Roxanne Hoge and Joe Crummey

0:00Speaking up in all caps. And those that want to raise our taxes. Live from the Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill in Sherman Oaks. It's the John Phillips show. And we continue live from Pineapple Hill. We're at the legendary Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill in Sherman Oaks. We're here until three o'clock. It's off of Van Eyes, Belvart and Millbang next to the old movie theater. Unfortunately, this place is going to have to close in a few weeks because a developer wants to kick them out to build apartments or something. There is a there is a little sheet that's in the building and on a bunch of the tables. Save Pineapple Hill and there's a QR code if you want to sign a petition. We want to do everything we can to keep this place going around. But we're also here for our friends at Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association in Prop 43, the local taxpayer protection act, which if passed will make it harder for cities and counties in the state to raise your taxes.

1:02So on your way out, get a yard sign, get a door hanger and do whatever you can to inform your neighbors about Prop 43. It's on the ballot this November. And of course, we're also broadcasting live on video at JohnnyDon'tLike.com. We have our own bumper sticker, thanks to one of our listeners because we don't have a merch budget. JohnnyDon'tLike.com. And how many clubs San, which is heavy had to stare at so far today? I've seen at least 17 clubs in, which is some of them with fries, some of them with tots, Ed had one. He had one with the onion rings, which are also epic here. But you know, I've got a rule. I'm make I got to sit here. I have set still. I haven't gotten up in three hours because what we want to make sure this thing runs without a hitch. And by the way, huge shout out to Matt and Kevin and Trish and everyone helped put this stuff together. Where's Art? He said he was going to be here for this. You know, with a bladder that strong, you should always get the middle seat on the plane.

2:03All right. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. She is the chairwoman of the LA County Republican Party, Roxanne Hoag, Chairwoman Hoag. Welcome. Now, chairwoman Hoag, one out of every four people who lives in the state of California, lives in your county, Los Angeles County. The reason we're here today is to try to get proposition 43 over the finish line and protect proposition 13. There's no way that that's going to happen unless LA County comes out and every voter who is interested in protecting proposition 13 fills out their ballot and sends it in is LA County going to come through for us. I would love LA County to come through just like Randy's paisley shirt has come through. Oh my gosh, a round of applause for Randy's fashion sense today.

3:04Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I've been hearing about this shirt for so long. Well, I make the mistake of only having two pictures of myself that I insert into Google Gemini to make these silly images that are in the live broadcast and on social media. And it's just become a thing where now I am associated with the paisley shirt, like Johnny is associated with the angels. It works. So I'm going to I'm here as the team mom really of the Los Angeles County Republican party. And like any mom, I'm here for some hard truths. So we have over 1,100,000 registered Republicans in LA County. And there's another half a million or a million people who have common sense and are either NPP declined to state voters or they just didn't register because they don't want to do jury duty. Why? So all of those people need to get off their keysters and turn in their ballot. When the day your ballot arrives in your mailbox is election day, do not wait, do not pass, go. There is no $200.

4:05Just turn it in. And we've made it incredibly easy at the LA County party website, L-A-G-O-P dot org. Starting October 1st, we'll have a customizable interactive voter guide. Cause Lord knows a written voter guide for LA would look like a CVS receipt. It would just go on. And on. You know, one of the reasons that people always give when they leave the state of California for Florida, Texas, Nevada, Arizona is the cost of living. And one of the reasons that the cost of living is so high in California is because of the cost of housing. It costs a lot of money to live here. And one of the few protections that exists that allow people to stay in their homes and live here when the insurance is going up. And when the electric bill is going up and every time you're guard your, your, your pool person, whatever, everything keeps going up. Proposition 13 protects those taxes from going up.

5:08I would imagine if this were to fail and property taxes were to go the same way of insurance bills and electric bills. The exodus from the state of California would accelerate and we would lose even more population here. And it would, we were ready or a failed state, but we keep losing the good people, the common sense people, the people by the way who have families, I have adult kids who, yes, Prop 13 is worth saving. But what they've done to our youth is they've made the argument that they can't afford a house because boomers like me still have a place to live. No, we can't afford housing for our young people because illegal aliens have taken over the entire state. And because California Democrats have made it impossibly expensive to build. So start with Prop 13, what Susan Shelley and Howard Jarvis, Taxpayers Association and John Coupal do is vital. But we have to use our power and vote.

