Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome, everybody. This Javier Gonzalez. This is episode two of the JG podcast, the Voter election edition. I'm here with DJ Slowpoke. What's going on, Slowpoke? What's up?
[00:00:10] Speaker B: What's up? What's up?
[00:00:11] Speaker A: How you doing today, man?
[00:00:13] Speaker B: I'm doing all right.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: All right. Well, back by popular demand, or at least my mom, we're going to do an addition where I'm going to go over my voter guide. People have been asking me who I'm voting for since I've been talking about some of the candidates. So I wanted to get right into it. So before I do Slowpoke, if you can tell us just really quickly a little bit about yourself.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: My name is DJ Slowpoke. I'm a DJ in Los Angeles, and I do a lot of events like Motown on Mondays, and I'm all around the city, and I also do mixtapes on mixcloud.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: He also does quinceaneras, bodas, and divorces.
All right, so what we want to do is in a format that we kind of came up with, we have a little bit of music in the background. Slowpoke is going to provide the soundtrack to this. My first ever voter guide. The Deadline is Tuesday, June 2, and if you mail in your ballot, it has to be stamped by the U.S. mail post office no later than June 2, even if it arrives later. So those of you going to vote, you better do so fast.
You can also find an early vote location or a vote center and. And vote right now up to election day. Slowpoke, have you decided when you're going to vote and how you're going to vote?
[00:01:29] Speaker B: I decided. I'm voting on it. Javier Beseta.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: Javier, I. I didn't ask you who. I said what day and how are you going to vote? You know?
[00:01:38] Speaker B: Oh, I already voted.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: You already voted?
Wow. Wow. Maybe you could do a reveal party, but naked. No, I'm just playing. All right, well, preparing for this episode, DJ Slowpoke, who is a really good dj, good dude, has put together an amazing mix. We're going to provide a playlist online.
But I want to ask you first, Slowpoke, to start with this song by Smog, which you're playing now, the title song. Got to have a little talk with the peanut man. Can you tell me a little bit about this song, why you played it? I'm going to put it up a little bit.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: I'm playing this song because this song is from 1977, and it's called I Gotta have a Little Talk with the Peanut man. Who was.
[00:02:21] Speaker C: Who was.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: What's that?
[00:02:24] Speaker B: Who was the president?
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Jimmy Carter was the president, 1976, and he was famous for being a peanut farmer in Atlanta, Georgia.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: And that's the breakdown, this song. The guy is calling Washington and he's going to talk about what he's going through, which is relevant today in 2026, even though this is all the way from 1977.
[00:02:44] Speaker A: So go ahead and let that play a little bit. We're gonna let this sink in a little bit. Listen to this song. This man calls up Jimmy Carter, the president, the Democrat, and he's talking to him about the high price of everything, about inflation, about the lack of jobs, about high taxes, and he breaks it down. So think about a little bit because it's relevant today.
Operator, Operator, I want to make a collect called Whitener DC I want Capitol Hill.
[00:03:20] Speaker C: Capitol Hill?
[00:03:21] Speaker A: Yeah, Mummy Hill. You know who I'm talking about? You know where I'm coming from.
[00:03:25] Speaker C: Heavy. The number, sir.
[00:03:26] Speaker A: I got the number like it's 632-4790.
[00:03:31] Speaker C: Have you the area code?
[00:03:32] Speaker A: Ain't no area code. Now, I ain't one area code. D.C. you ought to know that.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: And if you don't know that, you
[00:03:38] Speaker A: ain't got no business being no operator.
[00:03:40] Speaker C: May I have your name?
[00:03:41] Speaker A: My name. My name is Willie Ray Paul Sam Robert Jones Dunlap.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: So are you saying dunnap?
[00:03:49] Speaker A: I said just plain old Dunklap. Susanna. Done all I could now about to laugh. Oh, let me talk to my man.
[00:03:56] Speaker C: Sir, I'm sorry, I can't hear you. The music is too loud. Can you call back, please?
I gotta have a good time have a good time with the peanut man with the peanut man I gotta have a little talk Come with a peanut man With a peanut man I gotta have a little talk have a little talk with the.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: So if you listen to the song, there's nothing wrong with calling out people, politicians about things that are going on. He's talking about inflation, he's talking about taxes, the high price of everything.
No one is beyond reproach. We should be able to challenge everybody because I've gotten a little bit of. Not that I give a.
