Mike Netter And Angela Marsden

0:00Do you like paying more in taxes? Are you mad? Well, the courts are allowing special interest to pass earmark tax increases with fewer votes. Those bastards! But a yes vote on Prop 43 closes this loophole, protecting taxpayers, homeowners and renters. See, this is why I tune in. Yeah, and today, you can also drop in! What? Live from the Pineapple Hills Saloon in Drill and Sherman Oaks. It's the, hey, I'm gonna need you to get louder than that. That's more like it. It's the John Phillips Show. And a very happy Friday to you at 12 Oaks, seven in the west. It's the John Phillips Show live from Pineapple Hill. Johnny, we are at the Pineapple Hills Saloon in Drill and Sherman Oaks. And we have, I would say a full house, but I think there's still some room in here. This is the legendary bar that I like to go to on Tuesdays for trivia.

1:00It's off of Van Ays Boulevard in Millbank. It will be here until three o'clock, so come by, have lunch. I love the club sandwich. Have a drink. It's a Friday. I love the Diablo Pineapple. And we're here for a very important cause. As you can see on the screen, by the way, we are broadcasting live for the first time to a live remote on YouTube as well. So, how do all of our YouTube people at JohnnyDontLike.com? We're here for a very important reason. We're here with our friends, Susan Shelley and John Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association to talk about Prop 43, the local taxpayer protection act. Susan Shelley is back there in the blue blazer, and she has all kinds of Prop 43 swag for you to take home for everybody that's here. We've got yard signs. We've got pins. We've got door handle things. We've got to all do our part to spread the word so we can make sure that taxes don't go any higher so we can still all afford to live here. And if you're looking for directions, just whip out your iPhone and put it into Google Maps Pineapple Hill,

2:00unless you bought an old iPhone from Katie Hill, then it's the upside down Pineapple Hill. For all the obvious reasons. Now, Johnny, we are doing this show live in person at a remote, but we're doing it live on video, which means that for the first time ever, we have a camera and a tripod in front of us the entire time. And I'm just going to warn all of you right now. Thank you for, you know, sitting and watching the show, and I know some people like to get around and move around. But if at any point you walk in front of the camera and you block the tripod, you're going to hear this. Get out of my f***ing shop! Now, Randy, as you mentioned, the show is now on video. You can get that online at johnnydon'tlike.com. And you can also listen to our new podcast, the Accountability podcast, which is also at johnnydon'tlike.com. And we're trying to build up the podcast, we're trying to build up the video element.

3:04So we issued a challenge to the audience to get 5,000 subscribers to the channel. We did, and we didn't think we would get there this quickly, because now we're at over 6,000. But we jokingly were coming up with an idea of what would really encourage people to go out of their way, go to the website, johnnydon'tlike.com, and hit subscribe, which is free. And we said, well, when we get to 5,000 subscribers, we're going to do a podcast from the Tijuana River Valley. You can smile at my hair. And of course, we can't go by ourselves, so we have to bring our very own Bob Denver with us. And that is Mike Netter, who is a candidate for the state senate in the San Gabriel Valley, who is kind enough to join us today. Mike Netter, everybody! Now, Mike, you are our authority on the Tijuana River, because you used to live down there, and you're very familiar with the most polluted waterway in all of North America.

4:06Yes, I am. It's actually... Yes, I'm trying this again. Yes, I am. It's actually amazing that... Look, you've never been down to Imperial Beach. It's a beautiful beach down there when you see it on a postcard. But for literally, when I lived there 40 years ago, the sewage from Mexico, which does not be attention to the border patrol. Well, neither do the aliens, but let's just go with the sewage. It flows right in. And for even the people on the left who are environmentalists, it flows in, kills the wildlife. And it's gotten so worse in 40 years, because not only the U.S. government, but really the state government, who owns that slew across the street, they used to call it a state park, but let's be nicer. It's a slew. It does nothing about it. They keep pointing the fingers like Gavin points to Trump.