6:10I don't want to hear about fraud from Republicans who didn't get off their keysters and vote in the primary. Well, and that's a really good point because for all to talk about shenanigans and the LA mayor's race in the primary, a massive percentage of registered Republicans in the city, which there are a lot of them. There's not that as many as the Democrats, but a large percentage did not vote. A lot of the independence and the no party preferences did not vote. Over 200,000 Republicans did not vote. I'm sure you all know people who didn't. There was that caller you guys had that said they wanted us to fail. Hey, we're failing. Like we've hit rock bottom and the and what comes next as someone who fled a country that played with Democratic socialism. What comes next is the murders and we already have the home invasions. So I caution everyone to stop hoping that the next step will be so bad that people have to vote Republican. No, the next step will be so bad you'll be dead. All right, let's talk about the LA mayor's race because I've brought this

7:13point up and I've asked this question to a number of people today, including Angela. What are you going to do with your ballot? We have two awful choices. We have the incumbent Karen Bass, who wants another four years, and we have the DSA councilwoman, Nithya Roman. I don't live here. So I don't have to answer that question on my own ballot. Lucky you, but Randy does and many people out there in the audience do. And I do. You are of the belief that the ballot should not be left blank. Why? As I said on national TV and they didn't believe me. So Randy, I don't think you have to do this. It is a choice between a crap sandwich and a crap sandwich with a side of lettuce. Yeah, that's safer air. Don't worry. Right. Okay. So it's a terrible choice. Guess what else was a terrible choice? Zombies, Diane, fine, Stain, versus Kevin, Dalyone who doesn't know the pledge of allegiance. We have had to make the least bad choice many times. But I'll tell you what happens. We'll keep getting least bad choices if as a block.

8:14And that's what a voting block is. It's a collection of people that will deliver office or take away office. And when we take our ball and go home, then everyone gets to ignore us like they currently do. Let's punch up of our weight and make a difference. I'm not making a choice for anyone. I'm just saying that it is and as a naturalized American citizen, I took a note to protect and defend the Constitution. I fought and I had to take a test to become a citizen and get a vote. I am not leaving anything blank. In San Francisco, when Willie Brown ran for mayor of the first time, and he wanted support from the Republican party over his opponent, who was to the left of him, one of the things that he did was he promised certain things. I'm going to give you seats on these boards and commissions. I'm going to make sure you get something tangible for this endorsement. When I talked to you the last time I asked you if Karen Bass has reached out to you. I asked Spencer Pratt if Karen Bass has reached out to him.

9:18And the answer from him was the same answer as the answer from you, which was no. Since we spoke the last time, has she reached out to you to offer something? I didn't say she was smart. I mean, that would be baseline just political intelligence, right? Political IQ like, hmm, I've got to win. And by the way, you win an election with 50% plus one of the people who vote. That means the people who turn out and that she hasn't figured that out yet. And we only have 30 days before ballots drop. But we're in a really untenable position here. We are Republicans are 14.7% of LA County. And because we keep taking our ball and go home, no one thinks they need us. You know, it's funny. Yesterday, there was a mayoral forum about the environment because that's the most important issue facing Los Angeles. And it wasn't even a debate. They talked to Karen, then they talked to Nithia, our buddy Matthew Cedar, if it Fox level went down there and tried to ask her in some questions as she walked to the car and he asked very specifically, what are you doing to attract Spencer Pratt

10:23voters? And she said, well, my record. What record? Again, he's right, Spencer's right. It's dumb and dumb. It's the side of lettuce. It's not a good position. But here's what happens. By the way, I checked with the registrar, Daniel's advice. Yes, it's an overvote and it doesn't spoil your whole ballot, which is an important thing to do. But guess what? The other thing I've heard from people is I'm just going to write in Spencer Pratt anyway. Let me put it on the lower third so I can remind everybody again. Don't do that. Don't do that for several reasons. There's no room for it. And it's illegal. It's not going to count. It's part of the city charter. It's also part of the top two elections. When you do that, it spits out your ballot. It won't be able to be read by the machine. And what happens when your ballot gets spit out? They recreate it on a new fresh ballot. So let's get our act together and figure out what to do. But whatever you do, don't write anything on your ballot.

