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0:00Everything the mainstream media left out delivered just right. It's the junk Philip show. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is the publisher of SoDesitMatter.com. You can also follow him on x at Flash Report. John Flashman who is kind enough not to wear a Dodger hat today. If you give me a minute I can go swap one in. Sorry, who's your team again? I'm working on a column right now about how the best and worst teams of baseball are just 30 miles away from each other. Maybe I'll call you for a comment. Just pointing it out. I want to send a voicemail. I want everyone to remember that show Hey, Otona before he signed with the Dodgers reached out back out to cheap already and his team and said if you can match it, I'll stay.

1:07But that billionaire didn't want to cut loose any of his money. You guys have the worst owner in baseball. All right, we can move on. I'm sure everybody here doesn't want to hear as you bitch and moan about Dodgers versus that. What was your team name? I just depressing me. You know what? We agree on everything. And so we have to focus on something which is a grim, which is hard to do. It's really hard to do actually. All right. Well, let's talk about California politics because there's so much going on. And I want to get you to weigh in on on mint much of it. Let's start out with the LA mayor's race because we have two candidates who are both just God awful where you have a socialist councilwoman who is ideologically extreme and wants to destroy the city for ideological reasons. And then you have someone who when she was young was extremely ideologically extreme.

2:08But is now I think passed her cell by date and is just completely incompetent and incapable of running a city. You now have a situation playing out in real time in the San Fernando Valley where you had an abandoned home that was taken over by squatters. Residents have been calling the mayor's office, the councilwoman's office for six years asking them to do something about it. Nothing got done. And then the house burnt to a crisp and damaged the neighborhood because nobody did anything about it. Both of them are pointing fingers at one another. Neither one of them did a thing. And I just put my head in my hands because this city is going to continue to go down the tubes for four more years regardless of who gets elected. It's kind of funny John you and I talked about this earlier in the week which inspired me to write a column on this exact topic which will be it so does it matter on Monday morning.

3:09So basically what do you do when you're faced with either drinking the rat poison or the battery acid right it's. Like you're a voter and it's like literally imagine that either candidate that you vote for causes you to go off the cliff. Right so it's a really a difficulty scenario and I think you pointed it out really well you've got. Basically what I think you have is in Karen Bass you've got like you said this youthful ideologue you know she multiple trips to Cuba lamenting the passing of Fidel Castro at her heart she wants to be an ideologue. But then what she figures out is oh my god I'm running for mayor of Los Angeles and all of these unions are going to back me all I have to do is play their corruption game and I give them everything they want. And then it's kind of like don't worry about it will run the city you don't need to worry about it and it's almost like well I'm glad they're willing to run the city because I don't know crap about running a city right because when she was in Sacramento she was the speaker of the state legislature and those of us who know how that means all it means is that you have a lead role in a play that is being scripted by the California teachers association.

4:17So there's a lot of people who are running against the city and they are going to be running against everyone. All of these different groups and they tell the speaker and the Senate president what to do and they may be artful about it. But these jobs that she's held before she was mayor had nothing to do with running a city and literally. Literally if she was running against anyone else the Nithya Ram and you would say well of course she's failed. And she applaud literally at everything that's gross in America right and so you literally say to yourself there's there's no good outcome here I mean there's a part of me. Like if I lived in Los Angeles I don't think I could cast a vote between these two but if I did it I don't know what you want to call it so much like at the street vote like I'll vote for ramen just because it topples the establishment I don't even know what comes next but you know what it's you know but I have the luxury of living down here in Orange County you live in the. I can't say where you live as you broadcast from the secret bunker but you're not in Los Angeles right on voting in Los Angeles either and so it's easy for me to say vote for ramen when the real answer is there's no good vote my good friend Matt Kling who does you know center right and conservative wherever you can find conservative causes in Los Angeles it lives in ramen district and I don't I mean he he's had it horrible I mean I just I just want to say I don't know what I'm saying.

5:40I mean I just act my parents live in play vista and they've got it horrible I mean it's it's a it's a real difficult situation so somebody asked me because I was telling somebody actually I said John Phillips and I had a conversation and now I have to write this which I did it's coming Monday but somebody was asking me well really John how do you vote it's a binary choice. John if you had to if you were forced to vote for one of them which one would you vote for I would leave it blank when people ask me what to do my answer is leave it blank and I'm of the belief that neither one of them deserves to win but I do believe this to my core Karen Bass deserves to lose you cannot burn down the city and then be reelected you just can't and then you doctor after action fire report to take the heat of the. I mean I'm just trying to get myself off of you instead of figuring out what went wrong so you don't make those same mistakes the second this is awesome you're literally making the bullet points in the column I already wrote as a matter of fact you're going to accuse me of having gone back to edit it after the session I mean the fire report thing in an in and of itself that the problem with with Karen Bass is that you could name 20 individual things she has done or not done that each in and of themselves will be disqualifying forgiving her another term and off and I'm not going to be.

