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Well years ago I have fifteen. 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: I don't know how many. I guess people were tired 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: of the legislature not putting together a budget by June thirtieth. 13 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: The fiscal year begins in July one. It would drag 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: on because they were trying to raise taxes, they couldn't 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: always get votes and blah blah blah. So eventually they 16 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: were forced to pass or at least come up with 17 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: a budget by June fifteenth and then pass it by 18 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: the end of the month. Well they did that in 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: the States Senate, an assembly which is greatly controlled by Democrats, 20 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: so it's not hard to strike some sort of the deal. 21 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: The deadline would be tomorrow, but apparently was announced last 22 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 1: night that they had reached a preliminary state budget plan, 23 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: which they have to mesh with Newsom and come up 24 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: with the final budget. More than three hundred billion dollars. 25 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: Is this massive state budget, however, but they don't have 26 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: in it is anything specific dealing with gas price relief 27 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: for people gas rebates. They call it consider even though 28 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: both the legislature and the governor have talked about some 29 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,199 Speaker 1: idea for giving people gas. We have the highest gas 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: taxes in the country by far. One of the main 31 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: reasons that our gas goes for about a buck fifty 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: more than the national average is that we have about 33 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: a dollar twenty five's worth of taxes. So they should 34 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: return our money back to us because they have one 35 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars in a surplus. It's money they can't spend. Yeah, 36 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: so I don't understand this. In fact, a really galling 37 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: comment is by the Senate President Tony Atkins. She's from 38 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: San Diego, and she put out a statement with the 39 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: Assembly Speaker Anthony Rindaon from Lakewood. Listen to this. Today 40 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: the Senate and the Assembly passed a budget that put 41 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: California's wealth to work for individual's, families and businesses. We 42 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: California's wealth, that's our wealth, that's our money that we made. 43 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: What do you mean you're putting it to work? No, No, 44 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: we get to put our wealth to work, to feed 45 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: our families, to pay for the shelter. I'm gonna bring 46 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 1: on the vice chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee's Assemblyman 47 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: Vince Fong, the Republican from Bakersfield, who was quoted here 48 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: by saying, the average family in California is paying over 49 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars more for the same amount of goods 50 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: is last year, and gas prices are crushing family budgets. 51 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: Let's get them on dancer. You there, I'm here. How 52 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: are you guys doing right? Well, we're fine, but I'm 53 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: pissed off about this. This this idea that they you 54 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,119 Speaker 1: should be, everyone should be, this attitude that they yet 55 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: to put California's wealth to work. Nobody asked them. That's 56 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: that's my wealth, your wealth, all of our listeners, it's 57 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: their wealth and we need the money. Well, that's exactly right. 58 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: The fact that there's one hundred billion dollars in surplus 59 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: in California is the fact that Californians are overtaxed, and 60 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: this is their money, it's your money, it's the hard 61 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: working dollars of Californians. It's not Sacramento's money. And we 62 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: should be returning that money back to the people. So 63 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: what's happening with the budget? I've always said the budget 64 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: is one of the most important documents we produce as 65 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: as as a state. But what happened yesterday. Dan Walter 66 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: has called it a sham budget. Um, it's incomplete. There's 67 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: no details, what's or not when in regards to to 68 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: gas tax price relief, when it comes to wildfire prevention, 69 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: when it comes to water stores. There are a lot 70 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: of open questions, um when it comes to this. So 71 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: it's it's a project, a broad statement without details exactly 72 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 1: exactly what I mean. Look at California is in crisis. 73 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: We're defined by crises like with a wildfire season, the 74 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: never ends, a massive drought um that we're currently in. 75 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: You know, your your listeners are being mandated now by 76 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: by and by their local water agencies to to not 77 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: water their lawns. Um. And what is the governor doing? 78 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: What is the what is the what are the Democrats 79 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: doing in legislature. They can they can be acting on 80 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: all these crises by by investing in water stores, by 81 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: doing vegetation management, by giving tax relief, not only when 82 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: it comes to gas prices, but let's give permanent tax relief. 83 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 1: Let's lower the the the income tax on on California, 84 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: so the lower the taxes on businesses. Let's keep people 85 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: in California. But none of that is in this budget. 86 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: Why won't they budge on some kind of gas tax relief? 87 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: What They've got so much money, They've got too much money. 