April 23, 2026 • 22 mins
Priya Patel joins to break down the shifting California governor’s race after major shakeups, who’s gaining ground, and whether a surprise contender could emerge, while also examining how policies on taxes, housing, and business are impacting residents, plus what’s happening in New York as similar debates over cost, safety, and leadership unfold.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Pria Patel and we want to talk about Kamei Mamdani
here for a second, because he's running around he's causing
problems for New York, similar problems. I know you're a Californian,
similar problems to what is happening on California, particularly on
the housing side of things. But I mean, let's start
with this democratic socialism. Now we have Mamdanni who is
(00:46):
an open democratic socialist in California. How far are we
from I don't know, the mayor of Los Angeles maybe
whoever is going to be the next governor of California.
Just going with the truth, which is that it's a
Democrat socialist government in California.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Like, why don't they just say it? Why don't they
just admit it?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, because I think they're still trying to pander to
the large To be honest with you, moderate Democrats that
just kind of believe everything that they hear in the media.
But if they come out and start throwing around words
like socialism, that's definitely going to scare off a lot
of their base, but exactly that's exactly what it is
in reality. I mean, that's what they advocate poor constantly
(01:26):
when it comes to housing, when it comes to government subsidies, everything.
So I don't know why they just can't be honest
with themselves. It would do us in large favors. So
that's probably why.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, it would be way better if they would just
I think, come, that's one thing I will say about
Bernie Sanders. I mean, he's laughable and that he's a
millionaire socialist with three houses who's always.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Talking about the rich. You gotta get the rich.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You notice he also now no longer says million is
and billionaires because he only hits the billionaires because people
point out they're like, hey, Bernie, you're a millionaire. You
know you work like like ten to fifteen million bucks himself.
So that's like a tough thing to be like those
evil millionaires. Like wait a second, But in California, I
do think there's an opportunity here to at least have
(02:09):
more more open discussion now that Swalwell is out.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
By the way, who do you think takes over?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Like who's now the Democrat to beat in California's governor's race.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, you know, I think they're still trying to figure
that out, to be honest, because the top two Democrats
now that Swalwell is out, have been Tom Steyer, who's
essentially just trying to buy himself the election by spending
hundreds of millions of dollars of his own.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Money to win the election. Him and Katie Porter.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But since the Swalwell drop out is Xavier Bessera has
gained a lot in the polls.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I think we call him by the way he prefers
the Espanol of Javier Javier, You're not You're gonna call
him Xavier, professor x from x Men. We're at all
work the same thing.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, No, I bet he's been gaining quite a bit,
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I think these I think the.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Swalwell vote is probably going to be split between him
in Styre and it's going to be, you know, top two.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We'll see if it's Katie Porter or Xavier.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Do you think Katie Porter is just? And I know
you don't want to be mean, so I'm trying. I'm
trying to set this question up so that you're not
having to to to to say something about someone about
a lady, about a lady who is less less fortunate
than you.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
In this regard that she is, she is not screen ready.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know that she is unappealing personally and in in
in two dimensions, Like basically she just too gross in
general to be governor of California, because you know, it
is a superficial state. It may be it may be
poorly run, but I do think there are a lot
of people that are very like Look at Gavin Newsom,
He's like, he's like his HiT's handsomeness and his lack
(03:59):
of buttoned up shirt is like eighty percent of his
political appeal.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It really is, aside from the fact I don't think
he's hit a gym in about fifteen years. But yeah,
I would like to think that Katie Porter is too
unattractive in all the ways physically and personality to be
governor of California, But I don't know the polls aren't
really reflecting that quite as much. I mean, we saw
so many scandals come out about her in the last
(04:25):
probably six months or so, and failed interviews that just
show her poor character and it hits her in the
immediate but It doesn't seem to translate long term in
the bowling, but I wish that it did, because I
can't imagine a more uncouth and unattractive and just unladylike
person to represent women in general. But I mean, particularly
(04:48):
the Democrat Party, who is just all about female empowerment.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
You think they'd have somebody better to throw out there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Do you think there's Do you think there's a real
shot of making things a little too uncomfortable for Democrats
with a Republican breaking out like a Steve Hilton insurgency
campaign for.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The governor's race, or how do you assess that part
of it?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I think we are already have.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I mean, in all the credible polling, Steve is pulling
ahead by a good margin, at least two points in
most of him, and in some he's pulling, you know,
ten fifteen points ahead of the next candidate, which is
most likely Tom Steyern a lot of the polls, so
we are seeing that, and I think a lot of
that is that the Democrats don't have a strong candidate
and they're splitting the vote so much. And I mean
(05:32):
I've seen in a lot of polls recently that who's
winning in the can in the polling is actually undecided.
