.200 in Huntington Beach. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.119 This was Steve Hilton after it looked like he was 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.639 definitely making the top two. It's not one hundred percent sure, 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:26.280 but it sure is looking that way. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.360 Thank you. We're not quite there. He's got a hat 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:39.840 saying Governor Hilton, that's November. Right. So, so about a 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:44.840 week ago, when we were planning this event, I wanted 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:48.679 to put a message on the stage here and I 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.600 wrote these words, and I thought Is that a little 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:56.960 premature to write the words change is coming. I don't 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.480 think so, because change is coming. 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:04.960 Change except for pennies. We're in a shortage. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:06.680 Signs all over the bank. 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:13.359 Change is coming to California. Changes coming to California, and 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:14.520 it's long over due. 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.439 I want to just say, did this rally have a 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:25.280 two drink minimum? 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.440 Listen? When you go to these parties, you never know 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.560 when your candidate's gonna get on stage, and you have 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.720 to kill a lot of time. And I don't kill 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.560 time at hotels without hanging out at the bar. I 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:38.560 can promise you that. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:44.760 I want to just say something from my heart to 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.240 every single person who's voted for me. 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:49.440 We're not. 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:54.240 We're not they yet, but it's looking good. 0:22:57.440 --> 0:22:58.000 It looks bad. 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:01.000 Everyone who wanted to speak to the crowds that went 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:03.480 to their watch party is are like, well, we're not 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:06.119 going to really know for like a week, but this 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:07.000 is what we think. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:11.440 Okay, let's address that here for a second. Because when 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:17.000 Shirley Weber went on TV yesterday our obstinate California's Secretary 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.920 of State, and she had the surly look on her 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.040 face and she essentially said, I am not going to 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:25.720 rush myself counting these ballots, and it's going to take 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:27.440 as long as it's going to take. And that's the 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:30.639 way it's going to be. And that's the attitude that 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:34.040 they have in California. Don't rush me, I'm going to 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:38.199 do it my way. Okay, they're doing that in the 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:42.719 name of democracy. We love democracy so much, we're going 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:46.440 to take forever to count all the votes. Well, how 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:52.359 is it democratic? How is it saving democracy to wait 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:57.400 a month to tell people who won the election? Because 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:00.840 what you're doing is you're undermining the democracy. If they 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:03.680 could do it in third world countries in one night, 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:07.159