1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 2: Well, John, doctor Drew predicted it ten years ago. We 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: have a typhus outbreak in Los Angeles County. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I knew we'd get there eventually. 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 2: And the fact that we have a typhus outbreak shows 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 2: you that all the nonsense that Karen Bass says about 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 2: the humbless numbers going down are a bunch of bs. 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: What's next tuberculosis or the plague? Uh? 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 3: And uh you know uh. 11 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: Barbara farrears on it though, don't you worry? 12 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah? In the white lab coat next side eight 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two is the 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 15 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next 16 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: guest to the program. He is author of the book 17 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: They're Not Listening How the Elites Created the National Populist Revolution. Hey, 18 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: and he's the host of a numbers Game with Ryan Gurdusky. 19 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: You could download wherever you download your favorite podcasts, and 20 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: you can follow him on x at Ryan Gurdusky, Ryan Gurdusky, Welcome, 21 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: Thanks John, How are you. I'm good, Thanks so much 22 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: for stopping by on this. 23 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 4: Friday, of course, Happy good Friday. 24 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: What's going on so earlier in the week. I guess 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: it would be was it last week? I don't know. 26 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: I'm really confused. President Trump addressed the country about what's 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: going on in Iran and assured the country that it 28 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: would be a very short time before we were done 29 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: with Iran, and that would be a situation that is 30 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 1: a box that's checked, a situation complete, and we could 31 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: move on to other problems. It seems like he's starting 32 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: to feel the heat of people getting restless about things 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: like gas prices and global instability and markets, those sorts 34 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: of things that are related to our action that was 35 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: taken in Iran. What do you make of what's going 36 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: on right now over there and politically speaking, how it's 37 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: impacting what's going on here. 38 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 4: Well, I mean, the messaging doesn't seem very clear. Remember 39 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 4: back in the summer, we were supposed to have gotten 40 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 4: rid of all of Iran's nuclear missiles. Then we were 41 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 4: going to do this because they actually, you know, continued 42 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 4: in negotiations, negotias had failed, and they were moving forward 43 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 4: on more nuclear weapons as well. As mid, mid and 44 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 4: long range ballistic missiles. And then they apparently they had 45 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 4: no defenses, but one of our planes crashed. Today, Susie 46 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 4: Wilds allegedly is telling people to stop telling the President 47 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 4: that it's going so well the administrate. Everything's going swimmingly. 48 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 4: And you know, he seems to be one of you know, 49 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 4: one of my friends who worked for the president back 50 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 4: in the first term and knows him well, said when 51 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 4: he gets mad at everybody, it's just not a safe 52 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 4: place to be. And he seems to be in this 53 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 4: place place in the space where he's not very mad 54 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 4: at everybody. You know, he just fired Pam Bondi, he 55 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 4: had fired Christy nom obviously, like a week or so earlier, 56 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 4: he had fired or the fat of the army was fired. 57 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 4: And now he apparently told Caroline Levitt that she's doing 58 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 4: a terrible job and is responsible for his tanking poll numbers, 59 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 4: and his poll numbers are worse today than they were 60 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 4: after January sixth. It's it's actually at the worst moment 61 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 4: of his political career, is this moment, And I don't 62 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 4: I think for a lot of people told the president 63 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 4: that this is going to do as well as Venezuela did, 64 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 4: and it's a complete disaster. I mean, there's no other 65 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 4: way to say this. Yes, Iran's leadership has been executed. Okay. 66 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 4: At the same time, there's massy to destabilization to the 67 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 4: markets and the entire global energy. You know, almost our 68 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 4: allies in Europe are running low on fuel. We are 69 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 4: tapping our petroleum reserves, and gas prices are sky high. 70 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 4: And even if you drive a tesla you see the 71 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 4: price of oil every three blocks in this country, you 72 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 4: know that it's rising. Price is one of the big indicators. 73 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 4: I mean, it's going as badly I think right now 74 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 4: as it could possibly go, but it's still early. 75 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: Well, the last election, it was eggs. Everyone was talking 76 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: about the price of eggs and how expensive those were 77 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: and how it hurt people. Because the way I see it, 78 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: maybe you see it differently. I don't know. When people 79 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: talk about the economy, the economy is one thing. That's 80 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: the stock market, that's the unemployment rate, that's indicators that 81 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: talk about what's going on broadly. But then there's a 82 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: different issue called the cost of living. And I think 83 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: right now the economy itself is fine, but the cost 84 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: of living is something that people are having a tough 85 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: time with and when you talk about pocketbook issues, the 86 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: cost of living is something that politically can kill you. 87 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 4: Well, Hiring is very low. Hiring has been low, and 88 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 4: there is double digit unemployment among recent college graduates. So 89 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 4: that's not great, including college graduates with computer science degrees. 