1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wigs in Culver City, John. 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: Catalytic converters are back in the news because someone is 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 2: stealing a bunch of them in Rockland, the same place 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: where last week someone was stealing a whole bunch of tires. 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 3: You know, let's. 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: Criminalized kind of this converter that's criminalized Copper. 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: Gee. I wonder if they're connected. Eight hundred two two 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: two five two two two. Is the telephone number one 10 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: there has been quite a saga going on regarding the 12 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: billionaire wealth Confiscation tax. The union, specifically one branch of 13 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: the SEIU started collecting signatures to put it on the ballot. 14 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,279 Speaker 1: They ultimately collected the required number of signatures to do so. 15 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: But we're trying to negotiate with the governor and the 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: legislature to take half a loaf so they didn't have 17 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: to put up all the money that they're going to 18 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: have to put up to get this thing over the 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: finish line. Those negotiations went nowhere. The unions decided that 20 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: they would go against Gavin Newsom and put this thing 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: on the ballot. Then Galvin Newsom looks at the election 22 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: results in New York and Maine and sees the socialists 23 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: winning everything, and he goes, well, I'm opposed to the 24 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: initiative in California, but what I want is a nationwide 25 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: tax on billionaires. 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: And so far the SEIU, the put union that put 27 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 2: this thing on the ballot, they're not buying into him. 28 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 2: They don't believe him, and they think that he is 29 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: late to the party as they move forward, and this thing, 30 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: the wealth confiscation tax, is headed to the ballot in November. 31 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: The president of the healthcare union that got this thing 32 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 2: on the ballot, that will be the main beneficiary if 33 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 2: this thing passes sat down for a one on one 34 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: interview with Casey or A Three's Ashley Zavala on her 35 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: awesome weekend show in California Politics three sixty. For more, 36 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 2: here is the full interview of Ashley and the union guy. 37 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 3: Dave Reagan. Thank you so much for making time for us. 38 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 4: Sure happy to be here. Thank you so. 39 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 3: Governor Gavin Newsom is fighting your wife. 40 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: I do love the set where it's just Ashley on 41 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 2: a table staring at your laptop. It's great health tax. 42 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 3: But he came out on Friday and pushed for a 43 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 3: nationwide tax on billionaires and changes to the federal tax code. 44 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 3: What's your response to that, Well. 45 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 4: I would hope that Governor Newsom would remember that he's 46 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 4: the governor of the state of California and three and 47 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 4: a half million people are about to lose healthcare coverage. 48 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 4: Hospitals are closing, clinics are closing, and it's fine to 49 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 4: make a proposal for a national conversation. He's obviously running 50 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 4: to be the president of the United States. 51 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 2: But yeah, everyone's pretty much figured that one out. 52 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: Well, what they're doing is they have two different objectives here. 53 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: Newsom is now trying to present himself as a left 54 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: wing populist, a socialist if you will, because he thinks 55 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: that's where the energy is right now within the Democratic 56 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: Party and the establishment. Democrats are getting run over in 57 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: primary after primary, and he doesn't want to have tire 58 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: marks all over his body. This guy is not trying 59 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: to make some sort of larger philosophical point. What he's 60 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: doing is a money grab because the money is not 61 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: going to the general fund. If his initiative passes, it's 62 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: going to his specific union, which means the teachers don't 63 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: get any, the firefighters don't get any, the cops don't 64 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: get any, the prison guards don't get any. In fact, 65 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: other offshoots within the SCIU don't get anything. It's just 66 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: his specific slice of the pie, which applies to healthcare workers. 67 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: So what Gavin Newsom is doing has zero appeal to 68 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: this guy. 69 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: Nope. And you think the average California voter even understands 70 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 2: where this money is going or cares. No. I don't 71 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 2: know enough to give you any good information, but good 72 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 2: luck finding someone who does. 73 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 4: This is an imminent, huge problem, and we have to 74 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 4: deal with it now, and this is not a hypothetical debate. 75 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 4: It's also worth noting that the last time the federal government, 76 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,799 Speaker 4: the US Congress, raised the minimum wage was seventeen years ago. 77 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 4: So I just don't think it's serious to say we're 78 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 4: gonna turn this over to the US Congress that hasn't 79 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 4: been able to increase the minimum wage of seven dollars 80 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 4: and twenty five cents in nineteen years, but somehow we're 81 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 4: going to magic come up with a fair tax system 82 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 4: that includes billionaires. 83 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: Does have a point there, Gavin saying that, well, the 84 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 2: federal government should handle this doesn't mean anything because the 85 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 2: federal government doesn't do anything well. 86 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: This is also an example of Gavin as an absentee landlord. 