1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 2: John, one of the biggest endorsements of the gubernatorial campaign 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 2: has happened. Eric Swalwell is getting the nod from the SEIU, and. 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: Of course he received the endorsement from Adam Schiff, one 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: of the state's United States Senators, and from Ian Calderon, 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: who was the only Democrat to take the California Democratic 8 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: Party Chairman Rusty Hicks advice and drop out of the race. 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: He also threw his support behind the Bay Area congressman. 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: Do you know what Katie Porter called it when Adam 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 2: Schiff endorsed Swallwell and not her. 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 3: I call it the shift gift. 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a day you didn't want to be 14 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 1: around her. Come to think of it, that's most days. 15 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 16 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our 18 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: next guest to the program. He's the senior editor at 19 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: Reason and host of Rising on the Hill TV. You 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: can follow him on x at Robbie Suave, Robbie suave. Welcome, 21 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: nice to talk to you. 22 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 4: Have you been I'm. 23 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: Good, Thanks so much for stopping by on this Friday afternoon. 24 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: Let's start out with that breaking news that the SEIU 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: has now endorsed Eric Swalwell for governor. Here in the 26 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: state of California, the Democrats are afraid that they could 27 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: get locked out of the November ballot if too Republican 28 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: candidates Steve Hilton, formerly of Fox News, and Chad Bianco, 29 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: the sheriff of Riverside County, finished first and second, and 30 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: now it looks like they're starting to coalesce support behind 31 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell, which would be a complete disaster, but probably 32 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: enough to get him on the November ballot. What do 33 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: you make of the fact that they appear to be 34 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: putting all of their eggs in his basket. 35 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 4: Well, they have to avoid, obviously from their point of view, 36 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 4: having the scenario that you just outlined happened, because that 37 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 4: would be disaster to the Democrats. But Swallwell is a 38 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 4: toxic national figure. You know, couldn't a moderate, normal Democrat 39 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 4: attract you know, enough independent and Republicans support in the 40 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 4: state of California to coast to this thing. But it's 41 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 4: all these crazy democrats. Swalwell, very much in this category, 42 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 4: has spent you know, his entire career anti Trump obsessions 43 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 4: is controversial for his connection to an alleged or even 44 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 4: presumed Chinese spy, and so on and so forth. California 45 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 4: is I think, demonstrating to the entire nation what comes 46 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 4: of giving complete political power to the Democratic Party. And 47 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 4: you get skyrocketing housing prices, crime disaster, you get also 48 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 4: then you get this pathological need from the labor union 49 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 4: activists to tax the productive members of the society to 50 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 4: death such that they all free it, flee it rather, 51 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 4: you know, what's the plan to deal with that? I mean, 52 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 4: the damage there is done, right, they're all leaving and 53 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 4: and California is I think sadly going to find itself 54 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 4: in just terrible financial shape because of that decision, which 55 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 4: not even not Evenkevin Newsom wants that to happen. It's 56 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 4: I I can't think of like a worse choice than 57 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 4: than Swallwell to to go up against the Republicans you mentioned. 58 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 4: I've I've met Steve Hilton, I've been on I've been 59 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 4: on Fox with him before. He's a very thoughtful, interesting 60 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 4: guy and Uh, it'll be a formidable uh campaigner. 61 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: What do you think the deal is with Democratic voters? 62 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: Where the government that we receive in California is really 63 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: really poor, whether it is the bullet train homelessness, retail theft, 64 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: the condition of our roads, the condition of our K 65 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: through twelve schools are totally insane. Parole boards letting very violent, 66 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: very dangerous people out of prison simply because they have 67 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: a number of candles on their birthday cake, and we 68 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: decide that, okay, let's have compassion for them due to 69 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: that reason. But it seems like the people who live 70 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: around me, their hatred for Donald Trump is so off 71 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: the charts that all they're looking for in candidates for 72 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,799 Speaker 1: state and local office is a shared hatred of Donald Trump. 73 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: And as long as you hate Donald Trump as much 74 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 1: as they hate Donald Trump, they regard you as competent. 75 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem to bother them that we have 76 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: to buy our shampoo through bulletproof glass. It doesn't seem 77 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: to bother them that they get you'll get assaulted or 78 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: you'll be the victim of a crime if you ride 79 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: public trans at enough times. Either in La San Francisco, Sacramento, wherever. 