October 23, 2024 • 45 mins
Welcome back! In this epsiode the ladies discuss proposition 35 on the November ballot which seeks to raise more money for Medi-Cal and block lawmakers from using the cash to avoid cuts to other programs. Other topics include the We the People Town Hall that was hosted by Charlamagne Tha God with Kamala Harris plus the recent Trump town hall. You will also get to hear an exclusive interview with congressman Adam Schiff who is running to be California's next senator.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to another episode of In the No. My
name is Kayla. I'm collecte Emily. What are we like?
Three weeks away from you?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I actually like, can't believe how close away.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I didn't realize like.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, let's knock up on us, bro, it's less than
three because I think it's less Holy craph.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, I did send in my ballot.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I put it in the ballot drop box outside the
San Gabriel picture. Did you get your sticker sticker? I
put it on my pencil case. I put it on
my pencil case.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
See, I voted, and I bet you felt.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So knowledgeable this time.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I literally like my my fiance was like, what are
we voting for? And I was like, let me tell
you all about it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So it was down. Yeah, it was a pamphlet.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
When just ask me, y'all, I'll tell you to vote
for it.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Kidding, But me and Collette were on air with Ryan
Seacrest the other day talking about this lovely podcast that
was nice. It was we went over what the heck?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was originally supposed to be just me and then
like I there, so I wish we were there. Yeah, damn,
blame Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He's the executive producer, he booked it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, they throw me off with a prop that wasn't
supposed to be talked about, and I'm like, fuck me.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I likes to keep us on our toes. I got you.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yes, yeah it was great.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So yeah, three weeks until the election, and I'm so
glad for this podcast. I mean, some people have been
coming to me saying like, oh my gosh, this is
great what you guys are doing, and they say we
actually sound smart.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh my god, like.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Sound really educated.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
The thing is is like, I don't know, it's it's
actually really fun to learn about. I mean for me
at least, I think it's really fun to learn about
this stuff because you see it every day. And then
once you learn the nuance and you understand like where
this came from and why this happened, you're like, oh,
the whole world, like you see a whole new world
kind of Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I think for me specifically, the candidates have really impacted
me about propositions. Of course, yes, because it affects directly
of the residence here in California. The man hearing these
people's stories and I mean you see them on TV, right,
and they look so serious and like so unapproachable, and
you know, politicians are kind of scary sometimes, but then
they come and they sit down in the chair next
to me and they laugh and they talk about their
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music choices.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, it's very reminizing. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I was literally like, I was editing Laura Friedman, who
I'm sure will come out in future episodes, but I
was adding the interview do with her, and I was like,
she's not in my district, but I wish I could
vote for her.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I loved her.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I was watching I was like, I love this and
it's like not even my district, but it makes me
feel more connected to LA.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Yeah. In general, and every time I do prep and
research for these candidates, I'm like learning so much.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm scouring their websites.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And it's kind of almost like I get to compare
and contrast and see who's doing what. But just the
care in the time that some of these candidates are
putting into just the information that they're putting out there,
I'm like, Wow, there are some people that really really
care about the communities that they serve.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We talked to Adam Schiff recently, and you're gonna hear
the audio of that one in this episode. But and
you can watch it on YouTube as well. But getting
him was like such a big deal.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Caleb played a very instrumental part in that I have like.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
A salesperson at this place.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
But the key with with that episode or that interview,
they really wanted to do us because it's like a
millennial and gen z driven podcast, and he really wanted to. Uh.
The reason that they told me they really wanted to
do our specific podcast is because his daughter listens to iHeartRadio.
She's very in tune with the Z one hundred in
New York and she loves everything pop culture and she
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keeps him on his toes about and keeps updated with
things that are happening. And so he felt it necessary
to come and talk to us because he wanted to
enter into his daughter's world.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
That was amazing.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Who's listening to this podcast too and making it possible
for us to have these conversations because the fact that
you're listening and tuning in and care, yeah, is giving
us the ability to have this platform in the first place.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Absolutely, how much y'all's week? It was good?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, Like I said, I voted, I got my ballot in,
so I was doing a lot of that, but it
was it was really fun. I love filling it out
and doing all that stuff. So yeah, how was yours?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I started therapy for the first time this week, my
first like zoom therapy call, which was actually so okay. Well,
I funnily enough, I did a consultation for my therapist
the day I had an inprov class, So I went
from like an hour long therapy session like you know,
just like meeting a stranger, yeah, to walking into a
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comedy session.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Which is jarring to say the least.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
But this was my first real session and it was
so weird how much lighter I felt afterwards. It's kind
of crazy, like I've always been the type of person
that was like, I can just handle it myself. I
really don't like to ask for help. I actually really
hate asking for help, and so it was it was
enlightening how much lighter I felt after this conversation.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
As you go on this journey with therapy and stuff,
you're gonna like you're it's it's gonna be tough, for sure,
but like you're gonna feel so much better.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's totally worth it.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Like, yeah, you said, the first time ever, I've gone
to a few sessions here and there. So not first
time ever, but my first time I think really like
committing myself to really wanting to be consistent and try
and like use it as like a tool in my
life and.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Not just like a situational thing.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, I'm proud of you, am because I've been talking
about wanting to do this, and like people need to
realize that going to therapy isn't You don't.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Always need to do it just because like you're in crisis, right.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, you're having a mental break or whatever, you're whatever,
You can go to therapy whenever, even if you're feeling good.
I think it's good just to check in with somebody
who is not a part of your life, is not biased,
it's not like close to any of the situation, and
watch it transform your life. And that was the thing too,
And I even brought that up with her because I
feel like I'm someone who ebbs and flows a lot,
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Like I'll go through periods of time where I definitely
really feel like I need someone to talk to you,
and then there are moments of time where I'm like
so fine, and I'm like I'll be just overreacting the
other day, like Noel and I'm going through a week
where I've been feeling really good, and obviously I had
this appointment set of when I'm like do it?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Do I really mean this?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Should I like cancel? And I was like no, what No,
like exactly what you said. It's not like in times
of die or desperation. It's like, I think it's almost
like diet, right, like when you change your life and
you make healthier habits, Like you have to make those
healthy habits every day, not just certain days for it
to be something that sticks, and to be something that's
consistent in your life and something that's you know, helpful
for your life.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And I think it's the same thing with.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I think everyone needs to go to therapy. I think
it needs to be like a requirement, like one hundred percent.
It's so important. And you can just tell when someone's
like going to therapy and doing the work and stuff
like that because they just like it's just so much
better to be around them.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
They're happier, they're healthier, like just better.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I've been going to therapy and extra since my breakup
that happened almost a year ago, and then I started
feeling better, but I didn't stop. I started now. Then
it was like three every three weeks and then now
it's like once a month.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Just for a check in.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But it's so important and I will never I don't
think I will ever stop been person, the same person
since I've been here. No, since I've been here in
la Oh wow, Okay, because I think like you can't
bring your provider state to state. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
wish I could bring my therapists from like man Ronogue,
Virginia when I first got into like radio, But yeah,
I like my therapist here. And I also think when
it comes to finding a therapist, like it's trial and error.
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Some people like, sure you might not you men had
a great session, but next time you feel like, oh
this might not work, you know, and find somebody else.
It's just like you have to find that person that
connects with you and your background and your culture.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
And yeah, I think the hardest thing is like going
in knowing that it might not work out, and you're like,
I'm bearing my soul to a stranger.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
What happens if this doesn't work?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
What happens if we don't gel and you're being so
vulnerable to a complete stranger. Like to me, that was
like the biggest barrier ros like what's the point, Like
is it gonna even work out?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Is it gonna happen?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And like, once I got over that hurdle of like,
well there's a point because there's a goal at the
end of this, and if it doesn't work out with
this person, that's just like a box check that you
tried it, you can move on and like try something new.
And it's like, once you pass that first hurdle, it's
crazy how much easier everything past that gets.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh my gosh, I that like for that.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I hate doing that first therapy session though, because you
have to give them like context to your life, like, oh.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
These are the people in my life write down.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm like, okay, I got okay, So this happened when
I was a kid, and now it's affecting this anyway,
all right, let's go past that. Like it's so exhausting
once you get into it, though.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, I'm excited, so but it was crazy.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I so I'm on that game show, right and I
had a friend come over after the game show, which
is another like you know, you go from like a
really like weird emotional thing to like a really heightened
emotional experience. And it was it was just interesting to
see how much lighter I felt this time, and then
I could like really enjoy like the fun of the
TV show that my friend and I were on that
we watched together, and it was just like like, wow,
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I really do feel different.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I feel lighter and I feel better. So yeah, that
was my week. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Well, I don't really nothing really happened for me this week.
I feel like I've just been on the go with work.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah you're yeah, I got.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Speaking of mental health, are you like taking care of
your It's been a rough two weeks, I will admit,
but I'm pushing through and I have it in therapy
talking about some of the things that I've been feeling.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
But I just like overwhelmed, you know. And but no matter,
at the end of the day, still just so grateful
that I get to do what I love to do
every single day and that I have a boss hill
in at you me.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But something cool that did happen this week was the
town hall with Charlamage, the god from the Breakfast Club.
First of all, I love me some Charlamagne, but he
did a town hall with an audio town hall with
Kamala Harris and if anybody didn't hear that, I was
like on all iHeart radio stations, but if anybody missed it,
you could always go to wead Thepeople dot com. I
scratched that iHeartRadio dot com slash we the People and basically,
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we have this talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app and
listeners could just ask a random question and she sat
there and she answered them, and I thought it was
really cool that she sat there and did that. One
of the questions that Charlotte Mane asked her that somebody
asked was like, why are you so repetitive all the time,
Like you say the same thing. You seem scripted, And
she was like, well, no, I'm not scripted. I want
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to reinforce that this is where I stand on a
certain topic. And I thought, they like beat it and
down people's brains and say it over and over again
so they see that I'm passionate about this and this
is what I mean, and I mean what I say,
And so I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Would you guys say that this is the most accessible
election that we've had.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
When she's on the freaking Call Her Daddy podcast.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
This is what I love about having a younger candidate
in the race again, I mean younger obviously just compared
to like Joe Biden and Trump they're very old. Is
she has the energy and the like the vigor to
just do like she's going on press like literally press tours.