For attacking. Becera and Sty are supposedly. I don't call it attacking, I call it exposing the record. And we're gonna keep doing it. So I'm gonna go through my list of who my. Walking through my ballot. Here's my ballot for those of you who can see this on video. I'm ripping it up right now. I. I feel like The NBA announcing who the shitty team that's going to get the top draft pick. So this is my ballot. These are the pretty little boxes that you circle in. Here's the I voted sticker I'm going to walk you through.
So I wanted to share my thinking while Slowpoke play some classic music. The idea is to have fun. We chose a 70s mix on purpose to listen to before you color in your little boxes. The 70s music is amazing. Slow book, I'm going to ask you about it in a second. But we first started talking about the song by Bill Withers. I can't write left handed. I recently got sick and tired of listening to hip hop, especially the Kendrick song Ain't Talking about Nothing. Like, this dude is not talking about nothing while he's doing a song about people who are not talking about nothing. And I thought it was.
I listen to a little bit of J. Cole. It's a little bit better. I've been listening to old Mexican songs and 70s music because I just think it's so much more colorful and about the grassroots in the working class. So Slowpoke, tell me about some of the songs we're going to be playing today in the 70s mix that you put together here.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: A lot of these songs have a lot of soul, have a lot of
[00:06:23] Speaker A: flavor, have a lot of fun. Get a little closer if you can. So look to Mike.
[00:06:28] Speaker B: A lot of these songs have a lot of flavor, have a lot of soul, have a lot of fun. We're going to be addressing these issues that are going on today, but we also going to play some songs for California since the vote is here in California. All right, but the music that I compiled has a lot of social justice messages in it. Some uplifting stuff in the mix, too.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: All right, well, there you go.
So we're gonna start with the California governor's race, the one that people are hot and heavy about here. Look at this long list. There's a shitload of people running for California governor. It's amazing.
So I'm gonna go through my notes here. So for California governor, it's a big one. I first want to say, I don't want to argue with my friends. We lost this race two years ago.
The party leadership and the establishment groups in Sacramento, with Trump doing whatever he want, going after everyone, and political opposition should have taken note and gotten all the candidates together. Say, look, we want to go across the state, do some town halls, do some mean greets, do some speaking tours. We want to weed out the people who just can't seal the deal. And we want to coalesce around some people that are maybe doing well and getting some attention. But no, that's not what they did. They were content with letting Gavin Newsom be the head of the party and take us down the road of high price for everything with nothing getting fixed. And this is where we are.
So instead they decided who's the best? Gavin Newsom 2.0. So if you remember, we start off with Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris. Is she running for governor? Whenever the press asks you if somebody's running for something, they're pushing that person. There's no reason that shit. It's like somebody saying, hey, why aren't people playing the new Kendrick? You're basically insinuating you should play it. So first they tried to give us Kamala, who was just a terrible vice president, a terrible attorney general. If you look at the read the book home wreckers. She gave up everything to the bankers, didn't put them in jail, didn't give anybody back their homes after the 208 market crash. And she's a puppet of Goldman Sachs, so that shit didn't work. Then they floated Adam Schiff, the state senator.
Adam Schiff, who just looks like a dork. He looks like a weirdo. If you read Matt Tybee's articles on the Twitter files, the dude was a straight up censor piece of something.
So he didn't seal the deal. Then they have Alex Padilla, who isn't is just.
I had written a note about him, you know, I forgot what I said. But he just. The battle is just lame. That's how I look at. I seen the dude. I know him. But he did his. He pulled his little Jorge Ramos where he stood there in front of Christine ome inter the press conference, knowing he was going to be talked harsh to. Then he starts yelling. I mean, they did manhandle him in the vato fell, but they tried to say make him the Latino hero, but that didn't work. So then they moved on. And from there, the great white shifted to Katie Porter, the woman who used to be a moderate from Santa Ana or Orange County. And then all of a sudden, she's Elizabeth Swartz, right hand, and she's fighting for progressives and all this.
And I never got the. Then the video comes out of her yelling and then she's done.
So then they switch to Eric Swalwell, who I like to refer to by his government name, which is Stifler from the movie American Pie. So then they try to tell Us that Stiffler's a man. I don't understand. Slowpoke baby. You can explain to me, Eric Swalwell, how do you run for office knowing that there's video of you with prostitutes and you've been sleeping around with everyone in Washington? I mean, the guy was dirty as hell and they pulled his car and he got done.
Then all of a sudden, we're told that it's all up to Javier Becerra and Tom Steyer, when six weeks ago, ABC and USC refused to allow them into the debates, saying that they weren't polling high enough and didn't have the fundraising threshold. So six weeks ago, the media was telling us, Javier said, I ain't.