80 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. They're very tolerant a very poor government 81 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: that they pay a fortune for. 82 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't think of a worse way to do 83 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 4: governance than to just have it be a total referendum 84 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 4: on how viscerally you hate Donald Trump. And liberals are 85 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 4: losing the will to govern effectively at all on all 86 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 4: the issues you just mentioned, the most fundamental, the first 87 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 4: and foremost duties of government. I'm a libertarian, so I 88 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 4: don't give the government all that many duties. Frankly I would. 89 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 4: I think it already it's doing way too much. But 90 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 4: the couple fundamental things they have to do, particularly on 91 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 4: the state and local level, provide a working police system 92 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 4: and court system, in some form of transport public transportation, 93 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 4: and allow the permitting of housing to be built. Those 94 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 4: kinds of like basic things that liberals, not just in 95 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 4: in California but all over the place are are failing this. 96 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 4: This is why people are moving to Red states. This 97 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 4: is why Red states are building housing more successfully. It's 98 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 4: why you want to start businesses want to headquarters in 99 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 4: Red states. It's it's uh, it's liberals are not governing 100 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 4: effectively anymore, and and there are now there are smart Democrats. 101 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 4: There are you know, moderate Democrats who want to because 102 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 4: they're certainly Republicans who for various reasons, getting the way 103 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 4: of progress to in terms of building things, making things 104 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 4: more affordable. Trump gets in his own way. Sometimes I 105 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 4: get frustrated with him too. I get it, but that 106 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 4: just can't be the number one reason why you You 107 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 4: make that your entire personality and what you're seeking to 108 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 4: achieve politically, particularly at the at the local level, where 109 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 4: they are just different. They're just like you said, there 110 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 4: are very basic, fundamental things that have become broken in 111 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 4: the society. We're experiencing that in Washington, DC too. It's 112 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 4: why Trump sent in the National Guard, which had the 113 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 4: immediate instantaneous effect of discouraging on a mass scale the 114 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,239 Speaker 4: kind of crime waves we've seen the last couple of years, 115 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 4: the gangs of teenagers, you know, marauding through the streets, 116 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 4: steel jacking car people's cars, shoplifting, that kind of thing. 117 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 4: It was over because there was troops everywhere. Now, I 118 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 4: don't think that's a workable solution at scale for the 119 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 4: whole nation, but Trump did something about it here in 120 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 4: the nation's capital, where he had the you know, the 121 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 4: jurisdiction to do it, and the mayor didn't even really 122 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 4: fight it and actually secretly enjoys that it became a 123 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 4: safer place. So that was actually governing. What do you 124 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 4: got Democrats? 125 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: What's wild to me is that when you talk to 126 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: them one on one, they know what reality is. They're 127 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: not buying Gavin Newsom's bs when he says that the 128 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: bullet Train is a successful program because it's a jobs program, 129 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: so don't worry about the fact that you can't buy 130 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: a ticket on a train that doesn't exist that was 131 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: supposed to be completed years ago. He says that homelessness 132 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: is going down, even though we see encampments all over 133 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: the place and seven people, seven people die on the 134 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: streets every single day in Los Angeles, seven homeless people. 135 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: So therefore we're creating six point whatever new ones per 136 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: day to replace the ones that were killing. And they 137 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: brag about the fact that it's going down a tick, 138 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: retail theft, whatever the case may be. Democrats know who 139 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: live here that all of that is a disaster. Maybe 140 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: some of them don't, but the ones I talk to, 141 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: for the most part, they know the state that they 142 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: live in. Yet they feel like complaining about it is 143 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: good enough that if they complain about Newsom, or they 144 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: complain about the condition of the roads, or if they 145 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: complain about retail theft or whatever, that that is is 146 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: them just beating their chest and showing the world that 147 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: they're not happy about it. Yet they won't vote differently. 148 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: They vote as if they're very happy with the government 149 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: that they receive. And I don't know if they're capable 150 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: of voting differently, but nothing is going to change until 151 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: they start voting differently. 