Spencer Pratt Declares War on LA and Newsom Flip Flops on Billionaire's Tax

[00:00:02] If you thought Spencer Pratt was done just because of the mayoral election, think again. He's still going after Karen Bass in LA. He has declared war on the institutions and the establishment in LA. We're gonna get into that in his comments about the Boyles Heights warehouse and the fire that happened there. Also, we're gonna get into Gavin Newsom who both supports a billionaire's tax but also doesn't support one. So we're gonna get into that and more on this episode of the California Underground starting right now.

[00:00:47] What's going on, everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of the California Underground. I am your host, Phil. We got a couple stories to get to tonight. Big stories. But first, if you haven't already, make sure you like, share, subscribe, follow all that stuff helps with the algorithm. And your eyes are not deceiving you. It is not Camille who is co hosting tonight. We have a special guest co host tonight. Kyle from politically basic is joining us tonight. Kyle, welcome to the program.

[00:01:15] What's up, Phil? What's up, Phil? Good to see you, brother. Thanks for having me on. No shortage ever of topics. No, no, no, no. Yeah, we had a lot. So Camille's on a little bit of a sabbatical. So she'll be back in a couple weeks. But Kyle was very nice to hop in and chat with me about what is going on with LA and with Gavin Newsom. Because it seems like every week there's something going on with LA or Gavin Newsom. Just pick your week. There is always something going on.

[00:01:43] First story. Let's get into this. This was a story that I wanted to cover a couple weeks ago, but we kind of got sidetracked because of the federal investigation. And that took up the whole episode. Then we had a guest last week. Spencer Pratt had declared war. He said, I'm not going away. There is a lot of conventional wisdom about people saying he's going to leave. He's done. He's going to leave LA after he loses the mayoral race.

[00:02:11] Kyle, did you believe that Spencer Pratt was just going to tuck his tail and run after the mayoral race? I think if we had any idea that this was going to be a legitimate election and vote count and he had lost, maybe. Yeah.

[00:02:28] I think that he seemed very serious about that. But there were so many questions about that particular primary and how those votes were counted and seeing Nithya Rahman's very bizarre, unusual rise into spot number two, that that might have fueled him in a different direction, honestly.

[00:02:48] And I think that his video that came out saying, you know what, I'm not leaving. I'm going to continue exposing this corruption. I'm going to come at you. That was his best video yet. And so I loved seeing his energy there. He has a lot of righteous anger. And you know what? Everybody's with him. Like we feel it. And we want to see these people held accountable in our election systems, held accountable. So I do hope he stays.

[00:03:14] But honestly, I'm not sure if that was just an in the moment, kind of an after the primary, you know, spout of emotion and it might taper off. So we'll see what he does. You know, Steve Hilton has also said he wants to bring Spencer on to his campaign and in his administration. So I'd be very hopeful for that. I'd love to see that happen. It's funny you brought up the video because that's a perfect segue. I actually have a queued up. So this is the video that I want to show a couple of weeks ago of him declaring war.

[00:03:43] It is a good video. So we're going to watch that now. Now that the campaign portion of my mission to save Los Angeles is coming to a close and I'm moving on to the next more interesting phase. Listen, I spent a lot of time slaying everybody. I've ridiculed everyone on the roster. And I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, I like to take the chance to apologize. Absolutely nobody. You think you can get rid of me that easily? I know a lot of dimwitted jerks thought I was in this for a grift that I was going to roll up and leave town if I didn't get into City Hall.

[00:04:12] It's just not fair. Hey morons, I didn't get in this for political power. I got in this to expose this corrupt machine and nothing has changed. You enjoy your worthless meetings in City Hall. Nithya, you have all this information. You're running for mayor. Show what you're really about or get the fuck out of the race. I want to be lighting you up every single day and now I don't have to worry about offending CNN viewers. I don't have a campaign. Law's hamstringing me now. It's war. It's zero hour for Los Angeles. Angelenos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all their problems.

[00:04:42] And they have to choose between dumb and dumber. That's not a choice. That's the machine protecting the machine. And now every problem that plagues Los Angeles because of these two corrupt communists is going to accelerate. And the city will tumble headlong into the abyss. You have no idea how many major developers, hoteliers, business owners, entrepreneurs have been texting me saying they're packing up and leaving town. More of your favorite restaurants will be shuttering. That means less tax revenue. That means the city has to cut services. More potholes. Less firefighters. Less police patrols.

[00:05:11] More criminals. More drug addicts terrorizing your communities. And we haven't ended it. You have no idea how bad things are about to get for this city. Look at this place already. Weeds growing from every cracking crevice. Graffiti over every square inch of public space. Garbage, drugs, feces, burned up dogs, burned down towns, abandoned storefronts. This city is a mess and you're about to reward the arsonist who torched a place with four more years of destruction? I know he's very bitter. My goal hasn't changed. I've been laser focused on stopping these commie animals and I will stop them.

[00:05:40] If you think we uncovered a lot of fraud and evil in the campaign, just wait. We have some recordings of one of your exalted candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame. I was saving it for the general election. Go ahead and pick your demon. Certify your choice and then you get to see it. So Karen Nithia, ask yourself, is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace? Hope you sleep well at night over the next five months because you know who hasn't slept well at all for the last 17 months? My mom. All my neighbors in the Palisades.

[00:06:10] All the moms who worry about their kids walking past drug addicts in front of their schools. All the business owners getting crushed in the LA economy, worried that they can't stay in business and feed their kids. Angelinos have been struggling for years now, all while corrupt politicians and fraudulent NGOs profit off the misery and fleece us for the tax dollars. Well, now we're flipping the script. I want all of you awake at night sweating and worried about 5 a.m. when the FBI blazers bust in the door, breaking open your office, because I assure you, they're coming. You think your election was going to stop me?

[00:06:37] If you want to stop me, you're going to have to fucking kill me! All right. It's intense. Apologies for the language, but he's upset. And I think a lot of people in LA are upset. Kyle, you can attest to that. I said this before. I think I said this on social media somewhere.

[00:07:04] I didn't think LA would overtake San Francisco as the crazy far left city of California. Like, I always knew LA was sort of veering that direction. But I would have never expected in recent memory that San Francisco would start becoming more sane. And LA would just completely fall off the map. Right, right. Yeah. Well, San Francisco has boundaries still in place.

[00:07:34] I would say that. You know, you have Gavin Newsom, who will do anything, truly. He is the epitome of the grifter. You know, he is in this for himself, for what he can get out of it financially, attention-wise, future political goals. But he still has, in his past, some responsibility for San Francisco.

