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We 0:01:08.780 --> 0:01:11.670 need to outdo him so when he runs for president, 0:01:11.990 --> 0:01:15.430 we have a bigger audience to call out his BS. 0:01:15.490 --> 0:01:17.450 So hit subscribe if you haven't. 0:01:17.510 --> 0:01:20.420 If you have, get your friends, your family, everyone you 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.920 know to subscribe to us at johnnydontlike.com. 0:01:22.940 --> 0:01:23.589 800-222-5222 is telephone number 1-800-222-5222. 0:01:31.780 --> 0:01:35.460 Earlier this morning, I was driving into the radio station, 0:01:35.660 --> 0:01:41.040 and my phone starts to blow up. KTLA, Channel 5 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.420 in Los Angeles, was doing an update on the story 0:01:44.459 --> 0:01:48.230 that we talked about yesterday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 0:01:48.990 --> 0:01:52.690 which was the fire that took place at a home 0:01:52.750 --> 0:01:55.770 that was abandoned by the owner and taken over by 0:01:55.850 --> 0:01:59.850 squatters in the San Fernando Valley, and the squatters eventually 0:01:59.910 --> 0:02:04.060 lit it on fire. After the fire started, we learned 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.240 from people in the neighborhood that they've been trying to 0:02:07.380 --> 0:02:10.980 do something about this home for something like six years. 0:02:11.620 --> 0:02:14.810 And the city of Los Angeles gave them no help 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.410 at all. They are mad at Nithya, who is the councilwoman. 0:02:18.610 --> 0:02:23.010 They're mad at Karen Bass. So Karen Bass decided that 0:02:23.090 --> 0:02:27.230 she would call in to KTLA to try to defend herself. 0:02:27.970 --> 0:02:31.639 And she kept hanging up on them. She kept getting disconnected. 0:02:32.180 --> 0:02:35.480 over and over and over again. And so the conversation 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.810 was kind of disjointed. Well, today it was Nithya's turn. 0:02:40.490 --> 0:02:43.710 She shows up to the scene of the crime and 0:02:43.750 --> 0:02:48.590 gets cursed out on live television by the homeowners in 0:02:48.630 --> 0:02:49.310 the neighborhood. 0:02:50.530 --> 0:02:54.880 Now, KTLA was broadcasting this press conference when it happened. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.940 They have posted some clips of Nithya's press conference, but 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.959 as we are speaking right now, At 1209, they have 0:03:03.020 --> 0:03:06.500 not posted it, possibly because they don't want to hear 0:03:06.620 --> 0:03:09.549 anything that has cursing on it. But here's just a 0:03:09.610 --> 0:03:13.610 little of the exchange of the reporter at KTLA asking 0:03:13.690 --> 0:03:17.000 Nithya why she didn't do a damn thing about this property. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:18.600 Let's hear what she had to say. 0:03:19.470 --> 0:03:23.049 The pathway through which she asked us to resolve nuisance property. 0:03:23.070 --> 0:03:24.549 But you never called her personally about this. 0:03:24.750 --> 0:03:28.230 I cannot call her about the 200 plus issues that 0:03:28.270 --> 0:03:30.230 we are dealing with that are all at this level 0:03:30.250 --> 0:03:30.670 of risk. 0:03:30.510 --> 0:03:31.710 Across the entire district. 0:03:32.030 --> 0:03:33.970 What do you have to do with your time if 0:03:34.010 --> 0:03:36.890 you can't call the mayor about nuisance properties that are 0:03:36.910 --> 0:03:38.970 fire hazards in your district? 0:03:39.620 --> 0:03:42.280 While she was busy doing Hassan Piker's podcast. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.180 Want me to call her about every encampment? Does she 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.260 want me to call her about every single fire risk? 0:03:47.540 --> 0:03:49.580 By the way, that's what you should be doing. If 0:03:49.660 --> 0:03:53.110 the city's not getting anything done, you call and yell 0:03:53.150 --> 0:03:55.470 at the mayor and say, clean this crap up. 0:03:56.530 --> 0:03:59.610 Do we actually deal with a functional city where departments 0:03:59.630 --> 0:04:02.650 can actually solve issues and where I use the process 0:04:02.710 --> 0:04:07.190 that her office has sent me to identify the priority locations? 