So I think that a lot of Democrats in California
are not sure who they're going to vote for and
are probably pretty unhappy with the Democrat Party as a whole,
because I mean, I've lived in California for my entire
life and talking to people of all walks of life
and all sides of the political spectrum. Nobody's particularly happy
(05:55):
unless they are just incredibly well to do, and even so,
they're hit by a bunch at taxes and regulations that
obviously don't make them particularly happy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know, I just talked to a ultra high end
realtor here in Miami who's a friend of mine, and
I just bumped into him on the street a few
days ago, and he told me. He said, he said,
the there's the California billionaires that you're hearing about, but
he says, there are some California cent to millionaires, you know,
incredibly rich people who are also coming down to Florida
(06:24):
and buying homes that they are quiet much more quietly
changing their permanent residence to because of the tax situation,
I mean, the tax burden. People are catching on to this.
It's not just the tax burden. I thing too, it's
they're already paying very high taxes and then the cheapest,
the cheapest way to get applause as a politician in
(06:44):
California is to talk about how the rich need to
pay more. And I think people are just tired of
that attitude.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, of course, Well and look, I mean you look
at the millionaires of billionaires and anybody above that. To
be honest with you, those are the job creators here
in California.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I mean, we've had a mass exodus of.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
People residents leaving California over the last ten fifteen years,
but particularly we're seeing jobs fleet or sorry, not jobs,
but you know, actually jobs, but companies flee California and
they're taking those jobs that.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
They create with them.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So we're gonna see we already have skyrocketing unemployment rates,
but that's going to go up the more jobs that
flee the state, and that's gonna of course hit the
middle class the working class really really hard. And I
think that's something that people don't think through long term
when they sit here and they vote for these politicians
because they're shouting tax the rich, but it's going to
(07:35):
trickle down to them one way or another, and probably
faster than they think.
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friend Pria Fatel and Kami Mamdani in New York. This
guy is able to continue to make all of these
silver tongued promises, but I feel like at some point
(08:58):
in time the grocery store thing has got to just
catch on with people. You see this, It's going to
cost thirty million dollars and over. I think it was
three years to build a government grocery store in New
York City at the mayor's behest.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And people don't realize that that's going to come out
of their pocketbooks one way or another, regardless of how
they think. I mean, Kami, mom, Donnie is going to
sit here and a shout from the rooftops. Free busses,
free buses, and free grocery stores. But it's never going
to actually come to fruition. And again, where's the money
going to come from? If you're chasing out all the
people that essentially fund all of the budget and the
(09:38):
taxes of the city. I don't know where that's going
to come from that's going to come from the working
class and the middle class at some point or another,
and they're not going to be particularly happy with Kammia Mom,
Donnie when that day hits.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You would think.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So, you know, he's here. He talks about the buses.
He says, we're already delivering on free bushes in that
we're I'm sorry on the fast part of it, putting
six minutes back into New Yorkers' lives. But I sit
here and I just want to say to people the
idea of free buses is actually, first of all.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's a huge expense.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But one of the problems you have is that every
public space now in places like New York and I'm
sure in Los Angeles too, you know Los Angeles super well, yeah,
is a place where you have to do with crazy
homeless people because there's no the more you make free
and open and you can't tell anything to leave you
the crazy homeless people and the needles and all the
bad stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Mean just in just in La very recently they opened
up a free public restroom and you're seeing that thing
get flooded with home. It's for homeless people, But I'm like,
that seems like a very large safety hazard for children
that are stuck on the streets and women that are
stuck on the streets. Obviously we see a lot of
is sexual assault come with, you know, people that are
(10:59):
homeless against women. That seems like a major safety hazard.