152 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 4: I know it's a source of frustration. I feel it. 153 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 4: Here in DC. We have our Mayor MARYO. Bowser, is 154 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 4: actually one of the more normal to Democrats. And I 155 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 4: say that as someone who criticized every aspect of her 156 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 4: COVID governance. But now I see what we could have. 157 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 4: We could have Brandon Johnson, we could have zoron Mom Donnie. 158 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 4: She's retiring. I bet we do get a zoron Mom Donnie. 159 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 4: It's gonna get worse. It's not. It's it's not you know, 160 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 4: Democrats coming together and saying, Okay, we need we need 161 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 4: at least a problem solver to fix the those things 162 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 4: you're talking about. No, it's we need some charismatic, pathological 163 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 4: Trump hating person and who who is going to uh 164 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 4: put the put the municipality in a fiscal crisis that 165 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 4: necessitates trying to squeeze more tax revenue out of the 166 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 4: productive citizens who then just leave. I mean, how many 167 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 4: more of the wealthiest people had to say, you know what, 168 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 4: Florida's Florida's fine, let's go to Florida and leave California 169 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 4: before the people. And this isn't even the elected leaders. 170 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 4: This is the democratic base demanding this right. This is 171 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 4: done over the objections of the people, the liberals running 172 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 4: the state. This is coming from the unions themselves, the 173 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 4: people who just can't help themselves, but squeeze until there's 174 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 4: nothing left. That's a that's a base problem. That's not 175 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 4: there's no way it's going to get fixed. And it's 176 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 4: so terrible, and it's so you know, the the jobs 177 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 4: it's a jobs program, the train that doesn't take anybody anywhere. 178 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 4: I mean, that's like straight out of you know, KNESY 179 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 4: and FDR. I would just pay might as well pay 180 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 4: people to dig holes in the ground. Then, I mean, 181 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 4: that's like a central like basic central planning, you know, 182 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 4: Soviet failure of to to think that that is a 183 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 4: model that actually creates product. You know, let's just smash 184 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 4: windows and then we'll fix them, and we created economic prosperity. 185 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 4: It's it's like that's failing econ one oh one. No, 186 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 4: smashing those windows is not good good for the economy. 187 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 4: The better they were just they were left in place 188 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 4: and people could spend the money on other things. So 189 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 4: it's hilarious to hear that tront of doubt. 190 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: So far, a trillion dollars in wealth has already moved 191 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: out of the state. Chevron has a letter out this 192 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 1: week saying that if we don't do something about cap 193 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: and trade, their next Yamaha says they're moving out of 194 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: the state. We saw in the state of Washington where 195 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: Starbucks has now said that moving their headquarters out of 196 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: the state of Washington, something a lot of people probably 197 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: thought that they'd never hear. Their CEO, Howard Schultz, who 198 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: is a guy who is certainly left of center, announced 199 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: that he will be leaving the state of Washington. And 200 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: we know that Mom Donnie is chasing people out of 201 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: New York City as fast as he can. Recently, the 202 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: governor of New York, Kathy Hochel acknowledge the fact that 203 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: they're losing a lot of their wealth to red states. 204 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: What do you think the United States looks like where 205 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: all of the wealth has moved out of these blue 206 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 1: states into states like Tennessee, Florida, and Texas. Because that's 207 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: not how it is right now. But unless something changes 208 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 1: dramatically soon, that's certainly the future. 209 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 4: I think it is the future. I think it's inarguable 210 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 4: those states you mentioned in others, and that's a good thing. 211 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 4: You know what, This is how it's supposed to work, 212 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 4: healthy competition. We are one nation, but we are fifty states, 213 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 4: and the states get to experiment with different regulatory and 214 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 4: tax policies, and people can can vote with their feet. 215 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 4: You know, we're all we're all descended in one way 216 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 4: or the other from people who came to America seeking opportunity. 217 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 4: That's a beautiful thing. So now you can go to 218 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 4: for the seeking opportunity. You can leave New York or California, 219 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 4: or Illinois or Michigan or wherever it is and go 220 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 4: somewhere that that actually allows people to build things, that 221 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 4: allows you to start a company that doesn't think sixty 222 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 4: percent of your of your your income should be confiscated 223 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 4: or you know, mom, Donnie's up to fifty two percent, 224 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 4: it's sixty percent is the top rate in Nordic countries. That, 225 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 4: by the way, somehow manage to then give people a 226 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 4: large amount of public services that they're they're reasonably satisfied with. 227 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 4: We don't, are we thinking does anyone feel like, well, Okay, 228 00:13:58,160 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 4: they're going to take fifty two percent of my income, 229 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 4: but at least the streets will be really clean, the 230 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 4: public transportation will be really clean and safe. The police 231 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 4: will do a great job of arresting criminals. There will 232 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 4: be no more shoplifting. And then, you know, you might 233 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 4: make that. Some people would make that trade. They could 234 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 4: decide where they want to live. It's going to be 235 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 4: really nice and really clean and really orderly. I'm paying 236 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 4: an armatal leg to live there a lot of my income. 