87 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 1: Doesn't just hurt Republicans and independents. There are Democrats like 88 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: the Unions that help get him elected, that expected him 89 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: to spend some time working on whatever it was that 90 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: he promised them, and instead of coming through. What has 91 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom done. He's hosted podcasts, He's written a book, 92 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: He's traveled around the country promoting those projects. He's campaigned 93 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: on behalf of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. He's done 94 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: everything but his day job. 95 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 4: This is about keeping people on healthcare coverage in California. 96 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 4: The problem is now, and the governor needs to focus 97 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 4: on the problem, not focus on his next campaign. 98 00:05:59,240 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 3: I mean, the. 99 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 2: Government doesn't sound like they'll be supporting him in the 100 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight primary. 101 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: Nope. 102 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 3: Opner though, and other opponents of this, I think they're 103 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 3: trying to make the point that a billionaire tax in 104 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 3: one state just means that these wealthy people can get 105 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 3: up and go to another to avoid this tax. I mean, 106 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 3: you're not worried about that at all, because, I mean, 107 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 3: they're claiming it could be a huge loss in state 108 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 3: funds for everything. 109 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 4: Well, their claims are entirely fabricated. There is absolutely no 110 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 4: evidence that billionaires leap billionaires are. 111 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 2: The wealthy, except for the three prominent ones that we've 112 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 2: already heard of. 113 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: Well, we've already lost a trillion dollars in wealth. But again, 114 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: that destroys the California state budget. The California state budget 115 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: is dependent on the very wealthy paying a disproportionate amount 116 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: of the state's bills. He is not worried about the 117 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: overall budget. He is worried about making sure that this 118 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: tax and the money that it produces goes to his 119 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: That's all he cares about is. 120 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 4: People on the planet. They can live wherever they want 121 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 4: in the world, let alone in the country. And all 122 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 4: of the evidence, all of the research, all of the 123 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 4: data that we have, is that the very wealthy make 124 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 4: this argument every single time. They most recently made it 125 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 4: in the state of Massachusetts that passed a tax affecting millionaires. 126 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 4: And today there are more millionaires in Massachusetts than there 127 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 4: were when the tax passed, and everybody said they were 128 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 4: going to go to New Hampshire, and they were going 129 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 4: to go to other states. It's just not true. The 130 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 4: governor can say it as many times as he wants, 131 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 4: but the facts are not on his side. 132 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 3: So you don't believe the billionaires who made arrangements earlier 133 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 3: this year to leave, You don't think they're actually leaving. 134 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 2: I know of one prominent billionaire that left California mostly 135 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 2: because the Lorraina Gonzalez told him to f off. 136 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: Well, they've already done it. I mean, they've already established 137 00:07:55,240 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: residency in other places. It's not a hypothetical. It's already happened. 138 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 4: No, I don't and they The other thing that's worth 139 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 4: saying is that the tax that we're proposing is a 140 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 4: one time tax based on. 141 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 2: And we believe that. 142 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: Oh yes, and they're already polling, by the way, as 143 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: to whether or not they can do it again. To 144 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: millionaires and not just billionaires. 145 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 2: This is being sold as a special assessment. You know, 146 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: the kind of thing where you're hoa all of a 147 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,119 Speaker 2: sudden says hey, out of the blue, you owe twenty 148 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 2: thousand dollars to fix up your condo. 149 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: And just remember this is not for people with a 150 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: billion dollars in the bank liquid cash. This is for 151 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 1: people who have a net worth of a billion dollars. 152 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: So if they go after quote unquote millionaires, if you 153 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: own a house in ving eyes, they're coming for you. 154 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 2: Had to make that one real personal huh. 155 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 4: Whether or not someone was a resident of the state 156 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 4: of California on January one of this year. So there 157 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 4: is no incentive for billionaires to leave. Their status is 158 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 4: a legal resident is already. 159 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: It's okay, Yes. The motivation is they're going to have 160 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,119 Speaker 1: to sell their companies. They're gonna have to sell their stocks, 161 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: they're gonna have to sell their properties. Most people aren't 162 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: sitting around with liquid cash, so they can pay a 163 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: bill of the size. You have to move things around 164 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: so you can do it. 165 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 2: Or you can borrow against the asset, which is how 166 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 2: they already get away with not paying taxes. 167 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: I guess you could borrow if you want to, But 168 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: who wants to sell on someone else's timeline. You want 169 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: to sell when it's advantageous to you, not advantageous for 170 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: the state. 171 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 4: Pretty ingrained and so even to you know, pursue the 172 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 4: idea that there's incentive to leave is just false and 173 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 4: all of the evidence again tells us that it's not 174 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 4: true and there's no reason to believe that these claims 175 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 4: are true either, I. 176 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 3: Mean, critics say, I mean, just so, just to hone 177 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 3: in and to basically gets you, can you guarantee that 178 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 3: this isn't going to be an everyone tax essentially as 179 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 3: some people are claiming it would be something that's going 180 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 3: to impact everyone with a potential loss in funding, Like 181 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 3: you're prepared to say, that's not going to happen. SCIUUHW 182 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 3: can guarantee that absolutely this is shangie? 