On this episode we rebut and respond to Newsom's second inauguration speech where he claims California is the state of "true freedom."
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https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/California-businesses-leaving-the-state-17553168.php
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What's going on everybody? Thanks for tuning in to another
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episode of the California underground podcast.
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I am fill your host along with me, is my co-host Camille the
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fastest, and best Wiese researcher in the west.
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What's going on? Can you know, how are you
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tonight? She froze.
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Did we loser? She like that.
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So, there we go. Yeah.
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You cut out for a minute. Maybe, I could help you cut out
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for a minute, but how are you tonight?
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I could thanks, hurry. Oh, I'm good.
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Are you ready to sit through about 20 format?
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Well, actually this would be like our second time sitting
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through it because we had to watch it before we started the
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podcast. So this is our second time.
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So for all of our listeners and viewers this is how much we love
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you. We're Willing to sit through
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Gavin. Newsom speech twice just for you
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so we can pick it apart and ridicule.
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It any initial thoughts before we head into this video tonight?
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Where are you going to start? Are you going to start with his
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wife? I wasn't planning on it.
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This video I found was it cut her off?
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I know she did some really bad Spanish.
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I know there's a clip of her. Speaking Spanish really poorly.
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Now, I but, is there anything else about her that you wanted
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to bring up? Well, so she did the same thing
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in 2019. She did a short reading where
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she did it in Spanish, in English.
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And then when she did this one, this last week, Gavin got up and
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made the comment about Jennifer learning Spanish during walk
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down. So I'm like, so, you just
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admitted that the 2019 was so fake, you just admitted that she
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did not know Spanish and 29. Notches that it's slightly
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better than dr. Jill, Biden saying SI SE puede
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way or whatever. That was possibly the worst or
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calling, everybody. All Mexicans and Latinos tacos
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or something. They're like as diverse as tacos
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or something. It's like that was pretty bad.
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I mean if you're gonna Pander just do it better and they're
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just Democrats are kind of their slouching a little bit on the
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pandering, they're not getting as good.
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It's like Hillary Clinton saying on what's the name of that
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podcast with Charlamagne Tha God where she said, oh I what's one
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thing you carry around in your purse all the time and she said
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hot sauce and then they were all like hot sauce.
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Why you carry around hot sauce and she's like something about?
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Like is it working? Or you guys believe in me?
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Anyway, we're not here to talk about Hillary Clinton because
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she's not relevant right now. The one thing that I wanted to
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talk about before we get into it is Is there was a controversy.
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because of, How he did this whole like people's March.
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So he started off he was marching his way up to the
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Capitol and it was supposed to be this big symbolic thing of
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like so like when Barack Obama walked across the Selma bridge
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and like that was a big like symbolic, March of like I'm
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leading the people and it was this big obviously orchestrated
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political stunt and everyone thought it was going to be this
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great idea. And then they kick all the press
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out, like, the Press weren't allowed to approach them, they
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were allowed to be part of the March.
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They were basically pushed off to the side and like, no one
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could take pictures. Like, only certain approve.
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People were able to take pictures, and there are a lot of
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people who were very upset about this.
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Because for someone who in this speech, preaches about Freedom
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was not very freedom of the press supportive, because a lot
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of the press were not allowed to really be a part of this, so it
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was sort of controversial in the beginning and there's several
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articles from sites that are usually very kind of sympathetic
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to Gavin Newsom and supportive of him, but they just got a
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railed against them in were like, how can you say your
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freedom when you weren't for freedom of the press?
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So I don't know if you saw that as well as a controversial.
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I read a couple reports of reporters that were complaining
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that the whole thing was to picture-perfect, it was such a
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setup and that they weren't Allowed to then, get it and get
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the candid shots that they wanted.
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And that he actually that whole March that was planned.
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He discreetly slipped off a few blocks of four jumped into an
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SUV was driven over to the Capitol.
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Yeah, he didn't March all the way he marched like a couple
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blocks and then like just ducked into an SUV and then got to the
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capital. So while everyone else was still
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marching. He was already like on his way
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to the Capitol. Maybe that was for Logistics.
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They were like, we have to get him to the capital.
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We can't wait for him, but it just seemed it's different when
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you're trying to have. I mean it's different when you
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have civil rights leaders in the 60s, marching across the Selma
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Bridge, as a organic Grassroots sort of thing, as opposed to the
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governor of a state orchestrating this with the the
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right pictures and make sure you get the video and make sure, oh,
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make sure we're all lined up. So you can see You know, this
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union, labor leader, right next to me.
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Make sure you see this Senator right next to me like that.
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There's a big difference between something that's organic and was
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Grassroots that he was trying to emulate and what what really
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happened. So that was the big controversy
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I think right off the bat, but Are you ready to jump in and
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start watching? Almost on that note, it was
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supposed to be like some peaceful March, you know, to
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because she had her six 2021. It was kind of like his own
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rebuttal, but then could talk about first partner.
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Versus first lady. The first, she's the first
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partner. She's not the first lady work
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and, you know, they change that to call first partner as opposed
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to first lady to be inclusive because possibly down the road
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some day, we may have a gay couple in office and so they
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would like to be inclusive of that that's fine.
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But they're not a gay couple so why can't she be the first lady
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still I guess? Yeah.
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Is she I mean she could just be proud of being a Lady and being
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a woman enough, she wants to tell us something different.
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So again we talked about this was it last week or two weeks I
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one of the podcast recently where we were saying how it's
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they they try and Pander to this whole like gender fluidity ideal
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and then they come out with the pink tax and they're like oh
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we're going to protect women and girls.
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It's like women and girls is the subjective term.
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What are women girls? So you can't have it both ways.
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You can't be like We're going to fight for women's rights, and
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all that stuff. And then also Gender fluidity
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gender is a social construct. So, alright.
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Alright ever. I think now you're ready.
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I think that's all I have to say at the beginning was and I'll
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give it to him last thing I'll say about this whole March.
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When I saw it happening and I saw what he was going to do.
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This is why you should never underestimate old noodles
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because he's very very calculating politically.
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He's very smart politically. You learn from the best he
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learned from his. Auntie Pelosi who's not really
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as anti read into this like yeah.
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Like, thank you. Look.
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They're like distant like something or other.
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They're not really even closely related.
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But anyway, his like Mentor. Nancy Pelosi, has had some
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really good mentors. Willie Brown people like that.
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Very Recalculating. And he knew that this would look
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great. And as soon as he was doing this
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March, I said, this is going to look great in a presidential,
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add in maybe two years, you know, wouldn't look great.
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Gavin Newsom for America and its him walking up the road.
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This is not a place, not a hair out of place, his daughter
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wearing five hundred dollar heels.
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So it looks absolutely perfect. He's ready for the White House.
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All right on that note, let's dive in.
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Okay, let's see. Make sure that the audio is
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Ready to go. Do I do too many shares?
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I think I did too many shares. Hold on, we're getting there.
