On this episode I discuss State Senator Brian Jones' plan to address homelessness, give updates on the platform and schedule changes, and why it should matter your parking meters are dirty in your city.
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Good morning everybody. Thanks for tuning in to another
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episode of coffee and California politics.
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I'm gonna go everybody log on, we got the big news coming up
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today pert. You know, news about the
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platform and everything that's going on.
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So give everyone a chance to log on Still rocking the Black
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Rifle. Blackbeard's Delight coffee, for
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all those who are wondering dark roast.
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It's got a little chilly out there so maybe a dark roast
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isn't so bad. After all, you know, and Chilly,
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I mean by San Diego standards, which is 54 degrees in the
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morning. That's pretty chilly.
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So I like it, though. I like the fall weather and I
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like the, the feeling of coming home, putting some slippers on
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just relax. And, you know, after the heat
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wave, we had not even like a month ago.
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It's nice to have some, some relief and a little bit cooler.
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Definitely feels more like fall in the holidays are coming.
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Alright, so sort of announcement what's going on with the
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platform. So I didn't want to make a big
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deal. Deal about this.
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But today, will technically, be the last coffee in California
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politics at 9 a.m. on Wednesday mornings.
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I'm sorry, I things have changed in my day job and stuff like
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that. So I won't have time to do it at
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9 a.m. anymore. I'm getting a big boy job which
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requires me to get in the car and go to an office at 9:00 in
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the morning. But but I know look, I I'm
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already seeing the pushback. It doesn't mean I'm going to
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take away content and maybe I'm going to put a poll out and see
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what people think about. There's other, there's been
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ideas that I've been thinking about, maybe we do it earlier at
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like 8:00 a.m. I know what people like
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commuting. It could be something to listen
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to on your commute, on your way in.
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We could do it at eight am. That's fine.
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Did I take of? Oh, I did not take a vote
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whether or not. This was allowed for me to
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happen. We could change it to somebody
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to Said 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning, maybe that's
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an idea. If people are willing to tune in
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on a Saturday morning, it was a rigged election.
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The the ballots were all stacked in my favor of what I chose.
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We could do weekend. Moraines, we could do another
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idea. I've been floating around.
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Is this idea of like instead of coffee and California politics?
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We could do cocktails and California politics, which would
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be a night show, maybe like six, or seven or eight or something
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like that. I think that would be Although,
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I think that would be interesting to try that out, do
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it at night, you might get more people hopping on bringing their
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drinks along. And, you know, when you're
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talking about California politics, sometimes you do need
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a drink, but that's all to say that.
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Just because this version of the podcast won't be, continuing
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does not mean that California underground is going to end part
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where Q in politics on the weekends.
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Maybe maybe it's just like, kind of a random thing, you know, you
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just pop on when you want. Pop on, we'll figure it out.
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But the big thing about this show and this show has evolved
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over time and it's, you know, it started with just little old me
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talking into a twenty five dollar microphone into my laptop
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doing my own thing. Not knowing if oh I like that
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idea. The uncensored podcast once a
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month that would be fun. Yeah.
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That would be really fun to do a, what?
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Like a uncensored, everyone just kind of unleashes.
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Yeah, that would. To be a lot of fun.
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We can do it, uncensored, bring some people on bring your
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drinks, will have a grand old time stuff like that and I may
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have some ideas of how we could do that as well.
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So you know, it's one of those things that the show evolved
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like I was saying from me just talking into a microphone by
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myself a cheap little microphone I didn't I don't even think
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anyone really cared those first. I don't know 20 50 episodes I
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did. I don't think anyone really
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cared who California? The ground was or even tune in
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to the podcast and was until one day, I decided, hey there's
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people on Instagram so why don't I do a live podcast on
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Instagram? That would be fun.
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And here we are today with coffee and California politics.
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It's been a lot of fun. I love talking to you guys every
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week. It's always a good for me out.
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It's always good for me to kind of like get this, is this kind
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of cathartic to talk about politics and just get it all off
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your chest? It feels a lot better, but I
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don't think it just this a, the content won't change.
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There's a lot of other stuff that's happening as well.
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That I'm very excited about with California underground.
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Also with the formal formation of this is sort of not like a
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not really a big formal announcement but the actual
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formal formation of the Calla Publican caucus, the political
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action committee that we've been working on behind the scenes.
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So instead of just kind of talking about stuff we're going
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to start taking action and stuff like that.
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We're really kind of focused on that as well, and we're excited
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about that. That I think that's going to be
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a great idea, and a great way to kind of push a new message
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because the one thing that I've been reading and this is just
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going to be my quick couple minute pitch about Calla public
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and caucus if you haven't gone and followed it already, there's
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an Instagram. It's been a little dormant but
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now that we're formally, you know, formally form and we have
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a political action committee number and all that stuff, you
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know, it's going to get a little bit more active.
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But the one thing, the one thing I see a lot of in California and
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I'm sorry to see from other Republicans conservatives, and
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people like that is, you can't just be the party of.
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No. And you can't be the party of.
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We're not Democrats. Right?
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And that's one thing that I really liked about talking to
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Brian Dolly. A couple weeks ago.
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We were lucky enough to have him on the program.
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We're going to continue to have a great, a lot of great
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political people on the podcast stuff like that.
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A lot of great combos. The one thing I really liked
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about Brian dolly, is he was not just a guy who sat there and
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said, Newsom is horrible. Newsom is horrible news from his
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horrible. It's that he actually sat down
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and said here's the issues and here's how we start to address
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those issues. And I think there's a big
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opening for that in California after this before, if you've
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tuned in to plenty of coffee in California politics, you know,
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that I've said there is no opposition party in California.
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And I'll stand by that there is there's no legitimate opposition
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party in California. There's a Republican party.
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That is another choice. You could make, but I don't
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think they're in opposition party.
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And by opposition party, I mean, someone who actually goes up and
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says no, we oppose your ideas because there is better ways to
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do things and I think Republicans have kind of got
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caught in this idea of if we just say that Democrats are
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really, really bad and we point out like, yes, there's homeless.
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On the street. Yes your utilities are
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increasing. Yes, you know cost of gas is
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skyrocketing is that's one way to do it but it's not.
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It doesn't get people to vote for you.
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And you don't want people, voting just purely against
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because you're not going to get as much momentum.
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You're not going to get someone who sticks, as someone who is
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more in line with you, may be registered as a republican.
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But anyway, that's sort of my small ramp back out Papa can
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definitely go check it out. We're going to be starting to do
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things, especially after this election, we're going to ramp
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things up. It's going to be exciting.
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I think that's going to be a lot of fun.
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So I'm going to be putting a good amount of attention to that
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as well where we can really take action and really start to
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change people's minds and say, look, this is the platform.