She's going on Fox News like like into enemy territory
essentially for her because like Fox News is very skewed
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towards the right, and she's she's doing because she has
she has the passion for it and I love, love,
love seeing it. And also to go back to the
repetitive thing, you know, like in interviews, like artists will
probably get asked like the same questions over and over again,
Like she's probably getting asked the same questions over and
over again.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's why she's repeating herself.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Anyway, I'm very proud of her, and I love that
she's like kind of bringing some new life into this
election in this race.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You know, so didn't Trump go on a podcast?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
He went on Aiden Ross? Do you know that streamer?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Is that what you're talking about? Because I think it's
really gu's mind. You it's like call her daddy and
Aiden Ross. Like the fact that they're going on these
podcasts It.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Just shows you that it's like the new media, though.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think Andrew Schultz, Yeah, oh he did do it.
I love Andrew Schultz.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah, he's been doing some he's been doing some podcasts.
He didn't do sixty minutes though, which was a big
deal because that is a very traditional thing for presidential
candidates to do.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So he hasn't like done like like Kamala you said,
is going to Fox News. He hasn't really come going
over to like the Right at all or the lest Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
No, he he's he's like every time he goes on,
he always says like, oh, well they like they said
this and they did this, so like and he's very
hates a cn like he hates them so like he.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Was atway with the debates, he's like making a big
deal about like who was hosting the debate.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, he's always like with network television news, like he's
always had issues with that. But I mean he's been
he's also been doing podcasts too, just like Kamas. So
they've been you know, they've been going around there. But
it's just like the same one. I want them to
do the same one really bad.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That that would have been the sixty minutes or.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Call her daddy too. They reach out to Trump too,
but I want to She's got a lot. I hate
for that one, I know. But why was it only
seven minutes?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It was a forty minute interview that only got with
only seven minutes was released and it was only about abortion.
That was a little upset about that. I was like,
where's the interview?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I like that she's sticking her I like that alex
is sticking like to her, like she's sticking to her
morals on her grounds, like she's like, no, this was
a good interview for us to guess.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Get like, I'm not going to say no to the
vice president.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And I'm sure that I think she said that she
reached out to Trump too.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah she did. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I'm saying, like, I want to see the same interviewer podcast,
not a media outlet.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's like you're like, call her daddy.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Maybe I want to see the same the same or
charlamage thing is on Spotify?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Wait so long? Is it? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Really?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, so the video was only seven on YouTube on
the collor Daddy only. Sorry, I did not know that
was on Spotify.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
But I do want to see the same interviewer because
I feel like it's such a gotcha moment when a
candidate says like, well, they asked me this because they're
biased blah blah blah blah this or that. So it's
like I want to see like the same baseline, the
same interviewer interview both of them, so they so nobody
can discredit the interview.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Well, maybe we'll see that.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
With the Fox News guy, because I'm sure Trump will
go back on Fox News. I'm sure he'll interview with
Brett I forgot his last name, and.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
She wasn't a news source, Like I want it to
be just like it should be Charlemagne, the God after
he just did the town hall.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Charlemagne would be perfect.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He is a great interviewer.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He was an amazing interviewer, and I think he should
do the exact same thing he should do in an
audio town hall with Trump and the same thing listeners
ask questions that would be amazing. I'm sure they reached
out because I think that there's like, you know, there's
that rule that the fair time role where well, yeah,
if you're extending to one, you have to extend to
the others.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Exactly. It's exactly what we're doing here with this podcast.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Too.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Every time I interview, like I interviewed Steve Garvey, who
is the Republican running for senator, and then we just
had Adam shift like we always reach out to both
parties so that you can be you know, both candidates.
I don't know, weird, but you know. Trump also did
like a town hall. Did you see that one too?
Or I don't know if it was a town hall,
but like he stood in the middle of the thing.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It was like all women, right, or there.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Was a man who stood up and said, like I
was a register Republican, now I'm not registered at all,
or something like that, and he was like, I voted
for you, but I need you to win back my vote.
I don't like what you did with January sixth, in
citing you know, the riots and the violence and blah
blah blah. Why should I vote for you again because
right now I'm not.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And you know, Trump didn't really have the best response.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
He said, know, he didn't really do anything with January
six and he said there were very fine people, So
I don't think he watched it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It was very interesting.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I think if Trump loses the election, which obviously we
don't know, the race is extremely close. But I think
if Trump loses the election, it will be because of
his response to January six because that seems to be
the issue that gets brought up the most of the
debates and the VP debate and the presidential debate that
they have. He also, I mean, I feel like a
lot of Republican voters like stopped voting for him after
that January sixth thing. Mike Pence was no longer supporting
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him after the January sixth thing. So I think, obviously
if he loses, there'll be a multitude of reasons, but
I think that will definitely be interesting, A really big one.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, his base, the people his base you say, abandoned
him because of that.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Some of them did, obviously, some of them stuck by it.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Of course, obviously like those key issues that like people
that are not in his base, obviously that's not probably.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Not the top of their list. Yeah, that's probably a lower.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I mean, that's probably a lower thing on their list.
Top of the list, probably like reproductive care. Yeah, LGBTQ rights.
But maybe his base doesn't. That's an interesting take.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It was a video you sent us about the choir.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, I don't remember what was, but Kamala HQ reposted it,
so I'm assuming it's real. But he was at some
sort of rally and the choir, I think was supposedly
made up of the inmates from people that got arrested.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
On January six It's a song.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's a charity record by by former United States President
Donald Trump and the j six prison Choir, a choir
of about twenty men in prison for their involvement in
the January sixth United States capital attack.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That is from Wikipedia, and that was the national anthem.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, so I guess it just kind of changed it
up a little bit. Yeah, it's very interesting. But hey,
I guess if you're in prison, you need some things
to do. Make a choir, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
You know, there are worse things to do.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
There are worse things to do.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
If that is okay, interesting, Well let's get into proposition
thirty five. That is what we're talking about. Shout out
to cal Matters. Okay, They like, if you ever need
to look at all the propositions again. They also we're
gonna take a little quiz too. They also if you're
undecided about if you are yes on this or know
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about this, they have you take a quiz and ask
you questions that will tell you what you are.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Okay. Proposition thirty five would require.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
The state to spend the money from a tax on
healthcare plans on Medicare Medical, the public insurance program for
low income Californians and people with disabilities. The revenue would
go to primary and specialty care, emergency services, family planning,
mental health, and prescription drugs. It would also prevent legislators
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from using the tax revenue to replace existing state medical
spending over the next four years. Is projected to generate
upwards of thirty five billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Governor.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Governor Governor Gavin Newsom is actually against this. A lot
of people are for but he's actually against it. He
proposed using the tax revenue to cover other medical program expenses,
walking back a deal to support new investments. He said
that he would oppose the measure, even though there's no
official registered opposition group so far. He argues that restricting
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how the tax revenue is spent hamstrings future legislators and
governor's ability to balance the state budget.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Interesting, Okay, so he's looking at it from a legislative standpoint,
basically saying, if this is locked in, this is going
to hinder like what legislature we can pass laws.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
It's so interesting because I totally thought he would like
totally support this because he's really for like you know,
medical and you know, health care for everyone. So it
was interesting because I as a voter, I'm not thinking
out from it from like the legislator's point of view.
I'm not thinking like, oh, this will make other things
harder to pass. Yeah, so I interest it was like
a yeah, I wasn't expecting it, and it was a
different like kind of like you know, viewpoint on it,
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which is very interesting. And there's other like endorsements for
people opposing this, League of women voters in California, California
Pan Ethnic Health Network, Children's Partnership, California, Alliance for Retired Americans,
Courage California. So like, you know's it seems like a
slightly controversial one.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Am I wrong on this?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Though?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Is there no argument against it in the voter guide?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I don't believe any was submitted for this one.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Yeah, that's an interesting take too. Yeah, so it's weird
that there was no against. Yeah, for the four of those.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Supporters argue that California has relied on this tax known
as the managed care association tax for decades to offset
general Fund spending on medical. This managed you know, health
care plans to pay a tax to get a dollar
for dollar matching amount of money for the federal government.
It's a lot of money talk. It's very confusing, especially
with medical. Oh my gosh, anytime I have to figure
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out like my medicare or any of that, it's so confusing.
But yeah, it seems like healthcare providers who serve medical
patients are arguing that this tax revenue should be used
for new investments in medical rather than supporting the States
General Fund. So it all comes down to money and
medical and where that goes.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yeah, one of the big oppositions to this is what
they say is that even the most intelligent person can't
become an expert enough in a month to cast a
carefully considered vote on something that we literally have a
full time legislature to decide on. So, like Governor said,
the red tape that could come with yes on this
could kind of mess with other kind of laws and
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kind of recent.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But you know what's interesting about this is for the
support on this, Not only does the California Democratic Party
endorse this, but so does the Republican Party of California,
And that's very interesting. So they never agree on anything.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
That is That's also a point for you know, it
seems like this is one of the more complicated ones
on the ballot is here and it's more of like,
I guess that's one of the things where it's like,
do the long term effects negative effects a i e.