7:03I'm not a lawyer but how is that not a criminal act if you doctor an after action fire report the official report we're not talking about some newspaper article we're not talking about someone's social media posts we're talking about the after action report from the entity the government entity that was supposed to be a criminal act. Figure out what happened and assign blame and she edited that report to take the blame off of her and to place it on others now in when you looked at look at that in a practical sort of way that's going to determine what the insurance companies are on the hook for that's going to determine who gets sued that's going to determine who has to pay. And if you are using fake information to shift the responsibility and the liability to parties that had nothing to do with it how is that not theft how is that not a crime.

8:14Well I guess maybe we need to hope that the district attorney of Los Angeles County who is I'm sure watches the program every day you know he Nathan Hawkman has he's the one who has the ability to look into it do an investigation lord knows the existing city attorney one i'm not even sure it's jurisdictional for the city attorney but you know maybe that the the healthy competition for that office. And there is a good guy running and so maybe maybe he could do something with it but you're right the reality is nobody holds any of these people accountable at all right because you know what happens is you know you're the you're the this maybe I'm being unfair to Nathan Hawkman right but you want to look into this and all of a sudden you're getting a phone call from the police union chief the fire union the fire union chief. I'm an understand what that means right the frickin fire union chief let alone all the other they're all call up it's a don't rock the boat we don't want to mess this up we're all afraid of nithia ramen.

9:14And so you know Karen bass is the you know we don't want the battery acid but we're used to drinking it we just take a lot of thumbs right we don't need the rat poison right and and so then he gets pressured and the whole system covers up for itself because it's all about. The sucking sound of tax payment in everybody's pocket and it's just a horrible system whether it's the public employees the non governmental organizations the homeless industrial complex you and I you talk about it literally every day I write about it every day all of the greed and the money dictates everything and everything else be done. And that's why someone like Karen bass is that's the deal you do what we need you to do and we indemnify you. We take care of you you just have to take care of us and who gets left in the meantime all these people in Los Angeles who you know who wake up every day and have to open up their front door to get ready to bleep me cluster fuck us then I mean it's just it's awful out there it's you can't it's an actual word if you look it up under websters i'm not swearing there's a place it's somewhere near can to hard.

10:21So you know it's just it's just awful and and I think that what you've got are collectively millions of angel in the suit don't know what they can do about it. All right let's move up to Northern California for a second and we find something more exciting something uplifting for people. We're speaking with Andrew dice freshman who you can follow on X at flash report and read online at so does it matter dot com. Let's go little miss my little little little miss Karen sat on her. 83. Very big. Very dark. That's it. In Sacramento Gavin Newsom was here for a short period of time before he moved on to South Carolina to campaign for president and what he spent his time doing this week was trying to limit the liability for the public utilities here in California when they are when they start a fire and it creates billions of dollars in damage.

11:27He says it's good what's good for the the public utilities is good for the state of California and it's really really complicated and it's something that he's been working on diligently and reading a lot about and having lots of meetings about it's all garbage it is literally. It's not complicated. It's it's not complicated if you take out a calculator and you start to add up between PG and E Sempera and so cal for Edison how much money they've given to Newsom's political efforts how much money they've given to the party and I'm sure you've talked on the show about the behested payments. That's where the governor calls up and says I need you to give money to my favorite charities. Oh, by the way my wife is paid by one of them and they write all of these checks and then you can tell governor you're going to be gone. We've made a big investment in you. We want to help you as you seek your next higher office. We need a little solid before you leave. We need to get out from under liability for these fires. By the way, the real liability comes from the fact that they pass all these laws that prevent.

12:30They prevent the utilities from cleaning out all the underbrush. Right. And then they pass all these green laws that force the utilities to spend their money somewhere else. So then the utilities are looking for any way to get under it. Well, it's not rocket science. If the insurance companies can't get you know the insurance companies pay you for your damages and then they go after the cause right in this case they go after the insurance they go after the utilities if they can't do that anymore. What do you think happens to insurance costs in California? They either go up or the carriers the insurance carrier so you know what this was the final straw. We're going to we're going to fold up and we're not going to offer homeowners insurance in California anymore. And again, it's very similar to the care and bass situation in that it's we will indemnify you take care of us. And the honor. Did you see the other story about how Gavin Newsom is now trying to get some waivers against coastal commission and sequel for some donors.