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Okay. There we go.
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All right, let me know if you can hear the sound.
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It's very quiet in the beginning.
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Hi. You ready?
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Please raise your right hand. So first off, I believe this is
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Chief Justice Guerrero. I think that's who it is.
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She's the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court and
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she's swearing in Gavin. Newsom sort of like, with the
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president, they have the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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The way she approaches him and is like, hey, it's just so like
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boy, this isn't political at all who gets to be on the California
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Supreme Court because it's the governor selects.
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Mm. And then we basically vote on
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them. So I thought that was kind of
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Unprofessional over. But we're only 30 seconds and we
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got a long way to go. After me, I state your name, I
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swear that I will support and defend that I will support and
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defend the Constitution of the United States.
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The Constitution of the United States, and the constitution of
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the State of California, the constitution of the State of
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California against all enemies against all enemies, foreign,
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and domestic foreign and domestic that I will bear true
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faith. And Agents, it will bear true
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faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United
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States Constitution of the United States and the
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constitution of the state of California's constitution of the
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state of that. I come on ads.
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It's everything you wish for your site traffic is
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skyrocketing until we get your risk, because look, what a
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glorious and gracious day. I want to thank all of you.
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Particularly those of you who took the time to walk with us
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tomorrow. With us Dolores Huerta leaned
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over and said look I've marched with a lot of people but Martin
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Luther King never walked as fast as you are right now.
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But I don't know if that was a brag or because this was all
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orchestrated salary cranking that somewhere to be honored
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again, all of you taking the time to be here and I think the
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emphasis really is on time. I've been thinking a lot about
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time I'm maybe it's my age, maybe it's being a parent but
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time has been on my mind. Yes, it is four years since I
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stood in the shadow of the Capitol delivered, my first
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inaugural address then with my two-year-old In My Arms, Dutch
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and his pacifier Probably the only thing you remember about
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that another, I know my standing or years or years disaster and
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plague, they bend the clock in very strange ways.
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It feels both like a Flash and an attorney noodles.
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Also, I belong to the Obama School of public speaking, and
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he does this all work and wildfires and mass shootings and
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social unrest I found myself Looking Backward as much I was
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looking forward and I recall in the 1970s, when I was 10, maybe
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11 years old, a child of divorce and dyslexia trying to find my
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bearings was a kid traveling back and forth, across the
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Golden Gate bridge between the two, very different lives of my
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mother. And my father, I couldn't read
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and I was looking for any way to ditch classes at fake stomach
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aches. And dizziness, I bite down on
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the thermometer the Nurses office trying to make the
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temperature rise past 100, then work.
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My mom busy juggling, three jobs.
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She had no patience whatsoever for a truant.
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My father. The judge guilty because he had
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left us was an easier touch. I remember one time during the
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middle of school around. Lunchtime.
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Is he seeing more folksy in his delivery in this speech or
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folksy? Yeah, he seems more like he's
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trying to All folks, he like, you know, I used to do this.
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I bite down on the thermometer and try and make, it didn't
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work, but I tried, I think he's trying to be relatable.
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Yeah, he's trying to open with a story that everyone's like, oh,
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he could just, he's like us, he's dyslexic and yeah, he's got
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a little bit of that victimhood. He's trying to say, I wasn't,
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you know, born with a silver spoon.
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In my mouth, I had struggles. California school systems,
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nobody can read. I couldn't either.
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Her look what I did. Yeah, he's like despite the
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California public schools and I still became Governor.
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So despite it I be still became Governor.
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He up in his Volkswagen, but beautiful car and took me to
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Chinatown in San Francisco. On the face of it, it was a
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mission for food but what I didn't understand back then, it
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was also his mission to give me a slice of San Francisco our
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place and Story of California. The cost one of the many
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demarcations in the city and suddenly we entered in a
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completely different realm through the gate of the
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intersection of bush, and Grant my eyes.
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And my nose, took it all in but go to style storefronts Red
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Lanterns hanging from above giant statues of Buddha.
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In the windows, roasted duck fresh baked cookies.
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My father wasn't content, though, just showing me the
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unfamiliar. He wanted me to see past The
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facade to the people themselves. The Humble entrepreneurs, The
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Immigrant parents building Better Lives for their kids to
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the journey that had brought them to enrich our city, and our
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state. This was the same California.
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By the way, that my great-great, grandparents from County Cork
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rod from Ireland, start a new life, cameraman's getting drunk
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years of California cameraman got drunk.
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All of a sudden it's all over. Anything was possible, the
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journey from policemen to politician took about 150 years.
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My wife Jennifer first partner is the second in her family to
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be born in the Golden State. My children, Montana Hunter,
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Brooklyn and Dutch now, fifth-generation California's,
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all of you here today. All of, you know, to California
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origin. Stories are the same, but we
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share aspirations, we share Ambitions and these ties, find
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us. Sometimes, unknowingly to our
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state's past and to each other, I Member hot summer days, hot
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summer days, with my dad riding a raft down.
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The stretch, has the most wild stretches in the American River.
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Those cold was a lot of him in the beginning, one doing the
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sort of like Coke, see stories that would sell the California
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for anyone who's watching Ultra listening.
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This is American history. Basically, I'm my about the
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beginning though. There is another side to that
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story. Not the fairy tale, California,
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statehood, after all was also see.
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Filled with a brutal genocide. Correct answer.
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Here we go. That now it sounds work as my
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own understanding of myself and to be fair, California was first
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settled by whom anybody any answers in the chat.
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It wasn't, it wasn't white Americans who first settled
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California, who was it? It was Mexico, right?
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So, is he saying that the genocide of native peoples was
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done? Is he blaming Mexico and
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Mexicans for that? Because he's saying, that's how
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California was conquered was do the genocide of indigenous
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peoples, and it only had to be those who first got here and did
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so which would be Mexico. That's impossible.
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Only the white hand kind of done that.
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I mean, I assume that's his logic and he's, I guess he makes
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it sound like Mexico and the indigenous, people were not.
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We're just sitting around hanging out having a good time.
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And if you know any history about Mexico, that's not at all
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true about what they did in Mexico.
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So interesting that he kind of slides that in there like the
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genocide of indigenous people. Okay, well, who were the first
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people to show up to California, wasn't white settlers, not, you
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know, From the colonies that took how many decades for us to
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even get to California, right? The Louisiana Purchase and all
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that. So but of course, he had to
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slide that first social justice job and Shameful past sample.
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Chapters our history lesson, my love for my home state.
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They make it more complicated, no doubt deeper richer, but they
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also serve as a reminder that we could always become better
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California. The California that beckon my
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forebears, 170 years ago. You know, population back then a
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less than 93. People today really more for
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years. or so million Strong's each and every one of us with
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our own California story, I hear The Echoes of my own Own family
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story and those that are still coming to California to pursue
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their dreams drawn by the myth and magic of this place.
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Hear The Echoes In the stories of the migrants that across our
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Southern border seeking something better.
