Tony Strickland on the State of the Governor's Race

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Speaker 1: And we continue at one five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy wangs in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John, one of the organizers of Oakland's First Friday, says the best way to crack down on all the young people showing up late and getting into fights is more youth programs. Because why not. I said, Hell no, baby boy, let me get up on out of here.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. It is a pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is a member of the California Senate, representing Huntington Beach in much of coastal Orange County in the state legislature. You can get him online at Strickland for Senate dot com. Senator Tony Strickland, Welcome.

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Speaker 2: John.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. You know I'm a big fan. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks so much for stopping by.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Let's start out with tonight's big debate on CNN. The candidates helping to be the next governor of the state of California will all be on stage. The debate's going to be moderated by CNN's Alex Michaelson and Caitlyn Collins. We just played some sound from pod Save America where former Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter said she's going to be showing up to tonight's debate with some get out of my f and shot energy.

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Speaker 5: Why do you have to watch porn in the living room?

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Speaker 2: What do you expect to see tonight?

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Speaker 3: Well, I expect to see what we've seen in the last few dates. The fact of the matter is Steve Hilton has done a remarkable job at articulating watching new leadership. And when all the four Democrats come forward and give Gavin new some high marks on almostness in other areas, when two thirds of California and say we're on the wrong track, it just goes to say, you know, as Albert Einstein said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting the different verds. Two thirds of California and say we're on the wrong track. And I'm supporting Steve Hilton because he actually bought this out. He has a book about how we got here, and he has real solutions on how to turn this around. But I think both Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton have done a remarkable job at explain why we're on the wrong track and what we need to do to fix California.

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Speaker 1: As someone who's a member of the legislature who votes on things like the budget and things like that, which candidate on stage do you think would be the most destructive for the state of California.

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Speaker 3: No, Tom Stire, not even close, sires. He frightens me. Look, it's the first time in California history it's a goal rush. More people are leaving the state than coming in. Let that sink in e second. We live in an oasis here and the only reason why people are leaving is because the bad policies of Gavin Newsom. That would be on steroids if Stire was to be the next governor California. It really frightens me that he's even a legitimate candidate run for governor. So I think they're all, you know, they're more of the same of what we had with Gavin Newsom the other three Democrats. That's why, you know, I think we need to do whatever we can and hopefully two thirds of California and say they're on the wrong track. Give you know, someone like Steve Hilton the opportunity to at least try to turn this around.

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Speaker 1: You know, I always tell people, as bad as things are under Gavin Newsom, you have to consider this. For at least the last several years, he's been an absentee landlord because he's been running for president. So he's more interested in fighting with Trump on Twitter, or going on the national late night shows or the cable networks or the podcasts, traveling around the country to the early voting states, places like South Carolina, Nevada and such. If he were actually engaged, things would be so much worse. The fact that he's just out to lunch. I think we benefit from well.

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Speaker 3: I think I think yes, yes and no to that answer. Yes, the only every morning he wakes up and says, how I'm going to be president of United States? And it could be much worse. I e. Tom Steyer, but this is the most disengaged president governor I've ever seen. He's not engaged at all with the legislature, and and a lot of things have been spiraling out of control, and and he's dug in on some issues that when he first came in, for example, the high speed rail if you look at this first State of the State address, it looked like he wanted to pull the plug. He should have pulled the plug. But now he's wasted billions of dollars and he's dug in and and now we're wasting billions of dollars and we haven't done anything to tackle the fraud issues facing California. Nick Shirley just uncovered a whole bunch of fraud within the hospice system. And instead of saying thank you the governor or the controller of the legislature, what they do is they introduced a bill to try to say you can't do it anymore. If you do, we're going to possibly incarcerate you and definitely find you. You can't make this stuff up. My wife didn't actually believe me when I brought that up to her when I came home because we're up in Sacramento money for Thursday one and she came to pick me up. I told her about this bill, and she goes, she was almost in disbelief. You can't make this stuff up. And so we're on a wrong track dramatically with Gavin Newsom. But you're right, Tom Styro would be much worse.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the high speed rail for a second, because I feel like, and you referenced the first date of the state address that Gavin Newsom gave where he was somewhat hostile to high speed rail. It seems like Trump derangement syndrome, which is very prominent in Sacramento, is so strong that because Donald Trump is opposed to high speed rail, these people are now reflexively for it, even though they know it's a boondoggle that will never be comp Their reasoning being if Trump is against it, we're for it. And then they dig in their heels. Do you see that dynamic at play here?

