Speaker 1: And very happy Monday to you. At twelve oh six
Speaker 1: in the West, it's the Jina Phillips Show, Mister Randy
Speaker 1: Weggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John former Vice President Kamala Harris has just come out
Speaker 2: with a whole bunch of endorsements in California's primary, where
Speaker 2: the ballots go out this week. She is endorsing Bob
Speaker 2: Banta for Attorney General.
Speaker 1: Bonta. She's endorsing Karen Bess for La Mayor. It's not
Speaker 1: a Namsey Pamsy thing, and she is not endorsing anybody
Speaker 1: for governor. I love that she takes a pass on
Speaker 1: the one that people are paying attention to. She doesn't
Speaker 1: want to touch that race with a ten football. No,
Speaker 1: she doesn't. Eight hundred two two two five two two
Speaker 1: two East Telephone number one eight hundred two to two
Speaker 1: five two two two. Well, I guess it's time to
Speaker 1: pour one out for Spirit Airlines. But be careful because
Speaker 1: if you do, there's a fee for that. Spirit Airlines
Speaker 1: ceased all global operations late Friday night. They started canceling
Speaker 1: every single flight on the schedule, and that meant that
Speaker 1: if you were in the middle of a round trip,
Speaker 1: you got stranded. Okay, I want to begin this conversation
Speaker 1: by first stated the obvious, which is if you lost
Speaker 1: your job because of this, I feel sorry for you.
Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines is not going out of business because of
Speaker 1: the performance of the flight attendants, the pilots, the gate agents,
Speaker 1: the people in res whatever, the bag of handlers. This
Speaker 1: they had nothing to do with. That airline is going
Speaker 1: out of business for different reasons. That being said, I
Speaker 1: for one, am a static. You're ecstatic about Spirit Airlines
Speaker 1: going away one hundred percent because between Spirit Airlines and
Speaker 1: Frontier Airlines, all of the trash at the airport that
Speaker 1: ends up on YouTube has a ticket on one of
Speaker 1: those two airlines.
Speaker 2: Are you saying that the typical Spirit or Frontier passenger
Speaker 2: are more likely to board a plane with flipflops and
Speaker 2: no socks.
Speaker 1: Yes, and this may sound like a classist argument, but
Speaker 1: I don't care. The only way that clientele should ever
Speaker 1: step foot on an airline is if they get drafted
Speaker 1: for a world war. That's it. There are some people
Speaker 1: that are just not meant for the friendly skies. For example,
Speaker 1: anyone who has the F word on their T shirt.
Speaker 1: You have the F word on your T shirt. Guess what,
Speaker 1: no flying for you. You're getting to need to take the
Speaker 1: bus so you can be around all of the other
Speaker 1: people with an F word on their T shirt. The
Speaker 1: entire concept of that airline runs against common sense. The
Speaker 1: airport is all about rules. Sometimes the rules don't make sense.
Speaker 1: For example, you get there and you have to take
Speaker 1: your shoes off, you have to take a belt off,
Speaker 1: you have to take everything out of your pockets, you
Speaker 1: have to take your laptop out, you have to take
Speaker 1: a coat off, you have to put it through the
Speaker 1: metal detector, and once you're through, they give you all
Speaker 1: the booze you could drink in a knife. Does it
Speaker 1: make sense No, But those are the rules. Then you
Speaker 1: have to follow the rules, which means you can't bring
Speaker 1: your drugs with you to the airport because TSA will
Speaker 1: have a problem with that, the dogs will sniff it out,
Speaker 1: the agents will discover it, and you go to jail.
Speaker 1: That's how it works. So you take a population of
Speaker 1: people who cannot follow the rules on the outside. When oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, the cops say drop the gun, and
Speaker 1: then you take them and put them in a situation
Speaker 1: where they have a milliond one rules to follow. Many
Speaker 1: of which don't make sense, which is why they all
Speaker 1: end up on YouTube, because they're not big on following rules.
Speaker 1: So that's how you get fistfights at the departure's gate.
Speaker 1: That's how you get people escorted off the plane by
Speaker 1: uniform police. That's how you get all of the chaos
Speaker 1: that you see going on at the airport. The problem is,
Speaker 1: at many of these airports, you can't just have one
Speaker 1: entire terminal for American Airlines or Alaska or United or
Speaker 1: Delta or Southwest or whatever. Sometimes you have to share.
Speaker 1: So it's not like you could just take all of
Speaker 1: the trash and put them in one terminal and just
Speaker 1: let that become lord of the flies and let them
Speaker 1: do whatever it is that they're going to do to
Speaker 1: one another, and the rest of us won't even know
Speaker 1: about it until we watch YouTube. The problem is they
Speaker 1: will take one of these budget airlines with all the trash,
Speaker 1: and they'll put them in the same terminal as Alaska
Speaker 1: or as American or as one of the other airlines.
