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Speaker 2: great to be in this chair, keeping it warm for Tim.
Speaker 2: He will be back on Monday. But did you know
Speaker 2: that today is National Pepperoni Pizza Day and their Oni
Speaker 2: Pizza Day. Well, it's not just pizza Day, but Pepperoni
Speaker 2: Pizza Day. Well, so if you don't get Pepperoni, it's
Speaker 2: not your day.
Speaker 3: No, it isn't.
Speaker 2: I guess maybe National Mushrooms and Anchoviess next week.
Speaker 3: I have no idea. I hear black ollves are awesome
Speaker 3: on pizza. Don't be racist out the gate. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm a person.
Speaker 2: I love pizza, but I have limitations. I cannot stand
Speaker 2: black olives on any pizza under any circumstance.
Speaker 3: I ordered them when I was a child. That's it.
Speaker 3: I hope you learn from that. Well, I'm no longer
Speaker 3: a child. Okay, all right, you grew up.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 2: But anyone who knows me will tell you, Oh, usually
Speaker 2: we'll get a pizza on Fridays here in the studio
Speaker 2: when I'm doing my show. It is all that I
Speaker 2: can do to resist it. It is like crack. There's
Speaker 2: no resisting pizza for me. The first time I was
Speaker 2: able to was last week. I'm on this diet. It's
Speaker 2: low calorie, low sodium, low cholesterol, low taste, low fun
Speaker 2: diet because I'm at that age where you know, I
Speaker 2: have to actually watch what I eat because I can't
Speaker 2: out exercise my diet. Life is really difficult these days.
Speaker 2: I don't get to enjoy food like I used to.
Speaker 2: But the point is one of my cheap foods is
Speaker 2: always pizza. And what a celebration for there to be
Speaker 2: National Pepperoni Pizza Day today.
Speaker 6: Welcome to September twentieth on an national day calendar. Let's
Speaker 6: face it, pizza is universal, whether thin crust, deep dish,
Speaker 6: or somewhere in between. Pizza brings people together like few
Speaker 6: other dishes can. From its humble beginnings in Italy to
Speaker 6: its meteorotic ries. As a global favorite, National Pizza Days
Speaker 6: celebrates this iconic dish in hall.
Speaker 3: What word is that? Meteor What pizza.
Speaker 6: Brings people together like few other dishes can, From its
Speaker 6: humble beginnings in Italy to its meteorotic.
Speaker 2: Rock meteorotic, it's a totally different kind of meteorotic.
Speaker 3: It's a totally.
Speaker 4: Different of pizza, totally different kind of pepperoni. I didn't
Speaker 4: know pizza could turn you on like that. Close the door,
Speaker 4: give me the pizza.
Speaker 6: Meteorotic ries as a global favorite, National Pizza Days celebrates
Speaker 6: this iconic dish in all it's cheesy glory. Pizza has
Speaker 6: evolved over the years, embracing a multitude of toppings and styles,
Speaker 6: whether you're a purist who swears by margarita or an
Speaker 6: adventure with pineapple.
Speaker 2: Or no, no, no, no, no, we can stop right there. No,
Speaker 2: there's certain things that do not belong on a pizza.
Speaker 3: Fruit is one of them. Well, tomato, that's a vegetable.
Speaker 2: I'll say, I'll claim tomatoes a vegetable for these person.
Speaker 2: But yes, sweet, no, no, no, I don't do sweet
Speaker 2: and savory, And I argue with the fork reporter all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 3: I don't want sweets and meat to sea.
Speaker 4: The only time I can deal with any kind of
Speaker 4: sweet and a pizza is like the hot honey. Yeah
Speaker 4: that's and that's not that's sweet. That's like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I can deal with that.
Speaker 2: But if you bring black olives, if you bring pineapple,
Speaker 2: if you bring anchovies, I take it as a person,
Speaker 2: as a personal affront. You're trying to make a statement.
Speaker 2: You're trying to offend me. You're saying that you don't
Speaker 2: like me as a person. Because anyone who knows me,
Speaker 2: Stephan knows me. He's not going to bring a pizza
Speaker 2: but black olives to me, under no circumstances.
Speaker 3: Those are fighting words.
Speaker 2: But just in case you didn't, I know it being
Speaker 2: National Pizza Day or National Pepperoni Pizza Today, it's the
Speaker 2: same day. There are some specials that you can take
Speaker 2: advantage of before the.
