Elaine Culotti: Is a No Party Preference Candidate the Answer for California? - Full Interview

Added: 2026-05-04

[00:00:17]What's up everybody? Big Herk 916.

[00:00:20]You're tuned into a special edition of Fresh Out. I have with me here today Elaine Colotti running for governor of California. You know, I always talk about California, my dear California, that I had to leave. I want to come back so bad. And she has a lot of insight.

[00:00:37]So, uh, Elaine, why don't you tell our fans about how we met and what you have going on?

[00:00:43]>> Um, first of all, thank you for, you know, taking the time to come here and to talk with me about what's happening in California. Uh, my name is Ela Colott. Um, I'm reachable at cal kottforc california.com.

[00:00:57]Colotti is uh cu ti colottifi forc california.com. I'm a very high energy person because I'm extremely motivated to change the tapestry of California's politics. And um I met I was lucky enough to meet Marcus through a really good friend of mine who is a casting director who actually cast me on Undercover Billionaire in Fresno which is how I kind of got my start in understanding California and California agriculture and farming. And so now, you know, fast forward to today, I'm watching my state where I've been since 1991, uh, come completely unraveled. And last night, this will be timely and will and I'm sure can be edited if we need to, but last night our timing today is last night was the Democratic debate that I was not on the stage for, even though two of the candidates on the stage that were Democrats poll lower than me as an independent. So, independents are not heard in California.

[00:02:00]And I just want to be clear that this is a trend across America. No matter what state you live in, if your candidate is a no party preference or an independent, it's likely that they're not being pulled on the major polls. And if you don't poll on a major poll, you're probably not being invited to the debate stage. And this is by design. It is by design by the Democratic Party and the Republican party to keep Republicans and Democrats in power at all possible cost.

[00:02:30]it whether it's a good idea or a bad idea. First thing you don't want to do when you're driving is give up your driver's seat. So that's what it's about. And the middle which reaches across party lines across party across the middle which reaches across party lines or the middle that likes good things about the Democrats and good things about the Republicans and is able to articulate them is a very dangerous place for staunch vote by the letter voters because they don't want to do the homework. work and the Republicans and the Democrats know it. So what happens?

[00:03:16]You have a debate like we did last night and every toss is a 70 mph under throw softball. There's no zingers. There's no straight pitches. There's no strikes.

[00:03:29]It's all just satiate the people that are watching and keep it going and keep gathering points by how do you gather points? You call your herd. You get rid of the bad Democrats.

[00:03:46]Chad Biano and Steve Hilton are running for governor on the Republican ticket.

[00:03:51]They absorb 100% of the Republican votes, which is 24% of California.

[00:03:57]Neither one is going to drop out. Now you've got four Democrats and these four Democrats represent the Democratic Party in California which has stolen somewhere in the neighborhood of 750 billion dollars from Californians in the last seven years and that is being found out.

[00:04:17]And unfortunately, the people that it affects the most are our underprivileged category of residents.

[00:04:27]And there's a big bucket there. It's not 10%. It's 50%.

[00:04:33]This is the group of people that have from no money to enough money, but not enough to buy a house or to survive or to get out of here. Okay? No exit strategy. It's 50%.

[00:04:46]You have a group of middle class that used to be big but that is shrinking and then you have the upper echelon and the upper echelon pays more than half of the taxes. They have options and they can buy everything. They can buy their governor and they can buy someone to keep the grift going. And this is the issue. A small group of people under 200 guys can buy a governor. Their choice, I think, is Matt Mayhem because that's where all the money's gone. And it's a trick. And if you don't think it's a trick, look at the math. How do you put 10 million dollars behind the mayor of San Jose in eight weeks?

[00:05:32]How do you do that? This guy literally doesn't fit in his suit at the podium.

[00:05:37]They can't use Katie Porter. They know they can't get her across the finish line. She's not any good. She thinks a woman should lead, but she can't lead anything. They can't control Styer because Styer's a billionaire and after $200 million, he's in second place, third place, whatever. And when I say second or third place, I mean he's the tallest [ __ ] Okay? I don't mean he's in the NBA. It's not what I'm saying.

[00:06:03]I'm saying that it's all 15% to 17% because you have too many people. So Styer's probably not the candidate. And that leaves Basera and mayhem. Okay. Act Blue, who is the Democratic pack, gave Basera $650,000.

[00:06:25]They also gave Matt Mayan 8 and a half million. Why? Well, they don't want to give him too much because then he might win.

[00:06:33]They want Mayanm to win. They they created a Manurion candidate out of thin air and they're pushing him forward. and Steve Hilton and Chad Bianca know it.

[00:06:42]So, they're not going to do anything to ruffle anything. They're just going to kind of keep the status quo.

[00:06:47]You bring an independent in the middle and every time a Democrat drops out, an independent picks up those votes. And then we have a three-party race, a Republican, an MPP, and a Democrat. Not all Democrats.

[00:07:05]Three-party race. If you have a three-party race, you have a fair race.

[00:07:11]May the best man win. May the person with the best ideas win. May the person with reasonable financing and not bought by expensive donors win. May the person that California wants gets that California votes for, not that California has to vote for because it's the only option. Three-party race. If you don't have a three-party race, if you don't let an independent to a podium, you have a two-party race. You have a bunch of Democrats and two Republicans with only 24% registered Republicans. So, a two-party race in California is a one party race. And they've done it over and over and over again, and they're fixing to do it again. And I use the word fixing very carefully. It is a fixed situation.

[00:07:58]You have to let an independent get to the podium. You have to let an independent talk about policy. Now, I can talk about policy till I'm blue because I write my own policy. Our policy in California is not for immigration. It is not for immigration reform. It is not for Prop 36, which was passed, which is the crime bill. It is not for stopping people from smashing and grabbing and stealing everything.

[00:08:21]It's not for that. It's not for anti-amping. Anti-amping is to stop people from camping in front of your business that you pay rent for. for parking a motor home in front of your home and sneaking power from you at night and nothing you can do about it and it's there every single day. They put lawn chairs on your lawn. That's anti-amping rules that we don't want and we want that but we don't enforce it.

[00:08:45]Democrats are 100% for continuing the nightmare of the homeless industrial complex. They call them unhoused so we don't mix it up. Okay. Homelessness is a tragedy in our country. But mark my words, it is not complicated.

[00:09:04]It's nonsense that it's complicated. And the Democrats want you to think it's very complex so that they can keep spending a lot of money trying to figure it out. And those are your tax dollars.

[00:09:13]Last night on the debate, Matt Mayan said, "Add a microphone." He's your de he's your Democratic candidate for Democrats that Democrats want to put in.

[00:09:24]That man said at a microphone that it cost $1 million per key per homeless person. What that means is to get a bed for a homeless person that's theirs where they can stay safe. It cost $1 million.

[00:09:41]$1 million. Remember that? Okay. This is insanity. And this is a California voters tax bill because if they want a million dollars, they're going to get it from me in taxes. None of the Democrats talked about economic development, which means small business, jobs. None of them. None of them talked about how to bring in revenue into the state through hard work, through grit, through actually picking up a shovel or opening your business door or teaching a student or any pumping gas for someone else.

[00:10:21]Whatever it is, no one talked about small business and the power of the small businesses.

[00:10:29]In California, we have four million businesses. Did you know that? Mhm.

[00:10:34]>> Out of four million businesses, 50% are in litigation.

[00:10:38]Half of our businesses are being sued.

[00:10:41]Most is trip and fall or I was ill. I was treated badly based on my race. I had to work on Friday when I wanted to go out with my boyfriend. Lawsuits.

[00:10:52]Okay.

[00:10:54]Four million businesses. I want to repeat this. Two million are in litigation.

[00:11:00]How do you have a business? How do you get through environmental red tape? How do you how do you get, you know, gas in your car? How do you not pay road tax?