But yeah, exactly we're seeing with the buses and with
the subway stations and all these things. When you open
that up to the public without any sort of barrier
in terms of cost, you're going to see more crazy
homeless people show up and shoving people onto the subway tracks,
lighting women on fire. I mean, we're seeing this in
(11:21):
a lot of parts in the country, and I don't
understand why any of these Democrat leaders in these large
Democrat cities are learning their lesson yet.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's it's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
There's some places that are actually seeing huge crime reductions
because of the Trump policy of working with using federal
resources to help the local and also the prosecutors being
willing to Now federal prosecutors obviously are working for Trump's DOJ,
but even some local prosecutors have been willing to work
(11:51):
with these law enforcement initiatives. I'm sure you've seen it
Memphis murder rates down like forty to fifty percent year
over which is massive, right. I mean these are people
usually like a mayor running for reelection because say my
murder rates down ten or fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Everybody say, oh, look at that, it's down fifty percent
year over year. DC.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I think it's down four forty percent year every year.
It's the lowest it's been I think in my lifetime.
The murder rate in DC Los Angeles. I know it
has a low murder rate, but it doesn't have a
low crime rate really. I mean, the murder rate relative speaking,
is low, but the crime rate is not low. Is
there any effort or any any push to do things
(12:29):
to really clean things up now? Or are they still
just like nah, because Trump wants it, We'd rather people
just live in filth and misery.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You know. I think that a lot of these Democrat leaders,
particularly with these large cities, are just so rebellious when
it comes to going along with anything that the Trump
administration suggests or wants to do, that they are just
willing to let their cities go and like decay and
fall completely into chaos and endanger the citizens of their cities.
In spite of the administration, which is really really ridiculous.
(12:59):
I mean, this last election in November of twenty twenty four,
we elected a Republican in the DA's office in LA
but unfortunately he has a lot of a difficult time
getting anything done because of course he has to deal
with all of the Democrats that surround him that kind
of hold him hostage. And of course that's something that's
(13:21):
so terrible. You're not able to get in the agenda
that people actually voted on, and of course we're seeing
that with the administration. People largely voted for President Trump
on crime, on immigration, and we're seeing these Democrat run
cities and states not allow them to get that agenda done.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
And that's that's a real shame.
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like mix things up here at the end, and uh,
I was gonna usually we'll have you back and we'll
talk about some pop culture and some fun stuff, because
you gotta tell me, like, I'm learning what the cool kids.
You're one of the cool kids. I learned these things
like mogging, and you'll you know, actually, actually, well you're
you're a lady. But the the the fame and attention
that this clovicular guy gets, who apparently lives I think in.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Florida, so he's a fellow flut Can you explain this? Like?
What what is this?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Why is it that I'm seeing this guy everywhere? Explain
your internet? You're young? What is clovicular? I'm going full
old man, Get off my lawn? What is going on here?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You know?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I think I think there's a bit of an age
gap between the group that is really watching Clivicular in
terms of a fandom and myself.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
But I think the reason really.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Eighteen nineteen year old guys. Basically, Yeah, I think these are.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Like kids still in their teens for the most part,
because I don't really know anybody in their twenties and
thirties that is into bone smashing and taking a hammer
to your jaw line to sharpen or anything of that sort,
or injecting your face with peptides that dissolve fat and
all these things that are overall very detrimental to your
(15:38):
health in the long term and seem really unsafe. I mean,
the kid just overdosed or allegedly overdosed.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Or something like that.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
On I think heroin is what he uses on a
very frequent basis. He says that he doesn't drink he
does heroin as his drug of choice because it makes
him skinny, I guess, or something of that sort. So
I can't sit here and empathize with Clovicular or his
fan base per se. But I think the reason it's
(16:07):
hitting mine in your timelines is just because this is
relatively outrageous and the culture is really catching onto this,
and of course we observe politics and culture comes along
with that. And I think the ridiculous nature of what
Clovicular says and does in terms of his streams and
his behaviors. I mean, the kid is twenty and I
think he goes to night clubs regularly out in Miami,
(16:30):
which I don't.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Know how that.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I don't know how that works in terms of legality
and how he keeps getting in considering he's a very
well known individual and it's public knowledge that he is
supposedly underaged. So I don't know how he's getting into
all these night clubs without without a hitch. But yeah,
I think just the ridiculous nature of it is why
it's hitting our timelines in particular.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, I just I see this kid.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And also the idea that for men, an obsession with
physical appearance is a I think that it's just it.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I'm going to say this.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I actually saw Andrew Tait like speaking about the Clavicular thing,
and I thought he can be quite eloquent and insightful
on something he was completely correct, which is that for guys,
it's actually about being a badass who is successful and
has like status, status among men, status among women. Like
(17:23):
basically being a big like being an important man of
action and accomplishment is far more appealing to women. And
I think he's I think that that Tate was actually
one hundred percent correct in this, and that Clovicular being
like having like a super tight jawline and all this stuff.