237 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 4: I don't like that, but it's going to be nice, clean, safe. 238 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 4: That's the deal you're supposed to make. If that's what 239 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 4: you want, then you'll live somewhere like that. But we 240 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 4: know that this they confiscate more of the wealth. It 241 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 4: does not go to those things. And even if it 242 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 4: does go to those things, it's not gonna like, that's 243 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 4: a problem if prosecutors are not prosecuting, because judges won't 244 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 4: convict and juries won't convict people who are lawbreakers. This 245 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 4: money is going to be used to pay the pension 246 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 4: funds of retirees of government employees, of our bloated medical system, 247 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 4: our medicare advantage plans, Like it's not going to make 248 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 4: a young couple who wants to start a family and 249 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 4: wants to be able to afford a home and their 250 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 4: neighborhood is going to be safer and more affordable and 251 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 4: cleaner because Mom, Donni or whoever it is is taking 252 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 4: more of your money. No one believes that, no one, 253 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 4: no one on earth believes that anymore. That's just not 254 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 4: what's happening. So the argument to do that goes away. 255 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 4: So then I would rather all take my chances in 256 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 4: a red state that actually does have some law and order. 257 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 4: Maybe it doesn't have robust social safety net and public transportation, 258 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 4: but I'm keeping more of my income and I can 259 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 4: start a business and it's affordable to live there. Sounds 260 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 4: like a good deal to me. 261 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: We're speaking with Robbie Suave, who you can follow on exit. 262 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: Robbie Suave Robbie. The former First Lady. Jill Biden announced 263 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: this week that she has a book that's going to 264 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: be coming out before the midterm elections, where she is 265 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: expected to light everyone on fire who helped to push 266 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: your husband out of the presidential race. How can Caddie, 267 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: do you think that book is going to be? 268 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 4: You know, I realized that you neglected to use her 269 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 4: full and prophet. She's doctor Jill Biden. You know this 270 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 4: is a This is a doctor. So a doctor is 271 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 4: speaking and we should listen. It's I mean, it's incredible 272 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 4: that she thinks what they're doing score settling. It's going 273 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 4: to be one hundred pages of expletives about Nancy Pelosi. 274 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 4: That's what I'm expecting, and George Clooney and you know, 275 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 4: and what's seventy percent of Democratic voters who thought he 276 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 4: was too old to do this? Like who is? There's 277 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 4: no one left on their side. They the Democrats are 278 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 4: fleeing any association with the Bidens. They are what they 279 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 4: tried to foist on the American people. This lie, this 280 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 4: absolute contemptible lie, that Joe Biden was capable of being 281 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 4: president currently or at the time this was all happening. 282 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 4: Let alone for an additional four years that he was 283 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 4: going to make it through that term. We all know, 284 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 4: everyone in the country knows that's a lie. So what 285 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 4: does she have to complain about and to say about. 286 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 4: She's the grima worm tongue. She was whispering in the 287 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 4: ear of the king, you know, poisoning his mind that 288 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 4: he should still somehow hold on in his elderliness, his infirmity. 289 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 4: And she's going to write what I tell all book 290 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 4: about how she I mean, it would actually be then 291 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 4: interesting book if she admitted and talked about the strategies 292 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 4: she employed to engage in the cover up. I'm not 293 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 4: expecting there to be any candid, radical honesty in here. 294 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 4: It would be interesting if there was. But but no, 295 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 4: it'll be unwelcome advice in score settling against people who 296 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 4: even belatedly tried to speak up about this insanity. 297 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: Robbie Suave, senior editor at Reason and host of Rising 298 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: on the Hilty. You can't follow him on x at Robbisuave, Robbisuave, 299 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: thanks so much for stopping by. Have a excellent weekend. 300 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 4: Youtwo sir, take care. 301 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: And Philip Show. 