1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Time for Gavin to go, and we're gonna talk to 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: one of the fellows who wants to replace him. It's 3 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty extra large because four hours, simply enough, 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: this is Armstrong and Getty extra Large. At the time 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: that we're recording this, we're a day away from California reopening. 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: Using my finger quotes reopening if it depends on where 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: you live, how much opening will be happening? And why 8 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: we wait until now? I have no freaking idea. Well, 9 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: let's talk about that and other things with Kevin Faulkner. 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: He was the two time mayor of San Diego, one 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: of the few Republicans to be a Republican. I'm sorry 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: to be a mayor in the last twenty years or 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: so in California. Kevin, how are you, sir? Tell me 14 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: what I'm doing? Great? Great to be back with you. 15 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: Thank you. Listen. I see the polls and they say 16 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: that people don't even want the recall to happen. Why 17 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: does Gavin Newsom have to go? Let's talk about that first. 18 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: I'll tell you, guys, we've talked about it before. The 19 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: anger in the frustration. It's an absolute recall on his 20 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: failures and we can go down the list, the fact 21 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: that our public schools are still not fully reopened in California, 22 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: in fact that we have the second highest unemployment, skyrockety homelessness, 23 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: and of course the fact that our state was open 24 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: and set five in six different times because of his 25 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: conflicting metrics. And this just cuts across, you know, all 26 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: parts of the state, all partnerisanship. Uh, folks are ready 27 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: for a change at the top. And there's no doubt 28 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: in my mind that when they go to the polls 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: sometime in this fall, they're gonna absolutely support this recall. Well, 30 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: and the way Gavin Newsom is holding onto his emergency 31 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: powers has people in his own party upset. Well, yeah, 32 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: and look we saw that last week and everybody's scratching 33 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: their heads saying, well, wait, once again, Gavin Newsom says 34 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: one thing and does another, um, particularly on the emergency powers, 35 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: either we're gonna be open or not, and all these 36 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: you know, extra caveats, I think has everybody rightfully concerned that. Good, 37 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: look here we go again. Remember went back in February 38 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: when the governor said schools were going to be it 39 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: and they weren't. Private schools were open all all year 40 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: in California. But because those schools report to parents. But 41 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: yet our public schools that ultimately report to Gavin Newsom 42 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: have remained closed for absolutely no reason. And you know, 43 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: and talking to so many parents, you know that again 44 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: that anger and frustration is real and rightfully so do 45 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: you have any idea? I mean, like the school stuff, 46 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: our theory wasn't I think it's right is it was 47 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: an opportunity for teachers unions to get more money for 48 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: the schools and if it can go in for whatever reason. 49 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 1: But once they get it into a pot of money, 50 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: they'll spend it however the hell they want overcoming years. 51 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: But what what what motivates Gavin Newsome to want to 52 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: keep us all in masks and restaurants closed for so long? 53 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: What's his motivation? And there's no reason for it. And look, 54 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: and I think you hit the nail on the head. 55 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: And the fact that private schools teachers were safely teaching 56 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: and kids were safely learning um and yet our public 57 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: schools because Gavitt Knewsom wouldn't do the right thing for 58 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 1: our kids, wouldn't do the right thing for our parents. 59 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: And the fact that we are the slowest state in 60 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: the nation to reopen our public schools. And as we 61 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: are talking about this this morning, they're still not fully reopened. 62 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: And and look, you know, in my frustration comes not 63 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: just as a candidate for governor, but as a dad 64 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: with two kids in public school. And I think when 65 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: you add all of this on top of the fact 66 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: that you know, things continue to go in the wrong 67 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: direction here in California, one party rule has not been working. 68 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: It is time for that competition of ideas. And it's 69 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: you know, time for somebody you know who can roll 70 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: up their sleeves get to work stop the rampant homelessness 71 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: that we have in in California, like we did in 72 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: San Diego. So I think you add all those things together, 73 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: people are ready for that change. Just as you're talking, 74 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: a TV commercial for you came up on the TV Man. 75 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: I like that slow motion walking down the sidewalk. You 76 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: look like the manager. Good stuff. Good stuff. Hey listen, 77 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: I want to get to the bums and junkies in 78 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: a minute, But before we get to it, let's talk 79 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: about emergency powers in general and the way they've been 80 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: exercised during the COVID flap. Should the constitution change, Should 81 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: the court step in I mean Plaster County for instance. 82 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: I don't remember if they suit or just threatened to sue. 83 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: They excited the specific wording in the state constitution as 84 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: to what an emergency is. And there's not an emergency, 85 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: and yet the governor's emergency powers continue. What needs to change? Well, 86 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: and I absolutely agree, and I'll add one more. We've 87 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: had a legislature that has absolutely not put any checks 88 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: and balances on this governor, and I think it's been shameful. 89 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: And the fact that so many California's have had to 90 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: go to court guys to actually get some of these 91 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: things overturned, like religious gatherings in our churches. Um, how 92 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: do we change it? We change it at the top. 93 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: You know, Gavin Knewson loved this power that that he's 94 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: been able to do, and and he cannot use it judiciously. 