1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: All right, a big story from this afternoon. LA City 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: council member Kevin Leon broke his silence. He went on 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: Una vision that'll air later to Nightpen's in Spanish, so 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: not much we're gonna do that, But he talked to 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: CBS twos Tom Waite will probably play a little more 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: of it this hour. They're airing that this afternoon on 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: their local newscash channel two. Will give you a clue. 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: There's a lot of pain and a lot of healing 9 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: needs to be done. Yes, engaging, reflecting, reflecting, engaging, healing, 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: reaching out. One of the highlights is um he didn't 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: actually talk to Mike Bonnon to apologize. He left a voicemail. 12 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: I guess Bonnet didn't call him back. Yeah, And they 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: were in the council chambers together on the Tuesday when 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: Bonnon was crying. That's right, And the play was there 15 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: briefly and Leone couldn't find his way to Bonnet. Hmm. 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: It's very diffic y good thing it didn't. He might 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: have gotten COVID that could have saved his life. People 18 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: do die from COVID. Could have been the best decision. 19 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: All right, We are now gonna tell one other thing. 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: One other thing before we move on. Actually two. The 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: final keyword is coming up your chance for cash inflation 22 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 1: bonus at five twenty and tomorrow at four h five. 23 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: Rick Caruso is our guest. We hope this is Los 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: Angeles's next mayor. Four o'clock I thought, I said, four o'clock, 25 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: did okay? I used to watch in baseball? Stop it? 26 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: I have two games on them. Turn the games. Ray 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: get in there like ray rayun can turn it off? 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: I said, four o'clock. Yes, or what you heard? But 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: a sorry. I have no TV's in front of me, 30 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: so right screens, but their internet stuff right right now. 31 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: You that we're gonna tell you about Proposition thirty, you 32 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: probably don't know anything about it. I don't. We have 33 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: the campaign manager for no on thirty. His name is 34 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: Matt Rodriguez, and Matt's gonna explain it in detail, but 35 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: to give you a quick line here, it would raise 36 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: taxes by one point seven to five percentage points if 37 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: you earned more than two million dollars or more. And 38 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 1: it's going to raise several billion dollars to help buy 39 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: electric cars. It's sponsored by Lift see Lift as a 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 1: mandate their fleet has to be mostly electric by twenty thirty. 41 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: So they don't want to buy the cars at at 42 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: full price. They want to make it cheaper for them 43 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: to purchase the cars or have their drivers purchase the cars. 44 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: And that, you know, that's really the gist of this. 45 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: That was the point of getting this on the ballot. 46 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: Let's get and by the way, the title, which is 47 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: always deceptive, provides funding for programs to reduce air pollution 48 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: and prevent wildfires by increasing tax on personal income over 49 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: two million dollars. That's the actual title of this. Yeah, no, 50 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: it's it's about it's about giving a huge windfall to Lift. 51 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: Let's get mad on Matt Rodriguez No. One thirty campaign 52 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: mane man, How're we're fine? Okay? How would this work? 53 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: How does LIFT benefit in the end, after these wealthy 54 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: people are hosed for the extra tax money, how does 55 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: the tax money get to Yeah, well, a lot of 56 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: other people are going to get hosed and then we'll 57 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: get to that. So look, basically, the way this works 58 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: is that, as you mentioned, there's a one point seventy 59 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: five percent tax increase in people making about two million dollars. 60 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: That money would go into a fund that would be 61 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: administered by the California Air Resources Board. They call it 62 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: CARB for short. And what basically they're have written into 63 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: the measure, they snuck it in there. This is what's 64 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: great about the measure. You mentioned that the title, it 65 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: sounds great. What they snuck in there is they prioritize 66 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: commercial vehicles and vehicles that are called high utilization vehicles 67 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: and that is defined actually as rideshare companies, those types 68 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: of cars that are out on the road all the 69 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: time at airports and you know, restaurants and whatever. And 70 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: so they've basically going to get themselves to go to 71 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: the front of the line. And the reason why they 72 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: need to do this is they've been lobbing now for 73 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: several years, both the legislature as well as the Air 74 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: Resources Board for these taxpayer subsidies they've been denied. And 75 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: now they went to