Republican Steve Hilton on His Rapid Rise in California Governor Race

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You can watch the full show on YouTube, just search Adam Corolla Show and hit subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can also get the podcast wherever you like to listen. And for extra content, add free episodes and more, you can head over to our sub stack and sign up today. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, with Alicia Krause and now Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on the choice, but the good I managed, you get it on Steve Hilton back in studio. Steve, I know from being a host for many years on Fox, doing a, doing Steve Hilton's show on Fox, been on it a few times and now gubernatorial candidate. Here in California, which it's a weird, it's always a weird thing. I've lived here my entire life and I just want something that works. And it's not even a partisan thing anymore. It's just, can we just get it together? Please, it's such a mess. And Steve has plenty of great, great ideas. First, he was telling me off the air about his favorite orange. So I thought we'd get into that. We've got to start with the oranges, exactly. That's very important. I'm going to say it, not in an English accent, I've learned now, for example, I'm a proud American now, Adam, and I've been here, what is it, 2012, we moved here with my wife and my sons. And so I'm all in. In fact, you renounce my UK citizenship. You have? I have. They're obviously short of cash in the UK. They charge you on the way out. Really? 482 pounds. Really? To renounce my citizenship. Really? But the reason for all that preface is to say, I still have the accent. And people are very loving and accepting of that. But there are certain words, if you say them in the English accent, just doesn't work. And one of them is my favorite kind of orange. So I would say in English, cara cara, and that's a little snooty and doesn't sound quite right. Cara cara. Cara cara is your favorite orange. And I literally eat one, if I can, every day, every day, they're delicious, perfect balance of, it's kind of sharp and sweet, and they've got this beautiful red kind of flesh. And they are grown here in California, in the Central Valley. And you said to me, Adam, what are you doing after this? I'm heading to the Central Valley. Got a couple of big events there. But what I'm really looking forward to is going to a field of cara carers and picking them today. That's what, that's what's happening right after this. You know, it kind of struck me, I mean, I walk around kind of with a big question mark over my head, which is to say, folks like yourself versus the Gavin Newsom's or the Karen Bass or the Nithya Ramans are sort of the process people. They're just kind of process people. And I guess what I would like to convey to people is if you elect someone who knows how to do stuff, who has an idea, who has a plan, it's not gonna hurt the people that are the process people, the sort of pie in the sky. You know, they want equality for all. They want gay rights. They wanna be able to march in the whatever. They wanna be able to wear what they wanna wear. Nobody's gonna do anything. That'll remain and you can get a train and a bridge and an airport and stuff, you know what I mean? Exactly. Right, so you get your stuff, but when we elect your people, we get fires and no trains and no bridges. Exactly, and all of it costing more. Right, but here's kind of where we're at. I guess if I was trying to explain it to somebody, I would say the right is interested in the, the nuts and the bolts, the sewage treatment and bridges and wiring and potholes and boring infrastructure, whatever. The left is interested in the more ceremonial stuff, the gay rights and the women's rights. And the trans rights. Yes, the concept, the trans rights and the freedom. And lots of talks about freedom. Now, when we elect the left, we don't get any bridges and we don't get any potholes fix, but when you elect the right, that thing that they're worried about never happens. It's always, you're gonna elect some Republican and then they're gonna take away gay rights or something. None of that ever happens, but something definitely happens when the left gets elected, which we don't get anything. Exactly, and we pay more for it. And that's what's so insane about all of this. We literally have to pay the highest taxes in the country and get the worst results. That's not some political clever slogan. It's actually true. Like you look at California on every measure, we're the worst performing state in the country. It's incredible. I'll tell you, there's a kind of, pardon the pun, a rubber meets the road, which is the roads. Yes. It's like, you go, well, that's a metaphor. Well, it's a kind of a tangible explanation for how a state and a city are run. Yes. In a city or a state, the road is sort of your front lawn. Right. Like when you walk down the street in a nice neighborhood and you see nicely manicured front lawns and wealth groomed hedges and stuff, and you just look at it, you go, that person has their shit together. And I bet if I went inside that person's house, I wouldn't find rats and raccoons and a mess. I bet the inside is orderly as well. So you're sort of roadways. I'm bringing this up because I travel the country. I was literally driving from Colorado Springs to Denver Airport yesterday, and it's an hour and a half drive. And I'm just about halfway into the drive. I just elbow Mike who's sitting next to me in the car and I go, look how nice the road is. Look how nice it's so nice. There's not garbage and graffiti and potholes. And I'm like, we pay the most in gas taxes and we are nothing but bottles. So I wanna put a few things together here because you are so right, this is perfect. So on most things, we are by the data, remember they said follow the data, worst performance in the country, highest unemployment rate of any state, highest poverty rate of any state, highest cost of living, and when you break down cost of living, highest gas prices, highest housing costs, et cetera, like really the worst. US News and World Report, California, 50th out of 50 states for opportunity, wallet hub, 50th out of 50 for affordability, chief executive magazine, annual survey, 50th out of 50 for doing business, right? So literally the worst. Now, I used to make this joke on the campaign trail, there's one measure where California is not the worst out of all 50 states on the official data, and that is roads, they've done really well. We're just 47th out of 50, right? I used to make this joke. The other couple of months ago, the Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial when Elise Stefanic got into the governor's race there. And they wrote this editorial saying, and they're going on about New York, and they said something like, it's hard to think of a state more in need of political change than New York. And I said, well, I can think of one. So I wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal, and I went through all this data, and I was about to make my little joke about roads. But there is one bright spot, 47th. But I thought it's Wall Street Journal, you gotta get your facts right. I looked up, I checked all the data, and sure enough, on roads, 50th out of 50. And we dropped out. And it's so true. And then another thing I wanna add into the mix. So one of the things that I'm doing that's different about how I'm running is because I've worked in business, most of my career, and I've worked in government. I know it's about just as the President Trump knew this time around for his administration, it's about preparation, being ready, and a team. And so one of the things I'm doing, which had never been done before, I've actually got running mates for the other statewide offices. And I'm announcing them as we go through for Lieutenant Governor, for Attorney General, and very importantly, State Controller. State Controller is an important and under looked position in California. It has the power to audit every single cent of state money. Any organization receiving state money can get audited by the State Controller, and the State Controller can stop the money. One of the things we've been doing, I set up something with that team, Cal Doge, our California Department of Government Efficiency. We are already going through and finding fraud and waste and so on. One of the aspects of that, we've set up a tip line to get people to tell us what they know, like a whistleblower line. It's called califraud.com. We set that up months ago. One of the main things we're getting is in this area, is construction and contracting and spending on things like, and roads comes up all the time, where people say, this was supposed to be, they've been involved in the contract or something. And so it's, and again, as you say, highest gas tax in the country, and it's not just the gas tax, there's all these other things. Vehicle registration, right? To register your car or truck in California, it's the highest in the country. Most states, it's under a hundred bucks. Here, 607, over a thousand, some people paying over 2,500. I will tell you something as an observer, of being here my whole life. As a guy who's been poor a lot, as a guy who's, I think I'm one of the few people who's had three motorcycles towed over the years, since I've lived here, had multiple cars towed. Here's what LA does in California, but LA especially. They first have no public transportation to speak of that is practical or useful. I mean, we got a subway 10 minutes ago, but I'm talking since LA was conceived, they essentially rely on the car. So you're 100% reliant on your car. There is no alternative to that. I mean, I remember as a kid, you could take a bus from the San Fernando Valley to Santa Monica to go to the beach during the summer. We would, but it took seven hours, I mean, five transfers. I mean, literally, it took all day to get to the beach on a bus. But so you rely 100% on your car, and there's no alternative, and you must have a car. And they realized this a long time ago. And so what they did is everything to do with the car is tyrannical and draconian and LA. It's like you go to park at LAX or Burbank Airport, you leave on a Friday morning at 10, you come back on Saturday at 11, it's like two days, and you're like two days, it was 25 hours. Yeah, they charge a full day. It's like, that doesn't seem legal to me to charge for a second day when I've been an hour over. Everything to do with parking, parking enforcement, monsters, animals, always. I mean, you can, when I used to live up Beachwood Canyon, I would