183 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 2: Can I gets this there? 184 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 4: Absolutely this is a one time emergergency tax to address 185 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 4: the collapse of our healthcare system in California and the 186 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 4: loss of healthcare coverage for three and a half million people. 187 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 4: When it's passed, it will raise one hundred billion dollars 188 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 4: to address that specific problem that no one, including the governor, 189 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 4: has a solution for. 190 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 2: But wait, this is one time funding and that's an 191 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 2: ongoing liability, So how does that work in two years? 192 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 2: None of this makes sense unless you understand that this 193 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 2: is the well that they're going to go to over 194 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 2: and over and over again, because you'd have to if 195 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 2: you have ongoing. 196 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 4: The idea that putting one hundred billion dollars into the 197 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 4: healthcare system to keep millions and millions of people in 198 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 4: a secure position and facilities and clinics and hospitals open, 199 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 4: this is adding revenue for a critical core thing. And 200 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 4: the idea that somehow one hundred billion dollars more is 201 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 4: going to be less doesn't make any sense. And I 202 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 4: don't know why they're allowed to make these really nutty claims. 203 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 2: They're going all in with this thing. 204 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: Oh they are, because from the point of view of 205 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: their union it makes perfect sense. And this guy is 206 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: doing something that not every democratic interest group does. Sometimes 207 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: you look at these groups, whether it's a feminist group 208 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: or a labor group or a racial group or whatever, 209 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: and you go, Okay, you're supposed to look out for women, 210 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: And in reality they're not really looking out for women. 211 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: They're looking out for the Democratic Party, and that's whose 212 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: nest they feather, because ultimately they're partisans above feminists. What 213 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: he's doing is the exact opposite. The Democratic Party doesn't 214 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: want him to do this, and the unions are a 215 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: key part of the Democratic coalition, and I think they 216 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: just expected this guy to fall in line and this 217 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: guy is now taking the position I'm looking out for 218 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: my slice of the SEIU first and foremost, and the 219 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: Democratic Party can take a back seat. They're not used 220 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: to hearing that. 221 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 4: There's no other way to characterize it. 222 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,119 Speaker 3: I mean, in part with the help of billionaires. California 223 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 3: already has an enormous budget and a lot of money 224 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 3: to work with. I mean, at this point, potentially three 225 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty billion dollars for this upcoming state budget year. 226 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 2: It's one and a half times bigger than it was 227 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 2: seven years ago. 228 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: Are you getting better services than you were seven years ago? 229 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: I know I'm not. 230 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 3: The bulk of that money is going to public schools. 231 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 3: And then number two right there is healthcare. Lawmakers and 232 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 3: the governor say they're trying to help with those cuts 233 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 3: from the federal government. 234 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 2: If we're having so much enrollment decline, at what point 235 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: do we stop spending so much money on public school. 236 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 1: We should If there are fewer students than there used 237 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: to be, why are we spending more? 238 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 3: They acknowledge they can't completely fill all of them, But 239 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 3: what do you make of how they're handling the situation 240 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 3: on their own right now? 241 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 4: I think they're just ignoring the situation. Let's remember on 242 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 4: July fourth of last year, when President Trump signed the 243 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 4: One Big Beautiful Bill, it took one trillion dollars out 244 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 4: of the American healthcare system one hundred billion dollars out 245 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 4: of the California system over the next five years. 246 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: That is real. 247 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 4: Governor Newsom agrees that happened. Governor Newsom does not want 248 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 4: to deal with this problem because, frankly, he's running for 249 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 4: president and these are the people that he has to 250 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 4: raise enormous sums of money to prosecute his campaign. 251 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 2: Also, he's almost out of the job. So this is 252 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 2: Bachariea or Hilton's problem. 253 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 4: The governor of the state of California needs to deal 254 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 4: with the fact that three and a half million people 255 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 4: are going to lose coverage in the next year, and 256 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 4: that problem has to be solved, and he hasn't solved it, 257 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 4: and he's said as much to us. So the other 258 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 4: thing that has to be acknowledged here is billionaires pay 259 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 4: very little in income taxes. Billionaires pay less effective tax rates, lowers. 260 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: Okay, but that's not how they make their money. They 261 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: make their money through stocks, they make their money through investments. 