5:07It's the state's responsibility to step up, not step in it, because it will ruin your shoes, and do something about it. Well, what do you make of the fact that the news this week out of there? And we... It is like a Pavlovian thing. If I put Tijuana River on the rundown, John wants to do it every single time, 10 at a 10 time. So we've covered it quite extensively, and now that we do the show on video, everyone on video gets to see the bubbling foam, whatever that is on top of the river. And you see County Supervisor, Paloma Agarri, who's trying to get as much attention to this. She's the one that invited all the gubernatorial candidates down there, including Katie Porter, including Tom Steyer. And you can literally see it smell it and feel it. In fact, I think Steve Hilton was down there this week as well. I saw a video on Instagram with him looking at the river. But the San Diego County Board of Supervisor says, if the state's not going to do anything about this, and the federal gevers not going to do anything about this, that they should fund their own wastewater treatment plant. Do you think that's the right move?

6:07No, look, first off, in spite of the great new technology... Great new technology you have, audio, video, you don't have smell of vision yet, am I correct? We do not thank goodness. Because for the people that live down there, if you just drive down Seaco's Drive, the odor literally, well you would need new paint job on your car. It's not that they need a new sewage treatment plant. It's that they need to control the sewage coming in. It's a relatively actually simple problem caused by the ocean flowing with a mouth of the river, flows into the big slew or preserve. I don't know what the preserving but it's not the animals anymore. And sewage treatment isn't going to do you any good unless they turn all of Imperial Beach into a large sewage treatment plant and transport the birds somewhere else. They have to stop the flow from over Mexico.

7:08What would you say to people who say, you're exaggerating as to how polluted that river is? It's not really that bad. I would say, why don't you go down there not for a weekend but try spending eight hours down there. Literally, I mean it is unbelievable that it has gone on this long. Again, Imperial Beach Seacoast is a hidden gem of California, the most southwesternly city in the United States, by the way, for trivia. And the pollution that flows in from Mexico unchecked, untreated, uneverything, it's not an exaggeration. If anything, it's actually been under reported for probably almost half a century. And they've been closing the beaches down in Coronado too, so it's not even just Imperial. It's all around that entire area. This has been going on again for decades and decades. In fact, before they built those large Coronado towers, yes I'm that old, they would close the beaches a lot more often.

8:15And now that they put rich people, many of them I'm assuming liberals, living in those big towers high up floors where they can't sell it, you don't hear about it as often. But the beautiful beaches of Coronado, the Silver Strand, where Navy Seals train, the Navy Seals are happy unfortunately some days to go to war because they don't have to smell Imperial Beach. Alright, well we have you here Mike. Let's shift gears here for a second and talk about what Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, is doing in his final months as governor. Any Gavin fans in the house? Sorry Gavin. Well, what he's trying to do is he's trying to do a solid for the public utility companies by taking the heat off of them when they start a fire that creates billions of dollars in damage and shift the responsibility from the people who started the fire to people who didn't start the fire.

9:20Do you want me to attack that one? I'm happy to for those of you that don't know in Escondito San Diego in 2007, my house burned down thanks to San Diego gas and electric who admitted liability but didn't want to pay for it. I won't say I don't know what Gavin is thinking because that would assume he's thinking anything at all. The one thing Gavin has done which is a big favor for us John, you must admit the last couple of weeks is leave the state because I don't even look. The utility companies and this I want to go back a little bit in time to 2007 where we prove that the utility companies said pretty good knowledge what they were doing or not doing is going to start a fire. They had very good knowledge of it. Our family went a little bit of money from it and it's the same with the eating fire and the rest of these. They're supposed to know what's going on and the fact that Gavin's trying to let them off the hook and frankly maybe it's because of folks like him and Susan Robio take donations from them.

