Speaker 1: And we continue at two five in the afternoon on
Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John, there was one face I did not expect to
Speaker 2: see analyzing the election results, not only on CNN with
Speaker 2: Alex Michaelson, but NBC four with Conan Nolan. Who wants
Speaker 2: who even wants to know? What Eric Garcetti thinks about
Speaker 2: this race?
Speaker 1: I receive things on both ends. He was an analyst.
Speaker 2: He had a whole segment on NBC four and he
Speaker 2: had a whole segment on with Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 1: This guy, you give us the supply, will meet the
Speaker 1: need by July.
Speaker 2: And here's what I realized as I listened to Eric
Speaker 2: Garcetti talk about this election. While in objectively every single way,
Speaker 2: Karen Bass is a worse mayor than Eric Garcetti was.
Speaker 2: And that's saying something. Eric Garcetti is a much more
Speaker 2: annoying mayor.
Speaker 1: Just be smart and stay apart. Something odd happened over
Speaker 1: the break that I can't find any evidence to explain.
Speaker 1: But one of the things that we've been following over
Speaker 1: the course of this election are where the betting markets
Speaker 1: have things and the betting markets have been pretty consistent
Speaker 1: the whole way through, where they had Javier Bessera is
Speaker 1: a heavy favorite to make it through to the November ballot,
Speaker 1: and they had I think Steve Hilton in the mid
Speaker 1: to low seventies all day yesterday and then today I
Speaker 1: think it bumped up to the eighties and it's somewhere
Speaker 1: in that range now.
Speaker 2: He's at seventy eight right now, but Sarah's at ninety
Speaker 2: eight point one in styrs down at eighteen.
Speaker 1: So since the show started, Spencer Pratt was always a
Speaker 1: favorite to make the November ballot. I think he fluctuated
Speaker 1: somewhere between sixty and eighty depending on when you looked
Speaker 1: well over the course of today's show. He is cratered
Speaker 1: on the betting markets.
Speaker 2: So if you look at Kalshi, which is the website
Speaker 2: that even CNN does official segments with, so I guess
Speaker 2: it's an official news source now, the people that are
Speaker 2: gambling on the LA's Mayors race, and this one bet
Speaker 2: has about one point seven million dollars of volume in it,
Speaker 2: so that's something to think about. Spencer Pratt at seven am,
Speaker 2: so less than eight hours ago, had a sixty four
Speaker 2: percent odds to make it to the November runoff. As
Speaker 2: of right now, a little after two o'clock in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: Nythia Rahman has eclipsed him. Right now, the odds of
Speaker 2: making the mayoral runoff, it's Nythia fifty two Spencer Pratt
Speaker 2: forty nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, but I'm looking at the votes that have been
Speaker 1: counted and Spencer is leading her by over eight points.
Speaker 1: Nothing has changed.
Speaker 2: There hasn't been a vote dump, and yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 2: hear that term a lot in the next few day
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles since late last night, and the next
Speaker 2: time there will be a vote dump will be between
Speaker 2: four and five pm. So there's no new votes that
Speaker 2: have been counted, no way to know which way that
Speaker 2: they're going. So either you have a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: people that are just assuming that there's going to be
Speaker 2: a late surge, or and there's no real guard rails
Speaker 2: to prevent this. Somebody who is counting the ballots at
Speaker 2: the registrar's office is going to try to make a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of money off of this race.
Speaker 1: There's no explanation for this.
Speaker 2: Again, no additional votes have been counted since last night.
Speaker 2: The current total stands in the La Mayors race right now,
Speaker 2: there are still plenty of ballots to be counted. But
Speaker 2: you look at the LA Mayors race, Karen Bass has
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy two thousand and thirty four percent,
Speaker 2: Spencer not far behind, one hundred and fifty one thousand
Speaker 2: and thirty percent, Nythia one hundred and ten twenty two percent.
Speaker 2: So unless the vast, vast, vas vast vast majority of
Speaker 2: the last minute votes break for Nythia, I don't see
Speaker 2: how the odds can change that quickly.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's just think about this for a second.
Speaker 1: You can vote through the mail all the way up
Speaker 1: until when the post office closes yesterday.
Speaker 2: Correct, that's right, And if the voting center receives that
Speaker 2: ballot up to seven days later, it still counts, which
Speaker 2: is why we're going to have, again, sorry for using
Speaker 2: this term, a lot of vote dumps between now and then.