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What eight hundred two two two five 328 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: two two two. Yesterday we had a caller call in 329 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: who was a graduate of the University of California Davis, 330 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: and I mentioned that they were playing my cal State 331 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: Fullerton Titans over in the Western Conference Finals over in Henderson, 332 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: Nevada last night. Randy, the Titans won. Oh boy, what 333 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: does that mean? Well, it means we go on to 334 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: play Hawaii tonight. So that's what I'll be doing at 335 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: eight thirty. 336 00:19:53,000 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 2: Oh wow, you're living such an exciting life. 337 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: After I sit in the car for four and a 338 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: half hours. All right, there is a contest that's taking 339 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: place in San Francisco trying to determine, and I know 340 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: this is a difficult task of figuring out what exactly 341 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: is the dumbest law in all of San Francisco. 342 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 2: This is a contest being put forth by new San 343 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 2: Francisco supervisor Alan Wong. He's the guy that replaced the 344 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 2: pet shop lady that replaced Joel Ingardio after he got 345 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: recalled for turning the Great Highway into a park. Well, 346 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 2: Alan Wong wants you to identify what is the stupidest 347 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 2: law in San Francisco, and maybe, just maybe the Board 348 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: of Supervisors can get on the same page of repealing 349 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 2: some of the nonsensical bureaucracy that is in San Francisco. 350 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 2: For more, here's ABC seven in the Bay. 351 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 6: A San Francisco supervisor is launching what he's calling a 352 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 6: dumb laws contest. It's meant to tackle outdate city rules. 353 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 6: What are we talking about here, Let's say past complications 354 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 6: some business owners have faced when wanting to place chairs 355 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 6: outside their storefronts. Well his offices. 356 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 2: In fact, wasn't it the whole reason Gavin Newsom got 357 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 2: into politics was he was so pissed off that San 358 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 2: Francisco was forcing him to have a mop sync inside 359 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 2: his wine shop. 360 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: Okay, you could turn this into a game show. Who 361 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: would you want to host this game show? Fat Drew 362 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: Carrey or thin Drew carry. 363 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 6: Well, his office says, the city's worked a streamline some processes. 364 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 6: ABC seven nine with his snooze report of Lauria Rodriguez 365 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 6: live in studio with us with the changes high Gloria. 366 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 7: Hello, Yeah. 367 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,360 Speaker 8: San Francisco has a history with unusual laws. In fact, 368 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 8: it was the first city in the US to prohibit quote, 369 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 8: unsightly people from appearing in public. The so called ugly 370 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 8: law was eventually repealed. 371 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 2: Did you know that San Francisco had a law on 372 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 2: the books that banned ugly people? 373 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: What happened to that? Because the last time I was 374 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: up there, it looked like they weren't enforcing it. 375 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 2: It got revealed, but at one point it was illegal 376 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 2: to be ugly in San Francisco. 377 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 8: Unsightly people from appearing in public. The so called ugly 378 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 8: law was eventually repealed. 379 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 2: But they eventually went so far in the other direction 380 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: that they decided it was legal to not even wear clothes. 381 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: Talk about a swing. 382 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 8: But there are still some very unusual, outdated rules buried 383 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,719 Speaker 8: in our public codes, and when supervisor is hoping to 384 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 8: weed them out. 385 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 9: Maybe the dumb law might even get repealed. 386 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 8: San Francisco's supervisor, Alan Wong no relation wants to hear 387 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 8: from residents about their experiences with so called dumb laws. 388 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 9: So I think I want to just work on things 389 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 9: that don't make sense and are making the legs of 390 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 9: everyday people harder. 391 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 8: I found some questionable laws in San Francisco and decided 392 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 8: to ask residents about them. It's illegal to carry bread 393 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 8: in an exposed container or a basket. 394 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 3: Twity, what. 395 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 2: It is illegal in San Francisco to walk around with 396 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,919 Speaker 2: a basket of bread unless the bread is covered or 397 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 2: wrapped in some way. 398 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: Well, isn't that the whole point of having a basket 399 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: on your bike? 400 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 2: The home of Sourdough doesn't want you carrying an open 401 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 2: container of bread. 402 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: Maybe they're anti carb. 403 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:40,199 Speaker 5: At some point. 404 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 2: This was something written by a San Francisco supervisor, voted 405 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 2: on by the Board of Supervisors, and signed into law 406 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 2: by whoever was mayor at the time. 407 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 8: I found some questionable laws in San Francisco and decided 408 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 8: to ask residents about them. It's illegal to carry bread 409 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 8: in an exposed container or a basket. 