Speaker 3: Night is through.
Speaker 2: Domino's has mix and match deals with two items, including
Speaker 2: medium two topping pizzas they're going for seven ninety nine each.
Speaker 2: Other choices include chicken, loaded tots, salad, sandwiches, and desserts.
Speaker 2: Wait a minue, Wait, wait, waits Yeah, I've had those.
Speaker 2: Those are pretty decent, But I don't know how that
Speaker 2: figures into National Pizza Day.
Speaker 3: I just want to get you in the door right.
Speaker 2: Little Caesar's current offers include a large three meat treat
Speaker 2: with pepperoni, Italian sausage and bacon for eight ninety nine,
Speaker 2: and I could get with that.
Speaker 3: Marcos Pizza. Have you ever had Marcos? Haven't had Marcos?
Speaker 3: Don't know of Marcos? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: A triple Pepperoni magnifical pizza with both cupped and shredded
Speaker 2: pepperoni Pepperoni is available at participating locations starting at fourteen
Speaker 2: ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Use the code.
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Speaker 2: Yeah Reward members can get fifteen percent off a large
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Speaker 2: discount at Newport Beach based chain also has two Korean
Speaker 2: flavored wings Sticky Kogi and Kicking Korean Barbecue Polynesian flavor
Speaker 2: Zestialoja for a limited time. Papa John's current deals include
Speaker 2: a seven ninety nine Papa pairings, which could include a
Speaker 2: single topping pizza plus wing.
Speaker 3: Sides or dessert. Pizza Hut.
Speaker 2: Current deals include a my Hut box with a two
Speaker 2: topping personal pan pizza and a side for eight ninety nine,
Speaker 2: and the seven dollars deal Lover's Menu.
Speaker 4: I was just looking at Marco's Pizza. I didn't realize
Speaker 4: there are that many of those things. I'm seeing a
Speaker 4: socun map and there's a good fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have not haven't had opportunity step steps the fooder.
Speaker 3: Marco's Pizza. You familiar with it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I had it once a while ago,
Speaker 7: but I can you remember where it was. I think
Speaker 7: it was like a party, That's what I remember. It
Speaker 7: was pretty good as far as I remember. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's all I need. Word of mouth. I'm noticing there
Speaker 7: are no free pizza deals here. You know, they're giving
Speaker 7: you the opportunity to spend money, but it's not like.
Speaker 3: Not even a bogo.
Speaker 8: Look.
Speaker 3: Usually with National Donut Day, what do you get like
Speaker 3: a free donut?
Speaker 8: Ye? Right?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 7: And Krispy Kreme usually gives you a dozen free Hello,
Speaker 7: So what's going on?
Speaker 3: This is national day?
Speaker 4: You do some of them personal pizzas, Man, I need
Speaker 4: some free if there's gonna be National Pizza Day.
Speaker 2: You need to act like it. Okay, give somebody some
Speaker 2: free stuff. Roundtable pizza, large double play Pepperoni pizzas are
Speaker 2: available for twenty one dollars.
Speaker 3: That's cheap for a pizza now, I know.
Speaker 2: But I'm thinking like, can I get a little bit
Speaker 2: more of a discount, just a little bit more round table?
Speaker 3: And I love roundtable growing up.
Speaker 2: They had one in Torrents when I was going to
Speaker 2: school in Torrents at Caliberia Middle School and South Torrens
Speaker 2: High School. Class of eighty seven shot out, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: roundtable was the stuff back today, back in the day.
Speaker 3: Twenty one dollars.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I'll be joined on the program
Speaker 2: by Corbyn Carson. You might know that there is a
Speaker 2: bit of a spat a fight appending lawsuit possibly between
Speaker 2: the City of Huntington Beach and Governor Gavin Newsom. That
Speaker 2: means the state is all over homelessness and it's heating up.
Speaker 2: We'll have corbyin next to tell you all that's going on.
Speaker 9: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Speaker 9: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: The issue of homelessness continues to lead the news, but
Speaker 2: lately here in California. There has been a developing contentious
Speaker 2: relationship between Governor Gavin Newsom and various cities around the
Speaker 2: state where they have diametrically opposed agendas and also strategies.
Speaker 2: Joining me right now to discuss what's going on between
Speaker 2: Huntington Beach and Governor Gavin Newsom is kfi's own Corbyn
Speaker 2: Carson Corbyn.
