Two new polls on the California governor's race are telling completely different stories. Betty Yee just dropped out and said "conflict sells" on her way out the door. LA County cut homeless outreach in half while spending $843 million. And Gavin Newsom's PAC spent $1.56 million buying two-thirds of his own memoir — then his team called the sales "organic."
Story 1 — The Governor's RaceBetty Yee out. Becerra surging from 4% to as high as 23% depending on the poll. Two Republicans still leading in the party's own internal numbers. Debate is tomorrow night. Six weeks to the primary.
Story 2 — LA County Homelessness$843M budget. Street outreach cut from $54M to $26M. California has spent $24 billion on homelessness since 2019. The population grew by 30,000. A State Auditor report found $9.4 billion couldn't even be evaluated — no outcomes tracked.
Story 3 — Newsom's "Bestseller"FEC filings show his PAC bought 67,000 of 97,400 total print copies. Strip those out: 30,400 organic sales. The New York Times put a dagger on the listing. His team called it "organic." The filing says otherwise.
Sources
- Betty Yee exit: https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/04/california-governor-race-yee/
- CA Dem Party poll: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/politics/california-governor-race-poll-hilton-bianco-lead-becerra-gains-support/103-1bf606df-6054-4be9-b9c2-68eafada61dc
- IVP poll: https://ivn.us/posts/breaking-xavier-becerra-bolts-into-first-place-in-ivn-california-governor-poll-2026-04-20
- LA homelessness budget: https://www.fox11la.com/news/la-county-homelessness-budget-outreach-cut-2026
- CA State Auditor: https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/homelessness
- Newsom PAC book — NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/politics/newsom-pac-book-sales.html
- FEC filing summary: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-pac-bought-thousands-memoir-copies
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Tonight, 2 very different polls dropped about the California
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Governor's race and they're telling 2 very different
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stories. Betty Yee has dropped out of the
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race. I know you're all very sad about
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that. You're probably wondering who is
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Betty Yee? And she had some things to say
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on the way out the door. We have more discussion about
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what's going on with the California gubernatorial race,
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including what's who is in the lead, who might be the favorite.
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We're also going to discuss LA has an $834 million budget for
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homelessness but also has cut the outreach program in half.
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And Gavin Newsom has a best seller with a caveat that he
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sold all the books to himself and his own pack.
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We're going to get into that and more on tonight's episode of the
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California Underground, starting right now.
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What's going on, everybody? Thanks for tuning into another
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episode of the California Underground.
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I am your host, Phil. We have a ton to get to tonight,
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so let me first bring in my bet, my trusty coast, the best, the
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fastest researcher in the West. Camille, what is going on
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Camille, how are you doing tonight?
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I'm. Shivering and I'm yawning and
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I'm laughing at the same time. That is a whole bunch of things
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that might be a psychotic breakdown and.
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I'm tired and I'm cracking up at Newsom being a best selling
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author. By buying his own book, you were
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saying before I think we made a a comment about this on a
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previous episode. We probably did make a comment
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about what happened like that he was just going to buy his own
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book and sell it to you. We.
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Literally made a joke about when he, when he actually announces
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that he's running for president because you know, he hasn't done
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that yet officially, that he'll probably have all these unsold
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copies of his book and he'll say donate any amount to my
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presidential run and I'll send you my book.
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And and here it, he literally did what we expected him to do.
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It's almost like sometimes if you tune in long enough to this
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show, we'll actually end up telling you what's going to
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happen. And it does happen because we've
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been following this enough that, you know, we just we see a
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pattern. So before we get into it, thank
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All right, let's get into the first story.
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What is Betty Yee? I know you're very upset.
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We we knew she was the underdog. She knew.
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She was the underdog. She knew she was the underdog.
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She dropped out. As of yesterday, someone had
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commented I would have never known who the heck Betty Yee was
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if I didn't listen to your show. So just an example of how we
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actually educate people. In the past, people didn't even
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know who Betty Yee was, but she was one of the she's, yeah,
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outside of Swalwell, who was forced to drop out and suspend
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his campaign for reasons we covered in detail last week,
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Betty Yee had to drop out because she was polling at a
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whopping, I think, 1%. But we're going to get into this
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article. And that's actually.
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Better than some others have done some didn't even make it
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past the 0% mark. No, but I just want to say real
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quick that is why we do the show genuinely.
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We want to talk to you guys about the things that you may
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not know are going on. And while the fact that Betty
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was in the race and dropped out like that, everyone's going to
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anyone who knows that now you're going to forget about that in a
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week and it's never going to be important again.
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However, some of these little things do become important that
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we talk about and then they might become bigger stories or
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they are relevant somewhere down the road.
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And so that's why we like to talk about all these things that
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are it maybe you you wouldn't hear about, you don't think you
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would care about. And and then they come back up
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and we're like, hey, remember? Hey, remember this thing we
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talked about like four months ago?
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And yeah, it came to fruition. So we're not, it's not like we
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have big premonitions. We just, again, we've followed
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this long enough that we we have an idea of like what's going to
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happen. So let me pull up this article
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from Cal Matters going into the story about Betty Yee dropping
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out. And you're probably all
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wondering why the heck do we care so much about Betty Yee and
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why she's dropping out? Because I think it's sort of
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indicative of what's happening right now in the race, and we'll
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get to that in a second. So lagging in polls and
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fundraising. Betty Yee drops out of
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California's governor's race Former state controller Betty
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Yee dropped out of the governor's race on Monday,
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saying she couldn't see a path to get donors and additional
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support from undecided voters. With six weeks left before the
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primary, Quote, it was becoming clear that the donors were just
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not going to be there, she said. Even some of my former
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supporters just felt like they needed to move on as well.
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End of quote. She did not immediately endorse
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an another candidate, but we have news that she did end up
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endorsing another candidate. In recent days, she had begun
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styling herself as, quote, boring Betty promising.
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That's kind of it's it's almost like she's trying, she's trying
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to do something a differentiate. I know I don't.
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Think I like her, like not that I agree with her policies, but I
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think she might be genuine. I don't know, don't quote me on
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that. I'm still almost scared to say
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that but I feel like she maybe is genuine and this dropping out
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kind of shows that because she was just like this is not in the
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cards for me. It's.
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Not going anywhere. How?
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Do you step aside it? Goes on to say, But pragmatism
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never translated into star power.
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Ye had stayed at or near the bottom of the polls, never
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garnering more than 3% of likely voters, and lagged in
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fundraising, although she had that good showing at the
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Democratic convention where she was like top one, like 3 or
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something. She somehow she got, she didn't
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get the endorsement, but she. But she did show up, yeah, like
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you said, in the top three. And we were both what, because
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we had kind of, kind of made fun of her when we were showing one
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of the debates. So we were like Betty Who and
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then all of a sudden at the DNC, she came in the top three.
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They again, they did not endorse, just like the GOP did
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not endorse. They didn't endorse.
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But we were like, whoa, she. She got somewhere like that.
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I. Mean.
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She had a very good showing. Now, it goes on to say.
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In tearful news conference on Monday, Ye expressed frustration
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about Hicks public pressure effort, which involved releasing
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periodic polls to prompt candidates to quote assess the
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viability of their campaigns that, Ye said became self
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fulfilling. She said voters didn't appear
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interested in her quote, experience incompetence and
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quote instead flocking toward candidates who made splashier
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statements about fighting the Trump administration.
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Interesting. I wonder yeah, Betty, I, I kind
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of, I think we agree with you on that there there are several
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candidates who I just got my primary election guidebook in
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the in the mail today. I was reading through it and
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some of them are just so laughable because you're like,
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are you running for president against Donald Trump?
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Because all of their BIOS are like, I'm going to fight Trump
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and I'm going to take it to the Trump administration.
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I'm going to. It's like, OK, cool.
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What? What are you going to do for us
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as Californians? I guess you're just going to
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fight Trump. She goes on to say people want a
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personality. You have to either be the
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loudest. You have to have gimmicks.
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You got to do what you got to do to get attention.
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I got no gimmicks in her his own news press conference about the
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poll. This is about Hicks, who's the
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head of the Democratic Party. Thank you.
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But said there are still, quote, too many Democrats in the field.
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End Quote. So I have a question for you,
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Camille, to start this off. Yeah, boy, she raises a good
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point. And I was thinking about this
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when I was reading this article today.
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They said she was likely the most qualified candidate out of
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the whole race. I mean, that's, I guess she
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could say it's debatable. She she was a statewide officer.
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So she does have that. You could argue like Xavier
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Becerra is probably if you're looking at that more qualified.
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He was attorney general then he was Secretary of Health and
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Human Services. So those are two really big
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positions. So maybe he's more qualified.
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Katie Porter was Congress. Katie Porter was just a
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congresswoman for Orange County and Swallow as a congressman.
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So a lot of people really well. Tony Thurman held statewide
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office. Yeah, actually they're again,
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it's questionable. Questionable.
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Debatable about what you believe is qualified, Yeah.
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But the question I have for you and I, I think Betty brings up a
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good point that qualified people don't win elections in America,
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let alone California. They just, they don't win
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elections in America. So my question to you is, do you
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agree with Betty Yee that qualified, experienced
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candidates who might actually do a good job don't win because
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they get pushed out for politicians who are louder and
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have the gimmicks? Is that where our political?
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OK, there we go. All right, moving on.
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Short answer, yes. Prime example?
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Barack Obama. Yeah, and Barack Obama is a good
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example. He was a rock star, very good
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public speaker, very charismatic.