Red tape that could come in the future, do those
matter more to you than the shorter term benefits.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
It was also interesting about this is supporters state that
this measure, we also leave some money unrestricted for those lawmakers,
so for the flexibility that lawmakers want, like Gavin Newsom
is saying, so like supporters say, like, hey, there's no
need to complain about this. You are getting like some
unrestricted money that you can like mess around with basically.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
So, I don't know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Speaking of mental health, I mean, we had a really
crazy situation happened this week Lampagne from one Direction that
was crazy. I was a one directioneer that broke me
to my soul. I jo was on the floor for
solid five minutes. I did not see that in my
twenty twenty four Bingo card. Like any member of One
Direction dying. That's mean thirty one is so young.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Yeah, And it was confirmed this week that he did jump.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yes, it was confirmed that he did jump. Prior to jumping,
he had a manic episode, like in the lobby of
the hotel. This happened in Argent's. He was erratic, he
like slammed and broke his laptop. The the hotel staff
had to carry him back up to his hotel room
where there was allegedly I guess, like, I mean, we
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saw that there was drugs and like alcohol and.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Stuff and issues with addiction.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Any of the thing is he's been open about that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I've been watching like all these interviews where he says
that he has been struggling since a very young age,
even while he was in One Direction, Like they would
lock them in rooms, you know, and there would be
a bar and he would just you know. But what
was haunting was like the nine one one call. Yeah,
prior when they were worried about him, after he had
had that episode in the hotel lobby, they called nine
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one one saying, can you guys get here. We have
a man who's on drugs and alcohol. We're afraid that
he will do something.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yeah, they said that he was in a unit that
had a third story balcony and they were scared, literally
scared me.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I know, the fact that they mentioned the balcony in
the call.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Was like, yeah, they they really like they were very
astute to the situation and what was happening. And that's
kind of the crazy thing. You know, a lot of
commenters are saying like, wow, this could have been prevented.
And to me, when I first heard that nine to
one to one call, obviously hearing it after you know,
we know what happens, my first thought was, you know,
I wonder what it's like in Argentina when their response
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time to an active emergency versus a call where someone's
saying I'm scared for the possibility of And I think
when it comes to mental.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Health, like no matter where we are in the.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
World, I think there needs to be this investment in
that preemptive care. Right when you see someone going through
a crisis and you see the warning signs of what's
going to happen next, that emphasis on the what can
we do now to prevent this happening? It should be
just as urgent as there's an active emergency.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, I mean, we see it all the time, right,
They wait until something actually happens to take action, and
there are signs way before that that somebody is in distress,
just like with Liam. And it just breaks my heart
that it was just not it didn't happen the way
that you know, he wasn't able to be saved.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
But this is why, like maybe Prop thirty five wouldn't
be such a bad idea because some of that money
would go into mental health services for low income Californians
who obviously Liam Fane was not a low income in
Californian but still, I mean, like mental health services I
think people are seeing now in recent years, they are
a necessity. It's not just like, oh, because you have
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a little bit of a it's not like you know,
oh maybe you can go take a therapy like therapy something,
but you know, it's a necessity for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They need these mental health services. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
So a big reason I waited for so long was
because I didn't know if I was going to be able,
if it was going to be something I could afford
to do. Yeah, how does this like tie into like
the Homeless too, Like they have like their manic episodes
on the streets, Like, what are we able to do
for them? When you see that, you know, and you
never know what they could do next too, right, which
is scary, And of course we have a lot of
that here in the streets of California. I also feel
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like mental health is so tie to your your home,
your your place of living. Right, Like, if you are
going let's say you aren't homeless, Let's say you do
have a home and you have a job. If you're
going through mental health issues, that could be what takes
you from being able to function in a job. Losing
that job, then you lose your home. Then you're someone
who had all these things. If you had the resources
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and the mental care help, maybe you would have been
able to keep your job and keep your home. It's
like it's like it's almost like a problem that's feeding
into itself.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, vicious circle.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, I mean, speaking of homeless I talk to Adam
Schiff all about it. He is very passionate about the
homelessness crisis and the housing crisis, and he feels like
they're very interconnected and he wants to change things. So
take a listen to my interview with Adam Schiff, who
is running for Senator. Welcome back to the In the
Know podcast. My name is Kayla, and today I am
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with Adam Schiff. Hi. Hi, it's great to be with you.
You are running to be Senator, which is amazing. How
does that feel? How are you feeling this current moment?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Feeling good? I can't believe we're down in the last
three weeks. Man crazy. I started this campaign almost two
years ago and now we're finally seeing the light at
the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah. So, I know you've been here since you were
a kid. You've basically been California all your life. I
feel like we choose where we live as an adult, though,
I mean as a kid, like you came here with
your parents, So why did you continue to choose California?
Why did you stay here? Can when you could have
chosen any other state.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
California has everything. We've got incredible natural beauty. You can
go to the mountains, you can go to the beach
on the same day. It's got incredible people, it's got
amazing industry and creative folks. It's got everything. And in
a lot of other places, you have to go from
state to state to find just what you can find
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in La let alone in the whole, big, beautiful state
of California. So we moved here when I was eleven,
and you're never going to get me out of California.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I love that so much. So what spot here feels
the most like home? Is it with your friends or
a certain restaurant, or is it a certain city?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
You know? I love the water. Actually, when I first
moved to La I moved to Venice. I lived on
Venice Beach. I've been living in Burbank for a very
long time now, so I'm not near the water anymore.
But I would say my favorite times are when I
can look at at that big, beautiful ocean and just
seeing how massive it is. Your own challenges, problems, whatever's
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going on in your life seems very small in comparison.
I love being out on the water. I love being
under the water. I used to do a fair amount
of diving. I don't get much chance to do that anymore,
but I guess that's my happy place.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Wait, what are some other hobbies? Like, what do you
do with your friends when you're not working? Is I
know you're working a lot, but you have to have
some like self care time? Right?
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Yes? I like sports, so I like working out. Okay,
I used to do triathlons, so I did a lot
of running, swimming, biking. I am lucky to get to
the gym these days, so I'm kind of a gym rat.
But then my favorite pastime. This sounds quaint, perhaps, but
I love going to the movies. And I don't like
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watching movies at home compared to going out and being
in theater, being around other people seeing something on the
big screen.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
It's an experience.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
It's an experience. And I have the good fortune of
representing the entertainment industry in my congressional district for a
long time, and that was a good marriage because I
love what the industry does.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, what I love the most about California is the
people here. I just moved here like three years ago,
and the people. Everybody has such a unique story. And
for someone who's been here so long, I'm sure you
have heard so many stories throughout the year. So is
there any stories that you could share with us that
have stuck with you throughout the years that you maybe
heard from residents here?
Speaker 6 (28:56):
For sure? And actually one really comes to mind. I
was talking to a young women in the north of
the state and she was telling me that she was
told to get a good education, so she went to college.
She got a lot of good student debt along with
her education. Years later, she's still paying that student debt.
Her rent keeps going up and up and up. Between
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her rent and her loan payments, she has very little
set aside, and she lives alone. And she says, I'm terrified,
and that really stayed with me. It's an illustration how
the challenge today is not that people are out of work,
unemployment is very low, but that people are working and
they still are struggling to get by. Lots of young
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people can't afford a place to live. They're moving back
in with their parents, and not because they particularly want to.
And these are the challenges that I'm really focused on
in the Senate campaign. But that particular vignette really stands
out to me because of what it says about the
struggle so many people are in, particularly young people are facing.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, I mean, that is the reality of the situation
so many of my friends. I mean I've heard stories
like that from my friends who are just so they're struggling,
they don't know what to do. I've had a lot
of friends move out of California because of it too.
So knowing that you hear us is very important. So
let's get into your campaign. What is being a senator
means to you?
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Well, it means in a state like California, getting to
know each and every part of this incredible, big, beautiful state.
So being the biggest representative for the Central Valley and
the needs of people in the Central Valley, the need
for broadband access and access to good quality healthcare, the
need to have clean drinking water. It means in the
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south of the state dealing with the Tijuana River ecological
disaster or lack of broadband access in the north of
the state. In the big cities, it means helping those
cities come back. San Francisco, Oakland, some other big cities
really struggle post pandemic. I want to help them come back.
So it means being a champion for every part of
the state, bringing resources back to the state, building a
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lot more housing to bring down the cost of housing
in the state. This is really what I hope to
do in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, you say you're a proven fighter of California. How
does that look different on this next level than what
you've been already doing well.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
I think Californians expect their senator to be able to
do two things simultaneously. One is they want to make
sure that we can work with people, get things done.
Have a record of delivering for people. I've helped build
mass transit here in La. I've helped bring back millions
for housing. I helped protect open space. I wrote California's
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Patient Bill of Rights. I wrote the law to bring
up to day textbooks to our schools. So I have
a long record of delivering for the state. Not one
deliver for the state, but statewide, every part of the state.
But also Californians want their senator to be able to
take on really big fights when it's necessary, like protecting
our democracy. And I've also done that.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah. So You've been accused by opponents of being a
one issue candidate.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
They say, like you, you.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Know, with the Trump impeachment, your focus is on Trump.
What do you say to that, and then what are
some issues that are important to you?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
You know, I think if you ask people about the
work I've done in the pre Trump era, they would
have had a very different impression. I shared the Intelligence
Committee was ranking member. Also, the Intelligence Committee was known
for all the things that I mentioned in terms of
patient Bill of Rights and bringing up to date textbooks
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to schools, and building mass transit and protecting open space.
But yes, when we had a dangerous president who was
a threat to our democracy, who was tearing down our guardrails,
who was threatening to imprison his political impolerance, I stood
up to him. California's expect you to do that. And
you know, my opponent, for the last thirty seven years,
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since he retired from baseball, has been signing baseball's I've
been watching governors of both parties and presidents of both
parties signed my bills into law long before Trump came
to office, and I hope long after he's gone from
the scene politically.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, I mean, you did spearhead that whole movement of
the impeachment. What did that moment mean to you?