Speaker 3: Good evening, Sir, evenings are Yeah.
Speaker 10: You know, Huntington Beach and the state have been added
Speaker 10: for years. I've covered a ton of these stories. They
Speaker 10: argued about the beach access. During the pandemic, there was
Speaker 10: multiple housing fights over affordable housing. Yesterday, the city just
Speaker 10: sued the state over its recent gender identity law that
Speaker 10: forbids schools from telling parents if their child has gender
Speaker 10: identity issues.
Speaker 3: So this is nothing new.
Speaker 10: Yesterday, Newsom was announcing a package of let's see thirty
Speaker 10: two bills that are aimed at addressing state housing and homelessness.
Speaker 10: And one of the things that they talked about. One
Speaker 10: of the bills was a bill that would give the
Speaker 10: state ag more power, they say, more incentives as well,
Speaker 10: but more power to penalize cities that do not comply
Speaker 10: with the state's regional housing laws, and then, as you
Speaker 10: would imagine, the Governor called out Huntington Beach about it
Speaker 10: because of these back and forth that they've been at
Speaker 10: for years. It's all part of the state's goal to
Speaker 10: build two point five five million units of housing by
Speaker 10: twenty thirty. Governor Newsom spoke broadly. He talked about the
Speaker 10: need for local people to do their job. Here he
Speaker 10: is talking about the need to get locals to do
Speaker 10: their job to meet the state's goals.
Speaker 11: You've seen this sort of tectonic mind shift away from
Speaker 11: nimbiism to yimbiism, this shift around accountability.
Speaker 5: We continue to struggle.
Speaker 11: With accountability, we continue to struggle with transparency.
Speaker 5: I'd give you exhibit a Huntington Beach.
Speaker 11: California, that is a city that's performative in terms of
Speaker 11: their approach to addressing the crisis of affordability, not just
Speaker 11: in their city but in our state. There is no
Speaker 11: doubt the state of mind that I think connects more
Speaker 11: Californians is a recognition that the original sin in this
Speaker 11: state is affordability and impacts more people in more ways
Speaker 11: on more days.
Speaker 5: And that's the ship cost of housing, and it's that
Speaker 5: imbalance to supply and demand.
Speaker 10: And one of the bills that was signed that directly
Speaker 10: helps with the penalties is Center Bill ten thirty seven.
Speaker 3: It'll give the AG the ability to seek those civil penalties.
Speaker 10: They can be a minimum of ten thousand dollars per month,
Speaker 10: and they can go up to fifty.
Speaker 3: Thousand dollars per month.
Speaker 10: That starts January first of this coming year, and that's
Speaker 10: where each violated in this violation, and it's calculated from
Speaker 10: the date of the violation. Here's a newsome explaining how
Speaker 10: this will specifically go after Huntington Beach.
Speaker 11: You will soon be able to ask the folks in
Speaker 11: Huntington Beach if the law I'm about to sign is
Speaker 11: not impactful.
Speaker 5: They continue to thumb their.
Speaker 11: Nose at the State of California, the people of this
Speaker 11: great state. They continue to lose decision after decision after decision.
Speaker 11: They abuse the process, they abuse the law. And now
Speaker 11: we will enforce aggressive fines with the law that I
Speaker 11: will be signing today. Enough is enough. This is serious
Speaker 11: stuff and it requires serious people.
Speaker 10: But you know, I'll leave it to others to decide
Speaker 10: who's telling the truth, because if you listen to either side,
Speaker 10: they're both saying, essentially, they're winning in court.
Speaker 2: They're the ones that have been winning this argument. But
Speaker 2: we can't talk about this in a vacuum. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to get into it. But just in the news
Speaker 2: this week, we know that Norwalk the see if Norwalk
Speaker 2: was pushing back against Governor Newsom.
Speaker 3: My question is, is there a.
Speaker 2: Tipping point where enough cities may provide a united front
Speaker 2: against the governor that it becomes politically dangerous or inconvenient
Speaker 2: for Governor Gavin Newsom to move forward with this.
