WEBVTT - Why Spencer Pratt's Voters Now Control LA's Future 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:07.370 Shining a spotlight on the insane asylum that is modern-day California. 0:00:09.190 --> 0:00:10.670 It's the John Phillips Show. 0:00:13.330 --> 0:00:16.370 And a very happy Wednesday to you at 12.06 in 0:00:16.390 --> 0:00:16.890 the West. 0:00:16.910 --> 0:00:21.090 It's the John Phillips Show. Mr. Randy Wiggs in Culver City. 0:00:21.420 --> 0:00:25.540 Johnny, we are broadcasting live in Southern California on 790k 0:00:25.660 --> 0:00:29.480 ABC and in the Bay Area on 810k SFO, but 0:00:29.530 --> 0:00:35.470 now we also broadcast live on video worldwide at johnnydontlike.com. 0:00:35.510 --> 0:00:39.269 That's Johnny with a Y, johnnydontlike.com. Takes you right to 0:00:39.310 --> 0:00:41.550 our YouTube channel. While you're there, hit subscribe so all 0:00:41.570 --> 0:00:44.010 of our content goes to your homepage. Hit the bell 0:00:44.030 --> 0:00:45.769 if you want to get notified when we go live. 0:00:46.050 --> 0:00:49.449 Hit the like button if you want to... Have YouTube 0:00:49.490 --> 0:00:52.140 send us to new people. It's happening every single day. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.400 And play around in the chat room. We have a 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.000 very important question for you today in our scientific poll 0:00:58.100 --> 0:01:01.340 on the John Phillips Show. How will Spencer Pratt voters 0:01:01.420 --> 0:01:07.020 vote in November? Currently, with 86% of the vote, leave 0:01:07.060 --> 0:01:07.640 it blank. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.140 And that's exactly what I would do. 0:01:11.230 --> 0:01:18.220 Karen Bass has 12% and Nithya has 2%. Please vote 0:01:18.260 --> 0:01:21.580 in the poll. The poll is open this hour only. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.220 And then next hour we'll do a poll about John's haircut. 0:01:29.270 --> 0:01:31.050 So yesterday we had Barbara. 0:01:30.730 --> 0:01:35.010 Stone, the political scientist on, and we talked about probably 0:01:35.050 --> 0:01:39.350 the most asked question that I get, which is what 0:01:39.569 --> 0:01:44.190 are Spencer Pratt voters supposed to do in the November elections? 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.300 Because we won't have the option to vote for Spencer. 0:01:50.140 --> 0:01:53.100 We did in the primary. We won't in the general. 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.080 We will have three options on the November ballot, or 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.920 at least those of you who live in L.A. 0:02:00.060 --> 0:02:00.320 Will. 0:02:01.100 --> 0:02:04.630 You can vote for the incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, who 0:02:04.670 --> 0:02:08.710 burned the town down and bankrupted us, spending money on 0:02:08.750 --> 0:02:10.970 the bums and put more people on the streets. 0:02:11.730 --> 0:02:14.329 She's done a great job. It's not a namsy-pamsy thing. 0:02:15.270 --> 0:02:21.240 You can vote for Nithya Raman, who is a socialist 0:02:21.940 --> 0:02:24.799 who believes the government should own the means of production 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:30.299 and wants to make all of the problems worse. Or 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:36.739 you can leave it blank. Those are your three options. Now, 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.960 one question I get all the time is can you 0:02:41.100 --> 0:02:46.340 write Spencer Pratt's name in on the ballot And the 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.970 answer to that question is no. Under the LA City 0:02:51.030 --> 0:02:57.810 Election Code, write-in candidates are not allowed in general municipal elections. 0:02:58.210 --> 0:03:02.269 Only the two candidates who advance from the primary can 0:03:02.310 --> 0:03:07.510 appear on the ballot. Write-in votes for Spencer Pratt or 0:03:07.669 --> 0:03:12.330 anyone else won't be counted. So you can write something 0:03:12.350 --> 0:03:14.810 in that is the equivalent of leaving it blank. 