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Unions Divided Over Prop 40

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This episode of the show is a wild ride, folks, as we dive into the world of California politics and the upcoming elections. From billionaire taxes to voter ID laws, we're discussing the issues that are dividing the state's labor unions and the politicians who are trying to sway them. But don't worry, we're not just talking about the usual suspects - we're getting into the nitty-gritty of the politics behind the politics.

This episode is all about the fight for Prop 40, the wealth confiscation tax that's got everyone talking. We're breaking down the details of the proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on residents with at least $1 billion in assets, and exploring the reasons behind the split among labor unions. You'll hear from a labor powerhouse, SEIU UHW, and learn about the potential consequences of this tax on the state's economy. We're also discussing the voter ID initiative, Prop 39, and the controversy surrounding it.

But it's not all politics, folks. We're also talking about the latest news in LA, including the resignation of Mayor Karen Bass from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. You'll hear about the drama surrounding her departure and the implications for the city's homeless crisis. And, as always, we're sharing our thoughts on the upcoming mayoral election and the candidates vying for the top spot.

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subscribe to the channel. I do a happy dance. 800-222-5222 is telephone number 1-800-222-5222. Well in addition to a governor's race going on on the November ballot and a big mayor's race in the city of Los Angeles, we also have a number of propositions that will be appearing on your ballot, including one that is dividing organized labor. And that is the billionaire tax, the wealth confiscation tax that has been put forth by the SEIU health care union, the other unions in California that hold a lot of power, that hold a lot of sway. They're not happy about it because they're not getting a cut. You might think if you haven't been paying too much attention, if this tax passes, it just goes into the general fund. No, no, no, no, no. The majority of the money goes to the health care union that put it on the ballot and the

majority of that money goes to fill their blown pension fund. Great. Let's see who's fighting over the scraps here. Here is a report from ABC7 in the Bay. Here's labor's had a major influence on California politics. This election cycle, nothing has divided unions more than Proposition 40, the wealth tax or billionaire's tax if you prefer. Yeah, and ABC7, I witness news, political reporter Monica Madden takes us inside the fight. You some, Basera and Hilton are all voting now. Here's the team up. I didn't imagine it's the new Avengers in the fight over a proposed billionaire tax majorly. Boy, even the quotes from Basera are so basera on the screen. It shows what Basera apparently said to Time magazine about the wealth tax and he called it a sketchy policy scrub it. Well, I wonder if he had Ricardo Lara friends having used this one in a while.

I'm very kind of sketch that Jackass is termed out. Eber groups in California are divided features, firefighters and plan parenthood affiliates of California are also voting now because they're not getting any of that money. That's a curveball for a lot of people because usually the unions haven't seen attacks they don't like. They like them when they're getting the money from it. And that's why if this thing passes, remember, it is a one time 5% don't know how you calculate it. Wealth confiscation tax from the 200 or so billionaires in the state for healthcare, which is an ongoing problem, but we need one time funding. That doesn't make any sense. But how much you want to bet if this thing passes in 2028, Cessily and the teachers unions are going to put forth their own wealth tax to get the schools some more money. Get that money. It's almost guaranteed assuming it holds up in court. There is a good chance that this thing will get challenged the day it passes if it passes.

The measure would impose a one time 5% wealth tax on residents with at least $1 billion in assets. And by the way, this was a topic we talked about extensively on this week's podcast with John Morgan and Morgan and Morgan. And he talks about some of the psychology behind this and what he thinks about this bill that is already chasing out billionaires in the state. And John Morgan can speak to this with some authority because he is not only a billionaire. He's a billionaire with a billion dollars in fluid cash in the bank. Labor powerhouse S.E.I.U.U.U.H.W. is spearheading the measure, pitching it as the only way to offset major federal health care cuts. We do have an honest to God, pending health care catastrophe in California. I recently caught up with its president. You know what's going to happen. This guy is going to get so much money from that wealth tax that he's going to fix that lazy eye. Well, what he's going to do is he's going to say, okay, well, now we have the pensions in