the ballot to fund it themselves 76 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: to see if they can get it this way. But 77 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: now they've been able to in certain language in there 78 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: that will allow them to jump the line and get 79 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: in front and then claim these taxpayer subsidies. So they've 80 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: basically been trying this for several years. They couldn't do 81 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: it on their own. And so they're now they're going 82 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: to the directly to the California taxpayer to do it 83 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: for them, and presumably they're going to be able to 84 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: buy electric cars at a big discount because there's going 85 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: to be subsidies. Yeah, well yeah, so what they're doing, 86 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: it's a combination of them buying them, they lease some 87 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: of them back to their drivers, and some of it 88 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: is just helping to direct these subsidies to their drivers. 89 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: Because you have to realize most of these rideshare companies, 90 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: folks are only driving ten or fifteen hours a week 91 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: at most. They're part time. They are not necessarily full 92 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: and there are a few, but most of them are 93 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: part time. So the incentive to switch over your vehicle 94 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: at say twenty thirty in the year twenty thirty or 95 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: twenty thirty one, why would you do that. You're not 96 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: going to do that if you're the mom who drives 97 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: a few hours when you drop your kid off at school, 98 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: or you're not going to do that if you're the 99 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: senior who drives from ten to two but doesn't drive 100 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: at night, or the college student who drives a little 101 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: bit to pick up a couple of extra bucks for beer, 102 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 1: of the weekends, So what's the incentive for them to 103 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: switch over? Lift? It needs as many subsidies as possible 104 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: to incent them under their platform, because if they don't 105 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: have enough drivers that are driving electric vehicles, they're not 106 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: gonna have enough drivers on the road. And if they 107 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: don't have enough drivers on the road, the wait times 108 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: get very long and the prices go up and people 109 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: won't take their cars, and Lift then basically collapses. So 110 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: it's an economic funding model that they need because if 111 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: they don't have drivers, they can't pick people up in time, 112 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: and people will go to other taxis or Uber or 113 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: whatever it happens to be. And this has been list 114 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: problem that they've been trying to solve from the beginning. Now, 115 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: this ballot measure, though doesn't specifically designate the tax money 116 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: to Lift drivers to get electric cars, does it. No, 117 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: it designates it has certain sort of if you have 118 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: certain parameters, but it does have special language in there 119 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: for companies Likelift, which our rye sharing companies. So what 120 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: they are going to do is they're going to go lobby. 121 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: Lift is going to have to buy the cars and 122 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: then the drivers could lease them from Lift. Well, Lift 123 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: has some programs that does that. Know. What they're more 124 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: likely to do is they will advocate for subsidies and 125 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: then they will be able to push their drivers that 126 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: come on their platform. They will push them to qualify 127 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: to apply for these subsidies. They want to get as 128 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: much but they need as much money of that as possible. 129 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: Their drivers just won't switch over all, Right now, it's themselves. 130 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: What's the part about battling wildfire as well? What is 131 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: is that real in this ballot measure? Yeah? You like 132 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: that one that sounds can't imagine that wasn't poll tested. 133 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: Over and over Look, they're only funding they're only putting 134 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: about twenty percent into wildfire mitigation. It's just your classic. 135 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: Their entire campaigns about wildfires, they're putting only one out 136 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: of every five dollars into it. Four out of every 137 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: five is going into subsidies or programs that in some 138 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 1: formal help lift. So they're using the wildfire excuse because 139 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: of course everyone's concerned about wildfires. But that's just a 140 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: complete rest Again, because the state has one hundred billion 141 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: dollars surplus, so they have plenty of money to do 142 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: wildfire prevention on their own. There's no need for the tax. 143 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: Lift did not spend Lift to spend all of this 144 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: money lobbying your resources board, lobbying the legislature. You know 145 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: what they didn't lobby this year one hundred the legislature 146 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: for using one hundred billion dollars for supposedly this extra 147 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: money that they need for wildfires. The money was there, 148 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: they were nowhere to be found because they knew they 149 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: were always going to the ballot, because they know the 150 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: wildfire prevention is not their issue. Their issue is the 151 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: subsidies for these cars, and that's what they needed. And 152 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: they knew they weren't going to get it from the governor. 