10:29You don't think that has anything to do with it. Do you? Oh it might. I'm saying. Okay. So literally, oh I'm sorry we have to call them donations not bribe because I'm in a public setting. But look utility companies or are monopolies need to stand up not only take liability after the fires, but California really should stand up and start preparing for disasters before they happen because they're going to happen again. They happen every year. The state of California seems continually surprised that we have fires that we have bad weather that bad things happen in California. It's pretty well known they're going to and again as I stated over and over it's government's job. That is your main job in government not to decide what kind of tires I'm going to buy not to decide how my kids are going to be in school. It is your job government to keep us safe from criminals and make sure we are prepared for what we know is going to happen and can't control.

11:38You mentioned that Gavin Newsom is in the state of South Carolina. He's meeting with voters who obviously will be voting very early on in the Democratic primary in 2028. He has not announced his candidacy for the presidency yet, but when he was taking pictures with people at his event in South Carolina, he said, if you don't get a picture with me don't worry about it I'm going to be back all the time. What kind of presidential candidate do you think Gavin Newsom will make? I ask that question because we know what a disaster he's been here in California. We have to live with his bad decisions every single day, the ramifications. But people in other parts of the country may not be aware of what we deal with on a daily basis here. He's not going to talk about the homeless encampments, he's not going to talk about the retail theft, he's not going to talk about the bullet train that doesn't exist, he's not going to talk about the insurance crisis, he's not going to talk about any of that.

12:43I'm worried, although I don't think he's going to be successful, but I'm worried that he's going to be able to snowball people into a portrayal of this state that's just not accurate. Well first off, we ask what kind of presidential candidate, Saini is going to come back over and over again to South Carolina, consider him a threatening one. Because the best time we have in California is when Gavin is in here. Look, Californians, let's face it, the biggest party I say this over and over again in California is the party of apathy, those that don't vote. Frankly, most of us have careers raising kids, do other things, and we turn around and wonder why there's more people living on the street in Los Angeles than frankly probably live in South Carolina. And we wonder why our taxes cost more than our mortgage does as it spreads throughout the United States. Look, Carolina and the rest of the United States, John Randi, is not California.

13:48Okay, the warts or the record, and I don't even say the record, what's going to come out about how California has been run the last eight years. Gavin has nowhere to hide. He can go to South Carolina, he can go to the underground railroad, which he has to because when we have above ground doesn't work. He can go a lot of places, but he can't hide from the fact, and I actually asked this on one of my shows the other day, and anybody go to netter dot vote and send me something you think that Gavin and the Democrats have done to make our lives better the last eight years. And funny, I haven't had an email this morning, but I think that's the real challenge that most of the United States looks at California and goes, ha, look at the taxes, look at the homeless, look at the unemployment. I don't want to sound like Steve Hilton, and we don't have that much time because the list is too wrong as to what is right in California, but the list is very short as to what Gavin has done with to improve life.

14:57Of the everyday California. All right, Netter, if people want more information about you, how can they get that? Netter dot vote and to be clear, that is the punctuation don't spell out the word dot for those of you that went to public school. I'm running for state senate, 22. Get out there. I need your vote. I need your participation. Get out there and spread the world word that we have sunshine. We've got a lot of good things going about our state of for California and our state. You guys ready to get out there and save California? Let's do it. Thank you much. Try me on for me. All right, Mike Netter, everyone. Randy, we're live from Pineapple Hill, in Sherman Oaks. We're broadcasting till three o'clock this afternoon at the lovely Pineapple Hill in Sherman Oaks, and you can come down and meet us. You can take a selfie during the breaks as long as we're not doing a live read and we have a lot of those, but we're going to have a great time here.