13:33Beautiful property on the water in Santa Monica if you've seen that one yet. So it's just it's literally you're like we've bought this guy we've owned them for years and they're just realizing his shelf life is in days. And so in these final days everyone's calling him up and he like sure yes whatever you need. This is what I always say to people when you hear insurance just think of the word risk because that's what it is. And if in the state of California the insurance companies are not allowed to go after the parties responsible for starting the fire that created the damage. Then you were too risky to ensure because they can't get their money. They can't go and find the person responsible for the house burning down and say okay you need to pay up because we had to put out the money. So this person could rebuild or whatever if they no longer have the ability to do that.

14:35How do any of us buy insurance in this state. Right, because they're going to come back and they're going to say we were charging you $3,400 a year for your insurance which you couldn't afford. But actually if we can't go after those people we're not going to have to charge you $34,000 a year. Because we have to make enough money from our customers in non-fire risk areas to that's what's really going on. You may be saying yourself well how does this even affect me. I don't live in an area with a big fire risk. Well it's already happening. They've already gotten permission and have put surcharges on the policies of everyone who doesn't live in a fire area now to make up for money that the whole thing is just messed up. So and I don't know ultimately how it's going to end at the end of session. I'm sure the insurance industry at some level contributes to candidates and all that but it's really said that's the currency in Sacramento. It's no longer what's good policy or what's bad policy. It's what are our friends one and friends is defined by who is taking care of our campaign donations, who's giving to our favorite charities, who's making our life better.

15:42It's gross. Here's what I would do. But I won't use my favorite word now because you won't get it and I got trouble. So the people in the chat room liked it a lot. Here's what I would do. That's what I liked about YouTube. There's no cancel button. If I'm the insurance companies, this is what I do. I tell Gavin Newsom, you're running for president. You don't care what happens in California. We understand that. One of the cities that burned down as a result of a public utility starting a fire is Al Tadina. Many of those residents are black. Many of those residents have owned those properties for generations. You think you're going to be president. You think you're going to win the South Carolina primary. We're going to charter a plane and we're going to take all of these black fire victims in Al Tadina. And we're going to have them go to South Carolina when you're campaigning there. And we're going to have them tell their story to the voters in South Carolina.

16:43Hey, this will be great. We can fill up one airplane. And on one side of the airplane can be the fire victims. And the other side of the plane can be the female athletes who had to lose their awards to transgender athletes. And they can all fly out together and have one big. You don't want this guy in South Carolina. Yeah. No, I mean, you have to make it a liability for his presidential campaigns. Because I don't think he cares about any pressure you can put on him in Sacramento. He's beyond that. He's gone. He's long ago moved past Sacramento. He just does. I mean, the only reason he's caring right now is because some of the IOU people are trying to cash them in. So he's got to pay some attention because he wants them funding his efforts for the next thing. It's all about the next thing. And so it's really, it's really gross. That's what it is. Last question and we're running out of time in this segment. His California Energy Commission came out and banned 70% of the tires that are currently on the market in California.

17:44Another state that he's going to have to do well in that votes early in the Democratic primary is Michigan. When he was there campaigning earlier this month, Debbie Dingell, the congresswoman from Dearborn refused to meet with him. And when asked by Politico why that was the case, she said, quote, I'm a car girl. If he's going to ban 70% of the tires in the state of California, I can't believe he hasn't thought it through to the extent of how that's going to look in Michigan where they don't eat if people don't like cars and tires believe it or not. And maybe I'll send you the link. You guys have show notes. Oh, yeah, that's a thing. But I'll send you the link. But for the California Post, I rode a column that ran last week that was how I highlighted each key vulnerability of Gavin Newsome in each of the five earliest states. And for Michigan, I had actually gone after his anti car rhetoric. But now we could actually say she's not happy just going after the car.

18:47He's going after the wheels that you put on the car. I mean, it's really it's like it's like you literally can't make this stuff up. And to be honest with you, I'm sure he was a surprise as anybody when the policy went through because he has checked out. John Flashman, publisher of so does it matter.com. You can also follow him on X at flash report. John time to put another dollar in the swear jar. All right, thanks. I'll put in 10 bucks. Thanks for having me. All right, John Flashman, everyone. Well, 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 OCOWCFB 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 trading always involves risk complete loss. Can I occur? The $50 offer is issued as not withdrawal little trading credit for use on the platform offer exclusively available to first-time depositors not available in all jurisdictions.