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Speaker 3: I definitely see that dynamic at play with Gavin Newsom diggling, digging in on this issue. But I do think that we're starting to make a little bit of a ground. We had informational hearing last Monday, and you know, the non parts in LAO called this a project that's unrealistic. We don't have the cash to be able to move forward. The financing is just not realistic. Is now two hundred and thirty one billion. But the LAO mentioned that two hundred thirty one billion doesn't include borrowing, and as everybody knows, we borrow money, you got to pay more money back, and it just totally exploded. And there's so many different facets of why this project will never be built. And even one of my colleagues who's been a big champion for high speed rail and rail said this is a disaster. So even some of my colleagues on the other side are starting to see that we should pull the plug on this project. My prediction is, whoever the next governor of California is republic In our Democrat unless it's Tom Sire, will pull the plug on this on this deal because we have other several ready projects throughout the state of California. They'll be better for Californians than this one project. And then put it in perspective, two hundred and thirty one billion dollars, it's almost one project, almost the whole cost of the entire state budget.

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Speaker 1: And there's almost a complete lack of transparency that's going on. I know recently, Ashley Zavalla, I believe, from KCRA was trying to do a sit down with the man in charge of high speed rail, and he was going to put all kinds of restrictions on what subjects she could ask about and which subjects she couldn't ask about. And some of the subjects that were on the no fly list were subjects that included potential ethical conflicts involving him and people that he.

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Speaker 2: Is associated with.

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Speaker 1: He said he wouldn't even entertain those topics in a sit down interview with her. How in the world is that appropriate?

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Speaker 3: It's not appropriate. This is the most wasteful government pro government program in world history. Is lacked accountability and transparency from the very beginning. And John, there's actually a bill going through here. Again, you can't make this up. After we've uncovered a lot of these change orders, almost a billion dollars in change orders, there's a bill actually going through the legislature right now that says the high speed Rail doesn't have to report on their practices on how they're spending money. It's unbelievable, but it is. They're actually going the opposite way about accountability and transparency.

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Speaker 1: And that is also something that opens up the door for all kinds of fraud, because if there's a fixed order and turn it into a change order, then you can build twice and that's illegal. But if no one knows about it, then you can get away with whatever.

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Speaker 3: You want, correct, correct, And this project from the very beginning has lack of transparency and accountability. Look, we've spent billions of dollars and we have nothing to show for it. We haven't laid down one single track of land or rail. And my dad always taught me the best way to get out a hole is to stop digging. And we need to pull the plug on this high street rail because everybody in this building knows, as proposed to people California, this train will never be built. In fact, another part of it was it went from you know, double track to single track, so now they have to share a track with freight and metrolink. Now does that really become high speed rail?

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Speaker 2: No, of course not.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean we're not going to get any form of a new rail attached to this project. I think this project is intended to just exist forever, and they're going to keep telling us that it's a smashing success because it's a jobs program, and just keep kicking the can down the road in terms of when it's going to be completed.

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Speaker 2: Let's shift what they want.

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Speaker 3: They want they want you to say, Look, we've already spent billions of dollars and we're so invested already, we got to keep going. But again I remind everybody, we're not even close to the final number, and we don't have the resources, we don't have the cash, and we have a bunch of deficits. So and we're now increasing everybody's gas prices, uh dramatically at the plump for this cap and trade. That's why we have the highest gas tax is because it helps fund this high speed rail. And that's another issue that I have a bill that suspends that and lowers gas prices by a dollar eight a gallon. It would be eleven hundred dollars savings per family across the state of California.