262 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: They don't make their money in a W two. So 263 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: what he's saying is disingenuous. Yes, if you make your 264 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: money through capital gains, are going to pay a less rate, 265 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: a lower rate than if you made it as a 266 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: salaried employee. But that that's just the way it works. 267 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: If you sell your house, if you're middle income, you 268 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: would pay capital gains taxes on it, because that's how 269 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: the tax rate is applied to something like a real 270 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: estate transaction. 271 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 2: Well, and what this doesn't address is the real problem 272 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 2: of the fact that you don't have to pay that 273 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 2: capital gains tax if instead of selling your stock you 274 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 2: just borrow against it and then you live on all 275 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 2: of that money. I don't know why we allow that. 276 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: Nonetheless, regardless of how many loopholes exist, which the legislature, 277 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: by the way, could eliminate anytime they want, they still 278 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: pay the preponderance of the bills when it comes to 279 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: the overall budget in the state of California. You take 280 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: them out of the equation and our system collapses of. 281 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 4: Tax rates then you and I do. And for all 282 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 4: of this talk, it's worth noting the California's two hundred 283 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 4: and fifty billionaires contribute two and a half percent of 284 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 4: California's income taxes. 285 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, the point that the Seiu guy is making is 286 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: the top one percent pay the majority of the taxes, 287 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 2: but the top point one percent they're not paying their 288 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: fair share. 289 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: But what he's saying is the income tax. The income 290 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: tax is part of it. Where the windfall comes into 291 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: Sacramento is from capital gains. 292 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 4: It's a small fraction, and that's for two hundred and 293 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 4: fifty people at two and a half percent. These claims 294 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 4: are just not rooted in reality. They're not true, and 295 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 4: we have to have an honest debate about how are 296 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 4: people going to keep healthcare cover. 297 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 3: Well, data from Governor Nwsom's Department of Finance show that 298 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 3: the top one percent actually contribute twenty percent total of 299 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 3: the personal income tax in the state. 300 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 4: The top one percent is hundreds of thousands of people. 301 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 4: There are two hundred and fifty billionaires in the state 302 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 4: of California. They're not the top one percent. They're the 303 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 4: top point zero zero zero zero one percent. This is 304 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 4: not about the top one percent. This is only about 305 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,919 Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty individuals who've seen them. 306 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 2: Well, now it's about two hundred and forty seven. 307 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: Well, and it's not about the top one percent, of course, 308 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: because they're going to go after millionaires, which again is 309 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: all of us. Anyone that owns a home in California 310 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: would certainly get hit with that. 311 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 4: Wealth grow by two hundred and twelve percent in the 312 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 4: last seven years because of the dynamism of California's economy. 313 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:35,199 Speaker 1: And if they're no, no, no, no, this is a 314 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,719 Speaker 1: dysfunctional place. And they made their money in spite of it. 315 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: They didn't make their money because the public school system 316 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: is so good. They didn't make their money because we 317 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: keep everything clean and safe. They made their money because 318 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: they have ideas that are changing the world. 319 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 2: Some of them do. Some of them, like the early 320 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 2: days of Tesla, Elon was making all of his money 321 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 2: from cap and trade credits. 322 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: Well, the guy's the richest man on planet Earth. It's 323 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: not just Tesla. I mean, how many companies does that 324 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: guy own. That guy is changing the world in so 325 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: many ways that people are going to live longer because 326 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: of him and his technology. People are gonna have access 327 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,479 Speaker 1: to electric vehicles that would otherwise never be able to 328 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: afford them. I mean, it's it's not even comparable to 329 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: say that what these people are doing is as a 330 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: result of the wonderful services that the state of California provides. 331 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: It's just not rational. 332 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 2: We got a lot more of this one on one 333 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 2: interview with the guy behind the Billionaire's tax and of 334 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 2: course kc or A three's political director, the wonderful Ashley 335 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 2: Zabala on her show California Politics three sixty that not 336 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 2: only airs in Sacramento, but you can also watch it 337 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 2: on Fox eleven on Sunday mornings and on KTVU Fox 338 00:18:58,880 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 2: two on Sunday morning. 339 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: Yes, it's the John Phillips Show. It's the John Phillip Show. 340 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 341 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 1: a telephone number. What eight hundred two to two five 342 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: two two tube. If you'd like to email the show, 343 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: you can do so at Johnny Don't Like show at 344 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail 345 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: dot com and Randy coming up later this week. You 346 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 1: can watch us to the show and not just listen. 347 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 2: Today is Monday, but then after Monday we get to Tuesday. 348 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: Then after Tuesday, what comes after Tuesday? 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See us in 356 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 2: the studio, react to the stories that we play, and 357 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,479 Speaker 2: comment in the chat room, and if your comments are 358 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 2: appropriate and funny, they might even show up on the screen. 