153 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: They knew they weren't going to get it from the legislature. 154 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: So here we are. This so really bothers me that 155 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: you know, a single company can engineer a huge tax 156 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: increase for its own benefit and then they throw in 157 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: a cover story a minor amount of the money is 158 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: going to go for fire prevention. Mean, this is really 159 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: devious stuff. Here. I have to say, I've been doing 160 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: this business long drive. Care to remember and you'll see 161 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: plenty of companies go to the ballot or they do 162 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: a lot of lobbing for a variety of things. We 163 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: all know this. This is you know, there's no big mystery. 164 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: And I've seen companies go to the ballot to try 165 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: to get access to a market. You saw it this 166 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: year with the gaming initiatives, right some of the tribes 167 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: or the online folks they were you know, they were 168 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: putting in money and saying, look, if we get access 169 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: to the market, we'll put this much money towards whatever 170 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: program they thought would be attractive to voters. Now you 171 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,839 Speaker 1: can agree with that, you can disagree with that, but 172 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: it at least comes out of the funding or the 173 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: revenues that they would be generated. This is the first 174 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:44,719 Speaker 1: time I can remember here or in any state where 175 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: company was like, we've got a business expense. We're struggling 176 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 1: right now as a company, so we need someone else 177 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: to pay for it. We're going to find these other 178 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: people to pay for it for us. I've actually never 179 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 1: seen that in my ears in the business. So if 180 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: this passes, you can get ready to Katie to borrow 181 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: the door here, because every code corporation is going to 182 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: be like, well, why don't I just write tax policy 183 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: here and take a piece of him, because that's what 184 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: they and they can fool the public with a cover 185 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: story like fire prevention. That's all. That's what you'll do. 186 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: You'll spend two years coming up with the story. Thanks, 187 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: No one's going to be for cancer research or you know, 188 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: giving poor children pre kindergarten or whatever. The man I'm 189 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: reading that's that this is passing in the polls to 190 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 1: push the person of the high income tax bracket over 191 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 1: fifteen percent. I mean, it's astonishing if this passes. Well, 192 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: I think what I would say is it is, but 193 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: it's been dropping. It has dropped about thirty points between 194 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: where it started in the mid sixties. It's now down 195 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: to the low fifties or high forties. We've gone from 196 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: the low thirties and we're up into the forties. And 197 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: I mentioned that because and your listeners know this. People 198 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: in California, you know it, People in California start to 199 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: focus on their ballot in the last two or three weeks. 200 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: They start to actually do research. And as folks have 201 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: been paying attention, look the ballot title and summoy sounds good. 202 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: Who's against stopping wildfires? You know, let's you know, who 203 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: doesn't want to have the climate feel better? But vote? 204 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: There's sort of our cynical and they're in a particularly 205 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: cynical mood. As you know right now, people are very 206 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: unhappy with what's going on out there. So we have 207 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: shown a consistent erosion of their support over the course 208 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: of the last two months. The question is do we 209 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: have enough runway to get our plane off the ground 210 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: and educating enough voters and what's really in this? If 211 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: a no brainer, we just have to talk to enough folks. 