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Well, I felt that our democracy was very much at risk.
I still feel that way. We saw things take place
in this country we've never seen before, and I was
in a position where I could do something about it.
I could help defend the rule of law, and so
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I was I think fortunate that I could help defend
our democracy, that our caucus and Speaker Pelosi chose me
to lead the impeachment effort to try that case in
the Senate, and later to serve on the January sixth
Committee and hold that former president accountable. I hope never
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have to do that again, but if it were necessary,
I would do it.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Let's talk about your opponent, Steve Garvey. Why do you
feel like you are a better fit than he is.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Well, we had a debate last week and what came
out was positions for mister Garvey that are deeply at
odds with Californians and most particularly young people. He opposes
reproductive freedom and supports these state bans on abortion. That's
not where Californians are. His environmental policy can be summed
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up by his saying that he would open the oil spigots.
That's not the answer to climate change. On gun violence,
he says he's opposed to any gun reforms. That's not
what Californians are looking for to protect our communities. On
senior issues, he wants to cut social Security and Medicare.
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That is certainly not where our seniors are, or I
think anywhere when else in California. And you know, his
views read like they're write out of Project twenty twenty five,
So he's deeply out step. I think that's why he's
way behind, and I hope and expect he will be
way behind on election day. So there are very clear
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policy differences between the two of us.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, what is your number one priority? Day one? If
you become senator?
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Housing? Housing, I would say is number one end number
two housing and homelessness. To address either problem, we're gonna
have to be building a lot more housing, and I'm
championing legislation that would create a tax incentive to build
more housing. We're gonna have to build it, and build
it fast and build it more cheaply. We need to
help people who are homeless get into shelter, make sure
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they get the mental health or substance abuse treatment they
need to stay sheltered. We need to bring down child
care costs. So these are a couple of my top priorities.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Okay, Yes, I know from reading your website and reading
about you that you say that housing affordability crisis and
the homelessness crisis they are interconnected, interconnected, and that we
do need to take drastic action. So do you have
a specific plan in place? What is that drastic action?
Speaker 6 (36:04):
There's something called the Low Income Housing tax Credit, which
is really effective and encouraging the building of more affordable housing.
The problem is it's capped, so once the limit has
been reached, you get no more tax credit, and so
people aren't building. We need to dramatically expand that incentive
to build housing. We also need to encourage local governments
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to approve housing more quickly. It could take four years
to build new housing. We're never going to solve this
problem if it takes four years to build new housing.
So those are a couple things I would focus on
incentivizing through the tax code the building of new housing
and reducing the roadblocks to getting it done quickly.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Okay, something that's going to be on our November ballot
is Proposition four, which has to do with climate change.
Climate change is impacting our water. We need a reliable
water supply, but that's hard right now, it's uncertain with
the climate chain crisis. So you say that that starts
with passing the Green New Deal. Can you break down
what that is and how do you plan on getting
it past this time?
Speaker 6 (37:03):
The Green New Deal is a collection of anti climate change,
pro environment policies that would move our economy in a
greener direction and bring a sense of urgency to it
so we get ahead of climate change. I think we
need to continue and even more strongly incentivize the development
of green energy sources. And we have to stop tax
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breaks and tax incentives for an oil industry that's killing
the planet and us along with it. Those are two
of the strongest measures I would take. We also need
to train people for the green economy and make sure
that people aren't left behind. There are a lot of
good paying new jobs in the green economy, and I
want those to be headquartered right here in California.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay, So I heard a lot of people online and honestly,
some of my friends have said that they're not voting
at all. They don't like either candidate when it comes
to president, and I think a lot of people overlook
that there's so much other things to vote for on
the ballot. So what do you say, specifically to the
people who have no interest in.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Voting at all, Well, this is so important to your future,
and there are some great choices on the ballot. I
think Kamala Harris is a great choice for president of
United States. And I think actually, while a lot of
young people were quite apathetic about voting before she became
the nominee. When she became the nominee, there's been a
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whole level of youth engagement that I haven't seen before,
which is very encouraging to me. But for young people,
if you're concerned about lack of housing, then your vote
can make a difference. If you're concerned about gun violence,
your vote can make a difference. If you're concerned about
reproductive freedom, you can vote for candidates who will support
that right. And so it's really young people who have
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more at stake in this election than anyone else because
it will affect the world that they inherit. And so
this is your civic duty, but more importantly, it's your
opportunity to to change things that you don't like.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, it's really hard to trust politicians sometimes. Why should
we trust you?
Speaker 6 (39:07):
Well, I think you have to look at what's the
candidate's record, What have they actually done? Talk is cheap?
What have you actually done? I brought up to date
textbooks to our schools. I gave patients a bill of
rights so that if you were denied medical care by
your HMO or your insurance company, you could make sure
you got your healthcare. I brought back millions for housing
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for people. I've carried legislation to double the size of
the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, one of the most
heavily utilized parks in the nation. I have a long
record of delivering for my constituents, and I contrast that
with the guy I'm running against who has no record
of delivering for California. He was an excellent baseball player
a long time ago. That's not a track record for
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success in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Okay, will you be accessible to everyday Californians like me
and everybody in this room who have question or concern
because a lots of times we feel like we can't
reach you, we can't talk to you, or if we
reach out with a concern and an email, like it'll
be a bounce back, or we'll get like an assistant.
We'll be able to talk directly to you.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
Yes, And I'm really proud as a member of the
House of Representatives that I have been very accessible to
people and that my constituents know me. It's why they've
re elected me so often. I'm very present in the community,
and during the course of the Senate campaign, I've made
such a determined effort to go to each part of
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the state because I want people to know me. You
can't be a good representative if you're not accessible to people,
if you don't hear their concerns and their ideas. So
it's what I've done during my entire tenure in public office.
It's what I will do as a senator.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Okay, before I let you go, we have some questions
from listeners. Do you mind if I just like bloom off?
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Okay, cool, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
All right, It's impossible to not agree slash compromise or
at least one policy stance. Give an example of a
meaningful compromise you would make right now, Washington in order
to pass a policy.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Well, housing is such a priority for me, and there
Republicans who support the same tax credit I do on
locome housing. And there are some Republicans who support the
same tax credit I do on the child tax credit
to lift up children orn poverty. There's other things that
they want though, before they'll agree to sign on the
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dotted line. So I'll sit down with them. I'll say, Okay,
what do you need to support this, and let's reach
a compromise. It's what I've done throughout my tenure in
the House. I've worked with and had some great partnerships
with some very conservative Republicans where we've built mass transit,
where we've helped fund NASA and space exploration. And I'll
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continue to do that kind of bipartisan work.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Okay, what specifically about you as a candidate is appealing
to more conservative voters. What will you do to communicate
that there is support for them rather than just being
another Democrat.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
I'm very pragmatic. I have a long record of getting
things done with the Republican governors, with Republican presidents, because
I work well across the ol to deliver for my constituents.
And while I'm most prominently known for standing up to
Donald Trump, something i'm proud of, those that have worked
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with me in Congress, and those who are my constituents
today know how successful I have been in working with
others to deliver. So I'm going to continue to do that.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Okay, simple question. I mean you've basically already answered it
while we were talking, But in simple terms, why should
we vote for you?
Speaker 6 (42:34):
I have a record of delivering for the state, which
I will continue to do. More affordable housing, more affordable childcare,
access to quality healthcare. I have a long record of delivering.
But more than that, if the need should be to
defend our democracy, even against somebody who would be a dictator,
I will stand up to that bully and fight back
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and fight back on behalf of California.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Okay, we're a music station. I have to ask you
about your music taste. What's your favorite genre?
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Rock and roll? And my last concert, I got to
see Billy Joel Madison Square Garden. I wanted to see
him while he was still doing a residency there. It
was on my bucket list. My wife and I went
and we actually got to go backstage and meet Billy Joel,
which was really a thrill.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Oh my gosh, that would be your favorite artist.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
He has to be, he's there. Yeah, he's probably my
favorite artist.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
I listened to him so often when I was in college.
The people thought he was my roommate.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Oh my gosh. Okay, playlist, what's on your playlist? Let's
say when you're working.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
Out m Kings of Leon Dave Matthews. It's a pretty eclectic.
Okay playlist?
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Okay, Well, thank you so much, Adam for sitting with me.
Where can everyone.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Find you adamshift dot com.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Easy, Thank you so much and have a good one.
Speaker 6 (43:58):
Thank you. Great to be with you.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
That was Adam Schiff, Democratic candidate for senator. He is
running against Steve Garvey. I actually talked with Steve Garvey
as well, so you can compare the two interviews. Both
of them are up on the KISSFM YouTube channel. Just
got to kissfm dot com slash in the know. But yeah,
that's pretty much it for today.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
A little bit of a heavier episode today, but I
feel like such an important one, you know, yes, so important.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
And again my thoughts and prayers go to all the
one directioners out there.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
I'm heartbroke and I cried.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Charthy was always.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
One of my favorite Liampaigne. But yeah, just a reminder
like love on your loved ones that are here, and
tell people that you love them, and don't take things
too seriously, you know, like let things go. That's what
I got of it.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
Yeah, and don't take time with people and telling people,
well they're here, don't take that for granted. Yeah, you
never know when you won't be able to tell them
how much they mean to you anymore.
Speaker 4 (44:50):
And if you care about the mental health crisis, and
you care about the housing crisis, all the things that
we've touched on in this episode.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Vote Baby, Vote you gotta get out there. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
My name is Kaylee All. Kayla's Thomas forty on Socials.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
I'm Collete Colt Underscore Hubert on Socials, and I'm Emily
at Its Emily scar on Socials.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
We'll talk to you next
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Week maybe Bye.