410 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 7: What do you think about that? 411 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: I think that is a very weird law. Okay, well 412 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: we have progress here. I don't think there should be 413 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: a way that someone should carry their bread. 414 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 3: Sounds kind of dumb. 415 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: Who on that Board of Supervisors thought it was a 416 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 1: good idea to write that and then appeal to the 417 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: other members of the board to try to get them 418 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:34,120 Speaker 1: to vote for it. 419 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 2: I gotta imagine this has got to be at least 420 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 2: fifty years ago, maybe even older, by the way. Every 421 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 2: single city should do this, every single county should do this, 422 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 2: The entire state should do this. 423 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 5: We should go through. 424 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 2: And I love the idea of making it a contest, 425 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 2: but we should be going through on a regular basis 426 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: our city codes, our county codes, our state laws. Finding 427 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 2: things that don't make any sense in taking them off. 428 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 5: The books. 429 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 3: Sounds kind of dumb. 430 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,239 Speaker 2: It's like the old episode of The Simpsons where they 431 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 2: realized that prohibition was never repealed. In Springfield. They also 432 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 2: found an old law that said ducks must wear long pants. 433 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: I forget who it was, but there's a group that 434 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 1: puts together a bunch of these stupid laws. And there 435 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: was one I remember very distinctly out of the state 436 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: of Maine or maybe it was Massachusetts that said that 437 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: you could only give prisoners lobster one day a week. 438 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 3: Sounds kind of dumb. 439 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 5: Okay, I need that. That's good. 440 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm gonna need this for future laws 441 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 2: that are passed this year and all the years going 442 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 2: forward in the state of California. So let me go 443 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 2: to my ever expanding drops folder and put in sounds 444 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 2: kinda dumb. 445 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 3: Sounds kind of dumb. 446 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 5: That it does a little besides the. 447 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 3: Point, I love it. I'm on a low carb diet. No, 448 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 3: I'm kidding. Obviously that's silly. 449 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 5: We're having a little fun here, you can tell. 450 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 7: Here's another weird one. 451 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 8: If someone sells used underwear to be used as a 452 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 8: wiping rag, that's illegal under section six POT ninety four. 453 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,479 Speaker 1: What wait, so you can sell them to be warned, 454 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: but you can't sell them to be a wiping rag. 455 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 2: In San Francisco, it is against the law to sell 456 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: used underwear for the purposes of wiping things down. What 457 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 2: that even means? I do not know how this was 458 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 2: a concern. I have no idea. 459 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 1: Is that a common practice? 460 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 2: Well, if all the rags are in the wash, you 461 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 2: gotta wipe down the table with something. 462 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: Can't you use a paper towel. 463 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 2: We don't know when this law was created. Maybe this 464 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 2: is pre paper towel. Maybe in the prospect in days 465 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 2: in San Francisco's hey day, the only thing you could 466 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 2: use to wipe something down was your undies. 467 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 7: I guess here's another weird one. 468 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 8: If someone sells used underwear to be used as a 469 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 8: wiping rag, that's illegal under section six p ninety four. 470 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 2: And again, it's not illegal to use the used underwear. 471 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 2: It's illegal to sell the used underwear for that purpose. 472 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,239 Speaker 1: You know what they say, don't ask any questions if 473 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: you don't want to know the answer. So I'm just 474 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: gonna let that one slide. 475 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 2: Please, if someone has a lot of free time this weekend, 476 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 2: investigate the origin of these laws and report back to us. 477 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 5: I got to know that's a. 478 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: Weird law, but I find it more. 479 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 8: Disgusting than anything using an underwear. 480 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 3: Does it need to be illegal? 481 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: Not advisable? For sure. 482 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 2: This is one of the greatest things a local elected 483 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 2: official in government has done all year. We should all 484 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 2: be looking into how stupid the laws on the books are. 485 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 3: Does it need to be illegal? It's like it's a 486 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 3: bad idea, but does it have to be illegal? 