Speaker 10: It's hard to tell on whether or not there is
Speaker 10: a consistence from cities across the state against this. There
Speaker 10: has been a bunch of pushback because the numbers, the
Speaker 10: regional housing numbers there, they're very they're very aggressive. So
Speaker 10: it is difficult for a lot of cities that have
Speaker 10: complained about being able to just as Huntington Beach would
Speaker 10: put it, urbanize their city and just shove these large
Speaker 10: amounts of house into their cities. But remember all the
Speaker 10: cities have to do is zone for them and then
Speaker 10: build their They don't have to build them then, and
Speaker 10: builder builders can come in and decide if they want
Speaker 10: to build them. But here is a Huntington Beach City
Speaker 10: at training Michael Gates responding to Governor Newsom.
Speaker 3: And you know they're not backing down either.
Speaker 12: There is no data to support that additional high density
Speaker 12: housing crammed down into cities like Huntington Beach produces affordable housing.
Speaker 12: He's punishing Huntington Beach. He's punishing cities like Huntington Beach.
Speaker 12: If he was really interested in solving the homeless issue
Speaker 12: or creating more housing, he could locate or find that
Speaker 12: twenty four billion dollars he lost last year that he
Speaker 12: committed to homelessness or solving that problem, and he could
Speaker 12: build his own housing. He could probably or very likely
Speaker 12: shelter every single homeless person in the state of California
Speaker 12: with that twenty four billion dollars that he lost.
Speaker 10: And then as far as the city being fined as
Speaker 10: you can imagine a city that doesn't you know, is
Speaker 10: happy to go to happy to go to court with
Speaker 10: the state, is what he thinks about the fines.
Speaker 12: The city's going to keep fighting these high density housing
Speaker 12: mandates because we believe that the law and the facts
Speaker 12: are going to be on our side. We have a
Speaker 12: hearing in the Ninth Circuit federal court coming up here
Speaker 12: in October. We're making great progress in these lawsuits, and
Speaker 12: we're not afraid of new legislation. I mean, at the
Speaker 12: end of the day, these new finds don't even apply
Speaker 12: to this case because according to the state and according
Speaker 12: to the court, when they filed this lawsuit against Huntington
Speaker 12: Beach back in March of twenty twenty three, that's when
Speaker 12: the city was essentially quote out of compliance quote as
Speaker 12: the state has said. So the new laws don't apply retroactively.
Speaker 12: So he can go up there and have all the
Speaker 12: press conferences and issue all the press releases he wants.
Speaker 12: But we're not intimidated, we're not dissuaded or discouraged.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So it'll be essentially mo up to voters to
Speaker 10: decide if this is something they agree with as far
Speaker 10: as it concerns Governor Newsom, or if it's something that
Speaker 10: you know, they just consider too much.
Speaker 2: Okay, corporate before I let you go, let me take
Speaker 2: the politics out of this, and let's just apply the
Speaker 2: eyeball test, regardless of what may be done in Sacramento,
Speaker 2: regardless of the lawsuits which may or may not happen
Speaker 2: in the fines against cities. If I use the eyeball test,
Speaker 2: it does not seem as if in my small world,
Speaker 2: and I know this is anecdotal, that we're actually making
Speaker 2: a dent in this homelessness issue. Be it more shelters,
Speaker 2: be it more transitional housing, be it programs for those
Speaker 2: who may be dealing with substance abuse.
Speaker 3: From what I see, it doesn't seem like we're making
Speaker 3: a dent.
Speaker 2: If we're taking people off street, we have more people
Speaker 2: coming on the street, you know, in the next go round.
Speaker 2: So do we get the sense that there's actually any
Speaker 2: progress being made.
Speaker 8: It's hard to tell.
Speaker 10: You know, this is a situation to where I can
Speaker 10: see merits to the argument of a city like Huntington
Speaker 10: Beach and them not wanting to urbanize their city. I
Speaker 10: can see the arguments from the state. They're saying, essentially,
Speaker 10: what else should we do? Should we do nothing? And
Speaker 10: you know, the wheels of government move slowly, so getting
Speaker 10: these some of these homeless initiatives off the ground has
Speaker 10: been you know, it's been rocky, to say the least.
Speaker 10: And then at the same time, the state would say
Speaker 10: and the governor would say that again, this is something
Speaker 10: that they had to start, something they had to start
Speaker 10: asking for housing to be built somewhere because for too long,
Speaker 10: as the Governor said earlier, this has been an issue
Speaker 10: where things are getting more expensive and there's not enough
Speaker 10: supply for the people who are working to keep the
Speaker 10: state going.
Speaker 3: So it will be up.
Speaker 10: It would be interesting to see again how this plays out.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm quite sure it's not going to play out
Speaker 2: anytime soon. Homelessness is not going to go anywhere, and
Speaker 2: politics and the acrimony is.