90 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 4: It's not terrible. The economy, we shouldn't overstate it, but 91 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 4: it's not the strongest it should be. And and the 92 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 4: employment numbers are the lower numbers of new hiring is 93 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 4: a big learning and certainly scambal it have caused a 94 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 4: lot of people to have questions over you know, maybe 95 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 4: a lack of investment, because there there's a little bit 96 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 4: of instability, but it's not really showing in the in 97 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 4: the true metrics of the marrow of the of the 98 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,239 Speaker 4: overall economy. So maybe that's probably possibly true, right however, 99 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 4: and yet still for recent college grads it's very tough, 100 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 4: which is why I think partially you're seeing the numbers 101 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 4: so poorly. Among blue collar jobs. We are at a 102 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 4: net deficit of one hundred and fifty thousand manufacturing warehouse 103 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 4: jobs in the last year since the president took over, 104 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 4: so blue collar workers, especially Latino blue collar workers are 105 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 4: definitely feeling the pinch right now. And on top of that, 106 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 4: a lot of people, rightly or wrongly, I don't think 107 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 4: this is a fault of the president's, but rightly or wrongly, 108 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 4: a lot of people expected prices to go down, not 109 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 4: just for the inflation to go down, which did happen 110 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 4: and the President was successful at that, but for actual 111 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 4: deflationary period of prices to go down. And people are 112 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 4: angry because they want their twenty nineteen economy back. I mean, 113 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 4: that's ultimate. What people want is they want the econ 114 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 4: of twenty nineteen and they're not getting it. And I 115 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 4: think that that's why a large portion of the population 116 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 4: is just so frustrated with politics right now. 117 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: Well, and there's something going on here in California, and 118 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going on in other states 119 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: in state local races, but we have a race for 120 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: governor here. Govin Newsom is turned out. We're going to 121 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: decide who we want to replace him. And the leading 122 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: candidates on the Democratic side of the aisle, and really 123 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 1: all of them except for Via Ragosa and Matt Mayhan, 124 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: are only talking about Donald Trump, and they're only talking 125 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: about federal issues. They're not talking about the bullet train, 126 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: they're not talking about our insurance crisis. They're not talking 127 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: about homelessness or crime, or the budget being upside down 128 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: or any of that. They're only talking about Donald Trump. 129 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: They are fixated on federal issues, and they believe that 130 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: voters just don't care about state and local issues right now. 131 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: The only thing that Democratic voters, in particular, because that's 132 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: who you're talking about when you're talking about the California electorate, 133 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: the only thing they care about right now is Trump, Trump, Trump. 134 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,119 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. I mean, the reason they're all doing 135 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 4: it is because that's the truth. They don't Democratic voters, 136 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 4: I mean, to a large degree, even in a way 137 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 4: that Republicans aren't under Under Obama, Democratic voters have lost 138 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 4: their minds right now, Like there's something fundamentally broken with them. 139 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 4: And it's a longer psychological thing where they were told 140 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 4: forever that this was just a fever dream that would 141 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 4: eventually go away. The walls were endlessly closing in, and 142 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 4: he was really an incompetent boob who who was not 143 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 4: actually good, just immensely lucky at politics, And it turns 144 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 4: out he's actually possibly the most you know, incredible politician 145 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 4: in living memory, if not the most, he's in the 146 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 4: top five. Right, So they they they're it's I always 147 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 4: say the same thing. It's like when imagine two thousand 148 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 4: years ago a rabbi walking down the street seeing Jesus 149 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 4: Christ come alive and saying, wait, this is confronting all 150 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 4: my deepest, inmost beliefs. So they're having they're having an 151 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 4: existential crisis, and they're the only thing that motivates them 152 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 4: to wake up to move in the morning is the 153 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 4: hatred of Donald Trump. That's that's that's why they're doing it. 154 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 4: And it's happened, by the way, in Virginia right now, 155 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 4: that's the entire referendum over getting new districts. It's all 156 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 4: about the hatred of Donald Trump. That's what That's what 157 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 4: a lot of places are experiencing. And how much you 158 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 4: can you know, how can you how can you fight Trump? 159 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 4: Which actually makes twenty twenty very interesting. What do you 160 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 4: do when you take away their identity as far as 161 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 4: what are they? I mean, what is the Democrats about Trump? 