88 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: They're actually getting forced by law to give back some 89 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: of it. Well, what is it to I mean, every 90 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: every every politician is looking away for way out of 91 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: this inflation gas price vice that they're in around the country. 92 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: Except here in California. They will not give an inch. 93 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: You know. It's one of those mysteries. I mean, certainly 94 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: the governor and Democrats in the legislure, they have their 95 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: agenda and they don't want people in cars. They don't 96 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: want people driving um you know, and so they've got 97 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: they they create the most complicated way to give relief back. 98 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: So the governor wants to let the DMV give information 99 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: to a third party vendor to give debit cards to Californians. 100 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: And it's like he's never learned the lessons from the 101 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: pandemic with the Employment Development Department and the EDD. When 102 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: you send a bunch of debot cards out, there's going 103 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 1: to be fraud. And then the Democrats in the legislature 104 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: they want to use the Franchise Tax Board and they 105 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: have this complicated formula and they want to do um. 106 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: You know, they want to provide relief that way, but 107 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 1: two hundred dollars per per tax per person including dependents um. 108 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: And of course all of them say they want immediate relief. 109 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: They want they want to give relief the fastest way possible. Well, 110 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: the fastest way possible is to suspend the gas tax 111 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: and let's give immediate relief. And that's the fastest way 112 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: to do it. But the Democrats' debating immediate relief for 113 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: six months, they have this has gone on only year. 114 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: The gas tax suspension has bipartisan agreement. There are Democrats 115 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 1: and Republicans now that say we need to have a 116 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: suspension of the gas sex for a year to provide 117 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: immediate relief as fast as possible, to to to drivers 118 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 1: in California, they're the ones paying the highest price. Now, 119 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: everything is getting more expensive in California. As you indicate before, 120 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: the average family is paying eight thousand, four hundred and 121 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: twenty five dollars more for the same amount of goods 122 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: as last year. So the inflation, that affordability crisis inflation 123 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: is real and the Democrats need to look in the mirror. 124 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,679 Speaker 1: Why is everything getting more expensive in California. It's because 125 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: of the laws and the and the regulations of the 126 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: mandates that the Democrats are passing. But they have no 127 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: fear of getting voted out of power, do they. Well, 128 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: it's all changing. I think if you look at the 129 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: results from from the primary election on Tuesday, I mean, 130 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: the people are waking up. Republicans did very well. You know, 131 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: it's it's we're in halftime. We now are working toward November. 132 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: But I think that independence uh, moderate Democrats, um, the Republicans, 133 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: they're saying, this is not the direction we want the 134 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: state to go in, and we're going to change directions 135 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: for starters. Do you think there's a chance that the 136 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: Democrats could at least lose their two thirds majority, which 137 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: would make it more difficult for them to pass any 138 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: more tax increases. It could. It will be very close, 139 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: I think it. I mean, the power rests with the people, 140 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: and I think we've got a lot of great candidates 141 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: that are running for office, and I think we're going 142 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: to come close. But you know, that's what we need 143 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: to do. That's what we need to get the message 144 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: out there that look, the reason why California is in 145 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: the mess that it's in is because of the people 146 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: in charge. And if you want to change the direction 147 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: of California, you have to replace them. You need. It's 148 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: really I mean a great example of this is you 149 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: mentioned they won't suspend the gas tax. In fact, news 150 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: mentioned in January he wanted to stop the scheduled increase 151 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: it's coming July first. But they won't even do that. Yeah, 152 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: July first, the gas tax is going to go up again. 153 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: I mean, that's how tone deaf the Democrats aren't Sacramento. 154 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: They're going to allow the the gas tax to go up. 155 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: I mean they're speaking out of both sides of the mouth. 156 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: On the one end, they want to say they're concerned 157 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 1: about rising prices and gas prices on the other end, 158 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: when when you look at the action not the rhetoric. 159 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: Look at what they're doing. They're allowing the gas tax 160 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: to go up July first. Can you imagine California is 161 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: going to be the only state in the Union that's 162 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: going to increase the gas tax in doing this horrible 163 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 1: run up in prices. Yeah, that's boy. I'd like I'd 164 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: like to see if the idiots in the news media 165 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: highlight that make that a big headline. Well, the governor 166 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,199 Speaker 1: is saying that doesn't it doesn't work, but other states 167 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: have done it. That's why everyone's seeing through the noise 168 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: and seeing through his rhetoric because it's been done. Yeah, 169 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: of course, I mean he's saying lowering prices doesn't lower prices. 