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Ep.56 Covered California is a voter registration agency...literally · The Orange Report with Kira Davis

• speaker-0: Right, I am here with my friend Mickey Yamashida. You don't know her yet, but you are going to know this woman in the very near future. You're gonna be hearing a lot from her. If you followed the Spencer Pratt campaign, you probably saw some of her stuff on Instagram. ⁓ she was a huge warrior for Spencer Pratt, but she's got my friend called me today, the other day. She said, Kira, I have something you have to hear. When I heard it, I immediately invited her on the show to talk more about it. Let's meet this person first and then we'll get into her story. Mickey, welcome to the show. speaker-1: Thank you so much, Kira. We're longtime friends. ⁓ speaker-0: I know I almost feel like I'm cheating a little bit because this isn't really like a formal interview. Mickey is one of my greatest friends out here in California. I've known her for so long. So but you do have something very interesting to talk about today. And I can't wait for everyone to hear it. speaker-1: I have some explosive tea. speaker-0: And you weren't kidding. You weren't kidding. You call you were like, here, I need to FaceTime you. I need to tell you this. And I was like, Okay, let's see what it is. And I was like, ⁓ my gosh, she wasn't kidding. It's explosive. Before we get going though, tell people a little bit about yourself, where you're from, where you live, what you do, and how you got into because you run the Asians for Pratt account. So how you even got into that? I've never known you to be really gung ho for one particular politician. You're very bipartisan and ⁓ you know, in a lot of stuff. But tell us all tell us everything. speaker-1: So I'm originally from the state of Massachusetts and that's where I mostly grew up, but I ⁓ was a an a professional actress in New York for a few years and then I came out to Los Angeles to continue pursuing my acting career. And ⁓ I have so I've been in Los Angeles for l I've lived in Hollywood for quite some time and recently I moved ⁓ to Studio City. ⁓ and ⁓ over the fifteen years or so that I have lived in Los Angeles, I have been so sad to see it deteriorate at such a ⁓ r radical pace and it was very alarming to me. So speaker-0: Say let me say, Mickey, let me tell people too that a lot of times on this show, when you hear me talking about I have a friend in LA who's experienced this or this happened to my friend in LA, I'm talking about Mickey. She you know, she I have lived the LA decline through Mickey's eyes for all of these years. I mean, she is not kidding when she says like watching the decline of the city has been very grieving. speaker-1: And ⁓ public safety is, you know, incredibly important when you're it's hard to tell on camera, but I'm ⁓ four foot ten inches tall and I'm about a hundred pounds soaking wet. So you know, walking around the city, it's you're constantly assessing threats if you walk by yourself and you're woman and you're very petite, especially. ⁓ and so over the fifteen years that I've lived in Los Angeles, I have been ⁓ robbed three times. ⁓ I have been a witness to dozens of additional crimes, ⁓ including being in multiple retail stores ⁓ while they were being robbed. ⁓ and so ⁓ and and then of course ⁓ about a half a dozen times over these years, I have ⁓ almost been struck by vehicles as a pedestrian ⁓ due to unusable unusable sidewalks ⁓ because of homeless encampments. speaker-0: And you've had your car broken into? speaker-1: Yes, yes. So I'm counting that as one of the times I was robbed. 'Cause they they took stuff and ⁓ they cra they you know, smashed my window and this was in the locked garage of my building. So it wasn't even like parked on the street. So, you know speaker-0: It's not like Seth Rogan could come along and be like, Well, you did it to yourself by leaving something on the on the speaker-1: Right. Exactly. Like how dare you keep your catalytic converter ⁓ outside your car. Okay, but that's where it goes. you know. So so i it just started becoming so intrusive into my daily life and ⁓ it it was so unsettling and so disturbing that I started getting involved with the ⁓ neighborhood council, ⁓ in my area where I lived in ⁓ Hollywood. And ⁓ I just started getting more and more ⁓ I started studying more about how state and local politics works and ⁓ the governance of our of of our city and of our state. And and one of the things I found out was that the your vote in a state or local election has a much greater impact on your daily life than your vote for president, for example. Right? So so I just started doing some homework on what it what the city council does, what the mayor does, you know, and and what how they interact with law enforcement and how how there are tons of other bureaucrats, you know, the in the in the system as well. And so ⁓ because I felt so strongly that we really needed radical change in s particularly in LA County, ⁓ when I started becoming aware of Spencer Pratt