"He's Out of Touch": Brilyn Hollyhand on What Gen Z REALLY Thinks of Gavin Newso

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1:00Don't like.com 800 222 5222 is a telephone number 1 800 222 5222. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is a Gen Z political commentator and author of the book Make America Talk Again available online at Amazon.com. You can follow him on exit. Brillyn Holleyhand. Brillyn Holleyhand. Welcome. Gentlemen, thanks for having me. You got a Southern boy on the show. I'm excited for this. Well, you're on in both Southern and Northern California here. Awesome. Well, thanks so much for joining us. We appreciate your time. Absolutely. I'm excited for this. All right. So part of your job is that you travel around the country to different states, different regions of the country. And you talk to groups about politics. So you have kind of a large breadth of knowledge in terms of how different audiences react when certain names come up. And I want to bring one name up that's very, very, very common here.

2:05And that's our governor, Gavin Newsom, who is clearly running for president of these United States. He was just in South Carolina. Prior to that, he was in Michigan campaigning with the Democratic nominee for Senate there, Abdul Al-Sayed. And there was a piece out in the New York Times, an op-ed piece that said, will Newsom be Dems next big mistake, which I thought was interesting coming particularly from that paper. Now, those of us who live here in California know that Newsom's a failure, even the people who voted for him, understand that homelessness is out of control. The bullet train is something that doesn't really exist. Retail theft requires us to ask for the assistance of an associate to buy shampoo that's locked up behind bulletproof glass, all the things that we have to deal with on a regular basis. But just because we're aware of that here, does it mean that that's common knowledge around the country? When you speak to different groups and you talk to different people in different

3:08parts of the country, do you get the idea that they're aware that Newsom's a failure? Or are they buying the storyline that he's putting out that he is this savior for the Democratic Party who's going to win the White House back for them? Yeah, your governor is definitely the opposite of a savior. I will just be short and sweet with you and say that he and his candidacy are dead on arrival on a primary stage and certainly on a general election stage. And here's why one, it's obvious that he's either running for president or running to be in a hair gel commercial. And I can't figure out which one depending on the day. But we're going to go with president for the sake of this conversation. And I really do think that he's actually, and this is crazy, gone to moderate for his crazy woke party. So you saw him say years ago, I would love to see more trans kids. And then just a few months ago, he walked back some of those comments and said, actually, I'm like against men entering women's sports. Now, I agree with the governor there, but he doesn't believe that he's running for president. And he's trying to win over some of this moderate wing of their party that Kamala obviously couldn't win over and Trump was able to win over.

4:11His party, his base on the primary stage is going to eat him alive though. Their litmus test right now is if you're going to support some of these radical social policies, that's kind of energizing their socialist base. So A of C has a better chance of winning the nomination in my mind than a Gavin Newsom does. I'm not scared of a Gavin Newsom because I don't think he could say any chance to primary. I'm scared of an AOC because I think she could win a primary, but not win in general. If the Democrats were smart and don't want to give them free advice, they would nominate somebody like an Andy Bashar or a Josh Shapiro who are crazy and woke and radical, but they're not an AOC. Those kind of people could genuinely win middle of the Alvoters and they seem to have more of the Midwest atmosphere as opposed to the coastal elite, hair gel and fitted suits appetite that we see as you can see members of your governor, Gavin Newsom. It seems like he's trying to brand himself as the Democrat who can be the bridge between the regular Democrats, the standard Democrats, the partisan Democrats and the DSA because he said publicly he wants the Democratic party

5:13to be big enough for Zora and Mamdani and John Federman. And then he goes to Michigan and campaigns on behalf of Abdul Al-Sayed. But you think about the DSA voters, the people with the purple hair, the people that show up to the rallies, the people that are still wearing COVID masks, that crowd. I would imagine that that crowd can sniff out an imposter pretty quick. Absolutely. And when they look at Gavin Newsom, they don't see one of their own. Sure. Let's talk about say a rising star, unfortunately, on the Democrat side right now, Abdul Al-Sayed running in Michigan. He's obviously the DIMS nominee for that Senate race there. He's crazy. He's this out there as you can get with supporting some of these social policies, but he has policies. He talks about Medicaid for all. He talks about wanting to abolish things like the prison. He has some of these outlandish takes, but there are policies that Gavin and his voters who are frustrated. Okay. We can criticize those policies. We can call them out, but they are physical policies. Newsom doesn't necessarily have that.