Speaker 1: So that means the trash get to interact with the
Speaker 1: rest of us, and that makes the flying process miserable. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's entertaining to watch them fight online, but if they
Speaker 1: fight in front of you, that's a whole different situation.
Speaker 1: You're just trying to get to your meeting, You're just
Speaker 1: trying to get to your funeral, You're just trying to
Speaker 1: get to your vacation, and you want to do that
Speaker 1: without ending up on YouTube. I know it sounds easy enough,
Speaker 1: but not when you mix in the Spirit Airlines clientele,
Speaker 1: it makes it very difficult to avoid YouTube. In fact,
Speaker 1: and whenever they have a flight that's delayed and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of alcohol that's consumed at the airport, because
Speaker 1: let's face it, there's nothing to do at the airport.
Speaker 1: So Spirit Airlines, passenger or not, what do we do
Speaker 1: when we're there? We go to the bar. Well. You
Speaker 1: take someone whose impulse control is not good to begin with,
Speaker 1: and then you load them up on bows and then
Speaker 1: you expect them to follow more rules on the plane.
Speaker 1: You see, that's just a recipe for disaster. And that's
Speaker 1: what we found out. I never flew Spirit Airlines. I
Speaker 1: could not bring myself to do that. Did you ever
Speaker 1: fly them, Randy? I did not. The lowest class I
Speaker 1: will go is Southwest? What about Frontier? Have you ever
Speaker 1: flown that one? I have not had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: fly Frontier. It's the same thing. So here's what I recommend,
Speaker 1: just in case anyone who works at Frontier Airlines is listening.
Speaker 1: If you don't change the way you do business, you're
Speaker 1: going to end up like Spirit too. You're going to
Speaker 1: go bankrupt, and the rest of us are going to
Speaker 1: celebrate because then the airports will go back to normal.
Speaker 2: Is this one of those uniquely American things? Because there
Speaker 2: are low cost carriers in Europe like Ryanair. You don't
Speaker 2: hear about these kinds of stories. Oh and those they'll
Speaker 2: just tie you to the wing. I've been on a
Speaker 2: European low fair carrier before.
Speaker 1: I was on Vwelling. That's the Spanish carrier. And the
Speaker 1: only reason I was on Vwelling is because I was
Speaker 1: leaving Greece because there was going to be a strike
Speaker 1: at the airport and I was going to be stranded
Speaker 1: there for god knows how long. And that was the
Speaker 1: airline that had a ticket that was still for sale.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, I think on an American plane,
Speaker 1: on an American Airlines plane, the same aircraft as the
Speaker 1: one that Dwelling has, they put one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: seats on it. Here over there they had something like
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety or two hundred seats on the
Speaker 1: same aircraft. I am six'. Four my knees were so
Speaker 1: far up into my. FACE i joined the mile high
Speaker 1: club with. Myself it was, miserable beyond. Miserable and there
Speaker 1: was a ton of turbulence. Too and let me tell
Speaker 1: you it may be on the other side of the,
Speaker 1: ocean but when there's turbulence The spanish, airline everyone on
Speaker 1: that plane sounds like the ladies From. Rosita, OOH i,
Speaker 1: know And Randy apparently a bunch of people got stranded
Speaker 1: when the airline shut, down, which by the, way up
Speaker 1: until the moment they shut, down they were sending all
Speaker 1: these messages on social media that, said what are you talking,
Speaker 1: About we're not shutting. Down then they shut, down which
Speaker 1: means if people had an itinerary With spirit and they
Speaker 1: were expecting to be able to fly, home they. Couldn't,
Speaker 1: well my guess is those people were used to a
Speaker 1: lot of disappointment in their. Life for, more HERE'S nbcla.
Speaker 3: Now From Fort lauderdale To Los, angeles passengers who booked
Speaker 3: With spirit are now having to pay more or ditch
Speaker 3: their plans.
Speaker 4: Completely the budget airline officially shut down after.
Speaker 1: PHISLING i think we're done with the concept of a budget.
Speaker 1: Airline you, know my one regret about this happening is
Speaker 1: we couldn't make sure that they went bankrupt when all
Speaker 1: of the people who Fly Spirit, airlines who live In
Speaker 1: california were in some other. State they're going to get
Speaker 1: back here, somehow maybe. Not they didn't leave. Breadcrumbs the
Speaker 1: budget airline officially shut down after failing to secure A
Speaker 1: bela from The trump.
Speaker 5: ADMINISTRATION, inbc Fors Keenan willard is.