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This is what we think you should go for, if you are a
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conservative or someone who wants to change California for
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the better for the 21st century. So, yeah, I think that will be
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exciting as well but kind of Bring it back to the whole big
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announcement is that the content won't change.
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I'll still be here, we'll still be doing it one way or another,
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I think I'll put out a poll and figure out what people want to
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do, whether it's a cocktails in California politics, whether
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it's some over the for maybe it's earlier in the morning.
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Like at eight am not at 9 a.m. or something like that.
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We can figure that out, right? We're all here.
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We're not going anywhere. We're all interested in
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California politics. You all show up.
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Nine am to hear me rant and Amble about California politics
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and yeah, so we'll figure it out and I'm sure that we'll all look
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back and say, remember, coffee and California politics and then
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there's cocktails in California politics or something and we'll
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just, we'll figure it out. The biggest thing is that we
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continue this platform so people can come to people can come to
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and feel like they're part of something that they they don't
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feel alone. That's the biggest thing.
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Whenever I, when I started this platform, it was this idea of
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getting people together to know that you're not alone.
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Alone. There's a lot of other people
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who think like you in California.
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You're not alone. It feels like sometimes you go
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into the office or go different places.
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You walk through your neighborhood and you go, you go.
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Oh, geez, you know, I see the whatever sign, the virtue
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signal, sign. The I stand with Ukraine or
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whatever, cool. Liberal virtue signal is of the
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day. And you go, man, I feel like I'm
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so alone in California and no one understands me.
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That's the point California underground.
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It's for To connect and say they want us all dividing, they want
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you to feel alone. So yes, Camille is very excited.
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Camille is the official treasurer of kalaupapa and she's
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very excited. She is also the one who is very
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good about whipping me to do stuff about Cal public and so
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Props to her for kind of really pushing to get Calla public,
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informally formed and all that stuff.
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So, she's really kind of cracking the whip.
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Speaking of an event that Camille is very involved in In
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is this weekend October 29th from 227 down at Waterfront.
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Park is going to be the freedom Revival events going to be a
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huge event. There's going to be lots of
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speakers, I'm honored and to be invited along with Anthony
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cabassa. We are going to be interviewing
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a bunch of candidates that day. So I think it's, you know, I've
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posted a whole bunch Camille if you want to put in the chat, all
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the people, I think Brian Dolly will be there, they'll people
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B4, like San Diego County, Supervisor stuff like that, but
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it's gonna be a huge event is going to a lot of people last
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time. I think it garnered thousands
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and thousands of people showed up.
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So I'm very excited and there you go. 13 thousand.
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People showed up last time to Freedom Revival.
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It's going to be a big, big event, and I'm honored to be a
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part of it. I'm honored to be asked to in
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Humboldt. Even be asked to be on that
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stage with those candidates and ask them questions.
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And I think Anthony and I, you know, another Anthony's, another
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great, independent journalist, great podcaster so I'm excited.
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Cited to be up there with him and it's funny because I haven't
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actually met all these people really in person.
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So you know, we do these podcast, he comes on the
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podcast. I go on his podcast and this
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will be the first time that we're actually meeting in
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person. There you go.
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Brian Dolly, Angela Jacobs robber.
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Now ski who's running for Secretary of State law nee-chan
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which is running for controller, very big position.
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If he wins, that's a huge. Huge that should be like, the
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biggest thing. I've Lonnie Chen wins.
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That is a huge win for California that he Can will win
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Statewide office. So there's going to be a whole
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bunch of other people, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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And, you know, it's San Diego on the waterfront.
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It's going to be a beautiful day as always down here in San
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Diego. So with that said, I think
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that's all the announcements for right now.
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It's been like, I don't know, 10 minutes I've been just been
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talking about announcements so there are a couple articles.
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So we're still going to talk about some California politics
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this morning after I took a sip of my coffee And tomorrow night
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we are Cynthia and I are going to break down.
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What was the? I wouldn't say very spicy debate
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between Newsome and Dolly. I think it was probably very
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quiet. It's like those parties.
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You hear of public radio. Very quiet where, you know,
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they're like, welcome to KQED and you're listening to public
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radio today. We have someone talking about
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gluten free bread. So it wasn't as spicy as like
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DeSantis or Crist or whatever happened with Federman last
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night. I only saw clips about what
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happened to Federman because jeez, they I don't know what it
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is. I guess Democrats just feel like
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they can run, literally anybody. And if they call Republicans
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racist homophobic bigots and whatever that they'll win.
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But fetterman last night he was the whole rage on Twitter last
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night, so it was all, I kept hearing was that fetterman It
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looked awful and that they shouldn't even put that guy on
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the stage. So we're going to talk about
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that. We're going to try and make it
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as spicy as possible and talk about this stuff.
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Well, we'll pick out the highlights and all that.
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So, if that makes sense. Anyway, so this first article, I
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want to talk about is from the California Globe actually.
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Yep. Well, this one's from California
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Club. This is Senator Brian Jones.
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He wrote an article talking about multi-pronged approach to
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removing homeless, encampments, which this is good.
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And I'm starting to see This is what, I'm glad to see from
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Republicans in California. Is that they're starting to
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propose. Not just, we're not Democrats,
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but Solutions, because who knows and it's very refreshing.
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There is the, I don't know if you saw a couple weeks ago,
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there was a bunch of legislators who came out in Sacramento.
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They said the California promise that was a whole new platform
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that they want to promote. You have to give people options.
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You have to say, this is what option A is.
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Option. A is that if you go with this
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politician, they're going to try and implement this plan, which
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you think is better than this person's plan again.
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Why I think debates are very important is because you have to
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see one candidate versus another and see what plan a versus Plan
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B is or see three candidates. It doesn't have to be just two
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candidates. I know there's a lot of
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Libertarians who follow here as well.
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I wouldn't mind seeing a Libertarian candidate also on
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that stage as well talking about their ideas for California.
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So, is this Senator Brian Jones? Talking about what his idea for
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Bill that is going to introduce. Next time, the legislative
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session opens. It says, my measure has a
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multi-pronged approach that is more than just sweeping the
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problem away. First it promotes, encampments
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within 1 feet of areas, deemed sensitive, schools Parks,
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libraries daycare centers, this will help protect children, safe
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passage to the places. They congregate great.
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Yeah, I think that's, that's obviously that's a no-brainer, I
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think. And, and the thing about that
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is, I see it a lot in my local neighborhood where I live in
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San. I do see a lot of these issues
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to the point where, if we're going out early in the morning
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or we're taking the dog for a walk or something like that, you
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know, I do bring protection. I do carry.
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And I not, because I want to go do anything out, but because
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it's dangerous out there and it's dark, and you walk by a
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park parks, are decimated their trash and stuff like that.