Speaker 3: Not going to go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Kfi's Corbyn, Carson Corbyn, thank you so much for staying
Speaker 2: on the story, and I'm quite sure we'll check you
Speaker 2: in on this again sometime in the future.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it, sir.
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Speaker 2: We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and we're
Speaker 2: getting Alex and Michaelson on the line. Who'll be with
Speaker 2: us in just a second. I was looking forward to
Speaker 2: this conversation more than anything because Alex and I we
Speaker 2: are both political nerds and we love to dig deep, deep, deep, deep,
Speaker 2: deep into the subterranean depths of these issues and look
Speaker 2: at it from more like an analysis standpoint, not advocacy,
Speaker 2: but analysis of what might happen, what does the history
Speaker 2: suggest will happen, because we are living through some extraordinary
Speaker 2: moments right now. And for all the prognostication, for all
Speaker 2: the predictions that people want to make, I try to
Speaker 2: remind folks, be it state politics, be it national politics,
Speaker 2: you just don't know what is going to happen.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: We may have people that we're rooting for, we may
Speaker 2: have legislation that we want to have passed, but we
Speaker 2: don't know. And I get messages from you all the
Speaker 2: time on social media, be it on Instagram at Later
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Speaker 2: me on Facebook at mister Kelly and you tell me
Speaker 2: Trump Trump twenty twenty four, or you're going to tell
Speaker 2: me that oh no, no, Harris is gonna win in
Speaker 2: the landslide. And I tried to remind everyone you honestly
Speaker 2: don't know, because a couple of months ago, no one
Speaker 2: could have predicted that Joe Biden was going to drop out.
Speaker 2: No one could have predicted that there was going to
Speaker 2: be not one but two assassination attempts on former President
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. No one could have predicted any of these events.
Speaker 2: No one knew that we were going to go down
Speaker 2: this road. Oh, we knew that it was going to
Speaker 2: be a contentious election. We knew that we were at
Speaker 2: a place in time in America where the rhetoric was
Speaker 2: so heated that anything could have happened. Unfortunately, a lot
Speaker 2: of these things have been happening and should not have
Speaker 2: been happening. But I say to you, as I say
Speaker 2: to everyone else, you know what, I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going to happen, Because tomorrow's something ridiculous or unforeseen is
Speaker 2: going to happen, and it's going to change everything. We
Speaker 2: didn't know that the interest rates were going to drop, Honestly,
Speaker 2: we didn't know. We didn't know how that was going
Speaker 2: to impact the stock market. We didn't know how that
Speaker 2: was going to impact the economic forecast. And that changes everything.
Speaker 2: That changes how certain swath of voters may view this race.
Speaker 2: And I think, if there's anything that we can be
Speaker 2: sure of, it's going to be tight.
Speaker 3: It's going to come down to a.
Speaker 2: Few states, just like most elections is going to come
Speaker 2: down to a few states, probably the usual suspects. Come
Speaker 2: down to Georgia, come down to Michigan, come down to
Speaker 2: North Carolina, come down to maybe Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Because
Speaker 2: that is, I will say, evidence of how very divided
Speaker 2: we are. And although we can't agree on anything, we
Speaker 2: can agree that this race is probably very, very tight.
Speaker 2: I don't care what you may see in the news.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you think is a game changer,
Speaker 2: and I think we got them right now. Alex Michael said,
Speaker 2: how you doing, sir?
Speaker 8: I'm doing well. Now, how are you? Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm glad that you could bet with us. I
Speaker 2: was saying before you got on. We like to analyze politics,
Speaker 2: and I try to caution people against trying to predict
Speaker 2: what is going to happen, because I don't think anyone
Speaker 2: knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Would you agree, No.
Speaker 8: Nobody knows what's going to happen, and there's no way
Speaker 8: to know what's going to happen, especially if you look
Speaker 8: at the recent polls in terms of the presidential race.
Speaker 8: I mean, almost all of the key swing states are tied.
Speaker 8: So you know, we've seen that a lot can change
Speaker 8: in a day. In politics, and we still have, you know,
Speaker 8: forty six forty five days left until the election, although
Speaker 8: you know, some states started voting today and in California
Speaker 8: we'll be voting in a few weeks. So you know,
Speaker 8: what we call election day is a misnomer. It's really
Speaker 8: an election month or election season.