0:03:16.260 --> 0:03:19.600 I'm putting it right there on the screen. You cannot 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.220 write in Spencer Pratt as much as people want to. 0:03:23.500 --> 0:03:24.570 You cannot do it. 0:03:26.389 --> 0:03:28.670 And here is the truth of the matter. 0:03:29.710 --> 0:03:33.290 The truth of the matter is that the Democratic voters 0:03:33.490 --> 0:03:39.630 in L.A. are split between Bass and Rahman. Nobody is 0:03:39.710 --> 0:03:43.840 running away with it. If somebody was running away with it, 0:03:44.100 --> 0:03:47.140 that person would be the winner because there are so 0:03:47.180 --> 0:03:52.360 many more Democrats than Republicans or independents in Los Angeles. 0:03:53.300 --> 0:03:56.710 But if it's split, that means the people that will 0:03:56.750 --> 0:04:00.470 decide who wins are the people who are not Democrats 0:04:00.530 --> 0:04:05.910 because the Democrats split their vote, which means that the 0:04:05.970 --> 0:04:09.150 Pratt voters, many of whom are in the San Fernando Valley, 0:04:09.820 --> 0:04:12.920 are going to be the ones who decide who will 0:04:12.940 --> 0:04:16.800 be L.A. 's next mayor. And it's not just me 0:04:16.980 --> 0:04:19.580 who is saying that. So are Democrats. 0:04:19.670 --> 0:04:22.549 Listen to this. And I read this to Barbara Stone yesterday. 0:04:22.570 --> 0:04:23.409 I'm going to read it again. 0:04:24.770 --> 0:04:32.420 Michael Trujillo, who's a longtime L.A.-based Democratic strategist, said on Twitter, quote, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.620 in a nonpartisan race for mayor of L.A., the third-place 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:42.940 candidate typically has leverage. In 2005, the third place candidate 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.950 pushed Villaraigosa to office. In 2013, the third place candidate 0:04:48.050 --> 0:04:49.750 endorsed Garcetti to victory. 0:04:50.529 --> 0:04:52.869 Same story over and over in this city. 0:04:53.570 --> 0:04:56.410 So folks will generally look at tea leaves on whatever 0:04:56.490 --> 0:05:01.140 former candidate Spencer Pratt says. He went on to say 0:05:01.260 --> 0:05:04.260 to his fellow Democrats, quote, you may not like it, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.120 But the reality is, reality star Spencer Pratt and his 0:05:08.180 --> 0:05:11.660 base vote in the San Fernando Valley is key to 0:05:11.700 --> 0:05:15.840 whoever becomes mayor this year. This is a nonpartisan race, 0:05:16.380 --> 0:05:22.880 not a Democratic primary. So the Democratic strategists, the Democratic consultants, 0:05:23.500 --> 0:05:29.190 are trying to figure out just exactly which candidate Spencer 0:05:29.230 --> 0:05:32.930 Pratt is going to get behind. Now, Randy, in preparation 0:05:32.970 --> 0:05:37.270 for this show, You put out a tweet telling the 0:05:37.310 --> 0:05:39.750 world that this was going to be the topic, and 0:05:39.770 --> 0:05:41.320 we got an interesting response. 0:05:41.860 --> 0:05:45.020 So every morning as I'm prepping for the show, I 0:05:45.100 --> 0:05:48.340 put together a little AI graphic with my friend Google Gemini, 0:05:48.500 --> 0:05:50.020 and I use it to promote what we're going to 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.080 be talking about. So I put out why Spencer Pratt's 0:05:53.100 --> 0:05:56.550 voters now control L.A. 's future on today's John Phillips Show, 0:05:56.589 --> 0:06:00.270 live at noon at johnnydontlike.com, at johnnydontlike, and special guest 0:06:00.310 --> 0:06:03.270 Royal Oaks at 2 p.m., with a great graphic of 0:06:03.330 --> 0:06:07.890 the specter of Spencer Pratt looming over Los Angeles as 0:06:07.950 --> 0:06:10.450 John and I are scratching our heads looking at a ballot. 