Welcome back to another episode of In the No. My
name is Kayla. I'm collecte Emily. What are we like?
Three weeks away from you?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I actually like, can't believe how close away.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I didn't realize like.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, let's knock up on us, bro, it's less than
three because I think it's less Holy craph.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, I did send in my ballot.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I put it in the ballot drop box outside the
San Gabriel picture. Did you get your sticker sticker? I
put it on my pencil case. I put it on
my pencil case.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
See, I voted, and I bet you felt.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So knowledgeable this time.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I literally like my my fiance was like, what are
we voting for? And I was like, let me tell
you all about it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So it was down. Yeah, it was a pamphlet.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
When just ask me, y'all, I'll tell you to vote
for it.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Kidding, But me and Collette were on air with Ryan
Seacrest the other day talking about this lovely podcast that
was nice. It was we went over what the heck?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was originally supposed to be just me and then
like I there, so I wish we were there. Yeah, damn,
blame Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He's the executive producer, he booked it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, they throw me off with a prop that wasn't
supposed to be talked about, and I'm like, fuck me.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I likes to keep us on our toes. I got you.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yes, yeah it was great.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So yeah, three weeks until the election, and I'm so
glad for this podcast. I mean, some people have been
coming to me saying like, oh my gosh, this is
great what you guys are doing, and they say we
actually sound smart.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh my god, like.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Sound really educated.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
The thing is is like, I don't know, it's it's
actually really fun to learn about. I mean for me
at least, I think it's really fun to learn about
this stuff because you see it every day. And then
once you learn the nuance and you understand like where
this came from and why this happened, you're like, oh,
the whole world, like you see a whole new world
kind of Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I think for me specifically, the candidates have really impacted
me about propositions. Of course, yes, because it affects directly
of the residence here in California. The man hearing these
people's stories and I mean you see them on TV, right,
and they look so serious and like so unapproachable, and
you know, politicians are kind of scary sometimes, but then
they come and they sit down in the chair next
to me and they laugh and they talk about their
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music choices.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, it's very reminizing. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I was literally like, I was editing Laura Friedman, who
I'm sure will come out in future episodes, but I
was adding the interview do with her, and I was like,
she's not in my district, but I wish I could
vote for her.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I loved her.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I was watching I was like, I love this and
it's like not even my district, but it makes me
feel more connected to LA.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Yeah. In general, and every time I do prep and
research for these candidates, I'm like learning so much.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm scouring their websites.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And it's kind of almost like I get to compare
and contrast and see who's doing what. But just the
care in the time that some of these candidates are
putting into just the information that they're putting out there,
I'm like, Wow, there are some people that really really
care about the communities that they serve.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We talked to Adam Schiff recently, and you're gonna hear
the audio of that one in this episode. But and
you can watch it on YouTube as well. But getting
him was like such a big deal.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Caleb played a very instrumental part in that I have like.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
A salesperson at this place.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
But the key with with that episode or that interview,
they really wanted to do us because it's like a
millennial and gen z driven podcast, and he really wanted to. Uh.
The reason that they told me they really wanted to
do our specific podcast is because his daughter listens to iHeartRadio.
She's very in tune with the Z one hundred in
New York and she loves everything pop culture and she
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keeps him on his toes about and keeps updated with
things that are happening. And so he felt it necessary
to come and talk to us because he wanted to
enter into his daughter's world.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
That was amazing.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Who's listening to this podcast too and making it possible
for us to have these conversations because the fact that
you're listening and tuning in and care, yeah, is giving
us the ability to have this platform in the first place.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Absolutely, how much y'all's week? It was good?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, Like I said, I voted, I got my ballot in,
so I was doing a lot of that, but it
was it was really fun. I love filling it out
and doing all that stuff. So yeah, how was yours?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I started therapy for the first time this week, my
first like zoom therapy call, which was actually so okay. Well,
I funnily enough, I did a consultation for my therapist
the day I had an inprov class, So I went
from like an hour long therapy session like you know,
just like meeting a stranger, yeah, to walking into a
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comedy session.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Which is jarring to say the least.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
But this was my first real session and it was
so weird how much lighter I felt afterwards. It's kind
of crazy, like I've always been the type of person
that was like, I can just handle it myself. I
really don't like to ask for help. I actually really
hate asking for help, and so it was it was
enlightening how much lighter I felt after this conversation.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
As you go on this journey with therapy and stuff,
you're gonna like you're it's it's gonna be tough, for sure,
but like you're gonna feel so much better.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's totally worth it.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Like, yeah, you said, the first time ever, I've gone
to a few sessions here and there. So not first
time ever, but my first time I think really like
committing myself to really wanting to be consistent and try
and like use it as like a tool in my
life and.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Not just like a situational thing.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, I'm proud of you, am because I've been talking
about wanting to do this, and like people need to
realize that going to therapy isn't You don't.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Always need to do it just because like you're in crisis, right.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, you're having a mental break or whatever, you're whatever,
You can go to therapy whenever, even if you're feeling good.
I think it's good just to check in with somebody
who is not a part of your life, is not biased,
it's not like close to any of the situation, and
watch it transform your life. And that was the thing too,
And I even brought that up with her because I
feel like I'm someone who ebbs and flows a lot,
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Like I'll go through periods of time where I definitely
really feel like I need someone to talk to you,
and then there are moments of time where I'm like
so fine, and I'm like I'll be just overreacting the
other day, like Noel and I'm going through a week
where I've been feeling really good, and obviously I had
this appointment set of when I'm like do it?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Do I really mean this?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Should I like cancel? And I was like no, what No,
like exactly what you said. It's not like in times
of die or desperation. It's like, I think it's almost
like diet, right, like when you change your life and
you make healthier habits, Like you have to make those
healthy habits every day, not just certain days for it
to be something that sticks, and to be something that's
consistent in your life and something that's you know, helpful
for your life.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And I think it's the same thing with.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I think everyone needs to go to therapy. I think
it needs to be like a requirement, like one hundred percent.
It's so important. And you can just tell when someone's
like going to therapy and doing the work and stuff
like that because they just like it's just so much
better to be around them.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
They're happier, they're healthier, like just better.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I've been going to therapy and extra since my breakup
that happened almost a year ago, and then I started
feeling better, but I didn't stop. I started now. Then
it was like three every three weeks and then now
it's like once a month.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Just for a check in.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But it's so important and I will never I don't
think I will ever stop been person, the same person
since I've been here. No, since I've been here in
la Oh wow, Okay, because I think like you can't
bring your provider state to state. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
wish I could bring my therapists from like man Ronogue,
Virginia when I first got into like radio, But yeah,
I like my therapist here. And I also think when
it comes to finding a therapist, like it's trial and error.
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Some people like, sure you might not you men had
a great session, but next time you feel like, oh
this might not work, you know, and find somebody else.
It's just like you have to find that person that
connects with you and your background and your culture.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
And yeah, I think the hardest thing is like going
in knowing that it might not work out, and you're like,
I'm bearing my soul to a stranger.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
What happens if this doesn't work?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
What happens if we don't gel and you're being so
vulnerable to a complete stranger. Like to me, that was
like the biggest barrier ros like what's the point, Like
is it gonna even work out?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Is it gonna happen?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And like, once I got over that hurdle of like,
well there's a point because there's a goal at the
end of this, and if it doesn't work out with
this person, that's just like a box check that you
tried it, you can move on and like try something new.
And it's like, once you pass that first hurdle, it's
crazy how much easier everything past that gets.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh my gosh, I that like for that.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I hate doing that first therapy session though, because you
have to give them like context to your life, like, oh.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
These are the people in my life write down.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm like, okay, I got okay, So this happened when
I was a kid, and now it's affecting this anyway,
all right, let's go past that. Like it's so exhausting
once you get into it, though.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, I'm excited, so but it was crazy.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I so I'm on that game show, right and I
had a friend come over after the game show, which
is another like you know, you go from like a
really like weird emotional thing to like a really heightened
emotional experience. And it was it was just interesting to
see how much lighter I felt this time, and then
I could like really enjoy like the fun of the
TV show that my friend and I were on that
we watched together, and it was just like like, wow,
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I really do feel different.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I feel lighter and I feel better. So yeah, that
was my week. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Well, I don't really nothing really happened for me this week.
I feel like I've just been on the go with work.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah you're yeah, I got.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Speaking of mental health, are you like taking care of
your It's been a rough two weeks, I will admit,
but I'm pushing through and I have it in therapy
talking about some of the things that I've been feeling.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
But I just like overwhelmed, you know. And but no matter,
at the end of the day, still just so grateful
that I get to do what I love to do
every single day and that I have a boss hill
in at you me.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But something cool that did happen this week was the
town hall with Charlamage, the god from the Breakfast Club.
First of all, I love me some Charlamagne, but he
did a town hall with an audio town hall with
Kamala Harris and if anybody didn't hear that, I was
like on all iHeart radio stations, but if anybody missed it,
you could always go to wead Thepeople dot com. I
scratched that iHeartRadio dot com slash we the People and basically,
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we have this talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app and
listeners could just ask a random question and she sat
there and she answered them, and I thought it was
really cool that she sat there and did that. One
of the questions that Charlotte Mane asked her that somebody
asked was like, why are you so repetitive all the time,
Like you say the same thing. You seem scripted, And
she was like, well, no, I'm not scripted. I want
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to reinforce that this is where I stand on a
certain topic. And I thought, they like beat it and
down people's brains and say it over and over again
so they see that I'm passionate about this and this
is what I mean, and I mean what I say,
And so I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Would you guys say that this is the most accessible
election that we've had.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
When she's on the freaking Call Her Daddy podcast.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
This is what I love about having a younger candidate
in the race again, I mean younger obviously just compared
to like Joe Biden and Trump they're very old. Is
she has the energy and the like the vigor to
just do like she's going on press like literally press tours.