212 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: Can you explain why the Democrats and Sacramento support this 213 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: but Newsom's and no, you've made a commercial. No what 214 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: happened there? Well? Yeah, I would say a couple of things, 215 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: and we've been working closely with the governor on this. 216 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: I'll say two things. I first, on the Democratic side. Look, 217 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: the bottom line is Left has been working on this 218 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,199 Speaker 1: for almost two years, so they have been you know, 219 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: they've put in four millions or listeners will appreciate this, 220 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: they put in four million dollars into California Democratic Party, 221 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: so in addition to the forty five million they've put 222 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: into this. So the first is they've been moving their 223 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: money around to get allies number one, number two. A 224 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: lot of folks and we've heard this from actually a 225 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: lot of elected officials. They didn't exactly know what was 226 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: in here. They just thought climate change, this sounds good. 227 00:10:58,440 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 1: So I think there was a little bit of hiding 228 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: the ball even with elected officials. Not a big surprise 229 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: in terms of the governor. Look, no governor in his 230 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: right mind would put up with this, and this is 231 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: a Republican or a Democrat. There's no way Gavin is 232 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: against this because he's going to be the one who 233 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: has to bear the blood of this if there's a 234 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: recession and we go into a huge deficit and he 235 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: needs money. This money gets locked boxed the way you 236 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: can't use it, and then he's going to be the 237 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: one who has to make a decision are you cutting 238 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 1: homelessness services, crime prevention, public safety. He's going to be 239 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 1: after one who goes and explains that to the voters. 240 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: And I think that he knows that this is something 241 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: that is a horrible precedent, and he's really going to 242 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: come back on him, frankly, and that's why he's against us. 243 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: All right, Matt, we appreciate you coming on. Thanks for 244 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: your time. Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. All right. 245 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: Matt Rodriguez is the campaign manager for No On Proposition thirty. 246 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: John and Ken are no on Prop thirty. So is 247 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: dippity d. Gavin Newsom said the one is a real 248 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: dishonest proposition. Yeah, this would raise income taxes and the 249 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: top earners two million or more to over fifty percent 250 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: to fund electric car subsidies. Don't be blinded by just 251 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 1: reflective hatred against millionaires. This is gonna open up I 252 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: just a box of horror. Oh, everybody will be trying 253 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: to get money right, and they're all going to end 254 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: up getting taxed, and there's always going to be a 255 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: really sweet cool cover story like fire prevention. This is terrible. 256 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: We're coming up on the John and Ken Show including 257 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: the keywords you need so you possibly get the inflation 258 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: bonus money caf I am six forty live everywhere on 259 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. The mayor of San Francisco London Breed, 260 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: apparently held a news event today pleading for companies to 261 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: make their workers come back and fill the offices of 262 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: that city. It's killing them obviously not to have that 263 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: in their economy. And those aren't generally good people they 264 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: actually work. Meanwhile, a company that I'm not Yes, somebody 265 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: should stand up and say get the homeless and the 266 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: criminals out of the city and maybe a few of 267 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: us will come back. That's up. Yeah, I don't know 268 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 1: why they're not coming back. It's expensive there, and I 269 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: think people took advantage of the pandemic to say, don't 270 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: want to go. It's dangerous people almost what did I 271 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: read like half the people have had their cars broken? 272 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: Some crazy stat like that. No. Well, today an outdoor 273 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: clothing company called Dakota Paxi announced it's closing at San 274 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: Francisco store due to multiple break ins and a rise 275 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: in crime in the area. In fact, the CEO of 276 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: the company called out the city specifically. We opened a 277 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: retail story a year ago on Hay Street, charming shopping district, 278 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: just blocks away from the famous full House Home. Our 279 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: first week there, our windows were smashed and thousands of 280 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: dollars of product were stolen. We replaced the window and 281 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 1: immediately happened again four times. We replaced the window with plywood. 282 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: As we waited for a month plus to get a 283 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: metal security gate installed. Demand for those gates is carl 284 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: is creating huge delays. As if today we're closing this 285 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,559 Speaker 1: store due to rampant organized theft and lack of safety 286 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: for our team. Our store is hit by organized theft 287 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: rings several times per week. They enter the store, grabbed 288 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars a product and walk out. We started 289 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,719 Speaker 1: keeping the door locked and opening it only for customers, 290 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: but even then they'll have a woman go to the 291 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: door and then hiding individuals and rush into the store 292 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: as soon as the door opens. Our team is terrified, 293 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: they feel unsafe and that the statement goes on from 294 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: the CEO. Let me ask you this. Can I keep 295 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: saying that these these progressive groups and these progressive officials 296 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: that are pushing this anything goes philosophy right without any punishment. 