487 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 8: So will Supervisor Wong work to repeal these odd laws? 488 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 7: Possibly, but not so fast. 489 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 9: Before we eliminate any proposed dumb laws, we need to 490 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 9: make sure removing it is not done. 491 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 2: And I found you know you're going to have to 492 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 2: get supervisors at port. And is Jackie Fielder really gonna 493 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 2: support repealing the used underwear rag law? 494 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: We don't know. Can you imagine what that debate would 495 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: be like. 496 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 8: And I found another weird law. It's illegal to pick 497 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 8: flowers like this at a park. So you can't take 498 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 8: any soil, weeds, or grass from a park without permission 499 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 8: from the Recreation and Park Department. 500 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 2: No plucking posies at the Golden Gate Park kids. 501 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: The public paid for those flowers. 502 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 5: Not at the Presidio either. 503 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 8: And everybody's welcome to share their experiences with these so 504 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 8: called dumb laws with Supervisor Wong's office, and we'll be 505 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 8: posting that link up on our website, and the winner 506 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 8: of the contest will be featured in their social media pages. 507 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:33,239 Speaker 2: That's all they get, Not a keychain. How about an 508 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 2: iheartsf shirt? How about some pizza at North Beach? 509 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: How about a year supply of turtle wax? 510 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 8: And he says, who knows, out law just might. 511 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 2: Be how about because this is the sunset, if you 512 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 2: win the contest for the dumbest law in San Francisco, 513 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 2: you get a permit where you still get to use 514 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 2: your car on the park that once was the Great Highway. 515 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 8: And he said, who knows, outlaw just might be repealed. 516 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 8: Live in the studio Gloria Rodriguez, ABC seven, I wit 517 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 8: us New So Larry's some weird law still out there. 518 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 6: All right, So I got this straight. No exposed bread, 519 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 6: don't pick the weeds, and don't use your undredd to 520 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 6: wash the car. 521 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: I got it, you got it. 522 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 6: Three for three. 523 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:18,959 Speaker 3: Thank you. 524 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 2: And I'm sure we're just scratching the surface of some 525 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 2: of the stupid laws that are on the books in 526 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 2: San Francisco. Eight hundred two two two five two two 527 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 2: two is the telephone number one eight hundred two two 528 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 2: two five two two two. If you'd like to email 529 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 2: the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like 530 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 2: show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny, don't like show 531 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 2: at gmail dot com. And Brandy, you're monitoring the mail bag. 532 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 2: Here's an email at Johnny don't like show at gmail 533 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 2: dot com. Didn't a city council in southern California once 534 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 2: ban Water, did they? I'm gonna have to look that up, 535 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 2: but it would not surprise me. 536 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: And Randy. You also have some breaking Ashley Zuvala News 537 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: for US. 538 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 5: Okay, this is really really, really cool. 539 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,719 Speaker 2: So Ashley Zavala, a few months ago, pretty much right 540 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 2: when Alex Michaelson moved to CNN, launched her own statewide 541 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 2: political show, California Politics three sixty and it airs Sunday 542 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 2: mornings on Kcerra three, and it's starting to expand to 543 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 2: other markets. She just announced that California Politics three sixty 544 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 2: will now air Sunday mornings on Fox eleven in Los 545 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 2: Angeles and k TVU Fox two in the Bay Area. 546 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: Well, that's great news for her and great news for 547 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: the Bay Area. In Los Angeles, she's on in Palm Springs, 548 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: She's on in Salinas, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Los Angeles, 549 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: the Bay Area, and of course Sacramento. But right now, 550 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 1: this is the best statewide political program on TV. So 551 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: check out Ashley Zavala on Sunday on your local Fox 552 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: station or Cacerra three if you're inside Decremento. Let's go 553 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: to Gloria Gloria. 554 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 10: Hello, Yes, Hello, my name is Gloria Delgado. I come 555 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 10: out of Port Rainiey, California, and I'm here in your 556 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 10: your news. 557 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 4: I'm in the eight fifty Bard. 558 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 10: Road, which is in Port Rainie, California, which is close 559 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 10: to the city of Oxen Narina in California. And it 560 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 10: is so true when it comes to homelesses and when 561 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 10: it comes to anti immigration. I'm a Trump supporter. When 562 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 10: I went to go against the prop fifthday and I 563 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 10: was advocacy for that, I got so much harassment and threatened. 