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And then you go by a school, which is right across the street
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that's trashed and decimated you go by the library, which is now
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trashed and decimated, which is interesting.
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I went to the library the other day to get out a book by Tom
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Woods. It really interesting book that
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I'm reading right now, I'm all over the place today cheese.
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I'm just too much coffee or not enough coffee.
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Really interesting book called How the Catholic church built
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Western Civilization. Anyway, check it out.
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I went to the library and I noticed that it was formerly a
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place where there were a lot of homeless people who would hang
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out by the library. Now there's an armed guard.
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Walks around the entire library and you don't see the homeless
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people anymore. So, I don't know this.
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I think this is something that is a good idea.
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I think there are these sensitive places that are
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schools Parks libraries or families want to go, they want
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to take their children, stuff like that, just say they're
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sensitive places and you can't be there, you know, even though
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that their public, some of these are Public public parks, and
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stuff like that, it doesn't mean just because it is a public park
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that one or two. People get to overtake it,
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destroy it intimidate, other people from not using it.
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This is something that a lot of Libertarians talked about with
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like the tragedy of the commons, which is the problem is when
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everybody pays for it through the public, nobody takes care of
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it, right? You see it even as a little kid,
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like growing up. If it's a group project, there's
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always going to be one person who slacks off and doesn't do it
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anything. That's always going to be one
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person who carries the team and does everything.
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That's just group psychology and the tragedy of the commons.
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So I think that that is not a bad idea to say, look, these are
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shared things that if we as taxpayers are paying for, then?
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Yes, these should be clear of homeless encampments.
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You shouldn't be there, you shouldn't be sleeping there, you
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should be setting up tents, you shouldn't be doing whatever
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you're doing over there because people want to come, they want
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to enjoy the library. They want to enjoy the park.
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Obviously, they want to go to school, the children don't want
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to fear that they're going to be walking through homeless
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encampments when they do that daycare centers.
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I mean, obviously, these are these kind of like a no No
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brainer thing like dull. Yeah.
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Obviously these should clear up and I think that would go a long
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way to clear out a lot of neighborhoods that are kind of
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seen homelessness in front of them all the time.
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Second it, mandates enforcement officials.
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Give a 72-hour warning before an encampment sweep could occur.
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This will give impacted homeless individuals, three days to find
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alternative locations. Yeah, I think that's, that's
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fine as well. 72 our warning before and can't sure why not?
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Instead of a lot of times, there's always a cries of people
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shot. Like the police will show up in
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force. They'll clear out an entire
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campement. There's no warning or anything
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like that. That's fine.
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Sure. Give him a heads up and say like
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look we're going to come back in 72 hours.
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If you're not here we're going to have to start enforcing
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stuff. Third, when conducting a sweep
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enforcement officers are required to provide information
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about sleeping, Alternatives, homeless, and mental health,
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services and shelters in the area.
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This will help connect homeless individuals to desperately
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needed services and more suitable place.
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It has to stay. I call this provision.
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The yeah you can't you don't have to go home but you can't
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stay here provision. That's what it seems like to me
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because it's basically saying look when we come back and we
00:18:59
tell you you gotta move along. You can't stay here or you can't
00:19:04
go. You don't have to go home but
00:19:05
you can't stay here but here's all a list of places.
00:19:09
You can go. Here's resources.
00:19:11
You want to find someplace like look we're already kind of
00:19:13
shuffling you off the street. Why don't you go and find
00:19:17
someplace? That was willing to help you.
00:19:18
If you go to this place right now, they'll be able to take you
00:19:21
in. There's a shelter down the
00:19:23
street. There's a shelter over here.
00:19:24
There's a homeless soup, kitchen over here.
00:19:28
There's a lot of these services that we provide for a lot of
00:19:30
services that our taxpayers go tax money goes to.
00:19:34
And I think that's always been something that I have believed
00:19:37
in, is that there's not enough when it comes to homelessness.
00:19:40
There's too much carrot and not enough stick, and we've seen it
00:19:44
time and time again. The one big viral video that
00:19:46
Michael Schellenberg came out with where he talked to one
00:19:49
homeless person. He just basically made like,
00:19:51
look the reason why I'm homeless is because San Francisco makes
00:19:54
it easy to be homeless. Why would I go join the
00:19:58
workforce or do anything? I get $100 a month from the
00:20:02
city, I get other benefits as well.
00:20:04
There's plenty of free benefits for me.
00:20:06
As a homeless person, the weather is nice.
00:20:09
All year, round gets a little chilly here in their little
00:20:11
foggy, but other than that, like on $800, if your Up the street.
00:20:16
That's a lot of money when you don't have bills or anything or
00:20:19
they give you a phone or something like that, like that
00:20:22
to me is the one extreme that we should get really far away from
00:20:26
is that it's too much carat. We need to start implementing a
00:20:29
little bit more stick, which is look, we want to be
00:20:31
compassionate. We want to help you but we also
00:20:36
understand that like people live in this area, people live in
00:20:38
cities, they live in these neighborhoods.
00:20:41
You know, parents want to walk their kids.
00:20:43
They want to walk their dogs. They want to just have a nice
00:20:46
stroll down the street. Like you can't that's a good way
00:20:51
to put it. Stop feeding the birds, that's
00:20:53
one way to put it. You can't stay here and you
00:20:57
can't just I'm trying to find the right way to put this.
00:21:02
We want to help you but there's a lot of people who pay to live
00:21:07
in this neighborhood and they pay for the parking and we're
00:21:10
for the streets and the sidewalks and all that stuff.
00:21:14
And you just, you can't ruin it for everybody else.
00:21:18
So I think that's where we have to go.
00:21:21
I think we do have, we've put enough carrot.
00:21:24
It's time to put stick to it and say, you can't just give
00:21:30
homeless, all they want and no consequences, right?
00:21:34
You have to give them a hand up and say, like, look, we want to
00:21:37
help you but you can't sleep here next to a library.
00:21:41
You can't sleep here next to a park.
00:21:43
You can't build up tension. It's over here.
00:21:45
Like we want to help you. We're spending a lot of money to
00:21:49
help you, but I said, your house is ugly.
00:21:53
Move on. Somebody else said it, that was
00:21:56
somebody else's words. Not mine somebody in the chat
00:21:59
site that? Yeah.
00:22:01
And I think there has to be more stick.
00:22:03
So that's what I think this really is.
00:22:06
Kind of doing is saying, like, look, you can't stay in these
00:22:09
areas first off. You can't even set up in these
00:22:12
areas and 1 feet is a good amount.