Speaker 2: LONG i don't know if anybody was on board for
Speaker 2: the federal government taking an ownership stake Into Spirit.
Speaker 1: Airlines, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 6: NOPE nbc Fors Keenan willard is live AT lax speaking
Speaker 6: to passengers about what they're going to do.
Speaker 7: Next, Keenan, Well, Cathy and it's a shock to some
Speaker 7: of them still that we've seen here AT lax over
Speaker 7: the last few.
Speaker 5: Hours because you.
Speaker 7: Get here and from the sidewalk you still see it
Speaker 7: Says spirit out in front of the.
Speaker 5: Terminal you, think, okay well that's going.
Speaker 1: Away did you see the meme that's going around the
Speaker 1: internet where The spirit plane it's going to be rebranded
Speaker 1: As Spirit.
Speaker 5: Halloween everything's going to work. Out my flight is on as.
Speaker 7: Scheduled but then when you get in here and you
Speaker 7: actually get into the counter, area take a look complete ghost.
Speaker 7: Town there's nobody. There all the signs behind the computers
Speaker 7: there say. Closed all of these kiosks where you would
Speaker 7: normally come check your, bags check in for your.
Speaker 2: Flight, say if you're one of those fourteen thousand employees
Speaker 2: that lost their job, overnight do raid the mini.
Speaker 1: Bars of, course you take everything that's not nailed, down
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe these people can find employment in places
Speaker 1: that aren't quite as hostile As Spirit. Airlines maybe they
Speaker 1: can go work for THE.
Speaker 7: Dmv we regret to inform You Spirit airlines has ceased
Speaker 7: global operations and the board here where you would see
Speaker 7: your flight, information.
Speaker 1: They all say.
Speaker 7: Canceled. Today some people have come in seen all. This
Speaker 7: we watch them take it all in and wonder what
Speaker 7: AM i going to do? Next whether It's Hollywood Burbank
Speaker 7: airport Or terminal, Two can they.
Speaker 2: Just call It Burbank? Airport stop changing the name of that.
Speaker 2: Thing how About Bob Hope. AIRPORT i like.
Speaker 1: That nobody know who's Where Bob hope. Is it's, well he's,
Speaker 1: dead and.
Speaker 2: The airport codes don't, change so you would type In
Speaker 2: Bob Hope, airport but it would still be you r.
Speaker 8: Whether It's Hollywood Burbank airport Or terminal two At. Lax
Speaker 8: The Spirit airlines area looks the, same a ghost town
Speaker 8: telling travelers the lights aren't coming back on.
Speaker 9: And UNFORTUNATELY i don't have a way back.
Speaker 1: Home Spirit airlines, stace she's trapped In la now uh
Speaker 1: oh and inheriting someone else's, problem and.
Speaker 9: UNFORTUNATELY i don't have a way back.
Speaker 8: Home Spirited airlines sent out this message last night saying
Speaker 8: the airline is winding down its global operations effective. Immediately
Speaker 8: all flights have been canceled and customer service is not.
Speaker 1: Available you can't even get on the phone with rez.
Speaker 1: What they shut down the call center in The philippines. Too,
Speaker 1: yes everybody's.
Speaker 8: Gone Ortina luke was supposed to Fly spirit From lax
Speaker 8: To texas.
Speaker 9: Tomorrow my reaction, was oh my, god what AM i
Speaker 9: going to do? Now and why didn't they forewarn?
Speaker 1: Us why wouldn't you Fly? American, well wasn't this in
Speaker 1: the business news for? Months?
Speaker 2: Well, Yes Spirit airlines has had many financial issues over the.
Speaker 2: Years they recently filed for bankruptcy again only a few months,
Speaker 2: ago so it definitely was always a. Possibility then the war,
Speaker 2: happens the price of jet fuel, doubled And spirit had
Speaker 2: the least cash on. Hand and by the, way THE ceo,
Speaker 2: said all the other, airlines this.
Speaker 1: Is coming to you. Soon, WELL i guess if you're
Speaker 1: trying to keep a secret from The Spirit airlines, passengers
Speaker 1: the way to do it is to put it on
Speaker 1: the front page of The Wall Street. Journal they'll definitely
Speaker 1: never see.
Speaker 9: It before just completely shutting.
Speaker 2: Down now do you think your Average spirit flyer is
Speaker 2: A spirit. Loyalists they've got the, app they've got the.
Speaker 2: WEBSITE i don't think they have any kind of rewards,
Speaker 2: program or are they just shopping for the cheapest possible
Speaker 2: flight On.
Speaker 1: GOOGLE i think the Average spirit passenger has to blow
Speaker 1: into their car before they can start the ignition.