170 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: I obscene. It just absurd logic. All right, Vince, thanks 171 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: for coming on. It's good talking with you again. Thank 172 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: you for having me. Yeah, Vince Fong, Republican from Bakersfield. 173 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: On whatever they're doing in Sacramento to give people gas 174 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: price relief, which right now is nothing more. Coming up, 175 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: John and Kent Cafi, Well, coming up after the news 176 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 1: at three thirty. It'll take years, in years to sort 177 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: through all the truth about the coronavirus. But there's one 178 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: thing that's popping up already, that was talked about even 179 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,839 Speaker 1: two years ago as a consequence of lockdowns. We'll get 180 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: into it after the news at three thirty. We're talking 181 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: about the state budget, the massive three hundred billion dollars 182 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: spending plan that the legislature in Sacramento, completely overrun by Democrats, 183 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: has agreed to. And now they just have to match 184 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: it up with Newsom's budget and that's when it will 185 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 1: become a budget long and you know, about twelve years 186 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: ago the budget was one hundred billion. Somehow in twelve 187 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: years they meant from one hundred billion to three hundred billion. 188 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 1: They've got another one hundred billion in excess surplus sitting 189 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: on the sidelines. And they will not give us tax rebates. 190 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: They won't cut any of the taxes, specifically the gas tax, 191 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: even though it's by far the highest in the country. 192 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: But let's tell you what they are spending time on. 193 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: They want to expand the state's medical healthcare program to 194 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: all income eligible Californians, regardless of immigration standing. So illegal 195 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: aliens get the prize in the budget. They you know, 196 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: they're one and a half billion for the homeless. How 197 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: many times have we talked about the billions spent on 198 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: the home nose. Do you know what the three broadly 199 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: described as immediate housing solutions for individuals experiencing homelessness and 200 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,959 Speaker 1: mental illness? Immediate again, housing first is a failure, all right. 201 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: The three constituencies that these Sacramento Democrats fight for and 202 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: fund are illegal aliens, homeless people, and prisoners. No, that's true, 203 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: is don't yeah? And the rest a lot of their time. 204 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,479 Speaker 1: The rest of us we could all go screw ourselves 205 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: were we do nothing but to go to work and 206 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: hand over large gobs of money to them every day 207 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: and then and then they lecture us on how they're 208 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: putting California's wealth to work. Carry them out news. Oh man, 209 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: we gotta bring that back heads on a stick. Feel 210 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: like Biden. I want to pop somebody. It's no joke, 211 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: no joke. I want to pop somebody. So now we 212 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: have a state senator by the name of Dave Cortez. 213 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: Never heard him before. Well, he represents Silicon Valley. He's 214 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 1: got a bill you talk about micromanaging one of the 215 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: groups you just mentioned. By the way, John, do you 216 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: have a guess which one it is? You mentioned three 217 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: groups they focus on is it the convicts, though, it's 218 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 1: the homeless homeless. But he's focusing on homeless high school graduates, 219 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: and I'm like what. He claims that there is fifteen 220 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: thousand unhoused high school seniors, so he wants to give 221 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: them universal basic income. This I'm not making this up. 222 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: Unhoused high school graduates will get a thousand dollars a 223 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 1: month stipend for five months so that they can enroll 224 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: in college, or start a vocational program, or simply get 225 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: a job. I wasn't aware that there were fifteen thousand unhoused. 226 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: Is that true high school seniors? I don't know. I 227 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: don't know how would you get that number? Who would 228 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: know that? Who's doing a census on unhoused? By the way, 229 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: what does unhoused mean exactly? Does that mean? You know, 230 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: they're living at their uncle's house. That could be because 231 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: you know, dad lost his job and got evicted, so 232 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: they had to move in with other family. That could 233 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: mean that living in a car with somebody, or they 234 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 1: having a very Because I've heard this some of the 235 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: politicians and advocates, they have a very elastic definition of 236 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 1: what homeless is. To me, if you're a face down 237 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk or in a tent, and they start 238 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: talking about people who simply are staying with other family 239 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: and friends, maybe sleeping on somebody's couch. That's not homeless. 