0:04:07.220 --> 0:04:09.500 This has become a mayor's race of finger pointing and 0:04:09.540 --> 0:04:10.620 it is so pathetic. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.869 It is so stupid. Because what she is arguing is, well, 0:04:15.070 --> 0:04:17.770 I included it on a list and sent it in 0:04:17.810 --> 0:04:20.830 an email to the mayor's office, so I did everything 0:04:20.870 --> 0:04:24.130 that I had to do. Well, if the home wasn't 0:04:24.210 --> 0:04:28.360 cleared out, then you didn't do enough. So stop bringing 0:04:28.450 --> 0:04:30.779 up the fact that you included it on some list 0:04:30.820 --> 0:04:33.600 somewhere where nothing got done for six years. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:35.400 For nuisance abatement? 0:04:36.660 --> 0:04:39.080 Which property did you call her about and did you 0:04:39.100 --> 0:04:39.820 see a change there? 0:04:40.300 --> 0:04:41.479 We have called her about. 0:04:43.660 --> 0:04:45.760 Some issues in the Hollywood Hills, which were very, very 0:04:45.820 --> 0:04:46.550 high fire risk. 0:04:46.630 --> 0:04:46.990 Yeah. 0:04:47.130 --> 0:04:47.950 And those were changed? 0:04:48.690 --> 0:04:51.289 I've also called her about bigger encampments that are beyond 0:04:51.310 --> 0:04:53.469 the capacity of the council office to handle because we 0:04:53.510 --> 0:04:53.890 don't have. 0:04:53.790 --> 0:04:55.169 30 beds in your district. 0:04:55.610 --> 0:04:57.650 Well, we don't have large encampments like that in my district. 0:04:57.690 --> 0:04:59.589 Yes, you do. Liar. 0:05:00.890 --> 0:05:03.010 We've addressed all of them. We've addressed most of the 0:05:03.250 --> 0:05:05.100 large encampments across the entire district. 0:05:05.250 --> 0:05:09.279 Notice how she just changed that real fast. We've gotten 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.040 rid of all of them. We've taken care of all 0:05:12.060 --> 0:05:13.820 of them. Well, he was getting rid of some of 0:05:13.860 --> 0:05:16.970 them or most of them or whatever the qualifier was. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.800 If you have 30, 40 people, a council office can't 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.560 handle it. That's when I reach out to the mayor's 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.789 office and say, hey, this is beyond the capacity. 0:05:24.810 --> 0:05:25.810 So there's a threshold. 0:05:26.210 --> 0:05:26.970 There has to be. 0:05:27.310 --> 0:05:30.170 You cannot call the mayor about 200 issues. You just can't. 0:05:30.250 --> 0:05:32.190 And yet they all- I think the residents here would 0:05:32.250 --> 0:05:35.490 say that they had hoped you had called about this issue. 0:05:35.510 --> 0:05:38.510 The thing that they've been complaining about for six years. Yeah, 0:05:38.529 --> 0:05:40.820 it would have been nice if you called and said, hey, 0:05:40.860 --> 0:05:43.119 can we get something done about that? Because here's the thing. 0:05:43.500 --> 0:05:47.980 Let's dispel all the bureaucracy nonsense about this. As soon 0:05:48.060 --> 0:05:52.160 as Bass and Rahman got embarrassed on live television, guess 0:05:52.180 --> 0:05:53.339 what they did yesterday? 0:05:53.660 --> 0:05:54.560 They cleaned it up. 0:05:55.740 --> 0:06:00.469 They did because they were embarrassed on television, and that's 0:06:00.529 --> 0:06:01.210 what it takes. 0:06:01.950 --> 0:06:04.930 Say that we use the pathway that the mayor offered. 0:06:04.690 --> 0:06:05.850 On these issues, you know? 0:06:05.890 --> 0:06:07.010 This is so pathetic. 0:06:08.150 --> 0:06:08.690 It really is. 0:06:08.690 --> 0:06:10.610 I can't wait to move out of the city of 0:06:10.650 --> 0:06:14.130 Los Angeles. This city does not deserve my tax dollars 0:06:14.430 --> 0:06:15.510 if these are my choices. 0:06:16.170 --> 0:06:18.450 We have, out of all the people who live here, 0:06:19.529 --> 0:06:25.790 we have two remedial women running for mayor. We have 0:06:26.050 --> 0:06:29.930 one who's a young communist who hates the fact that 0:06:29.950 --> 0:06:33.990 there are homeowners in Studio City who have single-family homes. 