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In people who come from every continent on Earth to flee,
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political persecution, or from other states to.
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Well, educate themselves in our world-class universities started
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businesses, that support their family.
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So first fact check Of all, he talks about how people come here
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for businesses and they flock here for our world-class
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education, you know, as anyone? I mean public education is
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different than like their University Systems.
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I don't know how many people are flocking to just go to all the
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UCS. Businesses are definitely not
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flocking to California. There's been a record amount of
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businesses. Is running out of California,
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especially during covid. We all know this, we know that
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California has lost more people and that's why we lost the
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congressional seat. So this idea that people are
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just banging down the doors to get into California, it's just
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categorically false and he's trying to make it seem like so
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many people just want to be in California, not really.
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There's a lot of people who are leaving California, and you've
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seen a record amount of people leaving California under your
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tenure Yeah. And even as schools opened back
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up, they saw hundreds of thousands in attendance strop,
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kids were pulled out of public education.
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So he saw for a state that used to have a lot of people who want
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to come here and travel here, it's not so much anymore.
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Yes. Whether your family came here
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for work or safety. California, offer, Freedom.
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No, no, no access in California. I would argue, you have to look
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a certain way. You have to talk a certain way,
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and you have to think a certain way when it comes to California,
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are you allowed to have conservative opinions?
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Are you allowed to have anything, right of middle?
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To think that to talk that way in California.
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I know a lot of people who listen to this, probably don't
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think so. That's one of the reasons why I
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started this whole podcast was so that people know there's
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other people out there who agree with this idea that you can talk
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about these things, but this idea that, oh, you can come to
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California. Be whoever you want.
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As long as you're not a republican, that's it, just
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don't be overwhelmed. You could be whoever you want,
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just not a republican. Okay, don't be a Republican.
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Right. Don't say that too loud.
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Don't say that too loud if you say that people are like it will
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Republican in California gross. Yeah this that caught me.
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I was like he paints this picture of everyone's welcome
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and we love everybody. It's not true.
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Many of people like him and political allies demonize people
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who disagree with them on basically everything.
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That's what makes this place so special.
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It's in our genes for state of dreamers.
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And doers no doubt Bound by our Live and Let Live and Brace a
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personal freedom, like I said. Now, Chase house or a laptop.
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Which one do you think is worth more?
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We're definitely not the house because it not only we've made
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mistakes, Lord knows we've made our share.
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Let's not forget that. Chinatown that I visited a boy
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as a remnant of the bigotry. The agitator at the time, Denis
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Kearney and the Chinese Exclusion Act of the late 1880s.
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Tens of thousands of Japanese, tens of thousands of Japanese
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Americans were interned right here by a Democratic president.
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The post-world Arab World War era.
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California suburb grew you saw the racist practice of
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exclusionary zoning so cold. The nine black Asian American
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and Latino residents the right to live on the sea rezoning.
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Do you know he's talking about and build wealth know what's he
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that planted many ways single family housing zoning because
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single family. Housing zoning is apparently
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exclusionary to want to own a single-family home.
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He's in fact racist Okay yeah yeah it's kind of like racist
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highways that Peters the transcript up on the California
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dot gov website and then on this it's a clickable link.
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When it says exclusionary housing, it's a clickable link
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that goes to an article about how single family housing is
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rooted in racism. Of course it is because the
00:24:25
yeah, like you said the desire to just want to live in a single
00:24:27
family house racist. That's the exclusionary zoning.
00:24:33
Hmm, I wonder who came up with those laws.
00:24:36
I wonder if it was it'd be interesting to see who actually
00:24:38
wrote those laws because he did gloss over the whole fact that
00:24:42
all those Japanese Americans were interned.
00:24:44
Under a Democratic president, a Democratic president, who they
00:24:47
all laud is like, you know, the Jesus Christ of their party
00:24:51
FDR's. Interesting is you who wrote
00:24:55
those laws? E to the housing and homeless
00:25:00
crisis that we face today, even California.
00:25:04
Even our state indulged in homophobic, hate at The Ballot
00:25:08
Box with the Briggs initiative, the 1970s version of don't say
00:25:13
gay. However, well of course, 1990s
00:25:19
brought a wave of anti-immigrant xenophobia nativism manifesting
00:25:23
in prop 187. Dark moments dark moments in
00:25:28
California's Journey. But in the end in the end, we
00:25:32
confronted our errors with humility and conviction, Paving
00:25:36
the way for rights and freedom to Prevail everyday everyday,
00:25:42
California. Commits itself to the process of
00:25:44
getting it right for the Next Generation.
00:25:47
You know, my nearly three decades now, 30 years in
00:25:51
politics, I've had the opportunity to see this process.
00:25:55
Firsthand learning as we go and etching these learnings on the
00:25:59
consciousness of a country. That perhaps hasn't caught up
00:26:02
yet. No we started.
00:26:04
Issuing same-sex marriage licenses in San Francisco and
00:26:07
2004 it felt like history. I mean it was history.
00:26:13
But Today he presides over the first gay marriage, it felt like
00:26:18
he's through is moving at the time at light speed, I'm not
00:26:20
sure the right direction, decades, and Decades of advocacy
00:26:25
culminating with that beautiful, that indelible winter, winter of
00:26:30
love but that Victory to expand rights to expand freedom to
00:26:34
marry was snatched away by a backlash that resulted in
00:26:38
Proposition 8, eventually after many setbacks and many steps
00:26:42
forward just a few weeks ago. Just a few weeks ago.
00:26:45
President Biden sign legislation.
00:26:47
Enshrining that freedom to marry.
00:26:50
Okay, California, gay marriage has been legal since 2013.
00:26:58
That show. Yeah.
00:27:01
What's up? I think so.
00:27:03
Yeah. so, What's that to do with California?
00:27:09
I think California. It's been, it's been illegal.
00:27:12
So he's talked about now, Joe Biden.
00:27:15
But why didn't he? I would think he would say,
00:27:19
like, we legalized in 2013 and why are we talking now about
00:27:22
what Joe Biden just did? Why are we not focusing on
00:27:24
California here? I think he's trying to make the
00:27:27
argument that California leads the way that's sort of his thing
00:27:33
that he's saying is we lead the way it's and It's, I thought
00:27:38
this was interesting that he talks down about Prop 8, when
00:27:44
Prop 8 was a vote of the people and if your whole thing was, you
00:27:50
had this March about democracy, there's probably nothing more
00:27:55
democratic than propositions, which are literally everybody in
00:27:58
the state voting on whether or not a law is passed, right?
00:28:02
And that was the will of the people at that time.
00:28:06
It lost because That was the will of the people.
00:28:09
So, it's funny how when it goes against his, you know, his
00:28:17
agenda, then all of a sudden, he's like, oh, this is a blemish
00:28:21
on our society. And this is a blemish on her and
00:28:23
this was a mistake. But also we love democracy, but
00:28:28
you don't love democracy when it doesn't agree with you, right?