297 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: If you wanted to destroy a city, if your goal 298 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: was to destroy a city, what would you do differently? 299 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: This is what they want to do. This is how 300 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: you destroy a city. If I was going to destroy 301 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: a city, you know, without dropping a bomb, I would 302 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: stop enforcing all the laws. That's what they've done, and 303 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: now the city's getting destroyed. Portland's been destroyed this way too. 304 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: So do you see now that that was the point 305 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: of these progressive groups is to destroy capitalism, to destroy 306 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: our economy, our way of life. But these elected officials, 307 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: they have to pay with the voters, right have they? 308 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: No DA in San Francisco. A couple of board members 309 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: to school board. But that was stuff they said generally, 310 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: who in LA has paid nobody? Who in Portland is 311 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: paid nobody. I mean, for the most part, they've all 312 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: gotten away with it. And there's the worst crop coming 313 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: in here in LA. What what I'm saying is this 314 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: was the point. The point was to drive out the 315 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: workers and drive out the companies, to drive out the tourists. 316 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: Oh and by the way of brand new poll came 317 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: out that more residents of San Francisco are looking to 318 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: recolocate within the next year than people in any other 319 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: major metropolitan area in the country. Eight percent of the 320 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: city's populations plan on moving to a different city. About 321 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: eighteen percent of residents in the SF metro area are 322 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: also planning to move from their home in the next year. 323 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: So that trend continues. And just to show you how 324 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: unbalanced and nutty it is, there great story today San 325 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: Francisco is spending one point seven million dollars to build 326 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: a single public toilet. This is not a joke. I 327 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: stared at this, I like, can this be the proposed facility? 328 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: Would include just one toilet in one hundred and fifty 329 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: foot space. Apparently it got caught up in the bureaucracy 330 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: and supply change challenges and inflation. Really, no, this is 331 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: and it's going in an area that already has plumbing, 332 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 1: so that's not part of the expense, right, They didn't 333 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: have to build plumbing to this. I guess it's like 334 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,439 Speaker 1: a gigantic public toilet. I don't know what. He's one 335 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: of those ones where the doors kind of ever see 336 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: those big public toilets where you can go in there 337 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: like a big booth. Well, here's what it said in 338 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 1: the National Review. First, an architect has to draw plans 339 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,880 Speaker 1: for the toilet, which is presented to the public for feedback. 340 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 1: What did the feedback be, bowls a little narrow from 341 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: my rear red I don't know. The Art Commission has 342 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: a Civic Design Review Committee responsible for conducting a multi 343 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: phase review of the toilet. According to the Art Commission website, 344 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,959 Speaker 1: the committee evaluates these project's design, scale and massing for accessibility, safety, 345 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: and aesthetic merit. The review process ensures that each project's 346 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,120 Speaker 1: design is appropriate to the context in the urban environment, 347 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 1: and that structures of the highest design quality reflect their 348 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: civic stature before the project is put out for bidded 349 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: a subject to review under the California Environmental Quality Act. 350 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: The public toilet will be built by union workers who 351 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: will earn a living wage in benefits. According to the 352 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: Wreck and Park Department, while this isn't the cheapest way 353 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:19,959 Speaker 1: to build, it reflects San Francisco's values. They actually gathered 354 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: today to announce the one point seven million dollars state 355 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: budget win to build the toilet in this place in 356 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: fis your tax money, State tax money is being used 357 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: for this. They went to a California assemblyman named Matt Hainey. 358 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: He got the one point seven million dollar funding from 359 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: the state to install the toilet, and the reason very 360 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,159 Speaker 1: proud of it. It's park, he said. The Wreck and 361 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: Parks Department told him that was the going rate for 362 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: a public bathroom. The city said that the one point 363 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: seven million estimate is extremely rough. They told me one 364 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: point seven million. I got one point seven million. I 365 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: didn't have the option of bringing home less of the bacon. 