0:06:34.529 --> 0:06:38.050 She wants all of those people gone. She sees them 0:06:38.130 --> 0:06:41.190 as the ones with privilege who are wrecking the city. 0:06:42.029 --> 0:06:45.750 She wants them replaced. by people who live in mixed-use 0:06:45.770 --> 0:06:49.909 housing above a Panda Express. That is what she wants. 0:06:50.250 --> 0:06:52.729 She hates the fact that they own homes. She hates 0:06:52.790 --> 0:06:55.370 the fact that they drive cars. She hates the fact 0:06:55.410 --> 0:06:58.750 that they have lawns and that they have pools. And 0:06:58.810 --> 0:07:02.190 she wants a bunch of tenements in the San Fernando 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.460 Valley because those people are socialists who will vote for 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.080 a communist like her. That is what she wants. And 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.220 the alternative is a woman who, when she was younger, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.640 was just as out there in left wing as Nithya Raman, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.850 but now she's just an out-of-it old lady who is 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:20.940 above her skis. 0:07:21.870 --> 0:07:23.850 That is the pathway that we are supposed to use. 0:07:24.710 --> 0:07:28.050 So that was a little of what was happening this morning. 0:07:28.150 --> 0:07:32.070 Let's go back to yesterday. After we signed off the air, 0:07:32.450 --> 0:07:36.010 Karen Bass showed up at the site to take questions, 0:07:36.170 --> 0:07:38.710 and it did not go well for her. Here is 0:07:38.750 --> 0:07:41.070 a report from NBCLA. 0:07:41.750 --> 0:07:45.160 Developing news tonight in Studio City, NewsChopper 4 captured this 0:07:45.220 --> 0:07:48.300 video of an abandoned loft that's become quite an eyesore. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.380 Neighbors tell us that they've complained about the property for years. 0:07:51.580 --> 0:07:54.700 This is the one takeaway that everyone who lives in 0:07:54.740 --> 0:07:57.780 the city of L.A. has to deal with. If you 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:02.000 have this going on, do not call your city council person, 0:08:02.230 --> 0:08:05.670 unless it's Tracy Park. Do not call the mayor. Call 0:08:05.690 --> 0:08:08.570 the local news. The only way anything gets done in 0:08:08.610 --> 0:08:11.790 this city is by shaming our pathetic politicians. 0:08:12.870 --> 0:08:14.770 And this week, a fire broke out there. 0:08:15.290 --> 0:08:18.310 NBC4' s Kenan Willard, live right now in Studio City with 0:08:18.330 --> 0:08:21.450 the promise that Mayor Bass just made to the neighbors 0:08:21.550 --> 0:08:21.890 out there. 0:08:22.070 --> 0:08:22.350 Kenan. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.680 Yeah, Colleen, we saw the mayor come out here in 0:08:25.700 --> 0:08:27.880 the last two hours to this site here on Babcock, 0:08:27.940 --> 0:08:29.880 touring some of the damage from the fire, looking at 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.850 some of the debris, clear signs that this has been 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.170 a long-term homeless encampment here on what looks to be 0:08:35.190 --> 0:08:36.580 a totally vacant lot. 0:08:36.590 --> 0:08:38.550 I don't even think you can call it an encampment. 0:08:38.630 --> 0:08:40.069 This is a squat property. 0:08:41.990 --> 0:08:44.030 The mayor during that visit making a promise to the 0:08:44.050 --> 0:08:45.869 people living here saying that the city is going to 0:08:45.929 --> 0:08:49.050 clean this up, ending what neighbors say have been years 0:08:49.110 --> 0:08:50.530 of frustrations for their community. 