see the meter maid going up the hill on a Saturday night at two in the morning. Like I'd be coming home from a party. And I'd be like, these are the only people in the government who work on a Saturday night at two in the morning, they're going up Beachwood Canyon to the Hollywood sign so they can write tickets for people that didn't have their wheels turned the right way, parked on a grade, like whatever it is. Like there's one thing, look, you could call the city and go there's a pothole, they're never gonna come. You could call the cops, 911, you're gonna get an answering machine. You leave your car in the red for four minutes, that guy's, they're on you. They're on you unless you're Winnebago, who's parked illegally and you're cooking meth then they leave you alone. So what they figured out is this is an amazing source of income because these people have no alternative. They need the car, it must be registered. So let's gouge them on the registration, let's gouge them on parking tickets, let's gouge them on all things gas, all things cars because it's a blackmail type situation. You're wet to your car. It's a brilliant point. And these are working, tax paying people. They have to cut us a check. This is what I say the whole time. This is why the very first thing I said in my campaign in terms of the things I'm gonna do was $3 gas. That's the first thing I said. And it's the working people who've been screwed the most by this exactly to say, because they are driving their cars and trucks hours every day to get to and from work. It's not the climate warriors and all these leftists, they're working from home on tapping on their MacBooks. They don't pay it. And then the other one on vehicle registration. So I went and looked at it and this we did the other week. And you look at the typical when it actually shows you the bills, so people as I say, well, we all have even not in California, it's sometimes over 2000 a year per vehicle, depend. And they add all these things in. It's a minimum 6,700 for people. And you look at what it says on the items on the, one of them unbelievably, when we have the worst roads in the country, this is what they actually put, transportation improvement fee. What is that? Just total bullshit. And all these things they add on to get your bill up to the, it's all bullshit. And it goes into their bottomless money pit. You have to picture this. All right, Malibu's burnt to the ground. And so every day of the week, there's all these crews working on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and up in the Palisades and where, but let's just say they're out and they're on Pacific Coast Highway. I see them every day. These are largely Hispanic blue collar construction eat guys, labors, guys working jackhammers, guys spreading asphalt, guys digging trenches. They're all, it's all road stuff. None of these guys live in Malibu. None of them live in the Palisades. None of them live in Santa Monica. They live in Van Nuys, Pacoima, Sun Valley. They live way over the hill. None of them drive a Prius. They drive trucks, you know? So these guys, these hardworking blue collar guys, the guys, you know, the government reports to, reports to care about are the guys that have to pay five bucks a gallon. And they're big, full-size trucks that get 10 miles to the gallon coming up and over the pass, sitting in traffic, potholes, everything. Those guys get no brakes because they need a truck. Then there is no, I'm gonna hop on the train or the bus if I live in Van Nuys and take it to Malibu. It's impossible. And it's the same everywhere in the state. And it's just, it's disgusting. And that's, it's exactly right. I mean, that's why that's my focus. Cause the people are being screwed the most by all this. And it's all this ridiculous climate ideology and the anti, and it goes into the housing as well. So you get to what they wanna do on housing in the war on single family homes. They don't want single family homes. Their vision is what they call density. Everyone living in apartments, no parking. They don't want parking. It's the law, they don't want parking. Well, it's like, they don't want cars, but they don't provide any alternative. Like here's the thing. Can I just add, there's another thing, right? You got the gas, you got the registration. There's something called VMT. Across this, vehicle miles traveled. So this came in, this came in, and no, that's not the mileage tax. That's another thing. Right, okay, let's just do the mileage tax. That's simpler. So this is their latest scheme, which is they're gonna track how far you drive and charge you per mile. Again, that's gonna be the working class who pay that the most. 100%. But then that's not it. VMT is this bureaucratic kind of trick that they are now putting in, it stands for vehicle miles traveled. And it's used to stop things from being built or to charge you for building things if it increases the number of vehicle miles traveled. So they make a calculation. There's a guy I met, lovely business, he runs a gin distillery. He makes gin up on the central coast. And he wanted to put in a second still, he's doing well. And they blocked it, or we're gonna charge him so much because they did a calculation that VMT would go up, vehicle miles traveled because you'd have more workers, more trucks. We used to call that growth. We used to call that good things happening. A business is growing. So there's more people coming in and out. Great, no, not for these people, not for the Democrats. It's insane. Yeah, you do kind of wonder to a certain point, are they just sort of nihilists? They just want it to come apart. What exactly is the end game? A huge part of it is the climate thing. But I just want to say, I don't want to just be complaining about it. I mean, there's a few things, it should be really clear. I'm running for governor, we could do things about it. The vehicle registration, that's a day one thing I can change. And my plan on that, very simple, is just to cap it at the basic registration fee, $71 a year per vehicle, that's it. And we can make that happen on day one. Yeah, again, they realize, here's what they've realized. People who are here legally, who have checking accounts and play by the rules and don't want to get their cars towed and don't want to get penalized and have work, jobs and pay taxes, that's where they get their money. Yes, yes. Then they're the legal underground and they don't have checking accounts, so they pay no attention to them. So they won't bother with them. They won't even impound their cars, because nobody cares, there's no revenue from those people. So now you have a base of taxpayers, basically people who play by the rules, who get punished for playing by the rules, and then you have an underground Mexican and I don't know what else economy, the people that are setting up on the street and selling all the food on the street and you can buy beers and shots at Tequila, the SoFi Stadium game out on the street in front of the cops, they're not bothered with because they're not an income source. Exactly. So they literally just apply the laws based on who has a checking account. Yes, and there's a real story that was just, you've got to understand when you got this narrative from the media and the left about immigration and enforcement of that and whatever, just to your point now on the food. So I was in East LA, the classic working class Latino area. Most of the people there are Mexican heritage. And I was in a Mexican coffee shop, we were talking about this whole thing. The stories were just one after another of exactly this, punishing the hardworking people. So there was this, women was telling this story about her friends, they set up a little Mexican restaurant, taco place on a street and it was their dream, right? Their own little business, they'd made it. And then there was an illegal one run by illegal immigrants just on the street, in front of them, right there. And the legit business was being hit by the endless inspections and the permits for this and that and all these fees and endless charges and costs. The people on the street right in front of them, nothing. And they take their business away, six months later they have to shut down their store. And it's just, these are working class Latinos and it's just the people in charge have no concept of what it's like to actually do the things the right way and work and start the business. Well, basically they look at everyone who plays by the rules as a piggy bank and everybody who operates illegally is an empty bag and it's real simple for them. I just go, those guys are empty bags. We can't get any money out of them. But the guy who's trying to run a legitimate business and keep up with all the codes and the taxes and the ocean payroll and everything. That guy's got money and he's got a checkbook and he can cut us a check and we'll focus on him. You know, I'm looking at you Dawson because there is a clip and you're gonna have to scrub through it or Andrew's gonna have to scrub through it but there's a clip of Newsom's famous appearance on this show that we never play and we play the one where the half the Latinos and blacks don't have access to checking accounts and whatever lie he is. And we also play the homeless lie but there's another clip from that where I'm talking to him this 13 years ago about people selling flowers on the street and selling all this junk and up the street there's the Toluca Lake flower store that's getting screwed. And he says he likes the guy selling on the street. He says that guy's hardworking. He was a champion of the guy. The thing that's insane about the Democrats is all you guys do is make rules. That's all you do is make rules and regulations. The one part of the society that tries to keep up with all your rules and regulations, that's the side you don't like. And then the side that skirts all of them and does nothing, screw you, I'm cooking food on the street. I mean, what it takes to get to open a restaurant in this state. But the ones who don't do any of the rules, those are the people you champion. Those are the people you fight for? Again, I just want to layer it on, right? They, because I, you know, one of the things I did was to start restaurants. I mean, just a couple in London back in the day, it's an unbelievably tough business, like at the best of times, and they make it so hard. And the thing that they also do, all the things you talk about, the fees, the inspections, the permits, the bullshit, the taxes, then you have these lawsuits. And it's something that if you don't run one of these businesses, you just don't hear about, and it's driven by, it's