She's going on Fox News like like into enemy territory
essentially for her because like Fox News is very skewed
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towards the right, and she's she's doing because she has
she has the passion for it and I love, love,
love seeing it. And also to go back to the
repetitive thing, you know, like in interviews, like artists will
probably get asked like the same questions over and over again,
Like she's probably getting asked the same questions over and
over again.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's why she's repeating herself.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Anyway, I'm very proud of her, and I love that
she's like kind of bringing some new life into this
election in this race.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You know, so didn't Trump go on a podcast?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
He went on Aiden Ross? Do you know that streamer?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Is that what you're talking about? Because I think it's
really gu's mind. You it's like call her daddy and
Aiden Ross. Like the fact that they're going on these
podcasts It.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Just shows you that it's like the new media, though.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think Andrew Schultz, Yeah, oh he did do it.
I love Andrew Schultz.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah, he's been doing some he's been doing some podcasts.
He didn't do sixty minutes though, which was a big
deal because that is a very traditional thing for presidential
candidates to do.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So he hasn't like done like like Kamala you said,
is going to Fox News. He hasn't really come going
over to like the Right at all or the lest Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
No, he he's he's like every time he goes on,
he always says like, oh, well they like they said
this and they did this, so like and he's very
hates a cn like he hates them so like he.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Was atway with the debates, he's like making a big
deal about like who was hosting the debate.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, he's always like with network television news, like he's
always had issues with that. But I mean he's been
he's also been doing podcasts too, just like Kamas. So
they've been you know, they've been going around there. But
it's just like the same one. I want them to
do the same one really bad.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That that would have been the sixty minutes or.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Call her daddy too. They reach out to Trump too,
but I want to She's got a lot. I hate
for that one, I know. But why was it only
seven minutes?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It was a forty minute interview that only got with
only seven minutes was released and it was only about abortion.
That was a little upset about that. I was like,
where's the interview?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I like that she's sticking her I like that alex
is sticking like to her, like she's sticking to her
morals on her grounds, like she's like, no, this was
a good interview for us to guess.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Get like, I'm not going to say no to the
vice president.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And I'm sure that I think she said that she
reached out to Trump too.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah she did. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I'm saying, like, I want to see the same interviewer podcast,
not a media outlet.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's like you're like, call her daddy.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Maybe I want to see the same the same or
charlamage thing is on Spotify?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Wait so long? Is it? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Really?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, so the video was only seven on YouTube on
the collor Daddy only. Sorry, I did not know that
was on Spotify.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
But I do want to see the same interviewer because
I feel like it's such a gotcha moment when a
candidate says like, well, they asked me this because they're
biased blah blah blah blah this or that. So it's
like I want to see like the same baseline, the
same interviewer interview both of them, so they so nobody
can discredit the interview.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Well, maybe we'll see that.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
With the Fox News guy, because I'm sure Trump will
go back on Fox News. I'm sure he'll interview with
Brett I forgot his last name, and.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
She wasn't a news source, Like I want it to
be just like it should be Charlemagne, the God after
he just did the town hall.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Charlemagne would be perfect.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He is a great interviewer.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He was an amazing interviewer, and I think he should
do the exact same thing he should do in an
audio town hall with Trump and the same thing listeners
ask questions that would be amazing. I'm sure they reached
out because I think that there's like, you know, there's
that rule that the fair time role where well, yeah,
if you're extending to one, you have to extend to
the others.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Exactly. It's exactly what we're doing here with this podcast.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Too.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Every time I interview, like I interviewed Steve Garvey, who
is the Republican running for senator, and then we just
had Adam shift like we always reach out to both
parties so that you can be you know, both candidates.
I don't know, weird, but you know. Trump also did
like a town hall. Did you see that one too?
Or I don't know if it was a town hall,
but like he stood in the middle of the thing.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It was like all women, right, or there.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Was a man who stood up and said, like I
was a register Republican, now I'm not registered at all,
or something like that, and he was like, I voted
for you, but I need you to win back my vote.
I don't like what you did with January sixth, in
citing you know, the riots and the violence and blah
blah blah. Why should I vote for you again because
right now I'm not.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And you know, Trump didn't really have the best response.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
He said, know, he didn't really do anything with January
six and he said there were very fine people, So
I don't think he watched it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It was very interesting.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I think if Trump loses the election, which obviously we
don't know, the race is extremely close. But I think
if Trump loses the election, it will be because of
his response to January six because that seems to be
the issue that gets brought up the most of the
debates and the VP debate and the presidential debate that
they have. He also, I mean, I feel like a
lot of Republican voters like stopped voting for him after
that January sixth thing. Mike Pence was no longer supporting
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him after the January sixth thing. So I think, obviously
if he loses, there'll be a multitude of reasons, but
I think that will definitely be interesting, A really big one.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, his base, the people his base you say, abandoned
him because of that.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Some of them did, obviously, some of them stuck by it.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Of course, obviously like those key issues that like people
that are not in his base, obviously that's not probably.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Not the top of their list. Yeah, that's probably a lower.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I mean, that's probably a lower thing on their list.
Top of the list, probably like reproductive care. Yeah, LGBTQ rights.
But maybe his base doesn't. That's an interesting take.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It was a video you sent us about the choir.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, I don't remember what was, but Kamala HQ reposted it,
so I'm assuming it's real. But he was at some
sort of rally and the choir, I think was supposedly
made up of the inmates from people that got arrested.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
On January six It's a song.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's a charity record by by former United States President
Donald Trump and the j six prison Choir, a choir
of about twenty men in prison for their involvement in
the January sixth United States capital attack.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That is from Wikipedia, and that was the national anthem.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, so I guess it just kind of changed it
up a little bit. Yeah, it's very interesting. But hey,
I guess if you're in prison, you need some things
to do. Make a choir, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
You know, there are worse things to do.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
There are worse things to do.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
If that is okay, interesting, Well let's get into proposition
thirty five. That is what we're talking about. Shout out
to cal Matters. Okay, They like, if you ever need
to look at all the propositions again. They also we're
gonna take a little quiz too. They also if you're
undecided about if you are yes on this or know
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about this, they have you take a quiz and ask
you questions that will tell you what you are.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Okay. Proposition thirty five would require.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
The state to spend the money from a tax on
healthcare plans on Medicare Medical, the public insurance program for
low income Californians and people with disabilities. The revenue would
go to primary and specialty care, emergency services, family planning,
mental health, and prescription drugs. It would also prevent legislators
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from using the tax revenue to replace existing state medical
spending over the next four years. Is projected to generate
upwards of thirty five billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Governor.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Governor Governor Gavin Newsom is actually against this. A lot
of people are for but he's actually against it. He
proposed using the tax revenue to cover other medical program expenses,
walking back a deal to support new investments. He said
that he would oppose the measure, even though there's no
official registered opposition group so far. He argues that restricting
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how the tax revenue is spent hamstrings future legislators and
governor's ability to balance the state budget.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Interesting, Okay, so he's looking at it from a legislative standpoint,
basically saying, if this is locked in, this is going
to hinder like what legislature we can pass laws.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
It's so interesting because I totally thought he would like
totally support this because he's really for like you know,
medical and you know, health care for everyone. So it
was interesting because I as a voter, I'm not thinking
out from it from like the legislator's point of view.
I'm not thinking like, oh, this will make other things
harder to pass. Yeah, so I interest it was like
a yeah, I wasn't expecting it, and it was a
different like kind of like you know, viewpoint on it,
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which is very interesting. And there's other like endorsements for
people opposing this, League of women voters in California, California
Pan Ethnic Health Network, Children's Partnership, California, Alliance for Retired Americans,
Courage California. So like, you know's it seems like a
slightly controversial one.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Am I wrong on this?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Though?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Is there no argument against it in the voter guide?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I don't believe any was submitted for this one.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Yeah, that's an interesting take too. Yeah, so it's weird
that there was no against. Yeah, for the four of those.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Supporters argue that California has relied on this tax known
as the managed care association tax for decades to offset
general Fund spending on medical. This managed you know, health
care plans to pay a tax to get a dollar
for dollar matching amount of money for the federal government.
It's a lot of money talk. It's very confusing, especially
with medical. Oh my gosh, anytime I have to figure
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out like my medicare or any of that, it's so confusing.
But yeah, it seems like healthcare providers who serve medical
patients are arguing that this tax revenue should be used
for new investments in medical rather than supporting the States
General Fund. So it all comes down to money and
medical and where that goes.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yeah, one of the big oppositions to this is what
they say is that even the most intelligent person can't
become an expert enough in a month to cast a
carefully considered vote on something that we literally have a
full time legislature to decide on. So, like Governor said,
the red tape that could come with yes on this
could kind of mess with other kind of laws and
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kind of recent.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But you know what's interesting about this is for the
support on this, Not only does the California Democratic Party
endorse this, but so does the Republican Party of California,
And that's very interesting. So they never agree on anything.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
That is That's also a point for you know, it
seems like this is one of the more complicated ones
on the ballot is here and it's more of like,
I guess that's one of the things where it's like,
do the long term effects negative effects a i e.