162 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 4: Trump has done more and as an as much to 163 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 4: identify and to create an identity for Democrats as he 164 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 4: has for. 165 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: Republicans, Well, this is going to be the death of 166 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: local government in blue states if you are, let's say, 167 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: on the water board and you run on the platform 168 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: with hating Donald Trump, or you're on the school board 169 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: or the city council or the state legislature, whatever, when 170 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: your job has nothing to do with the president or 171 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: the federal government or federal policy, and that's what you 172 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: spend your time on, and that's what you think about, 173 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: and that's what you care about, and you could care 174 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: less about the subjects that you actually have some degree 175 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: of influence over. I don't know how you make the 176 00:09:58,200 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: trains run on time. 177 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 4: I really don't, no offense, the California has not been 178 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 4: known to make the trains were on time for a 179 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 4: very long time. Now the trains aren't even being built 180 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 4: right now. So uh yeah, it is of concern. And 181 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 4: that's why I mean, my my former governor Kathy Opal, 182 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 4: you know, she's still the governor of New York State. 183 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 4: She said, she said, it's up to the compassion of 184 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 4: wealthy people to move back to our state so that 185 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 4: way they could pay the high taxes, Like we need 186 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 4: you to move back. You all can't leave Like this 187 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 4: is enough's enough, you know, I'm sure Florida is nice, 188 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 4: but time to come home. And because the state's going 189 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 4: to fall into into a into a pit, I mean, 190 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 4: New York City in the next couple of weeks is 191 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 4: likely to degrade to their credit rating based upon expectations. 192 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: So how how do you govern? 193 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 4: I mean, how how do you when when everything is 194 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 4: monopoly money and you're all living in fairyland and a 195 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 4: big part of your identity is just hating, uh, the 196 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 4: big orange man in the sky. What is your were 197 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 4: in the White House? What is your what is what 198 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 4: is the purpose of the local government? I don't know. 199 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 4: And the problem is, the scariest thing is after you know, 200 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 4: Karen Bass has completely burned half of Los Angeles to 201 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 4: the ground her, the alternative is, you know, is likely 202 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 4: far worse. You know, you could always I'll say it 203 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 4: when my when my, when Jeb Bush is running for president. 204 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 4: My brother was a big supporter, and he always said, 205 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 4: we could do a lot worse than Jeb Bush, and 206 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 4: probably will, And that was that is my mentality. And 207 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 4: now for most quote unquote centric Democrats running for office, 208 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 4: who seemed like they're farther progressives. 209 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: You know, It's funny. If you go back to the seventies, 210 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: there were books written, I think Dick Morris wrote one 211 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: and others about big cities just becoming ungovernable, where the 212 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: crime was just out of control. The unions were calling 213 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: all the shots, they were dirty, there were problems that 214 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: they thought just couldn't be fixed. And then we found 215 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: out with people like Rudy Giuliani and Dick Reardon and 216 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: strong mayors in big cities, Oh yeah, we could fix 217 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: these cities. It's just you need the right personality in 218 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: the job. And I think we're headed to a place. 219 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: You mentioned New York, you mentioned Virginia. I'm talking about 220 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: California because that's where we are here. But we're headed 221 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: to a place where I think those conversations are going 222 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: to happen about big blue states. Can you govern these 223 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: places anymore? Because I feel like the electorate in California 224 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: it's like a dog that wants to run into traffic, 225 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: and those remaining Republicans who are here, we're trying to 226 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: keep the dog from running into traffic, and all the 227 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 1: dog wants to do is ban the leash, and that's 228 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: what we're left with. 229 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, and here's The problem is that one. I mean 230 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 4: back in the seventies, there wasn't I mean, it wasn't 231 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 4: as prevalent air conditioning and quality of living in Red States. 232 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 4: So the idea of moving to Georgia was not something 233 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 4: you particularly want to do unless you were incredibly wealthy 234 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 4: to live on a golf course. That's not the situation 235 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six anymore. You 236 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 4: can it's perfectly fine. You can take your job with you. 237 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 4: You can move everything on the internet. 238 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: Do you. 239 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 4: Wall Street can go out and move to Dallas or 240 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 4: move to Miami or Palm Beach, doesn't matter nothing. Look 241 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 4: at Hollywood. I mean, whoever thought that Hollywood move out 242 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 4: of California? But it has. I mean the Hollywood and 243 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 4: Los Angeles is Detroit with the Hill. I mean, more 244 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 4: or less. That's what we're looking at when it comes 245 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 4: to some of these big places. And unless they unless 246 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 4: the electric either does it themselves, which I don't think 247 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 4: is likely, or I think the most likely case, the 248 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 4: most likely sing they are for these states is that 249 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 4: they go bankrupt. And what happens is when they go 250 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 4: bank when they're unfunded, liability as far exceed any kind 251 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 4: of hope for tax dollars is they'll demand a federal bailout. 