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Speaker 1: We're speaking with Senator Tony Strickland, who you can get online at Strickland for Senate dot com. Let's shift gears here and talk about the billionaire tax initiative that the SEIU is promoting, because what really is is a wealth confiscation tax, and right now they're trying to sell it as a tax on billionaires, but we've already caught them testing the waters on switching it from billionaires to millionaires. Now, you represent a district in Orange County where let's just say you're a teacher, a letter carrier, or someone like that blue collar profession where you bought a home in Westminster or in Huntington Beach thirty forty years ago that's now worth over a million dollars. If they're looking at a wealth confiscation tax on quote unquote millionaires, and they can go after things like unrealized gains on property, then that letter carrier who owns a home in Westminster, or that teacher or firefighter who owns a home in Huntington Beach could see the same tax slapped on them that the billionaires are now seeing, or could potentially see if this passes in November, and we could see an unbelievable increase in taxes on Californians because on paper they're all millionaires, but in reality they're not.

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Speaker 3: Correct. You hit it right on. I couldn't have said it better myself. And what it does is it really is a tax on people who save their money and actually are fiscally and financially responsible.

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Speaker 2: And I will.

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Speaker 3: Remind you that we've already lost Fox Business has projected we already lost a trillion dollars to our California economy just from this proposal being out there because a lot of high network people have moved out of the state. And when they move out of states, it's not just their money that they have, but they moved their businesses, their jobs, and they're part of the economy that it creates jobs here in California and now the other states like Texas and Florida and Tennessee. So you hit it right. Really, this is a tax that will go after people who are fiscally and financially responsible and will tax anybody who has any savings.

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Speaker 1: Why is it did Gavin Newsom and company, who are technically opposed to this aren't being more vocal about it because if they want to kill this off, they need to talk to their people and explain to their people why this is a threat to the fiscal solvency of the state. And it seems like his attitude is, well, I'm technically against it and that's good enough.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think he does the minimum because he still wants the SCIU support for President of the United States. And really that's why he's not pushing hard. He'll stay is against it, but then really not do anything because he's really working hard and hopefully have the SEIU help him with his race for president. But if you want a budget deficit in perpetuity here in California, you pass that because what it's going to end up happening is more and more people who actually create jobs to help our economy are going to leave the state of California and we'll have a budget deficit in perpetuity if this passes.

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Speaker 1: And just to be clear, this money would be going specifically earmarked for SEIU jobs. It would not be going to the general fund.

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Speaker 3: Correct, And that's why I might understand a California Teachers Association are not exactly happy with it either, because they have something called Proposition ninety eight, and I think it goes around that that formula that that they're used to because whatever comes into the state, almost fifty percent of it goes right to education based on a formula that they passed and Prop ninety eight, you know, about fifteen twenty years ago.

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Speaker 1: The voter ID initiative has collected enough signatures to put that initiative on the November ballot as well. All the polls that I have seen so far show that passing by wide margins.

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Speaker 2: Is that what you're seeing too.

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Speaker 3: There is I'm an author of this along with some woman Carl Demio. And there isn't anything we put in this initiative that didn't have sixty eight percent or higher support. And so, you know, this is very simplistic, John, Thirty six other states have voter ID laws, and almost every other country and around the world uses the ID for their voting. And so this is a very simplistic measure. You need an ID in every part of your life, from opening up a bank account, to gain prescription medication, to get on a plane. I use an ID in almost every part of every day of my life, and so does everybody else. And they understand that the other side is going to try to confuse you, try to make it seem complicated, but it's really not complicated. You know, thirty six other states do this. We have over sixty eight percent approval rating here. We just can't get flooded completely with being out spend dramatically because what they'll do is they'll misrepresent what it is. And another portion of this initiative that I think is great moving forward, as we put provision in there that all fifty eight counties have to do a public audit of their voter rolls after every two years, and that's one of the biggest problems we have in California is we don't update our voter rolls around the state of California. And so I actually think that this is going to be one of those initiatives that will pass because they have super majority support among Independents and Republicans, the majority support among Democrats, and I think this is going to be sixty five sixty eight percent vote issue come November. And I think, you know, we'll bring voter integrity to California, and I think that's going to be a game changer moving forward to turn the state around.