366 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 1: When he came to building a toilet, a half a 367 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: toilet or a toilet, maybe someone is going to use 368 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: very much the completely corrupt system is what it is. 369 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: I think for what I remember, not that this natters, 370 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: but some of these are self cleaning. That's kind of 371 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: the idea behind them. So after you to win this 372 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: big booth to clothes as you come out, supposely he 373 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: kind of scrubs itself. It's a lot cheaper to hire 374 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: a janitor with a bucket and a scrubber just stands 375 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: there and waits till you come out, right, that's right. Well, 376 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 1: that's what they do at some of the public outhouses. 377 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: There is a guy that has to stand there and 378 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: clean after. That's much more economical. One point seven million 379 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: of state tax money. They're not even using San Francisco 380 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: tax money for this. You work today, A little piece 381 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: of what you worked for today is going for that toilet. 382 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, we'll play again a 383 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: little more of the interview that Kevin Leon did with 384 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: CBS two's Tom Waite about his decision, which seems firm 385 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: he's not going to resign from the Early City Council. 386 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken Cafe, I Am six forty live everywhere in 387 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app or reminder, the moist line comes 388 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: today tomorrow rather the day after tomorrow. I was just 389 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 1: reading something. Maybe laugh. You can leave a message using 390 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. That's easy with the microphone icon there 391 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 1: for you to leave that message, or call the telfree 392 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: number one eight seven seven moist eighty six one eight 393 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: seven and seven six six four seven eight eight six. 394 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: Also tomorrow at four oh five, our guest is Rick Caruso, 395 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: who would like to be LA's next mayor. He will 396 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: join us for two segments on the John and Ken 397 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: Show at four oh five. He had a good poll 398 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 1: today from the LA Daily News Southern California News Group 399 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 1: poll forty to thirty seven, ahead of Karen Bass. Let's 400 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 1: hope it's true and real. So they saw. I was 401 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: just reading the post. Exclusive New York Post. A five 402 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 1: year old boy claims he was an African American woman 403 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: killed in a fire and reincarnated, and he can prove it. 404 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: Little Luke Ruhlman spooked his parents as he began incessantly 405 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: insisting he used to be a named Pam when he 406 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: was just two years old. Are you liking this story? 407 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. Her son began speaking of a woman 408 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: named Pam from a young age. Family didn't know anybody 409 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: that name that name. One day, Luke finally explained it. 410 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: He turned to me and said, well, I was I 411 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: used to be, but I died and I went up 412 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 1: to heaven. I saw God, and eventually God pushed me 413 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: back down and I was a baby, and you named 414 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: me Luke. What do you think you're buying us? Of 415 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: course not. The son provided her he's five. He was 416 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: fine shilling details, including telling his family he traveled on 417 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 1: a train to Chicago, but the family actually lives in 418 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: Cincinnati and never been there. When I was a girl, 419 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: I had black hair. I used to have earrings like 420 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: that when I was a girl. Oh, you must be 421 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: watching all the transgender news. And eventually the mother learned 422 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: of a woman named Pam Robinson, one of nineteen people 423 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: killed in a fire in Chicago in nineteen ninety three. 424 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: Who I don't believe that, crab. No, No, all right, 425 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: we have audio and we'll play it for as long 426 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: as we can stand it. You're going to hear a 427 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: lot about healing. Kevin Leone, the La City council member, 428 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: has been doing interviews. Finally he's appearing on Unavision tonight, 429 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,719 Speaker 1: but he also sat down with a Channel two reporter 430 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: tom Waite here is part of that interview. I have 431 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 1: to do the hard work. I have to repair. I 432 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: have to help heal, help have to help restore, and 433 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: that means rolling up my sleeves and engaging with my constituents. 434 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: That means engaging with the communities that were deeply pained anger. 435 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: Do you think that's my hope. It's my hope that 436 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: they will engage with that dialogue because we have to 437 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 1: heal together aage in dialogue. We can't heal at the exclusion. 438 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: You know, it's will help cause he was given the buzzwords. 439 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: We have to help help, We have to help lots 440 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: of allegiance bore together and we have to heal together. 