252 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 4: And you better hope that are Republicans in the in 253 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 4: the White House when that happens, otherwise it's going to 254 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 4: be complete may. But if I mean, I think, I 255 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 4: think before California or New York, it's going to happen 256 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 4: to Illinois first. Illinois is truly up the up the 257 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 4: river without a paddle. 258 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 2: And a half. 259 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: How long do you think they have before it really 260 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: hits the fan? 261 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 4: Uh? I mean, it's it's it's been circling the drain 262 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 4: for some time. I remember when I was a beat reporter. 263 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 4: This is in twenty seventeen. I remember a story of 264 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 4: a man winning the lottery in the state lottery, going 265 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 4: up to work, cursing out his boss, saying, I'm done. 266 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 4: You know, I'm free now at one whatever. It was 267 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 4: a few million dollars, and he went to go collect 268 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 4: his winnings and the state lottery board said that he 269 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 4: didn't have the money to cover it and he has 270 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 4: to wait for a few years. I mean, that's what 271 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 4: you know. You're in bad shape. That's pretty bad. 272 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I know. You spend a lot of 273 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: time on your podcast and in your your amazing newsletter 274 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: talking about population patterns where people are moving to They're 275 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: moving out as blue states, they're moving to red states. 276 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: You you spend a lot of time analyzing that. But 277 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: I'll tell you here in California, there's also been a 278 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: lot of movement within the state where you've seen people 279 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: leaving areas like Los Angeles County, Alameda County, San Francisco County. 280 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: They're going to Orange County, they're going to the Central Valley, 281 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: they're going to the Inland Empire. But I was just 282 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: reading something earlier this week that even within Los Angeles County, 283 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: you've seen population shifts where people are moving out of 284 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: city centers. They're moving away from let's say downtown LA 285 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: or mid Wiltshire, Hollywood, areas that are around all the 286 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: fun stuff, and they're moving to areas that are essentially 287 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: in fire zones. They're moving to the base of the 288 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: San Gabriel Mountains, they're moving out to the San Fernando Valley. 289 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: They're moving to places that are more remote, even though 290 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: they're still within Los Angeles County. But the population, the 291 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: number of people living in fire zones in California is 292 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: worse today that it was a couple of years ago 293 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: when they're trying to incentivize us not to move into 294 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: those areas, but to move into areas where they have 295 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: transportation corridors and those sorts of things. But people feel 296 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: safer dealing with the fires than they do dealing with 297 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: the big city governments. 298 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 4: Well, I mean, because what are you more likely to 299 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 4: get a response from a fire or a drunken homeless 300 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 4: man screaming at you on your day to day life. 301 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 4: I mean, even if they didn't attack you, just the 302 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 4: quality of life is as much higher, and the chances 303 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 4: of you having a fire that burns your house down 304 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 4: versus just a random homeless person who screams at you 305 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 4: is much lower. I mean, truth be told. I mean, yes, 306 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 4: where the how catastrophic it be is pretty terrible, but 307 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 4: your overall day to day quality of life is much higher, 308 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 4: and they can't. The problem is is that a lot 309 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 4: of these places California, New York, you know, Portland, Seattle, 310 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 4: have become Chicago, have become hubs for or they called 311 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 4: the sponge effect. That's what it's actual term. It's called 312 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 4: the sponge effects and basically is When populations are decreasing 313 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 4: across areas, populations with like enticing populations will will still increase. 314 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 4: So like for example, Tokyo is still increasing despite the 315 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 4: population Japan polling. And the reason that that and what 316 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 4: does what has happened politically in the United States is 317 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 4: that we have the sponge effects for politics. So if 318 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 4: you will have forty five genders and you have blue hair, 319 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 4: and you want to stream about Donald Trump all day, 320 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 4: you're very inclined to go move to Brooklyn or part 321 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 4: of you know, Silver Lake, California, or or Los Angeles, whatever, 322 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 4: there's there's a neighborhood for you there. So that population 323 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 4: that elected religion Redigiliani and other red state mayor red 324 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 4: city red city mayors of blue cities back in the nineties, 325 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 4: that fundamentally saved an ultimate That population has shifted and 326 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 4: who was replaced that population is like the woman from 327 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 4: Ohio who you know, always dreamed of being with you know, 328 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 4: comrades and reliving out the seventies. Like that's the genuine 329 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 4: issue with how to save these cities is we're we're 330 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 4: we are We're grouping the most radical human beings on 331 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 4: the planet all together in the same exact place, and 332 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 4: they are they have the ability to elect you know, 333 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 4: who wants to govern. 