a good place. But now what we need to do is make sure that we have money for the people who are currently working. So now we need to go after millionaires, which is anyone who owns a home in Van Ayes. No matter how dumpy it is, there is a dumpy home in my neighborhood that just got put up for sale for 1.12 million. And I'm in the dumpy, boring, hot San Fernando Valley. And it's like a three bedroom. Reagan about the campaign. How would you characterize some of the split that we're seeing amongst labor? First of all, I don't think labor is split. We're seeing, you know, just some kind of back room, typical inside baseball among political elites opposing. I think the takeaway from all of this is that the unions across the board, whether you want to talk about the healthcare union, even the police unions, they all have way too much influence in Sacramento. And when you're talking about the teachers union specifically, you're talking about what

might arguably be the most powerful union in the state that's opposed to this. Well, they are the most powerful union. They kept your kids out of school longer than anywhere else. And I want you to be all the way pissed off. Save their concern about unintended consequences with the no-unforty campaign calling it, quote, bad for our budget, bad for our economy, and bad for our future. For the last 30 or 40 years, going out about another 10 years or so, labor's ability to push California politicians around to get what they want, not at the bargaining table, but really pushing in Sacramento legislature. It's gone up and up. With labor's significant role in California politics. This is why, by the way, so many Sacramento politicians and Sacramento staffers like Dana Williamson are so drunk all the time because they're getting bought and paid for fancy dinners and fancy drinks from all the unions, from all the utilities. Everyone's up for sale there.

And I'm sure they go for the good stuff. How much Johnny Walker blue? Do you think is consumed in Sacramento? Have you ever been up there during the week? I have not. Oh, it's a very interesting thing and I'm sure Washington DC is just like it. But you go there and what they have in all the restaurants because the restaurants in Sacramento all have private rooms. The hotels obviously have private rooms that you can rent. And there are, I don't know, a dozen receptions going on at night for different groups. You'll have the Walnut Growers Association there. And you'll have the Cal State Professors Union up there having an event. And you'll have the Peach Growing Association. And they all have their own open bars and they all have their own food. And if you're a member of the legislature, you're probably renting a room from someone,

maybe a hotel room, maybe an Airbnb, maybe some rich member owns a house and you're renting a room from them. So it's not like you cook at night when you're in Sacramento. You go out and you eat. So what a lot of them do is they just bounce from reception to reception and it's like you go to a wedding every night where you just eat the, or derves that they have. And you go to the Chinese restaurant to get the Chinese or derves. You go to the steakhouse to get the steak court derves. You go to the Mexican place to get the Mexican or derves. And by the time you go to bed, you're blown a point to and you've eaten 3000 galleries. Well, and you remember when Wendy Carrillo got her DUI after an event and she crashed into two parked cars. She claimed it was because she didn't need anything at the cocktail party. Well, maybe she was cutting back. For say, it's unclear how the split might impact voters in November.

And initiative politics always make for strange bedfellows. And this battle is challenging the notion of labor as a single political force. Labor is a huge powerful block in Sacramento and it's not really blue or red. It's just powerful. Monica Madden, ABC 7 eyewitness news. So that's the latest on the fight for prop 40, the wealth confiscation tax that you'll be able to vote on in less than a month. Ballots are going out in just four weeks. And the professor is wrong. Labor is overwhelmingly blue. They overwhelmingly support democratic candidates and democratic causes. The split in this particular case is not ideological, however. The split is because they didn't share the spoils on this one. The SEIU and specifically one branch of the SEIU is keeping all of the spoils and they cut everyone else out of the deal. That's why you're seeing the split within the overwhelmingly democratic public employee

unions. They want their cut. Make them money. I'm Miss London breed. So definitely go no on 40. All right. One initiative that does not have the Democrat split is Proposition 39. Prop 39 is the voter ID initiative. Let me change my lower third here. And it is on the ballot and the organized campaign against it kicked off yesterday in downtown LA with Padilla and Bakaria. What a duo. For more, here is NBC LA Democrats kicked off a campaign. They say it's designed to protect the right. But Sarah is one of these guys that looks better with glasses. He really shouldn't take them off. I don't know why that is, but he doesn't look right without glasses. Vogue at the Japanese Cultural Center in Little Tokyo. The voter ID measure Prop 39 was compared to the internment of Japanese Americans during

World War II. Okay. That might be the most hyperbolic thing I've ever heard. We're going to take a measure that would have you show your ID or put in your last four digits of your social or your driver's license to vote to interning the Japanese in World War II. You know what was like a Japanese internment camp? What's that? The Hudson Hotel in New York City where CNN used to put me up sometimes. Not going to touch that one with a 10 foot pole. Our Conan Nolan with the story. It was all the heavyweights of the California Democratic Party, the LA County Federation of Labor. Wait a minute. I don't see Katie Porter there. Katie's not there. Katie was probably in the green room at CNN. They said all the heavyweights.