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20:50We come back. We'll hear from Jeff Vaughn about the California accidents. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is our colleague at talk radio 790 K ABC in Los Angeles. An Emmy award winning journalist in the founder of on LACA. You can read online at on LACA.com. You can follow him on X at Jeff Vaughn. Jeff Vaughn. Welcome. Hey, John. Hey, Randy. Thank you so much for having me. Appreciate it. Well, thanks so much for stopping by. We love hearing your voice every single day in the news. And now it's fun to be able to get a face to the voice that we hear every day. Yeah, it was great. I went to an event last night and just the feedback that I'm getting being on your show was great. Thank you so much for having me. And hopefully we're able to bring some stories to light that you wouldn't otherwise hear. Whether it's the California Exodus Watch or just any sort of craziness that's out there that maybe local media wouldn't report on. We're doing that here on K ABC. Well, let's talk about that because you guys have a unique segment that you do on your website

21:54that you cover in broadcast about all the mass exodus that's going on right now in the state of California. I'm glad you asked about that because it seems to be critical mass. We've always known corporations were leaving, right? And the population is leaving. We've seen this now for a few years. COVID, of course, accelerated that. But John, I got to tell you just in the last week, we have now five companies that have announced that they are leaving or they are leaving with more people as far as layoffs occurring. I could give you an example just within the last week. And we've done stories on this. We have come up with a franchise name of California Exodus Watch. And it's basically the corporations that are leaving California for you. Guest it, Texas, Florida, Nevada, Tennessee, all those no-tax dates, Arizona, another one. So C.G. on College E was one of them. Chevron moved more jobs out than when they initially moved a year ago.

22:54Stone Brewing Company down in San Diego. I like their beer, they're gone as far as their production here in California. O'Brien markets, they close. That's a very popular grocery chain. Seronic technology. This is interesting, John. They wanted to be here in California. They wanted to, they're a shipbuilder. They wanted a Pacific port, a deep water port. They went to Texas because, you know, it's just too hard to get business done here. And of course, we're always watching Paramount and then earlier in your show, reported on Haas Automotive or Automation, I believe it's called, Out of Oxnard is leaving and building the facility now in Henderson, Nevada. So it's just a daily drip, drip, drip enough to the point where we're updated it two and three times a day. Well, and it's not just the businesses that you just reported on and others who have left the state. In many cases, it's the dog that didn't bark, which is very difficult to measure. Because I don't know if you saw this, this Twitter exchange that took place recently between Mark Cuban of all people,

23:59the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, the billionaire, and Rokana, the congressman from Silicon Valley, where Mark Cuban said, if he's working with a startup that is based in California, he's going to tell them to move. Because he doesn't want the drama associated with things like a wealth tax. If he's expecting to do business with a company and then all of a sudden they have to sell when they don't want to, because of some arbitrary, ridiculous tax that the SCIU wants. So before he's willing to do business with a company, part of the criteria is they have to leave California. To get his business. Yeah, and he also said that he would not invest in a startup in California unless they left. And he's one of those billionaires that has said he will not do business in California. I have the list here because this was something that was interesting last week. You reported on it was basically Wall Street Journal came out and said California is doing great with startups,

24:59a staggering $366 billion in venture capital investment. And of course, who is touting all that? It's new because he's going to run for president. It's Bont. It's everybody here now that is running or is a politician. They're saying that this is the big feather in the cap. But what Mark Cuban brought up was you may start there, but you're not going to finish there. So these people have already left. Larry Page, Bren, Peter Teal. We've got $29 billion in tax revenue that has already left the state. And more of it is leaving every single day. So if this billionaire's tax or this wealth tax passes, John, it's just going to accelerate. Can you speak to that point regarding AI? Because I think this is something that all of us should constantly think about. Because you have certain industries that are decentralized. So Bitcoin, for example, is decentralized.

25:59You could work in that industry and be in the Philippines or live with your mom in Seattle or do it from the Bay area or Orange County or wherever. Those people are all over the globe. And Bitcoin is an industry where that works. But AI is different. AI is an industry that requires everyone to be under the same roof. And right now those roofs are in California, and specifically the Bay area in San Jose, in San Francisco, other parts of the state. If we make California so hostile that these companies have to move out, we could miss the boat on what might be the industry that not only drives the economy of the state or the country, but the globe. Well, not only that, but that's one punch, right? The second one is we're not willing to build data centers to support AI in California. I mean, this is the new climate change, you know, outrage that they have or these data centers.