and what his campaign was about, it was the first time that I truly felt As if there was an opportunity for real change in how Los Angeles is run. Because the status quo was not helping at all. And the attacks that Spencer was getting was like, ⁓ well, he doesn't have any experience. It's like, okay, but we were dealing with highly experienced career politicians right now. How's it going? You know? So ⁓ his spirit and his sincerity. ⁓ and h the intensity with which he which he was running his campaign, all of that really resonated with me. And so that's why I kind I showed up at a rally and I I said, look, I ⁓ I want to help you engage with the Asian American community. ⁓ is that is that do you have some a point person for that? And they're like, No, come on board. And so I did, and I ⁓ s launched Asians for Pratt. And within ⁓ three weeks or so we went from zero to about twelve hundred followers. So there's a lot of enthusiasm. speaker-0: People were really responding to that. I mean, ⁓ the whole the whole Pratt campaign was really ⁓ I think a sea change and how people look at local politics in in Los Angeles. But you also so what do you think I'll just ask you this, what do you think about the loss? About the how how'd you respond to that? speaker-1: Evening of the election, we were we were jubilant. I mean, we we we thought he did it, you know, against all the odds. you know, the s the the authenticity of Spencer's message really ⁓ just was so explosive and it resonated with everyone. We got it. He's number two, it's gonna be him and Bass. And then as every day kept going by, it was all of a sudden it was like, ⁓ no. Thousands and thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of ballots were coming in and they were almost all for Nithya Raman and who by the way is my city councilwoman. I'm in her district. So ⁓ and on election night she didn't even win. She didn't even come in second place in ⁓ in this district, in my district. So w we're like, okay, it's for sure Spencer then. And then As each day kept going by and he and she was catching up by more and more and more and more. And we were just we were just stunned. We I I just I I just didn't understand what was happening. And from a statistical standpoint, it just f from any angle you looked at it, it seemed completely impossible what was happening. And so again, that put me down another rabbit hole of how are these how how are they able to count so many ballots after ⁓ the the day of the election is over and how were they able to ⁓ take in ballots from all manner of directions with ⁓ the loss of chain of custody all over the place and ⁓ and the postmark doesn't even have to be there and there were all these ⁓ rules that were implemented laws that were implemented that essentially legitimized and legalized all this wiggle room that you know they may need to ⁓ g to achieve the result that they wanted to ⁓ achieve. And so to me personally, from what I witnessed on ⁓ leading up to the election and ⁓ in the in the days after, ⁓ I feel that there it wasn't an authentic result. And that's when you that's that's what I mean I was just completely crushed because then because at at this point it's going to be a race between two incumbents. So I I was extremely disappointed. Everyone who worked for the Spencer campaign was very, very sad and and angry too. ⁓ and so so but I made a lot of incredible new contacts and friends and and people in LA who were ⁓ who who were really like minded and who really care about the city and who want to take the next step to bring it into a safer and bring it ⁓ bring the city it put the city in a a a safer and more prosperous direction. So ⁓ so so after I had worked for Spencer Pratt, Steve Hilton had seen the work that I had done and now I am ⁓ on board the Steve Hilton campaign ⁓ thanks to some of the work that ⁓ that I was able to do for Spencer. So I'm very excited about speaker-0: And that is the you the previous account, which is still active, is Asians for Pratt, and then you also have Asians for Hilton. speaker-1: Correct. So both those accounts are live now and ⁓ I hope you'll ⁓ follow. speaker-0: Yeah, go ahead and follow that for sure. ⁓ well, Mickey, let's get to what we really are here to talk about today because it's kind of a story that is so California, you just it just boggles the mind. Even first of all, even the story of you your health journey and how you are getting care for your health and this very weird insurance market here in California, including the work you do. There, as an actor and singer in ⁓ Los Angeles. Tell us about this. Tell us what you found when you were applying for health insurance through the California Public Exchange. I'm just gonna let you run down. I may stop you to ask some clarifying questions, but I'm just gonna let you run this down. Tell us how you came across this very interesting. speaker-1: So ⁓ I so I as you know, I'm a professional actress and I'm a member of SAGAFTRA. And so I'm sometimes I am on the union's ⁓ health insurance plan and sometimes I'm off it because ⁓ within a