00:22:14
If you're in a certain neighborhood, you know, a
00:22:15
thousand feet from a school encompasses, a large area and
00:22:19
then 1 feet from a daycare could also Encompass a large
00:22:22
area and then 1 feet from a library could Encompass a large
00:22:26
area. So you start to see like these
00:22:27
overlapping and, you know, they do this on purpose, so that
00:22:30
there are overlapping circles. So that the library, which is
00:22:34
two blocks from the daycare or a daycare, or schooled those Was
00:22:38
overlap. Now, the circle got bigger and
00:22:40
then it just becomes a big thing.
00:22:43
That's a good first, step public things that we all pay for that.
00:22:46
We want to enjoy libraries Parks schools, all that stuff.
00:22:50
Although I also proposed that we should get away from
00:22:52
government-mandated schools and we should go for more school
00:22:54
choice and and homeschooling but that's a whole different set of
00:22:57
issues though. That's a good way to start, I
00:23:02
think. And then I also think that
00:23:04
giving them a heads up saying, hey, look, we're going to come
00:23:06
back. We're going to do, we're going
00:23:09
to do enforcement. We're going to enforcement
00:23:10
sweeps. You guys can't stay here.
00:23:12
You got to get moving along, that's fine as well.
00:23:15
And then I think finally saying like look all right we've given
00:23:18
you enough chances, we got to move you along but here are some
00:23:21
resources where you can go. I think that's fair.
00:23:23
I don't think that's the worst thing in the world that
00:23:26
addresses the immediate definitely.
00:23:31
Somebody says, I believe there's one easy solution to curing
00:23:32
homelessness, Bella never happen.
00:23:34
That solution is removing all welfare programs offered in the
00:23:36
state. That's what I'm saying which is
00:23:39
that there is a lot of carat and no stick and San.
00:23:42
Francisco is a perfect example where they spend billions of
00:23:45
dollars on the homelessness but they don't enforce anything.
00:23:48
So it's very much like we're going to give away everything
00:23:52
but then they wonder why there's so many homeless and why do the
00:23:54
people keep coming? It's well yeah because if word
00:23:57
gets out that the best place to be homeless is San Francisco
00:24:00
where you're going to make eight hundred dollars a month and you
00:24:02
can live on the street and you have to pay for any bills and
00:24:04
you enough money for food every week.
00:24:07
If you're a single person and you're living off $800 a month.
00:24:10
I mean, you could, you could stretch that to feed yourself
00:24:14
and still have money left over for everything else.
00:24:19
I agree with that at this point public school, as a welfare
00:24:21
program said by Camille in the chat.
00:24:24
Yeah, I would absolutely agree with that.
00:24:28
So, yeah, I think there's way too much carrot and not enough
00:24:30
stick, so, but in the other thing about homelessness, That I
00:24:36
want to discuss real quick. And there's also another point I
00:24:39
wanted to bring up, I was going to Tweet about it, but I'll
00:24:41
bring it up in a minute is There is a bigger underlying issue
00:24:46
that no, I've never heard a politician, talk about.
00:24:50
However, it is part of the Calla Publican platform.
00:24:53
So you know, check it out. Calla Publican, caucus.com.com.
00:24:59
Or.org, I can't remember I think it's.com because it's not a
00:25:02
nonprofit organization. Anyway the underlying thing that
00:25:06
nobody ever talks about when it comes to homelessness is why are
00:25:09
there homeless people? And I would say, it's mostly
00:25:12
because the cost of living in California is way too high and
00:25:16
there's not enough affordable housing, right?
00:25:19
And a lot of people Teeter on that, sort of, going from rent,
00:25:24
to month-to-month just making it by and if they miss it's
00:25:28
dot-org. Okay, Calif, akala.
00:25:30
Publican caucus dot-org. If you want to go check it out.
00:25:34
There are too many people who are living paycheck to paycheck.
00:25:38
And are really on the edge. Because things are so expensive.
00:25:43
And when that happens, you have no room for savings.
00:25:46
You have no room for an emergency fund.
00:25:49
And what happens is when something goes bad, which stuff
00:25:56
always inevitably does. You then end up homeless.
00:26:02
That's one thing. I think that nobody really
00:26:05
addresses here in California. Is that a lot of people are
00:26:08
teetering on if they miss one paycheck.
00:26:12
They will, they'll be out of a house and home and they won't be
00:26:15
able to make around the next month and they'll be gone and
00:26:18
they'll never be able to catch up.
00:26:19
So that's one thing that I hear nobody ever really talks about
00:26:23
here in California. It's the underlying issues like
00:26:26
why are there homeless in California?
00:26:28
It's not just because California is, I mean yeah.
00:26:30
California's, beautiful climate and all that.
00:26:32
Yes, there's a lot of welfare but I think it's also because
00:26:36
there's a lot of people and I saw this a lot during covid,
00:26:39
which you saw A lot of people who probably lost their jobs
00:26:45
probably were doing that. They were living paycheck to
00:26:48
paycheck. I feel like a lot of hospitality
00:26:49
workers. Probably went through this, they
00:26:51
didn't know what to do. They didn't know where to go.
00:26:54
There may be some people who are all by themselves, didn't know
00:26:56
what to do. And you would look at people and
00:26:57
they were, I would say newly homeless, you know, you could
00:27:00
tell when someone's newly homeless, you know, they still
00:27:04
have a decent haircut, they're still playing on their iPhone.
00:27:09
Those people to met our newly homeless, you know, and That's
00:27:12
the sad part is. I saw a lot more of that during
00:27:15
covid, because people were teetering on the edge, you close
00:27:18
down all these businesses, and people lost their living
00:27:22
situations, or where they were, and that's an underlying issue
00:27:27
that no one ever talks about. So yes, there is the immediate
00:27:32
issue of there is the immediate issue of yes.
00:27:36
There's homeless on the street and what do we do to get rid of
00:27:38
them or move them along so that People don't have to look at
00:27:43
them. That's the big issue that oh
00:27:45
everyone's always worried about is we don't want to look at them
00:27:47
and get them off our streets and stuff like that.
00:27:49
And that's the big immediate issue that people want to talk
00:27:51
about. But the underlying I think is a
00:27:53
lot bigger which is that we are, we just don't have affordability
00:27:58
here in California where people can live and move back into
00:28:01
apartments and afford to put it away and nice tag.
00:28:06
You have to make a lot of money to really kind of put away a
00:28:08
nest egg and that includes like not only paying for Or, you
00:28:12
know, for savings, you're talking about, you have to pay
00:28:14
for groceries, have to pay for utilities, all that stuff adds
00:28:16
up and dwindles away, your ability to put away in emergency
00:28:19
nest egg in case bad things happen.
00:28:22
But that's one thing nobody ever talks about.
00:28:24
However, the Cal Publican caucus does talk about that.
00:28:27
Somebody said, yes, I hear from my older customers.