6:14His whole stick is Orange Man bad. And Newsom, unfortunately, is going to have his career retire when Trump retires because the Orange Man is righted off into the sunset in two years and playing golf in Florida for the rest of his life. He can't run against Trump on the 28-to-8 stage. And I think that's what's going to hurt him there. It's one thing he has to success, the experience, the policy that have worked well in California, all he has is baggage. And remember, Kamala, when she was in that ABC interview on the view and they said, what is going to separate you from a Biden candidacy? She didn't have anything else to say. His question is going to be what's going to separate you from your failures as governor of California? Because we've seen you be the chief executive and why would we trust you to do something larger than the state you felt? He has no answer to separate himself from that baggage. That's why he said in the rifle. What you just described seems to be the dynamic that exists between the regular Democrats and the DSA all over the place, where Trump is the central villain in every story for the standard Democrats, even the ones that were running against DSA candidates, Goldman in New York, the woman, Diana to get in Colorado,

7:17where they go, but I'm an impeachment manager. And they thought that that would be enough to get him over the hump. And it didn't. And when Trump is the only subject that you talk about, what you do is you see the floor of ideas on public policy and issues to the other side, the DSA, their issues are nutty, but they're the only ones in those primaries talking about issues. Yeah, you're right. I mean, obviously socialism is insane. Obviously communism is cookie, but there is genuine frustration and looks my generation who seems to be, you know, sympathetic to some of these ideas. Now explain to you why. Obviously the cost of living aside gas prices, buying your first home, getting a job out of college, all very difficult right now. It's been difficult for multiple administrations, both parties are to blame, but I'm 20 years old. I just turned 20. I've only lived in a country where if I want something, I can click an app on my phone and I can get it. A coffee, a new pair of shoes, a car, I think Amazon even has an option where they will drop a package via drone in your backyard. No. And so it's caused this instant gratification culture.

8:18So what these new dims are doing, the socialister doing is trying to say, Oh, this instant gratification culture you have here, click the one size fits all button of socialism and all of your frustrations, all of your problems, they're all going to be fixed and solved. Don't ask us how, but we actually have a way to fix it and, you know, establishment Democrats just say orange man bad. We agree he's bad, but here's how we're going to fix it. And their ideas are cookie, but it's an idea and the dims don't have that right now. There's a new leader in the House of Representatives for the Democratic Party. We know that Nancy Pelosi, who comes from here in California, announced she's not running for reelection. She stepped down a speaker some years ago, Hakeem Jeffries out of New York state replaced her as the Democratic leader. And he's had a rough time since being elected to run that caucus. Most recently, they had a vote that was a procedural vote where the parties normally stick together. In this particular case, two Democrats, Gerald Golden from Maine and Marie Perez

9:20from Washington state broke rings and voted with the Republicans that is going to allow the Republicans to bring up some of their issues, including a vote that would denounce socialism. That forces a lot of Democrats to take a vote that they don't want to take. You don't want, if you're the Democratic leader to make your conservative Democrats vote against socialism and then upset the DSA in their district. And you certainly don't want to create, you know, quarrels within your own caucus between the DSA types and the regular Democrat types. But under Nancy Pelosi, no one ever broke rings. Now under Hakeem Jeffries, two of them broke ranks. And he's blaming his number two, Catherine Clark. Nancy Pelosi is blaming Hakeem Jeffries. And you go, that caucus seems like it's in complete disarray right now since Pelosi left. Yeah, it really is. Let's say the Democrats win the majority of this November. They've already said the social swing is not going to vote for Hakeem.