And don't even pretend like you didn't hear it. You didn't stutter and you're not deaf. I'm just going to move on from that one. Good. The teacher's union. Reject this outweigh racism. Did you say outweigh racism? Yep. Not an English teacher, I take it. Also, Johnny, I'm not a political wizard. I didn't study this in school like you did. How is voter ID racist? They don't like it because they think it's going to be bad for their side. They claim that fraud doesn't exist, but anytime you want to put guardrails up, they oppose them. What does that tell you? But how are the guardrails racist? I just don't understand the connection there because it makes no sense. Taxi working people on poor people, masquerading as common sense laws.

US Senator Alex Padilla. California is there once again going to stand up, going to show up, going to vote no on Prop 39. 36 states have some form of voter ID law, but not California. So are 36 states racist? Is it racist when you go to the airport, you have to show your ID and not just any ID by the way of real ID to get on the airplane? Is it racist when you rent a hotel room that you have to show picture ID before they'll give you the key? Is it racist that you got to show ID when you go to the liquor store? It's a strange one. Prop 39 would change that. Voters would need to show a government identification in order to cast a ballot. A mail-in ballots would need the last four digits of either a driver's license or social security number. That seems pretty common sense. Just to verify that you are who you are. Cadi registrars would be required to yearly purge voting rolls of those who have moved

or died. That would be nice because I'm sure you remember when we covered Prop 50 in the special election last year, somebody got a ballot mailed to their house from a registered voter that was a woman that died 30 years ago. When I owned my house, my first house, I owned it from 2014 to 2022. Before I purchased that house, it was vacant for a full year. I received a ballot for the person who lived there before me for the entire duration that I owned that house. And use best practices to determine citizenship. Behind the measure, a group called Reform California. Its leader, San Diego Assemblyman Carl Damiro, says the effort is to restore confidence in the voting system. For folks that are sick and tired of the conspiracy theories or sick and tired of people saying, oh, the election is rigged, then give those people what they've been asking for. Give them voter ID and it will shut them up.

But Democrats claim Prop 39 itself would rig the system, saying the measured targets black and brown voters. Well, isn't that racist and isn't the argument against it racist saying that, well, you can't have voter ID because black and brown people are too stupid to get IDs. Did you ever see the conversation? I think it was back when he was lieutenant governor. When Gavin Newsom went on Adam Corolla's podcast and Gavin Newsom essentially said that I think it was regarding banking that blacks and browns can't figure out how to get a bank account. So anything that requires them to get a bank account is fundamentally racist. My goodness might not have identification. Just like he's trying to decide who gets to be an American and who doesn't. He's trying to decide who gets to vote and who doesn't. So I'm going to point this out because Ashley's a voluble.

We'll be pointing it out over and over again, the best fact checker in the business here. They're they're going to do everything they can to tie this to the save act and Trump and the federal government. Trump has said a damn thing about Prop 39. I don't think he knows what Prop 39 is, but doesn't matter. That's the strategy. No, he has bigger fish to fry any Ron right now. Yeah. Can we end that war already? Prop 39 is separate from President Trump's Save America Act, which would require voters to re-register with proof of citizenship. But Democrats clearly want to tie the measure to the president who has lost each of his presidential races in the state by landslide numbers. Goobin, a Tory candidate, Javier Bacera. See, he looks way better with glasses. Much better. Prop 39 is Donald Trump on the ballot. That's the only thing that guy knows how to do that in a scrubbed. Seriously, if he wins by a large margin and that's his campaign, scrub it, I'm embarrassed

for this state. Well, because he has he has no substance, he has no policies. He is the emptiest suit that I've ever seen in Sacramento politics. We are going to vote against Donald Trump's Prop 39 on November the 3rd. NBC political analyst Guy Marcerotti says it's a wise strategy. This is taking place alongside this national debate, President Donald Trump pushing for nationwide. All right. I don't mean to do this and I don't want to be mean, but sometimes you just take the razor and get that little spot in between the eyebrows. Guy, Maserotti. Guy's got a unibrow. It could be Guy Altima. Well, let's see if that's what was in the parking lot, shall we? That was the Althama, ATMA 49410.