00:28:29
Every month, they are barely making it and it's too expensive
00:28:32
for them to move. Yeah.
00:28:33
And that's something that a lot of people really kind of
00:28:36
struggle with is it is really sore.
00:28:42
Announce you're also leaving the state.
00:28:44
No, I'm not going anywhere. I'm locked into California,
00:28:46
because as a attorney here in California.
00:28:50
I'm not going to take another bar, so I'm locked into
00:28:52
California, that's why I'm here. That's, you know, that's how
00:28:55
that's that's my money. Maker is my being an attorney.
00:28:58
So Too many taxes and regulations prevent businesses
00:29:03
from paying better, vicious cycle.
00:29:04
Yeah. It all kind of plays into all of
00:29:08
this comes down into why people end up on the streets because if
00:29:12
they can't pay better, if businesses can't pay better
00:29:14
salaries, if it's not affordable of gas is $6 a gallon and you're
00:29:19
teetering on the edge, and it's sort of this warped idea that
00:29:24
they want to make gas expensive to punish people to force them
00:29:29
to go. Electric and cars that they
00:29:32
won't be able to afford. It's really screwed up, how they
00:29:36
do that. And that's that's another issue
00:29:38
that I think Republicans and conservatives everybody needs to
00:29:42
start talking about homeless. Camp is RI Source.
00:29:45
However I deal with it, if I never have to see another one
00:29:48
shooting up, while sitting outside work, where kids were
00:29:50
owned by. Well, I think that's the idea.
00:29:53
The idea is that they are trying to move this along so that and
00:29:57
the sensitive areas is that you can't be around those areas.
00:30:01
Gas was three dollars when I was there in Texas two weeks ago.
00:30:04
Yeah, yeah. And when we were in Arizona, not
00:30:06
too long ago, it was like a month ago.
00:30:09
It was three 73-53 70. Anyway, getting off track.
00:30:13
But yeah, I think that's one thing about homelessness is.
00:30:17
There's a lot of factors that go into people being homeless in
00:30:20
California? Yes.
00:30:22
We all see this stuff on TV. Yes.
00:30:24
We see the viral videos of you get paid. $800 a month to just,
00:30:30
Be homeless in San Francisco. There is a lot of carat no
00:30:34
stick. Nobody wants to enforce
00:30:36
anything. There is a drug problem but I
00:30:38
think it's also an affordability issue.
00:30:39
I think there's a good amount of people who are just stuck on the
00:30:42
streets and I don't know if it's a chicken or egg thing to people
00:30:46
get. Do people end up on the streets
00:30:48
because of drugs or do people turn to drugs because they're on
00:30:53
the street. That's another question.
00:30:54
I don't think people if anyone's looking to maybe someone like
00:30:58
Michael Schellenberg, who's done a lot of work on this, Is it
00:31:01
that people are, is it one or the other?
00:31:05
It certainly could be both. It could be but it'd be
00:31:08
interesting to see the percentage of how many people
00:31:10
end up on the streets because of drugs or how many people turn to
00:31:14
drugs while they're on the street because they're dealing
00:31:17
with a horrible situation which is their living on the street
00:31:20
and they're just trying to make the days go by and they don't
00:31:23
know what else to do to each the pain.
00:31:24
So they turn to drugs, I could completely understand that as
00:31:28
well. So I think it's an it's an
00:31:32
alright proposal. It's a decent proposal to good.
00:31:35
It's a good start to something. Something has to be done, there
00:31:38
has to be more stick less carrot in my mind.
00:31:42
We've tried the whole carrot philosophy.
00:31:47
I know noodles is trying his whole care Court soon, he's
00:31:50
trying to roll that out which would basically be like if we
00:31:54
pick you up because you're doing meth on the street and you're
00:31:56
shooting up, you got two choices, you can go to jail.
00:32:02
Spend time there and be criminally prosecuted or you can
00:32:04
get care. So, not a bad idea is well, I
00:32:08
don't think that's an awful idea as well.
00:32:10
So one thing I was thinking about the other day, if you can
00:32:15
hear winning the background of what she is barking at.
00:32:19
She barks, every little thing that comes by It was just this
00:32:25
sort of fact that like when cities I think when cities are
00:32:30
clean there's something to be said about cities when they're
00:32:33
clean, I was downtown yesterday in San Diego and I pulled up at
00:32:39
a meter and went to go pay in the meter.
00:32:44
And the meter is filthy and you may say is that really a big
00:32:48
issue? Is that really on the top of
00:32:49
your list of issues, I think it's important, okay?
00:32:54
And I think this kind of ties into the whole idea of why
00:32:56
people don't like homelessness and on and all that.
00:32:59
I think a clean City goes a long way to making people feel good.
00:33:04
You walk through a certain area when the city feels it feels
00:33:07
clean. It feels good.
00:33:08
The sidewalks are clean. There's no trash you feel good,
00:33:12
right? And I've tweeted about this the
00:33:14
other day that every time you see a politician spend one
00:33:18
dollar on one of their Crusades or social.
00:33:21
Issue Crusades that they have to put out.
00:33:24
It's one less dollar fixing something in the city.
00:33:27
Yes, that's my campaign platform, clean the M, they're
00:33:31
gross, but now it's a bigger issue.
00:33:33
How hard is it? And what is being overlooked?
00:33:37
And where is money going? Instead of this?
00:33:40
That's something I think about. Where's money going?
00:33:43
Instead of just having people go up and down and clean the
00:33:49
streets. Right?
00:33:52
And then you go by m and it's caked in dirt and grime and you
00:33:56
go What then what's the point in paying taxes for any of this
00:34:00
stuff? If no one's going to come by and
00:34:02
clean this stuff? And that's one thing that I
00:34:03
think more Californians have to start getting upset about is the
00:34:07
basic necessities, California is not providing for, let's just
00:34:09
get that straight. California is very much about
00:34:12
bragging about how it's the fifth largest economy.
00:34:15
And I always say, despite the fact that all the regulations, I
00:34:18
think California is the biggest economy.
00:34:19
I think it could be the nut will like one of the top.
00:34:21
Economies could probably be number two.
00:34:23
Right behind the United. You old good, a good old United
00:34:26
States of America. If it just unleash, the shackles
00:34:30
baked parking meters clean again, that's going to be my new
00:34:32
campaign slogan, but in all seriousness, it's when you think
00:34:37
about every time they step up and say we're going to spend all
00:34:40
this money on this social issue, What is that?
00:34:43
Tell you, they're not going to spend money on something else,
00:34:46
right? They're not going to spend money
00:34:48
and it and I just pick up on it everywhere I go, you know,
00:34:51
cleaning the sidewalks right? Where people walk cleaning
00:34:54
sidewalks there's broken glass or something like that or you
00:34:58
look at like, the trash bins on the beach, that look like
00:35:01
they've been there for 30 years and they're beaten to hell.