I mean, that doesn't that's not I mean, you correct
me if I'm wrong. You're a twenty six year old lady.
(17:44):
I don't think that women care that much. I don't
think women care. That could be wrong. I mean, you know,
my wife much better looking than me, and like I
think it's gouse. She like likes the whole package, you know,
Like I think this is the deal.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, I mean, I think taking care of yourself obviously
hygienically and you know, in terms of physical fitness, is
important for your overall health but also for your appearance.
But yeah, I'm not particularly concerned over the jaw line
of any potential male suitor. And to put such an
emphasis on that, Like I saw a clip of Clivicular
basically saying he doesn't care about getting women, he just
(18:18):
cares about mogging. And I just can't imagine a world
in which men are more attracted to the idea of
looking like a pretty boy than actually having interactions with
women web about be romantic or sexually or anything of
that sort.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, and actually it actually sounds not very his positions
on this sounds not very heterosexual.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I mean quite honestly. Yeah, that's like.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
A guy who's obsessed with like his appearents at this
level is not something that straight guys that I know
at least are usually usually talking about at all.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
One one more for you before we have you?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Have you seen this thing now that tattoos are now
on the on the way out, and that celebrities, Yeah,
this is a thing. Celebrities are starting to get tattoo
removal done because they want to be at the early fase.
So essentially we're in, as speaking of the cultural stuff,
being not tattooed is the new. Oh you're cool, you
(19:17):
have tattoos. That's Have you seen this at all? Or
Am I totally blowing your mind even bringing this up?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You are absolutely blowing my mind.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
But it sounds like I'm winning because I have no tattoos,
So I'm I'm ahead of the curve here, I'm do
you have tattoos back.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
No, no, no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yeah, we're just you're winning in life. We're just we're
the hot new thing.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
There was a time when tattoos were military, biker, gang,
like prison, prison, prisoner something and somebody who goes to
jail like those are kind of the only people. And
all of a sudden, I'll tell you're you're in California,
It's true in Miami here too. All these women in
their thirties have these like little things, these little tiny tattoo.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
In the wrist of all. I'm like, this is this
is I'm sorry, I know those shit. Oh it's so esthetic.
No it's not.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I think it's ridiculous looking. And it's finally starting. The
culture is shifting away from this. So you have to
go talk to all of your cool friends in California
and be like, hey, guys, you're starting to see this too,
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Speaker 4 (20:21):
Be I was just gonna say, I guess I'm ahead
of the curve.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I mean, I have a few friends that have some tattoos,
mostly small.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Dainty ones.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I'm not a man and I'm not attracted to women,
so I can't speak on that side of things, But
they don't strike me as feminine or anything of that sort.
I think tattoos are inherently a masculine thing, So I've
never understood the appeal to women for getting tattoos on themselves.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
But I don't understand it. But I'm glad that the
trend is shifting our.
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Having me on.
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Yeah, absolutely, last last one real quick. See, I know
Prio would be of South Asian extraction and not. But
do you get people that assume, because I'm sure you're
talking about around stuff like on Fox and places like,
do people think that's're Persian? Because la, you know the
whole thing I get.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I get Persian, I get Persian quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I get Persian, and then I get French and Italian
the most of any guesses as far as my ethnicity goes.