Speaker 2: If I mail something from my city to another part
Speaker 2: of California, it usually takes two days to get there.
Speaker 2: That's the normal situation for me. If I'm mailing something
Speaker 2: from one city in my county to another city in
Speaker 2: my county, it never takes more than two days. It
Speaker 2: really doesn't. I guess you could mail your ballot in.
Speaker 2: If you're a flight attendant or a pilot or something
Speaker 2: like that, you're in the military from a different, more
Speaker 2: remote place, so maybe that takes a little bit longer.
Speaker 2: So let's just say, Okay, you put your ballot in
Speaker 2: the mail on Saturday, so that's Monday, that's Tuesday. That's
Speaker 2: two days, so it probably should show up by Tuesday.
Speaker 2: But let's just say that there's a large volume of
Speaker 2: pieces in the mail and it comes Wednesday instead of Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that would be today. If you mail it
Speaker 1: on Monday, it's more likely than not it arrives by Wednesday.
Speaker 1: But unless they get the mail early at the county registrar,
Speaker 1: they may not even have those ballots yet. And then
Speaker 1: you have the ballots that are going to come in tomorrow,
Speaker 1: which were ballots that were probably mailed on election Day.
Speaker 1: How do they know how many ballots are coming if
Speaker 1: they haven't received them yet. They don't.
Speaker 2: There's no way to know how many more ballots are
Speaker 2: coming in if they haven't arrived yet yet.
Speaker 1: It seems like the people who are gambling on this
Speaker 1: are acting as if they know something that we don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe they're just trying to play against the spread.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on here, but everything that
Speaker 2: we're seeing for the results that have come in, maybe
Speaker 2: what's going on here is people are remembering twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two and they're remembering how well Rick Caruso did on
Speaker 2: election night and then dropped ten points. And maybe there
Speaker 2: are people that are thinking that if that happens, I
Speaker 2: might as well put a twenty on it.
Speaker 1: But this happened all at once. This happened over the
Speaker 1: course of one segment on this radio.
Speaker 2: So at nine am NITEA was at thirty one percent.
Speaker 2: By eleven am, she jumped up to thirty eight percent.
Speaker 2: By let's see, by by noon she was at forty
Speaker 2: seven percent. Right before this show started, she started making
Speaker 2: this big jump. But she's been climbing all morning. Why
Speaker 2: nobody knows, again, is any This isn't any real numbers
Speaker 2: outside of what people are gambling on.
Speaker 1: At two oh one PM, according to Calshi, it was
Speaker 1: Spencer at sixty two, Her at thirty five, Karen at one,
Speaker 1: and then let's see when it changed at two o nine. Well,
Speaker 1: that can't be right.
Speaker 2: Are you looking at the right one? Who will advance
Speaker 2: in the Los Angeles mayoral election.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Calshi's website calshi dot com.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the big one right there. Currently it's Nithia
Speaker 2: at fifty three and Spencer Pratt at fifty. Now that
Speaker 2: adds up to more than one hundred, but who knows
Speaker 2: how this works? Wild And again, this has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with the counting of ballads. This has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with who's going to be the winner and who's
Speaker 2: going to be the loser.
Speaker 1: This just involves people who are gambling on the outcome
Speaker 1: of this race. But it's a wild, wild, wild thing
Speaker 1: to happen in such a short period of time.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what happens when the next count shows
Speaker 2: up there. I fed a different way to say that
Speaker 2: between four and five o'clock, and I will have those
Speaker 2: results on my five o'clock show, So that'll be fun.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to the phones and welcome Kelly
Speaker 1: in Studio City. Kelly, Hello, Hi, John.
Speaker 3: I just had a comment about but Sarah's speech last night.
Speaker 3: I just couldn't believe how scripted it was, and he
Speaker 3: was just reading the teleprompter from left to right and
Speaker 3: it was just so typical Democrat political puppet.
Speaker 1: You know, well, he is the California Joe Biden. So
Speaker 1: they are not going to let him off the leash,
Speaker 1: because anytime you let him off the leash, it goes haywire.