00:28:33
Right. And that's what's, that's what's
00:28:35
always funny, is that there? They loved it.
00:28:37
Secrecy until Prop 8 comes along and people are like, no,
00:28:41
actually we don't want that, and it's sort of like he's
00:28:44
California has had a weird history with their propositions
00:28:48
where they allow people to vote on these propositions and at the
00:28:52
end of the day, they just go ahead and do whatever they want.
00:28:55
Anyway, you know, like the death penalty is a certificate example
00:29:00
like, you know, people in California voted and said, hey,
00:29:02
yeah, we still want a death penalty.
00:29:04
Gavin Newsom comes in and says, no, we're going to stop all the
00:29:07
death. Ali cases and people of
00:29:10
California. Go, wait a second.
00:29:12
We voted. We want the death penalty, and
00:29:15
he comes along as one man and goes on, and I'm going to change
00:29:17
it so you don't really truly believe in democracy.
00:29:20
Gavin. Newsom, you believe in democracy
00:29:23
that agrees with you as long as you have the mob on your side.
00:29:27
But if the mob were to ever turn against you, then you don't like
00:29:31
democracy, it's a blemish on our history.
00:29:34
So I found that interesting that you talk down about that.
00:29:37
That on that note, he had mentioned a moment ago about
00:29:40
prop 187 in 1994 that a I believe it temporarily halted.
00:29:47
Immigration is what happened at the ACLU came in and argued that
00:29:53
immigration is not a state issue but rather a federal issue and
00:29:56
it ended up being overturned in 1999.
00:30:00
Then when Trump has title 42, the ACL a weddin and suit that
00:30:06
it was you know, racist. Or whatever it was.
00:30:11
And now he was begging, the federal government.
00:30:13
Like, please don't get rid of title 42 or we're going to be
00:30:17
like inundated with immigrants, right.
00:30:20
So he's welcoming of immigrants or migrants but just not too
00:30:24
many just like just he neat. He is he wants the right amount
00:30:27
of migrants not too many not too little.
00:30:29
He just wants the right amount of migrants.
00:30:33
All right, let's keep going. And that's been the story,
00:30:41
hasn't it. That's been the story of
00:30:43
progress throughout our history. It's not always easier.
00:30:46
It's not always linear. But in the end the verdict is
00:30:49
clicked. She is the commercials.
00:30:53
Heck, is this game? Crystal expanding rights is
00:31:00
always the right thing to do. Okay.
00:31:07
And yet. And yet, they're still forces,
00:31:11
pretty clear. It's the forces America that
00:31:14
want to take this nation backward, we saw that two years
00:31:17
ago, on this day when the unthinkable happened in a place,
00:31:19
most Americans assume was invincible and insurrectionist
00:31:23
MOB. Ransacking, a sacred pillar
00:31:26
mention of January 6. Take a shot with sworn officers
00:31:30
upholding, the rule of law, by the way, just like the brave,
00:31:34
men and women, whose heroism, we inscribe here on our own.
00:31:38
Now, we Love cars Memorial just remember two years ago, short,
00:31:46
two years ago when there was BLM riots up and down California, we
00:31:50
did not love cops. We want to just dump them.
00:31:55
After January 6th, we love cops. Okay.
00:31:59
Just freaking. I just I just I want you to be
00:32:02
up on this. So we're all clear Democrats.
00:32:05
Now, love cops because the January 6.
00:32:13
And I think it's safe to say, you know, since that terrible
00:32:16
day, we've wrestled with both fundamentally what those events
00:32:21
say about us as a country. The ugliness, that overflowed on
00:32:26
January 6, 2021. We know this was in fact,
00:32:29
decades in the making for many of my people have a very
00:32:32
different vision of America's future.
00:32:37
Very, very red State politicians and the media Empire I am
00:32:41
selling regression as progress, oppression as freedom and as we
00:32:46
all know, too, well, there's nothing original about their
00:32:49
demagoguery all. It's, so, as I said before, The
00:32:54
flowery language everybody comes to California, you don't have to
00:32:57
all look the same. You don't have to all talk the
00:33:00
same. Y'all have to think the same.
00:33:02
Just don't be a gosh-darn republican from a red State,
00:33:07
don't be a demagogue. Don't be any of those things.
00:33:10
God forbid, your horrible. You're the scum of the earth
00:33:13
your terrorists but as long as you know we do accept everybody
00:33:17
here so he went from we love everybody in California too.
00:33:23
Just don't be a republican from Red States because all
00:33:26
Republicans, who think this way are horrible people, and they
00:33:30
want to drag us down. So, so much for Kumbaya arm and
00:33:34
arm marching up the street in Sacramento, that's over newest.
00:33:39
Now it's, we have to attack the red States, right?
00:33:43
But if you're, if you're bored in California and you're a
00:33:46
republican. Oh, Well, I mean, you can't be
00:33:50
from a red State, you know, they'll probably think something
00:33:53
that you would like dropped on your head as a kid or something,
00:33:57
as a republican, you were born in California, so they don't
00:34:00
understand how you could not be anything but a democrat in
00:34:04
California. Anxiety about social change is
00:34:11
awakened long-dormant authoritarian, impulses calling
00:34:14
the question behind the question, what America is to
00:34:17
become Freer and fairer or reverting to a darker past.
00:34:23
Instead of finding Solutions, instead of finding Solutions
00:34:27
these politicians devoid of any news that little shimmy just are
00:34:33
playing on our fears, our prejudices, and our paranoia's,
00:34:37
the struggle The struggle to be who we ought to be as a nation
00:34:43
is difficult. Yes.
00:34:44
And denying demanding. And that's why we should be
00:34:48
cleared. I crystal clear about their
00:34:51
aims, they're promoting grievance and victimhood in an
00:34:54
attempt to erase so much of the progress, you and I have
00:34:57
witnessed and our lifetimes. I'm sorry, did he just say that
00:35:00
Republicans and conservatives are claiming victimhood?
00:35:04
Yes, red states, red states are I mean, victimhood.
00:35:10
Okay. So, not like the, the, you know,
00:35:13
the far left of the democratic party who claim victimhood for
00:35:17
quite literally everything, It's right.
00:35:21
Close those whiny Republicans who claim victimhood?
00:35:25
Right? Okay.
00:35:30
They make it harder. They make it harder to vote and
00:35:35
easier to buy illegal guns. Illegal balance speech fire
00:35:39
teachers kidnapped migrants subjugate women attacked the
00:35:43
Special Olympics and even demonized Mickey Mouse demonize
00:35:48
Mickey Mouse all camouflage under the hijacking of the word
00:35:53
free. We've talked about what they
00:35:55
really want, we really want, you know, this is more control,
00:35:59
intrusive government command over your most intimate
00:36:01
decisions. When to have a Family, how to
00:36:04
raise your kids. I'm sorry how to love.
00:36:07
So I'm not I I gotta say. I gotta call bullshit, right?