twelve month period there's in ⁓ there's an earnings ⁓ threshold that you have to reach. And if you don't reach it, then they kick you off. ⁓ and so the and when they kick me off, I always go go apply for ⁓ covered California and and see if I quali what I qualify for depending on my income. So ⁓ when I so I I go to apply on the website and if it depending on your income you are put towards the ⁓ Medi-Cal track to apply, continue your application that way, or you are put on the covered California track to apply in that ⁓ for for that exchange, right? And and so, but the the application process is all one one interface and then it funnels you into your appropriate speaker-0: We fill out one single application and then the program decides, ⁓ she's in covered California territory or she's in in ⁓ Medicaid territory. Right. speaker-1: So after I applied, I'm sort of waiting, hanging around, waiting to see what happens. And then I get a letter in the mail, okay? And it has the Covered California ins ⁓ logo on it. And I'm like, ⁓ okay, so it's an update on my health insurance. I, you know, and I opened it right away. So the letter says, Dear Mickey, thank you for applying through Covered California for your health insurance needs. And then it says, Covered California is a voter registration agency, and we are required to offer every person who submitted an application for health insurance the opportunity to register to vote. This notice provides you the opportunity to register to vote. And enclosed with this letter came this. It is a completely blank. Voter registration form. Okay. Official it says of official election. speaker-0: Unbelievable. I want I want to stop you here because I want to clarify for anybody who might not be sure how it works here in California. Like a lot of other states, we have motor voter registration. ⁓ that when you go or when you fill out the form for your driver's license, you can check the box that says, would you like to register to vote? ⁓ I don't think I have ever gotten, and that's like the look. speaker-1: Completely. speaker-0: considered the legitimate way to register someone. And I don't think I've ever gotten a letter from the DMV pri or or post me filling out forms. They I what I'm trying to say is I don't think the DMV has even chased me down the way that Cover California chased you down to make sure you had a voter registration packet in your hand. speaker-1: Right. And so I reread the letter because I was like jaw drop, right? And so when you s look at the language in this letter that I just read, we are required to offer every person who submitted an application for health insurance the opportunity to register to vote. So they're not talking about people who have applied and were ⁓ vetted and declared eligible for anything. It's everyone who Who applied. Do you understand what I'm saying? You could be anybody. You could just come in from the state and be homeless. You could be you you could be anybody. And you could have just and what I mean is you could have just come from anywhere. Do you get what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? So speaker-0: Everybody. You can come from anywhere. Not only that, not only this is this is ⁓ an illegal alien problem, yes, but not only that, what if someone's like you, Mickey, who is sort of this part time worker, you know, you you might be switching insurance a number of times over a number of years. Every time you switch, you're going to get another registration packet. Then that's multiple registrations that you could apply for. speaker-1: Right. And ⁓ so i the the letter goes on because there's more. ⁓ applying to register or declining to register vote will not affect your health benefits or the amount of assistance available from Covered California, Medi Cal or any other California agency. And then it says Covered California did not check voter registration records before sending this mailing. So if you're already registered, just never mind. But here's a here's a completely blank point anyway. speaker-0: I just wondering if that's e even legal because I think the DOJ actually sued on purging. We're supposed to be purging our voter rolls, I think, here in California. I think we're supposed to be doing it right now. But we haven't turned over I mean, that's amazing that they're even saying, ⁓ we didn't even bother to check and don't even worry about it. We're we're just sending this to you. speaker-1: Right. And ev i e and it opens it up wide to everyone who filled out the form online, right? So it could be anybody. And if you are talking about Medi-Cal, y if you're between eighteen and nineteen years old and you are ⁓ in in the cow the state of California illegally, if you're if if you're in the United States illegally, in the state of California, you're eligible for met ⁓ for Medi-Cal. And there are other exceptions as well. If you are a ⁓ ⁓ if you are pregnant ⁓ press said pregnant person, you know what I mean. Pregnant woman and you ⁓ speaker-0: Yeah, that's a whole other show. We'll do that next week. speaker-1: But if