Speaker 1: So I am firmly of the belief that they're going
Speaker 1: to put him in the basement and when he goes
Speaker 1: out in public, he is going to stick to the
Speaker 1: script and he is not going to deviate because if
Speaker 1: he does, they open himself up to all kinds of selves,
Speaker 1: up to all kinds of liability. Why would you do
Speaker 1: that if you don't have to. So I think they're
Speaker 1: going to run a very risk averse campaign in the general.
Speaker 4: Yes, just got to get him into the debates.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Bill and Granada Hills. Bill.
Speaker 5: Hello, I you know when Trump went and supported Hilton,
Speaker 5: I couldn't understand, because, like you say, we needed both
Speaker 5: of them, and I started thinking about it. I think
Speaker 5: Trump has insider information on the DOJ holding back to
Speaker 5: go after Bessera once those two are in the final election,
Speaker 5: and then of course we would win because Hilton wouldn't
Speaker 5: be running against anybody, and then we would have down
Speaker 5: ballot wins like Pratt because Democrats their heads will have exploded,
Speaker 5: screaming and yelling that Trump is going after the opposite party,
Speaker 5: the political you know, persecution, and they're not going to
Speaker 5: show up. And Pratt could win too. This could be
Speaker 5: a double double. But now you just said what you said,
Speaker 5: I'm all depressed again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't figure this out.
Speaker 5: And I really my wife and I were going to
Speaker 5: split our vote until just recently because I started getting
Speaker 5: worried that Trump supported Hilton. And Okay, something's going going on,
Speaker 5: because you know, he has all the cards, he just
Speaker 5: doesn't like to show him.
Speaker 1: So I disagree with you. I don't think he has
Speaker 1: inside information on what's going to happen to Beserah. I
Speaker 1: believe what's going on with Trump is that he has
Speaker 1: focused on Iran and he's focused on the global stage
Speaker 1: right now, and he listened to someone in his orbit
Speaker 1: who's paying attention to California, and this is what they
Speaker 1: wanted him to do, and this is what they talked
Speaker 1: him into doing. Because right now, if he's paying attention
Speaker 1: to primaries in California, he's not spending his time doing
Speaker 1: what he should be doing, which is trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what to do with Iran. My guess is that
Speaker 1: he's worried about war and peace and global issues and
Speaker 1: those sorts of things, and this is something that's just
Speaker 1: on the back burner for him.
Speaker 5: I agree, he's doing the country's job and he can't
Speaker 5: be bothered with governors, and that's the way it should be.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, serp. Let's go to Sean
Speaker 1: and Venice.
Speaker 6: Sean, Hello, Hey, guys, how you doing awesome? Yeah, LA
Speaker 6: voter apathy. It's the horrible man. We had like twenty
Speaker 6: percent voter turnout. You know, the unions like control our
Speaker 6: local elections. Here, you got about sixty thousand union workers
Speaker 6: in the city. You had their spouse, their family, their children.
Speaker 6: You know that could be about one hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: thousand votes, which is around where Bath has. Is that
Speaker 6: you got the special interest the people who pay to
Speaker 6: play there. There's her constituents. So I hope Pratman can
Speaker 6: relay this information to the public to energize us, so
Speaker 6: you know, they get out and vote, don't I hope
Speaker 6: LA doesn't let the unions choose our next mayor. Now,
Speaker 6: when you're talking about vote harvesting, and the last election
Speaker 6: with Caruso, you know, yeah, yeah, he went to bed
Speaker 6: thinking he was up and gonna win. Of course he
Speaker 6: got smoked with all the vote harvesting and uh the
Speaker 6: progressive votes that trickled in dump after dump. Now I'm
Speaker 6: in Venice and Tracy Park has almost the same lead
Speaker 6: then against Eric Darling, and she has against Pisa, And
Speaker 6: I'm just waiting to see these vote dumps and bring
Speaker 6: it down. Like I think Tracy only won by like
Speaker 6: two thousand votes, so you know, it's I hate this, Uh,
Speaker 6: you know, two week, three week wait just to find
Speaker 6: out who won the election.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir. Let's go
Speaker 1: to ed Wardo in Oakland.
Speaker 7: At Wardo, Hello, hey, young Tie Andny and this is
Speaker 7: not a council callman that has that much consequences you
Speaker 7: in all of your guests. He asked if anyone could
Speaker 7: see plain how to pronounce the name of this Celdo
Speaker 7: candidate from the Democrats have yer vesera the X. Let
Speaker 7: me just start by saying something. There is not a
Speaker 7: language called Spanish that doesn't exist. It's called Castilium. And
Speaker 7: we're speaking in Istan America and as well in Spain.