They were only going to have white people on the debate panel. And then they canceled it. By the way, I should mention quickly, the Republicans, Chad Bianco, who I like to call Danny DeVito, and Steve Hilton, aka Dickhead, who's literally in the Epstein file saying he wants to meet Woody Allen, who has most def said molested and married his stepdaughter in that song. We should mix that in when we edit this shit.
So they're off.
They're not taking seriously. But the media did this thing where they used the Emerson poll, and what they did is they reported the poll numbers, but they divided them by party. So what they did is they said the nine Democrats split the race and they're all between 2 and 9 or 10 or 11%, whatever it was. And then the two Republicans split the Republican vote, so they were at 40 and 44%.
So the way they presented the poll, it made it seem like the Republicans could win the race. And it scared the shit out of everyone, which they always do. Stop being a critical and Javier just coalesce behind whoever Barbossa we all choose. But I was like, no, dude, Republicans are only 19% of the state. Getting 40% of 19% is 7 to 8%. The dude's not even in the top five. This is bullshit. You're tricking people into thinking that we have to pick a shitty candidate. The reason I don't like Javier Becerra is because his value is he's willing to allow the Latino and the working class community to be exploited. When he was the head of Health and Human Services, he didn't lose 85,000 kids. He lost touch with 85,000 kids because his policy was to only call them once. They set up a 1-800-hotline where hundreds of kids reported being trafficked, working full time, and being exploited and injured, and they Reported that they never got a call back. He compared it to an assembly line. 12 kids were killed. 4,000 kids were, were, were, were put to work full time. I don't give a what he says. If I'm the head of a department that has to look over 500,000 kids, I'm going to bust my ass to make sure those kids are in safe conditions. There was a Guatemalan kid who was 14 years old who was working in a PIA and had all the flesh removed from his entire left hand. There was a rural kid from Mexico who had never been to a city, who was delivering food in New York and was killed by a car on his first day on the job. There was a kid who fell from 50ft his first day in a construction job. They were doing Cheerios cereals. They were doing for Starbucks, they were doing for chicken companies, Ben and Jerry's milk. It was disgusting. There is no way you can traffic 4,000 kids.
And the department didn't know shit. There was tons of letters, there was tons of notes. And Becerra did nothing about it. He actually wanted them to increase it. Then as Attorney General. Javier Becerra was the Attorney General under the fastest growth that I can remember in recent history of wage theft in America. Labor groups did a delegation to Sacramento while he was the Attorney General and reported that during COVID Remember, he wasn't. He didn't win the Attorney General race. He was appointed by Jerry Brown. He won re election. This guy's never won a big election.
They did a delegation to report that during COVID 300,000 911 calls of. Of immigrant workers at fast food restaurants like angel over here were beaten, assaulted. What did he do about it? He didn't do shit. So I'm not with Javier Becerra. That's just a no go. Tom Steyer, who I like to call Mr. Drummond. This battle is a no go. Spends his day screwing over the working class and hugs little poor kids at night. Look up his record. He worked for Goldman Sachs. He worked for Morgan Stanley and then he started his own investment firm. He focused on what's called arbitrage, which is you're an advisor for mergers and acquisitions and then you're betting on the success or failure of those acquisitions. But you have inside information that's legal, insider trading. He didn't work for fucking your theater, Chatta's clothing store. He worked for ExxonMobil, DuPont, Chevron, major oil companies.
Not for one year, his entire career.
Tom Steyer is an oil man. Just because he puts his Nose in the air, buy some shitty ass jeans. Puts on his Mr. Buttermaker face and says, I love the working class. Doesn't mean he's anything other than a spy.
Just like Donald Trump. Donald Trump said, no war. America first. Make America great again, have compassion. More wars, more bullshit. He doesn't give a fuck about us and people are starting to see it. Tom Steyer is here to pretend to love us so that we can vote for him and then he can screw us over. In terms of the candidates, I kind of like Butch Ware is cool Green Party candidate, but I have one issue that his volunteer mostly white team couldn't get him on the ballot. He's a writing candidate. How are you running for governor? You can't get on the ballot. I get Shirley Weber tried to screw you over. You should not vote for her for Secretary of State. But why are you waiting to the last minute? I've done elections. I've worked in politics. You get on the ballot as soon as you fucking can. It's the first thing you do. There's nothing else to do. You can go to all the fucking farmers markets and hippie shit you want. And it just reminds me of the 2016 Bernie campaign. All these volunteer middle class white kids who knew everything and accomplished and did nothing.