15:58There's a lot of lunches. I'm already getting pictures from some of the people in the crowd that are having lunch, a lot of club sandwiches out there. That's my favorite thing. Also, my favorite drink, the Diablo Pineapple, but anything you get here is fantastic. This is such a legendary bar, and later on the show, we'll talk about why it may be going away. But let's celebrate today. We're here for Prop 43. Yes, on 43. There's plenty of swag back there at Susan Shelley's table. Take it home, take a yard sign, take a little door hanger, spread the word about Prop 43. So we can make it harder for the people in Sacramento and LA County to raise our taxes. And you know, Randy, Lewis just sent me a text message. Oh, get your finger on the dump, Josh with an interesting fact. There are more people here at Pineapple Hill than we're at the Coliseum to see the Trojans play San Jose State last weekend. That's what Lewis said. Well, we can say that because where you see LA now. It's the John Phil. It's football season on polymarket trade, your football predictions against other fans before and during the game.

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18:10There's a lot of nonsense on the ballot, but at the bottom is Prop 43, the local taxpayer protection act that will make it harder to raise your taxes. That's all you have to tell people. If they want more information, there's tons of it on the Howard Jarvis taxpayer association's website. But we want to make it harder to raise taxes because it's expensive enough to live here. And if you want to watch us online, if you could make it down here, go to johnnydontlike.com and hit that like button. We're here at Pineapple Hill until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. It's the John Phillips Show. It's the John Phillips Show and we're live in the San Fernando Valley. We're broadcasting live at Pineapple Hill, Saloon and Grill in Sherman Oaks and we're also broadcasting live on video at johnnydontlike.com. That's Johnny with a Y. It's the first time we're using a new camera. And so far it only froze during a live read. So it's going great everybody, but we're so glad to have the people here in person. And we're glad to have everyone here watching. Make sure you'll hit that like button and subscribe to the channel where it's over 6000 subscribers.

19:11And we're here for a very important cause prop 43. It's on your ballot in November. If you live in the state of California. And if you vote yes, it makes it harder for the state and for counties and cities to raise your taxes, which I think is something we can all get behind. We're here until 3 o'clock at the lovely Pineapple Hill, Saloon and Grill. And we of course wouldn't be able to be here if it weren't for the Pineapple Hill bar and Saloon and the owner of this establishment who's kind enough to host us Angela Marsden. Give it up for Angela everybody. Thank you, you guys. Thank you for coming out. It means so much to me. Now the last time we talk, you told us about a challenging situation that you were presented with because even though your business has been here for many decades in Los Angeles, it's part of the fabric of the community is certainly an iconic Los Angeles restaurant. You are being forced to close your doors because out of town developer has bought the shopping center and wants to evict the tenants to build, I guess, some new monstrosity.

20:23Yeah, I mean, honestly, what I'm hearing is there's a Chinese developer. I don't know if they're partnering with the old owners or what, but every business in this shopping center and I have one from the H2 water Maria. I love you. Thank you for coming out. She's going to come up for a minute. But we all basically got 60 days to get out. And in and out was able to work something out, I guess. And we were all told verbally things of like, oh, you'll get your lease back and things like that. But they wouldn't put anything in writing and August 6th. We got 60 days of a cake. We were told if we didn't pay our last month's rent, we will be legally liable. And if we stay longer, we'll be legally liable. And they have told us absolutely nothing as to what is going to happen or what's going on. And we're just hearing on the internet like you guys. So now you've gone through some rough waters in recent years with COVID and the various strikes in Hollywood, the fires, and you made it through.

21:27And now that you made it through the rough waters, this is what you're presented with. Okay, so I have to explain this. I feel like a cat. And I'm hoping I'm not on, you know, done with my nine lives. Ironically, as you guys know, I spoke out and I continue to speak out for things I believe in and for my community and for the people and for the businesses. That means so much to me. I love LA. I love LA. And I love you guys. And I love all the people in LA. And we deserve a better quality of life. But as you know, I did I was blessed to say survive the pandemic. And on my logo, this will be a big laugh on the t shirts. It says, home of miracles. And I told my staff, well, I think we're out of miracles. Like I don't know how many more miracles we can get at this point. I feel like a cat. We've already gotten our nine lives. But yeah, so we survived the pandemic. We survived all the regulations. We survived. Home with Ron. If you guys remember that we survived the strikes, the union strikes that put, I mean, all these things I'm mentioning other businesses. We're going out of business because of those things carrying debt from COVID.