11:24Here's what I don't understand. And maybe you know, maybe you don't. I don't know if you've had this conversation with him. Why didn't Rick Caruso get behind Spencer Pratt in the primary and dump a ton of money into it? Because he flirted publicly with the idea of running for mayor himself for so long. He kept other candidates out of the race because who can compete with a billionaire? And then when someone came in, essentially adopting the same policy positions as Rick Caruso, instead of getting behind him and opening up his checkbook, he didn't endorse in the primary. Why did that happen? I can't read people's minds, but I can guess. And Spencer has said publicly that even he thought he was making the announcement and then Rick would come in and run the real race. Remember, we had the ability to recall Carambas. She was in the toilet numbers wise. And Rick Caruso stopped that. I would imagine that since we've become Gotham City, people with business interests in front of a city

12:29are who don't have testicular fortitude. I can say that. Yes, you can. You're doing great. Thank you. I'm trying hard. Will not risk themselves. And that's what we at the party. That's why I want to give awards to people who do have the testicular fortitude. Yes, to actually say something. There are too many people because we live behind the Blues Curtain. It's gotten very Soviet here. And people will whisper to me whether at my kids' private school or here, where I find you, we're super bind quietly. Like Angela Marsden gets told all the time by huge business owners. Yeah, Angela, you get out there. You keep fighting. I get told it. Celebrities get told it. Spencer got told it. And then when push comes to shove, you turn around and they're not there. So it's sad that people who have FU money don't ever say FU. You're doing great. Okay, okay.

13:31Because I don't have that kind of money. I gave up my career and I'm working for free to save the place I fled to because there's nowhere else to run. Everything that happens in California doesn't stay in California. It gets exported to the rest of the country and it's coming for your red state. It is. And that is a very true statement. I'm going to ask you a question I asked Susan Shelley earlier, which is we now know that so many of these Silicon Valley billionaires are opening up their checkbook, including Sir J. Brynn and others to fight the wealth confiscation tax. And I'm glad that they're doing that. Maybe we can kill that very bad tax and kill that bad initiative and set the SEIU back at least one election cycle. But if they want to create the infrastructure so that we prevent those sorts of bad ideas from coming to fruition in the future, they have to open up their checkbook, even larger and fun groups like the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and your organization

14:35to make sure that there is a mechanism to fight these things and to kill them off before they chase away all the productive people in the state. Like I always say, I don't care that you're late to the party, the chips are on the table and the drinks are on the patio. But for God's sake, people wake up and the fact is a political party as large as Los Angeles is bigger than 40 actual states. My office is in my car. The death threats I get, I get no security. You know that. It's insane that no one is coming to save us, not the RNC. It'd be great if the people who live in California who are now waking up would realize that there's no cavalry, we have to do it ourselves. By the way, you can donate at L-A-G-O-P dot org and there's no limit to what you give to a political party. I'm just saying and all the money will go to voter turnout. Let's talk about the governor's race because Steve Hilton is probably the most active Republican candidate at the top of the ticket that we've had in many cycles, maybe since Meg Whitman.

15:37But he doesn't have a bear. I'm concerned about the lack of bear. But Javier Bessera is doing everything he can to stay in the witness protection program. He has not agreed to any debates. He's not really actively campaigning in any real sort of way. He wants people to forget that this race is on the ballot. How can Steve Hilton draw him out and force a conversation about the future of the state? Steve is a gift to anyone with common sense in this state. And the amount of energy that he has and that he's brought to the race and the conversation is great. He just needs to keep doing what he's doing. But I don't want to hear again. I'm going to be the mom again. I don't want to hear whining from people who are like, oh, he's English. No kidding. So was I. Like I had a certificate of patriarchy for Britain. Like he renounced his great Britain's as UK citizenship. He could not be working harder. We have to play politics as a team sport and we got to play ball.

16:39What he's doing is great, but he cannot do it alone. If any of you know anyone who did not vote in the primary, who is a sensible voter, like if it's a blue haired, like pierced person who loves camelot, like just let that go. But if you've got a staunch conservative who says crazy things like, well, you know, it doesn't matter. It doesn't make a difference. That's our job is to get those people out. Steve is doing great. Bacera is terrible. His own party thinks he's a midwit. And that came from Joe Biden who had no wit at all. So I, you know, nobody thinks that he is competent, except at losing migrant children. You do Alex Michelson's program on CNN from time to time. We see on their fighting the good fight. Another voice that does that program on a regular basis is forber Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter. She is a regular on the show. Have you had any encounters with her on that programmer in the green room?