Please move it now. You're blocking someone. Voter ID tying it to his claims about election fraud. Prop 39 will get tied into that national conversation. That's a challenge for supporters. As funny because if you pull people and just what Prop 39 is, they're like, yeah, that makes sense. Californians could be potentially disenfranchised by a voter ID law Senator Padilla said he didn't know, but if it's just a few dozen, that's still too many. I'm Conan Nodin, NBC 4 News. So there you go. The organization, the opposition against Prop 39 has begun. And it's led by Padilla and this guy scrub it. If you want to email the show, you can do so at Johnny, don't like show at gmail.com. That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail.com. And if you want to watch us perform the show live, participate in the chat and click that thumbs up button that really helps us out.

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I cannot look at the chat while I'm reading copy. All right. You were able to find the clip that I was referring to between Gavin Newsom, who was then Lieutenant Governor and Adam Corolla. Well, let me give you some credit where credit is due. You found it and instead of texting it to me, you emailed it to me. Now the quality is not great, but here is a clip from Gavin Newsom as Lieutenant Governor on the Adam Corolla podcast back in 2013. It's half of African Americans in the state of California, roughly half a Latino family step no access to a checking count for an ATM things we take for granted. They don't have a check out what's wrong with them. And what, but what, well, because they don't, they don't have the resources to sock those things away. Why do we have this is neither here nor there. I sometimes like to think that 2013 is not that long ago. Every single person in that shot looks so much older now. Well, except for Gina, she looks the same.

A lot of different reasons, but, but roughly half those families don't. Why don't Armenians have them, but where they end up is check cashing plays. But I want to know why they're group. Why those two groups don't have. A lot of it just happens to be that we can talk about. No, they're hardly flawed, but they're struggling. Genetics are making their word hardly not absolutely. Okay. So this by the way is the toughest interview that Gavin Newsom ever did. And it's all the way back when he was Lieutenant governor and Gavin has never done an interview like this ever again, except for when Gavin was in the spin room at the Biden debate and Gavin went on Chris Cuomo show and Adam Corolla was one of the panelists. And while Gavin was trying to spin Biden, Adam goes, why did you shut down the beaches, Gavin? I love it. Adam Corolla, one of my first bosses in radio, 20 years ago. This month, you Asians have this problem. I mean, a lot of communities have. Real Asians don't have this problem. Fake Asians don't have this problem.

A lot of whites have these problems. I'll tell this not just black and his man. No, but it but I'm giving him a black and his man because the magnitude is ominous. But why so many of them? It just happens to be the fact that we got planted not at all. What happened to them? There are a lot of issues and that communities are struggling. Why they struggling? A lot of different reasons. Like the opportunity. It's been here longer. We've been here. Well, we can we can surmise what about Asians they were put in internment care. Yeah, we in fact, it all initiated at San Francisco. All right. Chinese exclusion act came out. So they are they the check cas. Are they the check cas. A lot of Asians certainly do. So why don't you come? Why don't you come? Because the only reason why is the magnitude. He's never been challenged on something stupid like this before. And he does not know how to handle it. It's one of these issues where if you actually talk it out with somebody, it doesn't make any sense. Nope. There's so many more. The magnitude in percentage. But there's no way to figure out how to have it.

We could talk about you know what I'm dealing with? I don't want to have a sociological. Sure. Why would you have? No, here's why. Why would you want to do that? Because the person from the times wouldn't write good things about you. I miss Adam. He used to call me Rhino the dump guy because when I was running late into the radio station for the morning show, I stamped to the hall so loud like a rhino. Is that? No, that's not the case because I want to get rid of that. No, you want to deal with reality. I want to deal with reality. Why are they struggling? We can hold hands and surmise about all these underweighs. Why are they struggling? Why are they struggling? A lot of folks are struggling because they can't find God. Why blacks and because they're working? Why blacks in this panic? Across the board. All the social. Everybody. Everybody struggles. Asians are suffering just as much as the face of welfare is not an African American family.