10:21He won't have enough votes to be speaker and the Senate, DIMS are coming in like Abdul have already said they're not going to vote for a Schumer leadership. So you're going to see a successful coup inside the Democrat party where some of these crazies that used to be called say the squad when it was Ilhan Omar and AOC a few years ago could go off and have their press conferences on the side. And Nancy Pelosi could still maintain order and let them talk, but they didn't really have much power and influence. Well, instead of shutting them up, they've slowly over the past three years claimed power. And now we're seriously talking about a potential AOC presidential candidacy. And so like things like this prove that time and time again, the squad has gone from being the radical fringe of the party to the mainstream ideas of the party. And it's kind of a litmus test now. If you want to win reelection, if you want to win your primary, you have to support some of these kooky ideas. And I think it's a dangerous path for the Democrats to go down. Obviously look at 24 as an example. The last time we've had a major election to look at for polling data here. We saw that Kamala Harris was too left for the majority of the country,

11:24too left for the fact that Donald Trump literally won every single swing state and the popular vote, something that was not predicted and erased like that. Because she ran her party too far to the left. It's a runoff of cliff. When you're talking about people like Abdul El Sayad, when you're talking about people like Zoramam Doni, when you're talking about people like AOC, these rising stars, the loudest voices in the Democratic Party today, Kamala Harris looks like a moderate compared to them. So if she was too far left, obviously these future leaders are too far left as well. They're really running themselves on the ground and I'm not complaining. There was a biography that was written about Nancy Pelosi. And in the biography, it said that she ruled that caucus with an iron fist in a Gucci glove. And it seems like to get those people to behave, to get members of that caucus to behave, you almost have to talk to them like a mobster, which is how she would talk to them. And she ran a very tight chip when she was there. And I think they knew they were going to miss her when she left. I don't think they knew they were going to miss her this much.

12:26No, certainly not. And you know, you make the mobster comparison there to, you know, old Speaker Pelosi, but I make a comparison to our leader, Mike Johnson, the opposite of a mobster, like your Sunday school teacher that they found and probably a Southern Baptist church and somehow he woke up in warning. It was the representative and McCarthy left and always a speaker. Like he's the opposite of a mobster. He can, you know, talk softly and carry a big stake and effectively lead the successful majority we've had. And I think it shows that our party is not like curtain cats. Our party is not as divided or having coups like we see on the left. We have disagreements. We should. It's a democracy. We have a big tent in our party and that's okay. You have members that probably aren't going to go out to dinner after they vote and they're probably inside, but we'll at least vote together. And I think that's something you're just not seeing with the left. And as people look at who they're going to vote for in the midterms, we've seen what a Democrat majority would look like. Their, you know, solutions, the affordability crisis was the inflation reduction act, something that Pelosi left us or legacy, something that Akim started his leadership with.

13:27And when they brought down inflation with that frilly piece of text that had awesome cool title on us, it says they were going to reduce inflation. The congressional budget office said it literally produced reduced zero dollars and zero cents of inflation. So they can talk really loud. They can pass some piece of legislation that has a cool title. Republicans have led and we're united as opposed to the coup were seen. There was a passage in that Susan Page book that talked about Pelosi calling the member into her office after the member voted against Obama care and Pelosi thought the member was going to vote for it. And the scene was fantastic where she's sitting in the big chair and she has the members sit across the big desk and she just stares her down for a long time. And then she goes, I got you elected. Thanks for nothing. Get out and then kick the person out of the office. And I said to myself, she's talking to this person like she's Don Corollione here. But I guess that's what it takes over there. I don't know. I guess so. It's sad that they need a mob boss to rule the party.