[00:11:10]How do you do anything if lawyers are in the way to stop it? We have so many lawyers. I'm a candidate that believes in tort reform. So, torrent reform is very bad for lawyers because that means if they lose the case, they have to pay.

[00:11:27]That would be something I would say if you lose, you pay. Or how about a bill for a bill? How about if they make a bill or a law, they take another one out so we don't have so many laws we don't even know if we're breaking them.

[00:11:38]>> What about that? Lawyers don't like that. Lawyers don't like having tort reform. So there's this thing called the trial lawyers association. Do you know who they are? They are the group that give Democrats and Republicans a lot of money. They are a donor group and the money is to tell Democrats and Republicans to not have tort reform.

[00:12:03]Simple. So Ela Colott running in the middle who will not take money from lawyers cannot get trial association to be a donor because I want tort reform.

[00:12:14]And now that is one example of hundreds of examples of what donors means. A donor is a person who gives a candidate money because of a specific agenda. And it is true some donors just like the candidate, but the majority is because they need things to happen in California and they need that candidate to win so that those things can happen. It's called poliola, but we call it donating, but it happens everywhere. And people don't understand, but I'm learning. Boy, am I learning the hard way. So, my campaign I always say, vote for me. If you'd like to donate, go on to my website. It's colott California. Do not give me $1,000. I would prefer $1 from 1,000 people than $1,000 from one person. Why?

[00:13:09]Because one of the leading reasons to get on a debate stage is engagement.

[00:13:15]It's about engagement. They cannot fight engagement. If they raise eight and a half to$10 million like Mayan has done in a short period of time, it does not create engagement. It's just money. And that is not a category. They'd like to make it one. How much money have you raised? It's not a category. The category is how many people want you to be the governor because they believe that you're going to change things.

[00:13:42]That's a category. Non-engagement.

[00:13:47]>> What do you think is one of the biggest problems plaguing California as a person living here?

[00:13:52]>> I think that it is unfunded mandates which pay back donors. So that's things like SB79 which is our highdensity housing bill. I think it's things like trying to build beds for homeless people when the t city doesn't have any money to do it. So they have to create NOS's and get grants and they're out of they don't have any control over how the money is being spent. Cities don't.

[00:14:12]Cities, oddly are far better off without Sacramento. It's really interesting. I filmed a show called Mayors Matter, and I studied all these mayors and met with them and did two-hour interviews, and they all said the same thing. California from, you know, tip to toe has said, "We need economic development. We need to get rid of unfunded mandates, and we don't want crime in our streets." Now, getting rid of crime in your streets has a lot to do with how you handle your homeless and drug situations. Because for me, homelessness is not just it's very actually little about people that are down and out on their luck. I think homelessness is far more about drug addicts and drug problems and violence in the street. And I think that a lot of people know that, but that doesn't really work for the narrative for getting more money, right? Because if you create institutionalized housing for people that are crazy or seriously crazy pants, like they are a danger to themselves and others, okay? Whatever the classification is, take them out.

[00:15:03]Okay? and you have this big bucket of drug addicts, drug dealers, violent criminals, and rinse and repeat over and over and over again. You can gather so many people that know someone that has been a critical addict, okay? And what that's done to their lives and every one of them will tell you that what we're doing doesn't work. It's not a way to solve the problem. If you have serious drug addiction and drug dealing going on with that and you put that into a prison for drug dealing and into a facility to get sober for people that are addicts and cannot get out, you eliminate 90% of the problem on the streets. It's a terrible crime and all the drugs.

[00:15:45]>> No, I would have to agree with that too because if you they do the research in prison, probably close to 90% in people in there are are drug addicts. Even though they're calling shots, these guys who are on the yard, but a lot of those people, if you look at pill line, they have it two, three times a day. There's a line around the penitentiary.

[00:16:04]Everybody's on drugs in there. Every there's a 90% of the people in prison are taking some form of a drug.

[00:16:11]>> That's insane to me.

[00:16:12]>> Yes.

[00:16:13]>> To just medicate people into a bliss, you know, just you're in you're just keep them just keep them in line, keep them calm. Mhm.

[00:16:22]>> I mean, you know, with that theory, you don't need an insane asylum. Put them all together. Just keep them all on drugs. It's ridiculous. There's no treatment.

[00:16:29]>> No.

[00:16:29]>> What's about the treatment?

[00:16:30]>> They actually like they need to separate it. They need to have a place, like you said, for people who come in who aren't drugs and then people who want to get into make maybe really reform and do trade programs, get out, become productive. Because when you have the mixture of the two, you can't have really reform. So, people are kind of caught in the middle trying to just get out and do their time. So, it's it's it's like a catch 22 cuz I've been there and been on the streets in a halfway house practic almost homeless but not on drugs and I could see the guys in there who weren't going to make it because they didn't have the mental capacity to kind of operate in a normal society. And I've seen guys who got out maybe less than six, seven months, they commit another crime to go back to prison so they can get a job again. They're comfortable working in prison. That's sad. guy 15, 20 years, get out and get another 20 years. And that's the cycle for a lot of these people. So the people who are on the street, even when you try to offer them a job or give him, they're not really capable of holding a job anyways. So unless you have a long-term treatment program, you're not going to change the crime. And these people are literally, it's like unsafe. I mean, I'm a big guy and I pay attention when I'm out here.

[00:17:40]>> We've also thrown a lot of resources at it. I'm going to throw some facts out that are crazy. Okay, so we're in LA, by the way, right now. Um although, you know, for those of you who know me, I spend a lot of time in North San Diego County where my farm is. But LA is where I I work. Uh and we're in the Pacific Palisades, which burned down almost a year and a half ago. And um it's a mess.

[00:18:01]Nothing's happening. Uh I don't know if you're going to get a chance, Marcus, to go visit Altadena, but Altadena is burned down. And um so Malibu burnt it down. Around most of these neighborhoods, you're going to find something insane.

[00:18:20]Empty police cars parked. Have you seen them? You passed one coming up here.

[00:18:26]>> I've seen it. I I didn't see I couldn't look inside to see if Yeah.

[00:18:29]>> Do you know why we have empty police cars parked?

[00:18:32]>> Deterrent.

[00:18:33]>> We don't have any police officers.

[00:18:35]>> Wow.

[00:18:36]>> So I want to I want to and and and I I I just did this deep dive on homelessness. So 173,000, you know, homeless people in in our area. Um we have about almost 8,000 people working on those 173,000 people. Just about 8,000. About 750 are uh under the sort of the housing, you know, group that's basically a government government groups that are paying for them. The others are civilian NOS's. So you got 7,250 people that are in civilian groups working on housing and you know 73,000 people. So that's just just know there's a lot of people working on it. Okay, we're talking about guess how many people are working on it. About the same amount of cops we have in LA. Okay. So, we have about 8,200 to 8,300 police officers in LA.

[00:19:38]12,000 safety officers. That includes what's called um you know, police officers are one bucket of a safety officer. Another safety officer is a fireman. Another one's an EMT. Okay? But just let's just talk about just police officers whose job it used to be when they would let them is to get homeless people off the street. Okay? They put a sever a stop. We have care court which does not work. And we have all sorts of people in the middle that want to humanely handle literally that is their job. Homeless people that are like pooping in front of your door at your business. We're going to humanely handle them. Okay.

[00:20:19]Those 8,200 police officers are responsible for 4 million people.

[00:20:26]So, if you call 911, you have a 1 in 3,300% chance that someone's going to show up.

[00:20:34]Yet, if you are one of the 173,000 homeless people, well, now that's different. The ratio of people to take care of homeless people is better than any police coverage in the entire state, even the best cities. We have thrown so much money at this that we have thrown 10 times the resources at homelessness than we have at the police department to give them resources to do their job. And then moreover, we took their job away from them and said, "No, no, no. Hands off of the homeless people. Don't touch them. We've got the brigade of do nothingers that cost the most amount of money to help us with this problem.