0:06:11.130 --> 0:06:11.730 It's pretty fun. 0:06:12.570 --> 0:06:16.790 Spencer Pratt himself quote tweeted it and reposted it, which 0:06:16.870 --> 0:06:22.390 I did not expect. Spencer Pratt gave us a direct 0:06:22.430 --> 0:06:28.710 response to the question. My voters quote control LA's future 0:06:29.130 --> 0:06:30.409 between what? 0:06:31.510 --> 0:06:37.620 Dumb and dumber. He's right. 0:06:38.300 --> 0:06:45.620 Stepping in solid human feces versus diarrhea. Crack pipes on 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.930 the playground versus meth pipes. 0:06:49.570 --> 0:06:50.310 And you know what? 0:06:52.589 --> 0:06:55.409 As someone who has to vote in this November election, 0:06:55.430 --> 0:06:57.830 he's exactly right. 0:06:58.270 --> 0:06:59.250 Oh, he's 100% right. 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.779 He could be the kingmaker in this election, but why 0:07:05.820 --> 0:07:09.850 would he? You know that old saying, Randy, you only 0:07:09.890 --> 0:07:12.270 need a cosigner when your credit is bad. 0:07:12.290 --> 0:07:16.750 Oh, I know. I don't know that one anymore, but 0:07:16.790 --> 0:07:17.870 I used to know that one. 0:07:19.980 --> 0:07:22.620 Why should he lend his name to either one of 0:07:22.660 --> 0:07:24.080 these god-awful candidates? 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.420 There's no reason to. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:32.000 We're looking at two disastrous answers for the city of 0:07:32.060 --> 0:07:35.140 Los Angeles. No matter which one of them wins, why 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.040 would Spencer want to put his name on either of them? 0:07:38.990 --> 0:07:39.230 No. 0:07:40.650 --> 0:07:42.040 Here is the way I look at it. 0:07:42.130 --> 0:07:44.970 And thank God, again, I don't live within the city limits, 0:07:45.030 --> 0:07:47.830 so I'm not going to have to look at this 0:07:47.930 --> 0:07:48.630 on my ballot. 0:07:48.690 --> 0:07:49.650 You will, I won't. 0:07:50.140 --> 0:07:51.810 Well, and the only thing that I can do is 0:07:51.930 --> 0:07:54.000 I have decided I'm going to vote with my feet. 0:07:54.490 --> 0:07:57.130 As soon as it is possible to do so, I 0:07:57.150 --> 0:07:59.250 will be getting out of the city of Los Angeles. 0:07:59.330 --> 0:08:02.730 Maybe the county, too, but definitely the city. Because if 0:08:02.810 --> 0:08:05.370 these are the choices that they give me, they don't 0:08:05.430 --> 0:08:08.050 deserve my tax dollars anymore. And I see how much 0:08:08.090 --> 0:08:12.160 of those I give. Here's the way I would approach it. 0:08:13.910 --> 0:08:19.059 Under no circumstances... No circumstances. There's nothing you could say 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.440 to make me vote for a DSA person. It's just 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:23.320 not going to happen. 0:08:24.550 --> 0:08:29.130 Because unlike them, I believe in capitalism, private property rights, 0:08:29.250 --> 0:08:32.630 public safety, for-profit grocery stores. 0:08:32.830 --> 0:08:33.870 I need all my brands. 0:08:34.710 --> 0:08:36.790 If you put the city of Los Angeles in charge 0:08:36.830 --> 0:08:40.150 of stalking the grocery store, good luck getting anything you're 0:08:40.210 --> 0:08:43.750 interested in eating. So that puts me at odds with 0:08:43.870 --> 0:08:46.690 everything that they believe in. So Rahman is a no-go. 0:08:47.550 --> 0:08:51.240 There's no way I'd ever vote for her. So that 0:08:51.290 --> 0:08:53.819 means I would have two options. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:55.300 Two. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:01.000 Vote for Karen Bass, who has burned the city down. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.720 She has spent more than any mayor in the history 0:09:05.740 --> 0:09:08.740 of the city on homelessness, and there are more bums 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.760 living on the streets than ever before. She has made 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:18.110 traffic worse. She has not repaved any miles of road 0:09:18.850 --> 0:09:19.910 in the last, what, year? 0:09:21.030 --> 0:09:24.750 She hasn't repaved any miles of road since the brilliant 0:09:24.790 --> 0:09:28.010 people in Los Angeles passed Measure HLA, which says if 0:09:28.050 --> 0:09:29.670 you repave a road, you've got to put in a 0:09:29.730 --> 0:09:31.510 road diet, and the city can't afford it. 0:09:32.390 --> 0:09:35.309 She has the cops back off whenever there's any rioting 0:09:35.350 --> 0:09:37.210 going on so nobody gets arrested. 