WEBVTT - Jon Fleischman and Jeff Vaughn 0:00:01.010 --> 0:00:08.620 Everything the mainstream media left out, delivered just right. It's 0:00:08.630 --> 0:00:09.959 the John Phillips Show. 0:00:13.100 --> 0:00:14.960 It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:19.840 the program. He is the publisher of showdoesitmatter.com. You can 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:24.620 also follow him on X at Flash Report. John Flashman, 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:26.860 who was kind enough not to wear a Dodger hat today. 0:00:28.740 --> 0:00:30.320 If you give me a minute, I can go swap 0:00:30.420 --> 0:00:38.949 one in. Who's your team again? I'm working on a 0:00:38.990 --> 0:00:42.229 column right now about how the best and worst teams 0:00:42.310 --> 0:00:45.930 of baseball are just 30 miles away from each other. 0:00:48.770 --> 0:00:53.920 Maybe I'll call you for a comment. Just pointing it out. 0:00:54.060 --> 0:00:58.320 You might get sent a voicemail. I want everyone to 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.480 remember that Shohei Otani, before he signed with the Dodgers, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.500 reached out back out to cheap Artie and his team 0:01:04.550 --> 0:01:07.070 and said, if you can match it, I'll stay. But 0:01:07.090 --> 0:01:09.150 that billionaire didn't want to cut loose any of his money. 0:01:09.170 --> 0:01:12.230 You guys have the worst owner in baseball. All right, 0:01:12.270 --> 0:01:13.990 we can move on. I'm sure everybody here doesn't want 0:01:14.010 --> 0:01:17.140 to hear us bitch and moan about Dodgers versus the, 0:01:17.500 --> 0:01:22.900 I'm sorry, what was your team name? You're just depressing me. 0:01:25.620 --> 0:01:27.940 You know what? We agree on everything, and so we 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.490 have to focus on something we disagree on, which is 0:01:30.590 --> 0:01:33.470 hard to do. It's really hard to do, actually. 0:01:34.110 --> 0:01:34.530 All right. 0:01:34.550 --> 0:01:37.690 Well, let's talk about California politics, because there's so much 0:01:37.750 --> 0:01:40.509 going on, and I want to get you to weigh 0:01:40.590 --> 0:01:44.500 in on much of it. Let's start out with the L.A. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.840 mayor's race, because we have two candidates who are both 0:01:49.300 --> 0:01:55.010 just god-awful, where you have a socialist councilwoman... who is 0:01:55.290 --> 0:02:01.550 ideologically extreme and wants to destroy the city for ideological reasons. 0:02:02.270 --> 0:02:04.750 And then you have someone who, when she was young, 0:02:04.930 --> 0:02:10.860 was extremely ideologically extreme, but is now, I think, past 0:02:10.900 --> 0:02:15.600 her sell-by date and is just completely incompetent and incapable 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.300 of running the city. You now have a situation playing 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.900 out in real time in the San Fernando Valley where 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.780 where you had an abandoned home that was taken over 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:29.200 by squatters. Residents have been calling the mayor's office, the 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.240 councilwoman's office for six years, asking them to do something 0:02:33.300 --> 0:02:37.300 about it. Nothing got done. And then the house burnt 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.680 to a crisp and damaged the neighborhood because nobody did 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.060 anything about it. Both of them are pointing fingers at 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.380 one another. Neither one of them did a thing. And 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.389 I just, put my head in my hands because this 0:02:52.470 --> 0:02:54.680 city is going to continue to go down the tubes 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.540 for four more years, regardless of who gets elected. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.120 It's kind of funny, John, you and I talked about 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.660 this earlier in the week, which inspired me to write 0:03:03.700 --> 0:03:06.580 a column on this exact topic, which will be at 0:03:06.620 --> 0:03:09.580 So Does It Matter on Monday morning. But it's basically 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.440 what do you do when you're faced with either drinking 0:03:12.460 --> 0:03:17.110 the rat poison or the battery acid, right? It's like 0:03:17.190 --> 0:03:20.760 you're a voter and it's like literally imagine that either 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.029 candidate that you vote for causes you to go off 0:03:23.070 --> 0:03:27.050 the cliff, right? So it's a really difficult scenario. And 0:03:27.070 --> 0:03:28.950 I think you pointed it out really well. You've got 0:03:29.850 --> 0:03:33.010 basically what I think you have is in Karen Bass, 0:03:33.030 --> 0:03:35.510 you've got, like you said, this youthful ideologue, you know, 0:03:35.970 --> 0:03:40.230 she multiple trips to Cuba, lamenting the passing of Fidel Castro. 0:03:40.710 --> 0:03:43.290 At her heart, she wants to be an ideologue. But 0:03:43.330 --> 0:03:45.450 then what she figures out is, oh my God, I'm 0:03:45.470 --> 0:03:48.190 running for mayor of Los Angeles. And all of these 0:03:48.310 --> 0:03:50.950 unions are going to back me All I have to 0:03:50.970 --> 0:03:53.250 do is play their corruption game and I give them 0:03:53.410 --> 0:03:55.850 everything they want. And then it's kind of like, don't 0:03:55.870 --> 0:03:57.470 worry about it. We'll run the city. You don't need 0:03:57.500 --> 0:03:59.040 to worry about it. And it's almost like, well, I'm 0:03:59.060 --> 0:04:00.839 glad they're willing to run the city because I don't 0:04:00.860 --> 0:04:04.300 know crap about running a city, right? Because when she 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.540 was in Sacramento, she was the speaker of the state legislature. 0:04:07.660 --> 0:04:09.900 And those of us who know how that means, all 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:11.560 it means is that you have a lead role in 0:04:11.580 --> 0:04:15.930 a play that is being scripted by the California Teachers Association, 0:04:16.450 --> 0:04:19.310 SEIU 1000, all these different groups. And they tell the 0:04:19.350 --> 0:04:21.870 speaker everything. and the Senate president what to do. They 0:04:21.890 --> 0:04:24.690 may be artful about it, but these jobs that she's 0:04:24.750 --> 0:04:27.390 held before she was mayor had nothing to do with 0:04:27.430 --> 0:04:31.410 running a city. And literally, literally, if she was running 0:04:31.450 --> 0:04:34.470 against anyone else than Nithya Raman, you would say, well, 0:04:34.510 --> 0:04:37.380 of course she's failed, and of course she should be replaced. 0:04:37.810 --> 0:04:39.860 But then you look at the alternative, and you're like, well, 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.300 there's someone else who's never run anything. And she applauds 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.719 literally at everything that's gross in America, right? And so 0:04:46.740 --> 0:04:51.090 you literally say to yourself, there's no good How come here? 0:04:51.110 --> 0:04:53.670 I mean, there's a part of me, like if I 0:04:53.690 --> 0:04:55.510 lived in Los Angeles, I don't think I could cast 0:04:55.550 --> 0:04:58.090 a vote between these two. But if I did, I 0:04:58.089 --> 0:05:00.940 don't know what you want to call it. It's almost 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.099 like the screw it vote. Like I'll vote for ramen 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.800 just because it topples the establishment. I don't even know 0:05:05.820 --> 0:05:08.339 what comes next. But you know what? It's, you know, 0:05:08.380 --> 0:05:10.560 but I have the luxury of living down here in 0:05:10.580 --> 0:05:12.830 Orange County. You live in the, I can't say where 0:05:12.850 --> 0:05:15.930 you live as you broadcast from the secret bunker, but 0:05:17.130 --> 0:05:18.490 you're not in Los Angeles, right? 