The DSA guy, I don't even know his name. I'm not even gonna look it up. The Bato looks weird to me. DSA itself is weird to me. It's socialism without the socialism. And the entire base for dsa, which I get is growing.
They're not really a party. They work within the democratic circles. And worse, their base is always middle class white suburbs.
If you look at all the DSA candidates, they were always elected by middle class white communities. You got something you wanted to pump on?
Oh, you. You tripping. Oh, I gotta put your up if you want to listen to it.
What you gonna say?
[00:16:57] Speaker B: I wasn't gonna say anything.
[00:16:59] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, all right. Why you interrupted me then.
Okay, you can't hear that. I can hear it. You wanna.
You'd have to cut this out. You can mix. Go to the next song. You'd have to keep this song on.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: No, no, no.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: All right, so let me. This is my thoughts on the dsa. To me, they remind me of Kevin Costner and Dances with Wolves for the summer.
And they're leaving once the winter comes and they're taking the white girl with them.
And while he looks back and says, I will never forget you, he knows damn well they're going to get slaughtered. And displaced. And I. I just think that the DSA pushes an agenda of building affordable housing, which at this point, we need to call gentrification and community redevelopment. So I. I don't even consider that. B.
Antonio Vie. Go.
Tony Thurman and Betty, I think they've had good careers. They're good people, but they're just wrong on the war on Gaza. And that's just a no go for me, man. If. If you can't call that a genocide and. And seek justice for the Palestinian children and peace in the Middle east, man, it just not wasting our time.
So I may go.
Who I may vote for who I voted for last time, so. But who you think I voted for last time?
You don't even know who ran, huh?
[00:18:24] Speaker B: I don't even know who you voted for.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: No, I. I'm not even gonna lie, bro. I voted for Homer Simpson. I wrote it in for president. I voted for Sepi because I said, if I'm voting for clowns, I'm voting for my favorite clown.
So for governor, man, vote for who you want.
I just really don't give a shit about any of these folks. I'm not even lying. I think the Trump administration took the mask off, and in sheer brutal force, it made me rethink a lot of what I believe in and made me decide that I'm only looking for superstars. And if you're not a superstar, it's just really not a waste of my time. It's a waste of my time. So I know people have been wanting me to say, whether it's Stier or Besetta, I've never thought about voting for Style or Bassett. I could never vote for a white billionaire who spent 40 years making money off the backs of the working class, who now says, we need to clean up the air.
His. His form of environmental justice and environmentalism costs the rich and powerful nothing.
And I just think he's a Trojan horse.
We all need something to believe in, and that's what he gives you.
So I'm gonna let Slowpoke do a little bit of a mix right now. Take a little break. So, to no surprise, man, I'm not voting for Becera. I'm not voting for Tom Steyer. I like Butch Ware, but I think you gotta.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: You.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: You know, if you want to run for office, you gotta. You gotta run for office. You gotta try to win.
And I'm not saying he doesn't want to win or his team doesn't want to win. I'm saying you gotta run a campaign so Slowpo go ahead, throw some mixes.
[00:20:22] Speaker D: We recorded this song on October 6th. Since then the war has been declared over. If you're like me you'll remember it like anybody remembers anymore. One big drag A lot of people write songs about wars and government, very social things.
But I think about young guys who were like I was when I was young.
I had no more idea about any government or political things or anything.
I think about those kind of young guys now who all of a sudden somebody comes up and they're very law abiding.
So if somebody says go, they don't ask any questions, they just go.
And I can remember not too long ago seeing a young guy.
With his right arm gone Just got back and I asked him how he was doing. He said he was doing all right now but he had thought he was gonna die.
He said getting shot at didn't bother
[00:21:41] Speaker C: him,
[00:21:44] Speaker D: it was getting shot that shook him up.
And I tried to put myself in his position.
Maybe he cried, maybe he said.
I can't write left handed.
Would you please write a letter Write
[00:22:20] Speaker C: a letter to my mother.
Tell her to tell tell her to tell Tell her to tell her family law ya.
[00:22:43] Speaker D: Try to get Try to get a
[00:22:45] Speaker C: deferment for my younger bro.
[00:22:56] Speaker D: Tell her river and Harris to parade
[00:23:00] Speaker C: for me Lord, Lord.