334 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: Them, and it's very difficult for people to admit that 335 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 1: they were wrong and change how they vote. People typically 336 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: just don't do that. 337 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, and as also how many people even vote in 338 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 4: local government, it's very small. And now at the same time, 339 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 4: you are having very active, you know, minority populations that 340 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 4: are very that their whole identity is politics. You know, 341 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 4: the the the people who you know, they they think 342 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 4: about hating Donald Trump, or or how many genders there are, 343 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 4: or transing their children morning union night. Politics is everything 344 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 4: to them. They don't have it. They don't now not 345 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 4: thinking about what's on QBC or you know, who's what 346 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 4: the priest of church is saying, it's all politics all 347 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 4: the time. So that's that also makes things more problematic 348 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 4: because the Latino cleaning lady who has two children and 349 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 4: is trying to make ends me, politics is not her everything. 350 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 4: And even though she may be more likely to say, 351 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 4: you know, this isn't working out, I have to go 352 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 4: vote a different way. It's is she going to go 353 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 4: vote at all? Maybe maybe not. But the woman who's 354 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 4: you know, got forty five cats and he thinks Lea 355 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 4: Duvan is a personal hero. Let me tell you all 356 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 4: she's going. 357 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: To do is go vote. 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There 388 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 2: are so many different ways to listen to this show 389 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 2: wherever you are, thanks to streaming and a higher quality 390 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 2: sound than the radio, and you could download all the 391 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 2: podcasts and listen to them whenever you want. As you 392 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 2: mentioned earlier in the show, Randy, there is a Typhus 393 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 2: outbreak in Los Angeles County. Typhus which is a flea 394 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 2: borne disease that comes from rats, and the rats come 395 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 2: from homeless encampments. It's something that in this very time 396 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 2: slot doctor Drew Pinsky warned was going to happen if 397 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 2: we just let the homeless encampments fester. And here we 398 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 2: are as Karen bass is trying to say that homelessness 399 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 2: is down, as La County is trying to say homelessness 400 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 2: is down. The La County Department of Public Health, which 401 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 2: is run by Barbara Ferrer, I have no idea, says 402 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 2: that we are seeing the most amount of typhus that 403 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 2: we have ever seen in the history of Los Angeles. 404 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: The evidence is like crystal clear on that seems about right. 405 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 2: For more on the typhus outbreak, here is Fox eleven 406 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. 407 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 5: Typhus cases are climbing in La County health official. 408 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 2: Phil can't even believe it. 409 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: I'm sure Phil's just as surprised as US. 410 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 5: Health officials say the illness spreads who are infected fleas 411 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 5: and can turn serious POXS eleven and Susan Harris soon 412 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 5: as says what you need to watch. 413 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 2: For avoid the homeless encampments. 414 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: What do you do if a homeless encampment pops up 415 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: right next to your house? 416 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 6: Move rats, apossums and free roaming cats. They get the 417 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 6: blame for a rising number of typhus cases. 418 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 3: No, whenever there is increased nesting spaces for these animals. 419 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: Whenever human behavior changes so that there's more contact with 420 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 3: these animals than the risk will increase. 421 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 2: That is the La County Department of Public Health very 422 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 2: very very kid gloves way to say there's more rats 423 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 2: because of all the homeless encampments and that's where the 424 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 2: typhus came from. 425 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: Why didn't they put Barbara Ferrera out there? 426 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 2: She loves the cameras, you know that, like there's some 427 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 2: new thing where they don't put her in front of 428 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,439 Speaker 2: the camera. Ever. She hasn't done a press conference, she 429 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 2: doesn't do zoom seminars. You barely see her at the 430 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 2: La County Board of Supervisors meetings. They know that the 431 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 2: public do not like her, and they know that if 432 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 2: they put her on the TV, we're going to play 433 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 2: the sound and remind everyone that the not doctor makes 434 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 2: six hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. 435 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 7: And you know. 436 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 1: There's got to be a whole story behind that. 437 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 7: Yeah. 438 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 6: So far in La County there have been two hundred 439 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 6: and twenty reported cases of fleaborne typhus and it's only April. 440 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 6: Two hundred and twenty was the total number of cases 441 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 6: for twenty twenty five. 442 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 2: Okay, so this thing is exploding. 443 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: Now. They made us wear the mask in Los Angeles County, 444 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: long after just about every other jurisdiction was back to normal. 