0:09:37.650 --> 0:09:39.020 She won't cooperate with ICE. 0:09:40.420 --> 0:09:42.860 Whenever her back is up against the wall, she picks 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:47.200 a fight with Trump instead of doing her job. She 0:09:47.220 --> 0:09:52.990 is beyond awful. And I would also add this. She 0:09:53.030 --> 0:09:56.590 has been endorsed by so many of the DSA members 0:09:56.770 --> 0:10:01.319 on the council. If she gets elected... she's going to 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:02.520 owe them big time. 0:10:03.340 --> 0:10:06.660 She already has owed them a whole lot. You know 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:12.080 how Eunice Hernandez endorsed Karen Bass for reelection? Guess what 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.859 Eunice's got for it? She got a whole bunch of 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.160 crooked nonprofits to run around MacArthur Park passing out meth pipes. 0:10:20.970 --> 0:10:23.110 And as an incumbent that's on. 0:10:23.010 --> 0:10:27.500 The ropes, for these people, these DSA candidates, to get 0:10:27.550 --> 0:10:32.160 behind her instead of a fellow DSA candidate, she's going 0:10:32.179 --> 0:10:34.300 to owe them more than what she would owe them 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:42.260 under normal circumstances. So even though Karen is not technically DSA, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:47.010 she's going to be owned by DSA. So she might 0:10:47.050 --> 0:10:49.720 as well be part of that group. And that group 0:10:49.780 --> 0:10:53.380 is already flexing their strength. As soon as Hugo Soto 0:10:53.420 --> 0:10:56.939 Martinez beat his primary challenge outright, what does he do? 0:10:57.660 --> 0:11:02.330 Ban enforcement on homeless encampments in his district. That policy's 0:11:02.370 --> 0:11:08.570 going citywide, kids. And if Karen Bass were interested in 0:11:08.610 --> 0:11:14.100 getting Spencer Pratt voters, wouldn't she offer something to him? 0:11:15.150 --> 0:11:18.860 Wouldn't she offer something to Roxanne Hogue? who's the chairman 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:23.160 of the Republican Party, wouldn't she say, okay, I know 0:11:23.220 --> 0:11:26.560 we disagree on a lot, and I know that you're 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.079 really not happy with my performance, but here's what I 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.020 will give to you. This is what I will give 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.800 to you in exchange for your support. She hasn't even 0:11:38.100 --> 0:11:42.550 called them, which means she's offering nothing. 0:11:45.050 --> 0:11:45.770 And typically. 0:11:46.300 --> 0:11:49.590 by the way, when this sort of thing happens, these 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.870 candidates are willing to wheel and deal. Willie Brown famously 0:11:53.910 --> 0:11:56.390 did that in San Francisco when he ran for mayor. 0:11:57.870 --> 0:11:58.490 And you know what? 0:11:59.429 --> 0:12:03.690 When he was elected mayor, the Republican votes in San 0:12:03.730 --> 0:12:06.800 Francisco helped put him over the top, and he kept 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:07.359 his word. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.200 And then Gavin Newsom did the same thing when he 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:10.860 ran for mayor. 0:12:11.420 --> 0:12:18.500 In And he went back on his word almost immediately. 0:12:19.100 --> 0:12:21.180 Gavin is not trustworthy. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:22.300 Nope. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.640 Karen Bass hasn't even made the phone call, but I 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.179 wouldn't trust her either. I don't like the cut of 0:12:30.230 --> 0:12:34.490 her jib. I don't think she'd be an honest person. 0:12:35.910 --> 0:12:38.870 I think she would promise the world if she felt 0:12:38.929 --> 0:12:43.330 desperate enough. But then if reelected, she would owe the 0:12:43.370 --> 0:12:47.829 DSA more than she would owe the Pratt voters. So 0:12:47.890 --> 0:12:50.340 why would she feel the need to follow through with it? 0:12:52.090 --> 0:12:53.250 I don't see that happening. 0:12:54.510 --> 0:12:54.860 Do you? 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.400 I don't think either of them thinks they need this 0:12:59.460 --> 0:13:02.320 voting bloc to win because they're right now trying to 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:03.920 out-DSA each other. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.160 But the math is the math. 0:13:08.580 --> 0:13:11.280 The votes that are up for grabs are the Pratt votes. 0:13:12.900 --> 0:13:15.280 And I guess some of the other candidates that didn't 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.270 do well But the biggest block of votes that are 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.820 available in November are the Pratt voters. That should be 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.380 enough to put you over the top if you get 0:13:24.420 --> 0:13:25.800 the Pratt voters behind you. 0:13:27.540 --> 0:13:32.100 But why would, as your column so eloquently puts out, 0:13:32.500 --> 0:13:35.760 the Pratt voters get behind either of them? 0:13:36.860 --> 0:13:42.240 And that's my point. That is exactly my point. Here's 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.860 how I end it in the column. That means, given 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.020 the fact that ramen is not an option, my options 0:13:50.420 --> 0:13:53.069 are to either vote for a failed mayor whose bumbling 0:13:53.110 --> 0:13:57.110 leadership destroyed a city I love, or leave the ballot blank. 0:13:58.350 --> 0:13:59.250 This November, L.A. 0:13:59.750 --> 0:14:03.230 Voters are faced with the old life jacket ethical dilemma, 0:14:03.309 --> 0:14:07.680 which goes like this. The ship just sank. There are 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.540 more passengers in the water than life jackets. One of 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.340 the people in the water is Karen Bass. Do you 0:14:15.380 --> 0:14:18.520 throw her a life jacket? Or do you turn around 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.020 and go to Ghana because the fire chief never told 0:14:21.060 --> 0:14:22.240 you the surf would be high? 0:14:24.940 --> 0:14:28.630 If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get 0:14:28.730 --> 0:14:29.470 help for you. 0:14:30.430 --> 0:14:33.770 And let me tell you, if I were in that position, 0:14:33.790 --> 0:14:36.390 I would let that woman drown. 0:14:38.300 --> 0:14:40.820 Hypothetically speaking. Hypothetically speaking. 0:14:41.170 --> 0:14:43.770 Hypothetically, I might put my foot right on top of 0:14:43.810 --> 0:14:45.250 her and push her under the water. 0:14:46.570 --> 0:14:49.610 Hypothetically. We want to make sure we're clear on that. 0:14:50.370 --> 0:14:51.770 Because let me tell you. 0:14:51.790 --> 0:14:57.080 Neither one of them deserves to win. Neither one of them. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.120 But Karen Bass deserves to lose. You cannot burn the 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.440 town down and get reelected. You just can't. There has 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.840 to be consequences for that. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:07.840 There just does. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:15.300 She burned down the Pacific Palisades and then doctored the 0:15:15.340 --> 0:15:20.440 report to blame other people, which means she learned nothing 0:15:20.500 --> 0:15:24.000 from what happened and she's willing to let it happen again. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:25.840 Why would you ever trust her? 0:15:26.330 --> 0:15:28.830 How could you reward anything that she's done over the 0:15:28.870 --> 0:15:32.970 last four years? She's been an abject failure on every aspect, 0:15:33.370 --> 0:15:34.410 including the one. 0:15:34.350 --> 0:15:36.270 That she ran on, homelessness. 0:15:38.010 --> 0:15:42.200 So given the fact that The DSA is a no-go 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:47.610 for me. Me leaving the ballot blank hurts Karen Bass. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.530 That's what it does. It's like a half a vote 0:15:51.590 --> 0:15:55.790 for ramen. Noodle brain. 0:15:58.030 --> 0:16:00.050 She gets called that a lot at city council meetings 0:16:00.110 --> 0:16:01.350 by the public commenters. 0:16:01.770 --> 0:16:02.550 Just add water. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:18.400 So here's our question to you at 800-222-5222, 1-800-222-5222. What 0:16:19.070 --> 0:16:21.230 are you planning on doing if you live in the 0:16:21.270 --> 0:16:26.990 city of Los Angeles or you, hypothetically speaking, are facing 0:16:27.010 --> 0:16:29.229 the question that will face the city of L.A. 0:16:29.290 --> 0:16:29.750 Voters? 0:16:30.430 --> 0:16:32.410 What would you do on the November ballot? You have 0:16:32.510 --> 0:16:36.130 three options. You can vote for Bass. You can vote 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.470 for Rahman. or you can leave it blank. I would 0:16:39.510 --> 0:16:41.570 leave it blank. What say you? 0:16:41.990 --> 0:16:44.670 At 800-222-5222. 0:16:44.690 --> 0:16:45.370 1-800-222-5222. 0:16:45.430 --> 0:16:50.280 If you'd like to email the show, you can do 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:57.880 so at johnnydontlikeshow at gmail.com. That's johnnydontlikeshow at gmail.com. And 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.720 if you'd like to watch us perform the show live 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:05.270 and hit the like button and comment on the program, Randy, 0:17:05.310 --> 0:17:06.070 that's easy to do. 0:17:06.660 --> 0:17:10.380 The website is johnnydontlike.com. You can watch the show, play 0:17:10.420 --> 0:17:12.909 around in the chat room, and participate in our very 0:17:12.990 --> 0:17:18.110 scientific poll at johnnydontlike.com. Currently, the poll is, how will 0:17:18.150 --> 0:17:24.590 Spencer Pratt voters vote in November? 87% will leave it blank, 9% 0:17:24.590 --> 0:17:27.330 would vote for Bass, and 4%. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.260 Would vote for Ramen. That's what I'd do. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.660 The polling is open until 1 o'clock, so get online 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.950 at johnnydontlike.com. Vote and play around in the chat room. 0:17:38.970 --> 0:17:42.250 We're here until 3 o'clock. And at 3 o'clock. 0:17:42.310 --> 0:17:45.210 The newest edition of the Accountability Podcast drops. 0:17:45.490 --> 0:17:48.210 Oh, and it's a good one. Accountability, accountability, accountability. 0:17:48.230 --> 0:17:50.430 Johnny and I are joined by our friend Jennifer Van 0:17:50.470 --> 0:17:54.250 Laar talking the crooked tire deal, Gavin's crooked real estate deal. 0:17:54.330 --> 0:17:55.870 And the war on journalists. 0:17:56.010 --> 0:17:58.730 It premieres at 3 o'clock right after we sign off 0:17:58.770 --> 0:18:01.560 the air at johnnydontlike.com. 