14:28But it's just how crazy they all are. All right. Myle Unopolis, who is a right wing provocateur on social media, just got deported back to the UK. And he now says that he regrets supporting Donald Trump because of his deportation. He went on Peer's Morgan looking completely disheveled. Didn't have the accent, by the way, which I thought was funny. I guess it's like Hillary Clinton outside of a black church. And he said that his political commentary was essentially an act. And now he's appealing to Republicans against Trump. It seems like this guy finally hit the last stop on the subway. And now he wants to reinvent himself as some kind of liberal commentator. What do you make of this train, Rick? Let me just be clear. As Republicans, we are equal opportunity deporters. And that means even people that a few days ago for clicks, like an engagement, we're saying they're per deportation, but apparently behind the scenes when the cameras were cut off, we're overstaying their visa here. He's deported as he should have been.

15:30No tears have been shed. And I don't think anybody's going to come to this defense because he's a criminal. We're deporting criminals. If you overstay your visa in this country, you know, you get the boots. And I certainly don't look forward to him coming back anytime soon. And he can win. And and Maul, as much as you want some Peer's Morgan show, didn't even know Peer's had a show nowadays. So that kind of shows how far down the ladder with the rungs he's fallen, but I will say that no tears have been shed in this household. Well, the attitude seems to be that he shouldn't be deported because he came here from England. And you go, no, you're deported because you were here illegally. My family came here from England. They came the right way, although they did buy tickets in the Titanic. And I would recommend other forms of coming here than that. But anyway, the point is they weren't illegal. And the fact that he thought that he was going to be granted some kind of protection just shows you the kind of narcissism that this guy has had. And I'm looking back on it. It was always there. I mean, this guy just seems like a bad actor. But the fact that he thought that he should be able to stay here illegally

16:33because he's a writer from England or whatever, I mean, shows you how out to lunch this guy was. Yeah. And two things stand out to me there. First of all, he wanted to brag on Peer's show that he's a number when New York Times best saw an author. That's awesome, man. That just proves to me that you can read if you can write. And you could read the multiple letters that I sent to your house telling you that Javiza was going to be ever stayed and that you had enough court appearance soon. He failed to show up for that court appearance. He was arrested and deported as he should. And so he just kind of proved there that if he's so smart, he obviously can read a letter from the government. I also think that this just kind of burst the bubble of the liberal's argument for the past few months that we were, say, racially profiling or politically profiling people to deport. You know, Milo, a day before he was deported was praising ICE and praising deportations and he got deported as well because he was an illegal in this country. And so I think as, you know, we have the midterm messaging ramp up, the DIMs are going to hit really hard on these evil Republicans are taking away our voters and obviously we kicked out our public in as well because illegal is really goals and what equal opportunity to porters.

17:35Last question before you go in LA voters are going to be faced with a choice between a Democrat who let the city burn down and a DSA candidate who's criticism of the incumbent mayor is you're not far enough to the left. Voters ask, what do we do under those circumstances, mostly Pratt voters in this audience? I don't know what to tell them. I don't live within the city limits. If I did, I'd probably leave it blank. Do you have any advice? Yeah. So I certainly would have a hard time sleeping at nights. If I voted free to those candidates, knowing what I was enabling, knowing what I was supporting. And I wouldn't typically be an advocate for wasting the ballot, leaving it blank. But I think it would be a good idea to see some kind of a right end campaign for us, Spencer Pratt, and showing the numbers there. Obviously, he had the chance to be in the top three and LA voters just didn't wake up enough. I hate that they've had the consequences, but elections have consequences.

18:38And we don't want more fires. We don't want more homeless. We don't want more crime. But that's what you're voting for. If you vote for a continuation of the current administration there with bass. So it's sad, but it certainly means that the largest export of that city will continue to be e-halls. So, you know, not surprised. Brille and Holly Han, author of the book Make America Talk Again, available online at amazon.com. You can follow him on exit. Brille and Holly Han, Brille and thanks so much for stopping by. Thanks for having me for it. I'll see you soon. All right. It's football season on polymarket trade your football predictions against other fans before and during the game. You can even combine multiple trades with polymarket combos from OCOW OS, new customers deposit $10 and get $50 instantly to start trading. 18 plus C polymarket's terms of service for more information about restrictions and eligibility. The polymarket app is an independent affiliate of polymarket US and not CFTC regulated. Trade always involves risk complete loss. Can occur. The $50 offer is issued as not withdrawal trading credit for use on the platform. I'll very exclusively available to first time depositors not available in all jurisdictions.