0:05:18.510 --> 0:05:18.690 No. 0:05:19.630 --> 0:05:22.130 Voting in Los Angeles either, and so it's easy for 0:05:22.170 --> 0:05:23.850 me to say vote for Rahman when the real answer 0:05:23.890 --> 0:05:29.750 is there's no good vote. My good friend Matt Klink, 0:05:30.510 --> 0:05:34.290 who does center-right and conservative, wherever you can find conservative 0:05:34.310 --> 0:05:39.290 causes in Los Angeles, he lives in Rahman's district. He's 0:05:39.330 --> 0:05:43.850 had it horrible. My parents live in Playa Vista, and 0:05:43.890 --> 0:05:48.750 they've got it horrible. It's a real difficult situation. Somebody 0:05:48.830 --> 0:05:50.779 asked me, because I was telling somebody, actually, I said, 0:05:51.100 --> 0:05:53.140 John Phillips and I had a conversation, and now I 0:05:53.180 --> 0:05:55.240 have to write this, which I did. It's coming Monday. 0:05:55.779 --> 0:05:59.840 But somebody was asking me, well, really, John, how do 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:04.400 you vote? It's a binary choice. John, if you were 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.130 forced to vote for one of them, which one would 0:06:06.150 --> 0:06:06.589 you vote for? 0:06:06.610 --> 0:06:10.350 I would leave it blank. When people ask me what 0:06:10.430 --> 0:06:14.630 to do, my answer is leave it blank. And I'm 0:06:14.810 --> 0:06:17.950 of the belief that neither one of them deserves to win. 0:06:19.010 --> 0:06:22.190 But I do believe this to my core. Karen Bass 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.300 deserves to lose. You cannot burn down the city and 0:06:26.339 --> 0:06:30.359 then be reelected. You just can't. And then you doctor 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.300 the after-action fire report to take the heat off of 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.550 you instead of figuring out what went wrong so you 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.350 don't make those same mistakes the second time. 0:06:39.370 --> 0:06:41.710 This is awesome. You're literally making the bullet points in 0:06:41.730 --> 0:06:43.169 the column I already wrote. As a matter of fact, 0:06:43.450 --> 0:06:45.430 you're going to accuse me of having gone back to 0:06:45.570 --> 0:06:49.650 edit it after this session. I mean, the fire report 0:06:49.670 --> 0:06:53.630 thing in and of itself, the problem with Karen Bass 0:06:53.670 --> 0:06:56.770 is that you could name 20 individual things she has 0:06:56.810 --> 0:06:59.750 done or not done that each in and of themselves 0:07:00.300 --> 0:07:03.099 will be disqualifying for giving her another term in office. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:08.740 And then you combine them all, you know, I don't know. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:09.600 I'm not a lawyer. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.040 I'm not a lawyer. But how is that not a 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.320 criminal act? If you doctor an after-action fire report, the 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.220 official report, we're not talking about some newspaper article. We're 0:07:21.260 --> 0:07:25.870 not talking about someone's social media posts. We're talking about 0:07:25.930 --> 0:07:31.450 the after-action report from the entity, the government entity that 0:07:31.490 --> 0:07:35.390 was supposed to figure out what happened and assign blame. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.940 And she edited that report to take the blame off 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:46.150 of her and to place it on others. Now, When 0:07:46.190 --> 0:07:48.870 you look at that in a practical sort of way, 0:07:49.430 --> 0:07:52.330 that's going to determine what the insurance companies are on 0:07:52.370 --> 0:07:55.770 the hook for. That's going to determine who gets sued. 0:07:56.190 --> 0:07:59.790 That's going to determine who has to pay. And if 0:07:59.870 --> 0:08:06.110 you are using fake information to shift the responsibility and 0:08:06.210 --> 0:08:09.680 the liability to parties that had nothing to do with it, 0:08:10.150 --> 0:08:12.630 how is that not theft? How is that not a crime? 0:08:14.580 --> 0:08:16.780 Well, I guess maybe we need to hope that the 0:08:18.340 --> 0:08:21.960 district attorney of Los Angeles County, who I'm sure watches 0:08:21.980 --> 0:08:27.040 your program every day, Nathan Hockman, he's the one who 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.720 has the ability to look into it, do an investigation. 