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.760 And Randy, we're going to be on the road to 0:18:04.780 --> 0:18:06.140 the San Fernando Valley soon. 0:18:06.700 --> 0:18:09.660 A week from Friday, we're going to be at Pineapple Hill. 0:18:09.700 --> 0:18:12.200 And if you heard our interview with Angela Marsden yesterday, 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.280 you know why you all need to come down and 0:18:14.340 --> 0:18:16.980 support Pineapple Hill, support us, and of course, support our 0:18:17.030 --> 0:18:20.730 friends at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. We'll be there 0:18:20.750 --> 0:18:23.230 with Susan Shelley talking Prop 43. You can even pick 0:18:23.270 --> 0:18:26.450 up a yard sign. The Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill 0:18:26.590 --> 0:18:29.330 next Friday from noon to three. We'll see you there 0:18:29.490 --> 0:18:32.340 live and we'll have it on video. Our first live 0:18:32.380 --> 0:18:33.500 remote on video. 0:18:33.619 --> 0:18:34.140 How fun. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.730 You can see Johnny's haircut in person. Okay, that was mean. 0:18:40.410 --> 0:18:41.950 The chat is going all over it. 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:42.320 I know. 0:18:42.420 --> 0:18:44.760 I thought the chat would be nothing about bashing bass 0:18:44.820 --> 0:18:47.639 and ramen, and every single message in the chat is 0:18:47.700 --> 0:18:48.600 about your haircut. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.760 Well, if you want to watch us, you can go 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.399 to johnnydontlike.com and click that like button. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.460 Should I feel offended that I got a haircut last 0:18:56.500 --> 0:18:57.880 week and no one even notices? 0:19:03.070 --> 0:19:05.290 All right, let's go to the phones and begin with 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.180 Stephanie in Encino. Stephanie, hello. 0:19:12.109 --> 0:19:12.669 Hi. 0:19:12.890 --> 0:19:17.030 Can I talk while I'm listening to the radio? 0:19:18.330 --> 0:19:20.250 Well, turn the radio off and you can talk to 0:19:20.290 --> 0:19:21.070 us on the phone. 0:19:21.090 --> 0:19:24.050 Oh, okay. Got it. 0:19:27.109 --> 0:19:27.949 And then's the breaks. 0:19:28.290 --> 0:19:28.590 Okay. 0:19:28.650 --> 0:19:29.390 Are you there? 0:19:29.710 --> 0:19:30.430 Yeah, go ahead. 0:19:32.350 --> 0:19:32.910 Okay, well. 0:19:34.690 --> 0:19:37.429 What I would do is tell all my friends, do 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.899 not vote for any of them. Don't mark any of 0:19:39.980 --> 0:19:45.990 those people. And write in Spencer Pratt. And then if 0:19:46.230 --> 0:19:51.179 that doesn't work, in three months, whoever... of those people 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.040 if one of them or the other gets elected I 0:19:54.300 --> 0:20:00.550 would request a recall and that can be done after 0:20:00.570 --> 0:20:04.030 the person has been in office for three months. 0:20:03.670 --> 0:20:06.930 Okay thank you for the call let's go to Sean 0:20:06.970 --> 0:20:08.350 in Venice Sean hello. 0:20:09.810 --> 0:20:10.250 Hey, guys. 0:20:10.310 --> 0:20:14.090 Love the show. So I listened to an interview with 0:20:14.230 --> 0:20:19.800 Tracy Park recently, and unfortunately, if you have to choose, 0:20:19.940 --> 0:20:23.460 she picks Bass. Being the devil you know, she's worked 0:20:23.500 --> 0:20:28.379 with her on the West Side with Cleaning Up Venice. 0:20:29.609 --> 0:20:33.820 So I'm kind of leaning towards that just based on 0:20:33.859 --> 0:20:38.360 my support for Tracy Park. If people don't vote, which 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.560 is what my initial response was, well, I'm just not 0:20:41.580 --> 0:20:45.370 going to vote. Then I predict it'll be a landslide 0:20:45.460 --> 0:20:51.190 for ramen because of all the vote harvesting from Skid Row. 0:20:51.910 --> 0:20:56.270 So I urge people, even though it sucks, dumb and dumber, 0:20:56.330 --> 0:20:58.490 I guess we pick dumb, which would be best. 0:20:59.390 --> 0:21:00.129 Well, I want to. 0:21:00.150 --> 0:21:03.600 Point out, too, there's a difference between not voting and 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.910 leaving it blank on this particular race. You can show 0:21:08.010 --> 0:21:10.390 up and vote and vote on the propositions and vote 0:21:10.410 --> 0:21:13.130 for the other races while leaving. 