[00:07:57] And there are enough people who will let it get to a certain point, and they're going to scale it back. LA is a free-for-all. And it's too big to suddenly start to put a few boundaries around it, right? Like, oh no, this homelessness problem is out of control. Let's try to scale it back a little bit so it looks like we're doing something. And that's actually how they keep that homelessness grift going in Los Angeles. You get all of this funding being poured in. It's going to the NGOs.

[00:08:25] It's going to these groups and these people saying, hey, we're going to do this for the homeless. We're going to help on this, you know, front of it. And nothing ever actually gets done or gets accomplished. But they're still getting the money, and they're saying that they're doing something. And so I think that's how LA has gotten really so out of control, is that these are just empty platitudes. Nothing will ever happen. Meanwhile, you know, you're seeing that graph just go completely in the upward trajectory of the issue getting worse and worse.

[00:08:54] So, yeah, you're absolutely right, Phil. You called it. I mean, LA is a thousand times worse now than any, probably I would say, maybe any city that we have in the nation right now. I don't know if you would agree with that. You know, New York's got its problems. Chicago's a mess. San Fran's still struggling.

[00:09:10] But Los Angeles is ground zero now for every social issue, problem, crime, grift, fraud, disaster, complete crumbling of infrastructure happening across the country. You name it, it's happening there.

[00:09:30] Yeah, I would say, I think I agree with you because LA is one of the few cities that you see the videos of how bad LA is, and it actually is that bad. Because sometimes you see these videos, and they're put out on the news, and they make cities look really bad. And then you go to the city, and you're like, no, it's actually not as bad.

[00:09:52] Like, if you go to New York, there's bad parts, but for the most part, you can walk down the street in New York and, you know, enjoy Manhattan and stuff like that. But I feel like you go to LA, and you're like, oh, no, it's really this bad. You get off the highway in downtown LA, it's just tent city, graffiti. Downtown is completely dead. There was a survey that came out recently that downtown LA is the deadest downtown, I think, in, like, the world.

[00:10:17] Like, not just America, like, the world, it's the deadest in terms of, like, business activity, people living there. Yeah, so it really is, like, how bad they say it is. So I think that's the thing about LA is that it just, it really lives up to how bad it is. It's not an exaggeration. There really is a lot of things going on.

[00:10:42] So there is a video, the real story we want to get into is this Boyle's Heights. And I hadn't really paid attention to what's going on with Boyle's Heights. I had seen that, like, there was something going on. And I just kind of saw, like, oh, there's this fire, something's happening. And I didn't really look into it. I just thought there was a bad fire, and that was it.

[00:11:04] But now reading the story, it gets so much worse than that because there's just a lot going on here in terms of negligence and all that. Let's watch the video right now, the news story about what happened in Boyle's Heights. Well, LA's fire chief says he hopes to have this fire put out by tomorrow. Meanwhile, investigators are looking into how this all started. NBC4's Karma Dickerson joins us live now with more from Boyle Heights. Karma.

[00:11:34] Yes, today we're seeing some of the clear skies, at least in some parts of the area, since this fire sparked last Wednesday. Nevertheless, the details about the root causes of the fire, still murky. Shut inside for days. We have window closed. We have window closed. Smoke and soot littering the yard. Hundreds paid out of pocket for air purifiers. This Boyle Heights woman wants to get to the bottom of why this happened. If for no other reason, then.

[00:12:02] We don't want this to happen again to anybody else. The fire currently plaguing Boyle Heights and downwind communities for miles sparked June 17th. The company that leases the building, Lineage, believes it started during work on the solar farm on the roof, although an official cause hasn't been determined. As we've reported, it's not the first fire at this building. August 14th, 2024. A fire related to solar panels sparked on the same roof. Lineage says those solar panels are owned by a company called Altus Power. The solar company had had the fire previously.

[00:12:33] The solar systems were discontinued. However, keep in mind, when you have solar panels and you have sun like we do in Southern California, they're still generating power and there's still that electrical hazard. And so they were back this last week when the fire started. They were working on the system. Today, Altus Power provided a statement saying in part, the cause of the fire where our rooftop solar array located the Los Palos Street facility has yet to be determined. We are cooperating fully with authorities as they investigate.

[00:13:03] We press Altus for more details, including questions about what type of work was being done on the panels at the time of the fire, the panel's maintenance history and details of the 2024 fire. They responded with a similar statement, but still did not address those questions. So can you clarify those solar panels had not been operating since the 2024 fire? The power from those solar panels were not being used or generated to somebody else. We sent a similar detailed inquiry to the solar contractor for Altus, a company called Pierce.

[00:13:32] Their statement also did not address our specific questions, but said in part, we can confirm that four Pierce employees were on site the day the incident occurred. Just as an aside, this was caused by solar panels in Fawlty's solar panel installation. And this is something that California is implementing for all homes. They want all homes to have solar panels going forward.

[00:13:56] So just keep that in mind when we're talking about energy and what California is pushing on us is solar panels that can have issues like this and cause a horrible fire. Now imagine this was a warehouse and imagine what would happen if it was like your home with your family in it and it caught fire or something like that. So just want to throw that out there. We are relieved that no one on site was injured.

[00:14:24] The cause of this incident is not known and remains under investigation. NBC4 continues to press the building's operator lineage for more about their past incidents. In addition to the two Boyle Heights fires at the same facility, in August in 2024, a lineage facility in Dallas caught fire after an electrical short involving the solar panels on the roof. And in April of 2024, in Washington state, a fire to lineage facility burned for 60 days, leaving residents complaining of respiratory issues.

[00:14:53] And lineage, we did reach out to them to try to get more clarity about what they are doing in the wake of their history of fires to ensure that something like this does not happen again. And they have not responded to that inquiry. They have said that they have donated $2 million to a community impact fund designed to try to help people recover from the fire here. Now, as of right now, last word we heard from the California Community Foundation that is managing that fund, that money had not yet, as of yesterday, been received from lineage.

[00:15:22] As far as how that money is dispersed and what community partners will be giving out, we're still trying to get more information from CCF about that. But as of right now, they are expecting that donation from lineage. Reporting live, I'm Carmen.

[00:15:52] Sorry, it's freezing on my end quite a bit. I don't know if you guys can hear me or not, but. Nope, sorry. I think I was muted. My question was, are you shocked? Are you shocked that there was a fund set up for victims of this fire and that they're not? I've never heard of that before in Los Angeles. Have you ever heard of the fund being set up? I feel like the subtitle was Firing 2.0. Yeah, and of course the money hasn't gone in there.

[00:16:18] And of course no one knows where the money is going to be dispersed and which other NGOs are going to come take their slice of the pie. You know, there are only so many times that we can see this happen. Frustrating for the people of Los Angeles to see. I was actually driving in that area about a week ago and you can't breathe. I mean, we were very far from the fire.