445 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: I wonder what they're going to do about this one. 446 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 6: Two hundred and twenty was the total number of cases 447 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 6: for twenty twenty five. What is fleaborn typhus? Typhus is 448 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 6: a bacteria transmitted by fleas. The advice is to give 449 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 6: flea medication to pets and take measures to keep the 450 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 6: feral animals away. 451 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 2: What about the feral people? That's the problem, a. 452 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 3: Wide contact with free roaming animals. So to make sure 453 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,959 Speaker 3: that there is no food that we're living outside. Make 454 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 3: sure that the vegetation around our homes is streaming. 455 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 2: What if it's piles of garbage and piles of discarded 456 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 2: food that the rats are eating because we allow garbage 457 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 2: to pile up on the street. How about the palletts 458 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 2: and pallets and pallets of fruit that are dumped every 459 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 2: single day in the produce district. 460 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 1: That the government won't allow us to do anything about. 461 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 3: Be sure that the vegetation around our homes is trimmed. Ea, 462 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 3: sure there is no trash where rats can come and nest. 463 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 2: Oh that's an interesting one. The La County Department of 464 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 2: Public Health saying that we shouldn't have piles of trash. 465 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: Okay, then clear out all of the encampments. 466 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 3: I have a hard time understanding. Logic, Oh, we know, baby, 467 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 3: am sure there is no trash where rats can come 468 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 3: and nest. 469 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 6: Doctor Halai wouldn't be specific about the hot zones for typhus. 470 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 2: We know where they are. But of course the La 471 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 2: County Department of Public Health isn't going to just straight 472 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 2: up say this is because of the homeless. 473 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: Nope, so they have to be real nebulous. 474 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 6: I have a hard time understanding doctor Halai wouldn't be 475 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 6: specific about the hot zones for typhus. 476 00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 8: It puts us on high a look. 477 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 6: Salesforce Mission knows conditions like these can put the homeless 478 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 6: at risk. Rowan van Sleeve relies on the Public Health 479 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 6: Department to alert him if there's typhus here. Even without 480 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,919 Speaker 6: a warning, the LA Mission takes steps to keep the 481 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 6: disease away, so. 482 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 8: We're not able to remove the pets. Rather, we take 483 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 8: a different approach. We engage with veterinarians to come on 484 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 8: site and provide pet care for the animals, making sure 485 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 8: we can maintaine hygiene and health. 486 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 6: How do you know if you contracted typhus? Unfortunately, the 487 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 6: symptoms are flu. 488 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 3: Like, which is why prevention is so important. 489 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 2: Ray, prevention would be great, but that means we'd have 490 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 2: to get rid of all the encampments. 491 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: And they don't want to do that because it's a 492 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: social justice thing, which is why. 493 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 3: Prevention is so important. 494 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 5: Ray. 495 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 3: But yes, those are very non specific. They can progress 496 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 3: to severe diseases. It's very important that if you have 497 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 3: those symptoms, if you have risk factors, go to your doctor. 498 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 6: And because of those vague symptoms, typhus fever is often misdiagnosed. 499 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,439 Speaker 6: That's why the advice is to tell your doctor about 500 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 6: the possibility. 501 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 2: So there you go. Typhus is exploding in Los Angeles 502 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 2: County as Karen Bess, running for reelection, is trying to 503 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 2: say that homelessness is way down under her watch. It's 504 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 2: not a namsey pamsy thing. 505 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: And I love the fact that the follow of the 506 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 1: science crowd is bending over backwards to not tell us 507 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: that this is a homeless problem. Next side, well, Randy, 508 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: we also have an update speaking of the homeless, on 509 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: the homeless who were living in the river. 510 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 2: Matthew Seedorf has been breaking story after story after story, 511 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 2: whether it was the woman living in the sewer drain 512 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,199 Speaker 2: in that tragic story, the people living outside of the 513 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 2: post office of MacArthur Park, or earlier this week when 514 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,199 Speaker 2: he went to the La River near Griffith Park and 515 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 2: showed people living in tents and doing drugs, and at 516 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 2: the time, Nythia Rahman puts out a comment because this 517 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 2: is her diss the same Nythia Rahman that's running for mayor, 518 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 2: saying well, these are really hard to reach areas for 519 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 2: us to help these people. Well, one of the people 520 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 2: that was in Matthew Sedorf's report three days ago was 521 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 2: found dead from an overdose. Who could see that coming 522 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 2: for mar Here's Fox eleven and Matthew Seedor. 523 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 5: Follow up to a story you saw first on Fox eleven, 524 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 5: A deadly turn along the La River. 525 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 2: Just days after our first. 526 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 5: Report, a homeless person is found lifeless, possibly from an overdose. 527 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 5: Fox eleven's Matthew Seedorf back near Griffith Park tonight with 528 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 5: the latest. 529 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 7: An urgent investigation and a homeless encampment along the La River. 530 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 7: A man found dead in his ten near Griffith Park 531 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 7: Thursday morning, just three days after our first report here 532 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 7: highlighting drug and safety concerns. 