0:21:12.859 --> 0:21:13.300 This one blank. 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.260 Yeah, no, I'm voting on all that. I just meant 0:21:16.340 --> 0:21:19.619 for the race. The other thing that concerns me, living 0:21:19.660 --> 0:21:23.020 in Venice, is that damn monster on the median just 0:21:23.100 --> 0:21:27.740 won't die. We've killed it three times, and it keeps 0:21:27.780 --> 0:21:33.020 coming back, and Rahman will... bring that back because she's 0:21:33.060 --> 0:21:35.580 like Mike Bonin. So if you like Mike Bonin on 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.540 the West side, you got Nithya Raman running the city. 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.780 It's a disaster. And, um, uh, like you said, it's, 0:21:43.820 --> 0:21:48.790 it's a lesser of two evils. You're, if you don't participate, uh, 0:21:49.270 --> 0:21:53.649 you're probably going to get Raman and Raman's worse than bass. And, uh, 0:21:54.930 --> 0:21:57.889 I'm with you guys. How can you reward failure? I'm 0:21:57.990 --> 0:22:00.750 sick of it. But, uh, this is what happened. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:03.119 All right. Thank you for the call, sir. Let's go 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:05.500 to Rocco in Santa Clarita. Rocco, hello. 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:07.700 Hi, Johnny. 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:09.320 Thanks for having me on. 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.180 Long time I haven't called. I'm looking forward to seeing 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:17.350 you guys down at Pineapple Hill next week. And I 0:22:17.380 --> 0:22:20.629 wanted to say I live in Santa Clarita, so, of course, 0:22:20.890 --> 0:22:23.890 I don't vote in this election, in that election. But 0:22:24.350 --> 0:22:27.750 I could not vote for either one. Bass is a 0:22:27.869 --> 0:22:33.650 tried and true communist who studied under Castro. And Nithya 0:22:33.690 --> 0:22:38.960 Raman is a complete insane communist. So, I mean, I 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.920 wouldn't vote for either. They're both idiots. I don't know 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:46.000 what's going to go on. L.A. will get what it deserves, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:46.699 I guess. 0:22:47.100 --> 0:22:49.300 And I feel sorry for it. But what can you do? 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.840 What's so odd to me is that neither one of 0:22:52.900 --> 0:22:56.040 them are even trying to get the Pratt voters. This 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.179 is the block of the electorate that is going to 0:22:59.260 --> 0:23:02.639 decide who wins and who loses, and they are so 0:23:02.850 --> 0:23:05.630 in their own silos, they're so in their own bubbles, 0:23:06.030 --> 0:23:08.270 that they're not even reaching out to the people who 0:23:08.310 --> 0:23:09.170 hold the keys. 0:23:08.950 --> 0:23:11.830 To the kingdom, which means neither one of them deserve 0:23:11.850 --> 0:23:12.210 your vote. 0:23:13.710 --> 0:23:18.990 Well, I don't think the Pratt voters mostly, I like 0:23:19.030 --> 0:23:22.790 to believe, are bright enough not to believe the lies 0:23:22.890 --> 0:23:26.070 from these people if they try to court them. 0:23:26.350 --> 0:23:28.290 They're just going to lie. They're going to lie and 0:23:28.330 --> 0:23:29.060 go back on them. 0:23:29.390 --> 0:23:33.300 That's what these people do. That's what they do. That's 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:35.360 their modus operandi, if you will. 0:23:35.859 --> 0:23:37.800 Thank you for the call. Let's go to Kent, a 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:40.240 listening odd line in Garland, Texas. Kent, hello. 0:23:41.690 --> 0:23:42.230