not just the Democrats, it's corruption, the Haggart lawsuits, private attorney general act. It's an amazing thing. It's the only in California, passed in 2004, basically outsources the enforcement of the labor code to trial lawyers. And so this led to this incredible industry of extortion. Yes, this extortion. It's total extortion. And here's the, so you get these bullshit lawsuits, where, and they literally advertise the lawyers on Instagram, they go into restaurants with their business cards and into the kitchens, hear anything happens, whatever. And the kind of complaints that then turn into lawsuits are you spelt my name wrong on the paste up, well listen, and then they have these settlements because you don't wanna go to trial. Everyone settles, even a small local restaurant, they're paying each settlement could be 65 grand, could be 100 grand, it's a killer. I paid them. Okay. You have to do it. Well, here's what it is. But the last thing to do, where does the money go? So first of all, the lawyers get a third of it, roughly. Then what's left, 75% goes to the government. Really? It's 75%? I didn't know that. It's a scam. This is what, and then the final piece of the jigsaw. When you look at the donors to the Democrat politicians, using Newsom as the example, we did the math, right? You put the categories of where his money comes from and then whatever, 16 years he's been in statewide running for office. Number one, unsurprisingly, government unions. Number two, lawyers, trial lawyers. It's a total corrupt scam. I, okay, first off, I've talked about the Americans with Disabilities Act, the same thing. There's lawyers come in, there's no grab bar. Right. Or the wrong shade of blue for the parking. Next to the toilet and then they, but it's a shakedown. It's a shakedown. It's a distortion. I mean, most lawyers are now in the extortion game. Yeah, it's a lot. I had somebody work for me briefly. I didn't really know them well. And then they quit and then they claimed, they were discriminated against racially, even though they weren't black or Hispanic. I'm not exactly sure what they were. Something from the Middle East, but I never knew. I don't know what the guy's heritage was. But it was a lot of stuff. They go, well, did you sit down with him every day and explain, you know, did you come in every two hours and tell him he could take a break at 10 minute break? I go, no, he could, they can break whatever they want. They can do, they could do whatever they want. Yeah, but did you verbally tell him that he could take a break every two? I go, no, not yet. Well, that's a bit. Well, you violated the process. We violated the, first off, nobody could keep up with whatever these rules are. This is literally impossible. But even possible to run a business and enforce what you guys say need to be enforced. So that's insane. And yes, and then the shakedown. And now we need money. Now he's got a lawyer. It's insane. I know, but I don't think people understand who have an experience like you have, how widespread it is and how crushing it is, these payouts. There's another, I mean, there's a rancher. I just gotta say that with an American accent, ranch is a little, you know, down in Imperial County, they had a claim, you know, a bigger facility, beef, produces beef, beautiful business. I've been down there. What was the number? The initial claim, cause it's a bit, also they multiplied. So let's say there's an alleged violation for one employee. They multiply it for every employee. That's what you end up paying. It's unbelievable. His first, the first shot of the lawyers was $81 million. And you end up settling for like three million. And you think that's a good deal in the end. This is just straight up extortion. It's flat out extortion. They, it's no different than the patent rolls. I've been sued by patent rolls. It's just settled up. And they go, you know how expensive it is to go to court? But again, I want to give you the hope, cause this is real. So I've spent a lot of time on it specifically cause I've run these kind of businesses and it just makes me so angry. So the good news about this particular one is if you know what you're doing and you do the work, you can stop this because in the law, the original pass in 2004, there is actually a process for how this is supposed to work. And the initial complaint is supposed to go to the labor commissioner, the department of industrial relations. And they have 65 days to evaluate it. Then you have three months where you can request information from the business if you want to look into it. And then you have another year to issue some kind of penalty which could just be a citation, could be like you got to improve this, it doesn't have to be anything to do with money. Now what's happened just because of the Democrats and the lawyers taking over, they don't even send a complaint to the department. They don't even look at it. They literally don't look at it. It goes straight to the lawyers. And so it goes immediately to the lawsuit. But actually, if you put in a labor commissioner which the governor appoints who understands this and will get a grip of the process, you can take the lawyers out of it. You can literally say every single complaint, we're going to read it. We're going to take our 65 days. Then we're going to take our three months. Then we're going to take our, and you just push the lawyers out if you know what you're doing. We, I think we found the clip of me talking to Newsom. I was talking to him 13 years ago about street vendors. And it was a, I told them it was a problem. And it was, first off, it's a nuisance and it's a mess. I mean, there were just garbage everywhere because they didn't, it was almost like a part-time homeless group would just take over the sidewalks for 12 hours a day. And then when they left, they just leave the garbage and whatever they were selling flowers down on Forest Lawn Drive. They didn't put trash cans out or anything. So whatever boxes they just threw them on the ground. All right, we'll play Newsom in me. Full of L.A. Show me a picture. Mike, every time I drive home, I drive home down Forest Lawn Boulevard or Forest Lawn Drive. There's illegal selling flowers. There's a big mess, a big pile. There's this whole underground culture. Everyone's selling. There's the pile of garbage, by the way. Those are all the flower boxes they use. That's not good. And then I can show you a picture of the guys selling the flowers illegally. By the way, it's not going into the tax. It's not going in the coffers of the state. They just sell illegally. And then I can show you a picture of Highway Patrolman, a California Highway Patrolman, giving out a chicken shit ticket for rolling through a right, rolling there. Oh, there he is. Now just beyond him is all the illegals doing their illegal business. But what are we focusing on, Gavin? We're focusing on the guy who didn't come to a complete stop. We should bring him. I have a CHP officer with me. You should bring him in. We could talk about this. Bring him in. We could talk. Look, that poor guy in the corner selling something that people apparently want, that those flowers, I mean, I'm a little sympathetic to that. The guy doesn't want it. It's the guy who owns the flower store. He's the poor guy selling the flowers that people, something that people want. Well, people want drugs and they want kiddie porn. There's lots of stuff where people sell stuff. People sell other human beings that people want. Evidently, there's a market for like underage girls and fentanyl and kiddie porn and all the stuff we don't really like, but there's a market for it. So first off, I guess people want what he's selling. Well, okay. He could sell shots of tequila. People would want that. All right. But he feels, wind it back up just 30 seconds. He calls him a poor guy. Who a guy, exactly. Selling and I'll get into Toluca Lake and say, but he's a defender. By the way, the guy is operating illegally. You don't have that right. You cannot, listen, nobody in Malibu, Palisades, or Altadena can just start rebuilding their home. They have to go to the government to get a permit. They have to ask permission from them. They have to go to government to get permission. You can't just start building at your expense, by the way. If you started, if you were in the Palisades, and you just went, you know what? I'm going Ruby Ridge here, screw it. I'm just gonna call up Antelwalt Lumber, get a Lumber Drop, get myself some contractors. I'm just gonna rebuild my home. I'm just gonna start. You wouldn't get three days. You wouldn't get three days before an inspector from the city showed up and shut you down. And by the way, if you kept building, you'd probably be arrested and you'd be fine. And there'd be no way they would let you rebuild. So that they would never let you do. 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We could talk about this. Bring them in. We could talk. Look, that poor guy at the corner selling something that people apparently want, those flowers. I mean, I'm a little sympathetic to that. The guy who owns the flower store a mile away who's being undercut. You know, there's competition. So, you know, making those flower stores more aggressive. You sell wine over here. We got a Mexican who makes his own wine. He's going to stand down the street for your wine store. I admire the small business person. The entrepreneur gets up, tries to sell a thing or two, and wants to make a difference. No. He feed their family working hard. At least those guys are out there working hard. Oh, listen, here's Joe from the CHP. What else is working hard? The CHP is working hard. Look, here's a living, breathing member of the California Highway Patrol. Hold on. Amazing. This guy is involved with illegal activity in a... He's an entrepreneur working. It's amazing, the attitude that that reveals. Oh, come on. That guy's working. Well, that's his constituency, he's illegal. It's amazing. So, he can't, that's incredible for an official to say, right? It's literally illegal, but he's sympathetic. He's a poor guy, and he's just working hard and doing the right thing. It's a complete inversion of everything that you'd expect. I said, well, what about the Toluca Lake Flower Store up the street? And he said, a little competition's not... Okay, a little competition, it's like saying, you make a car, we have all our DOT regulations. A car has to have an airbag, a car has to have five mile an hour bumpers, crumple zones, be fuel efficient, cafe, and then no smog, catalytic converter, whatever. And then I go, I'm gonna build my own car. It's not gonna have an airbag, and it's