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Speaker 1: What's wild to me is that elected Democrats and I'm only talking about the electeds here and not the voters, they're wildly opposed to this, Yet whenever they lose an election, they claim that the election was rigged. Katie Porter did that when she lost to Adam Schiff. We just saw Jaspin Crockett do that when she lost the Democratic primary in the state of Texas. If you're going to claim that the election was rigged and that's why you lost, then why is it that you want no guardrails?

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Speaker 3: I could agree with you more. Three presidential tendidates called in question of the election results since two thousand and I'll arund you our democracy doesn't work if people don't have faith in that election outcome. And in my district are in my county, Orange County, there was proven a dog vote in the last two elections, and no one caught that person. The only reason that person got caught is because she was arrogant. But I voted sticker on the dog and bragged about it over social media that the dog actually registered, voted, and voted into the last two elections. We need to do something about our voter integrity and our voter laws here in California. And I'm honored that me I outor with Carl Demayo. By the way, we got Democrats, Independence and Republicans all signed this, all fifty eight counties, and we have a grassroots army who helped get this actually these signatures done. Then now we turn around and we're going to work on the campaign in November. And my understanding is the fastest volunteer initiative never qualifying in the state of California. Senator Tony Strickland, representing Huntington Beach Coastal Orange County in the California State Legislature. You could get them online at Strickland for Senate dot Com. Senator Tony Strickland, thanks so much for stopping by. John, Thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate you. Have a wonderful day.

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Speaker 2: For breaking news. Here's mister Randy Wang. Okay, I did not expect this one. Willie Brown has just endorsed Tom Steyer.

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Speaker 1: WHOA I am for Tom Stier, and I want to tell the world I'm for Tom Syer.

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Speaker 6: And based on the issues that I think are important.

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Speaker 2: There are so many edits in this video. This was not one take I can tell.

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Speaker 6: For the governorship, full and complete brain power.

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Speaker 2: I'm not one hundred percent sure. This isn't ai.

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Speaker 6: To absorb and understand the issues, and a willingness not to allow yourself to be persuaded by any political convenience.

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Speaker 2: It's got to be.

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Speaker 6: Because you believe it's for the best of all of us. That's what Tom shows.

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Speaker 2: Willie Brown endorsed Tom Steyer.

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Speaker 1: And right now it's time to open up the California crime blodder.

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Speaker 5: It's happened yet again. This wow, wow, what's up here?

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Speaker 3: Dun dun dunk, dundun Dundun.

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Speaker 2: Dunk rereads the Caliponia crime Blodder with Jun and the first edition takes us to Irvine. We've got a new scam out there. And this is the problem with the advancements in technology, is the advancements in technology fall into the hands of the criminals who now have ways to make their phone number show up as a number you might think is real, Like I don't know. You get a call from what you think is the Irvine Police Department saying that you owe them twenty five thousand dollars. Uh oh, Just as a public service announcement, no police department will ever call you saying that you owe them money. Well, Mexico, do for mar on the spoofing scam that targeted an eighty year old in Irvine. Here is ABC seven Eyewitness News in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 7: Do at five the Irvine Police Department warning you about a new scam that involves their department phone number being spoofed. Tonight, we're hearing how an eighty year old man got swindled out of thousands of dollars. Orange County reporter Bianca Bono live now in Irvine with what you need to know.

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Speaker 8: Bianca mark the man was told he was being investigated for a crime he did not commit, and before he knew it, he was withdrawing twenty five thousand dollars and handing it over to a stranger.

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Speaker 2: This is another public service announcement. If your parents are in their eighties, you need to be signatory on their bank accounts. You should be flagged immediately if they're trying to withdraw five figures a crime he didn't commit. Who is he here? And Ford is the fugitive? It was the one armed man that spoofed him.

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Speaker 9: Some of the stuff that seems common sense to us, just as new to that.

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Speaker 8: That's this man's message after his father fell victim to a new scam in Irvine. He's asked to remain anonymous after his family's personal data was breached, but says what happened less than two weeks ago has left a lasting impact.