Red tape that could come in the future, do those
matter more to you than the shorter term benefits.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
It was also interesting about this is supporters state that
this measure, we also leave some money unrestricted for those lawmakers,
so for the flexibility that lawmakers want, like Gavin Newsom
is saying, so like supporters say, like, hey, there's no
need to complain about this. You are getting like some
unrestricted money that you can like mess around with basically.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
So, I don't know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Speaking of mental health, I mean, we had a really
crazy situation happened this week Lampagne from one Direction that
was crazy. I was a one directioneer that broke me
to my soul. I jo was on the floor for
solid five minutes. I did not see that in my
twenty twenty four Bingo card. Like any member of One
Direction dying. That's mean thirty one is so young.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Yeah, And it was confirmed this week that he did jump.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yes, it was confirmed that he did jump. Prior to jumping,
he had a manic episode, like in the lobby of
the hotel. This happened in Argent's. He was erratic, he
like slammed and broke his laptop. The the hotel staff
had to carry him back up to his hotel room
where there was allegedly I guess, like, I mean, we
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saw that there was drugs and like alcohol and.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Stuff and issues with addiction.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Any of the thing is he's been open about that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I've been watching like all these interviews where he says
that he has been struggling since a very young age,
even while he was in One Direction, Like they would
lock them in rooms, you know, and there would be
a bar and he would just you know. But what
was haunting was like the nine one one call. Yeah,
prior when they were worried about him, after he had
had that episode in the hotel lobby, they called nine
(22:43):
one one saying, can you guys get here. We have
a man who's on drugs and alcohol. We're afraid that
he will do something.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yeah, they said that he was in a unit that
had a third story balcony and they were scared, literally
scared me.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I know, the fact that they mentioned the balcony in
the call.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Was like, yeah, they they really like they were very
astute to the situation and what was happening. And that's
kind of the crazy thing. You know, a lot of
commenters are saying like, wow, this could have been prevented.
And to me, when I first heard that nine to
one to one call, obviously hearing it after you know,
we know what happens, my first thought was, you know,
I wonder what it's like in Argentina when their response
(23:18):
time to an active emergency versus a call where someone's
saying I'm scared for the possibility of And I think
when it comes to mental.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Health, like no matter where we are in the.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
World, I think there needs to be this investment in
that preemptive care. Right when you see someone going through
a crisis and you see the warning signs of what's
going to happen next, that emphasis on the what can
we do now to prevent this happening? It should be
just as urgent as there's an active emergency.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, I mean, we see it all the time, right,
They wait until something actually happens to take action, and
there are signs way before that that somebody is in distress,
just like with Liam. And it just breaks my heart
that it was just not it didn't happen the way
that you know, he wasn't able to be saved.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
But this is why, like maybe Prop thirty five wouldn't
be such a bad idea because some of that money
would go into mental health services for low income Californians
who obviously Liam Fane was not a low income in
Californian but still, I mean, like mental health services I
think people are seeing now in recent years, they are
a necessity. It's not just like, oh, because you have
(24:26):
a little bit of a it's not like you know,
oh maybe you can go take a therapy like therapy something,
but you know, it's a necessity for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They need these mental health services. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
So a big reason I waited for so long was
because I didn't know if I was going to be able,
if it was going to be something I could afford
to do. Yeah, how does this like tie into like
the Homeless too, Like they have like their manic episodes
on the streets, Like, what are we able to do
for them? When you see that, you know, and you
never know what they could do next too, right, which
is scary, And of course we have a lot of
that here in the streets of California. I also feel
(24:58):
like mental health is so tie to your your home,
your your place of living. Right, Like, if you are
going let's say you aren't homeless, Let's say you do
have a home and you have a job. If you're
going through mental health issues, that could be what takes
you from being able to function in a job. Losing
that job, then you lose your home. Then you're someone
who had all these things. If you had the resources
(25:19):
and the mental care help, maybe you would have been
able to keep your job and keep your home. It's
like it's like it's almost like a problem that's feeding
into itself.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, vicious circle.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, I mean, speaking of homeless I talk to Adam
Schiff all about it. He is very passionate about the
homelessness crisis and the housing crisis, and he feels like
they're very interconnected and he wants to change things. So
take a listen to my interview with Adam Schiff, who
is running for Senator. Welcome back to the In the
Know podcast. My name is Kayla, and today I am
(25:50):
with Adam Schiff. Hi. Hi, it's great to be with you.
You are running to be Senator, which is amazing. How
does that feel? How are you feeling this current moment?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Feeling good? I can't believe we're down in the last
three weeks. Man crazy. I started this campaign almost two
years ago and now we're finally seeing the light at
the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah. So, I know you've been here since you were
a kid. You've basically been California all your life. I
feel like we choose where we live as an adult, though,
I mean as a kid, like you came here with
your parents, So why did you continue to choose California?
Why did you stay here? Can when you could have
chosen any other state.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
California has everything. We've got incredible natural beauty. You can
go to the mountains, you can go to the beach
on the same day. It's got incredible people, it's got
amazing industry and creative folks. It's got everything. And in
a lot of other places, you have to go from
state to state to find just what you can find
(26:47):
in La let alone in the whole, big, beautiful state
of California. So we moved here when I was eleven,
and you're never going to get me out of California.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I love that so much. So what spot here feels
the most like home? Is it with your friends or
a certain restaurant, or is it a certain city?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
You know? I love the water. Actually, when I first
moved to La I moved to Venice. I lived on
Venice Beach. I've been living in Burbank for a very
long time now, so I'm not near the water anymore.
But I would say my favorite times are when I
can look at at that big, beautiful ocean and just
seeing how massive it is. Your own challenges, problems, whatever's
(27:31):
going on in your life seems very small in comparison.
I love being out on the water. I love being
under the water. I used to do a fair amount
of diving. I don't get much chance to do that anymore,
but I guess that's my happy place.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Wait, what are some other hobbies? Like, what do you
do with your friends when you're not working? Is I
know you're working a lot, but you have to have
some like self care time? Right?
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Yes? I like sports, so I like working out. Okay,
I used to do triathlons, so I did a lot
of running, swimming, biking. I am lucky to get to
the gym these days, so I'm kind of a gym rat.
But then my favorite pastime. This sounds quaint, perhaps, but
I love going to the movies. And I don't like
(28:18):
watching movies at home compared to going out and being
in theater, being around other people seeing something on the
big screen.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
It's an experience.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
It's an experience. And I have the good fortune of
representing the entertainment industry in my congressional district for a
long time, and that was a good marriage because I
love what the industry does.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, what I love the most about California is the
people here. I just moved here like three years ago,
and the people. Everybody has such a unique story. And
for someone who's been here so long, I'm sure you
have heard so many stories throughout the year. So is
there any stories that you could share with us that
have stuck with you throughout the years that you maybe
heard from residents here?
Speaker 6 (28:56):
For sure? And actually one really comes to mind. I
was talking to a young women in the north of
the state and she was telling me that she was
told to get a good education, so she went to college.
She got a lot of good student debt along with
her education. Years later, she's still paying that student debt.
Her rent keeps going up and up and up. Between
(29:18):
her rent and her loan payments, she has very little
set aside, and she lives alone. And she says, I'm terrified,
and that really stayed with me. It's an illustration how
the challenge today is not that people are out of work,
unemployment is very low, but that people are working and
they still are struggling to get by. Lots of young
(29:39):
people can't afford a place to live. They're moving back
in with their parents, and not because they particularly want to.
And these are the challenges that I'm really focused on
in the Senate campaign. But that particular vignette really stands
out to me because of what it says about the
struggle so many people are in, particularly young people are facing.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, I mean, that is the reality of the situation
so many of my friends. I mean I've heard stories
like that from my friends who are just so they're struggling,
they don't know what to do. I've had a lot
of friends move out of California because of it too.
So knowing that you hear us is very important. So
let's get into your campaign. What is being a senator
means to you?
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Well, it means in a state like California, getting to
know each and every part of this incredible, big, beautiful state.
So being the biggest representative for the Central Valley and
the needs of people in the Central Valley, the need
for broadband access and access to good quality healthcare, the
need to have clean drinking water. It means in the
(30:40):
south of the state dealing with the Tijuana River ecological
disaster or lack of broadband access in the north of
the state. In the big cities, it means helping those
cities come back. San Francisco, Oakland, some other big cities
really struggle post pandemic. I want to help them come back.
So it means being a champion for every part of
the state, bringing resources back to the state, building a
(31:03):
lot more housing to bring down the cost of housing
in the state. This is really what I hope to
do in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, you say you're a proven fighter of California. How
does that look different on this next level than what
you've been already doing well.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
I think Californians expect their senator to be able to
do two things simultaneously. One is they want to make
sure that we can work with people, get things done.
Have a record of delivering for people. I've helped build
mass transit here in La. I've helped bring back millions
for housing. I helped protect open space. I wrote California's
(31:38):
Patient Bill of Rights. I wrote the law to bring
up to day textbooks to our schools. So I have
a long record of delivering for the state. Not one
deliver for the state, but statewide, every part of the state.
But also Californians want their senator to be able to
take on really big fights when it's necessary, like protecting
our democracy. And I've also done that.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah. So You've been accused by opponents of being a
one issue candidate.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
They say, like you, you.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Know, with the Trump impeachment, your focus is on Trump.
What do you say to that, and then what are
some issues that are important to you?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
You know, I think if you ask people about the
work I've done in the pre Trump era, they would
have had a very different impression. I shared the Intelligence
Committee was ranking member. Also, the Intelligence Committee was known
for all the things that I mentioned in terms of
patient Bill of Rights and bringing up to date textbooks
(32:33):
to schools, and building mass transit and protecting open space.
But yes, when we had a dangerous president who was
a threat to our democracy, who was tearing down our guardrails,
who was threatening to imprison his political impolerance, I stood
up to him. California's expect you to do that. And
you know, my opponent, for the last thirty seven years,
(32:55):
since he retired from baseball, has been signing baseball's I've
been watching governors of both parties and presidents of both
parties signed my bills into law long before Trump came
to office, and I hope long after he's gone from
the scene politically.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, I mean, you did spearhead that whole movement of
the impeachment. What did that moment mean to you?
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Well, I felt that our democracy was very much at risk.
I still feel that way. We saw things take place
in this country we've never seen before, and I was
in a position where I could do something about it.