Speaker 2: I get the sense that everything is on the table
Speaker 2: for the Democrats, but the Democrats have the most to lose.
Speaker 2: In other words, the momentum at least two or three
Speaker 2: months ago was with former President Trump becoming president. Again,
Speaker 2: if you look at the senatorial map, the Democrats are
Speaker 2: defending more seats than they could possibly pick up, so
Speaker 2: it's more likely than not that they would lose the Senate,
Speaker 2: and they already do not have control of the House.
Speaker 2: Is that Do you have a similar read of the map?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, if you had to sort of bet that,
Speaker 8: you would bet that the Republicans will get control of
Speaker 8: the Senate just based off of the map and which
Speaker 8: seats they're defending. They're defending seats in very trumpy states,
Speaker 8: and it's going to be a challenge for them just
Speaker 8: because of the numbers. The House is an open question.
Speaker 8: I would say probably slight advantage for the Democrats to
Speaker 8: control the House. I mean, it's really close right now.
Speaker 8: There's only a two vote margin in the House. Though
Speaker 8: almost certainly will come down to California. Even though we're
Speaker 8: sort of out of the action in terms of a
Speaker 8: competitive Senate race and a competitive presidential race, some of
Speaker 8: these House races, for people that are listening right now
Speaker 8: that live in southern California, are probably going to determine
Speaker 8: control of the House. There's about six or seven districts
Speaker 8: that people are watching from around the country, which is
Speaker 8: why you're seeing so much money spent on those districts,
Speaker 8: and that'll probably determine it. And because that will probably
Speaker 8: take so long to count, the most likely scenario is
Speaker 8: we don't know who's controlling the House, probably for several
Speaker 8: weeks after the election.
Speaker 2: I get the sense that that's part of the reason
Speaker 2: why former President Trump has been spending more time here
Speaker 2: in California, more money has been spent here in California
Speaker 2: for that reason, if I remember correctly, I don't think
Speaker 2: former President Trump spent any time trying to fundraise or
Speaker 2: or make a dentt in California politics.
Speaker 8: I think he's fundraised here before. What was different when
Speaker 8: he was here last week, is that he did a
Speaker 8: press conference here, including with local reporters including me out there,
Speaker 8: that he hadn't done, and he certainly didn't do that
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty. In terms of a campaign related press conference,
Speaker 8: Kamala Harris has not done a campaign related press conference,
Speaker 8: but she is expected to campaign fundraise in LA next Sunday.
Speaker 8: She'll be here for an afternoon event, and that'll be
Speaker 8: the first time that she's been back in California or
Speaker 8: back in the LA region since she got the Democratic nomination.
Speaker 2: This is La, This is California, Hollywood, glitz and glamour.
Speaker 2: Much has been made of celebrity endorsements, especially this campaign cycle,
Speaker 2: with the likes of Taylor Swift and the entertainment hef
Speaker 2: that she brings with her. From where you sit, do
Speaker 2: these endorsements mean anything at all?
Speaker 8: Usually know, but Taylor Swift is the biggest star on
Speaker 8: the planet. She has an extraordinary network of especially young women,
Speaker 8: that love her. And we've seen since she encouraged people
Speaker 8: to register to vote, hundreds of thousands of people registered
Speaker 8: to vote. The margins in these swing states is so
Speaker 8: small that that could make a difference. Most celebrities don't
Speaker 8: have that much of an impact. I would say that
Speaker 8: George Clooney's op ed encouraging Joe Biden to get out
Speaker 8: of the race may have done some damage to Joe
Speaker 8: Biden and led to Harris getting in the race. And
Speaker 8: that is an example of a celebrity with enough gravitas
Speaker 8: that they're able to have a little bit of pull locally.
Speaker 2: Before we go through this break, is there anything and
Speaker 2: that you're looking at which is either remarkable or something
Speaker 2: which has caught your eye? We have a new LA
Speaker 2: City Council president, but there's always controversy surrounding the La
Speaker 2: City Council. Is there anything that you are watching closely locally?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I mean, to me, the most interesting thing is
Speaker 8: this fight over criminal justice reform. And in California we've
Speaker 8: seen this seesaw back and forth. Some folks feel like
Speaker 8: in the nineties we locked too many people up and
Speaker 8: led to an air of mass incarceration. Other people think
Speaker 8: that we've gone too far back to the left. And
Speaker 8: what's going to happen with George Gascon and his race
Speaker 8: and also Prop thirty six, which is a reformation of
Speaker 8: Prop forty seven, which George Gascon wrote, and this battle
Speaker 8: that's happening where it appears that Democratic voters are ready
Speaker 8: to move on from a lot of these democratic policies,
Speaker 8: but maybe not all of the leaders that espouse them.