0:08:50.890 --> 0:08:54.610 How are these our only two choices? It's beyond pathetic 0:08:54.850 --> 0:08:57.250 because it's not going to get better. It's going to 0:08:57.270 --> 0:09:00.350 get worse. Bass is going to be older and more 0:09:00.530 --> 0:09:03.850 out of it. And her staff, which is clearly not 0:09:03.910 --> 0:09:07.800 doing their job, is going to have more power. Rahman, 0:09:07.940 --> 0:09:10.339 if she gets in, is going to actively try to 0:09:10.380 --> 0:09:13.400 burn these neighborhoods down so that that way she can 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.460 replace the people who were there, who she regards as 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.000 a problem, and replace them with good little communist soldiers 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.870 who will happily vote for her. Action needs to be 0:09:23.910 --> 0:09:25.720 taken and this has to stop. 0:09:26.100 --> 0:09:27.819 And it's a shame that a fire had to be 0:09:28.260 --> 0:09:30.820 the catalyst to make change occur. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:32.440 This woman lives next door. 0:09:32.460 --> 0:09:35.660 Her house almost caught on fire and she actually has 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.260 damage now to her garage thanks to the encampment. 0:09:41.670 --> 0:09:44.500 Neighbors tell us they woke up around 3.30 yesterday morning 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.720 to a fire burning on this lot. One woman who 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.540 lives next door showing us this security camera video of 0:09:49.580 --> 0:09:52.820 the flames. The neighbor saying that fire damaged the roof 0:09:52.860 --> 0:09:55.630 line of her property next door. People living here say 0:09:55.690 --> 0:09:58.650 homeless people have been a nuisance on this lot for years, 0:09:58.770 --> 0:09:51.550 acting disruptively. We're so green in Los Angeles, aren't we? 0:10:06.270 --> 0:10:08.350 Living on this street have been reporting this property as 0:10:08.390 --> 0:10:10.750 an issue to the L.A. Department of Building and Safety 0:10:10.990 --> 0:10:12.760 for at least the last five years. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.260 But they say no action was. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.160 Ever taken by the city to clean up the property 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.219 and keep homeless people off this land. In a press 0:10:19.260 --> 0:10:21.970 conference here this afternoon, Mayor Bass made a remark that 0:10:22.010 --> 0:10:24.770 appeared to cast blame on her competitor in the upcoming 0:10:24.830 --> 0:10:25.510 race for L.A. 0:10:25.550 --> 0:10:25.790 Mayor. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.819 In a city of 3.8 million people, that is 500 0:10:31.820 --> 0:10:35.340 square miles, I definitely rely on my. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.470 It was very fitting that as Karen Bass had to 0:10:37.500 --> 0:10:40.570 go out to this impromptu press conference, we had a 0:10:40.710 --> 0:10:42.830 bizarre spat of summer rain. 0:10:45.230 --> 0:10:49.770 Communication with the council offices and with their representatives in 0:10:49.809 --> 0:10:53.390 the city to alert us when they have problems like this. 0:10:56.110 --> 0:10:58.370 This property where this fire happened is in the council 0:10:58.410 --> 0:11:01.130 district of Nithya Raman, who's running against Bass to be 0:11:01.330 --> 0:11:03.890 LA's next mayor. We reached out to Raman for a 0:11:03.950 --> 0:11:07.569 response to Bass's remarks there. Raman's office in response sent 0:11:07.610 --> 0:11:11.240 us this email. They say it shows Raman's office notifying 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.920 Mayor Bass's office last November about this property being a 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.579 nuisance occupied by homeless people and that Raman's office. 0:11:18.620 --> 0:11:23.230 Okay, last November, they've been... emailing her and calling her 0:11:23.350 --> 0:11:27.850 office for six years with no action, and she wants 0:11:27.970 --> 0:11:31.750 credit because she sent an email last November on a list? 0:11:33.330 --> 0:11:36.209 Let's not forget that Nithya Raman and all the members 0:11:36.230 --> 0:11:39.329 of the L.A. City Council get paid more than any 0:11:39.429 --> 0:11:45.180 other city council in the country. $ 225, 000 plus benefits. And 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.839 this is the kind of government that we get. This 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.520 is why 90% of respondents to our poll say it's 0:11:50.620 --> 0:11:53.040 both of their faults. The best you can do is 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.670 to send an email that I'm sure was never read. 0:11:56.370 --> 0:11:59.210 as the second highest priority property to get cleaned up 0:11:59.590 --> 0:12:00.690 in Rahman's district. 