you are pregnant and you're and you are also eligible, you if you have a child who is who was born in the United States and is a US citizen, you can apply on the child's behalf. So there are other, you know, there's there's leeway, you know, so you but that that person, because they applied, is getting this. Also, what if you're in a homeless shelter? You have like 50 people applying for Medi-Cal from a homeless shelter and like speaker-0: That is speaker-1: The th th that shelter gets fifty of these? Like okay. speaker-0: Yeah. I mean and then who's well then that's a whole other bag of worms, isn't it? Like who is filling out the forms actually and where are the forms getting delivered to and who sees the and what do they do with those form with those even those ⁓ initial request letters. Like if you want to do this, here's the form, then what happens if they do go to the homeless shelter? Is it one person that we've seen James O'Keefe go down to Skid Row and and out people who are paying homeless people to sign up? or initiatives or sign up to vote. speaker-1: Women plead guilty for paying homeless people to to register to vote, which is completely illegal. You can't pay people. You can't give people cash for for doing that, right? speaker-0: You're I you're not supposed to, but apparently this is just the way we do things here in California. speaker-1: Right. But are you ready for this? It gets even worse. So I'm looking over this ⁓ the the I'm like just ⁓ I'm just like this is unbelievable. It's a completely blank form ⁓ that that I could just give to anyone or fill out myself or whatever. So then I see this red part of the back of the of the applic of the ⁓ registration form, and it says, Safe at home, if sharing your address. Could put you in life-threatening danger, you may be eligible to register to vote confidentially. So you don't even need an address. Okay. And then it says for more information, contact the Safe at home program. There's a phone number and there's a website. So of course I went to the website, girl. So I go there and I'm like, okay, well, what is this? What how what qualifies you to just vote with no address? And apparently. If you feel you were you're in a domestic violence situation or you have a child that you think is is under ⁓ in hazardous conditions for some reason, you can ⁓ apparently they apply to be able to vote without an address, and then I guess you're supposed to submit some kind of paperwork for that. But I mean, again, all I'm saying is I mean, that may be perfectly a legitimate way to, you know, allow people to vote. who are, you know, in some kind of hazardous situation, but still you don't have an address now? And speaker-0: I A, I don't think that is a legitimate way. I think, you know, s I I I actually have a lot of feelings about this idea of voting at all costs. We make sure that everybody can vote at all costs. If you I think if you cannot get yourself in a position where you can vote legally or get to the polls or whatever, I mean, besides if you're surfing overseas or you're ill or something, then I don't know. Maybe you just don't get to vote. But again, that's a different topic for a different day. But Adding this to okay, now you don't even need an address. You don't need a proof of who you are. You're just gonna get this form that you can ostensibly send in. They've clearly indicated they're not back checking the voter rolls. I don't know what there is to indicate that they'll do that on the other end once you've sent it in. And this goes to literally every person who just presses the button to send an application in. Not who gets the benefits, not who finishes the application. Just if you press the button to say, I'm interested in applying for Medi-Cal or or or other services, you're just gonna get what Mickey got in the mail, which is like, ⁓ by the way, here's your registration for speaker-1: So if you add this what I found out the other day and called you about, ⁓ this, if you add this to all of the other other elements that are at play here that I found out about during this during the the Spencer drama, which was that okay, every single person in the state, regardless of whether they asked for it or not, gets a mail in ballot. the ballot harvesting is completely acceptable, with no ⁓ r regard for it's completely irrelevant who the relation your relationship is to the ⁓ voter for whom you are chain of custody exactly and then on top of that the whole postmark situation so they're accepting things way past the date of the actual election they are also accepting ⁓ speaker-0: No regard for chain of custody. speaker-1: A squiggly line or a smiley face in the speaker-0: You can write an X. You don't need a signature. speaker-1: Right. And you also don't ⁓ need you can handwrite the date you mailed it. Yeah. It's not an official US Postal Service stamp. And then it I mean, it's just the whole the and then of course, ⁓ Governor Newsom, I believe, ⁓ I I believe right before the election, ⁓ the this mayoral election, he passed a law which w which ⁓ I think that