Speaker 7: It's called Castilian. So when you go to Old Castilian,
Speaker 7: if you read any documents from let's say the colonists,
Speaker 7: I have done that. I noticed that they used the
Speaker 7: eggs as the sun. So that is why Mexico. If
Speaker 7: you go to Mexico, the Mexican people don't call their
Speaker 7: country Mexico. They call it Mexico. Same thing with Texas.
Speaker 7: If you talk to any Spanish speaker, they will say Texas.
Speaker 7: So havevier sera is haveavier? The x is a jay
Speaker 7: sound as an Old Castilian. Also, just I couldn't help.
Speaker 7: I mean, you guys made me.
Speaker 6: Really, I was just laughing.
Speaker 7: I'm unespathetic, but I was into stire. I mean, this
Speaker 7: is honestly, if you're not in California, if you're from
Speaker 7: some other place, you think this is a plot for
Speaker 7: a comedy film. You have this billionaire goes crazy and
Speaker 7: then the guy starts attacking himself. You know how many
Speaker 7: times he attacked a billionaire while he was speaking a
Speaker 7: billion in itself? I don't know, probably five times. When
Speaker 7: that short space that you have in the air, and
Speaker 7: it's like, honestly, it's like, I don't know, how can
Speaker 7: someone go see that this guy is charlottan like a drifter.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's like, come on, I mean, either you
Speaker 7: have to be really confused in this life or I
Speaker 7: don't know. I don't mean to be insultable. Maybe there's
Speaker 7: someone some issues with intellectual impairment, if you want to
Speaker 7: say it in a in a nicer way. So anyways,
Speaker 7: were my thoughts have yet? That's his name?
Speaker 1: All right? Thank you, thank you for the call. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it, Johnny.
Speaker 2: In just a few minutes since we've been speaking about this,
Speaker 2: the best have now put Nthia up to fifty four.
Speaker 1: Something is going on that we don't know about.
Speaker 2: Or this could be and I don't know how this
Speaker 2: website works. I have not put money into Calshie. I'm
Speaker 2: sure some people have. It could be that some people
Speaker 2: start to see any kind of trend line and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I got to get in on this, But what's the
Speaker 2: what is the information that's causing them to do this?
Speaker 2: There's been no alteration to the count.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Here's something else you have to think about, because we
Speaker 2: know when the race was early, Swalwell's campaign was literally
Speaker 2: spending money on Calshi to boost him in the odds.
Speaker 2: It's very possible, and Nithia Donor could have just put
Speaker 2: a couple one hundred bucks in there, give it a
Speaker 2: little boost and then like everyone's like, what's that about? Well,
Speaker 2: what's that about? Spencer Pratt now down to forty six.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Morris in Highland Park. Morris, Hello, a
Speaker 2: good afternoon.
Speaker 8: This election is a circus. You've got to excrement Bakaria.
Speaker 8: It's going to be our next governor because this is
Speaker 8: a socialist state. And he's already said Bakaria, he's going
Speaker 8: to pay. He wants the tax they paid for the
Speaker 8: healthcare for the illegals, where Ray Hilton said no, we
Speaker 8: won't allow it. Bakaria said yes. So I don't know
Speaker 8: what to make of this if this is circus act,
Speaker 8: and I don't know why it's such an election, such
Speaker 8: a big deal. It doesn't mean anything anyhow. It's one
Speaker 8: year after another, day in and day out, and uh,
Speaker 8: it's very very unfortunate. So I don't know what else
Speaker 8: to tell you. You know, it's going to be who
Speaker 8: will be a governor of the state when he's done.
Speaker 1: For all right, thank you for the call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: A deja vu. I feel like he has made that
Speaker 2: exact call before.
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Speaker 1: subject of betting odds, John, a lot of people bet
Speaker 1: on the Angels to make the World Series, which move
Speaker 1: the odds. It doesn't mean it's gonna happen. Gamblers are greedy.
Speaker 1: Fact check true.
Speaker 2: All right, one of the odds right now that the
Speaker 2: Angels win the World Series, is.
Speaker 1: It possible to have a negative number?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: How about the odds the Angels make the playoffs? Negative
Speaker 2: number zero point four percent?