[00:16:43] You could see it and we're in the car and you have to turn your research on because you just cannot breathe. This was a huge fire and you said it, Phil. You know, this is a very complicated story here because as it starts to come out more information, this thing's screaming for investigation. And oh, lo and behold, this is not the first time this has happened at a lineage facility.

[00:17:08] They apparently like to see their buildings burned down and we've got to figure out what's going on there. The other thing is, yes, the solar panels are a problem, obviously and clearly. They're being forced upon people who live in the state of California. They're not safe. Clearly there are issues with the maintenance there. We have fires in the state all the time. It's not that. It's that usually they are more of the natural disaster kind.

[00:17:36] This is really, really bad. People are having horrible side effects from it. And also there was something like 85 million pounds of food in this facility in Boyle Heights that where this building burned. And I know you read this, too, but they're having a massive smell and rat problem now because this gigantic facility, their refrigeration is damaged from this. So it's just a really bad disaster.

[00:18:02] And I don't know what you think about this, but my whole take on Gavin Newsom as our governor declaring states of emergency for the state of California, I think there is a lot underneath that. I think that that needs to be investigated as well because declaring a state emergency, sometimes you need to do it to release certain funds.

[00:18:25] He seems to be really quick on that trigger to declare everything a state of emergency and try to get funding emergency funds for that. Again, we don't have good tracking on where that's going, if it is reaching people. And of course, after the Palisades fire, we know that was $100 million. That was privately fundraised. But we just don't have anybody watching where the money's going.

[00:18:49] And I think that that, on top of an investigation on why these lineage buildings keep catching fire and they keep blaming the solar panels, maybe it is, maybe it isn't, doesn't seem like any other buildings with solar of that size are catching fire at this rate. But where is all of this emergency funding going? So I don't know what your take is on that, but it just seems like he really loves to declare states of emergency in California. Yeah, he's quick on the trigger, like you said, about state of emergencies.

[00:19:16] And now they just gave him state of emergency powers to declare. I'm trying to get this wording right because it sounds so confusing. State of emergency powers, emergency war powers for oil gas price gouging. I don't know what they're trying to do. I mean, they passed a law about gas price gouging and they haven't used it once. And now they're giving the governor state of emergency powers to look into gas price gouging. So I don't know.

[00:19:46] It just seems like more state of the emergency. And we all know from COVID that Gavin Newsom loves his state of the emergency. He does not want to give him up. He held on to that and coddled that like a toddler with their safety blanket for about two years. He would not give up his state of the emergency powers. He is very quick on it. Does it, is there a procedural, does it streamline stuff? Sure, maybe. But it is kind of quick how fast he already declared a state of the emergency.

[00:20:16] This is from CBS News and it talks a little bit more about what was going on. It says, concerns first surfaced about the safety of the solar panels following on August 2024, so two years ago, on the same roof, which was quickly extinguished by firefighters at the time, a source close to Los Angeles Fire Department told CBS News. The earlier blaze cost the logistics company running the warehouse lineage around $6 million, its chief financial officer Robert Kriske revealed in a November 2024 earnings call.

[00:20:46] Despite the damage in 2024 fire, a review of city records show no record of lineage or other companies involved obtaining permits for repairs after that fire. There are also no records of building inspections of the roof from 2024 onwards. So that's a double whammy that either they repaired without permits like they were supposed to, or they just didn't do repairs like they were supposed to. And no one inspected whether or not they made repairs since two years ago.

[00:21:15] And now we have this fire that was even worse. Does that sound like LA to you, Kyle? Sound like something that LA officials... It sounds like the entire state. Well, I think that there's a situation that all Californians have been forced into here. And that is that the permitting process, and I'm not excusing that lineage didn't go get their permits. They absolutely should have.

[00:21:41] But I think that we are now being forced into this situation where the permitting process, the fees, the timeframes are so overly burdensome. You can't get anything done. And I do think that it tends to motivate people to try to kind of get around the corners, get around the edges on some of this. And this could be a backfire of some of our state policies when it comes to these things. I mean, you can look at the Palisades. And I think Spencer Pratt posted this recently.

[00:22:11] You know, photos. I drive through there all the time. Nothing's being done. It's still just a total wasteland. People are still waiting for permits. They're not rebuilding. You still have emergency vehicles, charred land. It's devastating. And now we're going on, what, 18 months since that happened. So on one hand, it's completely inexcusable if that is what happened. And they didn't actually go through the process, especially because you've got a massive facility. You have neighbors.

[00:22:40] You have employees in there. You have to take other people's safety into consideration, of course, and follow that the way you're supposed to. But also, it's not easy.

[00:23:19] It's just not. It's not easy to incentivize people from following the rules and the regulations because it's so burdensome and so hard to do and it's hard to run your business that people try to figure out a way around it, do it without permits. It's too hard to pull permits. And this is what happens is people do it because they're doing it on the down low. They're doing it through black markets or improperly without the permits. And then all of a sudden, this is what happens.

[00:23:47] And maybe someone out there is going to be like, well, that's just a problem with free markets and libertarianism. OK, maybe that's not where we're going. But to your point, when people make it so arduous to actually follow the rules and get the permits, people just throw up their hands and go, screw it. I'm just going to do it myself. And yeah, wasn't there supposed to be this whole push for streamlining permits for the Palisades fire? Wasn't this, you know, Karen Bass took that photo op of this is a one stop shop.

[00:24:17] You can come down to here and get all the permit work done and you can get it all done. And it seems like permits are still being issued at a like snail's pace and they're just not rebuilding the Palisades. It's also just so hard to rebuild with the permitting between the city and the state that a lot of people are just going. It's just too hard. It's just too hard to rebuild what you're asking me to rebuild with the materials, with the square footage, how I have to redesign my house. It's just too hard.

[00:24:47] And that's why people are just throwing up their hands. So, yeah, go ahead. I was just going to say it's kind of ironic, too, that they're forcing all of these procedural regulations on new builds, right? Or rebuilds like, you know, the earthquake retrofitting and you've got to have this much landscape that's fire resistant. And they're just all these little micro, microaggressions in this process.

[00:25:17] Yet they're going to force you to have things like solar, which might be the cause of some of the reasons that some of these buildings are burning down in the first place. And so, you know, if you wanted to get really conspiratorial about it, it's very easy to connect those dots. You know, you have people who are funding candidates and people in political positions of authority who want land, right? They want permits. They want land.