533 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 2: So you can't even say, oh, we didn't know there 534 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 2: was anybody there. It was on the TV. The city, 535 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 2: including the city council woman who's running for mayor, doesn't 536 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 2: act with any kind of urgency and now someone's dead. 537 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: No, their position is the compassionate take is to let 538 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: them die. 539 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 7: Just three days after our first report here highlighting drug 540 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 7: and safety concerns. 541 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 9: I felt sick to his stomach. 542 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 7: I feel angry, an advocate says. The man known as 543 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 7: Venezuela was in his thirties, that was his name. 544 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: I wonder if he's been following the news down there. 545 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 7: An advocate says. The man known as Venezuela was in 546 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 7: his thirties, seen here just days ago, meeting with outreach teams. 547 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 2: I think, let me guess he turned down the help. 548 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: I wonder if Babs gave him any drug paraphernalia. 549 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 2: Oh probably, Oh you don't want us to treat your addiction? Okay? 550 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,719 Speaker 2: Would you like some meth pipes and needles? 551 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 4: No? 552 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 9: Thank you, Captain drugs and in a very dangerous position, 553 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 9: he had no guidance, he had no roof over his head, 554 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 9: he had no staff, no one looking out after him. 555 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 7: The same conditions still here, needles drug here Finilia, with 556 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 7: people living in tents and storm drains. 557 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 4: How long have you been. 558 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 3: Out here on the river? 559 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: About thirty years for men. 560 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 2: That guy's been on the river for ten years. 561 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: That's a long time to be on the river. 562 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 7: For Mannie, this is a long you know. 563 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 2: I used to ride my bike on this path. It's 564 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 2: the it's the weirdest bike path. It's the La River 565 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,239 Speaker 2: bike path. So you're in between the freeway and the 566 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 2: pit that they call a river. And I had to 567 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 2: stop riding my bike because my tires kept popping because 568 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 2: the pavement was covered in broken glass. 569 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: Wasn't there a skit on S and L about the 570 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: guy who lived in a van down by the river? 571 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 2: Yes there was. Matt Foley was his name. 572 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 7: For Minnie, this is a long time home. They're not 573 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 7: looking to leave. I mean, would you want help and 574 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 7: resources and to get out of this? 575 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 3: But I would let somebody ask to be. 576 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 7: On the river across Ellie. 577 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,479 Speaker 2: I would love to get a better place, but it 578 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: has to be on the river. I want riverfront property. Wow, 579 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 2: even our homeless are boogie. You know, you just need 580 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 2: to sometimes go to a place like New Bromfels, Texas, 581 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 2: where they have the CoML River, which is an incredible 582 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 2: tourist destination where people can get condos that are right 583 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 2: there on the water, they can tube, they can drink. 584 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 2: And then you look at what happens at the La River, which, 585 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 2: by the way, we spent millions of dollars to revitalize 586 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 2: and it still is a dump. 587 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: Want to go kayaking? 588 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 7: Across La County? More than six homeless people die every day. 589 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 7: This man the latest victim. 590 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 2: And by the way, if you're ever wondering why when 591 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 2: it rains you see on the news channels like Fox 592 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 2: eleven the LAFD with their swift water rescue helicopters, it's 593 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 2: because people live in the river. 594 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 7: Earlier this week, we asked councilwoman and mayorial candidate Nathia 595 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 7: Rahman about conditions here. She said the area is difficult 596 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 7: to clear with steep slopes and hard to reach coverts. 597 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 2: You know, it's easy for them to pitch a tent 598 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 2: up there, but it's hard for our outreach people to 599 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 2: get in there. 600 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: We'd like to help them, but it's really hard. 601 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 2: The terrain was just too steep. It's unbelievable that she 602 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 2: thinks she can run for mayor and. 603 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 7: Hard to reach coverts. 604 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 4: Tide. 605 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 7: She calls this death a devastating loss, adding no one 606 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 7: deserves to die on our streets. We have the funding, 607 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 7: we need the political will. 608 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 2: You're in charge of this district now. 609 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: Whatever they fail to act and something bad happens, they 610 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: always pretend like they have no power and they're just 611 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: writing letters to the editor to the La Times. 612 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 2: The City of LA's charter is structured in a way 613 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 2: that we have a weak mayor and a strong city council. 614 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 2: Each one of the fifteen members of the city Council 615 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 2: are a de facto many mayor of their discs. If 616 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 2: she wanted that encampment cleaned up, she could have had 617 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,719 Speaker 2: it cleaned up, and she knew it was there because 618 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 2: Matthew Sedorf did the story and asked for her comment 619 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 2: on it three days ago. 620 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 7: To get it out the door, to connect people to 621 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 7: the services and housing that can save lives. Hours after 622 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 7: his death, some walk away with items he left behind. 