Speaker 9: Before just completely shutting.
Speaker 5: Down some flyers are out more than just the cost
Speaker 5: of a.
Speaker 8: Ticket Pulo mazuniga and her family were set to Fly
Speaker 8: spirit from lax To New york this.
Speaker 5: Week she, says.
Speaker 1: That's a long haul of For. Spirit start spreading the.
Speaker 8: News she says they can't afford to rebook the trip
Speaker 8: on other airlines and they'll lose more than eight.
Speaker 5: Thousand dollars in non refundable vacation. Costs there's no.
Speaker 10: Way that we can get it, back especially for The
Speaker 10: airbnb and all the expenses that we did for. Trips
Speaker 10: it's crazy.
Speaker 8: What's going, On spirits says anyone who booked tickets under
Speaker 8: how many holes in the wall do you think they'd
Speaker 8: leave That airbnb?
Speaker 2: WITH i feel like you're stereotyping an entire class of people.
Speaker 1: Here, well you know, what it's the.
Speaker 8: Truth spirit says anyone who book tickets on their site
Speaker 8: will get a. Refund The trump administration saying it's monitoring
Speaker 8: the shutdown's impact on.
Speaker 7: Travelers if you're a, customer many of the airlines that
Speaker 7: are Not spirit are stepping up to provide you. Assistance
Speaker 7: federal officials say airlines Like American frontier And united are
Speaker 7: offering lower rates to flyers who had tickets On spirit as.
Speaker 2: We're going to cap our rates for this one flight
Speaker 2: and one flight.
Speaker 1: Only, YEAH i don't know if the other airlines know
Speaker 1: what they're in.
Speaker 3: For as of early this, morning we actually set up
Speaker 3: a website to help customers that may need the book.
Speaker 4: Flights so we have actually capped airfares and we've set
Speaker 4: up the.
Speaker 5: Website but some travelers say it's not.
Speaker 8: Enough Artina luke says she hasn't gotten a refund yet
Speaker 8: and every one way ticket home from lax is still
Speaker 8: at least three hundred.
Speaker 5: Dollars we need to be.
Speaker 9: Compensated we need to be taken care.
Speaker 1: Of good, luck there's no company, Left. OKAY a ticket
Speaker 1: To texas in nineteen eighty five was three hundred, dollars.
Speaker 9: And we need to be.
Speaker 1: Able what do you Think spirit was selling that flight
Speaker 1: for eighteen cents.
Speaker 9: And we need to be able to get back to our.
Speaker 7: Destination hearing that across the country from travelers, today, now
Speaker 7: experts tell us if you did book A spirit ticket
Speaker 7: through a third party site and not directly on The spirit,
Speaker 7: website that you can reach out to your bank or
Speaker 7: credit card provider to request a refund, there or go
Speaker 7: through the travel agent that you used AT.
Speaker 2: LA i don't think anybody who ever Flew spirit was
Speaker 2: going through a travel.
Speaker 1: Agency i'm going to go out on a limb on that.
Speaker 1: One i'd be willing to lay money down.
Speaker 7: The travel agent that you used at Lax Keenan WILLARD
Speaker 7: nbc Four.
Speaker 1: News there you.
Speaker 2: Go The spirit passengers that were stranded because the company
Speaker 2: that they chose to fly them went.
Speaker 1: OUT a business of the. Weekend eight hundred two two
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Speaker 11: Mister John phillis With Randy. Way good Afternoon Speed round
Speaker 11: edition and got the same infinity things to. Say but
Speaker 11: we'll do some speed round a few more seconds because
Speaker 11: it's after the, break after the half hour, break first
Speaker 11: and foremost your thoughts if you want as well before
Speaker 11: we do The spirit thing OF i don't know what about.
Speaker 11: It what is about high? Noon but news breaks all the.
Speaker 11: Time they came out the state is going to go
Speaker 11: off To state farm and Mister Ricardo lara evidently is
Speaker 11: coming down on. Them they didn't pay the people and all.
Speaker 11: That you can comment on that if you would Like
Speaker 11: Spirit spirit this, REGIME i think Mister dufty came out and,
Speaker 11: said if your, thoughts if if The biden regime had
Speaker 11: Let spirit be sold To Jet, boo this wouldn't. Happen
Speaker 11: your thoughts After but two more real quick things About
Speaker 11: spirit over the. Weekend. Uh one of the organizations that
Speaker 11: you know highlights these. Things it might have been in your,
Speaker 11: colleague Mister Peter greenberg, Said Actually spirit and one in
Speaker 11: one aspect is very. Good they were very much on.