[00:21:24]You wonder where the 24 billion went.

[00:21:28]That's where it went and we're not allowed to ask. In fact, a bill was written to audit the $24 billion and Gavin Newsome vetoed it.

[00:21:39]This is our state and this is our situation with homelessness and this is why we have high crime. We have high crime because it's so impossible to get the resources to the police department when they need it. and good resources so they have enough people so there's less violence and there things get less out of control. If you got a bunch of guys that show up to a situation that's already completely out of control, the chances of that working out successfully narrow tremendously.

[00:22:06]It takes a big deterrent to stop crime.

[00:22:10]And if you have more police officers with more resources, you have lower crime because people know that you can't do it.

[00:22:18]>> That's right.

[00:22:19]>> And we just don't spend our money right.

[00:22:21]And if I were governor of a state, the first thing I would do is put Los Angeles into chapter 9, which is a bankruptcy. And I would strip all of the NOS's, nonprofits, and special interest immediately for audit to find out where all our money is going. So that our police officers, our fire department, look, our fire department couldn't put out the fires because they don't have any resources.

[00:22:42]They don't have water. How about that?

[00:22:45]Their fire trucks are all broken.

[00:22:47]There's not enough firemen. There's no reservoirs working. There's no fire hydrants working. I mean, there's no infrastructure. There's no fire department turnarounds. It's ludicrous.

[00:22:57]And then everyone's like, why not?

[00:22:58]Because they cut the budget. Cut the budget. Cut the budget. Cut the budget.

[00:23:02]>> But Nome says they have the sixth largest economy in the world. They're thriving, but yet they can't provide water to fight a fire. I mean, and nobody's like you said, even, you know, you have Palisades in Malibu, but Aladena, I just seen a thing yesterday where a gentleman had a trailer and they're telling him to move his trailer.

[00:23:22]So, he's trying to put it on the property so he can wait till it's been rebuilt, but he says, "I have nowhere to go." And Aladena is not getting any help. And I and not even they don't even have a voice out there. And it's 19% like you said, black Americans that aren't really getting any coverage with what's going on with their rebuild.

[00:23:39]>> Zero's going on with their rebuild. And it's all by design. And this is the first time if you want to unite every single race that lives here and works here and contributes to the economy, whether you're Hispanic, black, or white like me, it does not matter.

[00:23:58]We're all being treated the same.

[00:23:59]>> Yeah.

[00:24:00]>> This is a land grab. And I know people don't want to hear that, but it's true.

[00:24:04]This is not about race. It's not. I can I tell you something really crazy? USC the USC debate. Did you know it got cancelceled for race for racial stuff?

[00:24:14]>> Yeah, I heard about that.

[00:24:15]>> Right. Okay. So, can I tell you what really happened?

[00:24:18]>> Just in case you guys think that you know somehow the Democratic party that's running California is not racist. Okay.

[00:24:28]It's I think personally money and control and power in it on its face it does it does not see color. It just sees power.

[00:24:41]>> It doesn't matter who It doesn't matter who it's taking it from.

[00:24:44]>> Like I don't think it's oppressive. I don't think like I don't think it's about oppressing like a particular group of people.

[00:24:49]>> Oh, no.

[00:24:50]>> No. I think it's just let's just take all the money and who cares about any of you people. So, the USC debate, this is the best example that I can give you about how far off the rails we have gone. Okay, this is the best example of what I can give you about how far off of the rails this whole racial divide has has gone and check fact check me please. All right, so the debate was scheduled and out of nowhere they put together a group of Democrats and Republicans that was four Democrats I think and two Republicans.

[00:25:30]Suavewell was their number one that hadn't come out yet.

[00:25:33]And then they had Katie P Katie Porter I think Styer and Matt Mayan. Okay, so white guy, white guy, white girl, white guy. Okay, four white people. And on the Republican side, they same exact thing. You have Hilton and Biano. So you have six candidates. Now, that day that they announced, I was pulling at about 8% on the poly market, which is higher than Chad Biano, higher than Katie Porter, and higher than Matt Mayan. So, I was the highest polling independent on the day that happened. So, I wrote a letter and said, "My son's graduating there and my daughter went there and I'm very active at USC. I love USC." So, this isn't about me being mad at USC. I wrote a letter and I said, "How come there's no podium for independent crickets?"

[00:26:44]So then I got somebody big with a lot of money that's has a lot of pressure and power and I said, "How come there's no podium for an independent?

[00:26:55]Why are the people that are there polling lower than me? Why did I not get offered a podium? My kids go to school there. I'm I live in LA. I'm the best candidate."

[00:27:06]crickets in a parallel lane at the very same time. Bisera, Verosa, Thurman, and Ye, Asian, black, Hispanic, Hispanic, wrote a letter to USC and said, "Port no minorities.

[00:27:32]>> Why not me? What about the black guy?

[00:27:35]What about the Asian girl? Why are we not represented at the debate? Okay, in their case, they were lower polling than me. Okay, but they had a point. There was no color up there.

[00:27:47]>> They had a point.

[00:27:48]>> So, USC had to deal with either that or this.

[00:27:55]Only in California is it easier to play the race card than to admit you're trying to rig the election. So they said, "Ali, Ali, I'm comfrey. We're really sorry that we didn't invite anybody that was a minority and we're gonna cancel the debate."

[00:28:14]And they played the race card because it was easier than saying, "We wanted Matt Mayan up there and we were willing to fudge all the math to make it happen."

[00:28:23]And somebody said, "No, the math doesn't work. It's not correct." So it was easier to say it was about race. And that is what is so wrong about this state because it wasn't nothing to do with race. It was about power and money.

[00:28:39]>> So for people who are looking for change, I mean, how can they really trust that their voice will be represented properly then because like you said, it's an illusion of choice, but the choice is what we want to give you anyway. So we it doesn't matter which one. We've already selected pre-selected for you. So even if you vote, it's somebody we won in office anyways because like you said, they won't let you on the polling, I mean on the actual podium to speak out. So people aren't able to hear your voice, which is more the voice of the people.

[00:29:10]>> I think that if I keep doing what I'm doing with you and I keep talking to people and I keep like truth bombing and fact check me, truth bomb, fact check, truth bomb, fact check, be careful about how much you think you're hearing from somebody that is speaking to you. You got to check it. So, here's how I think it's going to go down. I It's not that hard to get me over the finish line.

[00:29:35]There's 40 million people in California, and of the 40 million people, only 17 and a half million people pay taxes.

[00:29:44]Think about that.

[00:29:47]Okay. Fact three. Fact one, 40 million.

[00:29:53]Fact two, 17 and a half million pay taxes. Fact three.

[00:29:57]Ready?

[00:29:59]214 guys pay 47% of those taxes.

[00:30:05]So in other words, that 17.5 million, it's a fraction of the money that California needs to keep operating.

[00:30:14]>> Do you understand? It's so small.

[00:30:17]It's so small. So you touched on something. Gavin Newsome says, "How is it possible? We're the this. We're the fifth largest. were the sixth largest, we're the fourth largest economy. They say all kinds of about how big our economy is.

[00:30:30]>> Okay. Unfortunately for Gavin, since he's not a macro or microeconomics major or understands economics at all, I don't even know if he can add.

[00:30:42]You cannot consider taxes and raising taxes and collecting taxes as revenue.