564 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:49,479 Speaker 10: I was asaulted three times of the year of twenty 565 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 10: twenty five, at three separate times. And as this is happening, 566 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 10: I have been sprayed with radar with raide where you 567 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 10: kill roaches and so for it on the face, hitting 568 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 10: the back by a guy that they I already knew 569 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 10: who it was. The officers never did anything about it, 570 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 10: and if they did, the district attorney made their follow suits. 571 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 10: I contacted the police department. Nothing came about regarding the 572 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 10: three assaults. Even though I had witnesses on the day 573 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 10: of hallowing the thirty first where I was hearing the 574 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 10: Dodger game that day for the Dennis, I got feed 575 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 10: up by school assaults and males right in front of 576 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 10: Denny's restaurant and so and this has to do with 577 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 10: and it's true when you are four and hour President Trump, 578 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 10: you get threatened, you get harassed, and it continues on. 579 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 10: And I have out where the city officials apart when 580 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 10: you department. I have contacted some of the radio broadcasters 581 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 10: that I know, like ABTA and KNX, and I have 582 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 10: informed that what has been happening. And mind you, I'm 583 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:18,720 Speaker 10: sixty eight years old and I'm blind, and I became 584 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 10: homeless for this purpose. I could not even get into 585 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:32,959 Speaker 10: a shelter because I was blackbaumbed in port Ramini and Oxar, California. 586 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 1: All right, well, I'm sorry all of this happened to you, 587 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: and I hope your fortunes well they get better. Because 588 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: that sounds like a rough hand of cards. Let's go 589 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: to Walter in Santa Clarita. Walter, Hello, Walter left. All right, 590 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 1: Joe and Ventura, Joe, welcome. 591 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 11: So the any of you been on the Great Highway 592 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,439 Speaker 11: in San Francisco. It's a great highway. It's a nice 593 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 11: little highway. It's right along the ocean, beautiful ze of 594 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 11: the ocean. If you want to go surfing in this spot, 595 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 11: you can go parks exactly where you want to surf 596 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:15,400 Speaker 11: and go out. I can understand argument about making something apart, 597 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 11: but when I heard that they closed the Great Highway, 598 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 11: I couldn't believe. I just couldn't believe it. You said 599 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 11: that they recalled the supervisor that did that. Is that right? 600 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: Yeah. 601 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,879 Speaker 2: So Joel Guardio was the supervisor for the Sunset and 602 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 2: he endorsed a citywide ballot measure where the entire city 603 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,240 Speaker 2: got to vote on turning the Great Highway into Sunset 604 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 2: Dunes Park. And the locals were so pissed off that 605 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 2: they recalled Joel and Guardio and the vote wasn't even closed. 606 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,839 Speaker 2: Then Daniel Lurie decided to appoint his successor with some 607 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 2: weird lady from a pet shop. Why because because you 608 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,880 Speaker 2: can get anything put on a ballot. And enough activists 609 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 2: said we need to close the traffic cars because car bad. 610 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,359 Speaker 11: Yeah, well they should just got rid of the guy 611 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,920 Speaker 11: who made the load. They should just make another petition 612 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,840 Speaker 11: and open up the highway. Can you guys have a 613 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 11: great weekend? Thanks so much? 614 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:16,799 Speaker 1: All right, you too. 615 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 5: You could do that. 616 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,680 Speaker 2: You could get enough signatures to get this thing on 617 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,399 Speaker 2: the ballot once again, but apparently a lot of San 618 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 2: Franciscans are just over it and don't want to revisit 619 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:28,800 Speaker 2: this issue ever again. 620 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:35,560 Speaker 1: It's wild to me that the state that essentially produced 621 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 1: commuting and fast food, drive through windows and everything that 622 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 1: you do in the car, we've become so anti car 623 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: where we don't want to fix our roads. We don't 624 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 1: want to create more parking spots. All we want to 625 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,720 Speaker 1: do is punish people for driving and try to push 626 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: them onto the murder trains. 627 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,359 Speaker 5: That is the California Way. 628 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,880 Speaker 1: I can't figure it out, But what do you? What 629 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,680 Speaker 1: are you gonna do? All Right, the weekend is here. 630 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:15,000 Speaker 1: It's gonna be a scorcher. Make sure you drink plenty 631 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: of fluids. If you're gonna be outdoors, make sure you 632 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,319 Speaker 1: wear lots of sunblock. I'm gonna be in the Arizona 633 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: Sun watching the Angels lose a play this weekend, hopefully 634 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:26,760 Speaker 1: having a good time. 635 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 2: Gosh, it's gonna be so hot in San Francisco. It's 636 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,800 Speaker 2: gonna get up to seventy nine. 637 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,160 Speaker 1: Is that so? Because I read it was pretty toasty 638 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. 639 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 5: That's hot for San Francisco hitting records. 640 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,359 Speaker 1: All right, We'll see y all on Monday at noon 641 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 1: for another edition of The John Phillips Show.