00:36:15
Like how in the world is Gavin? Newsom.
00:36:20
One of the biggest figures in the Democratic Party, get up
00:36:24
with a straight face and say Republicans want to control all
00:36:31
of the aspects of your life when you have Democrats in his own
00:36:36
party. Who could we just quite
00:36:38
literally saw this week? Want to ban your gas stove
00:36:42
because they think it's too harmful for your kids.
00:36:46
They also want to control your kids from K kindergarten, all
00:36:52
the way up till College. They want to have control of
00:36:54
your kids all the way up. They want to teach your kids,
00:36:58
how they should grow. Oh up and what they should
00:36:59
believe it is this guy for absolute serious.
00:37:02
Is this really his? His what he's going to say is
00:37:06
that? So if it's the Republicans who
00:37:09
want to control your lives us Democrats, we just want to let
00:37:13
you live anyway you want we don't want to get involved in
00:37:17
when you can have kids when you can't have kids.
00:37:20
What your kids think or what you do or anything like that.
00:37:24
We're for Freedom, those darn Republicans want to micromanage
00:37:29
your lives. I mean, especially, you know,
00:37:31
reproductive choices. But he's the one that wants to
00:37:34
shut down crisis pregnancy centers with his report
00:37:38
misinformation website, And you said, yeah, big are trying to
00:37:43
owe them from like age to. They're trying to make Pre-K
00:37:46
like pre pre pre k Universal for all starting at 2 years old and
00:37:51
they don't want to own them until College.
00:37:53
They want to own you forever, the taxes?
00:37:57
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:58
They want to try and get Universal preschool.
00:38:00
So like pretty soon it'll be government funded preschool from
00:38:04
like the minute. They can start walking, they'll
00:38:05
be like this a soon as they're potty-trained, basically, like
00:38:08
they don't want them to auto-generate, but as soon as
00:38:10
they're potty-trained hand, em over. /, yeah, give them to us,
00:38:13
you know, the state owns your kids.
00:38:15
You don't have a right to your kids.
00:38:16
So but it's typical gas lighting where they, they get to accuse
00:38:24
their enemy of what they're actually doing.
00:38:27
So it's a classic example of where, actually, the ones who
00:38:31
are micromanaging, your life, and we're not for Freedom here
00:38:34
in California, Cute guy. Hey, can you take the choices,
00:38:42
they dictate the choices. People are allowed to make
00:38:45
Fanning the Flames of these. Exhaustive culture wars Banning
00:38:49
abortion, Banning books, Banning free speech in the classroom and
00:38:54
in the boardroom they sell fear. They sell fear and panic when it
00:38:59
comes to crime and immigration but they self calm.
00:39:02
And indifference when the threat is greenhouse gases destroying
00:39:06
our planet or Big Oil raking in record windfall profits at
00:39:10
yours. Spence.
00:39:11
Okay, so this one, I had to look up because he's been repeating
00:39:15
this line about gas companies, recording record profits.
00:39:20
And I looked it up on PolitiFact, and it actually got
00:39:24
like a half-truth that, yes, they are having record profits,
00:39:31
but you know, why they're having record profits?
00:39:35
I don't know why it's because they're bouncing back from the
00:39:39
decreased demand during the pandemic.
00:39:42
So because of that bounce back, they are having record profits
00:39:47
now, so that's something he conveniently likes to leave out
00:39:49
that. Yes, they are making record
00:39:51
profits but it's not because of anything they've been doing, or
00:39:54
they're gouging. It's because of the bounce back
00:39:57
from the pandemic, demand increase in the price of oil and
00:40:01
all that. So that's really what it came
00:40:03
down to it. It was Like the gas companies,
00:40:06
all of a sudden all got together and said, hey let's go ouch.
00:40:09
These people for as much money as possible, even though we're
00:40:13
selling it for different prices all over the country.
00:40:15
Let's let's specifically pick on California and make gas, $5 a
00:40:21
gallon there and will gouge all those dumb Californians.
00:40:25
Meanwhile, in other states where it's like, three dollars or
00:40:27
less, We're not going to go couch those days.
00:40:31
We're going to leave them alone. We just want to go after
00:40:33
California. That's the logic.
00:40:35
I can never understand. Thank you.
00:40:42
Let's keep moving along here. The California.
00:40:54
Your state, our state and offers a reason from someone said this
00:40:59
years ago about our state, there's no soil better adapted.
00:41:04
I love that no soil better adapted to Liberty and
00:41:08
opportunity the sense of possibility that here in our
00:41:13
home state California. Now, the fourth largest economy
00:41:17
in the world. Oh yeah.
00:41:18
Upgrade himself. I thought it's only the fifth
00:41:19
largest more venture. More startups than any other
00:41:25
state in America leading the world in the transition, to a
00:41:28
low-carbon green growth future. An industrial economy and
00:41:35
industrial economy, leading the way and Biotherapeutics, and
00:41:38
genomics, and Aerospace. And battery storage High-Speed
00:41:42
Internet, connecting Central Valley, to the Central Coast.
00:41:45
We're rebuilding roads from yureka to San Ysidro.
00:41:50
Providing clean water from Colusa to catch up with the new
00:41:54
Cal Poly and humbled campaign more scientists or researchers,
00:41:57
more Engineers, more Nobel laureates than any other state
00:42:00
in the nation we have debt. Free college for hundreds of
00:42:03
thousands of students and the largest volunteer Corps in
00:42:08
America is very passionate about that.
00:42:13
I should have double-checked that whether or not there was
00:42:16
more startups in California than any other state.
00:42:20
I'm, I'm how I feel like that's not true.
00:42:22
I am mindful though, I don't know.
00:42:24
But can we talk about debt free college rivers of light?
00:42:30
But this Gavin, Newsom know about that free college, the
00:42:33
debt free college. I not even, I don't even know
00:42:35
about that. What do you know?
00:42:39
I don't know what he's talking. I mean, I guess there are some
00:42:42
like State schools and, but it's not like, there's not free
00:42:47
college in California, I thought I thought they tried to do the
00:42:53
whole free community college, but I don't think that past they
00:42:56
try to do that the best they could.
00:42:57
Well I thought it failed and they're planning to try to push
00:43:01
it again. Mmm.
00:43:04
But I don't know it. I think he's referring Community
00:43:06
College and then University afterwards and yeah.
00:43:09
But that's not debt-free. That's like that's just
00:43:13
portraying it as oh you can come here and you're not going to be
00:43:17
in debt if you go to college in California.
00:43:20
Well yeah, if you go a community college and you pay for it out
00:43:22
of pocket and then you get a scholarship and you go to
00:43:24
university and you can reduce the cost.
00:43:28
Like that's not debt-free, you still have.
00:43:31
There's a lot of people who still take on debt when they go
00:43:33
to college in California, especially, you know, the
00:43:37
especially lot of these UCS are very, very expensive.