22:37We survived the fires. We were down 40% three months in a row last year. Thought we were going to go out of business. We survived it. Not only did we survive it, but we came back thriving. And we've been busier than I've ever been before. This patio serves for like the retired that clean up the community. We feed them once a Saturday. We have runners over 100 runners that meet here. We hold things like this. We bring people that speak out here. This patio is going to be gone. Everything is going to be gone. And if you can imagine when I when I had Steve Hilton here and announced his campaign, he came from Huntington Beach. That day I was called and they opened a sales tax audit against me. And they said, I owed $200,000. I said, you're out of your mind. That went on for a year. Oh, until the voting was done. My goodness. And then it was like, well, we don't really need to do this audit, but you did some things wrong. And then now I get the least taken away. And honestly, I'm going to be honest. I'm tired. I'm exhausted. I just said, well, maybe God says this is it. Let everybody else fight, you know, walk away.

23:47And right now it's my staff. By the way, my staff that are here have said they will stay to the very last end, even though they need other jobs and they need to make a living. My kitchen, as I've always said, has been here since the day it opened, 1978. They have said, Angela, if you find another place, will work two months for no pay so that you can get on your feet. They do not want this to close. And neither does the community. You know, we have people that have they I have elderly that come in that they've met their wife or husband here. They've passed away. They come in to meet people because they're by themselves and be where them and their wife came. We have pineapple babies. I always get these things. I know we can't bring kids in, but this is a pineapple baby. We've at the pineapple. Like there are so many community memories. And you know, we have Maria. She's been here 20 years and we're going to bring her up in a minute, but you know, so out there's so much I want to say and I don't want to be tearied. First of all, before we get through all this, I just want to do it because I'll forget when I get all worked up. I want to thank KBC. They have always supported us. They have always supported speaking out.

24:56Even when it wasn't right, I didn't know that they found me. I found them. It was a great love affair. Thank you. Thank you. I can't thank them enough. I can't thank you guys for driving how far you drive. It all matters. It all matters. And the small businesses for me. This is what is important. We are in a time right now where with the pandemic, all most of the small businesses were wiped out. Main street made all the money. And the ones that stayed were carrying COVID debt. They got wiped out between all the things that I talked about. And then now here we are, you know, and they're still struggling to survive. And five businesses, five restaurants just in the last 10 days went out of business in Sherman Oaks. On the 30, Boneyard. And now, Maclouds Brewery. They're all going on a business because the math doesn't math. And city council. We have a city council woman who runs our district who wants to be mayor. And we have a mayor in both our minority women who care about small businesses. Yet the math doesn't work. Rents are 20,000. The minimum wage they're trying to raise to $25 an hour. Okay. And the restrictions on the restaurant license.

26:12And a gentleman from Gladstone can verify this. If you have a 47 license, I have a 48. It's old. It's rare. There's not many left. If you have a 47, you must provide more grocery seats in food than liquor. So let me make this clear. All your profits in liquor. We're going to raise your minimum wage. We're going to raise your food cost. We're going to raise your rent. We're going to raise your utilities. But the one thing you might be able to survive on by selling more of, we're going to restri-t. And that is why everybody. I mean, right? That is the most assent and regulation I think I've ever heard of. It's crazy. I'm fortunate because I have a kitchen. I love serving food. I have a kitchen. And the food here is excellent. I can attest to it. I'm here every Tuesday for trivia. Yes, these are every Tuesday. I usually text Angela a picture of our club sandwich. Randy Club. And let me just say, if you've already ordered, I forgot to tell everyone, I think the tots are the way to go. Love the tots here. When you look at what you just described, what's happening to restaurants in this community. And you look at the cause that we're here to talk about today, which is protecting Proposition 13, protecting California homeowners.