[00:25:44] So if something burns down, that's not a problem for them. It's an advantage. But I think that this story really speaks to a broader issue that California has got to sort out or else we're just we're not going to be left with anyone who can afford to have a business here, a large business like like this one that they're building burns or people can't afford to to build or rebuild or just live here in general.

[00:26:06] And that is that the leadership, this Democrat leadership, which is trending more Democrat socialist, which, of course, we know is really communist, is that they are fine just to say the thing that everybody wants to hear. And of course, we've had this in politics forever, right? People people say what the voters want to hear. It's all great. But we used to actually hold them accountable to that.

[00:26:29] And I think that, believe it or not, even in today's time when we need accountability more than ever, we're still struggling to actually select political leadership based on a record as opposed to what they are saying during an election time. And Karen Bass is just a great example of that. She doesn't look like she's got two brain cells running around in her head to rub together.

[00:26:55] She's just like, oh, yeah, we're doing this or, oh, that was, you know, that was on the fire department. We're going to fire that other Karen. You know, this is everything's great. And we're going to fix the teeth of the homeless. And there is zero accountability because they're all kind of in this little bubble together, propping each other up. That only takes us so far. And right now where we're seeing it take us is opening the door to these more socialist candidates.

[00:27:23] And there's just really no coming back from that. So I don't think that people like the Gavin Newsom's and Adam Schiff's and the these other socialist candidates or the Nithya Roms, the Karen Bass's. I don't think that they're realizing how they're being used right now, how they're being used as pawns. They think they're going to be in control and in leadership forever. They're going to ride this gravy train till the last stop.

[00:27:47] And they are just there to desensitize people to a more dangerous level of leadership coming in right behind them. Yeah, it's kind of like the Roman emperors of old. They they live off the gluttony and everything while the empire falls beneath them. And they don't really care about that. I do want to give a shout out to everyone in the chat. Thank you, everyone, for tuning in tonight, wherever you're checking in from.

[00:28:14] If you're checking in from Los Angeles, let us know if you experienced this, if you drove by that area, if you had to deal with it. But also let us know where you're checking in from as well. I saw someone checking from Palm Desert. So, yeah, just want to say hi to everybody. Thank you for there's a whole conversation going about on about if someone won million dollars in the lotto, the California lotto. So they're having a conversation about the lottery winning. I'd like to know.

[00:28:41] I love when the chat has their own conversations amongst themselves and I'm just watching it like, what are you talking about? So it's it always kind of cracks me up. Yeah, bring it. Don't worry if you don't win, because the state the state's going to take like 85 percent of that anyway. Yeah, I mean, it's a million dollars, but it'll really end up being like probably about, you know, 200,000 by the time they're done with it. So getting back to Spencer Pratt. So I did want it. This is the whole point that he's not done fighting. So this was back on June 23rd.

[00:29:11] Some of his posts. I keep calling him tweets. They're posts. This is what Karen Basura was doing while Boyle Heights was choking in toxic smoke, sipping cocktails in Chi town. If you thought she just hated us on the west side, think again. She enjoys when the Latino community goes up in flames to look at that smile. There's Karen Bash. She's at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. You know, always she always seems to be away whenever there's a big disaster going on in L.A.

[00:29:41] He goes on to say Karen Basura and other socialists on city council have turned L.A. into a ghost town. They want our beautiful city to just be slums with nice weather while Nashville, Miami and Austin steal all our talent and glory. L.A. is yet again a national embarrassment with another fire as our underfunded L.A. F.D. tries their best to make up for Mayor Karen's budget cuts and incompetence. She will lie about what's happening because that's her thing. Remember, if it's fire season, it's liar season.

[00:30:10] That's I actually kind of like that. I like that. That's pretty good. He's got some catchy sayings. Usually usually fire season here, though. So that's all the time. Yeah, that's pretty, pretty common. So there was something else. Let's see. Karen's warned by the last L.A. F.D. chief whom she fired, being honest, that L.A. F.D. was dangerously underfunded and couldn't keep L.A. safe. Karen cut their budget by 17 million dollars. Then my town burned down.

[00:30:37] Now they have to bring in resources from Texas to manage a single structure fire. So. Well, that's it. You know that this is it. They're all talk. They haven't even fixed the issues that were problematic during the Palisades fire. The broken down rigs, the not enough firefighters filling the reservoirs. How many times do we talk about this? Where's the water? Broken hydrants. They just want to keep on trucking like everything's fine.

[00:31:07] They want to go to the World Cup and just, you know, bask in their own self indulgence here. Like they've done such a great job and they still haven't fixed the issues. What do they think is going to happen when there's another fire? And you could do an entire show about the Obama library. And if you haven't yet, I think you should. That's horrible.

[00:31:30] And there's so much to talk about with that massive waste of space and eyeline and funding. But yeah, this is this is it. She's just going to trot around campaigning. And she hasn't realized yet that she has another fight on her hands. And I just kind of wonder, you know, if she thinks that the fix is in for her and she doesn't have to worry about Nithya Raman.

[00:31:55] But as we look to these other primaries that are happening, particularly on the East Coast, but it's coming to the West Coast. We're seeing more and more of these DSA candidates win primaries. And I wonder if Karen Bass ever wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks like, I should worry maybe about Nithya Raman and the backing that she has. I don't know if she's that smart, but she seems completely unconcerned by that her competition at this point. Yeah.

[00:32:21] Well, when you're connected like Karen Bass is, I think she thinks that like she's immune from all this. I guess there's a certain part of the Democratic establishment that believes they're all like in the same club. It's a big club. You ain't in it sort of thing. She's connected to Gavin Newsom and she's supported by all the Joe Bidens and the Kamala Harris is in the big Democratic establishment. So I think she thinks I'm good. I'm probably going to waltz in there. But.

[00:32:50] I think if you're Karen Bass, you should be worried about Nithya Raman, because we've seen recently in the past couple of weeks, and this will will also bring this up in our next story about Gavin Newsom. Democratic socialists are all the hotness right now. They are winning primaries. Zoram Mamdani's picks all their backing. They're all winning up and down in Congress and all these primaries. So it's really popular right now, Democratic socialism.

[00:33:18] So if Nithya Raman's coming out as the actual Democratic socialist, not I'm Karen Bass and I trained with Marxists in Cuba kind of socialist. Nithya has a chance to sneak in there. And now you've got a Democratic socialist in L.A. and New York, the two biggest cities in America. Yeah. Which is kind of terrifying that the Democratic socialists have gained so much power.

[00:33:41] And it's funny that I heard someone on a podcast say how AOC and Bernie are not really involved in this, even though this sort of seems like their movement, I guess, because they both become part of the establishment. So they're not like it's the Zoram Mamdani thing. It's not really AOC anymore. She's become so establishment. I like what somebody just said that things are so bad here. Even LeBron had to leave. Well, you know, even who knows how bad it is. Someone said they're checking in from Central Sierra Nevada.