0:08:30.300 --> 0:08:32.839 Lord knows the existing city attorney, I'm not even sure 0:08:32.860 --> 0:08:37.959 it's jurisdictional for the city attorney, but maybe there's a 0:08:37.980 --> 0:08:40.819 healthy competition for that office and there is a good 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.059 guy running. And so maybe he could do something with it. 0:08:44.700 --> 0:08:47.300 You're right. The reality is nobody holds any of these 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:48.900 people accountable at all. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:49.360 Right. 0:08:49.380 --> 0:08:51.280 Because, you know, what happens is, you know, you're the 0:08:51.700 --> 0:08:55.220 you're the maybe I'm being unfair to Nathan Hockman. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:55.500 Right. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.500 But you want to look into this. And then all 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.160 of a sudden you're getting a phone call from the 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.240 police union chief, the fire union, the fire union chief. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.860 And understand what that means. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:06.079 Right. 0:09:06.100 --> 0:09:08.920 The frickin fire union chief, let alone all the other. 0:09:08.940 --> 0:09:10.939 They're all call up and say, don't rock the boat. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.140 We don't want to mess this up. We're all afraid 0:09:13.179 --> 0:09:17.069 of Nithya Raman. And so, you know, Karen Bass is the, 0:09:17.750 --> 0:09:19.510 you know, we don't want the battery acid, but we're 0:09:19.550 --> 0:09:21.930 used to drinking it. We just take a lot of Tums, right? 0:09:21.970 --> 0:09:25.120 We don't need the rat poison, right? And so then 0:09:25.179 --> 0:09:28.060 he gets pressured and the whole system covers up for 0:09:28.100 --> 0:09:31.980 itself because it's all about the sucking sound of taxpayer 0:09:32.020 --> 0:09:35.420 money in everybody's pocket. And it's just a horrible system, 0:09:35.450 --> 0:09:39.930 whether it's the public employees, the non-governmental organizations, the homeless 0:09:39.970 --> 0:09:42.590 industrial complex. You and I, you talk about it literally 0:09:42.650 --> 0:09:45.199 every day. I write about it every day. All of 0:09:45.260 --> 0:09:48.179 the greed and the money dictates everything and everything else 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:52.710 be damned. And that's why someone like Karen Bass, that's 0:09:52.790 --> 0:09:55.010 the deal. You do what we need you to do 0:09:55.130 --> 0:09:58.650 and we indemnify you. We take care of you. You 0:09:58.670 --> 0:10:00.640 just have to take care of yourself. care of us. 0:10:01.300 --> 0:10:03.540 And who gets left in the meantime? All these people 0:10:03.580 --> 0:10:07.720 in Los Angeles who wake up every day and have 0:10:07.740 --> 0:10:10.000 to open up their front door to get ready to 0:10:10.059 --> 0:10:14.210 bleep me. Clusterfuckistan. I mean, it's just awful out there. 0:10:14.850 --> 0:10:17.170 It's you, you can't, it's a, that's an actual word. 0:10:17.190 --> 0:10:19.230 If you look it up under Webster's, I'm not swearing. 0:10:19.650 --> 0:10:24.010 There's a place it's somewhere near Kandahar. Um, so, uh, 0:10:24.250 --> 0:10:28.140 you know, it's just, uh, it's just awful. And, and 0:10:28.179 --> 0:10:31.300 I think that what you've got are collectively millions of 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.280 Angelina's who don't know what they can do about it. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:36.579 All right. 0:10:36.700 --> 0:10:39.680 Let's move up to Northern California for a second. 0:10:39.740 --> 0:10:42.940 Can we find something more exciting, something uplifting for people? 0:10:43.660 --> 0:10:46.490 We're speaking with Andrew Dice Fleischman, who you can follow 0:10:46.710 --> 0:10:51.390 on X at Flash Report and read online at sodoesitmatter.com. 0:10:53.309 --> 0:10:54.190 Let's go. 0:10:54.250 --> 0:11:00.230 Little Miss Muffet. Little Miss Karen sat on her tuffet. 