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People loved. Him.
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Yeah, I mean, really, he was a state senator, right For.
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He was a state senator and then he was a junior senator for like
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a hot minute, and then he became.
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President and they became president.
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Qualifications. I mean, it's for Trump.
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What? Trump, I guess.
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Second example. President Trump.
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Yeah, I'm sure people will argue and say, well, he ran a, you
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know, multibillion dollar organization.
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Doesn't mean you're ready to be president.
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But I, I, I think in generality her statement is correct, sadly.
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And sometimes we see it here on the show, we, you know, we'll
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have good guests on and we're very competent, very qualified,
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very well spoken, maybe a little softer, a little quieter.
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We find them really interesting because they have great ideas.
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And then they don't really go on and do anything because people
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either get bored or they're like, this person's boring.
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I don't want to pay attention to them not saying anything about
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our listeners. It's there is something to, as a
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politician, unfortunately, in our society and as our system is
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set up, you have to have a shtick.
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You have to have something that gets people to want to come and,
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and you have to energize your voters.
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You have to get people excited to come out and vote for you or
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show up or donate money, like it's a whole ordeal to do so.
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And, and I think she's right. It's not a good excuse for why
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she lost. I think maybe or why she just
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had to drop out. I think probably she wasn't that
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enticing of a candidate for governor, but I think she has a
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point. She does have a point, yeah.
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And I think I'm guilty of that way as a voter as well, where,
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you know, you want like someone's like you said, they
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could be stating their policies and we're like, oh, that's a
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really interesting point. But sometimes they're just so
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boring that you kind of tune out.
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You're not feeling inspired. You're not like this person's
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not going to, they're not going to raise anything.
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They're not, you know, you want someone motivating.
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And especially these days, the younger people, Generation Z or
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I guess we say Gen. Z, Sorry.
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And that was very, that's very old millennial of me to say
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generation, you know, they're they're not inspired.
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They're not motivated by some of these older, more slower to
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speak kind of less, less words like they want people seem to
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want that motivational speaker and not that inspiration.
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And you know, we love you and I love a good debate.
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And we've seen some candidates who we really liked who were
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even qualified for certain positions.
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But then when it came to a debate, they were just not going
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to debate. And it, it does, you do lose
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interest in those kind of candidates.
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Unfortunately, even though being good at debating or not is
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really not a qualification for political office.
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But when you get up there and you just, you see them get
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smeared and you're like, and especially some of these people
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we've actually gotten to know in person, you know, and we're
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like, no, but we know these people are really good and
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they're they're, they're a great person and they have great
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ideas. But then they get on that stage
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and you're just like. I don't know.
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Them, you know, it's just. Like so I, I I agree, I think
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the gimmicks in the in the shtick and the and being loud
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gets attention. It does.
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I mean, it does get attention. The second point that she made
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is also very true, which we agree with, is that there's a
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lot of people who made a lot of noise about fighting Trump.
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Like they made their whole thing fighting Trump.
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And if anybody has their primary election guide that got mailed
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to him, everyone gets one. I, I want you to open it up and
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look at pretty much all of the Democratic statements, at least
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for the front runners of the Democrat.
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There's a bunch of Democrats in there.
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I've never heard of one guy named Jesus Loves God or
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something. That's his legal name.
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Not kidding. You can go look that up.
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And most of the front runners, their statements all revolve
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around Trump, which is crazy. Like Katie Porter's 2/3 of it is
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I'm going to fight Trump. And I fought Trump when I was in
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Congress and I'm going to fight Trump on this issue.
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Fiona Ma, her whole thing about Lieutenant General, I'm going to
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fight Trump on birthright citizenship.
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I'm going to fight ICE. I'm going to fight Trump here
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and there. And that doesn't really, I don't
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know. We, we've talked about a couple
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weeks ago how I don't know if that's really resonating with
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Californians. The whole I'm just going to
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fight Trump. Because when you're looking at
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$7.00 a gallon gas and the cost of everything keeps going up and
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up and up and your electric bill jumped from, I don't know, $200
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to $500 in a month. Like people don't really care
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about how much you're going to fight Trump.
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They care about what's going to what's actually going to move
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the needle and make things better here in California.
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So I think she's right on that point too.
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And it's, it's a sad state of affairs where someone who is
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qualified and probably has good ideas.
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I'm not saying I agreed with Betty E on everything.
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I think she was for like single payer healthcare and a lot of
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really far left programs, which I would have never supported in
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a million years. But I think she kind of hit the
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nail on the head that it's the qualified people with real
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solutions often get pushed out if they don't have a gimmick and
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they're not the loudest. And in in this case, Betty Yee
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was a casualty of that. She was the first to be pushed
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out. I don't know if she was pushed
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out. I think the math just wasn't
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going to work and I don't know where her 1.4% of supports going
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to go. It's not going to make a huge
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difference of like where that support goes.
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You're still looking at people who are just pulling in double
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digits for Democrats. 80 Porter, Savior, Becerra at Mahan, I
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think cracked 11%. So there's another one I'm I'm
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think I'm missing right now. We're going to get into.
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Did you say his? Name Styer.
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Yes, Styer. He's the big one.
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He's the big one who seems to be benefiting the most from Eric
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Swalwell's departure. All of a sudden he like shot up.
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But then we also have news of someone else shot up in the
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polls. So I want to get to this story.
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Any more comments you want to say something about?
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I want. To say two things real quick,
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one regarding Betty Yee, the the way that the fact that she did
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drop out and what she said does make me feel like she wasn't
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running on her ego. Like I think last week we talked
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about or no, it was a couple weeks ago with the roundtable
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and we talked about a lot of them won't drop out just
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because, simply because their ego, like they truly seem to
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believe that they are, you know, God's gift to California and
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that they're the only qualified one to run and they're not going
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to drop out because it's, it's their race and all that.
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So what this tells me that that she was genuinely like she
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cared. She wanted to run.
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She wanted to do something again, whether or not we agree
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with her policies, you know, but she did kind of say this isn't
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going to work for me. It's time to back off and let
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somebody else. But I think I disagree with you
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about people don't care about Trump because we still have
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these new King's Day protest in California.
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I'm going to say in California there, there are plenty of
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Californians that are still very angry at Trump.
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And they do get inspired by the people that are saying I'm going
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to fight Trump. And I have a friend who lifelong
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Republican Christian, like conservative Republican, who is
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very disappointed in the Republican Party the last
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several years. And I wouldn't say she's a
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Democrat, but I think she's kind of feeling lost politically.
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And that this, the, the little reel that you posted on
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Instagram was a clip from last week when I was talking about
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the possible, what could happen if we were to send two
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Republicans to the general and the down voting.
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And so you had posted that little clip as a reel on
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Instagram. And then I shared it to my
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stories and she responded, no, no red wave again.
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She has all her life been a Christian conservative voter
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registered Republican. And I know that she's just
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pretty upset at a lot of things with Trump and, and just the
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Republican Party in general. And I don't know how she's going
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to vote, but I know that she appreciates like she's never
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liked to do some. But then when he was fighting
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with the whole Prop 50 thing, like she agreed with him on
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that. And I'm not trying to like, this
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isn't me calling her out by any means of I'm just saying talking
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to people. And again, this is former
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Republican or even current Republican.
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They are kind of like wanting someone to fight Trump when they
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because they really are so upset with the way that Trump has been
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going that they're like someone needs to stand up to him.
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So. I when you take the the far left
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in California, they are angry at Trump and they so I think that
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they do actually relate to that. Like, yes, you're going to fight
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Trump. Yes, I'm in.
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Yeah, yeah. I, no, I, I agree.
00:19:19
There's plenty of people in California.
00:19:21
That's no shock that there's plenty of people in California
00:19:23
who are who hate Trump no matter what.
00:19:27
I I was just thinking of the comment you made a couple weeks
00:19:31
ago at our round table about how sometimes it it, but Katie
00:19:34
Porter made her whole campaign about Trump, right?
00:19:37
I did say that when you called me.
00:19:40
Turn it back on me. I I mean, I was just using your
00:19:43
words to say and, but I, I think there is going to be a
00:19:47
conglomerate of people, there's going to be a large amount of
00:19:49
people who hate Trump no matter what.
00:19:51
And whoever yells the loudest about fighting Trump, they don't
00:19:54
care about $7.00 a gallon gasoline.
00:19:56
They ride their bicycle to work or whatever.
00:19:59
But I think making your whole campaign about Trump hasn't
00:20:04
necessarily panned out because that would mean like Katie
00:20:08
Porter and Tom Steyer should be running away with this because
00:20:10
their whole campaign is basically, we hate Trump and
00:20:13
we're going to do everything. Yeah, that's stop him.
00:20:16
So it's interesting. There is a good amount of people
00:20:19
who hate Trump. But I think there's a good
00:20:21
amount of people who are also like, yeah, that's nice and
00:20:25
everything, but but we also want to know what you're going to do
00:20:29
to help Californians. You just gave me an idea that I
00:20:32
have to write down. I'm sorry.
00:20:34
Go ahead, I'll bring up. Write it down.
00:20:36
You keep talking. I'm going to write this.
00:20:37
That's just sorry. That's what I'm doing.
00:20:39
I'm just writing this down so I don't forget.
00:20:43
All right, so this is one of the polls that came out recently,
00:20:48
Independent voter news that breaking Xavier Becerra bolts
00:20:51
into first place, an IVN California governor poll.
00:20:55
I've never heard of independent Voter news.