27:26When you look at the fires, which we talked about with NETA, and how the people of Al-Tadina got wiped out, the people of Pacific Palisades got wiped out. There's a commonality in what all of you are fighting against, which is the powers that be in Sacramento would prefer that you just don't exist. They would prefer that the small businesses disappear. They would prefer that homeowners be forced out of their homes and moved to a different place so they can build high density housing and low income housing and pack us in like sardines. And the people who lost their homes in the fires, they don't want to rebuild because they're making it as hard as possible for them to do that. They want high density housing there. They don't want the middle class in California anymore, whether you be a homeowner or a business owner, and they're doing everything they can to force you out, which is why it's so important to protect Prop 13 to at least throw the breaks on some of it.

28:26Yeah, I agree totally. And I mean, here's a thing. If you own your own property, own your own home, you're invested in your neighborhood, you're invested in the people around you. This is this is very, very vital and important to have a thriving community where you actually can live your kids are safe, the elderly are safe, people look out for each other and want another. I will tell you when there was the homeless issue, I had several a few other restaurants that we all went to the news because nithy arama would not listen to us. So we went to the news and I went to Starbucks where the manager had been attacked by a homeless person. I went to the makeup store, ultra next store where the windows have been bashed and the girls were afraid to go. And I went to in and out and couldn't get through her attorneys and begged them to join us and hold a press conference and to go to the news. And guess what the corporation said? Oh, we don't really, you know, we're not allowed to do that we can't get involved. That's what they told the employees when they asked.

29:27So it is, it's vital that the small businesses start having protections that the homeowners don't pay these taxes and lose their properties. They've worked, you've worked your whole life for them. Yeah, and I'll tell you, the state of California makes it difficult to see a silver lining in the cloud because it's election defeat after election defeat after election defeat. But you do have elections where you do see glimmers of hope. For example, in Los Angeles County, we were able to dump the failed district attorney George Gascon. That was awesome. Might be the biggest applause of the day so far. And Los Angeles Tracy Park was able to the lone voice of reason on that council was able to win reelection for her council seat and handling and handling that is good news. And proposition 13 still remains very popular in the state of California despite what we're seeing on the ballot elsewhere.

30:32So we can see glimmers of hope and we have to take these victories when we can. Yes, otherwise they're going to crush us amen to that. And by the way, just so you guys know how important you are. The biggest thing that I've seen when I was out speaking against Newsom and doing everything is that, you know, the more conservative people they don't vote. We need people to vote your vote matters and it counts. And we need you to believe like believe me. I told you I feel like giving up sometimes like especially after this below. But everybody here is so needed. You have to put the pen to the paper. You have to vote. You have to participate and get everybody voting because they're we have more people. This is what dumb found me when I first started this years ago, which I knew nothing about politics because I'm not really political. I'm a bar. I love everybody. But the thing is is that it was surprising to me at how many people don't vote and at how many things we lost because people didn't show up and vote.

31:34You have a choice right now for mayor in Los Angeles between your councilwoman, Nithya ramen and the incumbent mayor Karen Bass. Thankfully, I don't live within the city limits. So I don't have any. I think if I did, I would leave it blank. Have you decided what you're going to do? I have and I'm going to be very honest because I have first hand experience with both. So when mayor bass one, I said, hey, I can work with anybody. I'm going to reach out to well, I did a video about the homeless who went viral and then she called me. I said, okay, I'll have a meeting and I brought other restaurant tiers with me. I brought four. She heard, she called, she set up a meeting, she spoke with us. She said a lot of things she never followed through with, but there are little things that she tried to give. I would say I wouldn't have voted for her if I had another choice, but she communicates and she does try to at least show that she cares a little. Now, my experience with Nithya ramen.