0:12:00.970 --> 0:12:02.530 In a statement she sent us, Rahman's office. 0:12:02.580 --> 0:12:05.180 You know what a city council person should do? There's 0:12:05.220 --> 0:12:07.180 a bunch of garbage and a bunch of people living 0:12:07.220 --> 0:12:08.179 on an abandoned lot. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.280 You go clean it up personally. Get the gloves. 0:12:12.390 --> 0:12:15.609 Saying the mayor's remarks today ignore the reality that they 0:12:15.690 --> 0:12:18.750 flagged this site as an issue months ago. Now, during 0:12:18.790 --> 0:12:20.550 her press conference out here at the site in the 0:12:20.590 --> 0:12:23.430 last few hours, Mayor Bass actually talked about that email. 0:12:23.500 --> 0:12:27.700 She specifically said that because Rahman's office did not designate 0:12:27.740 --> 0:12:30.080 this site in that email as an emergency. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.360 So now Karen Bass is admitting, oh, yeah, we knew 0:12:34.420 --> 0:12:37.380 about this property. So they all knew about this property. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.140 They've been called for years and years and years. They 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.230 did nothing until it caught fire and got the attention 0:12:44.270 --> 0:12:47.050 of the local news. And what makes you think anything 0:12:47.090 --> 0:12:49.449 is going to be any different next time? Because, Johnny, 0:12:49.510 --> 0:12:51.750 how many squatter fire stories have we done in the 0:12:51.790 --> 0:12:54.210 city of Los Angeles just this year? 0:12:54.230 --> 0:12:55.070 A dozen? 0:12:55.090 --> 0:12:59.840 At least. These people are so bad. And we have 0:13:00.260 --> 0:13:01.140 no other options. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.260 That Mayor Bass's office did not take any action before today. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.460 So definitely a tight back and forth between these two 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.160 upcoming candidates to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.079 And this fire playing a big role now in the 0:13:12.140 --> 0:13:15.380 politics over this election going to be so tightly contested here. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:15.730 We're going to. 0:13:15.710 --> 0:13:18.270 Continue to follow the back and forth and the cleanup 0:13:18.309 --> 0:13:20.050 effort here in the days ahead. For the moment, from 0:13:20.110 --> 0:13:22.210 Studio City, Kenan Willard, NBC4 News. 0:13:22.850 --> 0:13:26.010 This story is emblematic of that it really doesn't matter 0:13:26.150 --> 0:13:27.350 who wins the L.A. 0:13:27.390 --> 0:13:28.069 Mayor's race. 0:13:28.350 --> 0:13:28.510 L.A. 0:13:28.590 --> 0:13:32.250 Is screwed either way. These are the two worst possible 0:13:32.309 --> 0:13:35.400 candidates that we can have. There is no hope for 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.140 Los Angeles for this election. The only thing you can 0:13:39.179 --> 0:13:42.179 do is move with your feet and get out. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.979 No, it's going to get worse. And the thing is, 0:13:47.100 --> 0:13:50.800 is they don't learn anything. They never... look at a 0:13:50.870 --> 0:13:54.530 failure and go, okay, we can't do that again. Let's 0:13:54.610 --> 0:13:58.309 figure out what we can put in place, what reforms 0:13:58.350 --> 0:14:00.949 we can put in place to make sure that that 0:14:01.390 --> 0:14:06.329 doesn't happen again. Instead of that, they immediately start blaming 0:14:06.410 --> 0:14:09.969 other people and trying to take the heat off themselves. 