0:11:03.550 --> 0:11:07.319 In Sacramento, Gavin Newsom was here for a short period 0:11:07.340 --> 0:11:09.800 of time before he moved on to South Carolina to 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.270 campaign for president. And what he spent his time doing 0:11:13.550 --> 0:11:17.790 this week was trying to limit the liability for the 0:11:17.890 --> 0:11:24.170 public utilities here in California when they start a fire 0:11:24.390 --> 0:11:28.450 and it creates billions of dollars in damage. He says 0:11:28.530 --> 0:11:32.170 it's good. What's good for the public utilities is good 0:11:32.220 --> 0:11:36.079 for the state of California. And it's really, really complicated. 0:11:36.140 --> 0:11:38.860 And it's something that he's been working on diligently and 0:11:39.380 --> 0:11:42.640 reading a lot about and Having lots of meetings about. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:51.410 It's all garbage. It's literally- It's not complicated. It's not complicated. 0:11:51.470 --> 0:11:53.569 If you take out a calculator and you start to 0:11:53.690 --> 0:11:57.550 add up between PG & E, SEMPRA, and SoCal for Edison, 0:11:57.929 --> 0:12:00.930 how much money they've given to Newsom's political efforts, how 0:12:00.990 --> 0:12:03.480 much money they've given to the party. And I'm sure 0:12:03.500 --> 0:12:06.400 you've talked on the show about the behested payments. That's 0:12:06.420 --> 0:12:08.260 where the governor calls up and says, I need you 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.230 to give money to my favorite charities. Oh, by the way, 0:12:10.290 --> 0:12:12.330 my wife is paid by one of them. And they 0:12:12.350 --> 0:12:14.910 write all of these checks. And then you can tell, governor, 0:12:14.929 --> 0:12:16.810 you're going to be gone. We've made a big investment 0:12:16.830 --> 0:12:18.310 in you. We want to help you as you seek 0:12:18.330 --> 0:12:21.170 your next higher office. We need a little solid before 0:12:21.190 --> 0:12:24.679 you leave. We need to get out from under liability 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.940 for these fires. By the way, the real liability comes 0:12:27.980 --> 0:12:29.940 from the fact that they pass all these laws that 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:35.260 prevent They prevent the utilities from cleaning out all the underbrush, right? 0:12:35.620 --> 0:12:39.280 And then they pass all these green laws that force 0:12:39.300 --> 0:12:42.380 the utilities to spend their money somewhere else. So then 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.020 the utilities are looking for any way to get under it. Well, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.609 it's not rocket science. If the insurance companies can't get, 0:12:48.630 --> 0:12:51.750 you know, the insurance companies pay you for your damages 0:12:52.050 --> 0:12:54.970 and then they go after the cause, right? In this case, 0:12:55.010 --> 0:12:57.720 they go after the insurance, they go after the utilities. 0:12:57.980 --> 0:13:00.530 If they can't do that anymore- What do you think 0:13:00.610 --> 0:13:04.810 happens to insurance costs in California? They either go up 0:13:05.370 --> 0:13:07.510 or the carriers, the insurance carriers say, you know what, 0:13:07.530 --> 0:13:10.780 this was the final straw. We're going to fold up 0:13:10.820 --> 0:13:14.040 and we're not going to offer homeowners insurance in California anymore. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.140 And again, it's very similar to the Karen Bass situation 0:13:20.500 --> 0:13:23.900 in that it's, we will indemnify you, take care of us. 0:13:24.860 --> 0:13:26.220 And I don't know if you, did you see the 0:13:26.260 --> 0:13:28.520 other story about how Gavin Newsom is now trying to 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.750 get some waivers? against Coastal Commission and CEQA for some 0:13:32.870 --> 0:13:36.260 donor's beautiful property on the water in Santa Monica. I 0:13:36.260 --> 0:13:41.800 don't know if you've seen that one yet. So it's literally, 0:13:41.820 --> 0:13:44.080 you're like, we've bought this guy, we've owned him for years, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.699 and they're just realizing his shelf life is in days. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.940 And so in these final days, everyone's calling him up 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.280 and he's like, sure, yes, whatever you need. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.420 This is what I always say to people. When you 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.120 hear insurance, just think of the word risk because that's 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.890 what it is. And if in the state of California, 0:14:05.110 --> 0:14:08.609 the insurance companies are not allowed to go after the 0:14:09.190 --> 0:14:13.109 parties responsible for starting the fire that created the damage, 0:14:14.390 --> 0:14:18.710 then you are too risky to insure because they can't 0:14:19.390 --> 0:14:22.790 get their money. They can't go and find the person 0:14:22.850 --> 0:14:27.270 responsible for the house burning down. and say, okay, you 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.160 need to pay up because we had to put out 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.840 the money so this person could rebuild or whatever, if 0:14:33.900 --> 0:14:36.920 they no longer have the ability to do that, how 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.920 do any of us buy insurance in this state? 0:14:39.790 --> 0:14:41.070 Right, because they're going to come back and they're going 0:14:41.090 --> 0:14:44.110 to say, we were charging you $ 3, 400 a year for 0:14:44.130 --> 0:14:46.930 your insurance, which you couldn't afford. But actually, if we 0:14:46.990 --> 0:14:49.230 can't go after those people, we're not going to have 0:14:49.270 --> 0:14:53.090 to charge you $ 34, 000 a year. because we have to 0:14:53.130 --> 0:14:56.010 make enough money from our customers in non-fire risk areas. 0:14:56.970 --> 0:14:59.030 That's what's really going on. You may be saying yourself, well, 0:14:59.070 --> 0:15:00.810 how does this even affect me? I don't live in 0:15:00.850 --> 0:15:04.190 an area with a big fire risk. Well, it's already happening. 0:15:04.230 --> 0:15:07.880 They've already gotten permission and have put surcharges on the 0:15:07.930 --> 0:15:10.560 policies of everyone who doesn't live in a fire area 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.660 now to make up for money that, you know, the 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.560 whole thing is just messed up. So, and I don't 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.560 know ultimately how it's going to end at the end 0:15:20.620 --> 0:15:23.600 of session. I'm sure the insurance industry at some level 0:15:24.260 --> 0:15:27.230 contributes to candidates and all that. But it's really sad. 0:15:27.540 --> 0:15:30.710 That's the currency in Sacramento. It's no longer what's good 0:15:30.750 --> 0:15:33.970 policy or what's bad policy. It's what do our friends want. 0:15:34.030 --> 0:15:37.190 And friends is defined by who is taking care of 0:15:37.250 --> 0:15:41.190 our campaign donations, who's giving to our favorite charities, who's 0:15:41.230 --> 0:15:45.270 making our life better. It's gross. Here's what I would do. 0:15:45.510 --> 0:15:47.650 But I won't use my favorite word now because you 0:15:47.670 --> 0:15:49.790 winked at it and I got in trouble. Although the 0:15:49.850 --> 0:15:53.780 people in the chat room liked it a lot. Some 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.140 guys are like, that's what I like about YouTube. There's 0:15:56.180 --> 0:15:58.240 no cancel button. 0:15:59.140 --> 0:16:01.480 If I'm the insurance companies, this is what I do. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.040 I tell Gavin Newsom, you're running for president. You don't 0:16:06.110 --> 0:16:10.570 care what happens in California. We understand that. One of 0:16:10.630 --> 0:16:14.150 the cities that burned down as a result of a 0:16:14.250 --> 0:16:18.610 public utility starting a fire is Altadena. Many of those 0:16:18.690 --> 0:16:22.970 residents are black. Many of those residents have owned those 0:16:23.030 --> 0:16:27.570 properties for generations. You think you're going to be president. 0:16:27.630 --> 0:16:30.020 You think you're going to win the South Carolina primary. 0:16:30.300 --> 0:16:32.120 We're going to charter a plane and we're going to 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.560 take all of these black fire victims in Altadena and 0:16:35.580 --> 0:16:38.260 we're going to have them go to South Carolina when 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.000 you're campaigning there. And we're going to have them tell 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.680 their story to the voters in South Carolina. 