That's the Asian Jewish. It's all Caucasian. It's a lot of people are also. God of folks. That is Gavin Newsom in a nutshell. So when he goes on that debate stage, when he runs for president and someone challenges him, that's what you're going to see. That's how he's going to go off the rails because it never happens to him. It doesn't happen to him from the legislature. It doesn't happen to him from the California press corps. He never allowed his Republican opponents to get close enough to him to land a punch. When he ran in the Democratic primary for governor, he ran against Antonio Villarigosa, who was in an African candidate. When he ran for lieutenant governor, he ran against Janice Hahn. Do you remember that? No. That's who he beat for lieutenant governor. Janice Hahn.

Janice Hahn lost lieutenant governor to Gavin Newsom. That's your final warning. And you want to talk about someone who doesn't have the skills to take Gavin out. It would be her. I love the bus driver. So speaking of LA politics, LA mayor Karen Bass has resigned from a homeless board. Specifically, the board governing the Los Angeles homeless services authority, Lassa. And it sure is interesting that now she wants nothing to do with this agency because she's the one that appointed its leader back when she took over his mayor in 2022, Valisha Adams Kellum. Excuse me, doctor. Valisha Adams, Kellum to the salary of $435,000 a year who had to resign in shame because among other things in a whistleblower complaint, it was found that she was writing checks

to her husband's nonprofit. It was also apparently some very inappropriate behavior in DC. Bar for the course in this state. Well, let's find out what's going on with dumb and dumb or running for mayor. Here is KTLA 5. Mayor Karen Bass has stepped down as commissioner of the Los Angeles homeless services authority just weeks before the mayoral election. And by the way, the bass campaign has been putting out this strategy that's gone off like a dud called no show Nithia because Nithia has missed a lot of city council votes and all of them have. And they shot back that Karen Bass has missed over two thirds of the meetings of this commission that she's on. Well, and then when she was asked to testify in front of the Congress, she said that she wouldn't because Lassa was in charge of homeless policy in Los Angeles. So she blamed them. And that's why she wants to say that she has nothing to do with them, which is hard

if you're on the commission, which she was. Her opponent, Nithia Romance, says the agency has performed poorly, despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get people off the streets. KTLA's Haley Winslow joins us live from downtown LA with the story, Haley. Shocker, she's getting siren. Light clockwork. I said she doesn't have time to be on the commission anymore, but she has been scrutinized recently for missing more than half of the meetings. Today, the fiery debate for LA's next mayor continued with the two of them facing off once again. As homelessness continues to flood the streets of Los Angeles, the crisis has once again become front and center in the race for mayor. I mean, it's always been front and center because it hasn't gone anywhere. Nope, only gotten worse. There is a tent in front of the Del Taco next to this radio station, and I think it's the LA city side. It's not the Culver city side, but it has now been up for over a month.

And nobody seems to be doing a damn thing about it. It has to be in the LA city side then. Mayor Karen Bass defends her inside safe program. Fighting to transition people indoors, though critics argue it's not happening fast enough. The JPA, the joint powers agreement that has been in existence for 30 years, to me, is not functional at this point in time. And the problems that we have been seeing just in terms of the organization of how we do homelessness in this region, we need the city needs to be in charge of homelessness for the city of Los Angeles. Well, your mayor now. Do it. What evidence exists that suggests that you would do it any better? Everything you've done has failed. This is what happens. The city loves to blame the county and the county loves to blame the city. And this is how Lossa was created to begin with because of all the finger pointing.

So they were supposed to work together. They can't work together. So now the county breaks up with Lossa saying we can do this better and the city wants to break up with Lossa saying we can do this better. Well, it doesn't matter if you're in the city or in the unincorporated county. Nobody's doing a good job on this. The independent cities in the county are doing a better job on this, but the county board as supervisors has nothing to do with that. Nope. In dueling press conferences after removing herself from Lossa, Bass says she's restructuring how homeless services are run. You know what? I got to change our little headline here because it's just not accurate to the situation. Let me just give us a good reflection of what we're dealing with here. Come and dumber. Get to appreciate Spencer Pratt for that one. While I've been advocating that the city of Los Angeles have its own system. You see her banging the podium? She likes to do that. She is mother goes for a reason.