not gonna have catalytic converter, and it's not gonna have seat belts, and I'm gonna sell it at half the cost. There's another one, they go, what's wrong with the little competition? What's wrong with the little competition? You can't compete. Yeah, but also, wait, and you're gonna build it in a factory with no rent, and you're not gonna pay any taxes. Right, right. It's like, it's amazing. What's wrong with the little guy? I like that guy out there working hard. And they keep talking about families. Oh, gosh, it's insane what he just said. Exactly, it's so revealing, it's brilliant. I'm so happy you played that, because, and it's also, everything is captured in that. Also, the pandering, like the race-based pandering. Oh, he's just a poor guy, he's an immigrant, whatever. Hard working dude, providing first family. Just unbelievable, it is really unbelievable, but that's what you got this, and they're not serious people, they're just not. This is 13 years ago, and I'm saying to him, you got motorcycle cops giving out tickets to citizens who are ignoring illegal activity across the street, and he takes the side of the person who's engaged in the illegal activity. Yes, but this- Would never take the side of a guy who said, I'm gonna rebuild my house with no permits, and no government permission. I'll pay for it, but I'm rebuilding it myself. Exactly. It would never take the side of that person. Exactly, but people feel this now, that you get rewarded for doing the wrong thing, punished for doing the right thing. People feel that very strongly. I really get that from, that's why I honestly think that we are gonna win this year, because people are sick of it, they're really sick of it, and it's about time we just had, moral, it's a moral thing. It's a moral thing, and just sweep away all this bullshit. It's so perfect though, that he looks at the illegal as his constituency, and of course they don't want ID to vote, and of course he wants to get this guy driver's license. Of course, that's, look, there's two, in this scenario, in this scenario that I painted, there are three entities. There is the motorist, who's getting the ticket. There's the entrepreneur who has the flower store up the street, and then there's the illegal, selling flowers illegally. Those are the three. I bring up all three, he takes the side of the illegal, and says nothing about the guy who runs the flower shop, and nothing about the taxpayer who's getting pulled over for the ticket. He's on the side of the illegal. Of course, and you see it over and over again, I mean, you just see it right now. Look, I just to jump to today, you've got this insane billionaires tax, which is now already driven, what is it, the all-in guy, say $2 trillion of wealth out of the state, billions of dollars of tax revenue already gone. The reason that they are, if you actually look at what they're saying about this billionaires tax being pushed by this union, it is to compensate for federal cuts in healthcare spending. First of all, there are no federal cuts in healthcare spending, it's actually going up for California. But then, he's also spending, we now estimate it's about $20 billion a year on free healthcare for illegal immigrants. So if you're looking for money for healthcare, well, you wouldn't need that money if you weren't giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants, which by the way, Democrats in Washington, when that was all coming up as part of the argument around the shutdown, even in Washington, Jeff Freese and Schumer and all these people said, oh no, you can't give free healthcare to a legal, that doesn't happen. News and brags about it. Right. I mean, it's just, their priorities are so twisted, but regular working people feel it, they feel it all the time. And that's why I think that it's gonna be different this year because it's got to the point where you just can't go on like this. It's so offensive to people. What's going on in the UK? Oh please. And we're, all right, so let's do this. You have the UK, you have Canada, and you have the United States. Who is on a sort of collision course with horrible destiny sooner or faster? Like, like- UK, I mean, look, I can't speak to Canada. UK is a total disaster. So I wanna go back to, so I was there, we left in 2012. I helped elect David Cameron Prime Minister. I was there in number 10 Downing Street, and one of the two main things that I tried to push forward and got very frustrated with back then, this was 2010. I was there 2010 to 2012, in 10 Downing Street, I had my little office next to the cabinet room, right at the heart of the UK government. And the two things that I really kind of tried, yeah, I tried to do a lot of things, but that I really focused on was the bureaucracy, which was just as bad as all the stuff that we hear about in California in the UK. And I ended up, we had this ridiculous system, like I tried to, I had this idea that instead of what governments usually do, which is they come in and they try and chip away, let's get rid of that regulation, like it's like you never get anywhere that way. Let's try and change the assumption and the default. It's like reverse sunsetting, where you say, look, let's get rid of it, let's assume that all of this goes, and let's choose what we really need. And in the UK, it's a very centralized system, unlike here, so you can actually do that. We had a process, we went through all of the regulatory code, put it into different categories, and I never forget the first meeting, it was consumer protection, and they come in with all these documents, the bureaucrats, and there's all these paperwork, and it's color coded, and it was mostly red or gray, I can't remember which way around, and so I said, oh, good, this is what we're getting rid of, is it? Oh no, that's what we have to keep, most of it. I just flicked through to the middle of the document to pick one, men's pajamas, regulations affecting men's, I said, why do we need the apparel guy who's responsible for that piece of the regulatory code? Chip chimes in from wherever in the room. We have a 40 minute discussion on regulations to do the men's pajamas, at the end of which, the guy says, well, if anything, I think you'll find that the public interest overwhelmingly favors leveling up regulations because women's pajamas are not regulated to the same, and you think, this is insane, we're never gonna get anywhere this way. So, and then what I concluded from that is that the only way you deal with this bullshit, because it's processed again, they'll always beat you on that, right? Is that you need a massive cut in the side, just get rid of them, right? So you don't have this bureaucracy. That was 15 years ago. What, I left in 2012, I had no real support for this when I was there, even though it was supposed to be, it was a conservative prime minister, yes, it was a coalition government, but still, nothing really happened. It's just got worse and worse and worse. The other thing I tried to do was welfare cuts. I just look at the numbers, and you saw a massive proportion of people in the UK on welfare, and you had this, it's just costing more and more. Both of those things have gone massively in the wrong direction. There's a so shocking number, the other day that I saw in the UK, like I think like more than half the population on some form of welfare. It is just heading, and this is after most of the intervening years, it was a conservative government. And yet they didn't do anything about it. Then you add into the mix, the open borders policy basically, through the European, the Muslim immigration, you got Sharia law in parts of the UK, you've got this insane ideology of free speech, they're arresting people for posting online. Well, it's in a way, in a way, it mirrors that of California, and maybe LA, and that. It does, it really does. They have turned on their own citizens and are bending over backwards for illegal immigrants and or immigrants. And it's a totally perverted system. Story I've told on this show many times, I'll make it fast, but I did have a chance to spend a considerable amount of time with the guy who runs the crypto, whatever the staple center, he runs it. I had a lot of questions for that guys, how's this work, how's that work? Weird stuff, so when you have an all Latin ban come in, he goes, well, we gotta stock a lot more beer. That crew wants a lot more beer, and then when Chennai Twain comes in, they want Appletinis. They gotta figure everything out in advance. And also, the Latin crew, whatever the big Latin crooners or whatever the popular band is, we have to cut them off at eight, because they drink way too much beer and they get rowdy. And all the machinations of the different. Interesting, yeah. Well, it's so interesting that if you run a place like that, there's a huge difference between a rap group and a country group and a Tejano Mexican band, and everything in between. So I said to him, I go, man, I've been to your venue, I walk out, I almost tripped over a guy selling me hot dogs out of a shopping cart with a George Foreman grill parked on it, and I said to this guy, go, wow, these guys are all over your property. Why do you, they're on your steps. I opened the door and ran into the guy, I said, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. And I said, well, get rid of these guys, you're the biggest taxpayer in all of the downtown LA. Get them off your property, go to the city council, tell them to get rid of these people. He goes, I don't want to get into trouble. With who? The city council. Wow. He didn't want to anger them by telling them to get these illegals who were selling food they made out of a van earlier that day from the San Fernando Valley. He didn't want to anger the city council by telling them to enforce the laws and get rid of these people. Yes. They literally, he was scared of them. He the biggest taxpayer in downtown LA was scared of the people. What is this? The people paying no taxes. And I think wherever it's progressive, it's inverted that way. It's inverted. And the thing is that, I mean, my wife has a brilliant line about all this, which is right, which is these people, these Democrats, they're very good at passing laws, endless laws, but they don't want to ever enforce them. Right. It's just ridiculous. So UK, Sharia, in law in certain parts of UK? Yeah, really? Sharia courts and, you know, I haven't, just caveat, I haven't been there. We've been here since 2012. So I'd read what I read just like everyone else. But the Sharia, they have informal Sharia courts, I believe, where you have local matters. Yeah, well, somebody was suggesting that Sharia is