I mean, my last name's Ptel, so that's a dead giveaway,
but I think just because I'm half half Indian on
my dad's side and then half white on my mom's side,
so the blue eyes and the lighter complexion throw people off,
but I do get Persian quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
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Speaker 1 (22:42):
Bria. Great to have you with me, Thanks so much
for hanging out.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Good to see you, Thanks for having me. Good to
see you too,
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Pria Patel and we want to talk about Kamei Mamdani
here for a second, because he's running around he's causing
problems for New York, similar problems. I know you're a Californian,
similar problems to what is happening on California, particularly on
the housing side of things. But I mean, let's start
with this democratic socialism. Now we have Mamdanni who is
(00:46):
an open democratic socialist in California. How far are we
from I don't know, the mayor of Los Angeles maybe
whoever is going to be the next governor of California.
Just going with the truth, which is that it's a
Democrat socialist government in California.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Like, why don't they just say it? Why don't they
just admit it?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, because I think they're still trying to pander to
the large To be honest with you, moderate Democrats that
just kind of believe everything that they hear in the media.
But if they come out and start throwing around words
like socialism, that's definitely going to scare off a lot
of their base, but exactly that's exactly what it is
in reality. I mean, that's what they advocate poor constantly
(01:26):
when it comes to housing, when it comes to government subsidies, everything.
So I don't know why they just can't be honest
with themselves. It would do us in large favors. So
that's probably why.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, it would be way better if they would just
I think, come, that's one thing I will say about
Bernie Sanders. I mean, he's laughable and that he's a
millionaire socialist with three houses who's always.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Talking about the rich. You gotta get the rich.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You notice he also now no longer says million is
and billionaires because he only hits the billionaires because people
point out they're like, hey, Bernie, you're a millionaire. You
know you work like like ten to fifteen million bucks himself.
So that's like a tough thing to be like those
evil millionaires. Like wait a second, But in California, I
do think there's an opportunity here to at least have
(02:09):
more more open discussion now that Swalwell is out.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
By the way, who do you think takes over?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Like who's now the Democrat to beat in California's governor's race.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, you know, I think they're still trying to figure
that out, to be honest, because the top two Democrats
now that Swalwell is out, have been Tom Steyer, who's
essentially just trying to buy himself the election by spending
hundreds of millions of dollars of his own.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Money to win the election. Him and Katie Porter.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But since the Swalwell drop out is Xavier Bessera has
gained a lot in the polls.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I think we call him by the way he prefers
the Espanol of Javier Javier, You're not You're gonna call
him Xavier, professor x from x Men. We're at all
work the same thing.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, No, I bet he's been gaining quite a bit,
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I think these I think the.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Swalwell vote is probably going to be split between him
in Styre and it's going to be, you know, top two.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We'll see if it's Katie Porter or Xavier.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Do you think Katie Porter is just? And I know
you don't want to be mean, so I'm trying. I'm
trying to set this question up so that you're not
having to to to to say something about someone about
a lady, about a lady who is less less fortunate
than you.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
In this regard that she is, she is not screen ready.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know that she is unappealing personally and in in
in two dimensions, Like basically she just too gross in
general to be governor of California, because you know, it
is a superficial state. It may be it may be
poorly run, but I do think there are a lot
of people that are very like Look at Gavin Newsom,
He's like, he's like his HiT's handsomeness and his lack
(03:59):
of buttoned up shirt is like eighty percent of his
political appeal.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It really is, aside from the fact I don't think
he's hit a gym in about fifteen years. But yeah,
I would like to think that Katie Porter is too
unattractive in all the ways physically and personality to be
governor of California, But I don't know the polls aren't
really reflecting that quite as much. I mean, we saw
so many scandals come out about her in the last
(04:25):
probably six months or so, and failed interviews that just
show her poor character and it hits her in the
immediate but It doesn't seem to translate long term in
the bowling, but I wish that it did, because I
can't imagine a more uncouth and unattractive and just unladylike
person to represent women in general. But I mean, particularly
(04:48):
the Democrat Party, who is just all about female empowerment.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
You think they'd have somebody better to throw out there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Do you think there's Do you think there's a real
shot of making things a little too uncomfortable for Democrats
with a Republican breaking out like a Steve Hilton insurgency
campaign for.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The governor's race, or how do you assess that part
of it?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I think we are already have.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I mean, in all the credible polling, Steve is pulling
ahead by a good margin, at least two points in
most of him, and in some he's pulling, you know,
ten fifteen points ahead of the next candidate, which is
most likely Tom Steyern a lot of the polls, so
we are seeing that, and I think a lot of
that is that the Democrats don't have a strong candidate
and they're splitting the vote so much. And I mean
(05:32):
I've seen in a lot of polls recently that who's
winning in the can in the polling is actually undecided.