17:42And Alex, you know what? That'd be a great pairing. I've had some real fun conversations with, with some people. I mean, you know, every candidate and we have lots of great candidates, by the way, and some of them are here and you should, you'll see their names on our ballot recommendations and endorsements. Every candidate says to me, oh my god, Roxane, can you get us? I'm like, no, you don't want to be on Fox. You want to be where the fight is. And there's nowhere more fun than CNN because that keeps you on your toes. All right. Well, if you do the show with her, I want to find out if the midi van was illegally parked in a handicap space. I want to figure out what kind of gross polluter the midi van was. And I want to figure out how many stickers she has on the back of it of the little kid peeing on Adam's shelf. I want to get out of here. Your staunch investigative reporter, like our friend Jan Van Larr, and the others I just wrote about the Nick Shirley act, by the way, in an op ed,

18:42we have to punch above our weight. That's Wayne Gretzky said it best. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take people. Roxane Hogue, chairwoman of the LA County Republican Party. You know, I give her an even bigger round of applause because she kept it clean. It's the John Phillips show. It's the John Phillips show. We're broadcasting live from Pineapple Hills, Saloon and Grill in Sherman Oaks and our big cameras having some technical difficulties. So Johnny, we're on the laptop camera. All right. Well, we're going to be here until three o'clock in the afternoon. And you can of course watch us from the laptop camera at Johnny. Don't like.com. We're here until three o'clock. Make sure that you. There's Joe. There's Joe Krummy who's coming up next. You know what? What happened was that just something in the ether happened like static electricity would have you when Joe Krummy walked up to the stage.

19:42The camera short circuited. That's what happened. You know what you call those? What's that evil thoughts? Well, we're here until three o'clock and we're here for prop 43, the local taxpayer protection act, which is going to be on your ballot at. You can go to yes on 43.com. You can also go to the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association. And you can also hang out with us. We're here until three o'clock at the lovely pineapple hill, saloon and grill. And coming up next, it's the one and only Joe Krummy. So don't you go anywhere. We're here until three right here on the John Phillips show. You live from pineapple hill in Sherman Oaks. I'm going to do this on the microphone because it's just going to be easier than texting him. Kevin, the camera's crooked now. We're broadcasting live on the radio on 790 K EBC and 810 K SFO live on video at johnny.like.com. That's Johnny with a Y. I'm so sorry. I haven't even had time to check in with the chatroom.

20:43But there's a lot of stuff going on in there. And of course, we are broadcasting in person at the pineapple hill, saloon and grill in Sherman Oaks. Yeah, just, you know what? It's fine. Everyone could see Matthew engineer who is kicking ass today. All right. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is the host of the evil thoughts podcast, which if you're not subscribed to, you should do that today. You can follow him on Twitter at Joe Krummy. Find them online at joe crummy.com. Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Krummy. Thank you. John, a pleasure to be with you. Thank you for asking me to be with you today. I appreciate it. Well, thank you for coming out and Joe. This is your hood. Yes, it is. It is my hood. That's how we got him out here because Valley people don't go over the hill. No, I was going to go that far. I said, John, if it's swimming a few blocks, I can make it. Otherwise, I don't know. I'll phone it in. Yeah, I'm so close, John. They said you want to go phone it. They asked me, it's not.

21:44Do you want to phone it in? I said, no. I'll come see John. We love Randy. We love it. Now, Joe, one of the things that I think is true, particularly, you're an East Coast guy, originally. Yes, sir. And when you talk about an old building on the East Coast, you could be talking about something that was built in the 1700s. But in California, our history is a little different because we're a newer sort of place. So when you're talking about something that's old, you're talking about something that's been here since World War Two. A lot of people, you're channeling Angela now. I know you. Because I listened to your show, you're channeling Angela. Are you not? I am. I know what makes LA special to me is the people, the restaurants, the bars, the music venues, the comedy venues, the entertainment venues, all of the things that we love, places like this Pineapple Hill. And when they take those things away from us, I feel like they're not only taking away our neighborhood joint,

22:49but they're taking away our history. They're taking away what we love about living here. Where you know, I don't want to be too conspiratorial, but I think that's sort of the point. I think there was a group of people that want to kind of reimagine California. And history gets in the way when you want to reimagine things. When you want to reimagine the middle class, you've been talking about that today. When you want to reimagine just the whole set of how people live, whether you're in a single family home or not, what kind, what you drive, how you think they want to reimagine all of that and places that are historical, like this, like California standards, what, 50 years here now, 40, how many years? Long time. Get in the way. Simple as that. And if you own a small business in a way, here I am conspiracy again, I think that if you're a lefty,