0:14:11.230 --> 0:14:15.290 And I understand politicians like to do that sort of thing. 0:14:16.340 --> 0:14:19.920 But if you do it over and over and over 0:14:20.020 --> 0:14:23.200 again with every single problem that you have to deal with, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.100 nothing ever gets fixed. You just end up with more 0:14:27.180 --> 0:14:31.160 problems piling up. One of the excuses that they were 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.900 giving was, well, there are so many homes like this 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.360 in Los Angeles. How do you expect for us to 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.440 deal with them all? And you go, okay, if you 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.120 have this many abandoned homes that have been taken over 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:49.270 by squatters and are fire hazards, What policies do you 0:14:49.310 --> 0:14:53.250 need to change to make sure that doesn't happen? And 0:14:53.270 --> 0:14:57.990 they never do that. They're not interested because they're ideological. 0:14:58.710 --> 0:15:01.840 It's not about figuring out what works and doing that 0:15:02.260 --> 0:15:04.760 and figuring out what doesn't work and not doing that. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.440 It is an ideological war for them. And they're both 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.190 on the same side. It's just two different flavors of it, 0:15:14.110 --> 0:15:17.410 which is why voters don't actually have a choice. You're 0:15:17.450 --> 0:15:20.070 voting for the same policies. It's like what happened in 0:15:20.170 --> 0:15:24.190 Oakland when they got rid of Shang and replaced Shang 0:15:24.250 --> 0:15:30.780 with Barbara Lee. There is no difference policy-wise between the two. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.260 There are demographic differences between them. Barbara Lee is black. 0:15:36.300 --> 0:15:39.820 Shang is Asian. Barbara Lee is old. Shang is young. 0:15:40.210 --> 0:15:42.510 Barbara Lee came from the Congress. Shang came from the 0:15:42.570 --> 0:15:48.820 local government. But their worldview is exactly the same. So 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:54.110 what's the difference between the two? And unfortunately, in Los Angeles, 0:15:54.130 --> 0:15:57.010 the way I see this race is very similar to 0:15:57.050 --> 0:16:01.510 what's going on in Oakland. They may be different demographically, 0:16:01.570 --> 0:16:05.300 the two candidates, but in terms of policy, they're the 0:16:05.340 --> 0:16:09.600 same person, which means voters don't actually have a choice 0:16:10.500 --> 0:16:14.300 and the misery is going to continue. Now, if we 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.050 are able to obtain that sound of Nithya getting cursed 0:16:18.170 --> 0:16:20.790 out by the homeowner, we are going to play that 0:16:20.850 --> 0:16:22.250 for you, provided we can bleep it. 0:16:23.210 --> 0:16:24.590 That's going to take a lot of work. 0:16:24.810 --> 0:16:27.610 We might have to save that for an accountability podcast. 0:16:28.170 --> 0:16:29.720 It is cathartic to hear. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:31.840 It always is. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.120 By the way, you know what I just saw on 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.780 my YouTube channel? Karen Bass held a virtual town hall 0:16:36.820 --> 0:16:39.920 for the people of Boyle Heights that she did not attend. 0:16:43.740 --> 0:16:46.180 Seriously, get out. There's only one option. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.980 Either get out, or if you're the organized people that 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.280 live in a place like Encino, incorporate into your own city. 0:16:53.860 --> 0:16:54.160 L.A. 0:16:54.300 --> 0:16:56.660 Is, I was about to use a bad word, but 0:16:56.700 --> 0:16:57.940 you understand exactly. 0:16:58.860 --> 0:17:00.760 If you'd like to email the show, you can do 0:17:00.820 --> 0:17:08.310 so at johnnydontlikeshow at gmail.com. That's johnnydontlikeshow at gmail.com. And 0:17:08.350 --> 0:17:11.030 if you'd like to watch us perform the show live, 0:17:11.350 --> 0:17:15.910 go to johnnydontlike.com. participate in the chat, and click that 0:17:15.990 --> 0:17:16.629 like button. 