00:20:59
Take that from what you will. They're not one of the
00:21:01
established ones like Emerson or Gallup or Rasmussen or USC or
00:21:07
usually any of the polls that are people kind of refer to.
00:21:11
So this came out as of yesterday, April 20th.
00:21:16
Becerra leads IVP governor poll 23%.
00:21:20
It still shows Hilton and Chad Bianco in second, second and
00:21:25
third, Tom Steyer pulling up behind them and Katie Porter.
00:21:29
It's interesting to me because this shocked me.
00:21:34
I, I can't imagine what he was pulling at before.
00:21:36
It was not great prior to this poll coming out and I'm I'm do
00:21:43
they? Poll.
00:21:44
Is it like they're readers or is this somebody else's poll that
00:21:48
they're reporting on? So this was it says about this
00:21:53
poll. Most public polling uses self
00:21:54
reported likely voter screen. Respondents are asked where they
00:21:57
plan to vote and those who say yes are included.
00:21:59
The IVP survey takes a different approach.
00:22:01
Every respondent was drawn directly from the L2 California
00:22:05
voter file and required to have actually voted in the last three
00:22:08
of the last four major statewide elections, including at least
00:22:12
one primary and one general. No one is included based on
00:22:15
stated intent alone. So those are called, what do
00:22:18
they call those? Like there's a term for those
00:22:20
kind of voters. They're like highly engaged
00:22:24
voters or something like there's a, there's a political term that
00:22:28
campaigns look at when they look at people who keep voting
00:22:30
elections. Those are like the highly
00:22:32
engaged voters, so they usually pull those people.
00:22:36
The distinction matters most in primary, where turn out is lower
00:22:38
and more habitual than in general election.
00:22:41
Self reported screens tend to over sample people who think
00:22:44
they will vote but historically do not, which can skew results.
00:22:46
The IVP model is anchored entirely in a verified past
00:22:50
behavior. The survey also asked voter for
00:22:53
a second choice alongside their first, which most polls do not.
00:22:56
This design decision made it possible to report meaningfully
00:22:59
on Betty Yee's Voters are headed the same day she exited the
00:23:02
race. So there you go, among 3404
00:23:07
screen and verified eligible voters.
00:23:11
Just goes on to talk more about it.
00:23:13
Interesting that as I asked the question you had the answer
00:23:16
readily available. That's.
00:23:18
How many people did they they poll?
00:23:20
Yeah, 3404, almost like. And that, yeah, that's a.
00:23:24
That's a good sample size. Yeah, that's a, that's a
00:23:28
substantial sample size. For those who don't know, polls
00:23:31
are I think that's a good amount of people.
00:23:33
The weighted electoral composition is 47.7% Democrat,
00:23:37
30.2% Republican, and 22.1% independent.
00:23:43
So this gives you an idea of how many people they've they polled
00:23:46
12130 two 1000. So basically it was the same
00:23:50
across 3. So it wasn't like it was skewed
00:23:55
one way or the other, but it's interesting.
00:23:58
It's definitely interesting because I did not expect Xavier
00:24:04
Becerra to launch into first. And this is the only poll we've
00:24:09
seen. And then on the heels of this,
00:24:12
there was other news that came out and that is that the
00:24:15
Democratic Party, as Betty Yee referred to, they released
00:24:20
another poll because what they've been trying to do is
00:24:23
basically say, get the heck out of the the race.
00:24:25
You guys are losers. Go away.
00:24:29
So Rusty Hicks, the head of the California Democratic Party, has
00:24:32
been putting out these polls to kind of show there's lagging
00:24:36
candidates like a Betty Yee. Not to bash on Betty Yee, Poor
00:24:39
boring Betty, but it just goes to show they're trying to show
00:24:42
like, hey, like, you guys don't have a path.
00:24:45
Like we're losing. And this is coming from
00:24:47
California Democrats. I don't know if they're skewing
00:24:49
these on purpose, but latest California Democratic survey,
00:24:53
GOP Steve Hill and HI Bianco still in the lead and Becerra
00:24:58
still gains ground. So where does it show the poll
00:25:02
results? Did he do something that I think
00:25:04
did he say something? Did something magical happen
00:25:07
that people were like, oh, oh, him, he's still here?
00:25:11
Like what changed? I don't know that's we could
00:25:17
postulate on it. In our round table, when we when
00:25:21
you suggested that the DNC was trying to push Swalwell out and
00:25:25
I asked you, you know, who do you think they want in?
00:25:28
Not a single one of us even brought up his name.
00:25:32
No, I, he was pulling so far behind, I was like, I didn't
00:25:34
even think about that. So it shows that, yeah, Hilton
00:25:39
and Bianca are still ahead. Hilton has 16%, Bianca is 14
00:25:42
compared to Hilton gained 2%. Katie Porter has 10%.
00:25:47
San Jose San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has 5.
00:25:51
Betty who dropped out was pulling around 1%.
00:25:56
So there you go. And still in the lead is
00:26:01
undecided at 18%. OK, so they are undecided.
00:26:07
People are not really crazy about really anybody at this
00:26:10
point. It's so a lot of this is
00:26:14
incredible. Inspiring person.
00:26:16
They want that. They want the gimmicks, They
00:26:18
want the tricks. They want the gimmicks.
00:26:20
They want the person who's going to be as loud as possible.
00:26:23
And it's it's still anybody's race.
00:26:26
We have a debate tomorrow night. I believe it's the usual cast of
00:26:30
characters. You got the two Republicans are
00:26:32
going to be there, Hilton and Bianco, Katie Porter, Tom
00:26:35
Steyer, Matt Mahan and Xavier Becerra.
00:26:39
I think those are the people who are going to be at the debate
00:26:41
tomorrow night. Everyone else didn't qualify
00:26:43
because they didn't pull high enough.
00:26:47
So it's still really anybody's race.
00:26:49
And as of right now, if Democrats are putting out that
00:26:52
Republicans are still in the lead, Democrats really haven't
00:26:55
coalesced. I'd be interested to see.
00:26:59
What if, what if Republicans are not in the lead?
00:27:02
No, I'm like, I'm, I'm serious. What if they're not?
00:27:05
And they're, they're doing this because they're trying to make
00:27:08
the the race smaller with the Democrats to ensure that we get
00:27:12
to Democrats. To the general, this was another
00:27:17
quote from Betty that I had in my notes.
00:27:19
She said maybe I just need to bring a folding stool and throw
00:27:22
it off the stage just to get some attention.
00:27:24
Poor boring Betty. I know she called herself that.
00:27:30
I don't like that. That's just sad.
00:27:33
Boring Betty. So it's really anybody's race to
00:27:37
give everyone the update. It's not not decided yet.
00:27:40
Still a possibility with two Republicans going on.
00:27:43
I think that scares the crap out of a lot of Democrats.
00:27:48
Somebody asked if we can talk about the Stop Nick Shirley bill
00:27:50
the Dems in Sacramento are pushing.
00:27:54
Funny. I just released a video over on
00:27:57
California Underground News breaking down why it's wholly
00:27:59
unconstitutional. So if you want to go check that
00:28:02
out, I mean, I can give you my quick thoughts.
00:28:05
It's wholly unconstitutional because it violates the First
00:28:08
Amendment. I don't want to bore you guys to
00:28:10
death with a legal analysis. You can go check out the video.
00:28:14
It's over on California Underground News.
00:28:15
Literally just went live about an hour and a half ago.
00:28:17
So if you're tuning in, make sure you go check that out.
00:28:20
My opinion it's wholly as an attorney after.
00:28:23
The show If you're here, stay with us.
00:28:26
Yeah, wait till after the show, then go check it out.
00:28:28
We appreciate you staying here, but if.
00:28:30
It also subscribe to that Channel.
00:28:32
And subscribe to that Channel because it's doing pretty well
00:28:35
and we got a lot of stuff coming out.
00:28:38
So yeah, that's my opinion. Stop.
00:28:40
Nick Shirley, complete First Amendment violation should be
00:28:42
struck down in court. So Camille, where do you think
00:28:47
we are right now? Has anything substantially
00:28:49
changed since Eric Swalwell dropped out, do you think?
00:28:54
I can't imagine these these like hanger ONS.
00:28:57
That's not even a word. Hanger ONS, these people who are
00:29:01
hanging on like Tony Thurman and stuff like that, even if they
00:29:03
drop out, I'm not sure that makes a big difference.
00:29:06
Right? Like they're still what you're
00:29:08
getting. Betty's 1% is splitting up or
00:29:11
Tony Thurman's 4% I. Think the forward that are going
00:29:13
to be in the debate tomorrow. I don't see them dropping out
00:29:17
because they are kind of neck and neck in the polls.
00:29:23
I mean, especially with Becerra actually pulling now where his
00:29:28
he wasn't they, you know, they've they've kind of been
00:29:34
doing this thing where it's like Katie Porter's leading.
00:29:38
No, Steyr's leading, no. Well, now we've got Becerra,
00:29:42
who's the 4th 1 you just named him and I'm.
00:29:46
Tom Steyer, Katie Porter. Matt Mahan.
00:29:49
Oh, so he actually qualified OK. So.
00:29:53
He I think he might end up dropping out and you know, he's
00:30:01
young and I think his wife will be like honey next, next year or
00:30:07
not next year, next term or two terms after that, depending on
00:30:10
obviously who wins. And I think she might encourage
00:30:13
him. Just wait.
00:30:15
You can do this in a few years. And you know, it is not that
00:30:20
I've ever run, but it takes up your life and it is very
00:30:23
expensive. It's exhausting.
