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October 8, 2025 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome back to Missions Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields.
Governor Gavin Newsom in California. I don't know if you've
seen this, Tony assigned a bill and a law to
limit ad volume on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and
Amazon Prime, addressing complaints about loud commercials.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I did see this, and I thought this was a
national thing and like a decade ago. Geez. I want
to say it was like John McCain who brought it
up at that point in time. And I don't know,
I never noticed this stuff. I just don't really understand it.
Maybe because I don't really like blast things in my household,
but I've never noticed it. Maybe it's a California thing.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, no, I've noticed it, but I always thought that
it had I don't think it had anything to do
with the streaming service. I always felt like it was
you know, whether you're watching cable or you had years
or you had satellite TV, the commercials were always louder
than the actual programming. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
I mean, if you look at it, what I'm working
with back here, like an audio board, for example, like
things can play at a certain level. If I were
to like just play a song really low right now,
and then the commercials hit. It's gonna blow your ears
out if you're used to this volume right now that
is very low. So it does make sense in many respects, but.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Can you really sign up a lot or like create
a lot at government level to address this.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Let's face it, most of these people that are sitting
in a control room just trying to get a broadcast
down the air, they probably aren't really thinking about this
when they're sitting there.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't know how you even enforce that.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
You get arrested if like, when I get arrested, if I,
you know, blast the commercials at you.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I mean, I do you How do you assume
Netflix or Amazon for something like that? I would think
that if you're watching like I don't know Ion or
you know, ESPN or CNN or whatever you know, I
thought they were responsible for the ads.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
And by the way, when you're paying a premium for
a service like Netflix, Amazon Prime, whatever whatever service you're
talking about right here, it was originally thought that you're
paying that premium to not see commercials. Now they're sliding
those in there as well, which is like, well, okay,
what are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, yeah, I mean that's exactly right. I mean, watching
any of the streaming services, now, you just got to
watch the commercials up front, or they slip them in
there in spots that don't naturally flow with the show
or the movie that you're watching, which is totally annoying.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, anyway, So did you see that there's a council
guy in Los Angeles who's running for reelection and he
just found out that his upstairs neighbor is his opponent.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh beautiful. That great. Well, we have a common area
that we can hold the debate, then I guess.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
They can go down in the common area and like
the lounge or something and go ahead and and debated
out there. Pretty interesting. Well, we've been talking so far
up today about the state budget and the fact that
it finally got passed, and one of the people who
has been working behind the scenes has an interesting story

(03:15):
on this is our next guest, Representative Alabas Farhat from
a deerborn Matt Hall, the Speaker of the House, actually
defrocked him of his role as the ranking member of
the Appropriations Committee, but Representative Firehet still stayed on as
like the lead negotiator for the House Democrats and helped

(03:37):
actually put together the final deal and was extremely influential
behind the scenes to actually make this happen, even though
he was basically kicked out of the room by the speaker.
He's joined us now to talk about it. Representative, thanks
for joining us on the show. Kyle on very interesting.
I mean we've just kind of set this out, set

(04:00):
this table here, and I mean you could have walked
away from the budget process and said, you know what, Speaker,
go ahead and you try and deal with Democrats over
in this Senate. I'm done with you if you're done
with me. But you didn't. You stuck around and you
helped cut this deal. Why why did you stick around
when the easy thing would have been to stick up
your middle finger and tell Hall to to you know,

(04:21):
get lost.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, well, look how I wasn't elected to do the
easiest things right. I made a promise to Mike Caucus
and the people that I served to see this budget
process out, and I kept that promise that it's not
up to any particular speaker or politicians giving my title,
the people in Missigan getting my title, and I take
that seriously, that commitment, that responsibility seriously.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
How difficult was it behind the scenes to get the
Speaker of the House, who has been Trump like in
his criticism of the Senate Democrats, to get him to
negotiate with the Senate Dems who weren't all impressed with
his rhetoric and is posturing.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know. I mean, at the end of the day,
we route all of what we do on you know,
benefiting the state of Michigan and the hard working families
in our state. And when we got a budget deal
done that I think one on free school launch that
won on a long term sustainable roads plan. You know,
you just turn down the noise and you focus on
the work and you get it done. And that's exactly

(05:22):
what we did.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
What's what is it about this budget that that you're
most proud of?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
You know, I think there's a lot of areas where
you can be really proud, whether it is again you know,
you look at record per people funding for our schools,
funding and investments for literacy programs. You know, we made
smart investments in our state's healthcare system, right to keep
rural hospitals open. I think, you know, when you look
across the board, though, for me, one thing I'm proud

(05:51):
of getting done was that long term road funding plan.
And for a long time we've heard people say we
need to get the roads fixed, our driveway, the highway roads.
And to be candid with you, I'm glad that we
got it done. We protected five thousand good paying union jobs,
and we're gonna keep growing that part of our economy
here with this road plan.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Scott Ellis was in the chair yesterday filling in for
Michael Patrick. He had to ed and Iola in from
the County Road Association, and he was pretty thrilled because
it does seem like, for the first time the focus
is now more on the local roads as opposed to
the state freeways.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, and that's where it ought to be. You know, Kyle,
the governor did a great job. She invested billions of
dollars with state bonding right into the state roads. But
you know, our local roads, our county roads, you know,
they need that investment in fusion of cash so they
can start filling those potholes and rebuilding our bridges. And
that's exactly what this package does. It puts them in

(06:49):
the front line to make sure they get every single
dollar they need to start building those roads up and
filling those potholes, and that's what we should be doing
right now.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So we haven't had the Appropriations Committee, I mean since
the Speaker said that you're not going to be the
ranking member anymore on approbes. But he hasn't filled that
position yet. What do you think is going to happen there?
We only got twenty seconds left. But is he going
to bring you back or what?

Speaker 3 (07:12):
You know? I'm not sure. You know. I came in,
I continued to be extremely committed to this process and
just making sure that when we're working on deals that
they're a fair deal for the people in Michigan.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, we'll see if we'll see if he does. Representative
Alabas Firehat, thanks for joining us on the show this morning.
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