441 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: For what's the free step? I mean, I mean, like 442 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,239 Speaker 1: what does that look like? Is it? Does it mean 443 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: reaching out to certain stop stopped the second? It is 444 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: pretty comical. We need yea. By the way, who out 445 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 1: there is suffering? Because there we have a list of 446 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: people who are people are reeling the time said so reeling? 447 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: Who are they? Have you seen any of these people? 448 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: I haven't? Maybe I don't get out enough I do. 449 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: I mean, did you watch all the Bonden's tearful speech 450 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: I mean he said in there, we've all been cut 451 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: and ripped open. No, isn't this the largest display of narcissism. 452 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: I'm it's just narcissism. Oh, here's what Bonden said. These 453 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: people stabbed us and shot us and cut the spirit 454 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: of la. See that's the healing, that's well. Stabbed and shot. 455 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: Is that a little dramatic, just a tidy bit? That's 456 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: part of what he said last week? Right? Is that? 457 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: Is that a rational response from a normal person? Do 458 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: you know anybody who talks like that? These people really 459 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: are unhinged, They really are crazy crazy. Well, you're right, 460 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: it's narcissism. They want narcissism. But this has become such 461 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: a big international story that they really feel like they're 462 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: at the center of. But they make it sound like 463 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: there's been a mass murder, like there's hundreds of bodies 464 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: in the street. All the pain and the suffering and 465 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: the healing is what the hell are you talking about. 466 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: Nobody was hurt, nobody was injured. People heard a bunch 467 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: of dirtbag politics and stones ragging on other politicians. Yeah, 468 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: I'm amazed at all. Right, I'll go back to the 469 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: reincarnating kids story. For you or should we just run 470 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: the baseball games? Oh, we can talk about animals. Oh no, 471 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 1: I opened the door. I got the NBA on in 472 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: my studio. Oh yeah, right, game one of eighty two 473 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: games schedule. Thank you. The Lakers win last night. No. 474 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: No One on nine Golden State. They couldn't had a 475 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: shot to save their life. I didn't even recognize half 476 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: the players I was watching the fourth quarters. Who are 477 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 1: these people? Well, yeah, those are all the rookies in 478 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: two way guys Lebron had They made Lebron stay in 479 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: the game to mus the end. But there was three 480 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: or four guys. I'm like, I never saw them before. 481 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: All right, you had enough of leone then, John, do 482 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: you know what the word the words healing have been banned? 483 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 1: And what about moving forward? Hard work, repair, engage, restore, restore, 484 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: all of them. I don't want to him anymore. That's 485 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: a lot of debor. You taking notes, I am, Yeah. 486 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: That includes her newscasts. Well, if I'm quoting something, yeah, 487 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: you have to quote somebody. All right. The story that 488 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: we're coming back with is a great one concerning California, 489 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: so proud of what it does to battle climate emissions. 490 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: You're gonna love this Next John and Ken kf I 491 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Well, 492 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: you'll love this story. All we've heard about since two 493 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 1: thousand and six when they passed the Global Warming Solutions Act. 494 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: Schwartzenegger was governor, Fabian Nunez was speaker. We got to 495 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: lead the way climate policies, well all wiped out. According 496 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: to researchers at the Energy Policy Institute at the University 497 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: of Chicago, wildfires in California just in twenty twenty produced 498 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: twice the amount of carbon emissions that the state climate 499 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: policies have eliminated over the past twenty years. That's it. 500 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: This is stunning. Just wiped it out, California. What do 501 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: they really do about the wildfires and all that we 502 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: talked about with wildfire mitigation, right clearing the land as 503 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: Trump liked to say, you know, raking the leaves about 504 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 1: these things we should have done, should have the emphasis 505 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 1: should have been completely changed in the wildfire scenario. Instead, 506 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: they worry about what car we drive in Their in 507 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 1: earned mental regulations caused this catastrophe to happen because their 508 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: environmental regulations wouldn't let anyone touch the forests, thin out 509 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: the trees, get rid of the underbrush. Do the controlled 510 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: burns go after PGNE and it's stupid outdated equipment. Yeah, 511 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: make PGNI bury the electric lines. So so get this. 512 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: In the last twenty years, the regulations led to a 513 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: decline of sixty five million metric tons of greenhouse gases, 514 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: but the wildfires in twenty twenty alone produced double one 515 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven metric tons one hundred and twenty 516 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: seven million metric tons. So we go. Sponse would be 517 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: it's a good thing we did something, and we'd have 518 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: all of that on top of our emissions. No. Well, see, 519 00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: all these emissions regulations are about controlling our life and 520 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: controlling industry. It didn't make life better. I mean, one 521 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven million metric tons out of the 522 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: one year's worth of wildfires, and that's and that's more 523 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 1: than twice twenty years worth of savings. These policies are pointless. 