623 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, isn't that a pretty picture. When the homeless 624 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 2: person in the tent overdoses. The other homeless in the 625 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 2: encampment steal all his belongings. 626 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: Classy hours after. 627 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 7: His death, some walk away with items he left behind, 628 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 7: a stark reminder of how quickly life out here can 629 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 7: turn deadly. 630 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 9: Living in the bushes on the side of the La 631 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 9: River is not a productive life, nor is it continuing 632 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 9: to do drugs while you've been housed in housing first places, 633 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 9: people continue to do drugs and die in those. 634 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 2: All of this stems from when we decided that we 635 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 2: were going to allow people to just do the drugs, 636 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 2: and that was Prop. Forty seven. That's when we emptied 637 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 2: out the prisons. We stopped putting people in prison for 638 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 2: doing things like heroin and meth and what eventually became fentanyl. 639 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 2: And now that's why we have seven to eight people 640 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 2: a day, Yeah, seven to eight people every week dying 641 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:21,879 Speaker 2: on our streets. 642 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: And just think about the combination of decriminalizing drugs at 643 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: the same time that you're giving them all of the 644 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: paraphernalia and you're saying that that's what the science says 645 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 1: you should do. 646 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 7: Another homeless person died along the same stretch of river 647 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 7: roughly three weeks ago. Some are wondering if it could 648 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,720 Speaker 7: be connected, possibly to the same drugs reporting at Griffith 649 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,320 Speaker 7: Park Matthew sied or Fox eleven News. 650 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 2: There you go, Nithia for mayor everybody. 651 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: Here were the Gavin Newsom update. Mister Randy Wang. 652 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 2: I just saw this on the This is Gavin Newsome 653 00:34:55,239 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 2: Instagram account that I follow for work reasons. This is 654 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom. The Gavin Newsom podcast was nominated for a 655 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,520 Speaker 2: Webby Award, And if you want to vote for This 656 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 2: is Gavin Newsom as the best Video podcast Host, you 657 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 2: can go to the Webby Awards and you can vote. 658 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 2: Or if you don't think Gavin Newsom is the best 659 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,759 Speaker 2: video podcast host, you can vote for any of the 660 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 2: other candidates. 661 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 1: He is so pathetic. 662 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,520 Speaker 2: Who's he gonna think when he if he wins this thing? 663 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: Well? Who is his first guest? Charlie Kirk, Yes, it was. 664 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 1: I don't know. 665 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,239 Speaker 2: I'm trying to see if I could figure out who 666 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 2: he's up against. All right, Gavin is up against Katie 667 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,399 Speaker 2: kurrk Kiky Palmer, Amy Poehler. H Amy Poehler is gonna win. 668 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 2: Monica Lewinsky. Wait, Monica Lewinsky has a podcast. Actually, now 669 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 2: that I'm looking on this category, Gavin's not on here. 670 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 1: Wait he nominated himself without actually being nominated by the voters. 671 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 2: So according to his post, he's nominated for best host 672 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,399 Speaker 2: in Podcasts, and I just look through all the candidates. 673 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,359 Speaker 2: I don't see him on here. 674 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: Well, if he's up against Monica Lewinsky, maybe the category 675 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: is best oral History. 676 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 2: Ooh, in best new podcast, you can vote for on 677 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 2: par with Maury Povich? Did I send you that clip 678 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 2: of him it? He hosts it with his wife? 679 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,319 Speaker 1: Wait, how can Maury Polvich host a podcast? How could 680 00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:01,799 Speaker 1: you send kids to I don't know military school over 681 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:02,760 Speaker 1: a podcast? 682 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 2: It's not the thing too. No, he doesn't do that. 683 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,839 Speaker 2: He asks his wife Connie Chung about banging old celebrities 684 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 2: in the fifties. 685 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:17,759 Speaker 1: There's an audience for that. 686 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 2: Apparently there's an audience for everything. But I still am 687 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,439 Speaker 2: having a hard time finding. Oh, maybe it's her best 688 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 2: video podcast host? Is it here? 689 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:30,240 Speaker 1: Nope? 690 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 2: No, Gavin. No, I do not know where Gavin is 691 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 2: actually nominated. And it's very possible that Gavin is not nominated, 692 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,480 Speaker 2: but said he's nominated. Maybe he's running a write in 693 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:48,840 Speaker 2: campaign podcast. Maybe it's best video podcast host. Let's see. Okay, 694 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:54,200 Speaker 2: the candidates for best Video Podcast Host Don Lemon or 695 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,240 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom. 696 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:57,600 Speaker 1: It's only two of them. 697 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,520 Speaker 2: Well, there's a few others that I have ever heard 698 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:01,080 Speaker 2: of before. 699 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 1: How come Lewinsky isn't in that category. 700 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:09,279 Speaker 2: He's up against in the Test Kitchen or Take Your 701 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,440 Speaker 2: Shoes Off with Rick Glassman. There are way too many podcasts. 702 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 1: All right, that's it for us this week. We'll be 703 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,920 Speaker 1: back on Monday at noon for another edition of The 704 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:20,919 Speaker 1: John Phillips Show.