[00:30:50]It's not revenue. It's tax. Revenue is when you buy a product, make a product, sell a product, and you create a profit and the profit goes back to the owner of the product. Okay? And they pay taxes on that. That is their revenue and that is California's tax benefit. Okay? And there's all sorts of taxes. There's gas taxes. There's retail sales tax when you leave. There's a road tax if you go on like a private road. There's taxes and if you drive on the private road a lot of times you're going to get but you have to have the road and you have to have the meter and that has to be a business. Parking meters put money in the parking meter that's money. If you go into a store and you buy something 10%. The store is making money. That's the revenue. And the tax that they sent up to Northern California that's the revenue for the state. It is not revenue. It's not earned income. Okay?

[00:31:48]It's tax money. We have a big problem.

[00:31:52]More facts. When Gavin Newsome rolled up on California's Sacramento doorstep of the capital, we were averaging between 300 billion and 310 billion in our general fund. Now, the general fund is the tax money that comes in to build our roads and take care of our schools and pay for our police, our fire, everything else is general fund money. that today while Gavin Newsome has been in office is now 265 billion. You see the tank and the tank is going down. We are running out of fuel. Also on day one he had an $80 billion surplus which he also plowed through. So we plowed through 80 and now we're at 265 annually.

[00:32:36]Here we go. You ready? Billionaire's tax. Why am I against billionaire's tax?

[00:32:42]I'm against taxing the rich. People don't want to hear that that are Democrats. Because Democrats swear to everyone on their mother's grave that taxing billionaires is going to save their lives. It's going to fix everything. Here's why it doesn't work.

[00:32:57]The billionaires are paying 47% of the taxes. So, if you say, "Hey, let's tax the billionaires on a unrealized capital gains." Do you know what that means?

[00:33:11]unrealized. So it hasn't happened yet or you don't know about it or it's not.

[00:33:17]Unrealized is like realized is no.

[00:33:20]Unrealized is not know. So unrealized and a capital gain is a profit. So you don't know if you have a profit and they're going to tax you on the unknown profit. That's what an unrealized capital gains tax is. For any of you who don't know what that is, it's taxing equity.

[00:33:40]taxing equity. So, we came up with this idea. We're going to do this. We're going to have a billionaire's tax. We're going to get 35 to $39 million no matter what for Medicare and medical for illegal aliens. That's what it was for.

[00:33:54]And we're getting $100 million out of these guys. And we're going to be fine.

[00:33:58]And do you know what the billionaires said? Pound sand.

[00:34:04]See you later. Okay. Half of left. How much is it?

[00:34:10]265 billion is rolling in the door right now. Trickling in, I should say.

[00:34:16]122 billion of the 265.

[00:34:20]>> Bye-bye.

[00:34:22]See you later. It's gone. And if Chabiano gets in, if Hilton gets in, if god forbid anybody like Porter or Styer, maybe he could loan the state some money. But you get my point. If any of these people get in there, they are faced with this problem. They're going to arrive at the door of the capital with a bankrupt state. And you cannot bankrupt a state because it's sovereign.

[00:34:50]I looked into it. You cannot do it.

[00:34:54]Macroeconomics, you can't bankrupt a state because it's sovereign. You can reorganize each city through chapter 9 and you can try to peel off all the stolen money, NOS's and the and the things that are basically being flooded with our tax dollars into groups that aren't really solving problems. You could get rid of that through chapter 9, but you need to pay for your road repairs and all of your schools and all of your safety officers and your police and all of the things that you need for like DMV to work and all of the things that we pay through the general fund need to be paid before you pay NGO special interest and um and uh nonprofit. And let me say it in the simplest way possible. When you fly in an airplane, okay, and a stewardist comes out and you're getting ready to take off. What does she say?

[00:35:47]Hi, welcome to Southwest Airlines, Delta Airlines.

[00:35:53]Safety on board. This is the oxygen mask. It could fall down if there's an emergency.

[00:36:00]Put the oxygen mask on yourself first because if you don't breathe, you cannot help anybody else.

[00:36:09]California needs to put the oxygen mask on itself right now because we are gutted in the emergency room, bleeding out on the floor, and Democrats are running back and forth trying to figure out what to do.

[00:36:23]>> What incentive would any business have to come back to California after they've already left? Chevron, Heler Packard, um there's a bunch of big company that went to Texas, no state income tax. Florida, no state income tax. Nevada, no state income tax. Why would why would they want to come back after they've seen what's happening? And it's not like they just left within a year. They have been hollering at Sacramento for over five years, a decade, and then they finally said, "Hey, we're out of here."

[00:36:51]>> Okay. I love Marcus. Marcus smart.

[00:36:54]You're so smart. Okay. Ready? The great American credit union.

[00:37:01]My idea. I have an idea. Let's turn that frown upside down. What if I go to all the billionaires and I say, "Hey, don't pay billionaires tax. We don't want it. We don't need it. Rip the band-aid off. We don't need you guys at all. How about you guys loan California $500 billion and stay? We'll pay it back at a 2% interest rate. I know it's low, but you don't have to move and you don't have to pay 5% tax on on your assets. Okay, so that's a positive thing. That's a big savings. That's probably close to 8% savings because it costs 5% to move.

[00:37:40]It's not cheap. So, that is a 20-year interest paid loan and that goes into California's Great American Credit Union. Now, do you know what a credit union is? Does anybody know? It ain't the same as a bank. Marcus, ready? A credit union is owned by its members, Californians for California.

[00:38:06]If you sign up to the Great American Credit Union and that program, that $500 billion belongs for investment in California. And we have an agreement with SBA, Small Business Association, for SBA loans at 100% meet. For every dollar we raise, we get $1 of SBA. And in the Great American Credit Union, we have a business brokerage branch and a business advisory board. And you can come to the Great American Credit Union as a Californian for California and you can start up a business with full support to do so. We can create 2 million new jobs and we can get Main Street up and running again. And if you don't think that it's possible, it is. It's basically California sovereignty. It allows Californians to invest in California and outside investors can invest. We can get 650 billion of the infrastructure budget that's supposed to come here because it will be managed by the very lenders that gave us the money and our investments will be invested on their schedules, not California schedules, which we lost $71 million on our retirement last year. I don't know if you know that, but if you have the billionaires invest in their schedules, they average between 9 and 26%.

[00:39:33]Which means the credit union has a hund00 million of auto investments right away that pay the mortgage on the money and profit for the bank. And then you have a dividend paying credit union. So you don't pay fees and you don't pay startups and you get points off on your loans and everything else. This is a business plan for California that if you went to a bank to borrow it and say I have this business plan, every bank would say yes. Currently, if I were to take California's business plan into any bank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, private bank, it doesn't matter, and say, "Hey, can I borrow some money on this business plan?" They would throw me out on my ear because it is stupid.

[00:40:15]Okay? How are you going to pay your bills if your one customer leaves?

[00:40:21]That's what the bank would say. Why is half of your revenue coming from one customer? Never mind the most powerful customer. California is in partnership with the billionaires. That's the reality of it. Silicon Valley's long-term growth in California was 11 trillion. That's the billionaire class.

[00:40:40]That's where the money is. And they didn't leave it here in California.

[00:40:43]There's not 11 trillion laying around in California. In fact, that money is nowhere to be found. It's not here. It was made here, but it's not here. It's all exited California.

[00:40:55]>> Yeah. Because I mean, I know like what is it? Meta and then I think Apple now and then um you know, everybody's saying like once they move their they actually their net worth increased because they don't have to give what is the California personal income tax now 14% 15%. It's so much It was so much better for them to do it even if it cost 5% to move.

[00:41:14]>> That's right.

[00:41:14]>> And the whole point too was like, you know, as I talk to a bunch of these guys, I'm like, "Don't go. Don't go."

[00:41:18]And they're like, "No way."

[00:41:20]>> Like, and I'm like, "It won't pass.

[00:41:22]Doesn't matter."

[00:41:23]>> Yeah.

[00:41:23]>> Even if it close to passes. I mean, think about if you own a home right now like in Altadena is a great example. And the Palisades too because a lot of houses in the Palisades were hand-me-downs. Okay. They were all hand-me-downs. There's a two, three, four generations. Same with Altadena.