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two East
Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two. Let's go to Timothy in Glendale. Timothy, Hello, Hello, sir.
Speaker 10: Good, good afternoon. It's a pleasure to speak to you.
Speaker 10: Hi there, Hi there. Listen. What I just really really
Speaker 10: want to say is to all of my Sollo Republicans,
Speaker 10: please do not move out of the state. We have
Speaker 10: to stay and fight, and we have to take back
Speaker 10: the state. I can remember when I was a child,
Speaker 10: we had one of the best governors and he was
Speaker 10: a Democrat. His name was Edmund Brown, who was Jerry's dad,
Speaker 10: And the streets were clean, the schools were great, the
Speaker 10: beaches were cleaned up, and everybody was flocking here. In fact,
Speaker 10: we have the point of the fact that all of
Speaker 10: the U hauls were coming in full and going back empty.
Speaker 10: That's what we had here and we don't have it anymore.
Speaker 10: And it heart breaks me. And I want to know
Speaker 10: that everyone here is going to understand that we have
Speaker 10: an opportunity at once in a century opportunity in this
Speaker 10: city to change the vision and get Spencer Pratt in
Speaker 10: and get Steve Hilton in. It can be done. But Democrats, please,
Speaker 10: I know you don't want to do this, but just
Speaker 10: one time in your life, vote Republican. Please. We have
Speaker 10: a chance to change it, to lower our gas prices,
Speaker 10: to get the streets clean, and to help everyone. That's
Speaker 10: all I have to say. I just I didn't want
Speaker 10: to bug you anymore, and I had to.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what's funny is you look at what
Speaker 1: Pat Brown did. Let's take the freeway grid. The freeway
Speaker 1: grid that we drive on today was a grid that
Speaker 1: was created in large part by Pat Brown. They would
Speaker 1: tar and feather you if you wanted to build more
Speaker 1: freeways right now, No Democrat would ever sign on to that.
Speaker 1: The water system so that the Central Valley could have
Speaker 1: the water for the crops, because that's a huge industry
Speaker 1: here in California. If you tried to direct water for
Speaker 1: crops and housing and those sorts of things, they would
Speaker 1: run you out of town. Maybe they'd put up with
Speaker 1: the state university system that he built and those kinds
Speaker 1: of infrastructure projects, but none of the other stuff. They
Speaker 1: would stand for because what he did was he created
Speaker 1: a grid for a growing state. He wanted a bigger population,
Speaker 1: he wanted more people to move here, he wanted more
Speaker 1: industries to set up shop here. And that's just something
Speaker 1: that the modern day Democrats are opposed to across the board.
Speaker 10: It's really a shame and it's really a tragedy that
Speaker 10: it's happening in my state. I'm a Native Californian, lived
Speaker 10: here my whole life. I love my state. Politics are questionable,
Speaker 10: but still we have a beautiful state. Everyone, please step
Speaker 10: up and help protect it. Please vote for Steve Hill,
Speaker 10: Please vote for Spencer Pratt. Thank you, all.
Speaker 1: Right, thank you for the call, sirup. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Paul and van Ey's Paul. Hello, Oh, thanks both of you.
Speaker 11: It's very nice to see a few months ago, not
Speaker 11: far from me at the Pineapple Saloon. Anyway, you know,
Speaker 11: to stay here. My best friend twenty years younger than me,
Speaker 11: but Native California, just moved to North Carolina. So I'm
Speaker 11: just totally depressed. Uh stay here, We're the Alamo.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 11: It's just we're overwhelmed. It's not gonna work, you know,
Speaker 11: there's just the tide has turned in this in all
Speaker 11: those cities, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis. I mean, it's just
Speaker 11: eventually turns around. But how will it turn around without
Speaker 11: either a war or who knows what? So I'm very depressed.
Speaker 11: Voter fraud continues. As I said, we're overwhelmed here. And
Speaker 11: I don't blame you and Randy for the glib humor.
Speaker 11: In the words of Adlie Stevenson's where I feel when
Speaker 11: he lost the second his second election to right as
Speaker 11: in here, I'm too old to cry and it hurts
Speaker 11: too much to last. So anyway, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Chris in Westlake Village. Chris, Hello, Hi, guys.