was the that may have been the ⁓ the the the chain of custody ⁓ the harvesting law. ⁓ but I mean on top of all of that you have anyone who applied for health insurance, you have anyone who ⁓ you don't have a you have to have the address. So it's like all of these things you know piled together create so much so much wiggle room for a for speaker-0: You made a point to me the other day. You made a point to me the other day and I want you to make it now again now, which is like, Okay, all well you've just put all of this stuff in this big bucket with so many holes in it. Add to that bucket the Nick Shirley Act. speaker-1: Correct. Correct. So if you're if you're videotaping any anything shady, you're you're you're going to jail. Not the people doing the thing you're videotaping. Right. You taping. You're going to jail. Yeah. So so I mean, this is why I feel ⁓ like this is this is not an accepta ⁓ acceptable way to run any kind of state or local or federal election at all. No. In in in the United States. Because if you have if if you have a a large part of the electorate ha completely convinced that there is all this room, not to mention a margin for error, like normal human error. Right, right. But there is so much room for deliberate commandeering of the entire process. speaker-0: Yeah. No, it's absolutely insane. And I have made this point over and over again, but I've said at what point, you know, are we just really not running American elections? We're this is not we don't qualify even to run an American election to consider ourselves an American state. Because these are all there's no way to authentically or honestly beat that spread, right? And so w I don't want to get into all of the, you know national political implications for something like this. I I do want to try to stay focused on California, but it it does make me wonder, you know, at s at a certain point, we do need the feds to come in and either fix this or we need to separate ourselves from the rest of the country. Or the rest of the country needs to make us separate ourselves from them. Because how can we be a state that runs elections like this? And still call ourselves a free state. speaker-1: And they the ⁓ they're so ⁓ they're so ⁓ brazen about this that even Governor Newsom will say w has said the quiet part out loud, right? Where it's like, well, if Dems are ever shut out completely, right a break the glass scenario. I'm like, wait, what what? speaker-0: Break glass scenario? What did our governor, our elected governor, just say? He just said, We're gonna rig the system so you never have to worry about a Republican winning. Not like let the people choose, let the people have a voice. We gotta go out there and fight for what we believe in and persuade people. No, just like, ⁓ don't worry, we're never gonna let a Republican win. What this is not democracy that he's so fond of we're not a democracy, we're a republic, but he is so fond of using this word democracy, it's not even close in Los Angeles and California. He didn't speaker-1: He was like at a podium. ⁓ speaker-0: You know how it goes, like you do. Yeah. speaker-1: Everything is bananas and I'm so glad I'm so glad I the second I saw it, I I I had to call you because I was like, I don't know if Kira knows about this. No. And I was like, I I I have to talk to her about If she knows, you know, I speaker-0: ⁓ Did you if you're out there watching this, if you have registered to vote through Covered California or through Medi-Cal, let us know. Like I want to know if you've seen anything like this before. But I have to tell you, Mickey, I had no idea that this was going on. And I think a lot of people don't know that this stuff is going on in our government depends on that because a lot of people who would genuinely care about this kind of stuff, they don't use covered cal. Or Medi Cal, you happen to be in a unique job and a unique industry where your needs fluctuate based on your income and the work that you can get. So, and and but you're highly educated, you're highly accomplished and successful. And so you were concerned about this. You had the eye to notice that, but they get away with it because they do have us so siloed. Someone like me is just going to keep spinning her wheels and spinning her wheels, you know, trying to uncover this stuff. But the is a lot of these people who are in the the areas of life where they need this coverage and they need this kind of help, they're not going to be people who are as curious as you are. speaker-1: And I I mean i i if if it hadn't been I have to say I'm a pretty civically engaged person, like like you just said. But if I hadn't gone through all of the ⁓ the angst of the Spencer Pratt campaign and the subsequent ⁓ l you know, fallout, I don't know that I would have ⁓ picked this up. I may have just I may have just been like, ⁓ I'm already registered to vote and tossed it. But because of what I went through, I thought to myself, hold on a second. And so, you know, all it takes is a person like me who puts two and two together and goes, ⁓ I wonder if