[00:41:39]Mhm.

[00:41:41]>> So, let's say you own a home that didn't burn down. I mean, did or didn't, it doesn't really matter. There's a certain amount of equity you're going to have because you were given that house to a family lineage.

[00:41:52]>> So, you might have a two or three $400,000 basis on the house and maybe you even borrowed 500, maybe you have a $750,000 basis and you borrowed $500,000 and you lived on that for several years.

[00:42:02]A lot of people do that. They live on the revenue of their house, whatever.

[00:42:06]That's fine. That's a thing. If the house is worth $2 million, this mansion tax idea, this this this billionaire's tax idea, this taxing on unrealized capital gains involves taking someone in that scenario with a hand-me-down house and taxing them on the difference between what they got it for and what the market value is.

[00:42:31]>> Do you see what I'm saying?

[00:42:32]>> That's crazy.

[00:42:33]>> And they say you owe a onetime tax of 5%. and you're like, I don't even have it.

[00:42:39]>> Wow.

[00:42:40]>> So, this is an example of tax. This is Democratic taxing, too. This is nothing to do >> with Donald Trump. Like they were saying last night, Trump, Trump, Trump. I was like, no, no, no. Tax, tax, tax. You got the right letter. You just got the wrong word. It's taxing us out of here. So, that's one example. In the Palisades and all of LA, you have mansion tax. Now, mansion tax is 5% I think 6.3% over 10 million and from 5 million to 10 million it's 5%.

[00:43:11]5%. It's as much as the broker fee. So, if you have something worth $5 million, okay, think about this. $500,000 is going out of that revenue stream for broker and mansion tax.

[00:43:27]This is crazy because it's not mansions.

[00:43:31]It's transactional.

[00:43:33]So, it's mansions, but it's also hospitals, lowincome housing, strip malls, churches, dirt. It doesn't matter. If it transacts over $5 million, you have this mansion tax. And when I'm governor, no one's going to be calling things fancy names to get you to vote for them. We're not going to call mansion tax. ULA is what it's called.

[00:43:57]United LA. I would get rid of that name, too, because it's for homelessness. It's not that none of the money went there.

[00:44:02]What it would be is tax to screw you over on your equity tax. That's what we would call it. Here's a tax to screw you over on your equity tax. Yes or no? How many people would say no? Everybody would be like, "No, I don't want that."

[00:44:17]But no, we call it mansion tax because that sounds good. So all the rich people that pay taxes don't want to stay here because they're attacking them with mansion tax and billionaire tax. So the reason I'm against those taxes is because the base of our income comes from taxpayers. The higher the taxpayer, the more revenue California has.

[00:44:43]>> And now another thing is also like property owners. I know like there's basically no rights. I mean, people now are dealing with, you know, if a person decides to say they're not going to pay rent, you you they it it takes up to a year, then you got to actually in some situations pay them to leave, but then you haven't collected rent. So, you're losing rent revenue and paying them to leave and then the house is destroyed. I know my mom went through like she inherited a house and she went through a whole situation where this person hadn't paid because my grandfather was elderly and then when she asked him to pay, he still didn't pay. So he still stayed and the house was trashed and then she had to pay a lawyer and then pay the sheriffs to come there and do the process which took another four or five months. So it's like people like what incentive is there for like development for people to say hey you know we want to develop you know develop more homes provide you know cheaper housing and be able to manage our property and not lose in this investment like how how can that change or do you see any shift in that for people who stay here who do own property who feel like they're just getting beat up with people who are taking advantage of this loophole? Well, first of all, it's the the what we call renters's rights are wow. I mean, landlords have to maintain their property to maintain a loan >> to maintain a budget. Okay? So, landlords have to maintain their property to maintain a loan and maintain a budget. If they're prevented from maintaining their property and their values go down, then those areas where those homes are that have traditionally pretty bad >> um landlord access.

[00:46:34]The entire neighborhood suffers, which is what you've seen in California. You have areas of California where landlord's rights have diminished so much and along with it so has all of the property. And so the fact that you don't give landlords rights over non-compliant paying tenants, tenants that are I don't care if they're down on their luck, okay? They don't own the building.

[00:46:55]>> What happens is the building itself becomes a slum building. They call them slum lords, but really those buildings are where the landlords cannot maintain them either by revenue or by pure lockout. M >> you cannot allow no access for landlords because if you do that then the building can't be maintained and then the whole neighborhood comes apart.

[00:47:18]And so under like say your plan, how would California look for the average California, you know, paying citizen? I mean with taxes, with um say cost of living, insurance, DMV, like all these expenses, is there any room for any of these things to be cut so people can actually afford to live here? Because like the average cost of living, if a person is paying mileage tax, they're paying, you know, um, Medicaid, which is supporting illegals to get free medical. I mean, I I made a joke one time and said it's almost I should just come across the border and say I'm from Cameroon and then I can get free medical get everything and then I can actually afford to live here and come up because if I'm actually a paying person trying to survive in say Culver City or Long Beach, rent is for a studio that's maybe 800 square feet is like $2,500.

[00:48:15]>> No, it's crazy. Okay. So, first of all, landlord's rights are really in my opinion, okay, landlord's rights are more about maintaining the property in a way that it maintains its value. So, if you have a situation where the landlord has no rights and the property value decreases and it's diminished and it just starts going down and it's so much so that you have these terms like slum or slum lord, that's what it comes from.

[00:48:43]It's from not maintaining the building >> and not caring about the tenants that are in there. You just don't want to deal with it. But it's a chicken. What comes first? The chicken or the egg?

[00:48:52]>> Okay. In California, without economic development, without the Great American Credit Union, without revenue, without people making business deals and people having long-term investment, you will not have enough tax dollars to create any kind of an environment where you sorry, you will only be able to tax people into an environment where you can keep your your underprivileged class sustained, right? And if you have a lot of revenue and a lot of activity on Main Street, like lots of businesses and lots of people walking and things like that, you have re real revenue. You create community. Community is different than what we have now. And the Palisades to me is an example of what happens when you have no community. When you have no community, you have no value. Okay? So, because nobody wants to live in a house like this, a beautiful home, okay, where they don't have schools, they don't have grocery stores, they don't have like a coffee shop to sit at, they don't have like friends and people running around and a gym and and there's no community.

[00:49:55]They don't have community. It's all burned down. It's a very good example of what happens to values when you don't have community. Drops. You couldn't sell it. You can't give it away. You can't rent it. There's nothing. Whether you have a house or it burned down, your area has no community. And you have to create community. And I see that that happens through the Great American Credit Union. Number one. Number two, we cannot have the red tape that we have.

[00:50:18]This is a bill for a bill. You don't tell somebody that they're going to be able to get a power pole for temporary power at their lot and put their trailer there to live there and then charge them $25,000 for the temporary power pole.

[00:50:31]That's what we do. That's called ripping the rug. Okay? Ripping the rug. When you do deals, you do long-term deals. Those deals have to be very long. When I say long-term deals, if I did a deal with a Costco at a certain price for gasoline, which happened here, okay, that deal has to be at least 50 years because they have to build a building, put the gas pumps in, build a community, and create revenue. And if we raise the gas really, really high in the middle of our deal, their model doesn't work, and Costco leaves, which happened here. Mhm.

[00:51:04]>> Valero, our gas company that been here from for a long time, paid $1 billion to California to get out from their contracts to leave. That's refining oil gone. Philip 66 gone. Chevron gone.