I ain't going to live I don't
[00:23:14] Speaker D: believe I'm going to live to get much older.
Strange little man over here in Vietnam My I ain't never seen Bless his heart I ain't never done nothing to
[00:23:34] Speaker C: he done shot me in my shoulder.
What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop Children what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down.
There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong Young people speaking their minds can so much resistance from behind Children, children.
Dj slumper.
And I Boy and I are two for two Both for me and I'll set you free Rap on brother rap on well the only person talking about love and brother is the preacher and it seems nobody's interested in learning but the teacher Segregation determination demonstration integration aggravation diminishing to a nation the.
That's what the world is today the cels are at an all time high Young folks walking down with their heads in the sky City's a praise in the cell no.
Evolution revolution got control sound so shooting rockets to moon Keeps going up to Politicians say most taxes will solve Everything.
No time for sorrow
[00:28:10] Speaker A: and we ain't
[00:28:11] Speaker C: got time no time oh, time to be saved.
And maybe the world ain't what it could be but to understand why is to know reality.
Oh, don't give in.
I said hang on.
Hang on in there.
How many times did you hear your mom and daddy say oh child, I never had it so good.
I want to say thank you.
Thank you for the start.
Cause deep in my soul I know you did all. All that you could.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: All right, so we're back now and we're going to in a second go over a little bit of the music that slowpo play. But we're going to continue on with the voter guide. We're switching to lieutenant governor.
I just don't give a.
Who works in the. Who's the bathroom attendant at the governor's mansion? I don't give a. It's. They're nobody. Lenny was nobody.
I don't even want to mention these people's names.
Tenant governor Shit. Write me in.
Secretary of State.
I once got high with Mike Feinstein of the Green Party in Santa Monica.
He famously went on a tour of the new Santa Monica Police Department police station wearing a wool sweater, only to realize as he was living leaving that he had a gigantic bud on the back of his sweater.
I got. You know, that's some points.
Shirley Weber is the one who screwed Butch Ware's campaign for governor.
So I like Mike Feinstein for the Green Party. Man. I don't Mike Controller don't give a shit. I really don't give a shit who the controller is. I don't even know these names.
Don't give a shit.
Treasure.
Tony Vasquez was my mayor in Santa Monica. He once got the Santa Monica Police Department to back off of harassing me because I had when I had become a reformed bagobundo and I was testifying at city council about police abuse part of a lawsuit against lapd.
Fought the curfew, fought the gang injunctions and was organizing with some of the homies in the neighborhood. And the cops started really fucking harassing me. They started giving me tickets, arrested me for bullshit. And Antonio Vasquez actually, you know, made some calls for me.
Eleni, the billionaire I could give a rat. Says I actually met her one time. She does not know this, but when I was doing the 2003 yes, I'm old janitor strike in Sacramento. Her father who is the largest building owner in Sacramento. She's a daughter of a real estate mogul. Can't get with that. She was in one of the meetings.
Otherwise I do not give a. About State Controller Attorney General Rob Bontus sucks.
He sat there like Becerra and watched wage theft expand greatly. And all he could talk about was men dressing as women, swimming on teams.
It was bullshit. He also did the Housing Enforcement AKA Gavin Newsom's plan for gentrifying Latino communities. If Rob Bonta, Gavin Newsom and this lot have their way, we will all be living in boxes. Boxes called apartments with backyards called balconies.
I love my huge East LA City Terrace property. I got pineapples, I got grapes, I got oranges. I'm working on some lima, some cherries, aguacates, chayotes.
Like my grandfather, my father, my great grandparents. Man, I love to work the land a little bit.
And Attorney General Rob Bonta thinks I should should tear down my house and my garden and build 17 apartment buildings so that white people can move in and pay fifty five hundred dollars, join the DSA and take pictures with their fist in the air like they're radicals. And while we move our ass to Colton and Riverside, them Insurance Commissioner Ben Allen is a weirdo. I would never vote for Ben Allen. He's from the west side. He's from Santa Rosa. He's a sellout. I met Jane Kim on the Bernie campaign. She seems cool. But if you are not creating a public insurance for car insurance, home insurance, health insurance, it doesn't fucking matter. The head of the Health Insurance Commission just protects the premiums for all the insurance companies that run this fucking state along with the oil companies and tech Bros.
So Superintendent of Public Instruction, if you don't double the spending for public education and make college free or like super cheap.
What the fuck are you doing? Superintendent of Public Instruction. I don't even know what that means.