0:16:43.750 --> 0:16:45.770 Hey, this will be great. We can fill up one 0:16:45.810 --> 0:16:47.990 airplane and on one side of the airplane can be 0:16:48.010 --> 0:16:50.040 the fire victims and And the other side of the 0:16:50.090 --> 0:16:52.810 plane can be the female athletes who had to lose 0:16:53.150 --> 0:16:56.690 their awards to transgender athletes. And they can all fly 0:16:56.750 --> 0:16:59.170 out together and have one big, you don't want this 0:16:59.230 --> 0:17:01.750 guy in South Carolina. Yeah. 0:17:02.450 --> 0:17:05.190 No, I mean, you have to make it a liability 0:17:05.250 --> 0:17:09.030 for his presidential campaigns because I don't think he cares 0:17:09.070 --> 0:17:12.020 about any pressure you can put on him in Sacramento. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.359 He's beyond that. 0:17:13.580 --> 0:17:17.120 He's done. He's long ago moved past Sacramento. He just does. 0:17:17.220 --> 0:17:19.600 I mean, The only reason he's caring right now is 0:17:19.660 --> 0:17:22.320 because some of the IOU people are trying to cash 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.660 them in, so he's got to pay some attention because 0:17:24.700 --> 0:17:27.660 he wants them funding his efforts for the next thing. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.120 It's all about the next thing. And so it's really 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:33.739 gross is what it is. 0:17:34.220 --> 0:17:36.780 Last question, and we're running out of time in this segment. 0:17:37.580 --> 0:17:41.550 His California Energy Commission came out and banned 70% of 0:17:41.570 --> 0:17:44.070 the tires that are currently on the market in California. 0:17:44.930 --> 0:17:47.050 Another state that he's going to have to do well 0:17:47.150 --> 0:17:50.430 in that votes early in the Democratic primary is Michigan. 0:17:51.150 --> 0:17:56.410 When he was there campaigning earlier this month, Debbie Dingell, 0:17:56.570 --> 0:18:00.350 the congresswoman from Dearborn, refused to meet with him. And 0:18:00.390 --> 0:18:03.990 when asked by Politico why that was the case, she said, quote, 0:18:04.210 --> 0:18:08.300 I'm a car girl. If he's going to ban 70% 0:18:08.300 --> 0:18:11.629 of the tires in the state of California... I can't 0:18:11.770 --> 0:18:14.710 believe he hasn't thought it through to the extent of 0:18:14.930 --> 0:18:17.950 how that's going to look in Michigan, where they don't 0:18:18.030 --> 0:18:20.600 eat if people don't buy cars and tires. 0:18:21.470 --> 0:18:23.500 Believe it or not, and maybe I'll send you the link. 0:18:23.660 --> 0:18:24.720 You guys have show notes? 0:18:25.660 --> 0:18:25.900 Oh, yeah. 0:18:25.940 --> 0:18:28.119 That's a thing. But I'll send you the link. But 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.480 for the California Post, I wrote a column that ran 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.800 last week that was how I highlighted each key vulnerability 0:18:34.820 --> 0:18:37.639 of Gavin Newsom in each of the five earliest states. 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:44.060 And for Michigan... I had actually gone after his anti-car rhetoric, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.060 but now we could actually say he's not happy just 0:18:46.100 --> 0:18:48.720 going after the car. He's going after the wheels that 0:18:48.740 --> 0:18:52.200 you put on the car. I mean, it's really, it's 0:18:52.220 --> 0:18:54.679 like you literally can't make this stuff up. And to 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.740 be honest with you, I'm sure he was as surprised 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.219 as anybody when the policy went through because he has 0:18:59.320 --> 0:18:59.820 checked out. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:05.680 John Fleischman, publisher of showdoesitmatter.com. You can also follow him 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:10.430 on X at The Flash Report. John time to put 0:19:10.470 --> 0:19:11.840 another dollar in the swear jar. 0:19:11.859 --> 0:19:15.679 All right. Thanks. I'll put in 10 bucks. Thanks for 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:16.100 having me. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.760 All right. John Fleischman, everyone having a lot of fun 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.980 in the chat room at Johnny don't like.com. Someone just said, Randy, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.679 you should interview Tim Conway jr. I don't think KFI 0:19:25.700 --> 0:19:27.700 would allow that, but I wonder if we could sneak 0:19:27.780 --> 0:19:31.020 past it by asking him to do the accountability podcast. 0:19:31.650 --> 0:19:34.450 But then that would be bothering Conway at 9 a.m. 0:19:34.510 --> 0:19:36.909 on a Tuesday, which is when we usually tape those things. 0:19:36.970 --> 0:19:38.600 And I don't feel great about that. But I would 0:19:38.619 --> 0:19:40.639 love to say hi to Conway or see him. Do 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.700 you know that this is my 20 year? This month 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.490 is 20 years since I got into radio back in 0:19:46.730 --> 0:19:52.160 September of 2006. Isn't that wild? Hey, we are so 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:53.979 glad to have you on the channel here. Make sure 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.020 you hit the like button. Make sure you hit subscribe. 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.300 I'm trying to kick KFI's ass speaking of KFI because 0:19:59.460 --> 0:20:01.960 I think no offense to any of the hosts there. 0:20:02.020 --> 0:20:03.040 I know a lot of those people. 0:20:03.100 --> 0:20:05.260 I love a lot of those people, but We put 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.159 on a much better product, and I would like our 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:13.480 numbers to reflect that. 6,475 subscribers. Let's keep going, everybody. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.800 Tell your friends about this channel. Tell your friends about 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.420 this show. Let's grow this show a little by little 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.550 every single day. When we come back, we'll hear from 0:20:22.650 --> 0:20:25.869 Jeff Vaughn about the California Exodus. 0:20:26.410 --> 0:20:28.350 It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to 0:20:28.390 --> 0:20:32.430 the program. He is our colleague at Talk Radio 790 0:20:32.430 --> 0:20:36.889 KABC in Los Angeles. an Emmy Award-winning journalist, and the 0:20:36.950 --> 0:20:42.419 founder of On LACA, who you can read online at onlaca.com. 0:20:42.780 --> 0:20:47.000 You can follow him on X at Jeff Vaughn. Jeff Vaughn, welcome. 0:20:47.700 --> 0:20:48.120 Hey, John. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:48.540 Hey, Randy. 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:49.550 Thank you so much for having me. 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:50.179 Appreciate it. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.560 Well, thanks so much for stopping by. We love hearing 0:20:52.580 --> 0:20:55.220 your voice every single day in the news. And now 0:20:55.290 --> 0:20:57.190 it's fun to be able to get a face to 0:20:57.210 --> 0:20:58.570 the voice that we hear every day. 0:20:58.810 --> 0:21:00.830 Yeah, it was great. I went to an event last night, 0:21:00.950 --> 0:21:03.290 and just the feedback that I'm getting being on your 0:21:03.330 --> 0:21:05.410 show is great. Thank you so much for having me. 0:21:05.450 --> 0:21:08.350 And hopefully we're able to bring some stories to light 0:21:08.369 --> 0:21:13.370 that you wouldn't otherwise hear, whether it's the California Exodus 0:21:13.430 --> 0:21:15.780 Watch or just any sort of craziness that's out there 0:21:15.820 --> 0:21:18.680 that maybe local media wouldn't report on. We're doing that 0:21:18.740 --> 0:21:19.760 here on KABC. 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.179 Well, let's talk about that because you guys have a unique, 0:21:23.630 --> 0:21:26.149 segment that you do on your website that you cover 0:21:26.770 --> 0:21:30.830 in broadcast about all the mass exodus that's going on 0:21:30.869 --> 0:21:32.840 right now in the state of California. 0:21:32.859 --> 0:21:35.260 You know, I'm glad you asked about that because it 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:39.659 seems to be critical mass. We've always known corporations were leaving, right? 0:21:39.700 --> 0:21:43.060