[00:51:17]Everybody gone. When I'm governor, you got to get rid of things that don't work that have not worked historically like carb. Carb doesn't work. These are, you know, using carbon credits and taxing and creating billings. Highspeed rail was a great idea. We needed it. My farmers, we needed it. But you know who built it? Bureaucrats. Okay? Bureaucrats don't build things. They go off halfcocked. In California, in order to get out of this, we have to rip the band-aid off and go back to work. Not bureaucrats don't want any. Thank you very much. Cut the payroll in half. I'm talking about Californians. When you build a railroad, for example, I'm a builder. Build hang hat. Okay. You have a schedule of values because you have a beginning and a middle and an end. And an end is when it's done. That's when the train's working. Okay. The beginning is the planning, getting all the permits, getting all the permission, figuring out what the budget is, making sure that you have all the materials and the access. The middle is the building. What we have here in California is that we have industrial complexes that fight on behalf of the Democrats to keep revenue streams coming in to support their own existence whether they're doing anything or not.

[00:52:33]So that's lobbyists. Like we have tax payer lobbyists. We pay those on our um our property tax bill and we shouldn't be paying them. That's not one of the property tax categories. Eliminate all taxes that go to people that slow the process down. This is number one. any kind of tax that's charged to go to a lobbyist or go to someone to slow the process down. Bye-bye. Eliminate all taxes that slow the process down.

[00:52:58]Period. In other words, a gas tax and you pull up to the gas tank. You might put $20 in and leave. That car has to go back to that gas place three, four times before they're full. That's more road traffic. We are not solving the problem by taxing gas. It doesn't work. And also, it's too expensive. No one can afford it. I have to pay $200 a week more for workers that have to drive from Riverside County to LA because they can't afford the gas. So, this is not help helpful. You have to remove red tape. Red tape and taxes have to go. And there's lots of red tape. For example, Coastal Commission and SQA were supposed to be waved for people building in California by the beach after the fires.

[00:53:36]They haven't done it. Coastal Commission can't get the permits through and SQA won't get the permits through. These are like environmentalists and people that are not in building that are slowing the process. Why are we paying for that? If you want to fix something, fix it. In the situation with the railroad, they step one, the permits and the permission, they didn't have it locked up. They didn't do it. So, when they started and told Tutor Pirini, who built it, that they had it and gave them a deposit, they started like there was going to be a bow on top. But as they went along, they had to stop and start.

[00:54:10]Would it surprise you we spent almost $1 billion on mobilization fees? Do you know what a mobilization fee is? That's when you have to stop construction and go back to construction just to pull off and to go back $1 billion.

[00:54:26]That is unorganized. And that is what happens when bureaucrats build.

[00:54:31]Bureaucrats can't build anything. They shouldn't be involved in the process.

[00:54:34]And if it takes private public partnership to do that, that's what we'll do. But we're not going to allow bureaucrats in the middle of the building process. It doesn't work for housing, clearly. It doesn't work for the railroad. Clearly, we have a great model. It doesn't work for roads and road repair. We have a great model for that. It doesn't work for anything.

[00:54:50]>> Um, realistically, if a person living in California, if they're looking to somehow think they're going to get any tax relief, do you think there's ever going to be a shift in tax policy for the people living here as far as taxes ever being cut? like similar like to Nevada or even Arizona where personal income tax is lower or is California just pretty much hit with this is what it is. We we can create these other programs but we can't really affect your standard of living by lowering your tax to give you extra money off your paycheck.

[00:55:22]>> I think that year I think year 27 28 and 29 are going to be a digout. I think it's going to be really tough. And I don't think that any Democrat or Republican should be saying we're going to not have we're just going to drop taxes. What I do think though, when you look under the hood and rip the band-aid off, you know, you're going to find that there's so much waste that we might be able to duct tape and staple it together to get this this business idea, this this great American credit union or small business or or let's put this business permits issued and people getting back to work in real time.

[00:55:59]There's probably enough money if you get rid of the NOS's and all the middle stuff. But what you first have to do is isolate the fraud and then stop it because that's bleeding out. That's like that's money that's just pouring out daily. And as we get closer to this election, this is rampant because they're trying to they know it's coming to an end. That's what happened in Minnesota, too. It's like across America, anytime you have somebody that they like we have one of our candidates, his name is Steve Hilton. He's saying this thing Doge uh Doge California. He's not wrong. You know, you got to Doge California. But Doge, the whole concept of that was to go through and look at all of these big groups that have been just going and going and going and pull them down if they're not working. And why Democrats would have won that? It's beyond me. Do you know something really like one of my favorite things that I've always donated to is the Red Cross.

[00:56:44]Okay. Well, can anybody say anything bad about the Red Cross? Can you say something bad about about the Red Cross?

[00:56:50]Say something bad about the Red Cross.

[00:56:52]>> I can't off hand.

[00:56:53]>> Right. You know, like they're the Red Cross, right? The Red Cross, they have 94% administration costs. Do you know what that means?

[00:57:02]>> Yeah. Only 6%'s going to >> band-aids.

[00:57:04]>> Yeah. And that's my point. Like if if they're if they based on just the lightly they said there was like $254 billion worth of fraud. If they didn't have the fraud, they didn't have to tax the people. People can live.

[00:57:20]>> Yes.

[00:57:20]>> SO IF IT WASN'T LIKE FOR that fraud and think of And they're still taxing the people. I mean, why do you need my little 15 14%? If I kept that, I could actually build more entrepreneurial business endeavors contribute more to my community because I wouldn't be so stressed out and then naturally it probably free up traffic >> because people would be, you know what I mean? So, it it it's like to justify, well, we got to tax you, then you find out where it's going, then you want to tax more. Well, why would I give you more when you're already we see and then you're trying to stop any more investigation? We're we're if you do any more independent we you're done. You're going you're getting fined. You're finding a person looking for the fraud.

[00:58:00]You should be congratulating this person >> a thousand% but people have been gaslit and it's a culture. The Democrats have had a stronghold here for so long that it's now turned into this like take extract the money and all the regular Democrats that are just like hardworking people are in this weird like gaslit culture of like I don't know what to do. That's why you need a that's why 41% are undecided or left or independent because that house that they felt was secure that democratic like do nice things and be a nice person and pay back everybody and pay it forward and help people and be compassionate and all the things that I think of when I think of my Democrats and my Democratic friends. All of that has been hijacked by this weird party of hand in the they're like, you know, that vision of the of the cookie jar and the monkeykey's got its hand in it. It's in a fist and he can't get it out and there's cookies everywhere and you just got to have that one. And it's just so crazy to me that we can't like let go.

[00:59:09]Get your hand out. Just >> I bet you if they did what the feds did, which is when there's a a a big drug bust and a person's intricate in that, they get a percentage of the drug bust as far as seizure money. If they did that for people exposing what's going on, this [ __ ] would see everybody. Well, let me get my little reward money for exposing it, it would be over with because there's so much of it going on.

[00:59:33]And like you said, everybody's like they're pulling back the rug and the roaches keep getting deeper and deeper trying to hide. And now that it's coming to a head, everybody's like, "Oh my god, what's going to happen if we're exposed?

[00:59:45]We're not going to have our standard of living. So we got to shut it down." And it's like, when is there going to be change? This this is such a beautiful state when I look at it a whole and all the opportunities. But people are squeezed so much. And then even like they're saying like, you know, if Hollywood leaves, it's going to be like Detroit here. You know, this is basic. I mean, there's other industries, but the movie industry is so complicated, so expensive to shoot. The music industry, I mean, everybody's like, why should we stay here even though it's great weather?

[01:00:15]>> Well, I think really like the digital era has kind of escaped a lot of big business. Like I always say this about about New York, for example. You know, I don't think people paid attention that Wall Street moved out of Wall Street a long time ago because the minute you could trade, you didn't need to go into Wall Street.

[01:00:31]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[01:00:32]>> Right. But you still call it Wall Street. We still call it Wall Street.

[01:00:36]>> But Wall Street, like >> how many people are up in those offices, you know, trading every day, >> you know, where's the big power lunch?