00:43:40
Remember, I think I talked about once on a podcast where the
00:43:46
promise of the UC system a long time ago, was that the UCS would
00:43:53
be free for all Californians and now it's sixty five thousand
00:43:58
dollars a year. It went from free to 0, we just
00:44:03
have to charge like 100 bucks a year to cover expenses and stuff
00:44:07
like that. To now it's sixty five thousand
00:44:09
dollars. So do with that what you will
00:44:12
that is incredible inflation on the price of free college in
00:44:16
California so that you see system has been completely
00:44:18
broken. Now, I don't actually I know
00:44:22
this might be controversial to some listeners or they may just
00:44:26
unfollow me. I don't think there's anything
00:44:29
wrong with providing free community college and free trade
00:44:32
school. I think those are two things
00:44:34
that as a state, I think we should absolutely do, you know,
00:44:39
people want to go to college, get a, you know, a good degree
00:44:43
in like economics or Finance or literature or teaching or
00:44:48
something like that with practical skills.
00:44:49
Or go to like a trade school. I think those options should be
00:44:52
available people but that's a whole different story and that's
00:44:56
a whole different podcast. And shadows.
00:45:03
So as we go forward we must continue our quest for an honest
00:45:06
accounting for where we fallen. Short of us are naive
00:45:10
unaffordability on housing on homelessness because in the
00:45:14
pursuit of belonging and equal justice, California must be the
00:45:18
enduring proof of concept. We must reconcile our
00:45:22
shortcomings, bring everyone along in our prosperity after
00:45:26
all. Pepper, all healthy.
00:45:28
Democracy must be inclusive government by the people, and
00:45:33
for the people requires people willing to fight and protect to
00:45:39
advances. That's just like we did last
00:45:42
year and just like, we all did. We overwhelmingly enshrined
00:45:47
Reproductive Rights into our state constitution strolls in
00:45:51
the back of fairy exam, choice choice, the constitutional right
00:45:57
for Oceans, you know what, our Finest Hours California has has
00:46:00
been well freedoms. Force multiplier protecting
00:46:04
Liberty, from a rising tide of Oppression to taking root in
00:46:07
state, houses weaknesses masquerading as strength, small
00:46:11
men in big offices, More than any people.
00:46:18
She has very strange day, as probably know America surprising
00:46:24
was small man in a big office. It, big offices.
00:46:29
Yeah. Well then any people in any
00:46:36
place California's Bridge, the historical expanse between
00:46:40
freedom for some and freedom for all.
00:46:44
No just just now, there's a that your freedom for all freedom for
00:46:51
all, as long as it agrees with our agenda.
00:46:53
That's, that's it. It's, it's not, it's not freedom
00:46:57
for all, you know, a, truly free state in California, would Just
00:47:02
be hey we're just all going to let you do what you want to do.
00:47:06
You know, very libertarian, very small government.
00:47:08
Let's just stay out of all of your business.
00:47:11
No, that's that's not California California's very much.
00:47:14
We're going to get in your business because we have an
00:47:16
agenda, we have a climate change agenda.
00:47:18
We have a social justice issue, agenda, these are all agendas.
00:47:22
We have, you have to abide by them.
00:47:24
You can be free Within These confines and within this
00:47:27
Paradigm of what we want for you, and what we agree with, you
00:47:31
can be as free as you want. These paradigms, but if you step
00:47:34
out of that Paradigm, you're not going to be free.
00:47:37
Oh, you want to be a gun owner? Sorry can't be a gun or we can't
00:47:40
allow that because we don't like that.
00:47:42
That's not part of our agenda. You want to be you know very
00:47:47
religious. You want to be a Christian now.
00:47:49
We can't do that either. So can't allow that because
00:47:52
Christians are nasty people, we don't like them.
00:47:56
So again this whole freedom for all is such BS.
00:48:02
But the people who were there, they think it's freedom for all
00:48:05
because it's stuff they believe in and he keeps giving them more
00:48:09
freedom to do those things. While things they don't agree
00:48:12
with or are icky, conservative or republican ideals, you're not
00:48:18
free to do those things. We were not free and we were
00:48:22
locked down for three of his four years of, that's true.
00:48:28
And we're still in a state of emergency and we're not out of
00:48:30
the state of emergency. See, that were 28. 30 tri-ace.
00:48:35
We're gonna throw a party. So, yeah, we were very not free
00:48:41
to do a lot of things for a lot of his first term.
00:48:45
So it's crazy to think that at one point in California, you
00:48:51
were not allowed to go to church.
00:48:54
Because of edicts by Gavin, Newsom, and then his Public
00:48:59
Health Administration. So The freedom for all is
00:49:04
definitely, definitely not. That's we open our arms, not
00:49:13
clench our fists. We turn our gaze upward, not in
00:49:17
word, freedom is our Essence, our brand name and abiding idea.
00:49:22
That right here. Anyone from anywhere, can
00:49:24
accomplish anything, we've overcome that when we
00:49:29
California, we've overcome that destructive, impulses of
00:49:32
extremism and racism and nativism and shown the rest of
00:49:36
America. It's not only achievable it's
00:49:38
undeniable going. Word California will continue to
00:49:43
Lead Out Loud by advancing. A far-reaching freedom agenda of
00:49:47
full-throated answer to the demagogues of the vision.
00:49:50
Determined to regress and oppress Freedom, by the way.
00:50:03
Freedom furtively teachers. Reaper teachers to teach free of
00:50:09
litmus tests about their political party or the person.
00:50:12
They love freedom to Access healthcare for all Californians,
00:50:17
regardless of your immigration status.
00:50:24
Freedom freedom, from Big pharma's grips competing head-on
00:50:28
by menu from Big Pharma scripts. Also quick shout-out don't
00:50:35
forget to get your covid-19 booster.
00:50:37
What when you're going on? I don't know.
00:50:42
I've lost count a long time ago, what booster but I'm sure he's
00:50:45
gotten all the boosters and I'm sure he tells everybody to go
00:50:48
get the boosters but obviously we have to be free from freedom
00:50:52
from Big Pharma. Freedom from Big Pharma, okay.
00:50:57
Our own life, saving drugs and we shouldn't even have to say
00:51:04
this freedom freedom to vote without intimidation with
00:51:08
results, decided by the people not politicians that one.
00:51:10
I don't even understand what he's alluding to who's
00:51:13
intimidating who that's 800 red States.
00:51:18
Yeah. Read in the in the red States
00:51:22
they're still back in the 1800s. We're used to have to get in
00:51:25
line and drop off your ballot in Democrat, or the Republican box,
00:51:29
and they would stand in line and intimidate those voters.
00:51:32
That's what I think he's thinking of, but that's, I don't
00:51:36
know who's intimidating who in red states to vote a certain
00:51:40
way, and I mean, you could say, you make the argument that
00:51:45
people intimidate people in California for their ballots.