27:05And all these other states are embracing it, and you've probably done the math. You've seen, I mean, I do a lot of business news. The counties that have data centers are the most prosperous. They have the lowest housing. They have the best jobs. They have the highest income. And there is something to that. In California is going to ban it eventually, and it's going to make it very hard to support AI. So you're going to have people leave because of the taxes and the regulation. But they're not going to build enough energy to supply AI in the state of California. I mean, they are shooting themselves in the foot, John, over and over and over again. I wonder if those AI data centers are going to be something that ends up on tribal land. We certainly have seen that with casinos here in California where you can't legally operate a casino unless a tribe is the one that's behind it. But we can't necessarily tell the tribes what to do on their own tribal land, their sovereign nations.

28:05And I could easily see a future in California where the data centers that all of us use are on Indian land. Well, it would be very profitable for them and the tribes, obviously. I think that's a good idea. If you have a connection, I'd give them a call. And I'm sure they probably might already be on the radar, but my gosh, that would be a way to get this solution taken care of. Because, you know, I'm in California. I want to live here. I'm raising my family here. It's crazy. It's insane. I'm not originally from here. And my perspective is every single day, like just care and bass running for election just stumps me. But I still can't believe she's there's no shame in what happened with the LA fires that she's going to run for reelection. And she's probably going to win. And if she doesn't look who we have in second place or who would replace her would be, of course, ramen. This is insane to me. So I just don't understand it. And so they just continue to do these things.

29:08And also, John, when they make a mistake, they don't even try to fix it. Right? It just seems to me like you're in California, like with the tire thing, it's like, well, you know, it's just a done deal. They're just going to have to those companies are going to have to to make do. They're going to have to work around it, just like they famously told Elon Musk to f off. I mean, those are jobs. Those that's the economy. That's taxes that come into the state. And I don't know where we're going to be five or 10 years down the road. I really don't. You're covering the LA mayor's race pretty closely as are we in the show. And that's just a story that's not going to have a good outcome. I don't know who's going to win the race, whether it's going to be Karen Bass or Nithia ramen, but I just don't see improvement coming in any way, shape or form to the city of Los Angeles either way. What I think we can we can settle on is that the population of people who will decide the winner are people who are not happy with either one of those candidates.

30:13I'm talking about Spencer Pratt voters because you look at the largest available block of voters that are still out there without a candidate in the race without a horse. It's Spencer Pratt supporters. And we did that topic with Barbara Stone, the political scientist earlier in the week. We did that topic again yesterday asking Pratt voters, who are you going to vote for in the general election. And it seems like a lot of them are going to leave it blank. What do you think they're going to end up doing. Well, there's still a lot of time, right? And Spencer is doing a really good job of trying to shine the light on both Nithia ramen and Karen Bass and what they're doing wrong and the scandals that surround them and just basically city government and all. I think that's a really good lane frame to be in as he continues to do that. I think that that. I mean, to me, obviously, there's still a lot of time. I don't think a lot of people have decided I've asked people who they're going to vote for. It seems to me we have the people that haven't decided yet and people that are going to vote for bass.

31:14So I predict the bass will probably be reelected. But, you know, if something happens, I mean, she's, she's experienced this much around her and she's still standing is still unbelievable to me. That people would want her as, you know, to be reelected into one her to continue her tenure as mayor. But I think the prediction would be is that bass is probably going to win. I think people that voted for Spencer. A lot of them are going to be frustrated and not vote at all. And if they do vote, they might have that vote for ramen, thinking that it's something against bass. But at the same time, he is shining the light on her socialist background or DSA routes. And, you know, she really is the weaker candidate. But I mean, it is, you know, Pinch your nose and just vote for, you know, the one that the, you know, this does the least damage, I guess at this point time. I'm a political science major. This is, this is something I've always followed politics has always fascinated me, John. And I know it does you too.