[01:00:43]Where's the martinis and the Ferraris and, you know what I mean?

[01:00:46]>> It's not necessary. So, if you want people to live in your state and build businesses and be profitable and enjoy their lives, you have to let them.

[01:00:56]>> You have to give them quiet enjoyment.

[01:00:59]I'm a constitutionalist in a lot of ways. I really believe like first of all the first amendment which is free speech has something right in front of it that protects it. It's called the second amendment. Right now people don't want to hear this about gun control but I'm telling you right now the second amendment is there to protect the first amendment.

[01:01:18]>> That's right. That's right.

[01:01:19]>> And if you don't believe in the second amendment then you don't believe in the first amendment. And if you don't believe in free speech which California has a really tough time with. Okay.

[01:01:27]They're censoring everybody. If you don't get that just that basic thing, it's hard to explain what's about to happen. If you don't understand that they are trying to stop you from having any kind of critical thinking, free speech is critical thinking.

[01:01:46]>> Yeah.

[01:01:47]>> Okay. People in the middle that have left the Democratic party are critical thinkers. These are the people that have said, "Wait a minute. This doesn't seem right." And don't let your eyes deceive you when you see something like stacks of tents and people on drugs and everybody hunched over and a 24 billion dollar bill. Wake up. I mean, how much more clear does it need to get that maybe they took the money? And then when they passed a bill two days ago on Nick Shirley, the Nick Shirley bill, he's not you're not allowed to go and try to seek out any kind of fraud or crime with a video camera.

[01:02:31]>> If you do, it's a $10,000 fine per incident. Okay. Who is going to pay that? What person that catches somebody stealing money is going to pay $10,000?

[01:02:42]They don't want you to find out.

[01:02:45]You know, it was really a turning point when I seen and I've been on both sides because I've been in jail and accountable for my actions. But when I saw a trend of literally 10 guys, 15 guys be able to run a car into a jewelry store and get away with it multiple times. I said, "Oh my god, this is this is it." The end. Because if that happens, if you can't get 10 guys together to go play basketball, usually it's hard.

[01:03:12]>> Yeah.

[01:03:12]>> You know what I mean? Three on three, four on four. But if you get 10 guys in nice cars, I'm I'm saying and you know, Anaheim, I've seen them hit Westwood, all these San Jose, all and they can get away. It's like, well, they're talk criminals talk like they're like, man, this is it's sweet out here, man. We're doing this and we've gotten away 10 times. 10 time. I mean, so the mentality to shift that I I I'm sad to say people are going to be like, "How dare you?

[01:03:40]You're B." Look, as an ex criminal bank robber, if they don't come and these people feel like there's a consequence, it's going to be out of control. And they're already doing it by hitting all these. There was a house hitting Sherman Oaks backtoback nights. The same house, Sherman Oaks for you guys. Nice area, super nice, back to back. And they were they were home at one point and they burglars came in and they I'm like, dude, that is crazy. It's like there's no >> I also say that the whole like smash and grab. I want to tell people this from my heart. You know, imagine what it's like to have all of your family money. And people who own jewelry shops, they're not billionaires. No.

[01:04:22]>> People who own like pizza places, a tennis shoe store, a bag shop, a clothing store, a pet grooming place. It doesn't matter. When you have smash and grab, you impact the small business so tremendously that they can't prop up and come back and be and be in the shop. And as we lose shop after shop after shop, okay, after they stop rebuilding and it that's empty everywhere, then you have a criminal element that sets in.

[01:04:55]That's not smash and grab. Now you have a takeover of our retail spaces and those are our communities. Those are where we congregate and have coffee.

[01:05:06]It's where we go to movies. It's where we hang out with our dogs and see our friends and teach our kids to be social and they interact and they're not on their phone. This is where we wipe out community. Number one. Number two, it has a tremendous impact on what it costs to do business. We have a thing in California. It's in a lot of states, but here it's tremendously bad. It's called tort tax. T o r t ax. Tort tax is the tax that is in your insurance to do anything because we have so many lawsuits and we have so much crime and we have so much theft and so many people scamming the insurance system that every insurance holder has to charge an extra bundle of money to the insured person.

[01:05:50]Whether it's a business or a private person, whether it's fire insurance for your home. Okay, so we have to tax. Here you go. It's $3,000 per household of hidden costs in your insurance in California.

[01:06:07]Is that insane?

[01:06:09]Every year, not one time, every year, your insurance for your household is $3,000 more than it should be because of this kind of stuff. And if we don't work together and say, "Hey, you >> don't do smash and grab." And it's also my belief a lot of the smash and grab is very organized. It's not just for the 10 guys. So now you got career criminals putting all these kids at risk and making them do bad things >> and they don't I mean they do it on their own, but you know what I mean? It becomes culture and then they're like you're you know standing up for your community. You're wrecking your communities one at a time.

[01:06:44]>> Yeah. They had a lady she was in I think uh either Laguna Newport. They bust her.

[01:06:49]She had over $3 million worth of her product, but basically she had crews that were bringing her stuff and she was reselling it.

[01:06:54]>> Exactly.

[01:06:55]>> And she was a multi-millionaire from these guys getting, you know, thousand, you know, bringing her bags of stuff, uh, Sephora, um, Lululemon, all this stuff. And I'm like, it's crazy. It's got I mean, when I got in trouble, I remember the guys like, "Hey man, everybody's doing bank robberies." I messed around. I got caught up. I bought into it. I was in there do doing time with a bunch of other guys who had did bank robberies. Fortunately, nobody died, but I've seen guys who did bank robberies, somebody died. They got 100 years and they're crying. Gangsters crying because they can't come home. So, when I see what's going on now, and like you said, these people that are just going through it and then now these people leave like In-N-Out Burger leaving Oakland and some and they're like, "It's not Well, pretty soon you don't have any stores left. Maybe there's a a Walmart if you're lucky with everything locked up now. You got glass.

[01:07:43]You got to get deodorant. You got to push a button. Somebody has to come and get the deodorant, you know, a a bar of deodorant, you know. So, it's like I'm like, "Wow, this is so fun.

[01:07:52]>> It's such a drag to shop." Crazy.

[01:07:55]>> I like used to love going to the makeup counter just hanging out and trying on the makeup, get your makeup done.

[01:08:00]>> Not anymore.

[01:08:02]>> Not anymore. It's such a drag.

[01:08:03]>> It is.

[01:08:04]>> And even like, you know, the super organized Apple store and everything, it's this weird shopping experience, you know? Everything's a shopping. the shopping. I was thinking about the other night when I was walking down um I went and met my daughter for some uh dinner and we we parked a little far away from the restaurant. We were walking up and down and the shops and everything and I was like what is this store? You know like it's I miss shopping.

[01:08:24]>> You seen Fairfax?

[01:08:26]>> Oh, it's so fast.

[01:08:27]>> Done. Santa Monica Prominad Pro.

[01:08:29]>> I used to go down there. I remember going down there watching people like salsa dance, shopping for Christmas, you know, you hang out the music and now you smell poo poo and pee pee and it's nasty.

[01:08:44]>> Oh, and they have open container.

[01:08:46]>> I know. I want to tell you something about retail real quick because I think this is really interesting. Um, it's also one of my major major, you know, changes. If I become El Governor, okay, if I'm El Governor, one of the thing we are going to do is we are going to reinstate Bradley Burns tax to all of the cities and we are going to do a destination requirement by all online sales. Are you ready for this? So, in 1954, you might have to fact check me, maybe it was 55 or six, but I think it's 54.

[01:09:22]We passed this thing called Bradley Burns tax in California. Bradley Burns tax is the uh portion of the sales tax when you buy something that comes back to your community. So it's like an origin tax.

[01:09:36]So if you go into a store and your tax is 10% on $100, one of those dollars is going to make it back to your community.