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Speaker 9: Lack of trust right now and a little bit of paranoia.

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Speaker 8: It started with a text message to his eighty year old father claiming to be from Apple saying there was a suspicious Apple pay charge, encouraging him to call a phone number.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that is step number one in phishing scams. And if you work at any company in corporate America. You get those seminars every three months.

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Speaker 1: And this is why this is so sad, because scamming the elderly is like shooting fish in a barrel. And you imagine how many tens of thousands of dollars these people make every day.

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Speaker 2: Scamming the elderly is a multi billion dollar industry.

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Speaker 1: Do not forget when Elmencho got killed in Mexico, the cartel leader, one of his side hustles was owning a huge building in Mexico that was a call center where they would do nothing but scam American seniors out of money, selling them time shares.

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Speaker 2: We are now at a time where these scams are so prevalent they come up with new ideas all the time. The easiest way to protect yourself is you have to be on your parents' bank account where they notify you in the case there's any suspicious withdrawals.

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Speaker 8: He did and was told his identity had been stolen. And making matters worse, is it county.

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Speaker 2: And by the Usually the victim likes to go after the bank, and there is legislation that make the bank be like are you sure you want to withdraw? But usually the bank says. The teller did sing are you sure, and they said yes, I'm sure.

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Speaker 8: He did, and was told his identity had been stolen and making matters worse, his account was used to buy illegal drugs and firearms.

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Speaker 9: They transferred him to somebody who was from alcohol to back on firearms. He used an officers a name that has a LinkedIn profile. He's actually an associate director.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if this is all the one guy who just does a bunch of different voices, like the guy from police Academy.

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Speaker 9: He used an officer's a name that has a LinkedIn profile. He's actually an associate director at the ATF.

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Speaker 8: He eventually hung up, but the phone rang again and the caller ID said Irvine Police.

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Speaker 4: Which happened to be the actual phone number for the Irvine Police.

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Speaker 2: If you think that your phone is going to protect you, because you know, if it says spam risk, you won't pick up. Well, turns out they figured out how to break that one.

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Speaker 4: God which happened to be the actual phone number.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I do not answer the phone. If I don't know the number, I refuse. Oh me too. In fact, I never answered the phone at all, which happened to be the act I know, even when it's two minutes to showtime and you haven't dialed in.

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Speaker 4: Which happened to be the actual phone number for the Ermine Police, and this person was claiming to be the chief of police, encouraging the victim to cooperate with atf paying a twenty five thousand dollars fine.

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Speaker 8: So, while staying on the phone with a scammer for hours, he went to the bank and withdrew twenty five thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: He put No one in their legitimate world would have you stay on the phone with them while you walk to the bank to withdraw that much money. This isn't how it works. You got to educate your parents on this, everybody, because that's your inheritance that's gone. Bye bye.

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Speaker 8: He put the cash in a shoe box, wrapped it in duct tape, and drove to a shopping center parking lot, handing it over to a stranger who met him there.

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Speaker 4: This could be as innocent.

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Speaker 2: It's wild that this works, but it does. And they're praying on the elderly, and fear can be a very strong motivator to make people do completely irrational things. Oh yeah, what was that movie that we saw about the ninety year old woman who got scammed by a telemarketer and then she got loaded up with guns and went out for revenge. That movie was fantastic. Oh, I love that movie.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the female elderly version of Michael Douglas and falling down.

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Speaker 4: This could be as innocent as an uber driver picking up a delivery. About what's not uncommon is many times the courier will send it to another courrier, and then four other courriers later it finally reaches its destination.

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Speaker 8: So far, no arrests have been made, but police are still investigating. But the chances of him getting his money back.

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Speaker 4: That's very difficult.

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Speaker 8: In this case, police are encouraging families to speak to their loved ones about scams because although the red flags may be clear to some, just vulnerable in our community continue to be targeted.

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Speaker 9: They should be brought to justice.

