WEBVTT - What do you think of last night's debate? 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.320 And very happy Wednesday to you. At twelve oh seven 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.920 in the West, it's the John Phillip Show, mister Randy 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:08.160 Wings in Culver City. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.920 Well, Johnny, last night we were sitting in the front 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:17.400 row as we witnessed the CBS gubernatorial debate, and John 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.520 had a direct line of sight with Katie Porter. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:21.040 You can. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:28.600 So we get to the theater yesterday and I tell Randy, 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.519 I want to keep a low profile. I don't want 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:37.800 any incidents. I don't want any confrontations. I don't want 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.720 anything that's going to make the news. So let's just 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.720 show up, sit wherever they put us, and blend in. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:47.680 So what happens. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.760 We get to the theater, We hand our tickets to 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:56.800 the docins, and the docins direct us to the front row, 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.440 directly in Katie Porter's line of sight. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.160 I couldn't really believe. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.199 It at first, but after we sat there for a moment, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:15.280 they never moved us. I thought, all right, this is 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:16.120 where we're gonna be. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.440 Please did not throw her off her game, even if 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.760 she did recognize who we were, which it's very possible 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.160 she did not, because this is radio. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:28.680 Well, she did stare. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.559 Us down for a little bit right when she walked 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:36.680 out there, but I think that's also just her natural demeanor, 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.319 So I don't know if she had specific animosity for 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:49.040 us or just men in general. Now, we were in 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.080 the room last night for all ninety minutes of the debate, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.400 and it's my first time ever being in a gubernatorial 0:01:58.440 --> 0:01:59.480 debate in the room. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.600 Was it your first time, Randy? That was my first time. Okay. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.200 So we've watched them all on television, and you kind 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.920 of get a certain idea as to what the candidates 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.080 are like when you see them on the boob tube. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.360 But when you see it in person, you get, I 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.280 don't know, maybe a different view where you see things 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.600 that you would otherwise not see just watching on television. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.959 And a couple of things from last night jump out 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:32.000 at me, Randy, First and foremost, in person, tom Steyer 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.360 looks much older than he does on television. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.960 This was maybe the most jarring thing. And there were 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.200 a few different people we talked to that all had 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:45.560 the same takeaway. Tom Steyer walking out in that suit 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:51.359 with the sneakers looks so skinny and sickly, looking almost 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:53.120 like a for rare level of sickly. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:59.440 He looked extremely elderly and extremely frail. And then when 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.080 you combine in the fact that whenever he talks, his 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.080 head bobs around like it's a show. Heyo, Tommy bobblehead dull. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.400 It made him look nine hundred years old. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.880 And we're sitting in the front row and there's a 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.320 monitor right to the right of us, so we can 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.320 see what's on stage, but you can also see the 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.560 close ups of the shots that are going over the 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.919 television airwaves, and it stuck with me. At one point, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.480 they're on Tom Steyer and you see his hand and 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.120 he has all these weird like hashmarks or something. He 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.160 was drawing things on his hand and it was really odd. 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:38.680 He looked like he escaped from the nursing home. And 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:43.600 then on the opposite side you have Antonio Virigosa, who 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:48.119 is actually older than Tom Steyer, and in interviews when 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.000 he's asked questions, he can get lost and he can meander, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.680 and there's a lot of oz and oms and those 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:58.200 sorts of things. But on stage, that guy was bouncing 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:02.360 around like a kid. And during the commercial breaks he'd 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.840 come up to the crowd and start working the crowd. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.360 He'd start shouting out people and when the debate ended, 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.680 that all the candidates were supposed to be sequestered before 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.960 they bring them out for question and answers with the media, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.680 and Antonio Viragosa runs down into the crowd and starts 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.080 doing a victory lab. I want to shake everybody's hand. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.880 And who were the first two people he walked up 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:33.960 to us? Now that could very well be because we 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:39.279 were the two closest seats to the stairs. A third 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.680 thing that jumped out at me is that on television, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.240 Matt Mahon comes across as being kind of a nerdy 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.680 tech guy from San Jose. He comes across as being 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.120 very thin, someone that you would see with an engineering 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.200 degree hanging on the wall. In person, I thought he 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.120 was much better looking than he comes across on TV. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.160 When we were entering the building and he walked up 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.400 to us and he was shaking hands with the people 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.200 who were around us, I had to take a second 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.680 look because I didn't think that was him at first. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.159 Yeah, he looked more dynamic in person than he comes 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.160 across on the television. But yeah, I got to shake 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.679 Matt Mayhon's hand, and I don't. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.000 Know how he makes that translate over the airwaves. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:32.880 When he's trying to. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.159 Get votes, because I think that that is a ding 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.440 on him. I think there are people who are out 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.560 there who think that he is one of these tech bros, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.640 and a tech bro is not a strong leader, and 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.640 a strong leader can't be You have to be a 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.400 strong leader to run the state of California, and if 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.560 you're one of these nerdy pushovers, you can't have the job. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.320 So that was Matt Mayhon. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.120 Katie, on the other hand, who was right in front 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.680 of us all night long. I don't think she's confirmed 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.279 this in any interviews. She one hundred percent has to 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:11.240 be on OZIMPK. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:12.640 Sorry for the noise. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.600 I'm cutting carrots. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.520 Because she looks like a half a Kadie. She has 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.360 lost a lot of weight over the last year. I 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.359 do remember in an interview she did, she mentioned that 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.600 she has a peloton and she's enjoying being yelled at 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.320 by the peloton trainers. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:34.160 Okay, that's more than just the peloton. That is pharmaceutical. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.040 You think she's injecting herself daily. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.160 I think she is lost, and I'm not saying this 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.200 to be outrageous. I think she is lost. Between seventy 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:47.520 five and one hundred pounds. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.960 Oh, definitely possible. If you had to ballpark it, where 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:53.680 would you put it? 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.040 I would put somewhere around that you look at. Especially 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.000 what's jarring is people keep going back to the video 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.359 that went around the world, and that was Katie in 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.560 twenty twenty one. Completely different face. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.720 Yeah, she looks like a different person. Good for her. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.880 As someone that has also lost sixty to seventy pounds, 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.000 I applaud anybody that can lose the weight. Now that 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:22.880 being said, the personality was still there because I don't 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.520 know if the camera caught this. Because there were so 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.040 many people on stage, you can't see the facial reactions 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.440 of all the candidates when someone else is talking. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.400 When someone would speak. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.760 Who she disagreed with, whether it was Matt Mayhan or 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.280 Chad Bianco or Stevehilton or Bessera or whomever, she would 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.640 have the angriest look on her face and it would 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.280 just be resting right there. And at one moment, and 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.640 again we didn't see it on TV, so I don't 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.920 know if it got picked up. She was upset at 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.200 the bickering that was going on, and she put her 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.760 head on on the the lect hen in front of her. 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:01.360 I did see. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.160 I think in one of the links to the California 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.880 Post review of the debate, they got that shot. Yeah, 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.960 if you go to the California Post, they have it. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.760 They have Katie Porter were their head down. Now, she 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.000 didn't do any schmoozing at all with the crowd. Ivirra 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.239 Gosa did, may had did, some of the others did. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.760 She was just up there on stage in the zone. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.559 And if she acknowledged anyone in the crowd, I didn't 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.320 see it. At one point, We're gonna have to ask 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.240 Hilton about this, But as the debate was starting, she 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.720 was getting real chummy with Hilton. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:37.480 Yeah, what's that about. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.880 Well, Steve Hilton's going to be on this show in 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.080 about forty five minutes. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:42.120 You're gonna have to ask. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.160 And during the breaks, here's another odd couple peering. Chad 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:54.080 Bianco would talk to Tom Steyer, that was his buddy. Now, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:00.719 you were correct that Katie Porter and Steve Hilton did 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.400 speak to one another during a break. I think Mayhan 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.600 was involved in that conversation. More often than not, she 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.600 was by herself. She didn't talk to a lot of 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.480 the other candidates. She spent probably the least amount of 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.760 time interacting with the other candidates than anyone else on 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:17.360 that stage. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.600 I did notice one thing when they went to the 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.040 second commercial break, which was after the segment of the debate, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.560 which was my favorite segment of the debate, which was 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:31.840 Julie Watts doing the solo moderating and holding every candidate 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.480 to the things that they have said in the interviews 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.320 that they did with her at the at the end 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.120 of that segment, Katie Porter went up to Julie Watts 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.480 and said something. It looked like it was complimentary. I 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.880 think Katie was trying to play nice with Julie. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.440 Oh yeah, because that interaction, along with cursing out the 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.679 staff or sunk her campaign. Well to those voters. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.680 Okay, so I don't want to keep doing this, so 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:58.360 I'm going to call it. 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:03.320 Thank you. You're not gonna do the interview with. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:04.120 Them, Nope, not like this. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.080 I'm not not with seven follow ups to every single 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:06.840 question you ask. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.800 So she was playing very nice with Julie. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:11.240 Oh she was. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.880 Now, there's been a lot of criticism about CBS News 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.439 and the moderators of the debate and how they handled it, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.520 and I guess a lot of people on Twitter, particularly 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.120 from the left side of the aisle and the Lincoln 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:31.120 Project guys. They are very openly critical of the debate moderators. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.840 I haven't seen it on TV, so I don't know 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.559 how it came off there. I can tell you as 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.320 someone who was in the room, I kind of enjoyed 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.880 the fact that they were mixing it up. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.280 I like that it was the most lively debate we've 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.079 had of the entire season, and there were a lot 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.760 of memorable moments a lot of people. Here's the thing 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.320 that I enjoy. I have seen every single one of 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.439 these candidate stump speeches. I've seen all of their interviews. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.800 I know all of their can't answers, and every single 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.720 one one of them got thrown off their game and 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.680 had to think on their feet, and I think that's important. 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.680 When they went to them the first time, it was 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.560 can Ancer, can Ancer, can Ancer, and then Pat Harvey 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.679 and the gentleman I forget his name, who is moderating 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.280 with her for the first portion of it. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.200 That's Tony Lopez from CBS thirteen in Sacramento. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.040 Okay, Tony Lopez and Pat Harvey decided, all right, well, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.360 we're going to interact with the candidates a little bit, 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.439 and we're going to try to get them to go 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.360 one step further in their explanation as to how they 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.320 feel about a specific issue. Now, if you're interviewing someone 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.400 and they're giving you the same can answer that everyone 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.160 has heard five hundred times, and you're trying to get 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.000 something unique out of them, You're trying to get them 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.720 to reveal a little bit more. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:47.560 That's what you have to do. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.160 And Pat Harvey, who has taken a lot of slings 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.280 and arrows right now from people like Mike Murphy and others, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:57.920 she is a class act. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.520 She is not someone who is nu the game. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.439 She is not someone who just rolled out of bed 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.520 and was put on TV. She's been doing the news 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.160 since you and I were kids, Randy. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.120 She has been on Channel nine and then Channel two, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:15.200 I'm pretty sure my entire life. She is a legend 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.160 down here in southern California. And she was being very 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.640 respectful as pretty much every candidate wanted to talk over 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.400 her and not listen when she said we're moving on, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.560 which is why when they got to the Julie Watts 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.360 part of it, she started to think, saying, I will 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:30.480 cut off your mic. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.839 Well and Julie Watts was magnificent. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.120 I know I'm a fanboy, but I really really enjoyed 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.320 watching her moderate that every single candidate was caught off 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.080 guard because what it ended up being was follow up 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.760 questions to questions that she had already asked them in 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.480 that interview series from earlier this year, and every single 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.880 one of them got thrown off with it. And she 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.679 told them to stop bringing up Trump's name too, because 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.000 the subject matter that she was talking about was very, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.640 very specific to the state of California, things like insurance, 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.840 those sorts of things which Donald Trump has nothing to 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.360 do with. And a lot of the lefties on Twitter 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.200 didn't like that. She did something kind of brilliant and 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.080 she talked about it when you talked to her on 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.720 the show on Monday. Is that she mentioned how many 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.679 times in her interview series with all the candidates that 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.160 word was brought up, and it was over a thousand 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.480 and when you pointed out like that, I'm pretty sure 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.160 the rest of the debate the word wasn't mentioned again. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.840 Now, in terms of who won who lost the debate, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.720 I have essentially three notes, and we're gonna have Steve Hilton, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.400 who is a Republican candidate for governor on the program 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.520 later on, and I'm sure he has plenty of thoughts 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.160 on last night's debate, and we'll get those thoughts from 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:54.240 him later today. But note number one is that Matt 0:13:54.280 --> 0:14:00.319 Mahan had another strong performance. And it's odd that this 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.280 guy from San Jose continues to go out there and 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.600 put in a yeoman's effort over and over and over again, 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.320 but none of it seems to translate in the polls. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.480 He may move up a point or two, I have 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.800 yet to see a poll that shows him in the 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.520 top two, let alone the top three. I think part 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.240 of his problem is he's going after voters that don't exist, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.680 which are Democratic voters who don't like Trump at the 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:34.160 federal level but are extremely critical of the government services 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.480 that the Democrats are providing in the state of California. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.320 I just don't think many of those people exist. So 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.720 he can go out there and he can put in 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.680 great effort after great effort after great effort. If there's 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.160 no fish in the pond that he has his poll in, 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.280 that's going to be a big problem for him as we. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.840 Get closer to election day. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:00.280 Point number two is that the two leading Democrats in 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.400 the race I thought had a poor performance. Javier Bacheria 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.720 and Tom Steyer. These are two guys who are helping 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.840 to put in a performance that will cause them to 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.760 pull away from the other, that will cause them to 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.440 be looked at as being the leader in the race 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.480 and not someone who's bunched up with a bunch of 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.640 other candidates. I didn't see anything spectacular from either one 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.360 of them. Stier kind of just blended in with the background. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.200 There wasn't any notable exchange that he had with anyone 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.960 to my eye, with the possible exception of Katie Porter 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.800 calling him out on investing in oil companies, and that 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.160 happened very late in the debate, and he was kind 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.360 of a deer in the headlights after she did that. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:51.600 Xavier Bacheria seemed to get confused yet again, which is 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.000 what he did in the last debate. This time he 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.560 kept saying that he wanted to do something that was illegal, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.400 and the moderator, Julie Watts called him out on that. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.160 I believe one or both Republicans called him out on that, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.200 and so did Katie Porter, whose day job before she 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.840 became a politician was as a law professor at UCI. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.400 So he looked confused. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.400 And he looked like a guy who was not a 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.240 leader of the pack. The third thing that jumped out 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.920 at me after last night's performance is that Chad Bianco 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.040 clearly is aware that Steve Hilton is starting to pull 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.680 away from him in the polls. Steve Hilton, of course, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.440 was endorsed by Donald Trump, and that's going to cause 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.680 a lot of Republican voters to get behind him and 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.760 his campaign. That's a problem for Chad Bianco. So Chad 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.760 Bionco last night was thrown out partisan red meat. At 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.240 every opportunity. He would blame all the Democrats on the 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.600 stage for the failures of the state of California because 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.120 of one party rule, and he never missed an opportunity 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.600 to do that. He also went after the debate moderators. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.600 There were a couple of extras ages were I don't 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.480 think that they went to him for comment on whatever 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.600 subject it was that they were debating, and he let 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.520 them know that he expected to have equal time, and 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.359 he was certainly combative with the moderators. He was combative 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.600 with the other candidates on stage. And we'll see if 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:23.080 any of that translates with support among Republican voters. That's 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.399 what I saw last night. 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Thank you for taking my call. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.280 I think I decided to step away from personal opinions 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.960 living in Santal today pretty much my entire adult life. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:24.480 And I went to the statistics board and listening to 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.000 the debate last night because it's important to me because 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.600 my mayor, Matt, I call him Matt m At like 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.840 a Matt that you step on Mayhem, m A h G. M. 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.480 And I, guys, I was the one that I'm gonna 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.240 tell you right now. I was the guy that started 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.679 newscomb back when he was just mayor San Francisco, and 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:44.360 it went all the way up to President Trump. I'm 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:45.920 very proud of that. But you know what, I don't 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.359 need it. I don't have a pedestal to talk on 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.240 except for this one, of course. Thank you. Anyway, get 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.280 to the statistics. I listened to Matt Bragg repeatedly on 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.000 his commercials and last night about how he is bought 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.600 the city of St to be one of the safest 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:06.879 cities in US. And if you consider the statistics that 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.520 I look up the crimegrade dot org reports that we 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.680 get to see grade, it indicates that the rate of 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.520 violent crime is slightly higher than that of the average 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.440 US city. San Jose ranks in the thirty four percentile 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:25.160 for safety. And then you talked about the homelessness, which 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.480 is another problem that I have that I see everywhere, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.280 and he said that he has made it significantly better, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.520 and I literally looked that up too. Does Santals have 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:40.000 a homeless problem? AI overview, Yes, Santose has a significant 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:44.040 homelessness issue. As of early twenty twenty five, there are 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:49.000 over six thousand, five hundred homeless residents with roughly sixty 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:54.439 percent that's nearly four thousand people living unsheltered in encampments. 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.520 While the city has reduced the number of unsheltered people 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.320 by roughly twenty three percent since twenty nine, which he 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:05.040 was not really part of through investments in interim housing. 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.280 We paid for that, it remains one of the cities 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:13.560 with the highest homeless populations in the US. So again, 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:18.280 they're politicians people. I think we need to get together 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.240 and steer away from let's pick the lesser of all 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.400 evils and try to get somebody in there that is 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.919 not as we say FOS. I think this guy is 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.040 just trying to fast track himself, and he's got supporters, 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.119 including the fake news and the statistics people that are 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.399 going to put out these statistics that they're going to 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.280 leave critical things out of these statistics so they can say, oh, yeah, 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.439 it's the safest one of the safest largest cities. The 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.240 way they word things, the way they play with the words. 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.800 Well, and to that point, Thomas, that thing that you're 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.040 talking about that mayhon always say that we have this 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.280 study that shows that we are the safest big city 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.760 in America. I remember when he touted that and we 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.639 covered it because I looked up that staf and it 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.320 does very specific things to pick out the numbers. And 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:06.439 here's how you know that study is full of crap 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.160 because it said, yes, San Jose is the safest big 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:16.160