32:41Mayor Bass suggested, well, actually she asked if Nithya could come to the meeting and none of the business owners wanted her there. Exactly. That tells you how she's run her district. Anyway, so she said, Angela, start a small business group once a week and invite all the businesses in the area and have Nithya on the call and try to start talking about what you need and what the issues are. I said, well, it's probably not going to work, but I'm going to do it. And I did it. Now, I will say for the business owners out there, we didn't have the participation I thought we should, but not once did Nithya ramen come on that call. Not one time. I did it for almost two years. I had the police on. I had the board of supervisors on. I had the represents for the mayor's office on. Not once did she come on. Not only did she not come on, but when the vote came to vote to fund the police, it was a very serious matter for us because we were under siege with the homeless. And we said, we want her on. We want to know how she's voting. We want her to vote to fund the police.

33:44She refused to answer. She refused to come on. We knew what she was going to do. We showed up to city council. We were harassed by BLM to the point where he had to have it escorted. We're just business owners. And we were mixed. We were Democrat, Republican. This wasn't a party thing. And of course she voted against funding the police as we stood up one by one being harassed and doused on social media, begging her and telling her why she needed to vote to fund the police. This is the kind of person that you do not want in mayor because she doesn't have the empathy nor does she care. She has an agenda and she's going to push her agenda through that said, this is her district. She's for pro business, small business minority women. You don't think she knows there's a Chinese developer that's funding this. You don't think she knows what's going on. They have to sign off on the permits. Right. Do you think I'm getting a call? Do you think any of these business owners are getting a call? How can we help? How can we help relocate you? This is outrageous. You guys have been here 20, 30 years. I've heard not peeps from anybody. But if I have to vote and I will vote and I will vote because I do not want Nithia to win. So I will vote for mayor bass. That's what I've got to do. I'm not going to not vote because if I don't vote chances are you're going to have Nithia is mayor.

35:05That is compelling. Now Angela, as you mentioned, you're not the only business that's getting forced out of this shopping center that's been here for years and years and years. And you brought somebody with you that's also unfortunately getting forced out. What do we bring her up on the stage? This is Maria. She's from the H2 water shop and they've been there for 20 years. Maria come up on stage with us. And let's let's hear your what's going on with you. Maria say say hi to everybody. Talk to that mic right there. So Maria, what is your business and how did you find out that you were going to be out of business? Well, it's a water store. We sell water. And we've been doing this for 20 years personally. The store has been there 30 years. So we have the community that comes to get water from us. Healthy water. Good water. And what are you going to do now? Well, when we heard the 60 day notice and go, wow, by 60, how come you give us six months? I mean, you're putting us out of business. Where are we going to go?

36:16I mean, like Angela said, I mean, I've been there 20 years. I've seen kids that are seven years old already in college. And my customers go, well, listen, it doesn't only affect you, it affects us too. Because now we're going to get good water. Has the city helped you out in any way, shape or form? Nothing. Nothing from Nethia, nothing from bass. Nothing. As they adjusted that Sherman, ox debate two weeks ago, talked about how pro business, both of them are. Do they return your calls when you call them? No. Nobody has reached out. And like you said, we're, we're sad. Because we serve the community. This is the community. We've been here. That's why we're here this long. And to be clear, they're not kicking you guys out because you weren't paying the rent or you were doing anything illegal. They just want people who will move in, who will pay them more. Correct. That's what they are. That's what they're doing. We can, a small business, we can afford 15, 20,000 dollars rent. We can't.

37:23And for a candidate, the city council person that is campaigned on all the tenant protections that she's done for renters, doesn't seem like she gives a damn about small business owners that are getting forced out of buildings. They've been renting for years and years and years, decades. Pineapple has been here 48 years. I'm not even that old. Well, I'm not either online. Yeah, so we set up a GoFundMe for our store to help could relocate because we want to continue providing good water for our community. And like I said, our customer is also affected with this. Have you decided how you're going to vote for mayor? Yeah, yeah, like Angela Karen Bass. Well, Angela Maria, we thank you for coming on with us and sharing your story. You know, it's definitely moving to hear all of this. And we wish you the absolute best. Thanks so much for coming on with us today. Okay, thank you.

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