getting rid of it. I mean, here's the thing, everybody, just listen to me. Whether it's Sharia, Muslims, it's illegal Mexicans selling food on the street, turning a blind eye to the homeless situation and whatever, at some point you have to just undo everything you guys did. Yes, exactly. You let all of this happen. It's basically, you let the IV grow on the side of the house, you never trimmed it. You never trimmed it. You always talked about it, you never trimmed it. And at a certain point, it's engulfed the entire house and now we gotta get in there and get rid of it. I wanna make the point exactly to connect it to homelessness because it's illegal. It's always been illegal. Camping on it, just like the food thing. Yes, it's always been illegal. It's always been illegal. And they've never had, now, for years, they hid behind these court rulings. They called it, they said, we can't do anything, the Boise ruling from Boise, I don't know, that you can't remove people from the streets unless you have sufficient shelter available. They never defined what shelter was. They could have done it. They could have given cheap beds, but they defined for their own purposes because they actually don't want to enforce the law shelter as meaning some bullshit apartment for a million dollars because of the scam affordable housing thing. But now they don't have any excuse because the Supreme Court even overturned that. So there's no excuse for a single person in California being allowed to stay on the streets and sleep there. Well, not one. It's illegal. Think about this. When I was telling Gavin Newsom sitting in this room 13 years ago to do something about these illegal street vendors, it was pretty much, this is 13 years ago, it was pretty much limited to just people selling flowers in the Toluca Lake area. There was not these expansive gypsy camps of food sales going up and down every place in LA. This is 13 years ago. The street sale didn't really exist. It was pretty limited to the flowers. Now it's everything all the time and it's everywhere. But the point is, is now to undo it, it would take a Herculean task to undo it now. But 13 years ago, they could have. But he could have said, you're right, let's get on it. I've heard Karen Bass, the way she talks about it. They lit celebrating the rich diversity of our blah, blah. That's how they talk about it. Like I said, build your own. By the way, the Mexican taco shop that had to shut down, they shouldn't give a crap about them. No, no. They're not their rich diversity. No, no. Even though they're Mexican-Americans. No, Gavin Newsom loves the little guy, the hardworking guy, the business family. They create some sort of folk lore around these people and they don't see them as what they are. Well, first things first, they're just non-tax payers. They're a burden on the system. You guys are the system and you want more money from everyone who plays by the rules so we can subsidize these guys, which you decided was your constituency, which is insane and inverted. But he loves it. He's a big fan. He was explaining me about homelessness and who that was. He's a big fan of the homeless and the illegal. So if you really just break it down, the people out on the street, he's a fan of, and the people selling shit on the street, he's a fan of. But everyone else who pays taxes and pays rent and pays a mortgage and pays insurance, not a fan of. We're gonna hammer you. Exactly right. And by the way, that's why people leave because they feel it. They go, all right, well, I'm not wanted here. Well, listen, I'll tell you what's wanted is my money. Other than that, I don't know what they want. They always want more money. The other thing is just the sheer emptiness of the things he says. I mean, I just saw this the other day. I had someone reach out to me, we're gonna go down to San Diego. They've got this big problem in San Diego, growing problem of homelessness being shifted onto, the sort of highways and the underpasses. That's a big. Okay, so this is, so just the anatomy of the bullshit from Gavin Newsom. So I guess two and a half years ago, he makes this big statement on all of this, right? And he does a photo op in LA underneath the sort of freeway overpass, whatever, puts on the stuff, he's cleaning it up. And he said, this is state property, Caltrans. I'm gonna take direct action here. We are gonna remove the homelessness from Caltrans. Then a year later, a year later, he does an announcement, basically the same thing again. And the previous year when he did the photo op on camera, he says, if we don't deal with this, we don't deserve to be in office, right? He just says these things. A year later without any kind of irony or he makes a new announcement of the same thing, right? That was last August. I did a little video where I put up a piece of paper with the quote and you made a thing of it. And I know the date, because I just looked at it August the 29th, I think it was. Now in San Diego, it's the same thing happening. He's not, it's a twice season out, the same thing. And nothing's been done. I was in San Diego a couple of months ago and just on a Saturday, just tried to walk from the hotel to go to a coffee shop. I got accosted by homeless people. I mean, I had a guy threaten me of come run across the street, threaten me. I didn't wanna walk. I would not walk through San Diego. I turned around and went back to the hotel room. Like that's how it is over there. He was one of those street vendors Adam, they're not happy with your attitude. There is a great, there's a clip. I don't say Andrew, I think I liked it, but if not, it's out there. Somebody tweeted it. I don't say they tweeted it to me, but I saw it on the feed. It's the news, it's a news clip of LA news woman. I think she's a black woman was talking about the bridge that they're pull all the wiring out of. And they're looking, we built a bridge, the fifth, seventh street bridge or whatever it is. And then they pulled all the copper wiring out of it. Now it's black. And now they just fire fireworks off it. And they do donuts in cars, right? And it's a news story. But the thing that caught my ear about it is they had a plan to build a park underneath it. They're still wanting to go forward with the park. It's like, you guys can't have a park, you can't have a bridge, you can't have anything that's nice. It gets taken over, vandalized and destroyed. But I think this is it, we'll play. The sixth street bridge. Tonight the city says they have a plan to turn the lights back on after copper thieves plunged the bridge into darkness. CBS LA assignment editor, Mike Rogers at the desk and Mike, the city is hoping to keep the lights on for good this time. They're hoping so, Juan, and they're gonna actually use an outside company to come in and do this. They gave the award to that company today after the company had already come up with some designs for the city to hopefully get the lights back on and keep it that way. We'll show you the very, very dark sixth street bridge. It's almost even hard to see in our video. This is from SkyCal. The sixth street bridge has been in the dark for quite some time after copper thieves have repeatedly taken the copper out of it, leaving it in the darkness. Now city crews have tried to repair it a couple of times, but ultimately it has been sitting dark just like this for quite some time. Now the city says this new company they're going to bring in will do some hardening, which in theory will make it more difficult for copper thieves to get into the systems here to take the copper out of it. We just showed you this video earlier this week. This is the fireworks that were going off there. It's like a never ending kind of thing for them to be dealing with things on the sixth street bridge. Fireworks were the most recent ones. Of course we've seen spin outs. We've seen people walking down the sides of it. We've seen haircuts in the middle of the bridge. So it's kind of a never ending thing here, but hopefully the city thinks that this issue, at least the lighting issue portion of this will be resolved and they hope to do that by bringing in this outside company who will get it real lit and hopefully make it more difficult one for thieves to steal the copper. And in the same press release, they reminded people they're still trying to build a park underneath of this thing. And they still want input from the community to try to figure out the color and design of what that park is going to look like. But it's kind of hard to imagine a park underneath the bridge that is sitting in complete darkness. So hopefully they can get the lights back. Could you imagine being under that bridge, completely black, cars doing donuts and guys firing off bottle rockets? You may have to be like a war zone being under that bridge. What's your just thinking? If you come, if you watch that and you come from, you know, just a normal well run country. Are you that? What is this? Well, also, let me explain something. If you are a criminal, the most vulnerable place you can be is the middle of a bridge, because it means a cop car could roll up on one end and roll up on the other. These guys operate with such impunity that they go to the center of a bridge in the middle of Los Angeles and start firing. By the way, again, fire all the M80s and bottle rockets you want in the middle of a bridge, start building your own house in the Palisades. I guarantee they would roll up on you and they would eventually would arrest you if you did not stop. They would destroy your life. Right. But if you'd like to set a bridge on fire, by all means. But the part I liked most about it was the park. Exactly. They're going to get even fun from the, the community are the guys doing donuts on the bridge and lighting off fireworks. That's the community. So you can imagine the whole kind of process and there's some stakeholder consultations on the park and the community input. What color scheme should, what color palette should our park, this park? What kind of native grasses? The greatest, the greatest with this bridge and Dawson can find it, we found it before. I love the artist's rendition. I have seen the artist, it's couples and kids and balloons walking up and down, a guy selling churros, you know, it's just, except for the reality, it's graffiti, homeless, garbage, syringes and feces. Feces, exactly. Right, that's what, but I love, you should see the artist's rendition of the bullet train. I love the artist's rendition versus what we actually get. I mean, one of my favorite things is that, I mean, it's a little of a cheat, but it kind of captures it when Newsom had the, you know, the