359 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: We've got thirty more minutes to go. Don't you go anywhere. 360 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: It's the John Phillip Show. Eight hundred two two two 361 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: five two two two. Is the telephone number one eight 362 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two. We're listening 363 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: to an interview that Ashley Zavala from KCRA conducted with 364 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 1: the man behind the Billionaire Confiscation tax initiative and Randy. 365 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 1: Before we get back to the sound, I want to 366 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: point something out because the man was implying that billionaires 367 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 1: don't pay their fair share, that they avoid paying taxes, 368 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: they use loopholes, and that everyone else has left to 369 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: pay the bill and they don't pay what they're supposed to. 370 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: According to grog. Elon Musk has paid the largest individual 371 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: tax bill in the history of the United States of 372 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: America in twenty twenty one, primarily from Tesla stock options. 373 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: He paid in one check eleven billion dollars. This is 374 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: the biggest one year payment by an individual on record 375 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: since we became a country. When you look to the 376 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,959 Speaker 1: state of California, the largest individual taxpayer in recent history 377 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: is also Elon Musk. In twenty twenty one, Musk's California 378 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: state tax bill was estimated in the hundreds of millions 379 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: to over one billion dollar range in one year alone. 380 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 1: Over his career, Elon Musk is likely paid more in 381 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 1: California state taxes than any other individual due to the 382 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: scale of his wealth and the state's high rates. 383 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 2: Now, I'm inclined to believe you, but I don't know 384 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 2: if we should be asking the AI chatbot that Elon 385 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 2: developed its thoughts about Elon. I feel like it might 386 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 2: be skewed. Ask Rock if Elon does ketamine and see 387 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 2: what pops up? 388 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 1: Well, wait a minute, now, run that through chat GPT, 389 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 1: because here's what else what they also have to say. 390 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: Tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brinn and 391 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: Larry Page have also paid q sums in recent years 392 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: with big stock sales. Historically it was figures like Howard 393 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: Hughes or entertainment moguls who paid the most, but now 394 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: it's all the tech pros. 395 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 2: Let's go back to that interview with ksey A three's 396 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 2: Ashley Zavalla, and the guy behind the billionaire tax. 397 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,719 Speaker 4: Had grown by only two hundred and seven percent instead 398 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 4: of two hundred and twelve percent, nobody would even bat 399 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 4: an eyelash. This is about protecting campaign donors. This is 400 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 4: about putting the preferences of two hundred and fifty of 401 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 4: the most fortunate people on the planet ahead of the 402 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 4: needs of tens of millions of California In so, we 403 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 4: need healthcare and are going to lose it. 404 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 2: So this guy's point is that Gavin Newsom opposes the 405 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 2: billionaire tax specifically because he's running for president and needs 406 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 2: the billionaires to donate to his campaign. Well, Javin Newsom, 407 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 2: let's not forget, before he became governor of California, was 408 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 2: mayor of San Francisco, and back then San Francisco was 409 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 2: a much bigger player in the tech world than they 410 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 2: are now. Now a lot of that has moved down 411 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 2: to San Jose and the South Bay, the Silicon Valley. 412 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 2: As they say, Gavin Newsom would certainly need the people 413 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 2: who have bankrolled his campaigns previously to get behind his 414 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 2: presidential bid in a big way. The problem that Galvin 415 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 2: Newsom now faces is that industry, which for a long 416 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 2: time was very left wing and supported Democratic politicians up 417 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 2: and down the ballot, is now radio active with the DSA. 418 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 2: It's now radio active with huge portions of the base. 419 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 2: So if Gavin can no longer go to that industry 420 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 2: to raise the money that he needs to become president, 421 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 2: he's going to have to find some other group to 422 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 2: step in and fill the void. And that's the problem 423 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 2: that he's going to have because if he's the establishment Democrat, 424 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 2: if he's the one that the party is going to 425 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 2: get behind, then you're gonna need groups like the unions 426 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 2: to write the checks. 427 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: To foot the bills. And if he's going to start 428 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: the campaign off going to war with the SCIU, that's 429 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: gonna be a big problem for him because he's going 430 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: to have to find someone to make sure he has 431 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: the money he needs to run that campaign. 432 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, on the healthcare situation. Other healthcare groups like the 433 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 3: California Medical Association told us you did not consult with 434 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 3: them as you put together this idea, that this is 435 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 3: something that you basically put out on your own. I mean, 436 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 3: is that true. Did you check in with other healthcare 437 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 3: experts and providers on this. 438 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 2: Well, what do they need to They want the money, 439 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 2: The money's going to them. 440 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: Yeah. This is what happened with sports gaming almost to 441 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: a t, which is it's not just good enough to 442 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 1: get what you want, you have to write it in 443 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: a monopoly for yourself, screw everyone else. That's why those 444 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: initiatives didn't pass. And what this guy did and his 445 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 1: branch of the SEIU was they wrote this tax to 446 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,439 Speaker 1: take care of themselves. But why would you consult with 447 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 1: other groups, because then you'd have to include them in 448 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 1: on the spoils. If you just excluded them, they get nothing. 