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22:48the corporations and those who would benefit the fact that she's been in there for so long, legislation and all the money, all of this. And so Pelosi's leaving who does she see is being the best to now fill her seat and where she can hand over the list of donors, the database, the role of decks, right? That would potentially keep her interests and the interest of all of her supporters for these years. Who is it that she could hand this off to and definitely not Scott Weiner. Weiner has his own agenda as we know all up and down California. He's universally hated for so much of the legislation that he's pushed in Sacramento. He's such a niche as this, this niche focus. And that just would not gel with Pelosi's donors and her role at X base.

23:49So she Pelosi can mentor, can tutor, can mold. Connie Chan and that because she has no one else to work with. You know, this, this is one of the easiest things that we can see. So how Pelosi can just take over a Chan and as many including you have said, it's like Pelosi's running this campaign is the shadow candidate. Okay. As long as it's not Weiner. Let's go back to the differences between the two. Yeah, because to my eye and correct me if you're wrong, Pelosi is an old timey democratic politician. She's one of the remaining new dealers that still exist. And her number one priority is to take care of the unions. She's very close to the unions and if the unions are getting what they want and the democratic interest groups are getting what they want, she feels like she's delivering. Scott Weiner, who you described as a niche politician, is specifically about

24:52three things to my eye, about housing, about creating as much mixed use housing and low income housing as humanly possible, going into single family home communities and just demolishing them and bringing in these monstrosities and forcing all of us to live above a pandemic's press. He's all about decriminalizing sex crimes, whether it is statutory rape or sex crimes of another nature. He's all about decriminalizing that and then transiting the kids. He's a big believer in sex change operations for miners. And I don't see Nancy Pelosi going hard on any of those subjects. Right. It seems to be something that is a niche boutique thing in her eyes and missing the big picture. And to the extent that she's weighed in on any of those subjects, it's not her. It's her daughter, who was very involved with the women's caucus within the democratic

25:55party of California during the whole Me Too era. So decriminalizing sex crimes seems to be something that would likely offend someone like her. Yeah, yeah, of course. And and this goes along with as I said that, you know, Pelosi and her supporters and her donors and the legislation leaders and all of her clan and clique would not click with Scott Wiener based on these reasons. And but I need to throw in here too that a lot of people have been giving credit to Scott Wiener on housing. He's like the yinbie of yinbies. But that's just the legislation. He has authored a lot of bills that are pushing the bulldozing of the West Side of San Francisco per se. He has made all of these promises. He's made people happy. He's gotten the support of all these yinbie aligned groups.

26:58But yet we don't see the the fruit of this. We just see the legislation. And so and a lot of the campaign material, I just got something showed up yesterday from from Wiener in the mail where he talks about building housing, but the housing hasn't been built. It's been very minorly built. So it's not like he's been out there and now you can look and see. So even when that he's only been minorly effective. So but but going back to this, this is the big, a big dilemma for us here in San Francisco. We're the only voters that get to vote in this house race. It's either Chan or Wiener and we're the ones that make the decision. And going back for all these years, the house is a two year stint. And they have to keep running every two years to be reelected. And Pelosi has won going all the way back.