other people know about this. speaker-0: That's such an interesting point though that you make, Mickey. And we talk about this a lot. I talk about the a lot on the show. Actually, I always end the show by telling people, go to a meeting. If you want to know where to start, like you you're like, I don't know what I should do to get involved in local politics. I always tell people just go to a meeting, any meeting, pick one. You went to your neighborhood neighborhood council meeting, ⁓ but you could go to your city council meeting, a school board meeting, water district, library board, like pick one. You're going to hear something at that meeting that's gonna change how you look at local government. I mean, and I don't even have to make any predictions. I just know that you will hear something. But it's interesting, Mickey, how it's engagement that changes how you look at these things. And we are now in this era, especially in California, where fewer and fewer people are engaged and they're being incentivized to be disengaged, right? You don't even have to go find your voter registration. They'll just send you multiple ones until you finally register. But it was you just being engaged in one part of your life in Los Angeles of political life in Los Angeles that changed how you look at everything now. speaker-1: Yeah, I mean I'm I it's I I look at everything as as as sus, as the kids say. It's all sus. Yeah. ⁓ and and then I will I will investigate it myself, you know. speaker-0: Ha ha ha ha. Yes, yes. Mickey will, by the way, she's very thorough. ⁓ and but I I just think it is really interesting how we talked about the Nick Shirley Act, and that's another chill, right? That's a that's a a ⁓ chilling blanket on curiosity. It's just another way to get people disengaged from the process to not pay attention. ⁓ because when you just ask a couple questions You start thinking and you start thinking like this isn't right. Wait, what? speaker-1: Starts unraveling and they don't want that. They want you to be do they want you to be afraid to go go expose someone because you might go to jail. And who and who came up with that law? ⁓ it was the wife of the Attorney General of the State of California. How interesting. They're all speaker-0: Yeah. What a coincidence. Just like ⁓ who happens to be, you know, one of the biggest beneficiaries of, you know, this ⁓ diaper gate or, you know, the ⁓ di free diaper programs or ⁓ programs, STEM programs. ⁓ it's happens to be the governor's wife, you know. That's just wow, what a coinky dink. ⁓ I think this is stunning. I what do you think? should hap what do we need? Do we need because we don't have a Democrat governor ⁓ excuse me, a Republican governor. We don't we have a we live in a one party state. Democrats have ruled this state with an iron fist for 16 years and had their way. They've been able to do everything they want and we're living the results of that right now. People like you who are out there going, okay, I want change. I want to vote for change. I'm gonna go out there and do everything the right way. and follow the law and you still get, you know, what we got on primary election night. Where do we go from here? What should we do? speaker-1: Well, more we we need to talk to our neighbors and our friends and get at at least explain to them why it's important for them to get involved. I mean, like you said, the more you sh show up to things like like you know, any kind of a hearing or any kind of a neighbor whether it's neighborhood council, whether it's a city council meeting, whatever, ⁓ you know, you're allowed i in fact they are legally ⁓ forced to allow you to to give your input because they have like public comment at at all of these meetings and you can sign up and say what you have to say. Now, the public comment people, like we need to get some more common sense, level-headed people in there because the you know, there's some speaker-0: Really parks and read. speaker-1: It's there's some crazy muffins people that always show up and do the public comment. But you know what? Fine. At least they're there. At least they're they're they're involved, you know? Right. But more of us have to have to get engaged and ⁓ convince our neighbors and convince our, you know, convince our family and friends and especially if they have personally experienced something that that has to do with ⁓ how badly our state and our city is governed. speaker-0: Yeah, and don't look away from it too. If you see something that doesn't look right to you, I feel Mickey, and especially as women too, we're always like really taught not that not to trust our instincts, you know. ⁓ you're just being a crazy woman or whatever. But if you see something that doesn't sit right with you, you know, don't be afraid to ask somebody about it, post it on social media, note it in some way. You're not crazy. Our government is working hard to gaslight us into believing we're not seeing what our lying eyes are actually seeing. You like don't be afraid to take the second look at the letter that came out of the envelope