Speaker 8: That's to me is really interesting, this crime homeless business
Speaker 8: and how that goes beyond some of the traditional partisan
Speaker 8: talking points.
Speaker 2: My guess right now is Alex Michaelson, Alex, can you
Speaker 2: hang around for one more seven because I want to
Speaker 2: find I was coming up tonight?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're going to talk about the Issue is next
Speaker 2: here on Conway Show.
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Speaker 2: We got two more minutes with Alex Michaelson, the host
Speaker 2: of the Issue is, which is coming up tonight?
Speaker 3: Elex? Real quick? What is coming up tonight tonight?
Speaker 8: Speaking of that battle over criminal justice perform which we
Speaker 8: were talking about before the break, we sit down with
Speaker 8: George Gascon, the LA County District Attorney, for a rare
Speaker 8: one on one talking about his priority, his challenges, why
Speaker 8: he changed on certain policies, what a potential second term
Speaker 8: would look like. So that's an interesting conversation. We showcased
Speaker 8: the conversation that they had actually a few months ago,
Speaker 8: which we were never able to air, which makes a
Speaker 8: lot of sense now with Doug Emhoff, the second Gentleman
Speaker 8: of the United States, to get to know him and
Speaker 8: his fight against the anti Semitism, his fight for women's sports,
Speaker 8: and his role as supporting Kamala Harris. And we're out
Speaker 8: with the La Rams as they donate a football field
Speaker 8: to Nickerson Gardens in watts and talk with this safety
Speaker 8: who is an incredible young guy named Quentin Lake, about
Speaker 8: his community activism and sort of using their platform for good.
Speaker 8: So all that coming up this week on the issue
Speaker 8: is George Gascon.
Speaker 2: He seemingly did not do a lot of media in
Speaker 2: the previous months. Should I read into that because he's
Speaker 2: granting more interviews, he's more visible, that there may be
Speaker 2: more concern that he may not be re elected.
Speaker 8: Well, he should be concerned. I mean, if you look
Speaker 8: at all the recent polls, they seem to indicate that
Speaker 8: Nathan Hockman is up. Nathan Hackman is up in terms
Speaker 8: of fundraising, and if you look at the mood of people.
Speaker 8: I mean this week we had this poll came out
Speaker 8: from PPIIC that was about Prop thirty six, which is
Speaker 8: the effort to reform Prop forty seven. He wrote Prop
Speaker 8: forty seven, said that seventy one percent of Californians want
Speaker 8: to reform Prop forty seven, including sixty three percent of Democrats,
Speaker 8: even though Governor Newsom and almost every single statewide leader
Speaker 8: in Sacramento is saying vote no. I'm thirty six. So
Speaker 8: that gives you an indication that the mood of the
Speaker 8: public may be turning against a lot of these reforms
Speaker 8: that Gascon has been at the forefront of, which puts
Speaker 8: him in a tough place politically.
Speaker 2: I know you have a heart out in just a moment,
Speaker 2: so let me just ask you this Tomorrow is the
Speaker 2: first game in the Big Ten. Big Ten opener for
Speaker 2: your USC Trojans. Yes, how are you feeling about them
Speaker 2: at this moment?
Speaker 8: I'm excited We're starting it at the Big House. What
Speaker 8: a place to start this whole thing off. I was
Speaker 8: worried about the team going into this season. I'm feeling good.
Speaker 8: I feel like we finally have a balanced attack. I
Speaker 8: love the defensive coordinator that Lincoln brought in, and I
Speaker 8: say fight on to the Trojans and all the Trojan
Speaker 8: fans that are listening well.
Speaker 2: Alex Michael said, I appreciate all that you do, and
Speaker 2: I've had the opportunity to work with you and around
Speaker 2: you over the years, and I thank you for bringing
Speaker 2: such a balanced approach and level headed insight to all
Speaker 2: that you do.
Speaker 8: Love you, Mo, thank you so much. Always great to
Speaker 8: be on with you. And even though we don't have
Speaker 8: Conway here a ding dong to everybody.
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