28:00And so she wants to cement that legacy. And Wiener is just not not there for a variety of reasons. Speaking of her legacy, we had Chuck Todd, formerly meet the press on the radio program and Tony Hall, the former supervisor in San Francisco, on and they both said the same thing, which is one of her worst impulses is if you get on the wrong side of her, if you piss her off, if you upset her, that's the only thing that she can think about. And she will spend the rest of her life trying to get back at you. And she just can't get beyond that. It's been that way her entire career, Steny Hoyer did something to her a million and one years ago that offended her. And she's been punishing him ever since. And that's just the way she's wired. That's just the way she is. She's got a grudge against Baccharya. She does. So it looks like she's going to spend as the first female speaker of the house,

29:02someone who in another world would be doing victory laps right now with her last six months in office is going to spend all the time trying to kill Scott Wiener's career. Yeah. And you know what's interesting is a lot of us are enjoying that because we want we want to see Wiener go down and flames. And this is also the big, the clash of the egos, you know, the old, the old school, the old guard ego versus the newer LGBT niche, trans champion ego. And and we really would like to see Wiener fail. He deserves to fail because he's been such a winner per se, winner, winner. And I want to see him, I want to see him go down and flames. And even if it is a dud, Connie Chan, someone's going to take him out. And he also does the same thing.

30:05Wiener also will constantly call you out. I don't know if you've been checking him out what what he, how he posts on Twitter on X, but he is constantly berating anyone, including Trump, the GOP, MAGA, every other word out of his mouth. He criticizes them takes every, every opportunity. And we're seeing the record, the rhetoric that he's also scaling up against Chan as well. Well, we saw that whole debacle with the Connie Chan AI chat, but that if you asked it the right kind of questions, would give you racist responses, he takes it down, but he had billboards across the city, telling people to go to Connie Chan. AI. And then one of Connie Chan supporters, Vandalized the billboard and wrote, Scott Wiener is white devil. Yeah, that that's just that was just two blocks from that two blocks from me. Yeah, that there was right over on the main street here.

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32:06continues to move its way across the Southwestern United States. Some people are going to go to the beach. Other people are going to grill at home. Maybe go for a dip in the pool. And if you live in the eastern portion of Los Angeles, usually the idea of going to MacArthur Park is not something that you consider unless you're looking to buy illegally forged documents. But Randy, all of this is leading to the question with the emphasis that the federal government in particular has been putting on MacArthur Park, where we sent federal agents in there to try to bust up all of the drug rings. Is it now safe for normal people to take their family to the park again? If you remember, specifically, LA County DA, Nathan Hockman said when the raids first started and all the criminal activity in MacArthur Park, his goal was to have a picnic with his family on Labor Day.

33:12Let's see if that's actually going to happen. Here is Fox 11 in Los Angeles. Is MacArthur Park safe for families to visit Labor Day weekend? LA County District Attorney Nathan Hockman plans to put it to the test. This pledge, if you recall, came after a major drug bust at the park in June. Fox 11's Rachel Ergon live in West Lake with the latest. Okay, let me ask you this question. If let's just say the park is not cleaned up yet and something bad happens to the DA. Who gets to appoint his replacement? Probably Ollie Mitchell. Oh, no. Hey, Christine. Yeah, we've heard from business leaders, I like the leaders and even community members about different ways to improve public safety at MacArthur Park, which you know has long been playing by illegal activity. But recent video we're about to show you at the park shows their release at some levels still have challenged public safety in that area. Over a dozen people arrested a massive.

34:14That looks like a war zone. And you got to love it. Langers is just sitting there in the background in LA legend. Drug bust at MacArthur Park in early June. What I'm hoping is as we get the criminal elements out of the park, the city can come in and rehabilitate it. Hmm. Have you seen this city? Raid a part of a broader effort. Federal officials said to return the public park to the public and rid the space of criminals and drug addicts. We have another arrest taking place over here right now. That same day. Yep, that was Seedorf. Hey, on to the short straw. I think we should call him short straw Seedorf. I think he'd like that. Like County District Attorney Nathan Hawkeman promising that by Labor Day, MacArthur Park will be safe enough for him and his family to come for a picnic. Here's a pledge I make. Labor Day of 2026. I'm going to be here with my family. Middle of the day, we're going to have a lovely picnic lunch. The DA's office says you're going to have a little sparkling wine, little cheese, maybe maybe some sharkutes.