Some. In charge of the city for the past four years, Mayor Bass says she knows how best to combat the crisis. Obviously she does not. She failed at the fires. She failed at retail theft. She failed at homelessness. She failed at paving new roads. She failed with the road diets. What is it that she's done that has worked? Can we get rid of term limits and get back our setting? I've received things on both ends. He was better than all this and he was the worst. Challenger Nithya Raman is campaigning on a fast track solution to homelessness. As mayor, I am committed to doing the work. I want to. That means nothing. Doose. The number of Tencent encampments by at least 50% across the city by the 2028 Olympics. And by the end of my first term to have addressed all Tencent encampments across the city. She probably. So if you've done that in your district, were you the mini mayor? What evidence suggests that she's done any of that in her district?

She hasn't. Mrs. Quicker construction of permanent affordable housing. In my budget, homelessness funding will be tied to measurable outcomes. How many people come indoors? How many people move into treatment? How many people reach permanent housing? How many people remain housed? Which is interesting because it's not like she wants to force treatment on anybody. No. If she's mayor, the number of people living on the streets is going to get worse. If bass is mayor, the number of people living on the streets is going to get worse. That's why I'm saying if I live there, I'd leave it blank because both of them are awful. And that's why I'm saying I do live there. And my only option at this point is to figure out how to move. I got to get out of this city. And as expected, to dominate the debates heading into November, this race will chart L.A. 's path for years to come. Big promises. It's not enough to get the city's top job and most importantly to deliver on those big promises.

Reporting live in downtown L.A. I'm Haley Winslow, KTL A5 News. All right, Haley. Thank you. There's our latest update on dumb and dumber running for mayor. As someone who lives within the city limits, Randy, when you walk around your neighborhood, when you travel around the San Fernando Valley, do you see signs for one of these two candidates for mayor? I have signs in your neighborhood. I have yet to see a single sign, but this is true. Not during the primary, not now during the general election. The only sign I have seen at all was a sign for Kenneth Mahia. And I think that's because he has a corgi on his signs. There is no enthusiasm for either of these two. And that is understandable. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail.com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail.com.

And if you want to watch us perform the show live or let's say you missed a portion of the show from the 12 o'clock hour or the one o'clock hour and you want to go back and find out what you missed out on, Randy, that's easy to do at johnnydon'tlike.com. JohnnyDon'tLike.com is where the channel is. There's tons of on demand content. I put out two segments every day of our best segments, one at eight p.m. one at eight a.m. And we grab the live show from noon to three and every Wednesday at three, we have the accountability podcast. There's 11 episodes. I would love it if you watch all of them hit the like button on all of them and leave a comment on all of them. The more comments and the more likes we get, the more our content gets pushed out and the more that we can take on KFI. And the newest edition of the accountability podcast dropped yesterday, which was a one on one with john Morgan from Morgan and Morgan. John Morgan, who's got tons of stories about people, including Jimmy Buffett has a lot of stories about Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi and has some great insight on the psyche behind

the people wanting to do prop 40, the billionaires tax. Check it out. Enjoy it. Watch it. Hit like hit a comment. Tell us what you think. Your comments are very, very valuable to us. And when I have free time, I try to respond to a lot of them. And next week, we're going to the universal Hilton next week. Wow. That is coming up quick. How is that? No, it's not next week. I think it's in two weeks. Is it in two weeks? Next week you're going on a cruise. Next week is. Oh, you're right. It's the 25th. Yes. I thought that was going too quick. Two weeks, universal Hilton on the 25th. We're going to be there for the over the edge event with our friends at the Union Rescue Mission, URM dot org slash OTE. No, that is not next week. I'm going to San Francisco next weekend. We have so much coming up. It's hard to keep track of. We have the over the edge event over in universal city. We have an event coming up at Gladstone's.

I have a couple of speaking engagements, including one in Whittier and one in Brentwood. And then we might be going to the Bay Area too. We are working on a possible remote for the Bay Area and John in the middle of all that. You and I have to go drive down to Imperial Beach to record our Tijuana River podcast. We agreed to it, Captain. We did. How are we supposed to eat our lunch with that stench? It might be a fasting day for me. Also I think I'm going to need you to drive me with the equipment because I don't think my electric car can get down there and back in one trip. And I don't want to involve the wife's car with that stench. That would get me in a lot of trouble. I wonder if it's going to be like that episode of Seinfeld when the valet has the awful BO and Jerry couldn't get the scent out of his car. I think that's exactly what it's going to be like. Another reason why I don't want to take my car down there. But I honestly don't think I have the range to do it.

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