train tracks here in LA with all the garbage and the animals and boxes, that's the reality. I put out a funny meme and I think more stuff for Dawson and Andrew to look at, but it was, the meme Dawson we did was, what we were promised and what we got and what we were promised was a bullet train and what we got was a garbage barge. Exactly, exactly. I should tell people that this is the 17th anniversary of this show, this is our 17th year of doing this show. It's the longest running job I've had, I think. That's that, it's the longest job, 10-year job I've ever had and I mean, you have to, so I wanted to thank everyone for their support. I travel around, I meet people everywhere, they tell me they listen and they turn their friends on and their family members like, you know, I got my wife listening or my son or whatever that is. So God bless you because it'd be impossible without the people that are listening every day, but incredible seven years of this. We got the audience and again, I just wanna thank everyone. So here's the rendition, it's lots of happy people doing happy things in a clean and safe environment. I think Dawson, is there a little concert going on down there? Now, what will be going on is graffiti and stabbings. Oh, by the way, they got a little soccer field, everything's so green and orderly and nice, isn't that beautiful? Too bad we can never have it. We can't have it. By the way, can anybody look into, Oh, this is amazing. Who these guys are and where their dads are, cause as long as we're gonna have unbridled, 17 year old Hooligan youth stealing cars and doing donuts everywhere, we're never gonna have society. You're gonna have, someone's gonna have started arresting people. Exactly. They're on the middle of the bridge. By the way, you're in the middle of a bridge doing donuts in a car. You're pretty catchable. Don't you say that you're the most catchable? They had it the other week. They, wasn't it just a couple of months ago, not on the bridge, but somewhere else in LA and they ended up burning down a house. Oh yeah. Just because, and they did the donuts in the street, had all that going on. Then they go on the roof, have a party, burned down the house, nothing. Well, every day, today's no different. I was driving here down PCH and I saw motorcycle cop pulled somebody over because PCH is a 25 mile an hour zone now because all the work, it's nearly impossible to drive a modern car 25 miles an hour. And there's no traffic today and it's wide open and someone, especially an electric car, easy to kind of get rolling on those things. They don't make any noise. Invariably, someone was doing 35 or 40 and they got pulled over. And they hand out tickets left and right, but they never go to the bridge. I know. And bust everyone at the bridge. Wanna know why? They're empty bags. There is no money. They're 17 year olds who stole a car and are doing donuts and have nothing in the bank. And it costs the money. It costs the city money to arrest them because they don't have anything. But I think it's also, it's not just the financial, I do think there's an element of the ideology, right? Which is, you know, regular normal family person, no. Disadvantage youth from whatever. Yes, yes. Well, that's the same way Gavin spoke about the guy selling stuff on the street. Exactly, he's a legend. He's a legend. He's a hero. He's a super hardworking guy who's just trying to take care of his family. That's all these illegals are. The guy's doing donuts in a stolen Acura in the middle of a bridge. Is that a hardworking youth who's just lost his way? Like what? It's a weird, there's a mythology around it. It's an idea, I told you. There's a thing in, so I wrote this book, Califalia last year, I think we talked about it. And I was trying to sort of unpack their ideology, the different elements of it. And I tried to make them all these isms. And one of them I called compassionism, which is taking something that we'd all agree with. Yeah, we wanna take care of people who can't help themselves. But turning it into this ideology of compassion where you're looking, you wanna seem compassionate. Right. In every situation. And you're actually inverting morality. Yeah. When you do that. Yes. But it's all in the name of, oh, we're so compassionate. We wanna take care of the legal flower guy, whatever. Yeah, yeah, it's all compassion. But remember whatever it says in the Bible, whatever the verse is. But it's basically when you're showing compassion toward the criminal, you're actually punishing. Exactly. The non-criminal. That's exactly what's happening. Steve, let me give you a plug. Steve Hilton for governor.com is where you go. Ahead in the polls. Yes. As we speak. So that's. We can do this, it's amazing. 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Huge fan of the show and racking my brain for 10 years. I think I can finally have a reasonable Rich Man Poor Man. Don't own a resume. Love you guys. You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744. Doesn't have a resume. Yeah, Rich Man Poor Man. Rich guys don't need resumes. Poor people don't need resumes. That's good. You guys don't need college degrees either. Yes. I mean, actually a lot of us don't but that's another conversation for another day. I was having a laugh because I was walking to a parking lot in Malibu a few days back and I don't know why it's the virtue signallers I have problems with in life. One of the many people you have problems with. I have, but you know, I'm weird. I don't have problem with like physically aggressive alcoholic males. I know who they are. I could have dealt with them my whole life and I don't fucking care about those guys. But the virtue signallers, big, big problems with. And like when I see somebody in a Subaru and they have their little merit badges stuck to the back, like, oh, I hike and I adopt pets and I read to seniors like, you're 40 something year old person. You have to put this on the back of your fucking car. Need affirmation from me. Yes. It's just sitting in traffic, you know, behind you. And there's all kinds of that in life and it drives me nuts. Now look, win a race or win an Academy Award or win an Emmy and put the thing up on your bookshelf or your mantle piece. God bless you. You're fine. But the part and a lot of this drove me nuts which is every asshole out here who had a Tesla had to put a bumper sticker on it and say, I bought this car. But look, you're driving an electric car. You're doing your part. Tesla's a great automobile. That's enough. You know what it tells me? Is there either really poor or really cheap? Well, it's like, I bought this to save the planet before Elon went crazy. No. Like I got this before Elon got weird. Well, here's what I'm realizing. I started to realize that a lot of people like Korean liquor stores started putting black lives matters in their windows so their place wouldn't be looted or destroyed or burned to the ground, which didn't stop black folks from burning it to the ground because that's what you got to do when you're protesting, you know, when you're part of an important cause. But yeah, so the thing said, I wouldn't say, Elon, I bought this before. Elon, you don't have to take it down. Like I saw, I've seen so many variations of that. It was like, I'm a fan of the car, not Elon. Right. But much like the Korean liquor store owner who doesn't want to have his place burned down by mob, he doesn't give a shit about black lives matter. He's trying to get his liquor store not to be burned down. Are they trying to get their Tesla not keyed? Yes. That's what I'm saying. They're just putting it on there saying, this is a sort of version of when they had cabs and they go, drivers carry less than $20 in bills, you know, like we're trying not to get robbed. This business is credit card only, no cash on the premises. Right, trying not to get robbed. Okay. So I got this before Elon got weird. Now, this was a new Tesla, newer Tesla, probably a year old or something like that. And I was walking past it and I was like, Elon named one of his kids X-A-E, although they combined the two letters, A-X-I-L-I-I. That's long before this guy bought this Tesla. So I feel like I knew Elon was weird a long time ago. I mean, when he found out that he, I mean, and that way back then that's when he, I mean, Grimes, he had a daughter also from several, six, seven years ago named E-X-A Dark Side Rail. Okay. So listen, poser. And remember when we used, you think he was weird a long time ago? Why, who names your kid E-X-A Dark Side Rail? And remember when we laughed at like Gwyneth Paltrow and the guy from Coldplay naming Apple? Yeah. Apple seems so innocent and normal compared to the names of Elon Musk's kids. It really, it really is. Like he's naming his kids after asteroids and computer chips or something. Something that only the nerdiest of nerds get. Right. But I'm just saying you cannot say you didn't know Elon was weird. Before now. Before now. I knew it. All right. News. We have news. So we had a one hit wonder from Bruce Springsteen when he wrote about the Minneapolis anti-ice riots. Yeah. I know. It's so amateurish sounding. Are you ready? Clowing is what I would call it. Are you ready for a new one? Mm. Irish rock band U2 has now released a song called American Obituary, which is a tribute song for Renee Good. Oh, so glad. It's a part of a six track EP called U2 Days of Ash and it debuted this past week. By the way, I forget to include U2 in the bands that I hate and I never want to hear again. And I'll do every U2 song ever made. That's it's all the same fucking song and it all sucks. I like a lot of those songs. That's horrible. All right. So you to lead singer Bono described the new release as a song of fury, but more than that it's a song of grief A fansite, which is called propaganda. He said this is not just for Renee Good, good, but for the death of an America that at the very least would have had an inquiry into her killing I've been screaming Dawson knows I've been okay Let me just say this I've been screaming about this guy for 40 years. I know yes because when he forced a song like remember when they forced your phone on our like iPods and I didn't ask for it. What I'm saying is is Okay, you're ready. Mm-hmm Green day. Yes green day Hates this country and they hate Trump and all they do is yeah, they're fucking idiots, right? That's fine. That's fine but at least they're from here and Fine talk shit, but you're from here. I don't like Steve's you're okay with springsteen talking shit cuz he's from here Springsteen is a dumb guy Masquerading is a smart guy for dumb people and I've been saying it for my whole