35:22What illegal products do you think are going to be offered to him for sale while he eats his lunch there? Well, he's probably going to have an interaction with the people who are on the golf carts from homeless health care Los Angeles asking the DA and his family if they would like any meth pipes. That a district attorney will be hosting a Labor Day picnic for employees at MacArthur Park on Labor Day weekend. Is that mandatory? I hope not. Can't they just have the day off? How good is their life insurance? We're not even working Labor Day. I'm putting together a best of the crime blotter that you're going to watch on Monday at Johnny. Don't like that. But since June 4th, the park has seen a share of problems. Earlier this month, a woman seems splashing around the main fountain. Holy cow. What did they send the Coast Guard to get her? She's bathing in the fountain.

36:24That's wild. Before first responders made a Germanic water rescue. This week, video showing a man also taking a swim at MacArthur Park. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You think that guy would go for a swim in the Tijuana River? Probably. Shortly after someone appears to come charging and confronting the man behind the camera, filming the incident. Yeah, Hawkman's going to have a great time at the park. Get cursed out in Spanish. Get tossed into the lake. MacArthur Park falls under Councilwoman Unis's Hernandez's district. On the Councilwoman's district website is a page dedicated to MacArthur Park that says she has led a transformative re-vinalization of MacArthur Park. No, no, no, no, no. Stay away. Stay far away. See, there have been some reductions thanks to the efforts of the feds and LAPD working together to arrest some of the gangs that are in there.

37:25Heck, there's been some arrests of the service providers that turned out to be drug dealers or people with connections to gangs. But Unis's Hernandez wants to claim that any improvement of that park is because she's passing out meth pipes and she's passing out Narcan. And the thing that you have to remember is, if you're wondering why Unis's Hernandez is supporting Karen Bass for mayor instead of Nithia Rahman, it's because Karen Bass gave Unis's Hernandez hundreds of thousands of dollars for these insane programs at MacArthur Park at a press conference just days before the Palisades fire. So she is another example of how Karen Bass is owned by the DSA. There is no good choice in this election. Nope. The site also lists initiatives that am- Don't go to West Lake on Labor Day. Go to West Lake Village. Go to Los Agabas. It's great. To address the challenges of homelessness, cleanliness, and public safety. But is the park safe enough for families to want to visit this holiday weekend?

38:29And we'll get more clarity on that question this coming weekend, of course. Now I did also reach down to a first assistant use attorney, Bill O'Salee's office, as well as council member Hernandez's office. As to whether or not those two elected officials would be in fact, At MacArthur Park is coming weekend for the picnic and we are still waiting to hear back. Pre-life in West Lake tonight, Don Rachel Ergon, Fox 11 News. So there you go. Nathan Hockman is going to force a bunch of his employees to picnic at MacArthur Park. And I'm sure nothing bad's going to happen at all. And by the way, it's not really what he promised when he promised to go to that park on Labor Day. If it's just you and your wife and your kids and some crackhead goes off on you, you're on your own and you're in for a fist fight. If you go in there with your entire office, you're less likely to get messed with because you're going to have hundreds of people there. But the point is that park is so unsafe that a mom with a kid and a stroller can't go there.

39:33And that's the point. It needs to be safe for elderly people. It needs to be safe for handicapped people. It needs to be safe for young mothers with babies and strollers. Because that's who uses the park on a normal basis. It's not a 60 year old wealthy guy who's the DA of the county. It's those people and it's not safe for those people. So don't pretend that that park is safe because it's clearly not. I'll tell you what, I'm not going to be on Monday. Me either. All right, that's it for us today. Don't forget the newest edition of the Accountability Podcast drops in mere moments. And Johnny don't like. If you're watching us on YouTube, thank you so much for watching us. And if you haven't clicked that like button, please click it before you go. It really helps us out. See you.