And for the statewide candidates in general, if you don't support the dismantling of the state terrorism threat Assessment centers that collect all public footage from police officers and share it with ice. It's things called fusion centers I started learning about thanks to Samuel and some other people about the surveillance, the growth of surveillance. A great book called Pacification of a Nation about how these fusion centers are set up. At local sheriff's department they collect data from body camera footage, patrol car footage, security footage, surveillance footage. The helicopters that fly over the marches have these things called.
I can't think of it, but it's a. It's a device that records SIM cards for six blocks.
All of that gets shared to what's called the Fusion region centers in LA County. It's called the Joint Regional Intelligence center and that is Santa Barbara, la, San Bernardino, Riverside and I believe one other county and that is the largest one in the nation. It collects more data than any other data in the nation. That's how ICE knows where you are and what you're doing. And it's all paid for by LA county taxpayers. And it goes to Sacramento to the State Terrorism Threat Assessment center that's paid for by the state and that is appointed by the governor. And the California head of STACC is also the national head of the fusion center or some river. So Gavin Newsom stas and if you're running for governor you should shut this department down. Terrorism is bullshit. It's an excuse to surveil and to control our lives just like narco trafficantes is bullshit. The politicos in Mexico are the narcos. The generals are the soldiers and the narcos are the fucking kids on the street wearing Jordan selling shoes. Just because they have a gold chain don't mean they're, they're balling out. There's a great bull called Los Narco Trafficates don't exist about how the government really runs that. So in America I just went to a wedding in San Francisco slowpoke. And when I was driving back down the 99i, I drove alongside the largest use of power energy in the continent which is the Tehachapi water pump that brings us all the water from Northern California to the south. It's, it's the size of probably an entire block. It's a huge million of gallons of water which is how we get water every day. Do you think if terrorists wanted to us up they could not just blow that up at any one of two to 300 miles that, that thing that Duck comes through. If you think terrorists can't stand on Inglewood Avenue and shoot some into a plane at any given moment, you're drunk. You think terrorists can't go to East LA or Pico Union or the south south east cities and just shoot down a plane? You're dumb. If you think you can't sneak all kinds of through the border, you're dumb. Terrorism is the, the boogeyman that they use on us to allow the state to collect billions of items of data as reported in Wired magazine.
And Stephen Miller and the Trump administrative just admitted that they actually access, they gave over 9,000 ice access to that. And I remember during the raids here in la, a woman whose husband had been kicked up on, picked up on a clinic said in an interview I don't know how they knew my husband had an appointment today. Because they're accessing all the data. So that's what we need to ask people in the state of Sacramento. Just because they want our vote doesn't mean we have to pick. Democracy is more than coloring in a little circle.
And when, when we get to asking them for tough questions and getting tough answers, that's when we're getting somewhere. Their job is to trick us in the meantime. So for voting, like I said before, I'm only looking for a superstar. I'm not interested in anybody else. And that's why I moved through this. The Board of Equalization. It's a weird position. It's really related, related to taxes, it has tax implications.
It's like a Board of Public Instruction. I mean it just. No one there seems qualified for the job. I like Anthony Rendone, he's a good man. I served with them on the League of Conservation Voters. Superintendent Anthony Rendone might be someone interesting.
So vote as you wish, but remember to ask for more.
We should believe that a better world is possible because it is and our families deserve it.
So when Becera or Steyer come asking for your ballot or any of these others, ask them, why don't you make some of the 32 million acres of available public land available to everyday people to build their own home? You could have a hijido system like you do in Mexico, where you could buy the land for five or ten thousand dollars only sell it back to the state and you have five years to build on it. And if you don't build on it, you got to sell it back at market rate. That's the only way most of our kids are going to be able to afford a home.
[00:38:42] Speaker C: Home.
[00:38:43] Speaker A: Why is it that the only public land that is made available in California goes to large corporations that sell the houses for 6, $700,000. Why can't we open up a million acres of land, do quarter acre lots and let people buy them for $5,000 and then have them build a home for 50 to 200,000?