[00:34:10] Welcome to the show. Thank you for tuning in. Yeah. So Spencer Pratt still taking it to Karen Bass. I think he might be. We'll kind of finish on this thought. He might be more dangerous outside the political arena than inside the political arena, because I think he's made the connections. He's shown that even in a city as far left as L.A. is, he's still able to get about 25 percent of the vote, which is commendable for a guy who's never run, was not a politician.

[00:34:40] He's got a lot of energy and people behind him. So he could be a dangerous person to have on the outside. And if he has connections to people who can give him videos or exposés or stuff like that, he could become the leader of the, I guess you could say, the pushback, the rebellion, the kind of like the people pushing back on City Hall and stuff like that. So what do you think?

[00:35:07] Is he more dangerous outside of politics right now rather than inside politics? Yeah. And he alluded to that in his video. He says, I'm not beholden to the laws that, you know, dictate what I do while I'm running a campaign. And I think that when you understand the current culture of politics in this country today, you know that politicians, people who do win public office, yes, they hold some control. They have some sway, some influence.

[00:35:34] But it's really the people behind the scenes who truly pull the strings, have the power, are able to make things move and happen. And I think that he really shifted the mindset when he saw what they were doing to him and taking it from him. I don't think that that is necessarily being categorized as a conspiracy theory anymore. Those numbers just don't work that way.

[00:35:59] That is very bizarre, very unusual vote counting pattern, no matter how you try to justify it. So I think he was filled with a lot of righteous anger and he should have been. But this has probably propelled him into that next category of the people who are able to move behind the scenes, behind closed doors and actually get things done. And so I would imagine since June 2nd, he's been in an awful lot of meetings, taking all those phone calls.

[00:36:27] And now we're going to see the next generation of his so-called political career here. And I think we're going to see great things from him. He did very well. You're right. He had such a good showing. But he should have been in the general. That's, I mean, looking at the data, looking at the numbers, I just think it's very unrealistic that they bumped Raman above him. Yeah, I mean, I was pretty confident on election night on NBC. I thought he was going to pull ahead and just stay there.

[00:36:55] But that's a whole different show and a whole different issue. And with the new Supreme Court ruling about coordination and federal limits, there is something interesting going on here where now organizations can coordinate with candidates, which was never done before. So now you've opened up all these unlimited resources of candidates and organizations that can work together. So a whole bunch of Supreme Court stuff. Not going to get into it tonight. All right.

[00:37:25] We know you want to, though. I know. I've been following it all. I made a post about it today, but there's just too much to talk about. I'll say the best one that came out was definitely the one out of Hawaii regarding carrying conceal. Very happy about that one. Yeah. All right. Next story. Kyle, would you be surprised to learn that Gavin Newsom is talking out of both sides of his mouth to appease two different types of people? Would you be surprised?

[00:37:53] I'm liking your questions tonight, Bill. They're so easy to answer. I would not. Okay. I would not. I think he's the first person in world history to have like seven sides of a mouth. So, no. Well, that's exactly what he did this past week. He both supports a billionaire tax. He came out for a national billionaire tax, but also doesn't support the billionaire's tax that's on the ballot for November.

[00:38:23] Well, let's hear what he has to say about it. We'll watch his video. If you have any comments, just raise your hand. Let me know. We'll pause and chat about it. It's time for a national billionaire's tax and a new social contract. Think about this. Just 10% of people, 10% of people in this country own two-thirds of the wealth. A 30-year-old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents. That's a five-alarm fire.

[00:38:51] American wages have stood still, and the costs across the spectrum, cost of living, have skyrocketed. The system is fundamentally broken. The federal tax code, the corporate tax code, and the inheritance tax code seem to be written for a different set of Americans. It's time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax. A true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.

[00:39:19] We also should end... I'm going to pause right there because... Just to put this out there, 40% of... Around 40% of California's budget is funded by the top earners in California. So the billionaires that he's going after, the top 1%. Most people in California under a certain threshold don't pay anything in state taxes.

[00:39:45] So by his logic, if they're going to pay the same as the people below them, billionaires would actually pay less taxes because the people at the bottom pay no taxes, and they pay the most taxes. Are we... We're all clear on that? Just so he says. Because I'm... I just want to make sure we're all clear on that. Somebody doesn't understand economics, and his name is Gavin Newsom. Yeah, he... It's not just he's not... That he's talking out of both sides of his mouth.

[00:40:14] I can't with the hands. I just... The man is insufferable to listen to. But everything he said, and I'm sure you are intending to show more of this, most unfortunately. But he just does not understand how businesses are run, how earners get to that point, how they contribute to the economics of a state, let alone a nation. He's so off track here, but I'll let you proceed. Someone said, notice the sociopath uses a five-alarm fire as a metaphor.

[00:40:44] Ooh, probably... He loves to talk about fire. Remember, we have to fight fire with fire. The man cannot stop saying the word fire. Probably not the best look after the last story we were just talking about. Other people checking in from LA City, North Hollywood, El Cerrito. So thank everyone for checking in. All right, let's keep watching. This tax-free lifestyle loan.

[00:41:07] This is the gimmick that allows the ultra-wealthy to borrow against their stock portfolios while reporting no taxable income. We also have to rewrite those inheritance rules so that the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in human history, estimated by, well, be $124 trillion that will be changing hands, doesn't lock in a permanent American aristocracy of inherited wealth. Time as well to return to the pre-2000...

[00:41:36] Okay, I will just make this comment. As my day job, you know, my job during the day, I'm not just a podcaster, is I'm an attorney who practices in trust and estates. California has no estate tax, which is shocking that there's one area that we don't have a tax on. His argument is that there should be an inheritance tax so that they can't pass on their enormous wealth.

[00:42:01] So imagine you've worked your whole life, you've worked very hard, you have a good amount of money that you want to leave behind for your offspring, whether it's children or grandchildren. Gavin Newsom thinks you shouldn't allow, shouldn't be allowed to hand that off to your family tax-free, that you should probably give some of that to the government. Now, there is a federal limit of $15 million per individual, which is still pretty high.

[00:42:27] But he doesn't want people who are uber successful to pass on their wealth or what they've built. I wonder if he feels the same about his kids. What if we took some of his money when he tried to pass it on to his kids? So any thoughts on that, Kyle? Oh, I'm just bracing myself for more video. There's so much to talk about here. Has he met his aunt Nancy? We want to talk about the stock trading.