240 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: That just means you don't own your place, or you 241 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: don't have a lease for a place. But it doesn't 242 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: mean you don't have shelter and you don't have food. Yeah, 243 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: this one's making its way through the legislature. It hasn't 244 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: been passed yet. The guy behind the bill said, these 245 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: are young people whose families are homeless, like you just mentioned. 246 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: They're not young people wandering the streets without a family. 247 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: This is a generational situation where on the brink as 248 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: they graduate from high school of sending another human being 249 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: into permanent or semi permanent homelessness. And they're going to 250 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: get a thousand dollars a month. That's the plan for 251 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: five months. So there getting five thousand dollars. But that 252 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: is so little. I don't see how that materially makes 253 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: a materially makes a difference. The thinking is that their 254 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: families already get money so that they can use this 255 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: money directly to pay some college tuition or somehow trained 256 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: for some kind of job of college tuition? Could you 257 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: get for a thousand a month community college junior college? 258 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: I don't doubt. And how are they going to tract this? 259 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: How are they gonna keep track of what they're spending 260 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: the money on? What's what's the oversight on this? He 261 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: says that basic income programs that allow recipients to decide 262 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: how best to use the money have a proven track 263 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: record in his Santa Clara County. I want to see 264 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: that proof. I don't trust him. I don't believe him. 265 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: I don't believe he can know that there's fifteen thousand 266 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: out there. I think that's just a made up number 267 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: he pulled out of his rear head. And I don't 268 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: believe there's proof of anything. Why don't you show the proof? 269 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: Why doesn't somebody in the media ask the demand to 270 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: see the proof? You talk about super serving a god 271 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: specific proof homeless eighteen year olds speaking of homeless people. 272 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: Next hour, we're going to have a guest on the 273 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: show to talk about a planned homeless housing development in Venice. 274 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: Yes that Venice the site of many homeless problems over 275 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: the years, part of Mike Bonnen's council district. We're being 276 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: told that it's quite an expensive project, and as we 277 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: know in La we've had reports of some units going 278 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: for as high as eight hundred thousand dollars an apartment. 279 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: We will talk with our guests because apparently the local 280 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: council will vote on this housing project, Adventance Beach. I 281 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: guess it's the La City Council and we'll learn more 282 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: about it coming up after four o'clock. Plus. Oh, they 283 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: have a computer program to predict who's going to be homeless, 284 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: so they can send an ambassador there quickly to keep 285 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: that person from falling into homelessness. And computer prediction program. 286 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: John's if somebody's there to catch them. Exactly. I tripped 287 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: it almost fell into homelessness. Oh what Oh it was 288 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: a big ditch on the side of the road and 289 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: she kept your balance. That's right, just barely, just really close. 290 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: The did sent homeless in it. Yeah, other people had 291 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: fallen in there too. All right, we're coming up. Anybody 292 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: can fall into homelessness, John and Kent Cafi. Hey a 293 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: reminder that the moist line is set to come back 294 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: on Friday during the five o'clock hour, and we're always 295 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: welcome to receiving your comments. You can use that iHeartRadio app. 296 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 1: The little microphone is a way to talk back to 297 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: the show, or you can of course call the toll 298 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: free number one eight seven seven moist eighty six one 299 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 1: eight seven seven six six four seven eight eight six. 300 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 1: Like I was just saying, a few minutes ago, it's 301 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: gonna be years. It could be decades before somebody's able 302 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: to do a complete look back at the wacky world 303 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 1: of coronavirus and actually come up with the right answers 304 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: I might put it, and the complete detailed history of 305 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 1: what the hell happened and how it happened. There's another 306 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: story that's floating around was produced by the Washington Post 307 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: today and it's something that was talked about back in 308 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: twenty twenty which may be showing itself. And that's the 309 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 1: fact that COVID is making flu and other common viruses 310 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: act in unfamiliar ways. To shorten the story, they are 311 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: seeing people coming down with not necessarily COVID, but even 312 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: the common cold, some sort of respiratory viruses, influenza, something 313 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: called tarat influenza. And the possibility is people spent two 314 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 1: years locked down and avoiding each other, and you know 315 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: what that can do to the body. When it comes 316 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: to these types of flues, these types of viruses, you 317 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: don't have any immunity. You see, over time you build 318 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: up immunity, and then the immunity is enhanced by more exposure. 