I don't understand that we ask for nothing from these people. Let's go into the ballot measures. Measure er, the only one I want to talk about more taxes to fund the non profit scammers that are making millions of dollars treating the homeless and the drug addicts and the mentally ill. People paying themselves a million dollars an hour. We see it right here. They took over this apartment building thanks to piece of shit Hilda Solis. They have all these mentally Ill people doing drugs, smoking cigarettes, wasting away in the alley in the heat in the summer. And then every two weeks some lady shows up in a BMW to ask them how they're doing and how they're feeling. This is vote Hell no on measure er State Assembly. Jessica Coloza to me is a corporate Democrat who's here just to trick us. She, she ran pretending to be Latina. She's Filipina. The up thing about Jessica close is this. I got all the mail cuz I'm in the district. She never once stood next to her husband in any pictures cuz that looks hella Asian. And she wanted to trick us into thinking she was Latina. I, I, I just think if you're her man, that's, that's kind of shady. Like hey baby, I love you but I can't take a picture with you cuz I'm pretending to be a Latina. That's a trip. So ch with Jessica Colosa State Senate Sarah Hernandez. I, I, I've met her before. I've seen her videos. I got all her mail. This chick turned into Karl Marx. She was a corporate Democrat, always running for school board and like that trying to get endorsed by the Central City Association. And now she is a raging radical. She's fighting Trump.
She's fighting for the homeless. And I don't buy this. Hell no for Sarah Hernandez. Worse than anything, just totally fake.
County Board of Supervisors. I don't have any notes here because I know Martin.
When her husband Miguel Contreras passed away, she, she gave me his ties. I love Miguel. I worked under the early big Latino mobilizations and labor mobilizations in la. And I'm torn here because I just don't think she's up for the challenge. Man, every time I see her, I just, you know, she's older, much respect. She should have a wonderful retirement party and just turn into grandma. But I think we need more from the Democratic party than a low wage service economy with a few union jobs and a strong social safety net. I, I just don't think it's enough.
We need radical change in the Democratic party.
And that gets me to the two of my favorites. Three of my favorites.
Hilda Solis. She's not in, she's in my district now, but she's running for Congress outside of my district. I so wish I could vote against Hill Solis. I really don't like her.
I used to really look up to her. The first time I testified in hearing. I have a picture, angel, maybe I could send you a picture. You could Put it in. The first time I testified at a hearing was about wage theft among janitors in the aerospace industry. She was this chair of the California Senate Labor Committee and I thought she was a powerful badass Latina fighting for worker rights. And one day I woke up and I just realized I've never seen her do.
And when she stood next to Obama for six or eight years or whatever it was as the head of Department of Labor and watched Obama break records for bombing, for invasions, for deportations, for incarcerations, I just said, how do you fucking not say anything? I think it was bullshit. She was an early DSA which tells you everything. And on the county board of Supervisors she voted to sell data on ICE on immigrants in LA county to ice.
She's currently been doing what's been determined to be unlawful biased code enforcement in the San Gabriel Valley, attacking horse and equestrian communities, trying to displace Latinos. She did a rezoning of the San Gabriel Valley that nobody asked for. Where all of a sudden people were told hey, if you want you can build 10 apartment buildings on your property. And then LA County's office of Economic Development with you know, which she voted for spends $50 million million dollars a year I believe, flying to China and recruiting Chinese investors to buy homes in the San Gabriel Valley. I went to a beautiful ranch in, I forget the name of the barrio but bassett around there and the bato showing me this horses and his chivos and his plan and he's like I'm gonna show you something bro. And we turned the corner and it was a up ass area where they, the horse trail was. He's like they don't even take care of the this area. Then we turned another corner and it was like 80 condominiums being built. He's like that this is why they want to get rid of us, they want these condos. So a lot of times we have to understand that the politicians tell us the opposite of the truth. Donald Trump says he wants no more wars. He's a warmonger, right?
Joe Biden said he wanted peace in the Middle east and he, he allowed Netanyahu to begin the genocide.
Obama said he was against dumb wars, which we should have listened. He said he's for smart wars, right? So he bombed more countries. He did. He said he was going to close down Guantanamo Bay. He didn't close down Guantanamo Bay by the way. I'll do an episode about Guantanamo Bay and how the conditions of the icaleras are very similar to the conditions of Guantanamo Bay. We're Colonial subjects to these people. They don't give a about us. Michael Jackson, Jackson and Tupac had it right. And Hilda Solis I think represents the worst of the worst. And here's my favorite. Aside from the fact that she started her career as a Republican working for Ronald Reagan in the White House, which she doesn't tell people that.
Hilda Solis appointed to the LA County Homeless Services Authority. Katie Hill who resigned from Congress supposedly after she got caught sleeping with her chief of staff smoking a bong butt naked in a picture. But I heard even better back then from people I knew in Washington. That is not why she resigned. She resigned because she was going to go to rehab or do the little they say. And the Black Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus said they want to talk to that young lady about the iron cross tattoo on her right hip. Hilda Solis appointed a white woman who has a racist Nazi iron cross tattoo on her hip and didn't even ask her a question.