[00:42:51] And we want to talk about all of the hands up that he got during his life from people of high net worth who helped him stash away tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars. This is so King Newsom of him to use this language.

[00:43:11] And what he's saying is we are going to take from people who have worked hard, as you've said, who have built something, who have employed people, who have helped grow the economy of this state, who have paid so much in taxes. And we're only going to take from you. We want to take from you. This is not the Robin Hood mentality. We're not robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.

[00:43:37] We're stealing from people who have worked hard and followed the rules and paid their taxes and paid their dues. And now you just think that other people should have it. And this really throws an economy into kind of a death spiral, because as we're already seeing, no one's going to sit around and wait for this billionaire tax to take effect. We've already lost so many high net worth companies, individuals. They have fled.

[00:44:06] And of course he wants the billionaire's tax. He wants it in California. He won't be affected by it. He'll get around it. And he does want it nationally because he thinks that's what's going to keep him in political leadership. If it were highly unpopular, he would most likely be against it. But he can say that now that it's made it to the ballot, right? So it's on the ballot. He knows that's happening. And he could say, oh, I don't want that. I don't advocate for that.

[00:44:34] But it's interesting to see him trying to apply it on a national scale. The whole thing is infuriating because we know exactly how this is going to play out. It is the disastrous socialist playbook of people who have amassed this kind of earnings and this kind of wealth. They are smart enough to know that they're not going to sit around and have all of that taken from them. It trickles down.

[00:45:01] This billionaire's tax has this, what, paragraph 25 where it legitimately explains how this trickles down to your average everyday Californian who is making $100,000 a year. Maybe they have a joint family income of $150,000 and they're going to have to pay these higher taxes. So the whole thing is just truly insufferable. And I'm sorry to keep repeating myself, but it's hard to listen to him. It's definitely hard to watch him with the hands.

[00:45:30] And I just think he's convinced this is going to fly somewhere. And he might be right. I thought he was wrong before, Phil. And I'm going to just say I may have miscalculated that seeing how people are attaching to the rose-colored glasses view of socialism. That you are going to get more. And people don't care where it comes from. They don't care if they're taking from other people.

[00:45:59] You're going to get something. And I think that might be too attractive for some people to understand the real economics of how that works and how it's actually going to mean less money for everyone at the end of the day. Yeah. Well, it's enticing because I think the economy is not doing so great. Inflation is still a problem. People are still struggling to kind of make ends meet at the end of the month, especially here in California.

[00:46:28] It's not easy with the gas prices and everything. And things just keep going up. Electric keeps going up. SDG&E just asked for a rate increase. PG&E, as did they as well. So it's enticing because it's easy. A lot of people like to just vote, pull the lever, and hope that they're going to get something out of it. I mean, they're still waiting for the free buses in New York City. So we'll see when that happens. But it is interesting.

[00:46:56] We were talking about the Democratic Socialists. And this kind of ties together to your point that Democratic Socialists are very popular right now. And I don't know if it's a waning thing or it's a flash in the pan. Are they here to stay? Who knows? In two years, maybe Zora Mamdani flames out because he can't deliver on any of his promises and everything gets worse.

[00:47:19] I think Gavin Newsom, being the slick politician he is, sees himself as like, okay, this is getting really popular. I want to run for president in 2028. If I'm going to court this wing of the party, I'm going to have to start talking a little bit like a Democratic Socialist. Even though he's not a Democratic Socialist, he is an absolute 100% corporatist Democrat, much like the Hillary Clintons, much like the Joe Bidens.

[00:47:47] He is very much into his own wealth and power. So for him to now come out and turn out to be Mr. Democratic Socialist, I mean, most people I think will see through it because he hasn't had a record of being anything close to socialist in his time. He usually kind of veers towards the middle because he wants to run for 2028. So I think this is his way of trying to already court those voters in 2028.

[00:48:13] And we'll get into the article where they talk about like, why is he, why is he for national but not for state? So let's finish this video first because there's still some more we have to get to. Also, where is he sitting? Because I'm looking at those children's books behind him. Is that his like personal reading material? That must be his personal like energy. I mean, this is, this might be the, we need more trans kids room in his, in his house or in his office. I don't know. Or wherever.

[00:48:41] Wherever gives him the most, the most room to do the. The hand. I can't. I can't. The hand flop. And as AI reshapes the country, every American should own a piece of the future it builds to a national public equity fund. A national public equity. So state socialism. Okay. Yes, exactly.

[00:49:10] And what happens when, you know, if the AI bubble ever burst? What happens? Yeah, AI, we don't know where this is going. No one, no one person controls this. I mean, this is just the stupidest, thinnest idea. And people are going to be like, oh, goody. I want to share that. We just watched Elon Musk make, you know, all of these millionaires and billionaires. We want our piece of the future of the future of tech. Yeah, let's do it. No, what are you saying?

[00:49:40] Socialize the profits, but not the losses. Because I doubt if the bubble explodes, the government will not be giving any money back. No. Trickle-down economics. It's been a, well, nearly 50-year experiment that has failed. Record corporate profits flowed into stock buybacks and executive compensation. It's time to stop pretending otherwise. We're nearing the 250th anniversary of this country's revolution.

[00:50:03] The system the American founders built, well, was designed to prevent the concentration of power in a few hands. But we've allowed that concentration to happen anyway, slowly and in plain sight over the course of decades and decades. But we can reverse it. We can reverse it together. It's time to democratize the American economy to save our democracy.

[00:50:30] I'm at a loss because that was a, I usually say that on this show. There's a lot of political gobbledygook about democratizing our economy to save our democracy. Okay. Not sure. He said a lot of stuff that doesn't really make any sense. It's very vague policies. But again, I think it's him just coming out and positioning himself ahead of 2028. He knows, he sees the righty on his little wall.

[00:50:57] He sees how popular Zora Mamdani is and all these young democratic socialists that are coming up. I want to show this from CNN. If you're squeamish about CNN, avert your eyes. But I have to show this because this is one of the only articles that actually goes into it. This is saying that Newsom explains why he will personally vote no on the California proposal, which would levy a one-time 5% tax, like you said, on residents over a billion dollars.