Speaker 9: You know, when I vote, I get my mail in
Speaker 9: ballot at home, and I like to cross reference with
Speaker 9: the Carl Deminles website and the mailer Conservative mailers I
Speaker 9: get at home. They tell you, even all the way
Speaker 9: through judges and everything, to vote, and then I like
Speaker 9: to take it over to the mail center and put
Speaker 9: it in that yellow box right there. But that's what
Speaker 9: I do. So I'm one hundred percent confident with the
Speaker 9: selections I made on my ballot for everything. So anyway,
Speaker 9: let's talk about flow of ballots. All right, you got
Speaker 9: the vote center, you have ballot ballot collection boxes. Those
Speaker 9: two are over. Those boxes should be gone. The vote
Speaker 9: centers turned everything in, so now we're left with the mail.
Speaker 9: When I worked at the post I was we do
Speaker 9: collections every evening. We scan every box and if a
Speaker 9: box has missed the supervisor, since you missed the scan,
Speaker 9: go back out and pick it up.
Speaker 10: That should be over by today.
Speaker 9: One hundred percent mail done, should all be delivered by tomorrow.
Speaker 9: And you know, if you're talking one quarter of the
Speaker 9: population with mail and ballots, I don't see any reason
Speaker 9: why they can't all be counted by Saturday, you know,
Speaker 9: And it's it's just anything beyond that is ridiculous. But anyway, as.
Speaker 1: Someone who knows how the post office works, if you
Speaker 1: put something in the mail in one part of Los
Speaker 1: Angeles County and I realized that not every voter in
Speaker 1: LA County is near Norwalk, how long should it take
Speaker 1: for a letter to get from let's just say a
Speaker 1: remote part of LA County. Let's say we're talking about
Speaker 1: Granada Hills or San Pedro or someplace that's right not
Speaker 1: next to Norwalk. How long should it take for that
Speaker 1: letter to get there?
Speaker 9: One day? Two at the most. My truck You know
Speaker 9: that the Santa Clarita postal factory, it takes all the
Speaker 9: mail from the whole surrounding area, puts it all together,
Speaker 9: puts it on one big truck and brings it down there.
Speaker 9: You know, it's like.
Speaker 10: There's no mystery.
Speaker 1: So tomorrow should really be the last day. Assuming someone
Speaker 1: postmarked it on election day right as the post office
Speaker 1: was closing, that letter should be getting there tomorrow and
Speaker 1: the only votes that should be coming in after tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Our situations where there were extenuating circumstances where someone forgot
Speaker 1: to scan a box when they were supposed to and
Speaker 1: a supervisor had to come in and overwrite it.
Speaker 9: Right, and it's just it doesn't happen.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 9: We pick up every box every day and that's it.
Speaker 1: All right. Thank you for the call, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Steve in Long Beach.
Speaker 12: Steve, Hello, Yeah, I just want to stat live in
Speaker 12: Long Beach and recently I just voted for elm mayor.
Speaker 6: And I looked it up on Google and it said
Speaker 6: Long Beach residents cannot vote for Elm mayor.
Speaker 10: So what am I missing there?
Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Well, they must have sent you the incorrect ballad. If
Speaker 1: you live in Long Beach, you're supposed to vote in
Speaker 1: Long Beach and they have their own mayoral election going on.
Speaker 1: They have their own Assembly races and Senates and congressional races.
Speaker 1: You'd vote in the same state wide elections as a
Speaker 1: resident of Los Angeles, but you're not supposed to vote
Speaker 1: in LA City elections unless you live in LA City.
Speaker 1: So maybe they sent you an incorrect ballot. Who knows.
Speaker 12: I asked this guy walking Kearny his ballot in Long Beach.
Speaker 12: I go, hey, were you able to vote for Ellen mayor?
Speaker 12: He goes yeah, And so that was like confirmation that
Speaker 12: other people got that same ballot type of thing.
Speaker 1: Huh were Long Beach issues on your ballot? Or was
Speaker 1: it all LA?
Speaker 7: It was?
Speaker 10: It was weird.
Speaker 12: It was like one LA issue, but then it was
Speaker 12: for all LA Assembly or whatever, and it did have
Speaker 12: the mayoral it had bats and prep there. And I
Speaker 12: have a friend who's the lawyer. He goes, that's voter
Speaker 12: fraud if you're able to vote for LA mayor and
Speaker 12: Long Beach. And so that's brought that up. I looked
Speaker 12: on Google.