00:30:25
It's it's a lot and he can do, he can still be mayor.
00:30:31
He can run for Assembly or something state Senate and he's
00:30:36
got he's got options. And so I think I guess if, if
00:30:41
tomorrow night's debate doesn't really change the poll numbers,
00:30:45
then I feel like he would drop out.
00:30:47
And he was getting, you said 5%. According to the latest polls,
00:30:51
like 5%, That's the California Democratic poll, Yeah.
00:30:54
I bet those numbers will go to Steyr and Basaria because I
00:31:02
don't see Katie Porter making it.
00:31:06
I just don't. People don't really like her
00:31:09
anymore. They don't resonate with her.
00:31:11
And I, I hesitate to say this out loud, but as progressive as
00:31:20
the left likes to think they are, I don't think they actually
00:31:23
want a woman governor. I don't.
00:31:27
And so I think that the with with Mayhan possibly dropping
00:31:31
out, I think that those votes will most likely go to a male
00:31:36
and obviously a Democrat male. So I yeah.
00:31:43
Yeah, it's, it's interesting. But Sarah of all people is,
00:31:48
again, what's that? When this stuff like this
00:31:50
happens, I'll go get a pulse of the people by going over to
00:31:54
Reddit to get an idea of where far leftists are.
00:31:57
The official town square. Yeah, Yeah, the unofficial town
00:32:00
square. And a lot of people are excited
00:32:01
about Becerra because they call him a corporatist Democrat who's
00:32:04
going to be just like Newsom. And I could agree with that.
00:32:06
I mean, he was, you know, he's a Biden guy.
00:32:09
He was in that camp of like, you know, the Clintons and the
00:32:12
Biden's. Those are all kind of
00:32:13
corporatist machine Democrats. And it's, it's odd that
00:32:17
California, maybe California doesn't have as many far left
00:32:22
progressives as we're led to believe, to your point, because
00:32:27
it's, if we're such a incredibly progressive state, that is.
00:32:32
And I say progressive. I, I mean, they call themselves
00:32:35
progressive. I think a lot of today's
00:32:37
progressives are really regressive, But that's a whole
00:32:39
different topic. It it we should be rallying, You
00:32:44
know, California should be rallying around Katie Porter.
00:32:47
She's espouses herself as far left progressive, She's a woman,
00:32:53
single mom like so she should be cleaning up no problem.
00:32:59
But the fact that she hasn't really got a good foothold
00:33:02
probably 'cause she yells at her employees, that probably doesn't
00:33:05
help. It is interesting.
00:33:09
And that the fact that the people who are gaining support
00:33:12
from this are a machine corporatist Democrat in Xavier
00:33:17
Becerra. Someone brought up in the chat,
00:33:19
wasn't he part of the vaccine mandate?
00:33:21
Yeah, he was a big part of the vaccine mandate.
00:33:23
There was something else he did. Someone called him out for the
00:33:26
fact that he said as attorney general, he called out the
00:33:31
secretary of Health and Human services for not lowering drug
00:33:34
prices. And then he became the secretary
00:33:36
of Health and Human services and didn't do the thing he
00:33:39
criticized the last secretary for doing.
00:33:44
So I don't think he had a really great record during that time.
00:33:47
And then you have Tom Steyer, who's a billionaire, old white
00:33:50
guy, billionaire. This, this one confuses me
00:33:54
because Trump is a white billionaire.
00:33:58
We don't like Trump. We don't like these
00:33:59
billionaires. We don't like these white male
00:34:02
billionaires we don't like. But when I say we, I'm obviously
00:34:07
being sarcastic because I'm talking about the far left too.
00:34:10
You know, these are the things that they don't like.
00:34:11
They don't want the billionaires in charge.
00:34:14
They don't want, you know, these people who are unrelatable and
00:34:18
don't understand our daily, you know, choosing if we're going to
00:34:23
pay the electric bill or buy the milk situation.
00:34:26
And that is Tom Steyer. He's he's literally a a
00:34:33
corporate billionaire who I know he's donated tons of his money
00:34:37
and like has has actually put money and actions behind his
00:34:41
words. I know he has done a lot of
00:34:44
that, but he is that that white male billionaire that we all are
00:34:48
supposed to hate. I know I'm kind of contradicted
00:34:52
myself because it's like, well, but then I just said that it
00:34:55
doesn't seem like they want the female governor.
00:34:59
I think they're confused. I'm confused because they're
00:35:01
confused. This is why.
00:35:02
It's yeah, I'm trying to, Yeah. It's, it's interesting because
00:35:05
we're trying to read the tea leaves of where who are these
00:35:07
people supporting? It doesn't really make sense to
00:35:09
us. They don't know.
00:35:10
They don't. Know who they're supporting and
00:35:12
I think that's. We're.
00:35:15
It's almost like they're just like, you know what, let's try
00:35:16
this one this time and in next poll, let's try this one.
00:35:20
And so that's why it's like gone from, of course, Swalwell's gone
00:35:23
now. But Steyer was leading and then
00:35:27
and even at the DNC, as we just discussed, Betty Yee was
00:35:30
actually in the top three of, you know, votes for
00:35:33
endorsements. And now she's gone.
00:35:35
And so it it does feel like they're just kind of like, OK,
00:35:40
we're just going to throw this name on the wall this week and
00:35:42
see what happens. And then the California Teachers
00:35:46
union has association. They've they've put their money
00:35:50
now behind Steyr. They were very quick to swallows
00:35:55
out. Let's go with Steyr.
00:35:56
So I think I mentioned last week, don't don't go with who
00:36:00
they're endorsing because they obviously have a really bad
00:36:03
judgement. So they have no discernment.
00:36:06
Don't you don't want to go with Steyr?
00:36:10
I don't think there's any dirt on Steyr, is there not?
00:36:14
Yet. Not yet.
00:36:16
Not yet. They could always dig some up.
00:36:19
All right, let's move on to the next story because we've still
00:36:21
got two other stories to cover. This story is out of Lai.
00:36:28
Don't know if you know this, but LA has solved homelessness to
00:36:30
the point where they can start cutting funding.
00:36:34
Looks like LA knocked it out of the park.
00:36:37
Yeah, round it. Round of applause snaps for LA
00:36:40
'cause they figured it out and they can start cutting funding
00:36:42
they can cut back on. The whole some.
00:36:45
Yeah, All right. They can thank Newsome.
00:36:47
They can thank all the billions we've given them.
00:36:49
But here's this story. We'll watch this short news
00:36:51
story and then we'll talk about it real quick.
00:36:53
Happening tonight, the annual homeless count is underway
00:36:56
across Los Angeles as Lhasa faces major budget cuts.
00:37:00
Questions about whether the numbers match reality.
00:37:04
FOX 11's Matthew Suterf live near Skid Row tonight with more
00:37:07
on what you saw there. Matthew.
00:37:10
Well, Christine, we just got back from Skid Row and I can't
00:37:12
even guess how many homeless people we counted just ourselves
00:37:15
tonight. But Michael, show you some of
00:37:17
the things that they're counting RV's like this.
00:37:19
A common sight across LA is tonight.
00:37:22
The count is on the massive annual count underway across LA.
00:37:27
Volunteers with WASA hitting the streets, counting everyone they
00:37:31
see, tents and RV's. When proven solutions lose
00:37:35
funding, homelessness doesn't stay flat, it may rise.
00:37:38
That warning? Just a point of if you're not
00:37:43
listening, if you're not watching.
00:37:44
The lady speaking as the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Homeless
00:37:49
Services Authority, LAHSA. If you've been following this
00:37:53
show, LAHSA is a wholly corrupt organization who did nothing to
00:37:58
solve homelessness, so take her words with a grain of salt.
00:38:03
That warning from Lasso's interim CEO as the agency faces
00:38:07
$300 million in budget cuts after an audit revealed a lack
00:38:11
of transparency in their spending after last year's
00:38:14
audit. How do you respond to people
00:38:16
that maybe feel like those budget cuts are justified?
00:38:19
Right. Well, we have an interim
00:38:21
internal audit committee now at law.
00:38:23
So we are really trying to be good stewards of people's money
00:38:27
here. On Skid Row, this is just one of
00:38:29
the encampments that we're seeing on a block that is full.
00:38:32
Excuse me, guys, we talked to you for 30 seconds.
00:38:34
One man speaking with us from inside a tent to hide his
00:38:37
identity. And how many people are in this
00:38:39
tent? About 5 bucks in this one area.
00:38:42
They say homelessness is down. Homeless is up.
00:38:44
Loss of reports, A decrease in homelessness the last two years
00:38:47
in a row. But every person we meet on Skid
00:38:51
Row says that doesn't match their reality.
00:38:54
I feel like it's more homeless people than it was before.
00:38:57
You feel like the city is giving you enough resources for help.
00:39:00
No, people that are not using the funds the way it's supposed
00:39:03
to be used, get them out. We need good people with good
00:39:06
consciousness. We are doing more here to hold
00:39:09
the system accountable, but we can't do it if you pull your
00:39:12
dollars away. City Council.
00:39:15
Nithya Rahman, again, if you're listening on audio, that was
00:39:17
Nithya Rahman, who's also running for Los Angeles mayor.
00:39:21
She was, I guess you can call her the mom, Donnie of Los
00:39:25
Angeles. City Council member Nithya
00:39:27
Rahman and Wasa pushing for more funds amidst the cuts.
00:39:31
No, it ain't, no. Well L as homeless are counted
00:39:33
to see where in the city needs the most help.