449 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 4: Of course we did, and for the record, the California 450 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 4: Medical Association, which is a trade association, an employer group. 451 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 4: We spoke to the head of the Medical Association, a 452 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,640 Speaker 4: man by the name of Dustin Corkoran. And Dustin Corkoran, 453 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 4: like too many political insiders in California, is more fearful 454 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 4: of what billionaires think than he's mindful of what millions 455 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 4: and millions. 456 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 2: Hey, he's Gavin's word. 457 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: Well, this guy spends a lot of time in the Capitol. 458 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,199 Speaker 1: That is something we are mindful of. 459 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 2: So far, in eight minutes of this interview. 460 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: We got out absolutely absolutely. 461 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 2: From him, and we got a that is something we 462 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 2: are mindful of. Wonder what else we'll get. I don't 463 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 2: think we got a QF, but I'm always mindful if 464 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 2: we do. 465 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 4: The regular citizens in California need so. 466 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 3: Will your coalition moving forward include Can we expect to 467 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 3: see other healthcare groups join you in this fight? 468 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 4: Absolutely? 469 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: You got another one. 470 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 2: That's right. That's two we have helped all. Oh boy, 471 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 2: we're going to start having people in the livestream playing 472 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 2: a drinking game and then they're going to be in 473 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 2: the chat room. This might be a disaster. 474 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 4: Kinds of healthcare groups from We have doctors, we have nurses, 475 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 4: we have frontline healthcare workers like in our organization, the 476 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 4: coalition has hundreds of members. 477 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 2: I'm curious if the SEIU UHW doesn't represent doctors or nurses, 478 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 2: who are we talking about here? Who are the employees 479 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 2: that are being represented by this union and that are 480 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 2: going to be screwed over if they don't get this backs. 481 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: That's a good question. 482 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 4: Growing every day, and now that we're going forward to 483 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 4: the ballot, I think lots of people who've been watching 484 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 4: this and waiting to see is it really going to 485 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 4: be on the. 486 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 2: Back because yeah, this isn't put forth by the nurses union. 487 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 2: I don't think doctors have a union. But who are 488 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 2: these workers? Maybe the text the full bottomists. It's all 489 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 2: the phlebottomists without them, No one's taking your blood. 490 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 4: Allet are going to come out in favor of it 491 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 4: because it makes sense. We're trying to solve an urgent 492 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 4: and critical problem, and a large majority of the public 493 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 4: believes this is the right thing to do. And despite 494 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 4: all the misinformation from the governor and other elites political insiders, 495 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 4: people know what's real and what's not real. 496 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 2: I don't think they care. I think you're seeing a 497 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 2: majority of people being pulled saying that they want to 498 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 2: pass this specifically because some people just say enough with 499 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 2: the billionaires already, I want to take their money. They 500 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 2: don't care where it's going. 501 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: Go back to the conversation that I had with Barbara Stone, 502 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: where now more Democrats regard themselves as being democratic socialists 503 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: than they do classical liberals or old school liberals. If 504 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: that's the case, then the soak the rich mantra is 505 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 1: something that's going to resonate with that group. And in 506 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: a one party state where Democrats outnumber Republicans and outnumber 507 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 1: independents by wide margins, if they like it, it's going 508 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: to pass. 509 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 3: Your ballot measure, just given the approach to it by 510 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 3: state lawmakers and the governor. Both legislative leaders and the 511 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 3: governor have opposed the billionaire tax that you're proposing voters. 512 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 3: Back in twenty twenty four, they were in a similar 513 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 3: situation with Proposition thirty six. That's a crime measure. I 514 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 3: acknowledge it's a totally different topic here, but the governor 515 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,719 Speaker 3: and legislative leaders tried to fight that one too, and 516 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 3: now years later, after voters overwhelmingly passed that, there are 517 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 3: still issues with administering and funding that law that voters chose. 518 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 3: I mean, if your measure passes in a similar situation, 519 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,959 Speaker 3: do you trust our state's government leaders to administer and 520 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 3: carry out what it is you're asking? 521 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,719 Speaker 4: Absolutely what we're. 522 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 2: That's what the third one do not play the David 523 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 2: Reagan absolutely drinking game. I beg of you. We want 524 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 2: you to have a healthy, healthy summer. 525 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 4: Asking is very, very simple. Again, the facts are. What 526 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 4: we're proposing affects two hundred and fifty individual human beings. 527 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 4: Everyone knows exactly who they are. They file their taxes 528 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 4: every year. 529 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 2: One of them's Tom Steyer. 