524 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: Can we know the worst of them are often caused 525 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: by PG and E. And didn't we find this out 526 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: too with another utility? Remember so cal Gas and that 527 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: gas leak up in Porter Ranch when Jerry Brown was governor. 528 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: All the methane that leaked out was also enormous. Wait, 529 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: yes it was you know that Nordic that nord stream 530 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: pipeline that that somebody blew up, you know, the natural 531 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: gas pipeline the Journey. They got some leaks in it, Yeah, 532 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: the big They patched the leaks though, but huge amount 533 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: of methane though escaped, huge amount. I mean that that 534 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 1: itself was a natural disaster for the the climate. But 535 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: it shows you this is all this is all just nonsense. 536 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: It is there, but the people are suffering with the 537 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: high gas prices and everything else we've had to go 538 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: through here to be sacrificed at the altar of climate 539 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: change policy when they've done more to prevent the fires 540 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: would have done much more good if that's what they 541 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:27,719 Speaker 1: really wanted, right, I can't believe. I can't believe twice 542 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: the greenhouse gas savings over twenty years was wiped out 543 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: in one year worth of wildfire. And I remember that 544 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: story from a couple of years back, because twenty twenty 545 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: was a pretty big wildfire year. At twenty one and 546 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,959 Speaker 1: twenty two haven't matched it. And we were reading all 547 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: these stories and doing all these hours on the air, 548 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: and one of the things that came up was California 549 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: just focuses all of its resources and just trying to 550 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: put out the fires. They don't do anything about trying 551 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: to mitigate the chance of the fires, which we just 552 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: talked about far as clearing. Well, because why is that 553 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: underground wire? Because look it starts at the top right, 554 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: Newsome Schwarzeneger. They're all dumbinos. They're all stupid guys. They 555 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: don't understand any of this stuff. Do you say dumbinos? Dumbinos? Yes, 556 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: it's this Italian or that's Italian for dumb guy, the dumbino. 557 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: I know you knew that work. Sure, I'm very multi lingual, 558 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: fluencing a number of languages. Well, look, who's back from 559 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: the dead here? You don't also an Italian is baboo 560 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: means idiot? Well they're a bunch of bamboos. Yeah, but 561 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: but people don't know that. So you go, hey, bambo 562 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: how you doing? And the guy thinks, you know you're 563 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: you're on his side, a friend of his, But you're 564 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 1: not all right, Kevin de Leon in the news side, 565 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: he's gonna he says, no, he's not leaving. Well, we'll 566 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: find out it's going well. That dude, right with the 567 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: hell George Slaughter's coming on with us. George Slaughter was 568 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: one of the big influential guys in my dad's career. 569 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: He won a bunch of Grammy's, bunch of Emmy I 570 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: mean Emmy's and all that stuff. But he produces probably 571 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: about like over the years, like eighty percent of what 572 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: he's done, you've probably known. And so he's coming out 573 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: with us on the film. And then also the fifty 574 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: rattiest cities. Two California cities make the top five again, 575 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: so congratulations, there's one pretty close to us so that 576 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: you can tell which one right, next story here, that's right. Yeah, 577 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: And Vince Scully's estate, Hidden Hidden Hills is up for 578 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: sale fifteen million dollars, Is that right, the whole house. Yeah, 579 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: they're selling some of the stuff too. Did you see 580 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,719 Speaker 1: the aerial photo he had quiet, Oh, I know, mansion, 581 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: real big spread. Yeah. Well, I mean you worked for 582 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: sixty five years for the same company. Yeah, yeah, right, 583 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: lay him dough on that dude. Plus the farmer John Money, 584 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, right, he's then most in freshness or 585 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: easternmost and flavor western most in freshness. Very good farmer John, 586 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: big Dog, you're back, Farmer John. Commercials in your head, 587 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: We've got yet to Los Angeles, Orange County, Live everywhere 588 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app