319 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,679 Speaker 1: It's really that simple. That's how it works biologically with 320 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: your body. If you get invader that stimulates your immune 321 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: system will allow it to fight off other invaders. You 322 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: may not even get that sick, but you may be 323 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: exposed to something and it does get into your body, 324 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,360 Speaker 1: but your immune system goes right to work, It recognizes it, 325 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,959 Speaker 1: it attacks it. But now, after two years of not 326 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: even getting that mild exposure, your body now is not 327 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: prepared for any of these invaders. See how that's so? 328 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: This is possibly another consequence of all the obsession with 329 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: locking down and socially separating and keep your distance and 330 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: where are your mask? Right? Did you hear some people 331 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,959 Speaker 1: saying that two years ago, Well I like this, Well 332 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: I haven't gotten any colds, so I'm going to keep 333 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: doing this. Well guess what, someday you may take off 334 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: that mask and you kept yourself so separated from the 335 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 1: world that you may associate with someone that passes on 336 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: something to you. And your body's not prepared, you might 337 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: get several viruses at once, which is what they're fighting 338 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: is happening with some people. There are some people getting right, 339 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 1: several viruses at once. You start to see the children 340 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: because people are really overprotected with children. Oh yeah, your 341 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: your immune system goes to sleep if it's not challenged. 342 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: If it's challenged every day, it remains strong. It's on alert. 343 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: It's always looking for the next bad guy to kill. 344 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: But if they're no bad guys for two years, then 345 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:16,239 Speaker 1: your immune system drifts off exactly right, And I mean 346 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: they're looking at it like kids are getting multiple viruses 347 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: at the same time because they haven't. Their immune systems 348 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 1: just went silent. Right. So, according to one of the 349 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: experts in this story, once people started putting on masks 350 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: and started and started gathering indoors, viruses began circulating out 351 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: of season because population immunity was low, even if other 352 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: conditions for them were not optimal. All of the decisions 353 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: that we made have consequences. You do the best you 354 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 1: have with the information you have, because they're still trying 355 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: to defend this whole idea of lockdowns and social isolation. 356 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: But two years later, there could be some consequences to 357 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: it were leading like these weird viruses to circulate, and 358 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: some of the doctors were kind of baffled by this 359 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: as an example of how this works. You remember you 360 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: were talking earlier, was it yesterday about getting shingles twice? Yes, 361 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: because Justin Bieber apparently got the chicken pox virus reactivated 362 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: and caused some facial paralysis, some weird condition. All right, Well, 363 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: the reason there's more shingles cases these days is because 364 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: before chicken pox vaccines, you were infected as children, and 365 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: then you had natural boosting events throughout your life, rebooting 366 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: their immunity because you made contact with other infected friends 367 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: and then your own children and your children's friends, and 368 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: so even if you had chicken pox, encountering other people 369 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: with chicken pox would boost your own immune system. But 370 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: now that most children are protected with a vaccine, they're 371 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: not providing their parents with those boosts, so the adults 372 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: are vulnerable the virus once again it comes back as shingles. Yeah, 373 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: they're seeing more thirty five to forty year olds get shingles, 374 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: which is rare because it usually happens to older adults, 375 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: people with weakened immune systems. So it's probably what happened 376 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: to me. I probably because I was a teenager when 377 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: I first got shingles, and I must have been exposed 378 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: to somebody. I mean, the chicken pox is virus. It 379 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 1: stays in your body, but it got reactivated through some 380 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: kind of exposure or something like that, which may have 381 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: also happened five years ago when I got a mild case. Right, 382 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: but you don't I don't know. But now now I 383 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: gotta protect by I don't want a third case thanks 384 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: to all this. But this is something they're going to 385 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: have to look at because they're not really sure what's 386 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: going on here. And some of this may be alarmist, 387 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: you know, because they're just talking about how we're seeing 388 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: some strange viruses. They're out of season, or they're ones 389 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: we haven't seen very often coming around. But it's probably 390 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: because they would have just bounced off somebody's immune system 391 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: would have protected them and he wouldn't even have anybody 392 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: come to the hospital. To the doctor, well, the flu 393 