Speaker 11: Time that's number. One and regarding the same afore, mission
Speaker 11: Mister Peter, greenberg Mister Randy Wang Ryan ayre he commented
Speaker 11: months ago was one of the international terriers that were
Speaker 11: very Highly. Uh there were you, know high points in different.
Speaker 11: Areas that was one of the Things i'll let you
Speaker 11: guys go and other people get in your thoughts on.
Speaker 11: That thank you very, much, guys be sake.
Speaker 1: Well thank you for the. CALL i know The biden
Speaker 1: administration said no When spirit And Jet blue tried to,
Speaker 1: merge And spirit said if they did not allow the
Speaker 1: merger to go through that they would be going out of.
Speaker 1: Business that being, said if the government were to Allow
Speaker 1: spirit And Jet blue to, merge all that would happen
Speaker 1: Is Jet blue would be ruined. Too it's like. Multiplication
Speaker 1: when you take a positive and you multiply it by a,
Speaker 1: negative the end result is a.
Speaker 2: Negative, Correct all the riff raft would be flying on
Speaker 2: Those Jet blue. Routes, yeah Because spirit allows everyone In
Speaker 2: sundry on their planes And Jet blue would be doing the.
Speaker 2: Same the only difference would be everyone In sundry would
Speaker 2: be snacking on pop chips.
Speaker 1: All. Right The California governor's race is getting hot and
Speaker 1: heavy right, now as ballots are officially in the mail
Speaker 1: unless you live In Riverside, county which is WHERE i,
Speaker 1: live AND i know a bunch of people who have already.
Speaker 1: VOTED i haven't even received my ballot, yet but many
Speaker 1: people are voting right. Now as we, speak and we
Speaker 1: still don't Know randy who is going to Be california's next.
Speaker 2: Governor one thing that we do know is there is
Speaker 2: a severe lack of enthusiasm among the electorate for all
Speaker 2: sixty one, candidates.
Speaker 1: And that is reflected in virtually all the.
Speaker 2: Polls for more on, this we got TO abc ten In.
Speaker 2: Sacramento right, now we're just.
Speaker 6: Over one month away from primary election day here In.
Speaker 6: California all registered voters will start getting their ballots starting next.
Speaker 6: WEEK abc Ten State matters political Reporter jenny huh explains
Speaker 6: what you need to know.
Speaker 2: Now if you get that ballot in this week and
Speaker 2: you vote this, week what happens if your candidate drops
Speaker 2: out next?
Speaker 1: Week you think more going to drop out between now
Speaker 1: and the. Election, hey you never.
Speaker 2: KNOW i thought there was a whole bunch more dirt
Speaker 2: than was supposed to be coming out on these, candidates
Speaker 2: and now we're in crunch. Time, instead what's coming out
Speaker 2: is more dirt On swallwell and he's already.
Speaker 1: Out, yeah did you see? That apparently he would have
Speaker 1: his campaign meetings At hooters and get the young female
Speaker 1: in turns all liquored up every time they'd have a strategy.
Speaker 1: SESSION i did not see.
Speaker 2: THAT i was referring to the update on his snapchat.
Speaker 2: Activities oh, yeah he's still trying to intimidate women On snapchat.
Speaker 12: Allegedly democracy can be a messy business and it takes some,
Speaker 12: work and it's incumbent on us as voters to do our.
Speaker 1: Homework you have you met the Average california, Voter? Randy
Speaker 1: can you introduce? Him?
Speaker 4: NO i don't know enough to give you any good,
Speaker 4: information but good luck finding someone who.
Speaker 2: Does do you know there's a guy running for governor
Speaker 2: that changed his name To Barack.
Speaker 1: OBAMA i saw that. CLEVER i would love to see
Speaker 1: how many votes that. Gets did.
Speaker 10: You second primary election is faster, proaching and all Registered
Speaker 10: california voters are set to begin receiving Ballots. Monday ahead
Speaker 10: of election. Day voters will have four key pieces of,
Speaker 10: mail a state voter information, guide a county voter information,
Speaker 10: guide a sample ballot and official ballot at the top
Speaker 10: of the, ticket the race.
Speaker 2: To, succeed and in between all those about seven Thousand tom. Styerflyers.
Speaker 1: Well, ever since Bed bath And beyond went, under it
Speaker 1: certainly made life for the letter carriers easier at.
Speaker 10: The top of the. Ticket the race to Succeed Gavin
Speaker 10: newsom ask. Governor we have.
Speaker 12: A governor's race right now that is pretty. Diffused you
Speaker 12: have eight major. Candidates no one really stands. Out it
Speaker 12: hasn't captured a lot of attention or the imagination of the.
Speaker 10: PUBLIC a lot has.