00:51:48
When they go ballot Harvest, they can say, hey, I see you
00:51:51
haven't voted yet. Can I help you vote and I'll
00:51:54
help you fill it out so that could be intimidation, right?
00:52:00
Baby possibly. Let's see, what other list of
00:52:05
Freedom stuffy. He's so free.
00:52:08
It also kind of you know, I'll give him credit, he's doubling
00:52:11
down on this whole Freedom thing.
00:52:14
It's like when he had that ad where he any launched it in
00:52:18
Florida and he was like come to California, the land of freedom
00:52:23
and everybody just was like are you serious aren't you still
00:52:26
locked down? Like you don't you still require
00:52:28
Mass everywhere? Like you're going to tell people
00:52:31
to come to California because it's the land of the free in
00:52:34
Florida, you can tell people in Florida that it's the land of
00:52:36
the free, okay, The battle lines are drawn and I'll say it once
00:52:48
again, it is time for choosing, let's not forget the policies
00:52:53
that start each time for choosing, what side of the
00:52:56
battle lines were drawn more than romantic, but possibly love
00:53:00
everybody in California. You're allowed to think.
00:53:02
And do what everybody? Nice and drunk, just make sure
00:53:06
you're on the right side of those lines territory.
00:53:08
For the rest, that's what we do. Best giving shape to the Future.
00:53:12
Molding, the character of the nation, just like those Rivers,
00:53:17
just like those rivers that molded and sculpted.
00:53:19
So many of California's deepest, valleys the places of my
00:53:23
childhood memories, those rafting and camping trips with
00:53:27
my dad. There are a lot of things in
00:53:29
life we want, but can't have a long head.
00:53:33
It's a Covered California. Conveniently.
00:53:40
While you're watching this. Gavin Newsom speech.
00:53:44
Love with California over and over and over again.
00:53:49
My dad, my dad died shortly after I was elected governor in
00:53:55
2018. He never got to see his son
00:53:59
assumed office nor did my mother Tessa who died just before I
00:54:04
became mayor of San Francisco but their dreams their Spirit,
00:54:09
their love of California, his with me every day just as they
00:54:13
were last year. That's your when I found myself
00:54:16
with leaders of California's most populous tribe Iran was
00:54:20
floating down another great. America likes floating in a
00:54:24
traditional Dugout canoe. We stopped for dinner, stop for
00:54:29
dinner, right? On the river, bank and prepared
00:54:32
salmon smoked on. Redwood over traditional fire,
00:54:35
pit. The bark confused flavor into
00:54:38
the fish and parting it tasted a one told him, the starting a
00:54:42
wildfire, you're starting a fire in the middle of.
00:54:44
This is very dangerous. Klamath tribal leaders this time
00:54:51
though. The celebrate, the removal of
00:54:53
four dams. America's largest dam removal
00:54:57
project in US history. Is this an issue?
00:55:05
Setting the rules of free once more restoring natural salmon
00:55:08
runs and in so doing writing and historical wrong because this is
00:55:14
what California does is what I have dedicated.
00:55:17
My life to standing up for ideas, striking out against
00:55:21
Injustice After all, history reminds us, this reminds us that
00:55:28
each of us will be judged and perhaps more importantly and
00:55:31
powerfully each of us will judge our selves to the Extent.
00:55:35
We contribute as Bobby Kennedy said to the life of our cities,
00:55:38
our state, our nation, and the world were trying to build And
00:55:43
that brings me back to time. I'm is undefeated.
00:55:50
It's Relentless he is almost. So our fleeting moment we must
00:55:55
fight against our worst impulses and find our better Angels.
00:56:00
Because at the end of the day, our lives are just too short.
00:56:05
Our wisdom is too limited, so when fleeting victories at other
00:56:09
peoples expense, we must Triumph together.
00:56:16
We must all that's over Triumph together.
00:56:21
As long as you're not a republican because you're icky.
00:56:25
Okay. Now so thoughts about noodle
00:56:33
speech. What do you think?
00:56:36
There was so much? He didn't say that should have
00:56:39
been said. It should have been discussed.
00:56:42
I mean, like California has major issues and you should have
00:56:48
talked about like he needed to address things like we want to
00:56:51
know. Do we not want to know, you
00:56:53
know, how is he gonna know what's his plans for the
00:56:57
education system? How about our lack of water
00:57:00
storage here? We've got all this water.
00:57:02
All these storms that we don't have any way to store it.
00:57:05
Let's talk about that. So that when we're in a drought
00:57:08
again, for six years, it's not such a big deal.
00:57:12
How about our homeless crisis, how about our Rising crime
00:57:17
rates? Yeah, I mean that's a good point
00:57:22
and it was a lot of fluff and like, no policy at all.
00:57:28
There's nothing like him saying. Here's our issue in California,
00:57:32
I'm going to do this. Here's the next issue in
00:57:35
California. I'm going to do this, that's
00:57:38
such a good point. I didn't even really notice it
00:57:40
because it's so much fluff and literal BS about freedom and
00:57:46
what's going on in the rest of the nation.
00:57:48
How California is leading the way and look at all these great
00:57:51
things we've done in the past. Cool.
00:57:55
San Diego. Just hit a fifth record month of
00:57:58
homelessness. Mhm.
00:58:00
What do you what are we doing about this?
00:58:02
Is anybody have a solution to this?
00:58:04
Are we doing anything like yeah? What's education now and the
00:58:08
45th out of 50 states or something?
00:58:11
Like things are not, there's a lot of issues to take care of
00:58:15
and he didn't touch upon any of them, crimes out of control.
00:58:20
Are we going to do more about water storage even though we've
00:58:23
been lucky enough to Too late. Now with this storm, we can't
00:58:26
really do anything now, right? But for the next big storm, do
00:58:31
we have any plans? Are we going to create more
00:58:33
water like what are we doing here?
00:58:35
And we have time for the next big storm.
00:58:37
Like historically California kind of goes to this like six to
00:58:40
seven year drought and then we get these feature storks.
00:58:44
I remember my mom saying that when I was a kid, I grew up here
00:58:46
and we would talk about. Like I remember, I think I was
00:58:48
10, we had some major storm, everything was flooding in my
00:58:52
mom was explaining to us. This is this is how California
00:58:55
goes like, that was like the first memorable storm of my
00:58:58
childhood, you know, that went on for weeks and weeks.
00:59:01
And she was like, historically, California goes through these
00:59:04
like six to seven year droughts and then we get all this ring
00:59:08
and, and I so distinctly, remember her talking about that.
00:59:12
And so it's like, okay, what's the plan now?
00:59:15
So that when we go through this six to seven year drought again
00:59:19
and and that we have these major storms for weeks in six to seven
00:59:22
years. I mean, that's plenty of time.
00:59:25
To build infrastructure. They should have something in
00:59:27
place. It should have been released
00:59:28
years ago but Where's that plant?
00:59:35
He doesn't. I don't think he has one is a
00:59:38
budget for it either. It's almost like there should be
00:59:42
a group that's thinking about creating some sort of water
00:59:46
savings plan for five to seven years.