So I think that a lot of Democrats in California
are not sure who they're going to vote for and
are probably pretty unhappy with the Democrat Party as a whole,
because I mean, I've lived in California for my entire
life and talking to people of all walks of life
and all sides of the political spectrum. Nobody's particularly happy
(05:55):
unless they are just incredibly well to do, and even so,
they're hit by a bunch at taxes and regulations that
obviously don't make them particularly happy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know, I just talked to a ultra high end
realtor here in Miami who's a friend of mine, and
I just bumped into him on the street a few
days ago, and he told me. He said, he said,
the there's the California billionaires that you're hearing about, but
he says, there are some California cent to millionaires, you know,
incredibly rich people who are also coming down to Florida
(06:24):
and buying homes that they are quiet much more quietly
changing their permanent residence to because of the tax situation,
I mean, the tax burden. People are catching on to this.
It's not just the tax burden. I thing too, it's
they're already paying very high taxes and then the cheapest,
the cheapest way to get applause as a politician in
(06:44):
California is to talk about how the rich need to
pay more. And I think people are just tired of
that attitude.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, of course, Well and look, I mean you look
at the millionaires of billionaires and anybody above that. To
be honest with you, those are the job creators here
in California.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I mean, we've had a mass exodus of.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
People residents leaving California over the last ten fifteen years,
but particularly we're seeing jobs fleet or sorry, not jobs,
but you know, actually jobs, but companies flee California and
they're taking those jobs that.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
They create with them.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So we're gonna see we already have skyrocketing unemployment rates,
but that's going to go up the more jobs that
flee the state, and that's gonna of course hit the
middle class the working class really really hard. And I
think that's something that people don't think through long term
when they sit here and they vote for these politicians
because they're shouting tax the rich, but it's going to
(07:35):
trickle down to them one way or another, and probably
faster than they think.
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friend Pria Fatel and Kami Mamdani in New York. This
guy is able to continue to make all of these
silver tongued promises, but I feel like at some point
(08:58):
in time the grocery store thing has got to just
catch on with people. You see this, It's going to
cost thirty million dollars and over. I think it was
three years to build a government grocery store in New
York City at the mayor's behest.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And people don't realize that that's going to come out
of their pocketbooks one way or another, regardless of how
they think. I mean, Kami, mom, Donnie is going to
sit here and a shout from the rooftops. Free busses,
free buses, and free grocery stores. But it's never going
to actually come to fruition. And again, where's the money
going to come from? If you're chasing out all the
people that essentially fund all of the budget and the
(09:38):
taxes of the city. I don't know where that's going
to come from that's going to come from the working
class and the middle class at some point or another,
and they're not going to be particularly happy with Kammia Mom,
Donnie when that day hits.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You would think.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So, you know, he's here. He talks about the buses.
He says, we're already delivering on free bushes in that
we're I'm sorry on the fast part of it, putting
six minutes back into New Yorkers' lives. But I sit
here and I just want to say to people the
idea of free buses is actually, first of all.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's a huge expense.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But one of the problems you have is that every
public space now in places like New York and I'm
sure in Los Angeles too, you know Los Angeles super well, yeah,
is a place where you have to do with crazy
homeless people because there's no the more you make free
and open and you can't tell anything to leave you
the crazy homeless people and the needles and all the
bad stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Mean just in just in La very recently they opened
up a free public restroom and you're seeing that thing
get flooded with home. It's for homeless people, But I'm like,
that seems like a very large safety hazard for children
that are stuck on the streets and women that are
stuck on the streets. Obviously we see a lot of
is sexual assault come with, you know, people that are
(10:59):
homeless against women. That seems like a major safety hazard.