Speaker 2: Happened, no the only thing that captured the imagination was
Speaker 2: all that testimony About, swallwell oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah people paid attention to. That although you just wait
Speaker 1: until the day after election, day he's going to do
Speaker 1: at least one or two. Percent there are millions of
Speaker 1: people In california who have no idea he's dropped out
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 10: Race the imagination of the, PUBLIC a lot has happened
Speaker 10: in this crowded race of eight leading, candidates Two republicans
Speaker 10: and Six. Democrats notable shakeups in the Race Democrats Betty
Speaker 10: ye And Eric swawall DROPPING.
Speaker 2: I don't Think Betty yee was a shakeup in the. Race,
Speaker 2: no she had less than one.
Speaker 10: Percent notable shakeups in the Race Democrats Betty yee And
Speaker 10: Eric swawall dropping. Out swawoll following serious allegations of sexual,
Speaker 10: assault which he has, denied but Both ye And swalwall's
Speaker 10: names will still appear on the primary ballots due to
Speaker 10: state law that doesn't allow for names to be removed
Speaker 10: after a certain.
Speaker 4: Date that's not uncommon for, voters potential voters to not
Speaker 4: be satisfied with the candidates they.
Speaker 10: Have according to A Friday berkeley igs, pool that's.
Speaker 2: Right mean at one point the choice Was Gavin newsom
Speaker 2: Or John.
Speaker 1: Cox, well think about. This it's a multiple choice. Exam
Speaker 1: it's not an essay. Question it's the multiple choice. Exam
Speaker 1: you have to pick, One so do it and get
Speaker 1: your ballot in the.
Speaker 2: Mail, well if you look at the, electorate especially in primary,
Speaker 2: elections a lot of them are voting for none of
Speaker 2: the above by not.
Speaker 1: Voting, Well i'll bet. You and this is a Prediction
Speaker 1: i'm going to, make AND i may be, wrong BUT
Speaker 1: i don't think THAT i. Am my prediction is that,
Speaker 1: turnout particularly Among, democrats is going to be low because
Speaker 1: they have no direction from their party as to how to. Vote,
Speaker 1: typically what happens is there is a preferred candidate and
Speaker 1: everyone knows. It the party wants PERSON x and not person,
Speaker 1: Y so go out and vote that, way and they
Speaker 1: communicate with you and they message with, you and they
Speaker 1: show up at your doorstep and they try to go
Speaker 1: to people in your social network to make sure you
Speaker 1: fill out your ballot and turn it in because they
Speaker 1: know they Want kamala Over, trump or they know they
Speaker 1: Want Adam schiff Over Katie, porter or they know whichever
Speaker 1: preferred candidate they have on the ballot that they want
Speaker 1: to get over the finish. Line in this, election there
Speaker 1: is no preferred candidate for The Democratic, party and so
Speaker 1: there's not the level of communication that you would otherwise
Speaker 1: get in a normal. Election and if you're A democratic, voter,
Speaker 1: who let's just, say you know you're A, democrat but
Speaker 1: you're not what we would call a political. Animal you
Speaker 1: just do whatever the party tells you to. Do and
Speaker 1: if the party's not telling you to do anything in,
Speaker 1: particular my guess is that many of those people just don't.
Speaker 10: Vote according to A Friday berkeley igs pool that surveyed
Speaker 10: register At california, voters thirty eight percent of those who
Speaker 10: said they're less likely to vote in the primary pointed
Speaker 10: to a lack of information on the issues and.
Speaker 1: Candidates, well that's a lack of information on your, end,
Speaker 1: Yes because people don't want to read the. PAPER i,
Speaker 1: mean we're in the information.
Speaker 2: Age you can literally ask The google right now about
Speaker 2: any of these candidates and what their issues. Are they
Speaker 2: all have, websites they've all done. Interviews if you don't
Speaker 2: think there's been enough information about, them that's on, you
Speaker 2: and that's. Fine but don't act like we have no
Speaker 2: idea who any of these people.
Speaker 1: Are, well go back to the argument against photo id for.
Speaker 1: Voting the argument is there are people who are over
Speaker 1: the age of eighteen in the state Of california who
Speaker 1: can't figure out how to get a driver's.
Speaker 10: License pointed to a lack of information on the issues
Speaker 10: and candidates thirty five percent blamed being turned off by
Speaker 10: campaign contributions and quote unquote special.
Speaker 1: Interests that means they don't Like Tom stier's. Money did
Speaker 1: you see his negatives And Katie porter's negatives were higher
Speaker 1: than everyone else in the.
Speaker 2: Race, Yes Tom steier has a lot of. Negativity there
Speaker 2: is only so high that his support can go because
Speaker 2: people are irritated by him on all sides of the political.