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Speaker 2: And this is just your typical law enforcement scam. We've seen all the romance scams and those ones. They're usually going after you for months and months and much until they deplete you of your life savings. All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blotters to catch his dummy. We could make this stuff up if we tried. I said, hell no, bad boy, let me get up on out of here.

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Speaker 1: It's the California Crime Bloater and this one involves bank jugging.

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Speaker 2: In fact, one of the things you're gonna learn is a lesson from today's show. Nothing good happens when you go to the bank with drawing cash is only a liability. Everything can be paid for with a credit Almost everything can be paid for nowadays with a credit card. What do you need huge sums of cash for in a legitimate purpose? You want to buy a boat? For More on the bank jugging scam here is KTLA.

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Speaker 5: In Los Fela's. Another victim of bank jugging says around twenty five thousand dollars in cash was stolen from his car, money he withdrew from the bank just minutes earlier. We spoke with the victim who says, the thieves, what do.

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Speaker 2: You need twenty five grant in cash for? Either you're a chronic gambler or you're up to no good.

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Speaker 5: We spoke with the victim who says the thieves used a sophisticated scheme to take advantage.

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Speaker 2: Of him like even the world's best prostitute doesn't charge that much.

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Speaker 5: Nope, it was at this Wells Fargo branch on Loose Fiela.

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Speaker 2: Is it wrong that I assume anyone paying cash for anything nowadays is doing it for something illicit? Your love of Hilton Honors points is so strong that you can't imagine why anyone wouldn't get points on a purchase. You're leaving money on the table.

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Speaker 5: It was at this Wells Fargo branch Loose Feels Boulevard back on April fourteenth, around two in the afternoon that a man says he was targeted by thieves.

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Speaker 10: It's an extremely sophisticated crew. They know what they're doing, They know exactly what they're looking for.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't want us to identify him, but told us exactly how. He says they were able to get away with more than twenty thousand dollars in cash. He went inside to make the withdrawal and came out with two envelopes.

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Speaker 10: Right before I get in. I put the envelopes inside my door, which is one of the most safest places. I think, well, hindsight being twenty twenty, not now, is where that money should go.

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Speaker 5: But almost immediately he noticed he had a flat tire and pulled into a gas station just down the street.

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Speaker 2: This is how the scam starts. Oh no, they slash your tire, so you need to go to the gas station. So you don't go directly home, because you would imagine if you are withdrawing that twenty five thousand dollars for a legitimate purpose, you go immediately home.

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Speaker 5: But almost immediately he noticed he had a flat tire and pulled into a gas station just down the street. He shared s Allen's video. He says he obtained from the station showing what happened next. As soon as he got out of his vehicle, he says, a man asked if he drops some money.

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Speaker 10: There's a bunch of one dollar bills that were folded up on a ground. So that's the distractionary piece right there.

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Speaker 2: For me, I just been doing the all slight of hand. This is like a scam from the twenties. Hey, did you drop a bunch of money. There's just a bunch of ones on the floor. Oh, that must be mine. Meanwhile, they snatch the twenty thousand dollars envelope.

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Speaker 5: A distraction from his open car door and another man, who he says, quickly grabbed the envelope full of cash, and then just like that, both men were gone.

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Speaker 2: This is so old school. These are flim flam men, like a skid out of Vaudeville.

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Speaker 5: And then just like that, both men were gone. When he went back to his car, he says, it all became clear.

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Speaker 10: I knew right away what was going on, and I knew right away that my tire being flat, I couldn't, nor would I have wanted to chase him down the street and so on.

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Speaker 5: What happened here sounds a lot like another incident we reported on earlier this week. On Thursday, April thirtieth, the man left a bank ATM in Monterey Park, only to be robbed when he arrived at his destination in Montebello.

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Speaker 2: Nothing good happens when you go to the ATM.

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Speaker 5: Nope, it's called bank jugging.

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Speaker 2: In fact, even though you don't want to pay the fifty cent service fee, you probably better off getting cash back at the supermarket.

00:31:24
Speaker 5: It's called bank jugging, a crime where thieves follow people who just withdrawn money from the bank or ATM to another location to steal the cash.

00:31:32
Speaker 10: I didn't know the theme bank jugging until I started looking it up afterwards.