00:39:36
How do you think we get this fixed?
00:39:37
Help the community, help the people.
00:39:41
And interesting, Mayor Bass was listed.
00:39:43
She was supposed to be here as a speaker tonight.
00:39:45
We wanted to ask her some questions about homelessness
00:39:47
across LA, but she didn't show up.
00:39:49
Reporting downtown. Matthew Sedorf, FOX 11 News.
00:39:53
Surprising Karen Bass didn't show up.
00:39:56
So what they're discussing is the proposed 202627 budget for
00:40:00
Los Angeles is $843 million for total homelessness.
00:40:05
So almost a billion dollars just in Los Angeles alone.
00:40:09
And what they've cut is the street outreach, which are the
00:40:13
people who go out and actually do the outreach to homelessness
00:40:17
or to homeless who are trying to get off the the streets to get
00:40:21
services. And they cut that from 54
00:40:23
million to 26, which is a 52% reduction, which begs the
00:40:31
question of you're spending almost a billion dollars, yet
00:40:36
for some reason you're cutting the people who are going out to
00:40:41
try and find homeless to help. That doesn't seem to make a lot
00:40:46
of sense to me because you're spending a lot of money.
00:40:52
So how are you getting the money to the people and letting people
00:40:55
know there are services? I don't know what are your
00:40:58
thoughts. I don't know.
00:41:03
I mean, I'm this snarky. My, I'm a snarky person, as you
00:41:07
guys know. And I just nobody, nobody there
00:41:13
knows what they're doing. Does anybody care?
00:41:16
I don't know. We all know that this has been
00:41:19
such a corrupt thing. Whereas, you know, what was it?
00:41:23
The former CEO was getting all kinds of money into her, like
00:41:27
kickbacks to her husband's nonprofit or something.
00:41:30
And so it's just like they're cutting money.
00:41:34
Sorry, I'm rambling again. Yeah.
00:41:38
I mean, what you said, if if you don't have people doing the
00:41:40
outreach, how do they know where the money's supposed to go to
00:41:43
help the people that the money's for?
00:41:45
So what a conundrum. It's very interesting.
00:41:49
It's almost like you, you have this huge budget, but you're
00:41:52
cutting the people who are actually trying to connect the
00:41:54
services and the money to the people who need it.
00:41:56
Which I mean, we've all kind of been saying you cut the middle
00:41:59
person because that's why the funding is so expensive because,
00:42:04
you know, it's $10.00. But by the time it gets to the
00:42:07
person who needs it, it's it's $1.50 kind of situation.
00:42:11
But you do need somebody's to be in there to you can't just have
00:42:16
anybody coming up and saying, I'm homeless, give me money.
00:42:19
You know, it's, it's not going to work that way.
00:42:21
Obviously it needs to be restructured, restructured for
00:42:25
sure. There needs to be a major reform
00:42:27
within how this how the funding is handed out, how they figure
00:42:32
out who needs it, exactly where it goes.
00:42:34
Like the the man, his answer was, you know, when the news
00:42:38
reporter asked him what you think.
00:42:40
And he's like, we need to help the community.
00:42:42
Yes, OK, we all agree with that. But what does that actually look
00:42:46
like when you say help the community?
00:42:48
Let's give specifics. What does the community
00:42:50
literally need? And so wait, cutting those
00:42:54
people? Yeah, that will be harder to
00:42:56
assess that need. But it does need to be.
00:42:58
They need to assess what really needs to be done.
00:43:00
They need people to do that. They need to assess the actual
00:43:02
needs. Is it, is it specific job
00:43:06
training? Is it education?
00:43:07
Is it mental health? Is it, you know, addiction
00:43:13
getting them, getting them off their addictions?
00:43:15
Is it simply getting them into a clean home for a decent amount
00:43:19
of time? Like what what?
00:43:20
Everyone's going to be different, but assess the
00:43:22
specific needs. You can't just say the community
00:43:25
needs help and then you can't just go throw money at it and
00:43:27
expect results. They do need to like reform and
00:43:32
hire competent people who can really figure out exactly what
00:43:35
those needs are and then formulate a plan.
00:43:37
And then I think that they could actually cut the budget by a ton
00:43:41
because they can allocate specifically what they need as
00:43:43
opposed to, you know. Let's just throw money at the
00:43:47
problem. Yeah, which is what they've been
00:43:49
doing for a long time. Just for kind of context, I'm
00:43:53
sure you're anybody who's familiar with these numbers, but
00:43:56
they're worth repeating. California homeless is spending
00:43:59
peak was $6.8 billion between 22 and 23.
00:44:03
It's been cut all the way down to 2.5 billion by 2024 and 2025.
00:44:12
This is for California. You're.
00:44:14
Saying this is, yeah, I'm giving you statewide numbers of how
00:44:16
much we've spent over the five years, 2019 and 24.
00:44:19
California spent $24 billion in homeless.
00:44:21
We're all very familiar with that number, and homeless
00:44:24
population over the same period grew by 30, now over
00:44:27
181. The math is approximately
00:44:31
$160 spent per homeless person.
00:44:35
Yet population somehow went up and the state auditor found that
00:44:38
9.4 billion across three programs couldn't even be
00:44:41
evaluated. No data, no outcomes, nothing
00:44:44
tracked. So there we have it.
00:44:46
We spent a ton of money, $24 billion, homelessness went up,
00:44:50
30 people and 9.4 billion. They couldn't even figure out
00:44:54
where most of it went. Somebody in the chat said no
00:44:56
accountability to where the money goes.
00:44:58
No, not at all. And when people like the former
00:45:04
Valasia Kellum Adams Kellum, who's the former Ceoi guess not.
00:45:09
Lhasa is what they call it. I didn't even know.
00:45:11
Here I am stumbling over the this whole time I've been
00:45:15
stumbling over LAHSA and it's just called Lhasa.
00:45:20
She was caught giving about $2 to her husband's
00:45:23
nonprofit that also helped homelessness, allegedly.
00:45:29
Allegedly, all of these people are trying to help homelessness.
00:45:32
I mean, we have story after story.
00:45:33
Alexander Souffer was a story that broke a couple months ago
00:45:37
who had stolen millions of dollars and was giving out like
00:45:40
instant ramen and like microwave meals.
00:45:44
And he lived like in Brentwood in a $5 home.
00:45:47
Like it's, there is no accountability.
00:45:50
I mean, outside the accountability of like Bill
00:45:52
Asaley, who thankfully is the US Attorney up there in the Central
00:45:55
District. I can't even imagine.
00:45:59
If it wasn't for Bill Asaley, I'm not sure a lot of these
00:46:01
people would even be held accountable.
00:46:02
Like, I don't know if people in Los Angeles would be getting
00:46:05
arrested for this or under investigation.
00:46:07
And then there was issues of developers who were buying
00:46:11
properties 'cause they got an inside track of, hey, we're
00:46:15
going to buy this property for rebuilding, for homelessness.
00:46:19
So you buy it for 12 million and then we'll buy it from you for
00:46:23
24. So there, there is no
00:46:27
accountability. And if you want to know where
00:46:29
the money went, it went to a lot of people and made a lot of
00:46:31
people rich. I did see if you were cutting
00:46:34
employees, I forget if it's Lhasa, we could say that now.
00:46:39
OK, Lhasa or some other, I'm sorry, I should have had this
00:46:42
handy, but like they were actually cutting 284 employees
00:46:48
as part of cutting some of this funding.
00:46:52
There was talk about the county taking over for Lhasa, like they
00:46:57
said based on the whole corruption, everything they were
00:47:00
talking about taking it and the county.
00:47:03
Is so corrupt. I mean that, remember?
00:47:05
There was that. The woman that didn't want to
00:47:07
run for her role and so she somehow got a $2
00:47:10
settlement because God forbid that they take away her job and
00:47:16
make it an elected position. And she was so distraught.
00:47:19
She like got $2 from them.
00:47:21
That was the county. Yes, yeah, That was the county
00:47:24
CEO that that was a good story because she usually CEOs for
00:47:30
like county supervisors or like the county are, I guess,
00:47:35
nominated and selected by the county officials who you elect.
00:47:39
But now they were like, no, we want you to actually be elected
00:47:41
by the people. And she was so distraught that
00:47:43
she had to run for election. She was like, this is horrible.
00:47:46
They're taking my job away. And somehow she won $2,
00:47:49
a $2 settlement. Taxpayer.
00:47:52
Yeah, taxpayer dollars, someone said.
00:47:54
I'm so black, built politically over the fraud.
00:47:56
I don't I don't blame you. The the fraud is, I think the
00:48:00
fraud is probably one of the biggest black pills we've seen
00:48:02
in the past year or so. Is is.
00:48:04
I wasn't. Laughing at that person that
00:48:05
said that. I'm sorry, just clarify it.
00:48:07
Just it's just, yeah, it's like, it's astounding.
00:48:11
It's a true statement. I think the fraud that has been
00:48:14
exposed like Nick Shirley did in Minnesota and here in California
00:48:18
and just the amount of fraud we see and the fact that Doge
00:48:21
barely even chipped the tip of the iceberg in the federal
00:48:24
government at how much fraud there was going on.
00:48:27
I think that really does unfortunately black pill a lot
00:48:31
of people and a lot of citizens in California and America
00:48:34
nationwide. Because when you look at tax day
00:48:39
and if you had to pay taxes just last week like we did, you look
00:48:44
at it and go, what the hell am I spending money for?