Speaker 1: Spectrum in a deep blue, state that's really hard to.
Speaker 1: Do Katie porter did. It she did both of. Them
Speaker 1: did you're out of my.
Speaker 10: Shop twenty percent said it's because they don't like the
Speaker 10: candidates for. Governor older.
Speaker 1: Voters they don't like all sixty one of. Them you
Speaker 1: know what's funny IS i know a lot of people
Speaker 1: who have a lot of older Female democrats in their social,
Speaker 1: circle and very few of them Like Katie. Porter and
Speaker 1: when you think about, it that's the crowd that she
Speaker 1: should have appeal, To, Right i'm pulling in to the,
Speaker 1: bakery the old left wing. Ladies they should like, her
Speaker 1: and they.
Speaker 2: Don't, well the ultimate old left wing lady Is Nancy,
Speaker 2: pelosi And nancy Hates.
Speaker 1: Katie we love everybody not her.
Speaker 12: Governor older voters are the most, reliable and younger voters
Speaker 12: just have not turned out in large.
Speaker 2: Numbers but this will be the, Election this will be
Speaker 2: the one where young people pay.
Speaker 1: Attention we still do and rock the. Vote, yeah, right.
Speaker 12: Just have not turned out in large.
Speaker 10: Numbers experts say it's often the.
Speaker 2: Most we're gonna start Getting Paul mitchell's ballot, tracker and
Speaker 2: you're going to see of the people who return their ballots,
Speaker 2: early most of them are in their. Seventies oh, yeah
Speaker 2: and it works that way every single. Cycle that's not
Speaker 2: something that's unique to this one particular. Election old people
Speaker 2: are the only ones who pay, attention.
Speaker 12: Just have not turned out in large.
Speaker 10: Numbers experts say it's often the most part is in
Speaker 10: and the older voters not vote in, primaries and even
Speaker 10: then it's typically low. Turnout according to The California secretary
Speaker 10: Of state of registered, voters thirty eight percent voted in
Speaker 10: the twenty eighteen gubernatorial primary and thirty three percent in
Speaker 10: the twenty twenty two gubernatorial.
Speaker 1: Primary that is so. Pathetic you want.
Speaker 4: To make a decision right that sets the ballot for
Speaker 4: that general. Election raises down the ballot right are vitally
Speaker 4: important to people's, communities whether it be the school, board
Speaker 4: your local city, council your.
Speaker 12: Mayor midterm elections really are a referendum on the president
Speaker 12: and the president's.
Speaker 10: Administration political Analyst Sieve, swaw noting the national implications as
Speaker 10: well With california's newly drawn congressional districts on the. Ballot
Speaker 10: ballots can be dropped off at dropboxes which open On,
Speaker 10: Tuesday may, fifth county elections, offices or return by mail.
Speaker 4: If it's vote by mail mail vote by mail ballot
Speaker 4: at least a week before election.
Speaker 2: Day it is hilarious to me that if you look
Speaker 2: at the number that came, out where it was thirty
Speaker 2: seven percent in twenty, eighteen in twenty twenty two it
Speaker 2: was thirty three, percent and that is after we sent
Speaker 2: a ballot to every Single californian's mail.
Speaker 1: Box, well think about this. TOO i talked about this
Speaker 1: likely being a low turnout. Election prop fifty will have
Speaker 1: a part in that, too because in the old, days
Speaker 1: there WERE i don't know how many contested congressional seats In,
Speaker 1: california a dozen to some, degree maybe a couple, MORE
Speaker 1: i don't. Know right now we HAVE i think three
Speaker 1: or four contested congressional. Seats we have over. Fifty we
Speaker 1: have what fifty, three fifty, four something like. That and
Speaker 1: unless you live in three or four congressional, districts the
Speaker 1: outcome of your election for congress is a foregone. Conclusion
Speaker 1: how do you get those people to turn out if
Speaker 1: you're The Democratic party where you can give them no?
Speaker 1: Direction not Even Kamala she's not even telling them how
Speaker 1: to vote for. Governor they have no direction on who
Speaker 1: to vote for for, governor and they have no contested
Speaker 1: election up or down the. Ballot, well there may be
Speaker 1: some people that they decided to go all in On,
Speaker 1: swallwell Like Adam, schiff and they don't want to get burned. Again,
Speaker 1: no because he hasn't endorsed anyone.
Speaker 2: Either at this, point they're all staying out of it at.
Speaker 1: Least a week before election.