00:31:36
Speaker 5: He says. Laped responded and took a report, and.

00:31:39
Speaker 2: Of course, what are they going to do? Money's long gone, He says.

00:31:46
Speaker 5: Laped responded and took a report and also gathered evidence, including what was in his tire.

00:31:51
Speaker 10: There was a big metal rod and I was put in the center of my tire, so as I backed up, it almost immediately deflated my tire.

00:31:58
Speaker 5: He also managed to get more surveillance video of a vehicle. He says the suspects took off in in suv with paper plates.

00:32:05
Speaker 10: I know that money's gone, but if I can get this message out to every single one of your views to be more attentive around banks.

00:32:13
Speaker 2: There you go. That's the story of a guy that got scammed after he withdrew a bunch of money. They deflated his tire so he would go to the gas station and then they played the all hey look over there.

00:32:24
Speaker 1: Trick oldest trick in the book. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny Don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com and Randy earmonitor in the mailbag. Susan writes in it, Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com responding to that scam involving the person pretending to be with the Irvine Police. Please, people, if you are falling for a scam, always agreed to meet at the police station.

00:33:00
Speaker 2: Have an officer be part of the transaction, especially when the police chief called you. That is some very good advice. Let's go to Ozzy in Fullerton. Ozzy, Hello, Hey.

00:33:16
Speaker 3: Good show. You guys are very funny. I like your show. And I think that movie was with Jason Statham. It was like Bee Hive. I think the one where they caught the scammers. Anyway, as far as you asked mister Strickland about what he expected on the debate, and I just wanted to say what I expected, I'm not Strickland, but Caitlin Collins very anti Trump, anti Republican, and Alex Mike Wilson, who was to think might be somewhat objective. But I remember a couple of years ago he went to a publicity tour with Gavin Newsom to China, and they had some hard hitting stories like them going down the Bob sled run went with no snow and then filming Gavin K. Newsom playing basketball with Chinese kids of some real foreign policy stuff. But you know, I expect them to ask Democrats questions without challenging them and letting them ramble on, and Republicans they probably will ask gotcha questions as they do. So That's what I'm expecting.

00:34:29
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir, we appreciate it. Let's go to Steve and Laguna Hill. Steve, Hello, Hey you raady John.

00:34:38
Speaker 11: I'm a longtime listener. This happened to me regarding the scam. I'm seventy two years old. I'm a regular listener to John's show. I received a random text from Clark, ostensibly from Clark to Sharks. I I know Randy that I owed Randy hot grill seventy five thousand dollars, and I fell for it. I ductate seventy five thousand dollars in cash.

00:35:09
Speaker 2: And I fell for this call. For a second, I was buying that. Let's go to Steve and Newport Peat. Steve, Hello, Hey John, Randy, how do you guys doing good?

00:35:35
Speaker 12: I just want to let you know I'm a big fan of you guys. First time call I met you back up in LA at your event that you did at the beginning of the year. My point is, I just got my ballot. I'm I'm on your camp, John, I'm a Steve Hilton guy, but I do want a Republican So I'm curious, do I just fill up my ballot now for Bianco or do I wait until we get close to the election dates since candidates keep dropping out and I don't know if if one of our two guys have any dirt on them. I'm waiting for Katie Porter to get knocked out. But I just wanted to get your take because I want to notice by the rest of my family. I got a pretty large family and I want to let them know, Hey, if we want a Republican, vote for Bianco or do we just wait?

00:36:25
Speaker 3: What do you think?

00:36:26
Speaker 1: Well, like you, I prefer Hilton to Bianco. However, the only play we have is Republicans to win is with a lockout. And at this point, if you want to lock out, you have to vote for Banco because you need both Republicans on the November ballot. Hilton has the Trump endorsement, which is enough to get him on the November ballot. Right now, it's Bionco that needs the push. He needs the help. And if we can get him across the finish line and have him finish second, then one of those two who is going to be the next governor of California. I don't even particularly care at this point which Republican it is. We just need a Republican governor of California so we could end the madness.