I could help defend the rule of law, and so
(33:37):
I was I think fortunate that I could help defend
our democracy, that our caucus and Speaker Pelosi chose me
to lead the impeachment effort to try that case in
the Senate, and later to serve on the January sixth
Committee and hold that former president accountable. I hope never
(33:57):
have to do that again, but if it were necessary,
I would do it.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Let's talk about your opponent, Steve Garvey. Why do you
feel like you are a better fit than he is.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Well, we had a debate last week and what came
out was positions for mister Garvey that are deeply at
odds with Californians and most particularly young people. He opposes
reproductive freedom and supports these state bans on abortion. That's
not where Californians are. His environmental policy can be summed
(34:27):
up by his saying that he would open the oil spigots.
That's not the answer to climate change. On gun violence,
he says he's opposed to any gun reforms. That's not
what Californians are looking for to protect our communities. On
senior issues, he wants to cut social Security and Medicare.
(34:48):
That is certainly not where our seniors are, or I
think anywhere when else in California. And you know, his
views read like they're write out of Project twenty twenty five,
So he's deeply out step. I think that's why he's
way behind, and I hope and expect he will be
way behind on election day. So there are very clear
(35:09):
policy differences between the two of us.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah, what is your number one priority? Day one? If
you become senator?
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Housing? Housing, I would say is number one end number
two housing and homelessness. To address either problem, we're gonna
have to be building a lot more housing, and I'm
championing legislation that would create a tax incentive to build
more housing. We're gonna have to build it, and build
it fast and build it more cheaply. We need to
help people who are homeless get into shelter, make sure
(35:38):
they get the mental health or substance abuse treatment they
need to stay sheltered. We need to bring down child
care costs. So these are a couple of my top priorities.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Okay, Yes, I know from reading your website and reading
about you that you say that housing affordability crisis and
the homelessness crisis they are interconnected, interconnected, and that we
do need to take drastic action. So do you have
a specific plan in place? What is that drastic action?
Speaker 6 (36:04):
There's something called the Low Income Housing tax Credit, which
is really effective and encouraging the building of more affordable housing.
The problem is it's capped, so once the limit has
been reached, you get no more tax credit, and so
people aren't building. We need to dramatically expand that incentive
to build housing. We also need to encourage local governments
(36:26):
to approve housing more quickly. It could take four years
to build new housing. We're never going to solve this
problem if it takes four years to build new housing.
So those are a couple things I would focus on
incentivizing through the tax code the building of new housing
and reducing the roadblocks to getting it done quickly.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Okay, something that's going to be on our November ballot
is Proposition four, which has to do with climate change.
Climate change is impacting our water. We need a reliable
water supply, but that's hard right now, it's uncertain with
the climate chain crisis. So you say that that starts
with passing the Green New Deal. Can you break down
what that is and how do you plan on getting
it past this time?
Speaker 6 (37:03):
The Green New Deal is a collection of anti climate change,
pro environment policies that would move our economy in a
greener direction and bring a sense of urgency to it
so we get ahead of climate change. I think we
need to continue and even more strongly incentivize the development
of green energy sources. And we have to stop tax
(37:25):
breaks and tax incentives for an oil industry that's killing
the planet and us along with it. Those are two
of the strongest measures I would take. We also need
to train people for the green economy and make sure
that people aren't left behind. There are a lot of
good paying new jobs in the green economy, and I
want those to be headquartered right here in California.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay, So I heard a lot of people online and honestly,
some of my friends have said that they're not voting
at all. They don't like either candidate when it comes
to president, and I think a lot of people overlook
that there's so much other things to vote for on
the ballot. So what do you say, specifically to the
people who have no interest in.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Voting at all, Well, this is so important to your future,
and there are some great choices on the ballot. I
think Kamala Harris is a great choice for president of
United States. And I think actually, while a lot of
young people were quite apathetic about voting before she became
the nominee. When she became the nominee, there's been a
(38:23):
whole level of youth engagement that I haven't seen before,
which is very encouraging to me. But for young people,
if you're concerned about lack of housing, then your vote
can make a difference. If you're concerned about gun violence,
your vote can make a difference. If you're concerned about
reproductive freedom, you can vote for candidates who will support
that right. And so it's really young people who have
(38:46):
more at stake in this election than anyone else because
it will affect the world that they inherit. And so
this is your civic duty, but more importantly, it's your
opportunity to to change things that you don't like.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, it's really hard to trust politicians sometimes. Why should
we trust you?
Speaker 6 (39:07):
Well, I think you have to look at what's the
candidate's record, What have they actually done? Talk is cheap?
What have you actually done? I brought up to date
textbooks to our schools. I gave patients a bill of
rights so that if you were denied medical care by
your HMO or your insurance company, you could make sure
you got your healthcare. I brought back millions for housing
(39:29):
for people. I've carried legislation to double the size of
the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, one of the most
heavily utilized parks in the nation. I have a long
record of delivering for my constituents, and I contrast that
with the guy I'm running against who has no record
of delivering for California. He was an excellent baseball player
a long time ago. That's not a track record for
(39:53):
success in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Okay, will you be accessible to everyday Californians like me
and everybody in this room who have question or concern
because a lots of times we feel like we can't
reach you, we can't talk to you, or if we
reach out with a concern and an email, like it'll
be a bounce back, or we'll get like an assistant.
We'll be able to talk directly to you.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
Yes, And I'm really proud as a member of the
House of Representatives that I have been very accessible to
people and that my constituents know me. It's why they've
re elected me so often. I'm very present in the community,
and during the course of the Senate campaign, I've made
such a determined effort to go to each part of
(40:32):
the state because I want people to know me. You
can't be a good representative if you're not accessible to people,
if you don't hear their concerns and their ideas. So
it's what I've done during my entire tenure in public office.
It's what I will do as a senator.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Okay, before I let you go, we have some questions
from listeners. Do you mind if I just like bloom off?
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Okay, cool, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
All right, It's impossible to not agree slash compromise or
at least one policy stance. Give an example of a
meaningful compromise you would make right now, Washington in order
to pass a policy.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Well, housing is such a priority for me, and there
Republicans who support the same tax credit I do on
locome housing. And there are some Republicans who support the
same tax credit I do on the child tax credit
to lift up children orn poverty. There's other things that
they want though, before they'll agree to sign on the
(41:23):
dotted line. So I'll sit down with them. I'll say, Okay,
what do you need to support this, and let's reach
a compromise. It's what I've done throughout my tenure in
the House. I've worked with and had some great partnerships
with some very conservative Republicans where we've built mass transit,
where we've helped fund NASA and space exploration. And I'll
(41:44):
continue to do that kind of bipartisan work.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Okay, what specifically about you as a candidate is appealing
to more conservative voters. What will you do to communicate
that there is support for them rather than just being
another Democrat.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
I'm very pragmatic. I have a long record of getting
things done with the Republican governors, with Republican presidents, because
I work well across the ol to deliver for my constituents.
And while I'm most prominently known for standing up to
Donald Trump, something i'm proud of, those that have worked
(42:17):
with me in Congress, and those who are my constituents
today know how successful I have been in working with
others to deliver. So I'm going to continue to do that.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Okay, simple question. I mean you've basically already answered it
while we were talking, But in simple terms, why should
we vote for you?
Speaker 6 (42:34):
I have a record of delivering for the state, which
I will continue to do. More affordable housing, more affordable childcare,
access to quality healthcare. I have a long record of delivering.
But more than that, if the need should be to
defend our democracy, even against somebody who would be a dictator,
I will stand up to that bully and fight back
(42:57):
and fight back on behalf of California.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Okay, we're a music station. I have to ask you
about your music taste. What's your favorite genre?
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Rock and roll? And my last concert, I got to
see Billy Joel Madison Square Garden. I wanted to see
him while he was still doing a residency there. It
was on my bucket list. My wife and I went
and we actually got to go backstage and meet Billy Joel,
which was really a thrill.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Oh my gosh, that would be your favorite artist.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
He has to be, he's there. Yeah, he's probably my
favorite artist.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
I listened to him so often when I was in college.
The people thought he was my roommate.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Oh my gosh. Okay, playlist, what's on your playlist? Let's
say when you're working.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
Out m Kings of Leon Dave Matthews. It's a pretty eclectic.
Okay playlist?
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Okay, Well, thank you so much, Adam for sitting with me.
Where can everyone.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Find you adamshift dot com.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Easy, Thank you so much and have a good one.
Speaker 6 (43:58):
Thank you. Great to be with you.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
That was Adam Schiff, Democratic candidate for senator. He is
running against Steve Garvey. I actually talked with Steve Garvey
as well, so you can compare the two interviews. Both
of them are up on the KISSFM YouTube channel. Just
got to kissfm dot com slash in the know. But yeah,
that's pretty much it for today.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
A little bit of a heavier episode today, but I
feel like such an important one, you know, yes, so important.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
And again my thoughts and prayers go to all the
one directioners out there.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
I'm heartbroke and I cried.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Charthy was always.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
One of my favorite Liampaigne. But yeah, just a reminder
like love on your loved ones that are here, and
tell people that you love them, and don't take things
too seriously, you know, like let things go. That's what
I got of it.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
Yeah, and don't take time with people and telling people,
well they're here, don't take that for granted. Yeah, you
never know when you won't be able to tell them
how much they mean to you anymore.
Speaker 4 (44:50):
And if you care about the mental health crisis, and
you care about the housing crisis, all the things that
we've touched on in this episode.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Vote Baby, Vote you gotta get out there. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
My name is Kaylee All. Kayla's Thomas forty on Socials.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
I'm Collete Colt Underscore Hubert on Socials, and I'm Emily
at Its Emily scar on Socials.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
We'll talk to you next
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Week maybe Bye.
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