life, but Okay, okay Liz Warren, you know and Hillary Clinton and and Maxine waters never stopped talking about, you know oppression and Indians and and Tribal lands and and slavery and whatever else, but at least they're from here Ilhan Omar came here as to save her life and she talks the most shit out of anyone. That's true I fucking can't stand the came here and talk shit people I don't like the ones who are born here and talk shit, but I really don't like the came here and talk shit and Bono Came here and has been talking shit his whole life. Yeah, and I'm just saying What if we just took Ted Nugent Or we took Bob Seager and we sent them to Ireland and they just wrote songs about what a piece of shit Ireland was And how corrupt it was and how they could have solved AIDS But they chose not to how long before they put them on a fucking barge Lighted on fire and just push them out in the ocean or something back to us You think they just buy albums from bob seager or Ted Nugent who just went to Ireland and just got rich Selling albums about what a piece of shit Ireland was So fuck off I understand that you do understand that I did sign the petition way back when to deport Justin Bieber back to Canada back to Canada back to Canada all these places are so great Except for you don't want to live there. We have a 15 second clip of the song Let's I haven't heard it Well, it's better than bruce it was better than bruce bruce it sounds like somebody put in three, two, one Who turned out to be a bigger douche is it deniro or bruce? Oh deniro You think deniro? I mean when deniro talks about how he would never play donald trump because he's so evil And then you look at all of the evil characters. He's played played al capone I feel like it's deniro. Okay. Yeah. All right. That's an easy vote. All right All right, this from the daily wire our friends over there, but but hold on Oh, you want to you want to keep on this music thing? Well, deniro is a little inert like He goes on the view and goes fuck donald trump and I don't care and everyone kind of goes. Okay grandpa Okay, right down now have some oatmeal bruce is selling out arenas sitting down giving long-winded speeches about losing our democracy like he's got a little more currency He may not be as bad But I everyone is tuned out deniro at this point. No one gives a shit what deniro says I think if you're buying a ticket to a spring scene show though, you know that that's just baked into the cake And you're gonna be getting that one though. I'm just saying he's not as douchey as deniro, but he's got more sway Okay, all right, maybe with the boomer crowd. Mm-hmm. We'll see. All right All right, so this is from our friends over at the daily wire saying that kids don't need more online monitoring that they need more involved dads And it talks about how Unfortunately, we're seeing time and time again on tick top gaming platforms like roblox, etc There's more a more recent story about two girls in florida who were groomed online by a man that they met through roblox And he lured the girls into trusting him and then abducted them. Thank god local law enforcement intervened before the worst could happen But they say over there the relief of the rescue should not blunt the warning embedded in this story and go on to talk about The most important part that dads play and how culture is like anti that I mean, I think that this is applicable I I get the overall point and I generally agree with it But I still think that the state specifically local municipalities and states could do a lot to help Keep kids safer online because I think even the most involved parents You know, you leave your kid alone with a phone for five minutes and lord knows what they're gonna see Yeah, I agree All the problems that they talk about like when you see these street takeovers and the guys doing donuts and someone's standing on the hood Or it's smash and grab and whatever And whatever whatever ills our society faces. It's kind of like where the dads where these guys dads It's a much a 16 year olds. It's 2 a.m. It's thursday night. Somebody stole a Honda and it's doing donuts Where's where's the dad? You know, I mean and every time You know, somebody was talking I was listening to some sort of discussion slash eulogy on on jesse jackson and it's like he basically His you know, martin luther king was sort of like black agency and families and stuff like that He's sort of pushy. We need more blacks and positions of power, but having a black Female for a mayor of los angeles doesn't do anything for the guys in the street takeover having a dad does something and Jesse jackson was always pushing we need more black mayors and black governors and black business owners and stuff But no, you need more black dads is what you need And we need no more every kind of dad And you just look down the line the cultures that have the dads that stay with the family are the cultures that do the best And so we keep looking at all these stupid subjects that go like crime or school dropout rates or violence or whatever It's all dads. It's all dads, but but we bring up everything But the dad and they don't want to bring up the dad because it's too shaming to whatever the culture is Who's dad abandoned them, but that's the only answer to everything. I agree online You know whatever I don't know because most of those dads if he is at home He's not at home. He's at work a lot of time and he's not really going to be able now what a dad can do Is provide something that the daughter isn't looking for outside of the house Yes and love and attention and whatever they're looking so when the dad safety when the dad leaves And the young woman wants to some attention. She goes out and finds the wrong kind of attention. Yeah, and so the dads While not being able to police Can create an environment that's healthy and not letting you fall prey Yep to to this sort of stuff 100 and statistically We've seen for a really long time that girls are more likely to go online or to fall into an abusive Relationship when there is an absent father. I Consistently tell my husband whenever we have the conversations of are we doing enough for our children? I'm like the two biggest things we can do for our kids is keep them off of phones It's or a few do get biggest things one stay married Two keep our kids off of cell phones and social media and three read to them every single day Like the data of all three of those things combined My kids might be the next next Elon Musk. I don't know the dad is in the momma's I will say this Jesse Jackson did Coin the phrase hymy town and he did stay alive long enough to see a jew hating muslim mandami takeover New york, so he he must have died a happy man You know that was one of the big divisions that occurred between because he was there He was present when mlk was murdered Or assassinated. Yeah, he lied about and he let about cradling his hand He was there, but he didn't cradle his head or hold his hand as he died But a big shift in the civil rights movement was mlk had a lot of jewish allies because He argued for equality and then after his death You had the rainbow push coalition led by jesse jesse jackson and others that were like no, no, no We're gonna make this about how Like jews like or have had it too easy and the blacks need more And so therefore and it destroyed that coalition In a lot of ways and created even more racial division, which is really sad Yeah, and he got to shake down jewish businesses along the way, so He'll be messed. 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Now here's here's the whole thing everybody Stop doing videos where you explain that you're going to hire people first off I all right. I have early money on this when they go The fire department needs to represent the community. I'm like it does not need to look like the community No, I don't need a five foot tall like a hundred pound hispanic woman rescuing my children from a fire Yeah, it's probably 400 pounds. But yeah, not getting up the ladder. No, but listen LA has a place called korea town and we don't need korean firefighters We can't have them. I do love me some rooftop korean. I do love myself a liquor store rooftop korean I will take those they should all sign up for the la pd come with every building I love one hide behind a parapet But here's the thing No, we need competent people who are good and trained at firefighting and by the way I don't know what the implication is that the white firefighters not going to do his job because the person's korean No, I I don't even know what you're talking about. So has there ever been a case in which law enforcement Didn't help someone because they were trans or gay nothing. It's nothing. It's the implication is that people are racist I don't Care what the I don't care what the airline pilot is. I don't care what the surgeon is. I I don't care. There's probably I would argue that there's probably an la. There's probably some indian Surgeons or dentists or something like that who see almost zero indians and mostly white people and nobody gives a shit But the person's competent But when you make a video explaining that you want the thing to represent and look like the community Then later on when shit literally goes goes wrong We'll pull up the video and wonder is this a dei situation. Yeah, all right. Here's the clip of the dc water purge white men from its ranks ahead of the nation's largest sewage spill In history also, so it's not just the largest spill in dc. I thought it was just the largest spill in dc It's the whole country spill in history. Well, let me say this I don't know who comprises the workforce for the sewage facility plant the The sewage plant closest to me or wherever my pipes end up I have no idea Who man's the wastewater that comes to that facility and guess what I do not care They do not have to represent me. They don't have to look like me I'd kind of prefer them not to look like me if you think about what they're doing for a living, but here's this hero When I arrived at dc water, this was an organization that looked very similar to our to our our industry It was predominantly, you know white male At the top, but this is a utility that's you know more than 70 percent people of color work at this utility and I really believe And I still believe and it has been fantastic the outcomes have been fantastic But the the the people at the top the executives the chiefs in that c suite. They should look like the employees That they that they serve and that they work with and the same thing with the community. All right pause Why does anyone have to look like the computer computer community who