95 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: He's been wrong and in time and time again. And 96 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: so look, I think that that's you know, it's time 97 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: for the courts to step into. The legislator is not 98 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: going to do anything. But I think what's more important 99 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: is we vote yes on this recall, um, and we 100 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: get our state back on track. All right to the 101 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: bums and junkies. You have folks who are down on 102 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: their luck, they're trying to get things turned around. Maybe 103 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: they're staying in the shelter. Uh, they're they're doing all 104 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: the right things. God bless those people. I understand that 105 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: some of my tax dollars might go to help them 106 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: in some way. But so many of the so called 107 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,239 Speaker 1: homeless are bums and junkies living in the tent cities. 108 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: What does Kevin Faulkner do or or try to get 109 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: going to deal with that problem. Well, I did not 110 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: allow ten encampments on the sidewalk in San Diego, which 111 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: we've you know, we've we've talked about. And then we 112 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: have to take this state wide. And this is an 113 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: issue that I feel so strongly about and so passionately about. Uh. 114 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: And and look, you have to have the political will. 115 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: You can throw all the money in the world as 116 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: this gentleman, but if you do not have the political 117 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: wild that says it's not okay to let somebody live 118 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: in a tent encambinet do heroin and methomphetamine without any consequences, 119 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: you're not going to have that change. We had a 120 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: change in San Diego, and we put up a shelter system. 121 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: I picked the locations, but I made a deal with 122 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: the neighborhood. I said it's gonna be cleaner and safer 123 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: with the shelter than before it was there. And to 124 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: back that up, I created a new division within the 125 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: San Diego Police Department, Neighborhood Policing Division. I enforced quality 126 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: of life in San Diego. And guess what, it made 127 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: a huge difference because we care about people enough not 128 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: to let him die intent encampments on our sidewalk. We 129 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: reduced homelessness, the only big city in California where we 130 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: actually reduced it by double digits. I am going to 131 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: take that exact same approach and philosophy statewide because what 132 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: we are seeing in our great state is an explosion 133 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: of homelessness and nobody with the political will to actually 134 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: do anything about it. I personally, this is anecdote. Evidence 135 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: is not proof of anything, but I personally no more 136 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 1: pool in the last year that moved out of California 137 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: then got COVID. Well, I'm not surprised to hear that, 138 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: and and and and again back to we're losing population 139 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: because it's just flat out too expensive. Some of the 140 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: highest gas taxes, you know, in the country, and and 141 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: the fact that people can look around and guys, you 142 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: name the state right, it's it's Texas, It's in Nevada, Florida, Utah, Tennessee, 143 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: on on down the list where people look at what 144 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: the price of housing can be in others. And yet 145 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: we have a governor now who doesn't seem to think 146 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: that there's even a problem. And when all of these 147 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: companies and jobs are leading, it's it's the spot. Well, 148 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: you know, we'll just kind of replace them with who 149 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: knows what, No it It's time to make that change. 150 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: It's time to have a governor that says it's not 151 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: about raising taxes like Newsome wants to do. It's about 152 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: reducing real taxes in California so families can afford to 153 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: actually stay here. What about the spectacular cost of housing? 154 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: Does the government have any role in dealing with that? 155 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: It does. You have to have common sense and that's 156 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: the that's the approach that I took, is mayor, which 157 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: is to say, here's where we want the housing, and 158 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: you know, you have to have more of it in 159 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: the areas that it makes sense along our major transportation quarters, 160 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: and then make it actually easier to build it. Uh, 161 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: so you don't have to take you over a year 162 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: and a half just to get a permit. And so look, 163 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of things that the governor 164 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: can do should do. This governor isn't doing. Again, I 165 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 1: think it falls into a pattern of Newson will get 166 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: up and talk for an hour on a particular topic 167 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: and rhetoric, and then at the end of the day, 168 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: you'll say, what did he just say? It's time for 169 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: some common sense. It's time for somebody like that who 170 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: has rolled up their sleeves got it done in the 171 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: second largest city in California. And yes, is a proud 172 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: Republican who worked my entire tenure as mayor with a 173 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: majority Democrat city council. Very good about going out and 174 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: winning the argument publicly and then winning the vote. That's 175 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: what's been missing in Sacramento, and I think that's why 176 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 1: people across the state, across the political spectrum, want to 177 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,959 Speaker 1: change at the top to actually get us back on track. 178 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: Kevin Falkoner, great to note to end on, well said, 179 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: good to talk to you, will stay in touch, Thank you, 180 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: look forward to next time. Thank you. Ye. Sam went 181 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: to a pool party for one of his best friends 182 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: over the weekend. They're moving to Texas. And I got 183 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: to believe that a lot of people that haven't considered 184 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: moving because they don't you know, I hate to say 185 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: it this way. You don't know any better. You've never 186 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: lived anywhere else, or you don't like you know, have 187 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 1: friends that live somewhere else, because if you knew, well, 188 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: if you've spent your whole life in California, you might 189 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: not know that gas is half as much everywhere else 190 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: what a house costs other places, that there aren't bums 191 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: freaking everywhere in most other states, right right. You know 192 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: what troubles me though, and it was what I was 193 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: trying to express in my very first question to Kevin 194 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: was poles show you know, pretty substantial numbers of California say, 195 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: why would do we recall Kevin Newsom? They just have 196 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: no idea how crappy he is and how awful at 197 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: leadership has been. See you gotta informed. Look around crappy. 198 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: I ate an early dinner, but I'm still crappy. Extra 199 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: large