[00:51:24] And yes, there is that paragraph in there that says the legislature can change their mind at any point and go, nope, you're not a billionaire. We're going to go after millionaires now. So they can change that at any time. It's a tax on everybody. Backers of the measure gather more than 870,000 signatures and include progressives like Vermont, Senator Bernie Sanders and California Rep. Ro Khanna, himself a 2028 contender, gag me now. Newsom and others fear it would drive businesses out of California

[00:51:53] and the revenue collected would not be spread around widely enough. Quote, we're competing with 50 other states, Newsom told the World Economic Forum. It's a good place to make a speech if you're not trying to look like an evil villain. Capital flows and moves. That's real. It's not imagined. It's very, very real. Long presumed a candidate for president in 2028, Newsom has begun to show his political hand more explicitly with a video last week about what he said was a Justice Department investigation

[00:52:22] into his wife, Jennifer Spiele Newsom. Quote, Donald Trump isn't just coming after me because of my mean tweets. He's coming after me because I'm considering running for president. No, I think they're coming after you because of the fact that you and your wife have been exposed as corrupt and taking as much as you can from the government trough. It wasn't even started by Donald Trump anyway. It was started by Joe Biden's administration. Yeah. So there you have it.

[00:52:49] His argument why he's for a national. This is very clever. He's like, oh, no, no. I'm for a national billionaire's tax. Not for California because he wants the billionaires to stay here. He's afraid that if you institute a billionaire's tax here, everyone's going to run out to the exits. But if you do a national one, no one can run anywhere.

[00:53:10] So that's his logic is I don't want to lose my billionaires because they keep our budget afloat and pay 40 percent of our entire tax revenue. So let's just make it national and everywhere it goes, which good luck getting that instituted, because I don't think the other states and other representatives are going to go for a national billionaire's tax. What are your thoughts, Kyle?

[00:53:32] Well, when you can't push it here in California, which is so progressive, it's obviously not going to play well in any other state. And his logic is faulty because he sees the same polls that we see. He can see the markets. His numbers for 28 recently have really tanked. And so I think he's trying to feel around here. I think that we both understand that he's trying to figure out what is most popular with voters.

[00:54:01] But every time I see him on camera, I see these videos or the press conferences where he looks like he's attending his own funeral. You know, the quotes and everything leads me to believe that this man has little to zero understanding of just economics 101.

[00:54:22] And so he's not attaching any personal responsibility or any policy or plans to how you're going to democratize an economy because he can't even explain it. Right. And so this is just it's all again, it's all platitudes. It's all fluff. It's all talk. God help us if truly if if he is out there and he's going to be out there for 28. But should he win?

[00:54:48] I think that there's a bigger problem at play that we need to start talking about. And I'm just going to I'm going to drop a little tidbit here and we can talk about it more later. But I think it's time that we wake up as a nation and understand that thinking that socialism is popular because there's some good to it and that Democrats are trying to figure out how to inch their way toward that so that they can sort of capture some of that interest and capture some of that allure and appeal.

[00:55:18] The plan here is very similar to what happened during Biden's term in which he was so checked out and they were so focused on the get Trump movement and women's reproductive rights not being taken away and all of this silly stuff that didn't make any difference really to to real Americans everyday lives. They let these millions of people flood across the border. Right. We really, truly did have an invasion during that term.

[00:55:45] I think that we are cruising toward another invasion that we have not figured out is happening just quite yet. But we're starting to get those pieces right like the popularity of this citizen vigilante movie coming out and the sort of Islamification of the United States and all the issues happening in Texas and New York City with Mom Donnie.

[00:56:08] When you tank an economy in a city like New York City or heaven forbid in a place like Los Angeles and an average American citizens cannot afford to to be there to run the businesses to purchase the land to to have their feet, you know, grounded in these communities. It opens the door to really people coming from places. Yes, we've known China, Russia with great wealth, but from the Middle East.

[00:56:36] And when you have sympathetic political leadership holding the door open to these people who want to see the Islamification of America, who really do care about tanking the West and and bringing us down and infiltrating and coming in and changing our ways and bringing our constitution down.

[00:56:57] I think that we are really at this precipice truly that we have to be very, very careful who we elect in the midterms in these next coming cycles.

[00:57:07] Because should these socialists get installed, I do think we're going to see a rush and a flood of wealth, of property owners, of people coming in from Middle Eastern countries with that culture and they're bringing the Koran with them. How's that for a little doomsday prediction for you, Phil? Wow. I didn't know we were going to get into the Holy Wars, but I like it.

[00:57:34] Yeah. Also in Europe, too, as well. I'm I'm following my algorithm thinks I'm a right wing person from Britain for some reason. It gives me a lot of right wing stuff from Britain, but a lot of stuff going on in the UK and Europe as well. It's it's it's enticing. They get you to vote for them and support them because they promise all this free stuff. And then they create a very I mean, it's political. It's political. It's political pander in one on one promise free stuff.

[00:58:04] Say you're going to make this bad guy over here pay for it, make the billionaires pay for it. You don't have to do anything. We're going to give you all the free stuff. And then that's the sort of carrot that gets you to vote for them. And then they get people in who hate our institutions, who hate really what America has been based on. And then they start tearing it down from the inside out. So I yeah, it's it's enticing.

[00:58:26] You've got to be vigilant about it. It's also up to if you're center right of center, you have to be vigilant as well. And this is something that I tweeted about or tweeted or posted about today regarding the Supreme Court.

[00:58:43] And this is more and more. It may not be a great popular take, but I think it is an important take is everyone's mad at the Supreme Court because they didn't rule the way they wanted on birthright citizenship. My whole thing is people get so mad at the Supreme Court and they say, oh, traitors and Amy Coney Barrett and stuff like that. And, you know, mostly nobody ever reads the opinions to figure out how they came to that conclusion.

[00:59:09] Doesn't mean I agree with them, but I read them and I'm like, OK, I can see where you went with that. But no one gets as angry when it's Congress not doing anything like there are there is Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House and the court. And all of this could be fixed. Someone commented, oh, the Supreme Court was our last chance at this. No, it wasn't. Congress can just write and pass a bill.

[00:59:37] Yeah. And then the court can't do anything about it because that is the utmost importance is once your elected leaders actually pass legislation, the court goes up. That's how our system works. And now it's written in stone. So people need to get they need to hold a lot of these people accountable who are on their team, who are supposed to be upholding what they were promised because they're also opening the door as well by not upholding their promises.

[01:00:05] And I think when you don't uphold your promises, people who supported you overwhelmingly in 2024 are going to look at you and go, well, you didn't do anything you promised. So now I'm going to let me go move over here and try out this person to see how it is. So it's you got to be vigilant about sort of that kind of politician getting in, as well as you also have to hold the people accountable who are there, who are. This may be one of your only shots in the next 10 years. You never know.

[01:00:35] What if you lose the House and the Senate and then all of a sudden it's a 10 year drought? And all of a sudden Democrats. Yeah. No, I think you're exactly right. 100 percent. Well, that's it. And it's you know, we were talking earlier about the need to look at the record. Right. You can't just believe someone who says they're going to do something and they will never do it. And we have a very disappointing Congress and a disappointing Senate right now.