00:59:48
But if only we had a group like that out there that was willing
00:59:52
to do that. If only if only we had a group
00:59:57
like that that was thinking about we should have enough
00:59:59
water to cover us 45. 27 years until the next big storm because
01:00:04
that's the cycle. Yeah, it's it was big on fluff.
01:00:08
It was big on imagery. It was very, very little on
01:00:11
substance. It was very little on action.
01:00:15
In terms of, if this is his last big speech before he wants to
01:00:21
run for president. It just does not bode well in
01:00:25
the sense that he had no action items.
01:00:28
He literally didn't say anything about what he's going to solve
01:00:32
and how is he going to go out on the campaign Trail?
01:00:36
When he runs for president and say, look at all these wonderful
01:00:38
things that I've done when he couldn't even lay out his vision
01:00:44
for Californians. When there were so many issues
01:00:47
here on the ground because what has he done?
01:00:50
Besides, he hasn't done anything.
01:00:53
Yeah, that was it. The biggest thing was probably
01:00:56
signing abortion rights. I mean there really hasn't been
01:01:01
anything else, right? Care court, maybe we talked
01:01:06
about that, maybe Kara Court might be one of his crowning
01:01:10
achievements. It may also be the biggest like
01:01:13
I said last week or week before, I don't think that he's going to
01:01:18
while he's an office. See the fruits of that, you
01:01:21
know, I know we'll take a lot longer and your kind.
01:01:23
Nothing. Yeah, it could be a complete
01:01:29
boondoggle. It could be a huge money.
01:01:31
Waster, it could be a huge time. Waster.
01:01:33
The other thing he brought up very briefly, was that
01:01:35
California wants to start producing its own drugs?
01:01:41
I have no idea how he thinks he's going to do that.
01:01:42
I think he only set aside, like, 200 million dollars or
01:01:46
something, to start much. Yeah, it's like 1 million
01:01:51
dollars. All tree amount.
01:01:54
It's very small and some like pharmaceutical execs are like
01:02:00
that. Won't even get you through.
01:02:01
Like the research phase like you have to get through the
01:02:03
research, things that what we talked about that.
01:02:06
And then the next day, I made a joke about how much water does
01:02:09
it take for them to produce insulin?
01:02:11
And then I wouldn't, it looked into the next day and it
01:02:14
actually takes a ton of water to produce insulin.
01:02:17
We don't have water storage. We can't, how can we produce our
01:02:20
own insulin? Well, first with only a million
01:02:22
dollars. And no water.
01:02:26
It sounds good, but again it's lacking on any specifics and but
01:02:32
people in the back are like they're saying they're like
01:02:35
cheering. I like, yay, we got an abortion
01:02:38
rights little party to get invited.
01:02:41
Yeah, I'm just kidding. Sorry.
01:02:46
Yeah, I guess, as long as he just keeps doubting me, I, you
01:02:50
know, I guess he knows that. California is probably the
01:02:53
biggest perpetrator of trying to micromanage every aspect of your
01:02:57
life. And so I guess he got, he sat
01:03:01
down with his consultants, and his advisers.
01:03:03
And they all said, here's an idea.
01:03:07
Look, we know, California loves to micromanage everything.
01:03:11
What if we just don't acknowledge that and what what,
01:03:15
Talk about dyslexia. What if we just say, we're the
01:03:19
most free state in the nation and people will go, maybe we are
01:03:25
and they'll just believe you, maybe that will work, but it
01:03:30
didn't work on us because you're saying, you're going.
01:03:33
We're definitely not the most free state in the in the nation
01:03:37
by the egg. Wonder how they feel about that
01:03:40
Egg Farmers are not happy right now, ask anybody?
01:03:45
See who's a second amendment supporter about that.
01:03:48
Nope. Right.
01:03:49
Did he say something about? We're going to expand
01:03:51
everything. Or I don't think that's exactly
01:03:53
what he is. But he said something along the
01:03:55
lines of, you know, more Choice, more expansion know, it's India,
01:03:59
not for guns, notnot for things that we want to do, not for that
01:04:05
stuff. But more choice of what we want
01:04:07
to do with our money as opposed to tax in it to death.
01:04:11
No, that's not going to be an option.
01:04:15
More things to do with your public city streets.
01:04:18
Oh wait, you can't do that because there's homelessness
01:04:20
everywhere. So more freedom.
01:04:24
That was his basic message, more freedom, we got a ton of
01:04:28
Freedom, not surprising big on big on polish which is Gavin.
01:04:37
Newsom in general, I think this is very symbolic of him as a
01:04:40
politician. Very a lot of fluff, it's a lot
01:04:44
of shine. It's a lot of choreographed
01:04:47
movements and very scripted, it all sounds great but at the end
01:04:52
of the day, no Solutions, no plan of action.
01:04:58
I mean, at least his predecessor Jerry Brown had some sort of
01:05:01
plans and action when he would go into office.
01:05:06
He was also a lot more moderate than Gavin Newsom, even though
01:05:09
Gavin pretends that, he's a moderate.
01:05:11
So, Not surprising. And I think, anyone who sat
01:05:16
through this with us as well, try to make it as enjoyable as
01:05:20
possible so that you could actually sit through it and
01:05:22
watch. It was rough.
01:05:24
Yeah. It was a lot of fluff and you
01:05:26
sit there and you just kind of banging your head against the
01:05:28
wall because they live in a hole alternate reality.
01:05:32
Remember the battle lines have been drawn in America and in
01:05:36
California but we also love everybody.
01:05:39
So make those two messages job, right?
01:05:43
Any final thoughts about the speech?
01:05:46
Before we sign off for the night?
01:05:49
No, no. I'd like to not think about it
01:05:52
anymore. Well thank you for putting up
01:05:57
with it for me whenever there's a Gavin Newsom speech or
01:06:00
something like that. I always like to hop on and not
01:06:02
gonna lie when you said it to me.
01:06:04
You're like this is next week's podcast.
01:06:06
I just decide. I actually have to sit here and
01:06:12
listen to this. No, but it's good to hear what
01:06:17
he has to say. Even though, of course it is,
01:06:21
it's important. We have to, we have to listen to
01:06:23
what they're saying and we can't live in our own bubble.
01:06:27
We have to hear what they're saying and how they're talking
01:06:30
and know how to pick it apart. It's a good way to kind of
01:06:33
sharpen. Your argument tools because you
01:06:35
have to hear what they're saying and kind of be able to rebut it.
01:06:38
Yeah. So anyway, all right.
01:06:42
Well those are my thoughts. What's those my final thoughts?
01:06:45
Thank you to everyone who kind of sat with us this whole time
01:06:48
everyone in the chat. If you anybody in the chat had
01:06:52
any final thoughts or anything like that.
01:06:53
We're going to sign off in about 30 seconds.
01:06:55
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01:07:22
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