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 1: was way down for obvious reasons. But the viruses then 394 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: try to mutate because they want to they want to 395 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: get back in an action, and so they come in 396 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 1: they're hitting people later in the season, and I guess 397 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: they're slightly mutated. Yeah, it says her. Researchers have this 398 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 1: opportunity to figure out whether behavioral changes like stay at 399 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: home orders, masking, and social distancing are responsible when they 400 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: referred to in this articles as viral shifts, in other words, 401 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: that they're seeing these viruses pop up in times of 402 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: the year that they didn't normally see them pop up. 403 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: Because what's happening now is people are starting to get 404 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: back almost one hundred percent to their routines from more 405 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: than two years ago. So they're starting to see some 406 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: of this pop up in people, these weird viruses and illnesses. Yeah, 407 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 1: you still you still see the occasional mask though out there. 408 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: My son went to a ballgame. There was some guy 409 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: with a double mask sitting near him. Oh there's still yeah, 410 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: And I think those are your forever maskers. I don't 411 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: think they'll ever change. They've been traumatized for life, and 412 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: they've concluded, like I said at the beginning of this, 413 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: that well this is good. So I wouldn't even get 414 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 1: a cold, I'll get nothing, I don't get a flu, 415 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: not to worry about coronavirus. I'll just do this forever. 416 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: But you know, if you let your guard down in 417 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: your immune system hasn't been exposed because you're staying away 418 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: from everybody and you're masking everywhere you go. If he 419 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: ever does take it off, you'll have no immune system 420 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: left and he'll get whacked. All right, We got more 421 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: coming up, war coming up on the John and Ken Show. Cafi, Yeah, 422 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: what are the arguments being made by idiots that include 423 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: La City councilman outgoing Councilman Mike Bonnen, is that people 424 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 1: who hang out in Venice. Let's just pick Venice because 425 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: that's going to be the subject of the story next hour. 426 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: They come to the beach, maybe they come from Texas 427 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: or Florida. They're homeless, they camp out, they deserve to 428 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 1: live there. We have to find them housing there. You know, 429 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: Venice Beach westside properties are some of the most expensive 430 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: in the nation. But that doesn't stop these advocates from 431 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 1: saying we're just going to have to find them permanent 432 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: housing where they squatted. They become all of a sudden 433 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: they're fellow Angelinos. They're residents right instant, fellow Angelinos, Like 434 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: how long do you have to squat to earn that title, 435 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: like about five minutes in Venice and Boden's giving you 436 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: a house. There is a project they're proposing in Venice, 437 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: will talk about next hour, which is going to be 438 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: constructed on two city owned parking lots on Venice Boulevard 439 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: between Della and Pacific Avenues and here it comes. The 440 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: cost per unit is estimated at one point two four 441 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: million dollars. This dwarf so city projects. We heard about 442 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: eight hund a thousands of Koreas. We're gonna give a 443 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: homeless person a million dollars plus house four hundred and 444 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: sixty square feet. I think it's more like an apartment 445 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: on a million dollars apartment. Seriously, that's what it called. 446 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: That's absolutely insane. We will have a guest next hour 447 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: to talk about this inning. But the La City Council 448 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: is scheduled to give its approval to the project. Is 449 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: that being paid for by a tax money? It's probably 450 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: coming out of this stupid Yeah, those tax How did 451 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: we go from eight hundred thousands were coming out of hh? 452 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: I don't know which one, but yeah, well we gotta 453 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: find that out. How do we go from eight hundred million, 454 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: which was horrific enough to one eight hundred thousand or 455 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: one point two million, because this is Venice Beach. But 456 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: what a town is the number that you cited. Venice 457 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 1: is mostly a desirable place by the beach. No, no, no, 458 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: it costs more to build on the west side than 459 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't. They don't desert. You earn your way into 460 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: the west side. That's the way it works. You earn 461 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: your way in. You don't. You don't get to stumble 462 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,679 Speaker 1: in with your drug addiction, your needles and your crack 463 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 1: pipes and your bond, and we will reward you with 464 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: a million dollars apartment. Get out of here. I should 465 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: believe this. These stories exist. Whenever you mentioned the crack pipe, 466 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: there it is. He loves playing that sound. What is that? 467 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: Is that a bob or bob? It's a water pipe. 468 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: He plays it for the crack pipe thing, Joe anything, 469 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: some sort of abibing. All right, so we'll get to 470 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: that next hour. All right. This story is a real headshaker. 