[01:09:45]>> Okay. Bradley Burns is really important because in the case of like Los Angeles, it's like $50 billion annually. So, it's a lot. Remember that we do a lot of sales. You have to add up all of the stuff. Sales tax is the core of when the Gavin Newsome Group talk about revenue, they when they mean revenue, sales tax revenue is a big deal because every single time there's 10%, you know, $100 under that sold like that's that's revenue selling stuff and getting sales tax. Okay?

[01:10:18]>> So sales tax, you're in the store, someone comes in and they buy something.

[01:10:23]So I'm going to give you a great example of what's wrong with this. It's Saturday morning and you really want to mow your lawn.

[01:10:33]Okay, your lawn mower won't start. Won't stop.

[01:10:38]You get in your car and you drive to Home Depot and you're standing there looking for a lawn mower and you get a ping on your phone. Amazon Prime 159 delivered tomorrow morning. Okay. What do you do in Home Depot if the same lawn mower is 179 at Home Depot?

[01:10:57]You get the lawn mower. You may your do it on Sunday. Maybe you take an extension cord. Maybe you buy, I don't know, some paint. I don't know. But you don't buy a lawn mower. You get in your car and you drive home.

[01:11:07]>> In the morning on Sunday, Amazon Prime, they work on Sundays.

[01:11:13]Gives you your $159 lawn mower and you mow your lawn and that is the end of it. What really happened? What really happened is your local Home Depot did not get the $179 sale and the Bradley Burns tax for your town went to Sacramento and it never came back to you because there is no Bradley Burns tax for online sales. If the sale happens online, it stays in Sacramento and they keep the money. In addition to that, Amazon drove their big truck with all their oil and gas and their driver and over the river and through the woods to Marcus' house they came. They opened the back and gave you the box and left their trash and left the house. Okay? And all of that footprint for you carbon footprint for you Democrats, okay, was never ever ever accounted for. And that money went up to Northern California. And that town and your Home Depot and your little community did not get any Bradley Burns tax. Okay? And it is millions and millions of dollars in small communities that they do not get for their Christmas lights programs, for fixing their potholes, for polishing up their main street. And you know what else? It's for homeless beds and putting their homeless people and helping the people that are on their streets that are poor in their little town, which in some towns is like six people. Okay? So, it's it's manageable. Now, what happened in 2009, I don't know, 1819, there was a big lawsuit. It was Wayfair and Etsy, for any of you who don't remember, fact check me. I always say that they were not paying taxes on online sales. So, they lost the lawsuit and they started sending the 10% up to Sacramento. And somebody smart said, you know, knock knock. What about all the towns and the origin tax? It's kind of an origin tax. That's what it is. They said, why can't, you know, Amazon send the tax back or whatever. And Gavin Newsome, our governor, he vetoed that bill because he said it was too much work for Amazon to figure out where they delivered the lawnmower.

[01:13:25]So, no Bradley Burns and they vetoed the bill. Now, all of these towns are suffering from this. Do some work. Go on Grock, go on, you know, chat, go on Perplexity, go do some homework and tell me what percentage of online sales take place in California that do not return Bradley Burns tax and you will find the strangest damn thing you've ever found.

[01:13:51]They will tell you it's 28%.

[01:13:53]So, big fat lie. Start pulling all your friends. How much stuff do you buy online, >> Marcus?

[01:14:00]>> Quite a bit every week.

[01:14:02]>> What do you think? 50%, 100%, 80%.

[01:14:04]>> Yeah, for convenience purposes, probably 60%, 70% because I can't find any stuff on the stores. There's no stores. Amazon took over. I can't find half the stuff.

[01:14:13]I got maybe Michaels I get lucky, but I can't find half the stuff in stores anymore.

[01:14:17]>> Correct. You're right. It is above 60%.

[01:14:20]I think it's close to 80% of sales are under some sort of direct deposit delivery. There's also consolidators, and the consolidators, they charge tax in those locations. There's Amazon, you know, um, uh, hubs, and then that town gets all the sales. There's lots of ways, but none of it goes back to the little towns. And if I am governor, I'm going to fix this. And Amazon will be will be telling Sacramento every single delivered piece of tax. And I don't care if it's $1, they're going to do it. And so will Teamu, Alibaba, and everything.

[01:14:54]Amazon does nearly a trillion dollars worth of sales in California. It's crazy.

[01:14:59]>> Yeah, I could believe it.

[01:15:00]>> It's insane. So, >> and and back to what you said as far as them giving money back to the community.

[01:15:04]I think that's so important because if there's a sense of community, whether it's throwing like annual Fourth of July fireworks things, people feel like they want to keep the community nice, which drives revenue back in because people want to come there to shop. It's like going to Tuca Lake during Christmas time and seeing the lights. It's like, "Wow, I feel the vibe." So, if that would help a lot of these communities that are lacking because people don't want to come in there to shop, they don't feel safe. It's not clean. They're not able to get rid of the graffiti, the trash, the the, you know, all the nastiness.

[01:15:38]And that hurts a lot of these places.

[01:15:41]>> I could not agree with you more. I could not I just want to kiss and hug you.

[01:15:46]That is the absolute bottom line.

[01:15:49]>> If you don't have community, people don't want to live.

[01:15:52]>> No. People move to places because they feel like they belong there.

[01:15:57]>> That's right.

[01:15:57]>> And if you create an environment where you feel like you don't belong, >> you move and everybody is. And on that note, this has been such an incredible discussion with you. I really appreciate you. I would like to hear from you about your book that you wrote because I love it where it can be purchased. Um, is that a book that could be in all schools?

[01:16:19]>> Yeah. Yes. because I think that's a really great book for schools. And um what are your plans in the immediate future to help California uh get and have better government? Would you be interested in >> Definitely. Me and my partner, we actually have a program where we want to implement some trade stuff to help kids find other resources outside of the streets to get into things that could build them a future because not everybody's college. Some kids are good at uh mechanics, electrician, plumbing.

[01:16:50]There's so many other things that you know you do that you get into that trade by the time you graduate you could be making six figures. And a lot of kids I see it when they go to prison they're doing it for the prison. Plumbing for the prison, electrical for the prison.

[01:17:04]They're doing everything in prison they could have been doing on the street for 20 years for a dollar an hour working overtime in prison. So why would you sell drugs or risk a bank robbery? you can get into these these trades now if we implement these back into the schools or we create these pilot programs and we can see a shift and a lot of these young people because they don't really have they don't want to they don't want to go to college they don't really have any guidance they're playing video games all day need an outlet and that's something we want to do at Fresh Out >> um I'm going to introduce you to a really good friend uh and I think that um I'm sure if you um all have watched TV in the last, you know, 20 years. You know, Mike Row. Mike Row is the founder and star of Dirty Jobs.

[01:17:51]>> Yeah. Yeah. So, >> and Mike and a real good friend of mine, Adam Corolla, and a bunch of uh people that I've been working with are working on trade school programs and scholarships and have incredible foundations for this. And this is their primary focus is to get kids into trade schools because nothing is so true as we need to focus on kids learning trades because we cannot function without them.

[01:18:19]You can live without an iPhone. It's really tough to live without plumbing.

[01:18:23]>> Yeah. Yeah. I agree.

[01:18:26]>> Yep.

[01:18:26]>> Thank you, Elaine. I appreciate it for your time. Uh best of luck on the governor's race. We need you in there. I want to come back to California so bad.

[01:18:34]I mean, I miss it every time I come here. You know, I don't have any friends in Arizona. All my friends are in California. So, please win so I can come back and I look forward to having you back on the show.

[01:18:45]>> I can't wait. I'm going to swear I'm going to get introduce you to so many people. I'm going start with Macy.

[01:18:50]>> Big Herk 916 Fresh Out.

[01:19:10]This is it.