deals with human waste? But he believes that's like saying like this is black people shit only black people can deal with it It's so fucking weird like if anybody wants to deal with waste then okay I would I'm going to go on a limb and say that white guys have more experience with infrastructure and cities and things of that nature the building and maintenance of that kind of thing since we're sort of early money On it probably more so than women and uh native americans and people like that Yeah, and that does not always mean that they've done a great job at it But you should be hiring the person that's the most qualified for the job Not let's do an exact percentage of people that work in this department that Yes, that it you know reside in the city of dc. All right. Sorry continue The the people at the top the executives the chiefs in that c suite. They should look like Uh, the employees uh that they that they serve and that they work with and the same thing with the community And so my executive team, you know looks exactly like the community It looks like it looks like the the employees the staff, you know be it people of color women Men and and it is it's just a fantastic team that has come together to do a lot of great things here at dc water And in the community for the customers Okay, I it's the worst idea ever It's you guys ended up with kamala harris as a vice president. Yep Because of this so fucking knock it off 250 million gallons of sewage and the six million people in the area that rely on the petomic watershed for water Everyone downstream of dc now has water that is hopelessly polluted with human feces and garbage And of course that raw sewage which this is what leftists should also pay attention to since they allegedly care so much about the environment That raw sewage will wreak untold devastation on the local environment and the ecosystem before it flows out to the atlantic ocean I really don't you go ahead. I just really want some conservative or liberate libertarian director to make a documentary about the devastating environmental impact of the california fires and the dc sewage sludge And point it like but do it in a kind of Middle of the roadway And then at the end reveal. Oh wait, who was in charge? It wasn't wicked republicans. It was democrats Well, again, it's The mount you they talk about pollutants and what's coming out of a tailpipe and we've got to make leaf blowers Illegal, I think that's great because I hate the sound of them, but we have to make them illegal and blah blah blah and Then the entire city burns to the ground. Yep So what's coming out of the tailpipe of the leaf blower? I don't know, but it can't be as much I was using my backpack over the weekend though and like it's just so much more efficient. You've got a backpack blower. Yeah Electric. Yeah, no Fuel You're running two stroke Yeah, and then I have like a commercial grade push mower that's fuel too. Yeah You get these guns. Yeah, you've got a Backpack. Yes Two stroke. It's grandfathered in runs on fuel. Yeah, you got the little handles are you mixing the two stroke? My husband does it. Yeah Yeah, and you're firing that thing up. Yeah, and you're blowing out your driveway. Yeah Man, you're a keeper We do it together. I would much rather do lawn work than like dishes you do it together. Yeah Wow. Yeah things loud he weed he weed whips And then I like mo and then we'll go through and rake and rake and blow Wow He's got the weed whip out. He has a guy Korean guy that like maintains all of his lawn equipment And is like keep this Running and keep it solid and sharp because of all the regulations now that everything has to be electric He's whacking weeds Yep, is he plugged in or is he battery? No, it's all everything's four stroke two stroke. Yes Okay four stroke everyone is a car engine internal combustion engine and four stroke is like an old school dirt bike from the 70s or whatever Yeah, then then then then then then then then then then then then then where they they mix The oil with the fuel I do not like that part because I have a mom mobile and then like an adult sedan that we have I need a pickup truck because I don't like having to go fill up the little Got like you gotta put it in the cabin with you put it in the cabin with me Yeah, and and by the way the stroke just so you know like a four stroke engine has a exhaust stroke and a compression stroke and a power stroke and a whatever And a two stroke does it all in two strokes because the oil is is mixed with the fuel No, I didn't know that Well, I just knew I had to like hold the the thing like the clutch kind of and then pull it and then wait till goes and then you That's where you get them The other super loud, but we have like muffs same muffs. We were to the gun range Wow You guys what a couple you two are over the cross house I mean when you said you had a leaf blower I was picturing a green one battery operated Maybe a cord, you know plug in But No, it's legit like two stroke backpack on You could you could get on a skateboard and power yourself down the street with that bad boy Couldn't you I would follow my face because I know but you could you could go right probably Wow, I am impressed and annoyed because it's so loud and I'm trying to take a nap So, you know that there's a whole thing about the decibels of leaf blowers That like does something that they also use like at gitmo for torture Oh, really something about the decibel level of the leaf blower how dogs and cats react to it And then most there's a there's a segment of the society of our society that is like noise sensitive And it negative like your body literally has like an adverse reaction to that sound of the leaf blower I do in the backup beeper Neat, neat if you I find the backup beeper safe like a safety Oh, please you're in bed half the time you hear the shit. What do you mean safety? It's 100 yards away and you're sleeping. I wish you should put a backup beeper on your leaf blower to make the ultimate Annoyance like every time you backed up you just need need need with the thing revving the whole time Are you comparing me to the size of a semi? I'm comparing you with a super annoying neighbor who's whipping out What are the hours you can't bring that thing out early? We're not jerks that do it like early especially on the weekend Yeah, no Andrew, I don't know why you got rid of the clock, but I don't think that's a great strategy for this particular time of the show Thank you. Here we go. All right. Let's do one more. Okay. You're probably gonna like this story You want to guess what it is or do you want to guess what it has to do? Like what the topic or genre is of this story if I think that you're gonna like it and I'm like meh on it Something Gavin Newsom. Oh, no, no, no, I don't know because neither of us like Gavin Newsom Thousands of red swimsuit wearing hopefuls turned up for the Baywatch casting call the other day I heard about that right here in marina del rei mother's beach 2000 Red swimsuit clad hopefuls descended with one singular goal To become a superstar tv lifeguard apparently baywatch is back because they can't create anything original in hollywood It's all reduced All we do is dust off old shit because You know, it's kind of interesting Dumb people like things they recognize more than new things that are good per se I don't even know that it's dumb. It's just sometimes you want to break from the anxiety of what what is it? Well, I'll give you I'll give you an example Dogs eat the exact same food every single day and they're super pumped about it every single day You couldn't Humans won't do that They won't eat the same thing every single day and be that excited about it But kids will get close To doing that You know, but then when you get like older and you get smarter and the smarter you are the less you want the same thing from from before and so When I hear about they're making this remaking this or remaking that or Redoing this tv show it sounds kind of boring and it sounds uncreative and uninteresting to me Yeah, but you know when they make land of the loss the movie I'm like the worst part of my childhood is now going to be a feature length film again, but The ip part of it is like no Recognition is something. I mean people that you You recognize the name of this and there's more something and we're going to redo it and that's what they're doing Apparently man, I can't believe that David the original with of course the legendary David Hasselhoff First hit screens tv screens back in 1989 This is crazy like all of the people that we now know as household names that were on that show other than Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra did you know like Jason Momoa and so many other people that are a list stars now were like guest stars on baywatch Is that But you think it was during like the reboot the first reboot when they moved to hawaii or something like that I don't I don't think it was part of the original. Well, maybe it was we should look it up Apparently the reboot series which is set to premiere during fox's 26 27 season Ames to deliver the high octane rescues and complicated relationships and beachside heroics That's finally original So it's beginning shooting in march on venice beach and at the fox studio a lot right down the road in sentry city So I don't know if these ladies were lining up in their outfits to be extras if they were You know Lining up for a major role. I don't think that they'd be like have an open call for 2000 women and red bikinis out there for Like a lead role. They have to have their leads already I agree brian cranson david spade. These are early ones risk a harga day harga day harga day Uh, wendy malek brian austin green That I believe I don't know who mentioned Danny trejo. That's hilarious wonder what character he played me lacunas appeared as a child actress Uh, huh? I wonder when jason mimoa was on I'm going to go. I believe they moved it to hua'i at some point and that's when he was on That makes sense to me. Okay. He showed up in the hawaii Years yeah over there. All right. Let's see. What year did jason mimoa end up? On uh, jays mama. Oh, yeah, right there you go 99 They watch why solid guess you should have bet money on it. You say guess We talked about the crystal brain. Did we not he's a hawaii guy the show moved to why I Calculated his age and I came up with baywatch hawaii. Okay Not a guess You want me to give you the adam intelligence? Well, no, I'm I'm not clairvoyant But I take a bunch of facts I put them together And then I arrived here. Do you have almost a photographic memory? 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