530 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: What do you think the odds are that mister communist 531 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: billionaire who wanted to be governor of California. The moment 532 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: he realizes that this is going to hit him and 533 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,239 Speaker 1: he's not going to be governor, he decides to go 534 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: to Florida too. 535 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 2: Also clueback, what's going to happen with him? He's going 536 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 2: to have less money to spend on his OnlyFans model. 537 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 2: I was about to say a word I can't say 538 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 2: on the air. 539 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: Be careful. 540 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 4: They've seen their wealth grow by one and a half 541 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 4: trillion dollars in the last seven years, and we're asking 542 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 4: them for a one time emergency tax of five percent. 543 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 4: So three and a half million people don't lose healthcare coverage, Hospitals, 544 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 4: emergency rooms, and clinics don't close. 545 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 2: And that is But okay, let's say take him. What 546 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 2: he's saying, Okay, the federal government cut off of this funding, 547 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 2: and that's why we need the That's why we need 548 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 2: this hundred million dollars. So what happens in five years? 549 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 2: Do you ask for a now other one hundred million dollars? 550 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: No, what he does is he goes after the millionaires 551 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: and again on paper, some insane percent of the state 552 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: is a millionaire. You might not have a million dollars cash, 553 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: but you might have a net worth of a million dollars. 554 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 1: And trust me, they're not going to stop at the 555 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: billionaires because, as he mentioned, there's a handful of them 556 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: and they're leaving the state, So they're going to have 557 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: to go someplace else to find the money, and it's 558 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: going to be the people below them. 559 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 4: Perfectly reasonable. It is easy to administer a tax on 560 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty people and everyone knows who they are, 561 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 4: and everyone knows that they have to file their taxes 562 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 4: every year, is a matter of course. 563 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 3: But you're asking for ninety percent of that money to 564 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 3: be spent on healthcare. I mean, you have specific asks 565 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 3: with how that money is administered, and the state's government 566 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 3: has I mean, it has documented issues with administering programs. 567 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 3: I just again want to confirm you trust that they 568 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 3: would carry this out in the world. 569 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 2: Well, this is an interesting question. What makes you think, Sciu, 570 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 2: that the state is actually going to give you the 571 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 2: money they collect? 572 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: Oh, the amount of animosity that everyone else will have 573 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: towards them if this thing passes is going to be 574 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 1: off the charts. 575 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 3: Way you hope? 576 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 4: Yes? 577 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: And absolutely again, boy, he's consistent. 578 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 2: You're starting to realize why I said we should play 579 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 2: this whole interview, and he said absolutely. 580 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 4: Let's remind ourselves the reason ninety percent of the revenue 581 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,960 Speaker 4: in our proposal goes to healthcare is because that's what 582 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 4: President Trump cut in the One Big, Beautiful Bill. He 583 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 4: cut one trillion dollars out of the American healthcare system, 584 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 4: and that has to be fixed or millions and millions 585 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 4: of people are going to suffer unnecessarily and people are 586 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 4: actually gonna die because they don't get the treatment that 587 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 4: they need. 588 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 2: This was the exact same pitch for measure Er in 589 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. So wait, we're getting money from that too. 590 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 1: This is the pitch every time they want money, whether 591 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: it's a tax increase or a bond or whatever, it's 592 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: always do this or Grandma is going to die. 593 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,440 Speaker 4: So it's a simple tax. It affects two hundred and 594 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 4: fifty people. These are enormously wealthy people that you know. Honestly, 595 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 4: this is a rounding error for the folks that we're 596 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 4: talking about. It's not hard to administer, and it addresses 597 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 4: a critical, critical problem that nobody is putting forth a 598 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 4: solution on, including Governor Newsom. 599 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,399 Speaker 2: Now, the SEIU did say, Gavin, we'll pull this thing 600 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 2: off the ballot if you just give us one hundred 601 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 2: million dollars we want. But Devin said no. 602 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: This is like a mob negotiation. 603 00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 2: Well, that's usually what happens here when the union they're 604 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,919 Speaker 2: trying to get something on the ballot that the legislature 605 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 2: doesn't want. 606 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 3: David, is there anything else do you think we should 607 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 3: know about your proposal headed to voters in November. 608 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,399 Speaker 4: I just think it's important that to everyone to understand 609 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 4: that we're going to hear all kinds of lives and 610 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 4: misinformation from the billionaires themselves. 611 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,320 Speaker 2: The billionaires are going to spend one hundred million dollars 612 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 2: to not have to pay one hundred million dollars. 613 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: But that's that's one of the groups it's going to 614 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: be going after them. The teachers are going to be 615 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: doing it too, the firefighters are going to be Everyone 616 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 1: who he cut out of the deal is going to 617 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: be spending money to defeat this thing. 