Speaker 11: He's correct.
Speaker 1: Did you vote in person or through the mail?
Speaker 8: Through the mail?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, they must have sent you the wrong ballot.
Speaker 1: And maybe they sent a bunch of wrong ballots to
Speaker 1: Long Beach because you guys are not supposed to vote
Speaker 1: in other city elections.
Speaker 12: They send it intentionally, That's what it could appear to be.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It's also possible.
Speaker 2: That he thinks he lives in Long Beach, but he's
Speaker 2: technically in the city of La.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that's true. If you have a residence
Speaker 1: that's in LA but you spend your time in Long Beach,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna get a ballot wherever it is that
Speaker 1: you're registered to vote at. And if you're registered to
Speaker 1: vote in LA, then you're going to get that ballot.
Speaker 2: I mean there are parts of LA County where people
Speaker 2: have no idea what city they're actually in.
Speaker 1: No. And also, let's just say you're a college student
Speaker 1: and let's say parents live in Los Angeles, but you
Speaker 1: go to the University of California at Irvine and your
Speaker 1: dorm is in Irvine, but your registration is in Los Angeles. Well,
Speaker 1: you're going to get a ballot that's going to reflect
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and not Irvine, because that's where you're registered
Speaker 1: to vote, or at least that's what you should get
Speaker 1: in the mail. But who knows. Eight hundred two two
Speaker 1: two five two two two one eight hundred two two
Speaker 1: two five two two two. Let's go back to the
Speaker 1: phones and welcome David. David.
Speaker 6: Hello, man, I dig this show.
Speaker 10: You guys are fantastic.
Speaker 11: Uh, this is kind.
Speaker 13: Of a weird question. It's often being passed. But if
Speaker 13: for some reason God came in the US House and
Speaker 13: Senate passed the Save Act, how would that and if
Speaker 13: it was implemented before November, how would that affect California?
Speaker 13: The Gugnatorial and Grace, Well.
Speaker 1: My first assumption is that Bob Bonta would immediately file
Speaker 1: a lawsuit and claim that it was unconstitutional and that
Speaker 1: we're not going to follow us.
Speaker 10: Yes, you would, and then that.
Speaker 1: Would go to court and get stuck in court for years.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know how that would
Speaker 1: impact what we do here in California, but we have
Speaker 1: to change the way we do business here because this
Speaker 1: is not right. The fact that they can have an
Speaker 1: election and count all the ballots in one day in
Speaker 1: countries that are technologically a lot less advanced than us.
Speaker 1: We have some of the smartest tech minds on planet
Speaker 1: Earth in this state. It should be the easiest place
Speaker 1: in the world to count ballots, But for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: we can't do it as efficiently as we did it
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties. Do you remember those elections in
Speaker 1: the eighties and the nineties when people used to vote
Speaker 1: in person unless you were a flight attendant or in
Speaker 1: the military or something, and we would know before we
Speaker 1: went to bed who wanted who lost. Yeah, in the eighties,
Speaker 1: same state, same place, same registrars, offices, same everything, only
Speaker 1: primitive technology and we could figure it out back then.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, every once in a while
Speaker 1: there would be a race that was really really close
Speaker 1: and it would take some time to figure out. But
Speaker 1: once in a blue moon. I remember when it was
Speaker 1: Dianne Feinstein against Michael Huffington for the US Senate and
Speaker 1: it was a really close race, and I think it
Speaker 1: took one or two days to figure out that she won.
Speaker 1: And then there was Bob Dornan and Loretta Sanchez and
Speaker 1: that was even closer. I think that one was decided
Speaker 1: by less than a thousand votes, and that one took
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, and that was a big deal.
Speaker 1: That one was leading the news every day because they
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it was taking that long to figure out
Speaker 1: who won. It was a news story. The delays were hastive.
Speaker 13: Sulton said anything about fixing this.