00:35:03
And they have holes in them that looks horrible.
00:35:06
Like, there's things like that lifeguard stands, which look
00:35:09
like they're about to fall over like this stuff.
00:35:12
You look at and go. What are we actually doing here
00:35:15
with our tax dollars? If we can't do the basic
00:35:19
necessities, right? It's kind of like your own
00:35:21
personal budget. I'm really all over the place
00:35:24
today. I'm just kind of just going with
00:35:26
it. This is a real kind of off the
00:35:28
cuff kalkhoff in California politics.
00:35:32
It's kind of like your personal budget, right?
00:35:35
If you have a personal budget and you have X y&z, you got to
00:35:37
pay your rent, you got to pay electricity, you got to pay for
00:35:40
food, you got pay for water, all those things.
00:35:43
Those are the Basic necessities, right?
00:35:46
And you say I have to have enough money to pay for these
00:35:49
basic necessities, so that I'm able to live that I can support
00:35:54
myself. And then if there's any money
00:35:57
left over at the end of month, you can save it.
00:36:00
You can spend out other things. Maybe you go out to a movie.
00:36:02
Maybe go out to dinner, maybe you put it away for a nice
00:36:04
vacation. You do things that are not
00:36:07
really not required. I think everybody but I do think
00:36:10
everybody should go out to movies and dinners and
00:36:12
vacations. That's how you run a budget.
00:36:17
If you're a city, you don't skip the basic necessities to get to
00:36:21
the luxuries that you want. You don't get to say, I'm going
00:36:25
to spend less on cleaning the streets.
00:36:28
Making sure things work, making sure our city is absolutely
00:36:31
pristine that the, you know, the public transportation runs on
00:36:34
time that everything is accounted for and then when
00:36:38
we're all done, once we provide all the basic necessities and
00:36:42
every parking meter in downtown San Diego, Ego is absolutely
00:36:45
spotless then we can step back and go.
00:36:49
Okay. Is there anything else that the
00:36:50
government can step in and help with?
00:36:53
That's how I think budgeting should be across the board?
00:36:57
Not just in California. I think that's how it should be
00:36:59
across the board but too much politicians.
00:37:03
Kind of jump the line and they go.
00:37:04
We're going to skip over the basic necessities and we're not
00:37:08
going to focus on that stuff and we're going to take money and
00:37:11
spend it on our little Crusades that get us more votes or get us
00:37:17
on the news or get us on MB, MSNBC and get us on all this
00:37:21
stuff and then we get to Pat ourselves on the back and say,
00:37:23
look at all this money that we spend to do X Y and Z.
00:37:27
It's not our money and we took the money from the citizens and
00:37:29
we spend it on all this stuff that I want to do because I'm
00:37:32
the person in charge. It's very selfish of them to be
00:37:35
like this is what I want to do because it's my personal social
00:37:38
issue that I want to hang on to. I think that's not the way to do
00:37:43
it. I think One way you can to start
00:37:45
approaching fiscal responsibility here in
00:37:47
California as if you can't provide for the basic
00:37:49
necessities and if you look at a parking meter that is absolutely
00:37:54
grimy and dirty and go no one's coming by to clean this.
00:37:58
There's trash on the ground. No one's picking up the trash in
00:38:01
the trash can, no one's fixing this stuff.
00:38:03
No one's doing any of this stuff.
00:38:05
Then what's the point then? You kind of say that then what's
00:38:09
the point of doing any of this in spending on money, on taxes?
00:38:13
Right? Because they're going to waste
00:38:15
it and they're going to spend it on their own thing.
00:38:16
Anyway. Yeah I think that's I really got
00:38:20
off on a tangent there but I had to do with the homeless
00:38:22
encampments and stuff like that so it's something I was thinking
00:38:24
about this weekend. I'm like especially yesterday
00:38:26
when I looked at as like and you put your card in your like well
00:38:29
you're like try not to touch all the mud and Grime on the meter
00:38:32
and you're like look gross and you have to use hand sanitizer
00:38:35
because Lord knows. Yeah, somebody brought up they
00:38:38
were talking all about covid and how I mean covid, they wiped
00:38:41
everything down to like death now.
00:38:43
I don't wipe anything down anymore.
00:38:45
Yeah. Yeah why pay taxes anymore?
00:38:47
If they're not going to provide the basic necessities.
00:38:50
So And that was one thing I always noticed.
00:38:55
When people say, well, you know what's the big difference
00:38:57
between like Kevin Faulkner and Todd?
00:39:00
Gloria? I could tell you the difference
00:39:03
between Kevin Faulkner and Todd Gloria by walking around
00:39:07
downtown San Diego. And seen say, you know what,
00:39:10
downtown San Diego really clean and it's really well, taken care
00:39:14
of. And it's it feels like a nice
00:39:16
downtown. I'm I feel good here. now, when
00:39:19
you go to downtown San Diego, Dirty parking meters.
00:39:23
So go to you. When you look at your city and
00:39:25
you see a dirty parking meter. Now you're going to think like
00:39:28
why are we not cleaning up these parking meters?
00:39:30
So make parking meters clean again.
00:39:36
Someone says, all you have to do is look at some city and county
00:39:38
budgets to see how our money is spent.
00:39:39
And yet they want more, yeah, they're always.
00:39:43
They're always asking more. They always say that.
00:39:46
That's why they always say, we need more money, it's like a San
00:39:50
Diego here, that's the San Diego sandag, the association of
00:39:55
governments, they want more money.
00:39:57
Why? Because they need more money for
00:39:59
public transportation, three percent of the entire County
00:40:02
uses public transportation, but they want more money for it.
00:40:05
You can't run, public transportation.
00:40:07
As is with the amount of money we give you.
00:40:08
So so, says, the dirty m, is why I ended up getting L app.
00:40:13
I didn't want to touch them. There's a meter app and
00:40:16
something new. See you look.
00:40:17
I learn something new every day. Could someone run on shown the
00:40:21
books and showing where your tax dollars is being spent on?
00:40:25
I think that's what Lonnie Chen is really running on Lonnie Chen
00:40:28
is, you know, the controller of is it controller comptroller?
00:40:33
I think it's controller of the state is basically like the
00:40:37
treasure in the bookkeeper so they definitely don't want a
00:40:40
republican to get in there because a republican go in there
00:40:43
and be like, all right I'm going to show you everything that's
00:40:45
been on the books for the past 20 years because I have that
00:40:48
authority to do so we had a Andre on from open the books and
00:40:54
he talked about this before, and he's been trying to crack that
00:40:57
code of like, getting up like getting the state checkbook from
00:41:01
California and seeing what we spent money on because I bet you
00:41:07
anything that the reason they don't want to allow people to
00:41:10
see the state checkbook here in California is because people
00:41:13
will be absolutely astounded and shocked and sickened by what we
00:41:18
spend our money on and how much We spend our money on, so they
00:41:21
don't want people to see what's going on in the state checkbook,
00:41:25
but that's also part of the Calla Publican platform, which
00:41:29
is, there should be accountability and transparency
00:41:32
with a state that boasts that we're Silicon Valley.