00:48:48
I mean, it's where, where are all these taxes going?
00:48:50
They're clearly not going to what they're supposed to.
00:48:52
They're going overseas, they're going to fraud, they're going to
00:48:56
waste, they're going to military industrial complex.
00:48:59
It's like, yeah, I mean, that's why people get backfilled.
00:49:03
Yeah. We don't want to go down that
00:49:05
road. We're not going to get started
00:49:06
on that. That's not the point of the show
00:49:07
special. After Dark episode.
00:49:09
That should be a special After Dark episode.
00:49:11
That should be a California, California Underground and
00:49:13
Cocktails After Dark episode. So yeah, I guess I'm not sure
00:49:21
what they were doing or what they're planning on doing here.
00:49:25
Homelessness is far from solved in Los Angeles and the fact that
00:49:29
they're cutting St. outreach the people who are supposed to go
00:49:32
and get the homeless and provide services.
00:49:35
That's so sketchy. Again, I agree there.
00:49:39
There needs to be reform and but I don't think that they're
00:49:43
actually reforming. It just feels like let's get rid
00:49:46
of these people over here so we can throw more funding at these
00:49:50
employees over here kind of situation.
00:49:52
I don't know, it's just it seems sketchy.
00:49:57
Very sketchy, and it makes you wonder how much more fraud is
00:50:01
happening if they're holding on. You know, it's almost like they
00:50:03
know they're going to hold on to this money and dole it out where
00:50:08
they want to without the street outreach.
00:50:10
It's almost like we're just going to hold on to this and
00:50:12
figure it out ourselves. We don't need the street
00:50:14
outreach. So yeah, whatever LA is up to,
00:50:19
I'm sure this might be one of those instances.
00:50:21
Remember at the beginning of the episode where we called this out
00:50:24
and said why are they holding on to this money and not hiring
00:50:29
more St. outreach people? We maybe three or four months
00:50:34
from now find another story about what's going on with Los
00:50:36
we really need. To do a deep dive into this, we
00:50:38
kind of, but it's been a while now.
00:50:41
You and I had kind of talked about this.
00:50:42
So we were looking just like sort of just looking at the
00:50:46
surface of a few things. But it turned out that because
00:50:49
they have safe parking, I don't know if this is specifically all
00:50:52
they are, just lots of areas, but one of the things that they
00:50:54
do is safe parking for people that live in their cars.
00:50:58
There's I guess parking spots that are kind of considered
00:51:02
safe. I think they have security and
00:51:03
stuff, but we found out that they were paying, gosh, what was
00:51:08
that? A hundred, $200 a night.
00:51:10
I I guess for the security and securing this spot and whatnot
00:51:14
for people to use. And they were, which is almost
00:51:18
as much as a hotel room and they were paying.
00:51:22
OK, I'm just going to make up numbers, but it was something
00:51:24
like 100 of those a night, but only eight of them were being
00:51:29
used. It was something like that.
00:51:30
It was something really ridiculous.
00:51:32
And don't quote me on those exact numbers, but it was
00:51:34
something very ridiculous. And so we're like, OK, so all
00:51:37
these different groups are paying $1000 like a total a
00:51:43
night over several nights. So several $1000 a month only to
00:51:48
have, you know, less than 100 of these spots even used over the
00:51:51
course of that month. And so it was just like, again,
00:51:54
where is this money really going?
00:51:56
This is what's happening is bizarre.
00:52:03
There's someone in the chat and I've been looking at his
00:52:05
username and I thought it was a Sopranos reference until the
00:52:07
90s. Kidded me.
00:52:08
Realized it's not a Sopranos reference, it's Pauly Shortcuts
00:52:12
and it's Pauly Short from right. Isn't that he was a comedian?
00:52:16
Pauly Short? Pauly Shore.
00:52:19
I know the name but. I thought it was a Sopranos
00:52:21
reference just to give you guys that we that's why we do this
00:52:24
show live. I'm I'm looking at your yeah,
00:52:27
I'm looking at the chat. All these shortcuts.
00:52:30
Don't know what references. Finally, I want to touch on this
00:52:34
math before we get into the Newsome story.
00:52:36
The cost of preventing homelessness, based on the
00:52:39
California State Auditor, before they become homeless, the cost
00:52:45
is about $5000 per person. Basically the idea is here's
00:52:49
some financial assistance before you get evicted, before you're
00:52:52
on the street. Like we can provide that to kind
00:52:55
of bridge you to keep you moving and keep you in a house.
00:53:00
That's the cost before the cost once someone becomes homeless
00:53:05
goes up to $50. So that's shelter services and
00:53:09
medical. So that's the amount it costs.
00:53:13
And I think to your point about how we have to reform our
00:53:18
approach to homelessness, there's a lot we need to reform,
00:53:21
but it does seem like we're always paying for the end result
00:53:25
and not stopping it before it starts where it's we're always
00:53:29
paying for the facilities or the affordable housing or whatever
00:53:34
down the line after they're homeless.
00:53:36
And not the 5000 part where we can say, hey, here's some
00:53:39
funding so that we can just keep you in a house before you become
00:53:43
homeless. That's the.
00:53:44
Government for you, though. That's the government for you.
00:53:47
Yeah. I mean, it's it's easier to pull
00:53:50
on the heartstrings once you're homeless because if you pay
00:53:53
$5000 and someone doesn't become homeless, you can't pull on the
00:53:57
heartstrings then. So.
00:54:00
All right, next story, Final story, Our title story for the
00:54:02
night. Gavin Newsom.
00:54:06
We just couldn't go without talking about him.
00:54:08
He's, you know, he's still in office.
00:54:10
We we only have so many months left of old Gavin Newsom, so we
00:54:13
better enjoy the content he's going to provide us.
00:54:17
He is a best seller so we should all be very proud of Gavin.
00:54:20
He wrote a book, a round. Of applause.
00:54:22
Another round of applause for Gavin Newsom.
00:54:24
Somehow a guy who is dyslexic wrote a book.
00:54:27
Maybe he dictated it, I don't know.
00:54:29
But whatever it was called, young man in a hurry.
00:54:33
Shot GTP. You know what, at this point, AI
00:54:38
is going to replace a lot of writers, so could have helped
00:54:41
him. So he wrote this book, young
00:54:43
man, in a hurry, and it got up to the New York Times bestseller
00:54:46
list, which if you don't know and you don't follow this a lot,
00:54:51
this is a hallmark move by politicians to prep a
00:54:57
presidential run. And if you look at basically
00:55:00
every presidential candidate who ran in the past, gosh, I don't
00:55:06
know, 10, let's say 20 years back to 2000, that's almost 2026
00:55:11
years. Gosh, time flies.
00:55:14
I still think the 90s are 10 years ago.
00:55:16
I still think the 90s are 10 years ago.
00:55:18
They're. Not they were.
00:55:20
I I refuse to think that they're more than 10 years ago.
00:55:24
You can go back and look at all the politicians who ran for
00:55:27
president. They all released the book prior
00:55:29
You have Obama had hope we can believe in or something like
00:55:33
that. Was that his book or something?
00:55:35
I don't know any other books. Dreams of my father, I don't
00:55:39
know, he wrote a couple books. Hillary Clinton was like, gosh,
00:55:43
I was like my world or something, or my life something.
00:55:47
Hillary Gunn wrote a book. Now Gavin Newsom has written a
00:55:49
book. Come on, Harris wrote.
00:55:51
A book. Mala Harris wrote a book after
00:55:54
she lost the election. She didn't have time before
00:55:57
then. She wasn't ready to write her
00:55:59
book before or have ChatGPT write her book before she ran
00:56:03
for 100 days. Wasn't that called it 100 days
00:56:06
or something? That wasn't like. 51 days, so
00:56:08
I'm just kidding. It feels, yeah.
00:56:11
So this is common. This is what happens is they
00:56:15
they write a book, it kind of promotes their national image,
00:56:18
gets people emotionally connected to them.
00:56:23
So in November, the Campaign for Democracy Committee, that's his
00:56:26
super PAC or his PAC that he uses.
00:56:28
It's the PAC he used to tour around the nation and go into
00:56:33
red States and lecture them about racism, launched a book
00:56:36
campaign asking donors to contribute any amount to the PAC
00:56:39
to receive the memoir when it was released on February 24th.
00:56:43
Newsom spokesperson Nathan Click told The New York Times that the
00:56:45
PAC bought 67 copies, representing A substantial
00:56:49
portion of the 97 total sold.
00:56:53
So like 2/3? Yeah, it's good math.
00:56:58
We were thrilled with the response, Click told The New
00:57:00
York Times. Our goal was to deepen the
00:57:01
relationship between him and the millions of folks who have
00:57:04
already expressed support for Gavin Newsom's or Governor
00:57:06
Newsom's work. The pack made two payments
00:57:10
totaling over 1.5 million to Porch Light Book Company,
00:57:13
according to FEC filing. This is all stuff that they have
00:57:16
to disclose as a pack quote. Supporters were invited to give
00:57:21
whatever amount they could afford and still receive a copy
00:57:24
of the book. The goal was participation and
00:57:26
engagement, not fundraising. The campaign's list provided an
00:57:30
opportunity for supporters to buy the book through a vendor
00:57:33
consistently used by other authors.
00:57:35
Each book was sold and sent through the vendor, similar to
00:57:38
buying from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
00:57:40
In total, more than 67 individual sales were made
00:57:43
through the campaign's offer. So he was able to get on the New
00:57:49
York Times bestseller list because his pack bought 2/3 of
00:57:54
the book. So he may say, I want to see if
00:57:58
this, I can see it in this article.