Speaker 10: Days all ballots must be postmarked by election day and
Speaker 10: can be received by county elections offices up to seven days, after.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's going to take a month to
Speaker 1: count the. Results by the, way you know, Who this
Speaker 1: could be a perfect storm For who's that Is Spencer
Speaker 1: pratt because if there's nothing to Motivate democrats to turn
Speaker 1: out And, republicans at least the ones who are paying
Speaker 1: attention know that there's an opportunity for A democrat lockout
Speaker 1: on The november. Ballot so if they have any motivation at,
Speaker 1: all which they, should but whether they do or not
Speaker 1: is yet to be. Seen if they have a motivation
Speaker 1: to turn out because of the gubernatorial race And democrats
Speaker 1: have no motivation to turn out because they have zero
Speaker 1: direction on how to, vote that could be enough to
Speaker 1: Get Spencer pratt into that second place slot and put
Speaker 1: him on The november. Ballot it's a.
Speaker 2: Possibility and, yes there are plenty of optimistic voters out,
Speaker 2: There But, john what do you do about the Defeatist
Speaker 2: republican voters out?
Speaker 1: There which is most of?
Speaker 10: Them and remember to sign the vote by mail return.
Speaker 10: Envelopes may, Eighteen this is the last data registered to,
Speaker 10: vote but you can't opt for same day registration and vote.
Speaker 10: Conditionally if you miss that, deadline.
Speaker 4: Doesn't get counted until it's, confirmed so it's put into
Speaker 4: a separate. Envelope it's logged separately in the system.
Speaker 10: Of Jenny, HUH abc.
Speaker 1: Ten there you.
Speaker 2: Go there is a lack of enthusiasm on pretty much
Speaker 2: everybody running for.
Speaker 1: Governor it's The Johan Phillips. Show eight hundred two two
Speaker 1: two five two two two is telephone? Number what eight
Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two. Two come it
Speaker 1: out after the news at, one we're going to check
Speaker 1: in With Deborah, sonders the Fabulous Debora, sonders formerly of
Speaker 1: The San Francisco, Chronicle so make sure you stick around for.
Speaker 1: That let's go to the phones and Welcome tom And San. Jose.
Speaker 3: Tom, Hello, hey thanks for taking my. Call. JOHN i
Speaker 3: was wondering if you would be able to if you.
Speaker 3: HAVEN'T i, MEAN i know you've chimed in a little
Speaker 3: bit and you've made a couple of comments here and,
Speaker 3: there BUT i think a lot of people want to
Speaker 3: hear from you out of respect your knowledge and wisdom
Speaker 3: of this whole. Process should we try to get both
Speaker 3: of The republicans in so for the first time in my,
Speaker 3: lifetime we'll have actually Two republicans rather than nothing But democrats.
Speaker 3: Running or should we be careful not to split it
Speaker 3: up too much and wind up with nothing but A
Speaker 3: democrat ticket once? Again how do you feel about?
Speaker 1: That the answer is, Yes republicans should go for A
Speaker 1: democrat lockout on The november ballot because that is probably
Speaker 1: the only Way republicans win Unless besera is The democratic
Speaker 1: nominee and he gets indicted before the, election which is entirely.
Speaker 1: Possible the problem is That republicans can't pick who The
Speaker 1: democrat will be on the. Ballot it could Be, besarah
Speaker 1: it could Be, styre it could Be Porter Matt, mahan
Speaker 1: could have a surge at the last. Minute you don't.
Speaker 1: Know democrats will control Which democrat does the best out
Speaker 1: of that. Pack that being, said WHAT i Think republicans
Speaker 1: should do is try to split their vote as close
Speaker 1: to fifty to fifty as. Possible what you suggested is
Speaker 1: a good, idea which is if you have households and
Speaker 1: they just split their, votes that would be. Great the
Speaker 1: problem is That trump got Behind Steve, hilton which means
Speaker 1: Casual republican voters are going to refle lexively vote For
Speaker 1: hilton Because Donald trump told them to do. That if
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, program you were so much smarter
Speaker 1: than the average, voter because you're paying attention to, politics
Speaker 1: you're listening to radio programs to talk about, it you're
Speaker 1: reading about, it you know about. It my advice is
Speaker 1: to vote for Whichever republican is polling in second place right.
Speaker 1: Now That's Chad. BIANCO i don't see that changing between
Speaker 1: now an election. Day ALTHOUGH i Prefer hilton To. Bianco
Speaker 1: i'm going to be voting For Chad. Bianco, excellent.
Speaker 3: Excellent thank you for chiming. In AND i know there's
Speaker 3: a lot of people out there that were sorry for
Speaker 3: the eighties, reference but they were jonesing for this type
Speaker 3: of no.
Speaker 1: Because, well thank. You i'm glad to be able to provide.
Speaker 1: It we're up against the heartbreaks there