that you would normally throw away. I know I'm guilty of that. I I just throw away a lot, like, ⁓ that's just junk mail. Take the second look. Ask yourself, go to social media, ask, does this make sense to you guys? But it It's curio everything starts with curiosity and these days it's starting to feel like a pretty damn big conspiracy to bleed us, every one of us, down to the kindergartner of our curia of our natural curiosity. speaker-1: What we have right now is the worst of all worlds. We're we have the highest taxes in the entire nation, right? and not only that, but we are ⁓ we're experiencing the I mean, even the basic things that our taxes are supposed to pay for, like public safety and you know, law enforcement and things like that, are are just desperately underfunded. And then and then we have raging fires and we can't put them out and everything. You know, that's how Spencer got involved. You know, his entire house burned down, right? And what a what a literal, you know, representation of the city itself, right? And so we're being taxed like crazy, and then we're not getting the basic services that we need. And yet, you know, billions and billions and billions of dollars are just gone. And when it was sup we were supposed to get ⁓ high speed rail, we were supposed to get like all these peop ⁓ tens of thousands of people housed, you know, and then and yet where where is everything? Right. speaker-0: Where is everything? Yeah. Where is everything? People need to start asking this question. And honestly, I do feel like we're living in the Truman Show in some way. And we are, because I don't even know who is supporting this stuff anymore, Mickey. I was watching yesterday. Karen Bass was dedicating yet another homeless tiny home whatever, right? Like tiny home encampment that they that the city was gonna put up. For three trillion dollars. And, you know, when I looked at the people, I'm like, who's going to these things to cut the ribbon and cheer it on? And I'm looking around and there's no community members there. There's no, you know, like a regular mom and pop who are like, let's go see this opening of this wonderful charitable thing our tax dollars have supported, like the new community center. It wasn't like that. It was all just suit and ties. People who are clearly part of the industrial complex, the homeless industrial complex, it's like they're just doing these ceremonies for themselves now. No one is really showing up. No one's excited about it. And yet no one seems to have the power to make it stop. speaker-1: If you ask the average person on the street, right? And someone who's just at the CBS register or something, like, hey, what do you think of just putting four walls around a homeless person? Do you think that'll work? I think that person would be like, I I think they have other problems. So but but it's just it's a classic bureaucrat move to be like, ⁓ they're missing a they're missing a an apartment. So we'll just give them that and everything will be great. speaker-0: Yeah, they're just missing an apartment. That's all that's all it is. ⁓ Mik Mickey, we've got it ⁓ go, but tell people where they can find more ⁓ your agents for Pratt, more about you, direct them wherever you want. This is your opportunity. speaker-1: My Instagram is Mickey410. That's MSN Mother. I K I 410 because I'm four feet ten inches tall. So ⁓ M-I-K-I-410 is my Instagram. And I ha ⁓ the Asians for Pratt account is still ⁓ live and and ⁓ active and and I will be ⁓ launching the Asians for Hilton. Instagram very soon. So that'll be up and running and ⁓ more content will be pumped out on that one. On that speaker-0: Fantastic. Well go definitely go follow Asians for Pratt and you'll get to Asians for s for Hilton when that all launches. But you'll definitely be seeing Mickey. I'm sure you'll be back, Mickey. ⁓ I definitely want to follow up on this story a little bit too. And I wanna hear what Steve Hilton has to say about this. Steve, this is a personal challenge. We would love you to comment on this because you're gonna be our next governor. And so speaker-1: Right. And this goes beyond the Spencer territory. I mean, it's covered California doing this, so it's the entire state. So it's it's perfect for Hilton to be made aware of this, you know, as one of the many, many ways in which California is ⁓ just not being ⁓ appropriately ⁓ they're just not appropriately handling any elections at all. speaker-0: We need I mean, come on, California. We we don't have to live like this. We can do something different. This is enough. This is absolutely enough. We we really have to do something different. Seriously. And now we don't have any more time to waste. So, Mickey, thank you so much for all of your work out there for Spencer, all of your work that you're gonna be doing for Steve on behalf of the people of California, because we all want change. I think most of us really, really do. And so we'll make sure everybody gets out there to follow you and we will follow up on this. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you.