618 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 2: And since the lifting Uber thing's not on the ballot, 619 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 2: since HJATA is not on the ballot, all of the 620 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 2: newsrooms up and down the state of California are depending 621 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,759 Speaker 2: on this fight to make budget this year. 622 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,839 Speaker 4: And you know, Governor Newsom has in our view, made 623 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 4: a poor decision that he's siding with the billionaires over 624 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 4: the needs of millions and millions of California consume and patients. 625 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 4: But people know what's right. This is the first time 626 00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,760 Speaker 4: we're going to get a chance to fix a problem 627 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 4: of this magnitude in a way that it ought to 628 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,960 Speaker 4: be fixed. That is fair, that is reasonable, And we 629 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 4: look forward to the next four months and having this discussion. 630 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,319 Speaker 4: But the question is how are we handling the potential 631 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 4: of a collapse of the California healthcare system? And this 632 00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 4: is our solution, nobody else has one. 633 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 3: All Right, Dave Reagan with CiU UHW, I really appreciate 634 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 3: your time, Thank you. 635 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,520 Speaker 2: Thank you, Ashley. So there you go, there was his pitch, 636 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 2: the guy behind the billionaire's tax that will be on 637 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,319 Speaker 2: the November ballot. 638 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 1: And if this actually passes when Javier Bakaria, if Javier 639 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:51,400 Speaker 1: Bakaria becomes a next governor of California, good luck balancing 640 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: the budget because you're going to need a lot of 641 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: the dollars that are going to end up leaving the state. 642 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: It's the John Phillips Show. It's the John Phillip Show. 643 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,759 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 644 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,200 Speaker 1: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 645 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 1: two two two. If you'd like to email the show, 646 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,319 Speaker 1: you can do so at Johnny don't like show at 647 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail 648 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 1: dot com. And Randy, you're monitoring the mail bag. 649 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 2: Lynn writes in at Johnny, don't like show at gmail 650 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,240 Speaker 2: dot com. On the billionaire tax bill, let's look deeper 651 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,919 Speaker 2: into the SCIU bill that doesn't include nurses. My friend, 652 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 2: who is a financial auditor, has many SCIU retirees. This 653 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,840 Speaker 2: bill carves out fifty six million dollars to the SCIU 654 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 2: pension account, which doesn't have funds long term to pay 655 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 2: the unions over blooded pensions. Many you receive over five 656 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars dollars a year. It has nothing to 657 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000 Speaker 2: do with healthcare. If you don't have healthcare, there is 658 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,959 Speaker 2: no hospital that will turn you away. And what about 659 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 2: the fifteen billion dollars included in the budget for illegal immigrants? 660 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 2: The rest of us pay high monthly premiums for it. 661 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,719 Speaker 1: Let's go to Tom and San Jose. Tom, Hello, I 662 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,359 Speaker 1: don't have a Tom in San Jose. Boy. I am 663 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 1: just not batting with a high average today, am I? Well? 664 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:34,600 Speaker 2: Either that or is it possible that our screener is 665 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 2: because there was an issue with the internet in the 666 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 2: building today. Is it possible that he's screening calls that 667 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 2: I'm not seeing here at the radio station. That might 668 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:49,040 Speaker 2: be possible because I don't see that call, and that's 669 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 2: twice that that's happened. That is a question that we're 670 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 2: going to have to ask to the engineers. But yeah, 671 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,080 Speaker 2: I don't see that call. I haven't seen anybody call 672 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:00,480 Speaker 2: in in the last few minutes. 673 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,520 Speaker 1: Now. One of the things it has worked today, and 674 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,400 Speaker 1: it worked also on Friday. Is it the software that 675 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,240 Speaker 1: we are using to make sure that you can watch 676 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,920 Speaker 1: the show visually? That's supposed to happen later this week. 677 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: We've worked out the kinks and that is aoka that's right. 678 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,200 Speaker 2: Starting on Wednesday, this live video feed is working with 679 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,399 Speaker 2: no glitches whatsoever. We're able to play the stories, You're 680 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 2: able to watch them while you watch us. It has 681 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,719 Speaker 2: a lot of great features that I'm trying to multitask 682 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 2: with with also co hosting the show and running the board. 683 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 2: But I'm having a lot of fun doing it and 684 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,279 Speaker 2: learning all the kind of fun things that we can do. 685 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,960 Speaker 2: I've even got a very special, stupid little surprise for 686 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,920 Speaker 2: the very top of the show on Wednesday, So you're 687 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,880 Speaker 2: going to want to tune in now. I'm going to 688 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 2: be on a call to make sure that I know 689 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 2: exactly what platforms we're going out to on Wednesday, so 690 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,319 Speaker 2: on tomorrow's show, so we're going to tell you exactly 691 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,279 Speaker 2: how you can watch us, and you're gonna know that. 692 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:06,880 Speaker 2: I mean sure, if you want to just listen to 693 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,400 Speaker 2: the radio and catch the stream later, it'll be available 694 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,799 Speaker 2: on demand, But if you want to watch the show 695 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,840 Speaker 2: live on premiere day at noon, we'll tell you exactly 696 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:20,520 Speaker 2: which YouTube account, which Twitter accounts, and which Facebook accounts. 697 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,280 Speaker 2: Because I got to figure that one out. 698 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: All right. Well, that'll do it for us today, but 699 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,520 Speaker 1: we'll be back tomorrow at noon for another edition of 700 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:29,760 Speaker 1: The John Phillips Show.