23:53and people like you or this enterprise right here are getting in the way for lots of reasons, one of the reasons is that you don't really need them in a way. You're kind of competing with them for actually being something in California. You're kind of in their way. If you are independent, you don't really need them. They want to talk to people that need them because they need to be on top and they want to stay there. I know I'm very conspiratorial right now, but I've been thinking a lot about it lately. And I think that that's something to do with it. Well, and it's also completely antithetical to how we live here. If you want to live in a big, vertically built concrete jungle, there are places that are built for you that are amazing. You can go to Boston, you can go to New York, you can go to, well, maybe not Philadelphia, but you can go to one of those cities that's built that way.

24:55We like single family homes. We like having a car. We like having a yard. We like having a neighborhood joint to go to and they want to take that away from us. Right. They want you living up over mixed use. That's when you ever see any new developments in LA. It's always mixed use. They want you living up over the Starbucks, right? They want you. You'll have a two bedroom apartment. They'll be, you know, the air conditioning will usually work. That's good. But having your own little house, that's not in the cards. You were right about it earlier today when you were talking about what's going to happen at the Palo Sades, what may happen over in the other side of town where the eating fire was. Do you think all these single family residences, that's where the politicians want that? Pretty clear. That's not what they want. They also want you on the bus, too. I think you need to understand that. Well, they want you on the bus. They're not. When they build these establishments, when they build these giant towers, they don't build nearly enough parking because they assume, oh, you're going to use the bus.

25:55People don't use the bus. So then straight parking becomes a nightmare in a fight to the death. That's right. They want you on the bus. That's right. I'd never ride those murder trains. When's the last time you've rode public transit? A number of years ago, I went downtown with my kid to LA for some convention. And we took public transit and it smelled like pee the whole way. He did it. It was sad, too, because we spent some money on those stations. We spent some money and they looked like there's vomit stains and it smells like pee and weed. LA, come on. Smells like pee and weed. That's what it smells like. And you know it's true. Look at me like I'm saying something weird. You know, no, it is very true. And that's one of the reasons that people avoid it. Not just that, but everything is associated with that. People see needles on those buses and trains. People see human waste on those buses and trains. No one wants to be there. You don't feel safe. It's not clean. You know, funny. I heard your recent show about the serial pooper and brantwood.

26:59You know what? Most people have eaten here. So yes, now we can tell that story. OK, I hate to be honest. We bring it up late in the show. So I'm listening to you guys talk about it. And I thought I'd better read up on this. I want to know more about the serial pooper. So I'm reading it and there's a line in it that it took six months to find. Did anyone get it to go order? If you want me to stop, I will. It took him six months to find the serial pooper. And then they reached out and the way it was written made me laugh. They said, would you like some help? Right. And the answer was no. And that was the end of it. See, if I found the serial pooper, I would have arrested instead of is would you like any help? It's obvious. If you have any, you know, common sense, she needs the help. See, it wouldn't have worked this way in the 1990s. You know what would have happened in the 1990s. If I lived in Brentwood and that was happening in my community, I send OJ out.

28:01That's what I do. I go, Oh, Jay, I got a hot tip for you. Take a picture of it. Ring on knock on the juices door and go, Hey, juice, look what this bitch did in front of your house. What's going on, America? Look at me. Yes, sometimes you guys have the same brain. I'm just saying though that it's about, you know, that we have to lower our standards. We have to ask you, would you like any help when it's clear you do? When we had, when we had the fires a couple of years ago, same thing. I live in studio city. I don't know if any of you know what they call the oasis. I think it's studio city. It's new Ralph's ventur goes around the corner there. Bunch of homeless people live up on the hill there. It was right in the middle of the fires. They were going on to the east of us, the west of us. There we are in studio city. And some people were complaining because people were starting fires in the hill to stay warm. It was January, right? And so they did send some people out there. And everybody's freaked out because they're fire. You know, like, oh, we don't want that here. And they asked the homeless people, do you need some help or would you like to come in?