0:17:17.670 --> 0:17:20.409 Everyone's doing the thumbs up with us, right? 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This week, 0:17:51.380 --> 0:17:54.280 our special guest was Jennifer Van Laar as we talk 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.180 about Gavin Newsom's crooked real estate dealings and the war 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.750 on the press with the Stop Nick Shirley Act and, 0:17:59.790 --> 0:18:04.149 of course, that ridiculous tire ruling. Let's see. Where is it? 0:18:04.190 --> 0:18:08.210 The money trail. Jennifer Van Laar's episode is up to 0:18:08.210 --> 0:18:12.560 3,500 views. Let's keep it up. Make sure you watch 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.859 it over the weekend. Share it with your friends. Watch 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.090 it a second time. Hit like and comment on that video. 0:18:18.390 --> 0:18:21.330 Tell us what you think at johnnydontlike.com. 0:18:21.859 --> 0:18:24.199 And next week, we're going to the San Fernando Valley. 0:18:24.500 --> 0:18:27.679 The Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill, a week from today, Friday, 0:18:27.740 --> 0:18:30.300 September 4th, from noon to 3. 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Katie, how do you feel about that? 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:07.840 Why do you. 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:09.840 Have to watch porn in the living room? 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.879 And we saw a package come in today, and we 0:19:13.940 --> 0:19:17.460 assumed that it was another bobblehead. Maybe it was a 0:19:17.530 --> 0:19:18.590 shangy bobblehead. 0:19:18.609 --> 0:19:20.010 Absolutely, absolutely. 0:19:20.109 --> 0:19:23.170 Although I don't know how you get that made. But no, 0:19:23.210 --> 0:19:26.510 we got a very nice package from Jim in Temple City. 0:19:27.290 --> 0:19:31.800 John and Randy, I don't know anyone more deserving than 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.960 you guys to have your own Katie. I'm more than 0:19:36.020 --> 0:19:38.399 sure that now with your video feed, you'll have tons 0:19:38.460 --> 0:19:41.720 of fun. Well, we got a new package from Jim 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:46.790 in Temple City. And it's kind of awesome, especially for Johnny, 0:19:46.850 --> 0:19:48.750 who's a lifelong Angels fan. 0:19:49.670 --> 0:19:50.800 We were given. 0:19:50.420 --> 0:19:55.980 2002 World Series Angels hats How. 0:19:55.859 --> 0:19:56.740 Cool is that? 0:19:57.220 --> 0:20:03.210 The last time we won The only time we won Does. 0:20:02.230 --> 0:20:03.710 That make it hurt just a little more? 0:20:03.730 --> 0:20:06.330 A little bit That it's been 24 years? 0:20:08.150 --> 0:20:11.429 I was picking up my lunch today And the guy 0:20:11.650 --> 0:20:14.650 who was handing me the sandwich said, do you see 0:20:14.690 --> 0:20:18.260 the attendance at the Angel game earlier this week? And 0:20:18.300 --> 0:20:21.260 I said, yeah. And he goes, when is Artie going 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.179 to sell the team? And I go, what do I 0:20:24.220 --> 0:20:25.359 look like, the Answer Man? 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:32.960 I feel sorry for you. 0:20:33.700 --> 0:20:36.340 Well, I appreciate that. What do you say we make 0:20:36.380 --> 0:20:37.919 a couple of listeners very happy? 0:20:38.260 --> 0:20:41.600 Let's do it, and it's the last giveaway of the week. 0:20:41.660 --> 0:20:46.000 790K ABC welcomes the 21st Annual L.A. Wine Fest at 0:20:46.020 --> 0:20:49.020 the L.A. Equestrian Center, which is notably not in L.A. 0:20:49.060 --> 0:20:49.800 It's in Burbank. 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.100 At the LAEC on Saturday, September 12th, and Sunday, September 13th. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.980 It's only a couple weeks away. Tickets are on sale 0:20:58.020 --> 0:21:02.030