But yeah, exactly we're seeing with the buses and with
the subway stations and all these things. When you open
that up to the public without any sort of barrier
in terms of cost, you're going to see more crazy
homeless people show up and shoving people onto the subway tracks,
lighting women on fire. I mean, we're seeing this in
(11:21):
a lot of parts in the country, and I don't
understand why any of these Democrat leaders in these large
Democrat cities are learning their lesson yet.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's it's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
There's some places that are actually seeing huge crime reductions
because of the Trump policy of working with using federal
resources to help the local and also the prosecutors being
willing to Now federal prosecutors obviously are working for Trump's DOJ,
but even some local prosecutors have been willing to work
(11:51):
with these law enforcement initiatives. I'm sure you've seen it
Memphis murder rates down like forty to fifty percent year
over which is massive, right. I mean these are people
usually like a mayor running for reelection because say my
murder rates down ten or fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Everybody say, oh, look at that, it's down fifty percent
year over year. DC.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I think it's down four forty percent year every year.
It's the lowest it's been I think in my lifetime.
The murder rate in DC Los Angeles. I know it
has a low murder rate, but it doesn't have a
low crime rate really. I mean, the murder rate relative speaking,
is low, but the crime rate is not low. Is
there any effort or any any push to do things
(12:29):
to really clean things up now? Or are they still
just like nah, because Trump wants it, We'd rather people
just live in filth and misery.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
You know. I think that a lot of these Democrat leaders,
particularly with these large cities, are just so rebellious when
it comes to going along with anything that the Trump
administration suggests or wants to do, that they are just
willing to let their cities go and like decay and
fall completely into chaos and endanger the citizens of their cities.
In spite of the administration, which is really really ridiculous.
(12:59):
I mean, this last election in November of twenty twenty four,
we elected a Republican in the DA's office in LA
but unfortunately he has a lot of a difficult time
getting anything done because of course he has to deal
with all of the Democrats that surround him that kind
of hold him hostage. And of course that's something that's
(13:21):
so terrible. You're not able to get in the agenda
that people actually voted on, and of course we're seeing
that with the administration. People largely voted for President Trump
on crime, on immigration, and we're seeing these Democrat run
cities and states not allow them to get that agenda done.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
And that's that's a real shame.
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like mix things up here at the end, and uh,
I was gonna usually we'll have you back and we'll
talk about some pop culture and some fun stuff, because
you gotta tell me, like, I'm learning what the cool kids.
You're one of the cool kids. I learned these things
like mogging, and you'll you know, actually, actually, well you're
you're a lady. But the the the fame and attention
that this clovicular guy gets, who apparently lives I think in.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Florida, so he's a fellow flut Can you explain this? Like?
What what is this?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Why is it that I'm seeing this guy everywhere? Explain
your internet? You're young? What is clovicular? I'm going full
old man, Get off my lawn? What is going on here?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You know?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I think I think there's a bit of an age
gap between the group that is really watching Clivicular in
terms of a fandom and myself.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
But I think the reason really.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Eighteen nineteen year old guys. Basically, Yeah, I think these are.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Like kids still in their teens for the most part,
because I don't really know anybody in their twenties and
thirties that is into bone smashing and taking a hammer
to your jaw line to sharpen or anything of that sort,
or injecting your face with peptides that dissolve fat and
all these things that are overall very detrimental to your
(15:38):
health in the long term and seem really unsafe. I mean,
the kid just overdosed or allegedly overdosed.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Or something like that.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
On I think heroin is what he uses on a
very frequent basis. He says that he doesn't drink he
does heroin as his drug of choice because it makes
him skinny, I guess, or something of that sort. So
I can't sit here and empathize with Clovicular or his
fan base per se. But I think the reason it's
(16:07):
hitting mine in your timelines is just because this is
relatively outrageous and the culture is really catching onto this,
and of course we observe politics and culture comes along
with that. And I think the ridiculous nature of what
Clovicular says and does in terms of his streams and
his behaviors. I mean, the kid is twenty and I
think he goes to night clubs regularly out in Miami,
(16:30):
which I don't.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Know how that.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I don't know how that works in terms of legality
and how he keeps getting in considering he's a very
well known individual and it's public knowledge that he is
supposedly underaged. So I don't know how he's getting into
all these night clubs without without a hitch. But yeah,
I think just the ridiculous nature of it is why
it's hitting our timelines in particular.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, I just I see this kid.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And also the idea that for men, an obsession with
physical appearance is a I think that it's just it.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I'm going to say this.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I actually saw Andrew Tait like speaking about the Clavicular thing,
and I thought he can be quite eloquent and insightful
on something he was completely correct, which is that for guys,
it's actually about being a badass who is successful and
has like status, status among men, status among women. Like
(17:23):
basically being a big like being an important man of
action and accomplishment is far more appealing to women. And
I think he's I think that that Tate was actually
one hundred percent correct in this, and that Clovicular being
like having like a super tight jawline and all this stuff.