471 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 1: If you were dining out at a restaurant, okay, and 472 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 1: suddenly somebody shouted, oh my god, that looks like a bat, 473 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: and then somebody handled the bat and started passing it around, 474 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 1: would you handle the bat? No? I asked this because 475 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: apparently it happened. It was an outdoor Malibu area restaurant 476 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: called the Malibu Cafe at Calamigo's Ranch, and the Los 477 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: Angeles County Department of Public Health, where they're not worried 478 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: about coronavirus all the time, is warning people that if 479 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: you were in the restaurant on that date, which apparently 480 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: was June fourth, it was a Saturday, and you possibly 481 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: handled the bat, you might want to see a doctor 482 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,919 Speaker 1: handled the bat. When I saw this story, it's like, 483 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: what do you mean handled the bat? It says according 484 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: to the witnesses, one person, possibly more handled the bat. 485 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: The bat also came in proximity of a group of children. 486 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: I guess they thought it was cool and a novelty, 487 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 1: a bat of all things. I thought bat's got the 488 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: worst publicity in the world the last two years they did. 489 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: It's either the bat. What was the other creature of pangolin? Anglin. 490 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: You're not going to see a pangolin at the Balboot Cafe, 491 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: but a bat, Yes, here is one of the I 492 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: guess one of the people involved in the story. There 493 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: was a bat. We received definitive confirmation of one person 494 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: who handled the bat and may have handed it to 495 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: other people. Plus there were children. There's that the world 496 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: stupidest person. Yes, yeah, because stats are particularly rabbit. They're rabbit. 497 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: It's not even just the virus, it's they're often rabbit. 498 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: In fact, in twenty eighteen, two hundred and twenty five 499 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: cases of animals with rabies, one hundred ninety three were 500 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: from bats in this state. Yeah, listen to this statistic. 501 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, sixty eight rabbit bats were found 502 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,719 Speaker 1: in La County. That's the highest recorded number since they 503 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: started doing this in nineteen sixty one. They started testing 504 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: rats in nineteen sixty one, so it's a particularly time 505 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: for rabbit bats to be floating around LA County. I 506 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,959 Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I think I mentioned this before, but 507 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: somebody in my family got brushed by a bat called 508 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: the doctor. Yeah, but you don't know what you're being 509 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: brushed with. Well, because the story says they have also 510 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: very tiny teeth. You may not even realize exactly, and 511 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: you could get this microscopic little abrasion on its arm. 512 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: And if the bat has rabies, that could easily get 513 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: into the abrasion, and then you have have the most 514 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: horrific death imaginable. This is foaming at the mouth like 515 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: a madman. Yeah, no, it's it's it's really awful, a 516 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: rabies death. And you have to get the shot within 517 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: twenty four hours. When you get a series of shots, 518 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: don't you will? You get four weeks worth of shots, 519 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: but the first one is the big one that stops 520 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: the rabies virus. Dead or you get dead. It's really 521 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: it's like a binary situation. Either the rabies virus gets 522 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 1: killed or you die. And you got twenty four hours 523 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: to get it done. And because we had we talked 524 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: to a doctor about it, and it's like an absolute must. 525 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: Don't say, oh, I don't think so, I don't really know. 526 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: It's like, just get the stupid shot. Yeah. It mentions 527 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: here that initially who people are infecting to get a fever, weakness, head, egge, 528 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: and then that progresses to a tingling sensation, anxiety, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, 529 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: difficulty swallowing, coma, and death. There you go, there's your 530 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: there's your route to the end. But again I asked 531 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: the same question you did, why would anybody go near 532 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: a bat? I don't know what kind of I can't 533 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: explain human. I know the children are attracted to interesting 534 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: and novel creatures. I understand that, But adults at the 535 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 1: restaurant have to be smarter than this. I mean, the 536 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: thing is, it's it's it's just about one percent fatal. Yeah. 537 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: If if you get if you get the rabies virus 538 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: in your body, like, there's no there's no appeal scord here. 539 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: Did that person you mentioned get the shots? Oh yeah, yeah, 540 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: we called somebody in the family. You call the doctor 541 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,239 Speaker 1: right away and he said, he said, don't don't do 542 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: anything else except go to the hospital and get the 543 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: shot immediately. There's nothing to discuss here. There are no options. 544 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: There's no like sleeping off and see coma and death. Yeah, 545 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: I mean if unless that's what you want. 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