29:04Well, you know, and they said, no, they declined the offer. And I'm thinking, what do you mean you decline the offer? You have hundreds of houses in the hills. You have people with fire with a history of making poor decisions. That's why they don't have a house. And your son gets okay to stay there. And it's not mandatory that you leave that it's like optional. I'm thinking this is insane. Well, that's Gavin Newsom to a tee. He made a big deal out of reforming our conservatorship laws and care court. And it's helped almost nobody because it's all voluntary. It's insane. It's completely insane. Would you like to come in? No. Okay. I'll see you later. And you know, it's funny too is you look at the overall number of homeless people in the country. And it's going down. It's going down in other states. Yeah, but we're so good at it. We're so good at being homeless. But we know man. If I were homeless, I'd be in LA, wouldn't you? Yeah, I certainly wouldn't be in Chicago. Yeah, yeah. I grew up in Boston.

30:04I remember seeing homeless people going, Oh my God, you are crazy. You should be in LA. Come on. It's fascinating. Sometimes just the how massive it is here compared to even other parts of the state. A lot of news this week about Santa Anna cracking down on the big homeless problem there. They have 700. We have 48,000. I think we got more than that. We got more than 48,000 people. Is that what do you make in this new role that the California Energy Commission came up with to limit the number of tires that can be legally sold in the state of California by 70%. You know what I think is funny? They call the replacement tires. It's always some kind of a weird market or something. You mean tires. Replacement. You mean tires? It's not replacement. It's tires. It's insane. And who is the lady? I know you know her name. She was great. Nancy Skinner. She was great. She says we regulate everything else already. So why not this? That's what she said.

31:04Yeah. How we regulate everything anyway? Yeah. Well, a salad shooter's never had a blowout on the 10, you know. If you tried to get, I recently we did my bathroom and I had to buy a shower head. I did the whole bathroom soup the nuts myself. My girlfriend's complaining because she got to run around in the shower to get wet. And it's because in the state of California we have low flow shower heads by law. If you want one that really works, you have to smuggle one in from out of state. That's the way it goes. Johnny had to do that with a coffee maker. I did. Did you do that? Did you scoff? I have a coffee station at my house. And I put a pot filler near the coffee station. So you don't have to take the pot and take it to the sink and spill it all over the floor. A pot filler for a coffee machine in the state of California is illegal. Because you know coffee drinkers cause the drought. So what you do is you have to order it to somebody's residence in Dallas.

32:06And then when you're flying American Airlines and your flights canceled, you can go pick it up and then bring it home with you. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I have to do. You know, I said, well, well, we'll wait till we find somebody in another state. And maybe they'll send us one. That's it. Yeah, it's amazing that we have to treat pot fillers like it's fentanyl or shower heads. Well, wait, they don't even treat it like fentanyl because we don't do anything about the fentanyl. Actually, wow, he's right. Now, what do you make of the fact that the district attorney who is a huge improvement over George Gascon, the last one, Nathan Hockman, said that his goal was to clean up MacArthur Park to the point where he could take his family there on Labor Day for a picnic. And then as we got closer to Labor Day and, you know, they kept having problems and finding bodies and those sorts of things, he said it was going to be for the entire office.

33:07And I go, well, that's not the same. If you're there with your wife and your kids and you have a blanket and you have some sad, which is in whatever, and someone starts giving you problems, you're going to be involved in a fist fight or you're going to get stabbed or something bad is going to happen. But if you show up with 200 people from your office, half of whom are packing, it's not the same. Yeah. Yeah, it was fun. I heard you on once again with Heather McDonald a couple of days ago. And you were as a P1 listener. I tell you I'm prepared. And you asked her why does this problem persist? Right? Remember when you asked her that? And she said two things. First thing she said was, well, you know, there's a lot of pressure at City Hall for, you know, affordable housing and a lot of people making money, right? She mentioned that. And the second thing she mentioned is they like having homeless people around because it's a reminder, you know, how crappy everything is and that we need them to fix it. These people are props and she made that point.

34:08It's a very good point. They need these people. So don't look for any solutions anytime soon because they like it the way it is because it's a reminder. You know, that they, you know, that capitalism sucks and you need them to help fix it. That's it. So not going anywhere. Gavin Newsom's in South Carolina right now. Yeah. I saw that. Not officially a candidate for governor for president yet, but he's obviously campaigning. How do you think he's going to play on the national stage? I'm afraid a lot better than you think. That's okay. I'm afraid a lot better than you think he's going to fly. Look at Kamala. I think they're born out of the cut from the same cloth. You know, what does she get? 48% of the vote. What did she get? So she got that scary. 48% of people thought that was a good idea. That's scary. And I think that Gavin is not so great on policy, but he looks great.

