WEBVTT - Spencer Pratt's AI Batman video goes viral 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.160 And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.640 On the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.080 John d San Francisco City attorney is suing a corner 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.480 store in the Tenderloin because they say they've been selling 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:14.280 meth in there. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.200 We don't show no drugs. We don't we don't sell 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:31.240 met they sell myth outside. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.760 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.920 a telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:37.920 two two two. Well, As former California Attorney General Javier 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:42.639 Bessera sees a bump in the polls. The knives are 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:44.960 being sharpened and out for him. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.800 Wait, are you sure that's how you pronounce his name? 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:50.760 Grampy Joe for. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:55.560 Secretary of Health and Educations over I nominated Javier Bakaria. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.240 I stand corrected. 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:58.240 Scrub it. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.280 A whole bunch of peop ball are starting to pick 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.440 through Javier Besera's record as Attorney General and as Secretary 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:10.240 of HJHS, and some of his colleagues aren't fans. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.880 Well. Apparently, when he was Secretary of Health and Human Services, 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.480 he used to show up to meetings totally unprepared. Biden 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.040 would ask him questions and he wouldn't know the answer 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:23.240 to anything. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.039 Based on the interviews that we've seen Bessarah in and 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:32.400 the debates we've seen Bessarah in that tracks. For more 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.520 on this, we go to CBSLA. 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.520 The governor's race and being a front runner means being 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:38.080 a target. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:38.720 Democrat. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.360 Havierbasserra is fending off attext and it's. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.440 Not just from his rivals, but also from his former 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.839 coworkers in the White House. CBSLA political reporter Tom Waite 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.040 is here to explain. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.840 And it just heats up every day. Right, people with 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.160 their ballots are voting, So all these kind of daily 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.919 sort of news cycles, they matter because people are making choices. 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.000 So Passara's pull numbers are on the rise. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.600 They have been for the past few weeks. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.720 As you becomes more of a threat, as Rude band 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.640 Wan were saying, his opponents are taking more shots. What 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.240 he may not have expected was that his former White 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:08.960 House colleagues would be piling on. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.640 In fact, I'm looking up at the TV today and 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.799 every commercial is either a Javi or Basera commercial or 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.840 a Tom Steier commercial saying that Javi or Basera lost 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.079 eighty thousand migrants. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.280 They must really hate him too, because typically when something 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.679 like this happens, they just plant negative stories about you 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.280 and maybe talk to the reporter off the record. They're 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.880 going on the record saying he was awful. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:40.360 As Democrat Javier Besserra's poll numbers rise in the gubernatorial race, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.760 so do the attacks on his candidacy, including fellow Democrats 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:45.640 at the debates. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.320 Antonio is absolutely right about the secretary's failure on the 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.440 immigration issue. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.680 There is a direct one, and other Dems. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:57.880 Mayhe I think it's over, buddy. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.359 He keeps moving up in the polls, but man, it's 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:03.600 inch by inch. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.280 And other Dems are piling on too. Thursday, Politico reported 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:12.040 that a half dozen former Biden administration officials who worked 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.840 with Bisera are anonymously mocking his front runner status. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.160 Could you imagine what those text groups must be like. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:34.640 I wonder what emojis they're using. I know what emojis 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.360 they use for swallwell. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.160 One telling Politico quote it gets the biggest political laugh 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.520 every time we send around a poll. According to Politico, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.600 the whispers claim as Health and Human Services Secretary Biserah 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.520 bungled the COVID response, a migrant health, crisis at the border, 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:52.520 and other issues. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.920 Feel like it's a little too soon for the Biden 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.040 people to be lecturing on. You know what California voter 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:03.120 should be doing. These are officials, some of whom you know, 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.960 we're kind of hiding from the country, Biden's deterioration. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:08.120 The business. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.520 Yeah right. I love how they're still pretending is if 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.000 no one knew he was senile. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.960 The Bisara campaign is blasting those claims and provided statements 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.159 of support from former Biden administration officials like former Energy 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:32.320 Secretary Jennifer Granholm. Even a veteran California Republican strategist is 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:33.600 minimizing the claims. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.919 Unless the former president were to come on say something, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.600 I don't think any of this breaks. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.760 The former president doesn't know who he is, and by 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.200 the way, didn't know who he was on day one 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.919 and throughout the Biden term would constantly confuse the names 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.240 Bessara and majorcis. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.159 Unless the former president were to come on say something, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.360 I don't think any of this breaks through. The only 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.320 way to change the trajectory of the race to have 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.120 something swallwell size, can we. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:04.320 Not make that a phrase? 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.560 Well, we haven't seen the tapes yet, so we can't 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:09.600 really comment on that. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.920 The candidates have gathered for three debates over the course 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.560 of the last two weeks, including the showdown CBS California 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.839 and Pomona College hosted last week. New polling is out 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.680 every day, many of them showing support coalescing behind the 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.320 Sarah for the Democrats and Steve Hilton on the Republican side. 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.760 Steve Hilton is just a more television friendly. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.119 Pius A way, how is it that we haven't seen 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:36.400 the Swalwell sex tapes out yet? I have a plane 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:42.720 trip tomorrow and I need something to watch. Well, if 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:47.240 they're not out by tomorrow and you're not able to 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.640 watch the Swallwell sex tapes that have been promised that 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.680 you thought we're going to be delivered, I guess you're 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.479 just gonna have to log into your HBO Max account 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.960 and check out a little heated rivalry. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:06.360 Why do you have to watch porn in the living room? 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.520 You think they'll cut me off with the booze on 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:09.599 the plane if I do that. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:16.240 Maybe Steve Hilton is just a more television friendly personality. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:16.919 The race is. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.480 Still Yeah, Bianco has resting bitch face. I said it. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.080 Steve Hilton is just a more television friendly personality. The 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.400 race is still fluid. Be Sarah's ahead right now, but 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.159 not by a huge margin. There's still an opportunity for 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.560 other candidates to pull up. Keep an eye on mat Man. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.960 A staggering statistic in the race Tom Steyer's campaign spending. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.000 He's poured more than one hundred and fifty million dollars 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.240 of his own fortune into the campaign. He led Democrats. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.559 Do you know how many medical taxi cab rides? 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:52.000 That is? 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.080 I am still perplexed that there's an audience for that. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.479 The crowd that thinks it should be illegal to be 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.720 a billion there is getting behind Tom Steyer. 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.240 Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.839 Led Democrats in some polls for a while, but has 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.800 now slipped from the top. So polls change a lot 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:12.320 day to day. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:13.200 We'll see where this goes. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:14.320 We're seeing it happen right now. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.480 Thank you, Tom Well for much more on the June 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.600 primary and the people wanting your vote. Go to CPSLA 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.960 dot com slash Voter's guide to watch our candidate interviews 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.160 and compare candidates side by side. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.600 So there you go. Everyone's going after Besera. Because Besara 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.000 keeps going up in the polls, I think we're at 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.360 a point where there is a ceiling for how many 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.000 people will vote for Tom Steyer. I don't think I've 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.880 seen him go above fifteen percent in any poll, and 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.240 now there are polls showing Besera in the twenties. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.600 Well, and I think the same thing is true for 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.040 Katie Porter, because have you noticed that even the people 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.000 who like her reference the fact that she's a monster, 0:07:54.880 --> 0:08:01.960 including the cod Save Up, Go Ahead Katie Dinner, including 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.600 the pod Save America guy and the ladies on the View. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.000 Yeah, they all prefer this Katie out of my shot. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.040 That's what the kind of energy they thought was going 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.240 to go into these debates. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:15.800 All right. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:20.000 So that's the latest on the goobernatorial campaign. But we 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.440 also have an LA mayor's race going on, and fresh 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:29.760 off the heels of his successful debate performance against incumbent 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:35.920 Karen Bass and Socialist councilwoman Nitia Rahman, Spencer Pratt has 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.360 campaign ads that are now going viral. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:44.280 And it's because they are completely generated by AI and 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.200 one of them that is going everywhere. I can't tell 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.440 you the amount of people that have emailed it to us. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.960 It's Spencer Pratt is Batman and Karen Bass is the joker, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:05.720 and Gavin Newsom is French Royalty eating cake. For more 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.880 on the implications of the Spencer Pratt AI ads here 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.280 is CBS Sacramento. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.520 The Badman inspired AI political ad is going viral and 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:20.319 it's stirring up plenty of talk. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.920 At one point, all the people in the AI ads 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.920 start throwing tomatoes at Karen Bass and she doesn't like it. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.960 I love it and you can see why. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.160 Thanks for joining us here at six. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.120 I'm Tony Lopez and I'm Marley Ginter. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:39.360 Well. 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.560 That video depicts California's politicians as comic style super villains. Well, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.520 former reality star turned LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt steps 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:48.800 in to save the city video. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.480 He's got another one out where Karen Bass is a dictator. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:58.240 It's interesting, Well, didn't Fidel Castro bring her into politics? 0:09:58.840 --> 0:09:59.640 That is true. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.200 Video is also raising questions about the ethics of using 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.720 AI for political ads. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.360 GBS thirteen Steve Large is live at the Capitol with 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.040 that video message and how AI is really transforming campaigns 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:10.480 right now? 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.960 Steve, Yeah, we all know now that the future of 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:20.559 AI is really here. This video shows a candidate as Batman, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:25.440 an incumbent as the joker, and raises the question when 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.600 is the joke on the voter? 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.640 Well, I don't think anyone's going to watch that video 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:31.559 and think it's real. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.360 No. No, And it also just goes to show you 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.280 that being a political strategist or a political consultant is 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.800 another job that AI is going to eliminate, because I 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:47.320 have seen pictures of the shoots where they develop these 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.960 campaign ads and there's like fifteen or twenty people there. Well, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.360 now that a candidate can do it on a shoe 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.760 string budget with AI, you don't need to raise that 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.840 kind of money anymore to get a campaign ad out there. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.480 It could be just one person with a laptop. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.760 LA Mayor Karen Bass portrayed as a scary villain to 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.720 a good viewer, Governor Gavin Newsom as French Royalty eating Kate. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.200 The technology is getting scary. It wasn't this good a 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.000 year ago. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.240 And former reality TV star turned LA mayoral candidate Spencer 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.960 Pratt as Batman saving his city and the state from 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.880 a comic book Tyranny, all using artificial intelligence. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:37.840 Is this a good thing or a bad thing. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.560 Well, I think it depends on your perspective. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.640 From Indy Romero is the founder of the nonpartisan Center 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.120 for Inclusive Democracy and says, the viral video is easy 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.360 for most voters to tell. It's not real. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.760 As far as we know, Spencer Price is not Batman. 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.920 Could be. We don't know what he does late at night. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.240 I love the fact that you needed a bunch of 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.600 college degrees in a position on a board to make 0:11:59.600 --> 0:11:59.960 that stay. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.439 As far as we know, Spencer Pratt is not Batman. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.559 Adam West is Batman was Batman. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.680 The video was created by filmmaker Charles Kerran, not a 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.000 political campaign committee, and Kerran has not said who paid 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.120 for the work. New California state law and acted in 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.200 twenty twenty five, would require disclosure of the use of 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.160 artificial intelligence in campaign advertisements. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.040 Well, and that specifically for things like deep fakes, where 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.040 they're really trying to manipulate someone into thinking someone said 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.959 something that they didn't say. This is not that. This 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.480 is satire in one of its best forms. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.120 Under certain circumstances to root out deep fake deception. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.240 The Spencer Pratt spot is exactly what AI should be, 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.079 which is using innovation and technology to make an interesting 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.280 ad that is not trying to fool voters. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.600 Republican strategist tad Berg runs political cares and is concerned 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.760 AI in the hands of bad acting political operatives can 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.320 be used to deceive voters. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.120 Or are you worried about that your consulting firms about 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.040 to go out of business? 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.559 Yeah, because think about this. If one guy on a 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:19.240 laptop can create an AD that goes viral, it's all 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.840 over x it's all over Facebook, it's all over Instagram. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.400 People are texting each other, texting it to each other, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:32.040 they're posting it on their social media pages. You don't 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.960 need Tom Steyer's money to get a message out anymore. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.040 All you need is a message and something clever that 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:44.000 can be done for pennies. This means that over the 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.360 next few cycles, the amount of money that it's going 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.600 to take to make a campaign or a candidate viral 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.160 is going to change dramatically, and the cost is going 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.200 to come down by a lot. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.760 So where they've literally changed the world of elected officials 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:02.839 who are speaking to. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.760 Wether Way, we're calling this an AD, but I don't 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.559 think they're trying to put this in a thirty second 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.120 form to air on KTLA. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.000 No, No, I haven't seen anyone by time. They haven't 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.079 bought time on this program. They haven't bought time on 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.040 the channels I have going on in the background. I 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.840 think this was just someone fooling around on their laptop 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.320 and they put it out on social media because they 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.360 thought it was funny, and then people just shared it 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:28.120 on their own. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.920 This was very organic of elected officials who were speaking 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.560 to change the meaning. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.440 The use of AI in this La mayor's race. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:39.560 Did you know that wasn't real? 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.680 And do you believe that it wasn't real? 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:46.040 Raising the campaign question? Without the comic book fantasy of 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.560 the Batman and Joker, would voters be full? 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.440 You know, there probably is a voter out there that 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:55.480 thinks that ads real. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.840 I'm telling you there are people out there who have 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.280 no clue that Eric's wal Wells an accused rapist and 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.360 he is going to get thousands of votes. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.440 Now, it's the Fair Political Practices Commission that enforces AI rules. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.360 They have asked the legislature for more money so that 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.000 they can help root out AI, and they say they've 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.000 gotten some allegations of misuse of AI, but so far 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.640 no public violations have been reported. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.720 Do you remember when the Katie Porter Julie Watts video 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.920 first came out, people started messing with that with AI 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.000 where they were able to manipulate that footage and make 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.120 it look like she was playing patty Cake with Julie 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.520 Watts and of course dumping potatoes on Julie Watts. Oh, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.840 there were some videos that had Katie Porter hitting her no. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.760 To the point to where Julie Watts actually had to 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.840 put together a rap about all of the deep fake 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.040 AI videos. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.960 That was six months ago. The technology has advanced way 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:02.200 faster than anyone thought it could, and I'm here for it, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.200 well until it takes our jobs. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.760 Eight hundred two two two five two two two East 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.080 Telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.680 two two. If you'd like to email the show, you 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.080 can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.400 dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.000 And if you're interested in finding out how I'm voting 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.280 in the primary election, my ballot should be up on 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:33.600 the KABC and KSFO website before the end of today's show, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.600 and you'll be able to figure out just exactly how 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.960 I vote. It doesn't mean you need to vote that way. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.320 Just let you know how my ballot looks. And Randy, 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.960 the weekend is quickly approaching. 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And 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.000 downloading the podcast is really important because sometimes you're in 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.080 a place where you do not have reception, you do 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.760 not have Wi Fi, you do not have data, or 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.760 it's really spotty, and if it's downloaded, you know it's 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.639 going to play perfectly. But if you're trying to rely 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.679 on an Internet connection in a spotty area, you all 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.120 of a sudden your audio will start buffering and it'll 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:35.840 sound like this. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:41.040 It's not so uh I eight hundred two two two 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.760 five two two two is telephone number one eight hundred 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.720 two two two five two two two. Well, Randy, we 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.280 have an update on a story that we brought to 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.719 you some weeks ago involving home most people who are 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:02.040 allegedly being paid to sign voter petition not as themselves 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.520 but as other people. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.159 This was, of course, originally uncovered by our friend JJ 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:12.400 Smith up in the Tenderloin and it went everywhere. So 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.480 Dan Noys teamed up with JJ Smith on an unrelated story. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.640 Noticed a car with a whole bunch of ballot petitions 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.560 just sitting on the windshield, and that's where dan Ney's 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.639 got into a little bit of a verbal argument with 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.280 the guy who was obviously paying the homeless to sign 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:34.439 those petitions. Well, they have finally identified that guy and 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.159 he's a grifter from Detroit. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.120 You don't say for more. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.399 Here is ABC seven in the Bay and the always 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.040 awesome Dan Neis. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.280 We have finally been able to identify this man who 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.560 took a swipe at the ABC seven Newsy team. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:52.840 As you can see, we. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.720 Were questioning him about allegations that he paid homeless to 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.840 sign other people's names on petitions against the Bill Millionaire's tex. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.040 Im reporter Dan Noise is here with the latest on 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.560 that viral video that you were one of. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.320 The stars of Dan Wow and Daniel for my report 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:08.880 last month. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.760 I had a hard time identifying that man, but after 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.399 the story aired, I started getting messages from across the country. 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.800 I was investigating a different story in San Francisco's Tenderloin 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.399 when I saw this woman with petitions spread across the 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.399 hood of a car. I approached and started taking pictures 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.520 of the documents when a man emerged from the passenger seat. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:31.360 Violate my privacy rights. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:32.360 Stay away from my car. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:39.280 If apparently it's illegal to take pictures in public. 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.560 Violate my privacy rights. Stay away from my car. If 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.119 you can see this viole my privacy rights. If you 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.680 can see this on the street, if you can see 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.959 one on the street, I can see those petitions right 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:49.520 there on the street. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:50.160 They right there. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:56.040 They mind, they're mine, they're yours. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.080 Yeah, okay, are you paying people? 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:03.159 Are you paying people? Neighborhood advocate JJ Smith had already 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.119 captured video of the man and his partner paying a 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.960 homeless couple five dollars each to sign petitions in other 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:10.879 people's names. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:16.840 JJ's got those meta ray bands and they're full and everybody, Oh, 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:17.679 yes they are. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:19.399 Smith asked the man. 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.640 You fight hollis for doing it? Which one can you write? 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:24.000 Neely? 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:25.320 Can I write neatly? 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:25.640 Yeah? 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:27.920 You see, JJ got invited to the White House. 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:28.920 Oh did he? 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:29.560 Yeah? 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:31.800 I don't know when that's happening, but oh boy. 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.360 Maybe he's staying in the Lincoln bedroom. 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.320 After our confrontation, I tried to identify the man, checked 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:42.000 the license plate, ran facial recognition, but could not confirm 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.720 his name. Then our story went viral and I got 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.680 a message from a signature gatherer living in the Midwest. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.959 You watched the story and you recognized him. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.600 Yes, I recognized him, and I recognized him immediately. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:57.520 Okay, that's not the guy's voice. 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:02.639 No, But instead, every single person who's interviewed by the 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.120 local news acts as if they're in the witness protection program. 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.080 But instead of doing the old school disguising somebody's voice, 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.119 they literally did the interview, took the transcript of what 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.439 the witness said, and used an AI voice. 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:20.760 They should have used the Queen of England. 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.360 You watched the story and you recognized him? 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.920 Yes, I recognized him, and I recognized him immediately. 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:30.280 He doesn't want to show his face or use his name. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.639 He also asked that I replace his voice with a 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.000 computer generated one. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.560 He says, guy's gone for extra levels of protection because 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:39.880 he doesn't want anyone thinking he's a rat. 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.080 I wonder if he's in a hotel under an assumed name. 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.960