I mean, that doesn't that's not I mean, you correct
me if I'm wrong. You're a twenty six year old lady.
(17:44):
I don't think that women care that much. I don't
think women care. That could be wrong. I mean, you know,
my wife much better looking than me, and like I
think it's gouse. She like likes the whole package, you know,
Like I think this is the deal.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, I mean, I think taking care of yourself obviously
hygienically and you know, in terms of physical fitness, is
important for your overall health but also for your appearance.
But yeah, I'm not particularly concerned over the jaw line
of any potential male suitor. And to put such an
emphasis on that, Like I saw a clip of Clivicular
basically saying he doesn't care about getting women, he just
(18:18):
cares about mogging. And I just can't imagine a world
in which men are more attracted to the idea of
looking like a pretty boy than actually having interactions with
women web about be romantic or sexually or anything of
that sort.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, and actually it actually sounds not very his positions
on this sounds not very heterosexual.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I mean quite honestly. Yeah, that's like.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
A guy who's obsessed with like his appearents at this
level is not something that straight guys that I know
at least are usually usually talking about at all.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
One one more for you before we have you?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Have you seen this thing now that tattoos are now
on the on the way out, and that celebrities, Yeah,
this is a thing. Celebrities are starting to get tattoo
removal done because they want to be at the early fase.
So essentially we're in, as speaking of the cultural stuff,
being not tattooed is the new. Oh you're cool, you
(19:17):
have tattoos. That's Have you seen this at all? Or
Am I totally blowing your mind even bringing this up?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You are absolutely blowing my mind.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
But it sounds like I'm winning because I have no tattoos,
So I'm I'm ahead of the curve here, I'm do
you have tattoos back.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
No, no, no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yeah, we're just you're winning in life. We're just we're
the hot new thing.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
There was a time when tattoos were military, biker, gang,
like prison, prison, prisoner something and somebody who goes to
jail like those are kind of the only people. And
all of a sudden, I'll tell you're you're in California,
It's true in Miami here too. All these women in
their thirties have these like little things, these little tiny tattoo.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
In the wrist of all. I'm like, this is this
is I'm sorry, I know those shit. Oh it's so esthetic.
No it's not.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I think it's ridiculous looking. And it's finally starting. The
culture is shifting away from this. So you have to
go talk to all of your cool friends in California
and be like, hey, guys, you're starting to see this too,
because I'm hearing about I'm hearing about this. Our sponsor,
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Speaker 4 (20:21):
Be I was just gonna say, I guess I'm ahead
of the curve.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I mean, I have a few friends that have some tattoos,
mostly small.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Dainty ones.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I'm not a man and I'm not attracted to women,
so I can't speak on that side of things, But
they don't strike me as feminine or anything of that sort.
I think tattoos are inherently a masculine thing, So I've
never understood the appeal to women for getting tattoos on themselves.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
But I don't understand it. But I'm glad that the
trend is shifting our.
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Are you?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Are you working on anything to announce or should we
just have you back later to announce things?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Anything going on.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And nothing crazy to report?
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Speaker 4 (21:55):
Having me on.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, absolutely, last last one real quick. See, I know
Prio would be of South Asian extraction and not. But
do you get people that assume, because I'm sure you're
talking about around stuff like on Fox and places like,
do people think that's're Persian? Because la, you know the
whole thing I get.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I get Persian, I get Persian quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I get Persian, and then I get French and Italian
the most of any guesses as far as my ethnicity goes.
I mean, my last name's Ptel, so that's a dead giveaway,
but I think just because I'm half half Indian on
my dad's side and then half white on my mom's side,
so the blue eyes and the lighter complexion throw people off,
but I do get Persian quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
My niece and nephew are half Indian, half white, so
there you go. This is a fantastic combyeah. My little niece,
my little nephew half Indian, half white, So there you go.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Bria. Great to have you with me, Thanks so much
for hanging out.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Good to see you, Thanks for having me. Good to
see you too,
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