00:41:35
And we create a Google and apple and all that stuff.
00:41:39
I think we should absolutely be able to hire some of the best
00:41:42
tech guys to come up with a program that says, okay, we
00:41:46
raised x amount of dollars with your gas tax.
00:41:50
And we can follow that money to see where is that money going?
00:41:54
This money's going here, this money's going there, this
00:41:56
money's going to this, oh wait, some went back into the general
00:41:59
fund. Why is it going back in the
00:42:01
general fund? Because the general fund, they
00:42:02
can mix money up and do whatever they want with it.
00:42:04
So that's another thing. All right, we got a couple
00:42:08
minutes left, I was going to get into a whole story about noodles
00:42:14
running for president. That's too long of an article to
00:42:18
get into now, but it's basically everything.
00:42:21
I've been saying about noodles wants to run for president.
00:42:24
So, you know, in terms of like when you go into the comment
00:42:29
section, I get to say first because this is all the stuff
00:42:33
that I've been saying all along, which is why he spending, which
00:42:35
is why it's going other places he's building his brand and if
00:42:38
he doesn't run in 2024, he's building his brand for 2028
00:42:41
which would be a perfect way to transition out of his second
00:42:45
term and I have no more encumbrances.
00:42:48
And I can focus because it'll finish in 2026 or 2028.
00:42:51
It'll be a perfect time for him to run and get his campaign
00:42:55
running because you always start your campaigns two years before.
00:42:58
So, if you think the midterms have been exciting, just wait
00:43:01
until February of next year. When people start to announced,
00:43:03
they're running for president, so, The fun never stops in
00:43:09
politics. It's our money.
00:43:13
So we should be able to see it. Absolutely, I agree.
00:43:15
We should be able to see everything.
00:43:18
There should be absolute transparency.
00:43:20
The state checkbook should be opened.
00:43:23
We should be able to see all the money that we're spending and
00:43:27
people should be able to log on to a website and say, hey, I
00:43:29
paid X dollars in taxes. Where is that money going?
00:43:33
And they should give you a breakdown of your money.
00:43:36
Those here here and here. And then you can say, okay, well
00:43:41
I feel pretty good about that or you can look at and say, I don't
00:43:45
feel good about any of that, why are you doing that?
00:43:47
And then people will be more more informed on where their
00:43:51
taxes are going any input on voter guides.
00:43:55
I don't do voter guides and I've said this before, I don't do
00:43:59
voter guides. I mean, I'm sure if you're a
00:44:01
republican, I'm sure they've sent you some sort of Republican
00:44:05
voter guide, their official County voter voter guide.
00:44:08
I Do voter guys because I always believe it's not really my job
00:44:12
to tell you who to vote for. It's not my place to tell you
00:44:16
who to vote for. I think the whole point is that
00:44:20
I want you to go out there and read check out the candidates,
00:44:24
if you don't like them, don't vote for him just because I'm an
00:44:26
RN X. Mm.
00:44:28
So yeah. Check out all the voter guides.
00:44:33
I like to. When I sit down to my ballot, I
00:44:36
usually have like several voter guides.
00:44:38
I'll have like the budget Watchdog, and then you get the
00:44:40
police and Sheriff's. They do one thing.
00:44:45
And then, you know, you get the Republican, you get the
00:44:46
libertarian one out and stuff like that.
00:44:49
So I was a little disappointed that the California libertarian
00:44:53
party took no stance on Prop 1. We're such high and smug.
00:44:59
Yo, man, that's a, that's a classic throwback.
00:45:01
That's how you know you've been around for a while before I had
00:45:04
my own mug. Giants are killing it, though,
00:45:07
six. And one real deal this year, I
00:45:11
can't believe you're ending this podcast right before the
00:45:13
election was looking forward to the chat on November 9th.
00:45:16
Then maybe we do a cocktails in California Politics on November
00:45:20
9th, right? Look, it's not ending.
00:45:24
I'm not going anywhere. I'm still going to be here so
00:45:29
I'm actually thinking of maybe doing like a live stream on
00:45:31
November 8. I think that'd be a lot of fun.
00:45:35
Maybe I can reach out to some of those other podcasts.
00:45:37
We can do it a nice live stream. Will start at 7, will kind of
00:45:40
review where the rest of Country went, and then we could by 8:00.
00:45:44
We'll know everything going on in California.
00:45:46
So we do look at a hold to our live stream.
00:45:50
I think that might be a good idea to our livestream.
00:45:52
Who would you like to see on a livestream with me for a live
00:45:59
for a live, midterm, election stream?
00:46:04
They'll charge us billions for that website after, right?
00:46:07
People are you can make a deal, okay?
00:46:10
You got it because people don't know how to make deals.
00:46:13
It's my money and I want to see it.
00:46:14
Now that's what I was thinking. I'm glad someone picked up on
00:46:17
it. Let's see.
00:46:20
Did you do voting? Yes on 26 and 27?
00:46:22
Who's with me? People have been trying.
00:46:26
I'm voting. No.
00:46:27
On 26, A lot of people been trying to convince me to vote.
00:46:32
No on Prop 27 as So look, Papa just wants to be able to put
00:46:37
down a bet every once in a while, you know, just to make
00:46:40
things fun on a football Sunday, but there's better ways to do
00:46:45
that mises caucus. Doesn't want to take a stance on
00:46:48
abortion because there's no consensus agreement.
00:46:51
Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, I can understand, I think
00:46:55
the mises cock is trying to distance itself from abortion
00:46:59
which is probably why they left it out.
00:47:01
So but it is interesting that and take a stance at all on it.
00:47:08
Like, take one stands for the other.
00:47:09
I guess the fact that you took no stance is kind of interesting
00:47:12
to me. Brian table matters.
00:47:14
Yeah he does cabasa is doing one.
00:47:18
Okay, we're gonna get you and Karma will be in Sacramento.
00:47:21
Okay. So you guys are out, everyone's
00:47:23
out. Yeah, I think a live stream on
00:47:28
for them in terms will be fun. So, Maybe not in this life or
00:47:32
maybe. He's on someone else's platform
00:47:33
but I think it'd be fun anyway. All right, any final questions
00:47:37
or comments on this final final call.