35:08And he's got a sweet line of bullshii. He's real good. Yeah, we're going to have to dump that one, Josh. I really. Well, people say to me, who in the world would vote for Gavin Newsom? My answer to them today is that jury that wanted a vote to let that woman off for killing her three kids. That right there is the base that is going to support him. It's that same group of people. And there was one holdout, by the way. Did you see that? One guy held the line. Good for him. And it was a mistrial, but people like that are going to be the ones that want to go out and vote for Gavin Newsom. I just hope that people like that aren't the majority. Well, you know, they thrive on ignorance. I saw speaking of Kamala. We have nobody. I haven't heard Kamala's name mentioned at all today, except that's true. Did you see the thing on social media a couple days ago, Kamala was talking about voting by mail? All right. I guess that would be the Save America Act that is coming up. And she was saying that, well, Donald Trump gets to vote for Mar-a-Lago, but he doesn't want you to get to vote from home.

36:13And of course, there's a big difference. She thinks you're stupid and you don't know that there's a big difference between requesting an absentee ballot, where you say, I would like a ballot. Here's my name and here's my address. There's a big difference between that and just mass mailings to anybody to throw on loose, he could see voter rolls. She doesn't think you know the difference. But and that's that's bad enough. But at the same time, then she says, but you people are smart. She says you won't fall for that. So she's playing you as though you're stupid and telling you how smart you are at the same time. That is why I don't like her. And Gavin Newsom's a lot like that. How ugly do you think it's going to be assuming that she runs for president and Gavin runs for president between the two of them? Because they've never run against each other before. And the woman that Gavin had the affair with that was married to his campaign manager and best friend,

37:13apparently his girlfriends with Kamala. And she just came out with a book that talked all about the affair that she had with Gavin. I can't imagine that she would do that without Kamala's blessing. Well, it had to be. But I think she's cooked. You know, I she made that video a couple of days ago and I'm assuming it's because she wants to run and wants to remain relevant. That's why she said that. But I think she had her shot and she blew it and it's over. Kevin is a different story. All right. Joe Crummy host of the evil thoughts podcast. You can get him online at joe crummy.com. And you can follow him on X at Joe Crummy. Joe Crummy. Thanks so much for coming by. Pleasure. It's all mine, John. It's the John Phillips show live from Pineapple Hill. It's the John Phillips show. And let me get my drop here because everyone is in my oven shot. We're just having so much.

38:14Out of my shot saying hi to people during the break. So we don't have that much time in between libraries to say hi to people. For everyone that's here, as soon as we sign off in two minutes, I'm going to walk around, say hi to everyone. We can take a bunch of pictures. We want to thank everyone. Some people got here at like 1031. I did really appreciate it. Scott Allen Myers, everybody is running for Congress. Scott Ellen Myers. Get out of my get out of my shot. Anyway, we want to give some huge thanks to everyone that helped us be here today. Of course, Susan Shelley, John Coupal and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. They put this event on for us. And for everyone listening or watching, if you couldn't make it here today, we're going to be at Gladstone's in Long Beach. Also talking prop 43 on October 9th. So just in a few weeks. We also want to give a huge shout out to Angela Marsden, Ben and the entire wait staff here at Pineapple Hill. This place is a legend. Make sure if you're here, look at that paper with the QR code.

39:17If you want to sign a petition, we got to do whatever we can to save this place. If there's anything we can do. So huge shout out to that to our people here, met our engineer, Kevin, Trisha, helping keep everything running. It's been a pleasure to be here. We've had a blast and we can't wait to do the next one and to all of you people hanging out in the chat room watching us really appreciate it. I wonder how red I've turned in the last three hours. And of course, if you're looking for content over this long three day weekend, there's always the accountability podcast. Not only that for everyone on the YouTube, we have the accountability podcast. We have tons on demand content and Monday is Labor Day, Johnny, which means we're not doing a live show. So I have a three hour crime blotter special at JohnnyDon'tLike.com. The website is JohnnyDon'tLike.com. And for people that are here in person, the camera just froze, didn't it? JohnnyDon'tLike.com. Well, it made it through the majority of the show, you know, I can't tell.

40:18You know what? This was a good test of what works and what doesn't work, but I don't know. And the show with my face right there. Thanks so much for hanging out with us and we'll see you live on the radio and on the YouTube's on Tuesday. Have a good weekend, everyone.