[01:01:03] And you've got to feel for President Trump at times. He was locked and loaded with that very message today, you know, putting out on True Social look, Congress can take care of this. He's been very good in this second term about anticipating and having a plan and a path forward, regardless of the way the courts are ruling. He's also had a lot of, you know, liberal rogue federal judges to deal with on a lot of these issues, too.

[01:01:27] But it's true. You know, people there they almost are fearful of picking up the phone and calling your senator. I say this often, but they've done research on people who who are sitting legislators and how many emails or how many calls it takes to move the needle. And they say 50 is the threshold. If just 50 people email and say, hey, really want you to get on this or can you just pass the Save Act already or whatever?

[01:01:53] You know, whatever the issue du jour is, that will move the needle and they will pay attention to it. It's such a low threshold and people don't do it. They want to come on here and, you know, bitch and complain. And of course, it feels good to commiserate about some of these things and to have our community and talk about it. But there's that important next step that we do have to reach out and keep these leaders held accountable, especially right now.

[01:02:18] I agree with you. I've just been extraordinarily disappointed in a lot of our leaders on both sides, of course. And they can't all be John Fetterman's where you're calling out everybody left, right and center. Right. We got to get in there. They work for the people. And I think we forget that sometimes. Yeah. And there's a perfect example today right out of L.A. kind of bring it full circle is the city council now delayed the measure that was going to go in front of voters,

[01:02:45] allowing noncitizens to vote because there was so much public pressure and there's so much pushback. So even in places like California, people don't believe me when they're like, what can we do? What can we do? It's so lost. I'm like, you can pick up the phone. You can email your representatives. A lot of the times when things go through Sacramento and they go through city, they're not popular and there's enough pushback. Politicians will cut tail and run and they will run away from it.

[01:03:10] Or in the other instance, they will do what you want them to do, because if there's one thing that they want to do is they want to stay in office. And if enough people are calling them saying, hey, you're screwing up here, they will be like, OK, maybe I should change what I'm doing. But public pressure does work. And that's our job as citizens is to apply that pressure. So we're coming up at nine oh five. We've been chatting for about an hour.

[01:03:37] Do you have three minutes for a lightning round to let everybody know about new laws that are going into effect starting tomorrow? Because happy gas tax eve, happy gas tax eve, everybody. Your gas is about to go up tomorrow. So hope you filled up tonight because it's going to be more expensive tomorrow. Real quick. Here are the laws, the highlights of the laws that are going to happen starting tomorrow. Minimum wage in L.A. is going to rise to $18.42 an hour.

[01:04:07] L.A. County is going to be $18.47. Pasadena, $18.57. So that is going up to food and dialysis going up to $25 an hour. Food labels are going to get standardized. Sell by dates are banned outright. So it's no longer sell by dates. It's used by best if used by because everyone doesn't know whether or not they should throw it out. Yeah. I'm from the old school where you just smell it. It was confusing. It was.

[01:04:36] I'm of the old school. You're a dude. Yeah. Smell it. It smell good. All right. Cool. Restaurant allergen disclosure. Chains with 20 plus locations must list major allergies. Not a bad idea. Streaming ads get volume capped. Cool. Whatever. Can't blow you away with commercials. Self-driving cars can now get tickets. Waymo and other autonomous vehicles are now subject to traffic citations. Must carry a live line for emergency responders. Schools. This is the big one.

[01:05:06] Campuses must provide at least one gender neutral bathroom. Cell phone use must be restricted or banned per district policy with emergency exceptions. And student IDs at public middle high schools and colleges must include an LGBTQ plus suicide hotline and text line. SB 79. This one is overriding. Which is not just simply a text line, by the way. No. It is a little bit more than that.

[01:05:35] But it's going to be included on all student IDs for middle and high schoolers. And there will be that gender neutral bathroom. SB 79 overrides local zoning to allow higher density multifamily housing within a half a mile of major transit stops. So this is basically anywhere close to transit stops. Expect a lot more apartment buildings to be built. So there you go. That's a rundown of what is going into effect tomorrow, July 1st, along with your gas tax.

[01:06:03] So enjoy that tomorrow. I get to be one of those snooty people who's like, I drive an electric car. So I don't know what gas tax is. Oh. I drive a Tesla. Tesla. So. You've always liked Elon and you didn't put one of those retarded stickers on your Tesla. I was wondering the other day, can I get a sticker that says, I bought this after Elon went crazy? So that people know that it was after that. I want to know. I want people to know I bought it after the election.

[01:06:33] To be like, yeah, I bought it after the election. So. I want to see the timeline. I feel like people now have like four stickers. It's like, yeah, I love my Tesla. Elon's the devil. Wait, he's okay again. Nope. Bought it. Bought it before. We just get a little arch going. Yeah. They just don't know how to take the stickers off. They just keep putting them next to each other of like the timeline of how of their Tesla life. So he's laughing all over the bank. He's got it worth a trillion dollars. All right. I love him.

[01:07:04] So that's it for tonight. Any final thoughts, Kyle, before we log off for the night? Thank you everyone in the chat for joining us. I was trying to keep up with your conversations. Y'all are just having your own conversations. So love it. You, this is what we're here for is this community to have this live show. So you guys can hang out and chat and watch us and listen to us talk about stuff. So thank you to the live audience. Thank you to Kyle for being here. Camille will be back in a couple of weeks.

[01:07:30] So, uh, but Kyle was very nice to jump in and co-host and chat with me about stuff. So any final thoughts before we hop off? Oh, where can people find you? You have a show as well where they can watch you and get your thoughts. Yeah, I can be found. You can see the handle here at being Kyle Campbell. That's my commentator and host account or at politically basic. Um, and yeah, we're dropping new episodes of politically basic every Wednesday, anywhere podcasts are streamed and on YouTube.

[01:08:00] And yeah, just, I love this show because you're so bright and I love asking you these questions, you know, as, as a constitutional attorney, um, I love picking your brain because that's what I do on my show all the live long day is I talk to experts in their fields about political issues. So, and you know, I'm, I'm a lifelong California girl. I love this state and I, I know I can get a little doomsday sometimes, but we're still here and I hope Spencer's still here too.

[01:08:27] And we're going to keep fighting for our wonderful state and, and helping to explain these issues as they come up. So love the show. You're the best. Thanks for having me. And I hope I can come on again with you soon. Yeah. Thank you. Always welcome, Kyle. You're always welcome. We love you having you on the show round tables and all that stuff. So, um, thank you everyone for tuning in. Make sure you go check out Kyle's show politically basic. She has great guests on. Um, thank you for tuning in. Make sure you like, share, subscribe, review.

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