Speaker 1: Well, I know that he's frustrated with it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that would be something that he would try
Speaker 1: to reform immediately. I mean, there are so many problems
Speaker 1: in this state it's hard to know what to put
Speaker 1: at the top of the list. But I know that
Speaker 1: we had Don Wagner on this program, who is the
Speaker 1: Orange County supervisor who is running for Secretary of State
Speaker 1: here in California, and I know he wants to reform
Speaker 1: how we hold our elections. But I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: It's like phonics to me. I don't understand why phonics
Speaker 1: is controversial when you know that that helps kids read
Speaker 1: better earlier, and the entrenched interests in California fight it
Speaker 1: tooth and nail and do not want to teach phonics
Speaker 1: in the schools. I can't for the life of me
Speaker 1: figure out who would be a against it, And it's
Speaker 1: just like counting all the votes in one day. They
Speaker 1: work in that industry, they're professionals in that industry. This
Speaker 1: has to frustrate the living hell out of them. Yet
Speaker 1: they just don't seem to care. And I don't understand that.
Speaker 10: I don't either. Thanks for taking a call, man, I appreciate.
Speaker 1: It all right, Thanks for calling in now.
Speaker 11: John.
Speaker 2: If we really want to go back to the eighties,
Speaker 2: maybe what we need to do is send everyone who's
Speaker 2: working at the registrar's office right now counting those balants
Speaker 2: just a big old mount of cocaine.
Speaker 1: Well, that certainly motivates people to act. Just look at
Speaker 1: the stockbrokers. Let's go to Jayleen. Jayleen, Hello, Hi you guys.
Speaker 4: I know you both from Pineapple Hill. Who seeing you
Speaker 4: twice there? Okay, I'll try to be as fast as
Speaker 4: possible because it's an end of the show. I wanted
Speaker 4: to hit on the chat. The reason he may have
Speaker 4: dropped down. A neighbor of mine three weeks ago told
Speaker 4: me that he had taken a Neil for BLM, and
Speaker 4: I went what And sure enough there was a video
Speaker 4: going by. I guess a day before election day of
Speaker 4: him doing that, which mate have taken his vote down.
Speaker 4: I want oh my gosh, that can't be.
Speaker 11: Real that it was.
Speaker 4: They showed a video. I guess I have a I
Speaker 4: have a comment. I have a rhyme. You guys want
Speaker 4: to hear a little cute rhyme that I have with
Speaker 4: Karen Bath Ye willing to hear it? Okay, here you go.
Speaker 4: This is little alpp of the day.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 4: You know, Mother Goose was staying in the beginning, if
Speaker 4: if you're blue, we'll get help for you. So yesterday
Speaker 4: when I was voting, I said, no, Karen, I'm feeling
Speaker 4: blue and I need to get rid of you.
Speaker 3: If you're feeling down.
Speaker 1: If you're feeling blue, let's get help for you. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you for the call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Well, Johnny, I'm looking at the uh the betting markets, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, this is all the talk of social
Speaker 2: media right now as to what's going on with Nythia
Speaker 2: and Spencer Pratt, and currently at least on the Calci one,
Speaker 2: Nythia is up to fifty five and Spencer's down to
Speaker 2: forty six. I don't know if there's anything behind this
Speaker 2: outside of people who are trying to make money, but
Speaker 2: it is definitely strange.
Speaker 1: I've never bet on politics before, but I do bet
Speaker 1: on sports. And you understand if the odds changed dramatically.
Speaker 1: If let's just say the quarterback for one of the
Speaker 1: teams is injured and you know that that individual is
Speaker 1: no longer going to play in that game, well yeah,
Speaker 1: it's going to change on a dime because there's new
Speaker 1: wind that has changed the likelihood that one team will
Speaker 1: beat another. That I totally understand. But it's very rare
Speaker 1: where you see a game, a football game, of basketball, game,
Speaker 1: hockey game, whatever, where the teams are known quantities, they're
Speaker 1: known entities, they're going up against each other. The odds
Speaker 1: are the odds, and they stay that way for a while,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, without a trade occurring
Speaker 1: or someone getting injured or a coach being fired, it
Speaker 1: just goes haywire and the odds change very quickly, very dramatically.
Speaker 2: John, I got a hypothetical for you. When the A's
Speaker 2: build that new stadium and you go see the Angels
Speaker 2: play the A's in Vegas, and there's a bet for
Speaker 2: every at bet that you can play from your seat.
Speaker 2: How much time will you actually be watching the game?
Speaker 1: That is a very good question, and there's only one
Speaker 1: way to find out. All Right, that's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for us today, but we'll be back tomorrow at noon
Speaker 1: for another edition of The John Phillips Show.