00:47:40
Well, as of right now, final coffee and California politics
00:47:43
at 9 a.m. whether we decide to do it earlier, whether we decide
00:47:47
to do it at night and turn into cocktails and California
00:47:50
politics or something like that, who knows?
00:47:54
But I think it'll be there's gonna be a lot to do is there's
00:47:58
a lot of plans and things are going to continue on.
00:48:01
Going anywhere, I'm not giving up California.
00:48:05
Underground going to keep working going to keep working on
00:48:07
Cal, public and stuff like that. So still be around and make sure
00:48:14
you check out if you're in the area.
00:48:19
And if you are in the area of San Diego, I vote to keep going
00:48:23
in the a.m. All right, well, there's one
00:48:26
vote. So I'm going to put a poll out,
00:48:29
maybe I'll just put a question out and see what people say.
00:48:32
Whether they want to keep it in the a.m., maybe we just do it
00:48:35
earlier, like 7:30 8:00 a.m. so that way I can have time to get
00:48:42
into the office and stuff like that.
00:48:45
Which all of you are probably saying going, if commuting, we
00:48:48
can't comment. That's a good point.
00:48:50
If you're commuting, you can't comment.
00:48:52
If you're at work, you can comment because you're sitting
00:48:55
at work barbecue, and politics. See, a problem with barbecue in
00:48:59
politics is the stuff I like to make takes, like, 5 hours.
00:49:02
So we'd be sitting there for a long time, talking about a lot
00:49:05
of things for five hours. And I probably my yeah, I'm
00:49:11
sorry man. But we'll be One more don't
00:49:14
worry, they'll be plenty of lives will be plenty of things
00:49:17
to look forward to don't worry platforms.
00:49:20
Not going anywhere. Platform is definitely not going
00:49:23
anywhere. It's just evolving.
00:49:25
It's changing and who knows fire up the burgers and then I won't
00:49:31
be focused because I'll be too worried about not overcooking.
00:49:33
My burger so Do do, do do. But yeah, Freedom, revivals this
00:49:41
weekend, check it out. If you're in the area, if you're
00:49:45
in hell, if you're in Orange County, make the drive down,
00:49:48
brisket in business, everyone's throwing out new ideas, I love
00:49:51
it. So yeah, check that out.
00:49:55
Tomorrow night. We're going to do a little
00:49:57
breakdown of the Newsome. Dolly debate, try and spice it
00:50:02
up as much as possible. Oh, medium-rare on everything.
00:50:05
So I said, burger temperature preferences.
00:50:06
Medium rare, medium rare on steaks, medium round Burgers.
00:50:09
Everything I'd love to help. If you all need a photo
00:50:14
journalist in Sacramento, there you go.
00:50:15
If anybody needs a photo journalist in Sacramento, I'm
00:50:18
not in Sacramento, but if someone needs a photo journalist
00:50:20
in Sacramento, You have to all donate to his platform so you
00:50:26
can buy all this meat, you're suggesting.
00:50:27
Yeah, that's that's why you have to buy my shirts so I can buy
00:50:34
brisket and stuff like that. Now all the money always goes
00:50:37
back into all the money goes back into this platform and
00:50:42
investing in better Tech and stuff like that did finally get
00:50:45
a new laptop. So that will be exciting,
00:50:47
they'll be better for live streams and stuff like that.
00:50:49
So, I'm excited about that for better video quality and all
00:50:52
that very To get a new laptop. All right.
00:50:57
Well, with that said, I want to thank everybody so much for
00:51:01
tuning in and listening to me rant every Wednesday morning at
00:51:04
9. A.m. it's been a pleasure, all
00:51:08
you guys, you know, I know I see all the ones who are regulars.
00:51:13
I see you guys. Thank you so much for being
00:51:16
regulars and sticking with me and sit in here and chat with me
00:51:20
every Wednesday at 9:00. A.m. it was an idea where I just
00:51:23
Started one day and said, hey maybe people will pay attention
00:51:27
if I go live and talk about this stuff on Instagram and you guys
00:51:31
are proven that to me and it's also proven to me that there's a
00:51:34
lot of people who are really interested in what's going on in
00:51:36
California. And I hope people who have tuned
00:51:38
in see that there are other people who think there are other
00:51:45
people who think a lot like them and that they don't feel they're
00:51:49
100% alone, you know? And I think that's the biggest
00:51:52
thing, if that's the biggest thing.
00:51:53
Thing that I've accomplished is that people come onto this live
00:51:56
and they see other names and they see other comments and they
00:51:59
see other people and they say, you know what, we're not alone
00:52:02
and I can tell you right now. The best thing about this
00:52:06
platform is the connections that I have made which is meeting
00:52:10
other people working with those people getting things done.
00:52:14
And that's really the point is that people have met each other
00:52:17
and they have worked together and they're building stuff.
00:52:21
And you see that? You see that not only with my
00:52:24
platform. You see that with platforms like
00:52:26
rooted Wings. You see that with other big
00:52:29
platforms like Sean Frederick's and Anthony cabassa.
00:52:31
You see like these big platforms are connecting people and
00:52:35
they're getting the Grassroots stuff done which is really
00:52:37
what's important. So that's the whole point of
00:52:40
this is to bring the people together to say we're not the
00:52:43
only ones here. We're not all by ourselves if we
00:52:48
work together and we start doing things, you can change it.
00:52:51
You can make a little bit of Of a change.
00:52:53
It's going to be a lot of work and you know, but the people who
00:52:57
show up every week I think you're ready for the work.
00:53:00
So with that said, I will be putting out some sort of, pull
00:53:03
to figure out what people want to do.
00:53:08
Oh, that's nice. Thanks man.
00:53:10
California is open up the world on Paula, California, politics
00:53:13
to me. Thank you.
00:53:14
Thank you very much. You're very welcome.
00:53:17
Thank you for tuning in. I know you're a loyal tuner
00:53:22
viewer. I was going to say listener,
00:53:23
it's more of the only thing viewer.
00:53:26
So yeah, thank you. And that's really the point of
00:53:28
this. So, like I said, even if this
00:53:31
specifically won't be happening, something else will be happening
00:53:35
and we'll all be there. I can guarantee I feel I feel
00:53:38
like a strong feeling that like, if we move it to something else,
00:53:44
something else is going to come in and I have a feeling people
00:53:48
who are tuned in right now. I'll see y'all there, too as
00:53:51
well. And we're still going to talk
00:53:52
about. All this stuff and it's going to
00:53:54
be. It's there's always going to be
00:53:55
enough to talk about with California politics.
00:53:57
So with that said, thank you so much signing off for the last
00:54:01
time for coffee and California politics for now.
00:54:04
You know, maybe it comes back one day but for now, for a
00:54:06
while, signing off for the last time and I'll see you guys all
00:54:10
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