32:19I just don't understand what's going on Los Angeles. It's, it's emblematic of the biggest cities in America. It's the same way in New York and Chicago and here in L.A. about how we just have the worst leaders. And it seems the voters don't really care. Here's a question that I wrestle with sometimes and that is Los Angeles every time there's a fork of the road seems to make the wrong decision. And it's just pretty consistent just over and over and over again. And I'm a California lifer. I've been here my entire life. And San Francisco was always thought of as being the looney tone city with Los Angeles having a little common sense. And now it seems like the city's have switched places like the Haley Mills movie in the old days where it's San Francisco that's starting to make progress. It's San Francisco that recalled their sorrows DA. It's San Francisco that brought in Mayor Lori. It's San Francisco that seems to be trying to shut down the homeless encampments. And there seems to be action going on there. Whereas L.A. seems to be backsliding over and over and over again.

33:26Well, don't you think it's probably a process and we have to get as bad as they were before people figure out how to turn the ship around. I mean, it's not going to happen in this go around with bass and ramen. It certainly isn't. And so it's probably going to take another four years, right before anybody really figures that out. And the other thing that I think really as being an outsider. And somebody who's lived in different places and who really has an appreciation for real quick story is 2015 when Trump was running against Hillary Clinton. Everybody here thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win by landslide. And I have friends and family in the heartland and out east and everybody was telling me, oh no, it's going to be Trump for sure. So there is that disconnect here in Los Angeles. And those are the people that continue to feel that they need to vote that way. And if you attach Trump to anything, they will vote the opposite way. You know, in this last go around, I had a state representative in my district here that was running a local state representative.

34:32So not a national office, just a local state assembly member candidate and his campaign and his whole platform was to stop Trump. I was like, how how can this how can my neighborhood be affected by Trump? But that person won because he attached the opponent to Trump. And that's what they did with Spencer Pratt. And that's what they did with the recall of Gavin Newsom. And that's what they will continue to do. So I don't know what they're going to do when Trump actually leaves office. That's going to be something the Democrats are going to have to figure out. And I'm not going to help him. But I think that that still is very effective in LA politics. I'll go back to Spencer Pratt for a moment because he is said publicly on this program and elsewhere that he has information on one of the two candidates that is so damaging when he releases it and their career. But he's not going to release it until after the election. I have two thoughts on this.

35:37One is so far in this election. He's been a straight shooter. When he says he's going to do something, he's done it. He's kept his word to me when he said he was going to appear on the program and different things that I've seen throughout the campaign. He doesn't seem like a liar. He doesn't seem like someone who bluffs. He doesn't seem like someone who says things that aren't true. So I have no reason to believe that he would look me in the eye and lie to me. That being said, in my experience in the news media, whenever someone claims to have a big reveal, it's usually nothing. Whether it's Al Capone's vault or Rachel Maddow with Donald Trump's taxes or whatever, when there's a big reveal that's promised, I can't think of a time when it's actually materialized. What do you think he has on one of these candidates? Do you think he's shooting straight with us? I would echo your sentiments there. I think that he is straight enough of a shooter that he would put that information out before the election.

36:40I don't know what's going on there. He is somewhat of a showman. That's why I always think I saw one of your graphics talked about Spencer Pratt for Press Secretary because Caroline Levit is gone now. I've got to tell you, I don't think there would ever work because Trump's a showman and he wouldn't want another showman in the tent. I don't think that they would mix right. Although I think that that would be a big compliment to Spencer Pratt to be considered for that, I don't think that that would work out. Maybe there is a little bit, if I could explain it without knowing exactly what he has on either one of those candidates, there is that entertainment, Hollywood streak about him. You take a look at all of his AI videos. I think there is a little bit of a showman ship about him. Maybe this is a tactic to get some eyeballs to something that he's going to do later and maybe has a plan after the election for another office at some point. We could talk about that too because I have some thoughts. I don't think that that's genuine and honest. I have to say John, I'm sad to say that because I do agree with you that I think Spencer has been a breath of fresh air.

37:49He's called homelessness what it is. He's called infrastructure and grift and all of these things that LA is dealing with. He's called it all out and he's been completely right on all of it. Jeff, we're going to have to leave it there. If people want to read more about your reporting on the California Exodus, how can they do that? We have on LACA.com. You can go there. We have California Exodus. I also put all my reports that I air here on the John Phillips show, right to our website. You can also follow me on X, which you mentioned. I thank you for that, John, because we are building an audience of viewers and listeners that want to hear the stories that the local news media will not cover. We're going to cover those right here. And you can get them online at on LACA.com, follow Jeff on X at Jeff Vaughn. And you can of course listen to them on talk radio, 790 K ABC in LA, bringing you all the latest headlines. Jeff, thanks so much for stopping by.

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