00:58:01
I don't know if they bring it up in this article, but there's
00:58:03
something interesting about how the New York Times put a little
00:58:05
symbol next to his book. It's a dagger, which indicates
00:58:11
to readers that this book was probably bought in a not only
00:58:17
individual sales, but it was also bulk sales.
00:58:20
So the New York Times was wise to this, and they actually
00:58:23
called it out and said, hey, this wasn't all individual
00:58:26
sales, this was bulk sales. So for someone who's now going
00:58:31
to claim that he's a New York Times bestselling author, his
00:58:35
own pack ended up buying 2/3 of the books that actually got him
00:58:39
to be a New York Times bestseller.
00:58:42
So would you say that Newsom was in a hurry to become a New York
00:58:44
Times bestselling author? Yes, I would say he was
00:58:49
definitely in a hurry to become a New York Times bestselling
00:58:51
author, so much so that he was like, we'll just use our pack.
00:58:55
And he's sitting on an enormous war chest.
00:58:57
And I because I think he took the money from the recall that
00:59:03
he raised. Because remember when a recall,
00:59:05
if you're a governor defending yourself against a recall, you
00:59:07
can raise an unlimited amount of money.
00:59:09
Have you talked so much about how that's just going to be in
00:59:13
his future presidential run? Again, folks, we don't want to
00:59:19
pat ourselves on the back. We want to be as humble as
00:59:22
possible. But if you tune in long enough
00:59:24
to this show, you'll start connecting the dots like we do.
00:59:31
Yeah, I, I said that before. I said, look, this is the
00:59:33
problem with this is he can raise as much money as he wants
00:59:35
to defend against a recall. And he still had like $200
00:59:37
million left after the recall. And then he opened this Campaign
00:59:41
for Democracy, took all that money put in Campaign for
00:59:43
Democracy, which will now likely be the war chest he uses for his
00:59:48
presidential campaign. It'll be renamed something that
00:59:51
Gavin Newsom for president. So he's sitting on a ton of
00:59:55
money. So $1.5 million to him and his
00:59:57
pack is literally nothing. And the one thing I will say
01:00:03
about book sales with politicians, which is
01:00:05
interesting, I think book sales, along with art sales, are some
01:00:11
of the last legal forms of money laundering in the world.
01:00:18
Politicians routinely write books and somehow become big New
01:00:24
York Times bestsellers. And a lot of the times it's
01:00:27
because of things like this. The pack, the reason this got
01:00:32
exposed is because the pack got someone found out in the FAC
01:00:36
filing that got caught doing this.
01:00:38
But a lot of times publishers will buy a crap ton of the books
01:00:43
and make it look like they sold a bunch of copies.
01:00:47
Then they'll hand them out or do whatever the heck they want with
01:00:50
them. And in a way, it's a form of
01:00:53
kind of money laundering because you write a book, someone pays
01:00:58
for that book and they buy a crap ton of copies.
01:01:01
And the person on the other end, the author, the politician, ends
01:01:05
up making a lot of money and it's a direct way to give them
01:01:08
money. So along with art sales, I think
01:01:11
book sales for politicians is basically legal forms of money
01:01:16
laundering. Want to?
01:01:17
Write a book. And funny enough, we have a
01:01:24
little news about that coming up in a couple minutes.
01:01:27
So any thoughts about Gavin Newsom buying his best seller?
01:01:34
It's not surprising. Not.
01:01:37
Surprising. It's not surprising you have.
01:01:39
I mean you have. Connections.
01:01:41
Why? Why not?
01:01:42
Why not make yourself look? Why not add that to your resume?
01:01:46
I mean, it's, it's almost like is there anything genuine about
01:01:49
Gavin Newsom or is he just completely created a lot?
01:01:53
It's just like, oh, I promised y'all I was going to redo the
01:01:57
California 911 system and I failed and spent millions of
01:02:01
dollars on that of your money and we're not even try again.
01:02:05
But anyway, here's my book. Some of the comments are should
01:02:11
be titled Young Man with Extremely Rich Friends, Newsom
01:02:14
and the Gettys. Someone else said To be honest,
01:02:17
it's not hard to be a New York Times bestseller.
01:02:19
There are 100 categories and you can claim to be a New York Times
01:02:21
bestseller. True.
01:02:23
Yeah, a lot of people. Well, I.
01:02:24
Was actually surprised at not that 97 copies isn't a lot,
01:02:30
but I was surprised that the number was so low.
01:02:31
To become a New York Times bestselling author like I.
01:02:34
I would have thought it would have been like half a million.
01:02:37
Tells you what I know. I read books, but I don't know
01:02:39
about selling them. I when it when you read that,
01:02:45
OK, this is going to sound because this album is like crass
01:02:47
because I really don't know. But I literally thought I could
01:02:51
probably write a book and sell 100 copies.
01:02:54
No, I probably can't, but but it did make me go wait, that's a
01:02:57
way easier than what I thought to become a New York Times
01:02:59
bestselling author. So I was surprised.
01:03:04
Excuse me? Yeah, it's, I was surprised too.
01:03:09
I guess it's to the Iceman's point in the chat.
01:03:12
Yeah, there's a whole bunch of categories.
01:03:14
You can literally finagle your way into a certain category and
01:03:20
sell a bunch of books, and you're the best selling author
01:03:22
in that category. Nancy's Napa Napo Baby Polly
01:03:28
Shortcuts coming through with the great comment.
01:03:32
Did he answer your question about his username?
01:03:34
Also. Related, my left eye has been
01:03:36
twitching so if I look crazy I'm sorry.
01:03:39
My eye has been twitching this entire episode, I have no idea
01:03:42
what's going on. It's not.
01:03:43
It's not talking about Gavin Newsom and authentically buying
01:03:46
his own book. It's at this point it just makes
01:03:48
my eye twitch it's how bad it is.
01:03:54
Couple more things about this and then we'll, we'll wrap up
01:03:57
the show and, and if you guys have any thoughts in the chat or
01:03:59
questions in the chat, we'll be, we'll be happy to take them.
01:04:04
So he's saying his team didn't collect any royalties on the PAC
01:04:07
purchase copy specifically, but the advance size and whether the
01:04:09
guaranteed bulk buy was factored into the publishers officer
01:04:12
remains undisclosed. Also worth noting is that the
01:04:17
PAC Campaign for Democracies, their whole stated mission is to
01:04:20
confront and defeat on American authoritarianism.
01:04:26
I'm going to show. Excuse me, what?
01:04:29
Their mission, I'll I'll repeat it, is to confront and defeat on
01:04:32
American authoritarianism. Yet its first, its biggest Q1
01:04:36
expenditure was by Newsome's own.
01:04:38
Just do they know that he is the definition right?
01:04:47
Like you look up authoritarianism in the
01:04:49
dictionary. Do you guys know what those are?
01:04:51
Dictionary. They're books.
01:04:52
They're probably best selling books and like you just flip a
01:04:55
few pages in the A section and like there's literally Gavin
01:04:59
Newsom. Oh my gosh.
01:05:03
Yeah, authoritarianism defeated. I guess he missed.
01:05:07
I guess he skipped over the whole COVID part where he didn't
01:05:09
talk about how he was an authoritarian.
01:05:13
Political career. You know, authoritarian and I
01:05:17
just want to preface, this is all technically legal.
01:05:21
Technically, yes, there's we're not alleging this was a crime.
01:05:25
This is one of those weird loopholes with PACs and FEC
01:05:28
filings and, and how you can do this.
01:05:32
Critics of someone by the name of Buzz Patterson said donor
01:05:36
money flows to the publisher. Publisher already paid Newsom,
01:05:40
right, 'cause sometimes when you write a book, they will give you
01:05:43
a front, like they will front you money because they're like,
01:05:47
hey, this, we know this book's going to do pretty well, so
01:05:49
we're going to front you money to so we can have the book.
01:05:52
So they already paid Gavin Newsom for a certain amount of
01:05:55
copies. So then the pack purchased the
01:05:58
books, kind of reimbursing the publisher.
01:06:01
So Newsom's likely already made a ton of money off of this.
01:06:04
So his pack purchased 67 books of the 97 sales.
01:06:12
So the publisher bought 30 books.
01:06:14
So nobody actually bought this book.
01:06:18
And I know that you didn't say that the publisher bought
01:06:20
30. I'm just insinuating that that's
01:06:22
what happened. Yeah, organically, only 30
01:06:26
copies have been sold. No, but the guy who's.
01:06:28
The publisher you just said bought, right?
01:06:31
That's what this critic is saying is that a lot of times
01:06:34
publishers will buy books in front them for you.
01:06:38
Like they will hold up. I guess what they're saying is
01:06:40
they pay you up front for a certain amount of copies.
01:06:44
So they'll say like, oh, we're expecting you're going to sell
01:06:48
100 copies, so we'll pay you for 100 copies.
01:06:53
Then I what I said was irrelevant.
01:06:56
Yeah. So they're just kind of
01:06:57
recouping I guess because the sales were, the organic sales
01:07:01
were so bad. I don't know anyone who's
01:07:03
actually like this book. In a way, yes, He in a way Gavin
01:07:09
Newsom paid his publisher back for fronting him the money and
01:07:13
donors who thought they were donating to his campaign pack
01:07:17
his campaign for democracy, to fight authoritarianism and to
01:07:20
fight Trump and all that. Instead they were literally
01:07:24
buying his book. So.
01:07:27
All right, I'm going with that that they just like here,
01:07:30
they're like, here's here's payment for 50 copies.
01:07:33
And then he was like, all right, and I'm going to buy 67
01:07:37
copies. So here's your money back.
01:07:41
So is that you guys see someone put Michelle Obama's book at
01:07:44
Barnes and Noble as a troll and every page was blank at this
01:07:48
point. Like that's literally what most
01:07:50
of these books are. You can fill them with whatever
01:07:52
people. Michelle Obama's actually kind
01:07:54
of entertaining. Don't hate me, don't hate me.
01:07:56
Somehow she's on my TikTok and she's kind of funny.
01:07:59
I didn't buy her. Now the show's going to.
01:08:01
Now the show's going to get boycotted because you say you
01:08:03
say Michelle, don't cancel. Someone asked.
01:08:08
Have you seen any of Newsome's wife's stupid videos?
01:08:11
I try not to. Yeah, I've been trying to do as
01:08:14
many reaction shorts as possible, but I don't want to
01:08:17
beat a dead horse in the sense of like she keeps saying stupid
01:08:20
things. I've done a couple shorts.
01:08:21
If you follow on Instagram, I've done a couple shorts kind of
01:08:24
commenting. So what should?
01:08:26
Tell them, I mean, this is so mean, but someone should tell
01:08:28
them she is not a good look. It's better for her to stay in
01:08:32
the background for now. Like, I know she's trying to
01:08:35
like be her own person because she's going to be find the first
01:08:38
partner or I'm, you know, I'm going to be the first, first
01:08:41
partner. So she's trying to like come
01:08:46
into her own. Now I get that that's what's
01:08:48
going on. But she says the dumbest things
01:08:52
and she looks dumb and it is a bad look and she just needs to
01:08:56
sit back for now because she needs, I don't know, she's some
01:08:58
serious trainer or something before she starts doing this
01:09:01
because it's, it's bad. It's just, but but then again,
01:09:04
maybe I want that because I don't want you to be present.
01:09:06
And so maybe we want her to look really bad to reflect on him.
01:09:13
We can only hope. We can only hope Jennifer
01:09:14
Newsome saves America by maybe. She could write a book.
01:09:18
She'll write a book and then definitions pack will buy it and
01:09:20
give it out to people and the the cycle of grifting continues.
01:09:25
All right, last thing of the night.
01:09:29
Speaking of books, I figure this is a good time.
01:09:32
We were chatting before the show.
01:09:33
This is probably a good time to reveal the news and give you a
01:09:35
little teaser. I'm actually writing a book that
01:09:39
is almost finished about California history and
01:09:42
California politics. Sort of a long look at where
01:09:46
we've come, where we've been when California was the gold
01:09:49
rush and beginning of the 20th century and how California
01:09:53
became the envy of the world and the envy of the country and
01:09:57
where we've gone wrong. That's going to be released kind
01:10:01
of going back and forth, whether it should be June closer to the
01:10:04
gubernatorial election. It's probably going to be closer
01:10:06
to the gubernatorial election, August and September.
01:10:11
So I'm in the final stages of finishing it, putting the
01:10:14
finishing touches on it. Then we have to go through
01:10:16
edits, formatting, all of that stuff.
01:10:20
But that's, yeah, that's the big news is that I am writing a
01:10:24
book. I do not have a pack that can
01:10:26
spend $1.5 million on buying the book.
01:10:30
But hopefully we don't need a pack and hopefully it does
01:10:32
really well on its own. So we'll be dropping more
01:10:35
information about that as well as that as we go on.
01:10:40
So we'll keep you updated on when the book was going to be
01:10:43
done. I.
01:10:43
Told Phil he had to give me an advanced copy to read so so I
01:10:48
can critique it. Yep, and.
01:10:51
I also told him to do a drum roll when he announced this and
01:10:54
he did not. I forgot to do a drum roll, I'm
01:10:56
sorry. OK.
01:10:57
So anyway, that's very exciting news.
01:10:59
I know you've been holding on to that for a while.
01:11:02
And it's. Been I'm consuming for you
01:11:04
because you obviously do your full research and you are an
01:11:08
amateur historian, so this will be very exciting.
01:11:12
You're obviously very passionate about this state and what it was
01:11:15
and what it's becoming and where it's going and what you hope it
01:11:18
to be. So this this will be really
01:11:21
interesting. Yeah, call your friends.
01:11:25
Everybody. Yeah, go tell your friends,
01:11:28
somebody said. How many are you going to buy?
01:11:30
Hopefully I don't have to buy any.
01:11:31
Hopefully everybody but his wife.
01:11:33
Gets a copy. Just kidding, I don't I don't.
01:11:38
Like I said, I don't have 1.5 to buy my own book.
01:11:42
So we'll see we're. Where do you plan to sell the
01:11:47
book? We are in the process of going
01:11:54
to different publishers. So we're we're in the process
01:11:58
right now promoting it to different publishers.
01:12:01
If that doesn't work and they don't bite, then we are prepared
01:12:05
to self publish on Amazon. You can do an ebook on Amazon.
01:12:10
So like Kindle version, you can also set it up so it's a
01:12:14
paperback. So if you like paperback, you
01:12:16
don't like ebooks, they'll be a paperback of version available
01:12:19
as well. So yeah, we'll see.
01:12:22
That's why we're kind of. Sorry.
01:12:25
Go ahead. I keep interrupting you.
01:12:26
This is your news. Go ahead.
01:12:28
Now you go ahead. You got a question.
01:12:29
Well. Did you do a live in person book
01:12:31
signing? Sure.
01:12:34
Hopefully people show up. I mean, we could maybe like not
01:12:38
the book isn't obviously not lying.
01:12:39
This is. 100% you, but we could, if people are interested, do
01:12:42
like a a live podcast kind of thing and have a book signing.
01:12:49
But also it doesn't have to do anything with me or the podcast.
01:12:52
It could just be your own thing because I'm sorry, I'm not
01:12:54
trying to make it about me. That sounded really disgusting.
01:12:56
I didn't mean it to come out like that.
01:12:58
I just yeah why not I think any ideas we have if.
01:13:03
Live book signing or whatever someone says.
01:13:06
I love reading. Count me in for one sale.
01:13:08
There we go. We got one sale already.
01:13:11
New York Times, Like the Iceman said in the comments, New York
01:13:14
Times, here we come. It's, it's happening.
01:13:17
Maybe I can actually overtake Gavin News now.
01:13:19
Wouldn't that be something, if you could beat Gavin Newsom
01:13:22
writing a book about California and the history of California?
01:13:25
I'm, I'm excited about it. You know, I started it, I feel
01:13:30
like over a year ago. I've been spending a lot of time
01:13:33
on it, a lot of research. I've learned a lot writing the
01:13:36
book. So hopefully my hope is it's a
01:13:40
good synopsis. It's not like a 500 page
01:13:45
encyclopedia. It's a good synopsis of where
01:13:50
California started in terms of the California dream, how we
01:13:57
kind of lost our way over the past several decades.
01:14:01
And then, you know, it ends on a good note.
01:14:03
It ends on a good note of like where we can go to get back to
01:14:06
make the state great again. I'm hopeful it has a good
01:14:11
ending. So I learned a lot researching
01:14:14
it. There's plenty of times I was
01:14:16
researching. I'd come out from writing, I'd
01:14:19
go to my wife and be like, this is really interesting.
01:14:21
And I'd be like telling her the whole thing.
01:14:22
I'm like, oh, I'm writing this this chapter on homelessness and
01:14:24
this is a really interesting tidbit.
01:14:25
She's like, great, That's really interesting.
01:14:32
No, I my wife is completely supportive.
01:14:34
So. Well, I hope so.
01:14:36
Yeah. No, she is his wife is so his
01:14:39
wife is so supportive of everything that he.
01:14:41
Does he has a very Good Wife? She's she's a wonderful person.
01:14:44
She's one of the nicest people I've ever known.
01:14:46
But she is absolutely just like everything Phil does.
01:14:49
She's so supportive of him. Yeah, well, every behind every
01:14:53
great man, whether they say. He's a good woman.
01:14:55
So all right, that's the big news.
01:14:58
We'll keep you updated on the book.
01:15:02
I want to make a really snarky comment now because I just can't
01:15:04
help myself. Because you just did this whole
01:15:07
thing about how people will release a book to kind of get
01:15:11
their name out there and get. Excited for?
01:15:13
Their political campaign, but I know you're not going to.
01:15:18
You have, at least at this time, you have no interest in running
01:15:20
for politics. And so I won't make the snarky
01:15:23
comment. I will.
01:15:24
I will because I was going to make some dumb comment, but I
01:15:27
guess this is a good time because people are going to have
01:15:29
that question. Or are you going to run for
01:15:31
office and you're not, You have no plans to run for office.
01:15:35
No, no plans off. I mean, if people want to take
01:15:38
what's in the book. Who are interested in running
01:15:41
for politics and take ideas from it and run with it.
01:15:44
I'd be tickled pink about it. I'd be happy that they took
01:15:49
those suggestions, but no, I have no desire to run for
01:15:53
politics. I just like doing this podcast
01:15:55
and doing the videos and keeping everyone informed.
01:15:58
Hopefully that's what the book does as well.
01:16:00
Gives you a good deep dive on California history and where we
01:16:02
can go all right with that thank you everyone for tuning in we
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01:16:11
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01:16:14
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01:16:21
know she called herself that we cannot call her that she.
01:16:23
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01:16:26
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