A person who I think had her husband who then left her earning like several hundred thousand dollars a year on some homeless thing. Katie Hill came out of the homeless services non union anti rehabilitation exploit the homeless shit. And she's now running for Congress again. She should just have a retirement party with lots of booze. I hear she likes that, that and. And move on. But Hilda Solis is a nobody. Two last ones.
But before that, do we want to do a little mix or we're good. We want to keep going. Are we going to keep going? I want to spend a little bit of time on Heidi Feldstein Soto who wants to be the LA city attorney again. She's currently our city attorney so I'm gonna try to lay this out as good as I can. I. I'm a no on her her because she did not prosecute the clearly Israeli spies that went to UCLA and beat up students that were supporting the Palestinian cause. And the ceasefire in Gaza.
There's plenty of videos and a bunch of badass kids at UCLA did. I don't know how they did these searches. And they took the pictures of the kids who beat them with sticks for two minutes while cops were nearby. While the UCLA school police had cops nearby and didn't intervene. They allowed foreign agents to beat UCLA students. My daughter is a UCLA student. I'm a UCLA alumni. To think that we have a city attorney that will not put grown men in jail who beat students with sticks is disgusting and she should never run for anything again in her life. I don't know much about the woman that's Running against her. I think her name is Melissa Roy. I hear good things. This is one of those where like just bite the bullet and vote for Melissa Roy. Because UCLA has a long history going back to Jolly west and the West Auditorium. Who was the person connected to the Charles Manson psychedelic drug therapy? He was the one that met with Jack Ruby, whose real name is Jack Rubenstein. And 20 minutes after he met with Jack Ruby who shot Ali Harvey Oswald who killed Kennedy. That battle was insane. He was declared insane 30 minutes after meeting with Jolly west who was doing psychedelic mind control. That has been at UCLA for a long time. I don't believe a bunch of students.
They weren't students. I don't believe a bunch of Jewish community members were pissed off at the students and they decided to assault them. I believe that was a psychop. That was an operation to beat those students. 200 students were arrested. Not one of the people who beat the students was arrested. And Heidi, when she was presented with the names decided not to press charges. She is a no. Jim McDonald is a fuck no.
And let's move on from her.
I don't live in the city so I don't actually have a vote. And that takes me to the last one. The mayor of la. I haven't. I have no notes if you want to see. I have no notes. I know Karen Bass. I've known her for a while.
I think she just did some good stuff.
I like what she did at MacArthur park when she figured out how to kick them out. I like how she helped the school workers when they were going to go on strike. I like how she has the not shied away from standing up to people on controversial issues. Whether it be the ICE stuff. I like how she came out. If you remember when we had the audio tape recording of the racist comments from council members, Eric Garcetti disappeared. Karen Bass did not disappear. She stood there the. The socialist woman's again. I, I have no love for dsa. I just think they're fake.
But that, that, that. How the hell is this Nithya lady from one of the wealthiest districts in LA, the socialist leader, a woman who lives in a 3 million dollar home whose husband is a talent agent at California Creative Agency whose first job was with Time's up which was in a feminist cancel organization. It was a bunch of actors and talent agents who wanted to oust dirty ass producers who they had ignored and played along with so they could promote their candidates to get good contracts for their agents. She is not a socialist. She also won this race because David Lee, with his limitations, man, was having real problems with the white people at Hollywood bowl because they wanted him to ban Mexican music, Spanish concerts at Hollywood Bowl. So one of the reasons David Rue lost was because of the white backlash for him allowing more diverse concerts. I, he told me that. I also remember when Hill, the Solis and the Democratic party blocked Bernie Sanders from doing a show at the Hollywood Bowl. David Rue was a part of that. He's still pissed about me cuz we, we, we, we kind of, we kind of tricked him on that one. That was funny. But Nithy is not a radical. You're going to miss me with this. Middle class socialism, socialism without social. The other lady, the minister, no chance. Looks fake.
The reality star, the white boy. I mean, that guy is a caricature. I mean he looks like a cartoon. I can't imagine this about the running the city. I think he would work from home.
So if you don't really want the job, then I don't think you should. People should vote for you. I don't think he wants to be mayor. I think he wants to beat Karen Bass. I think he wants to have a political career.
So fuck that.
The weird white guy is the weird white guy.
And if you're gonna vote for somebody, vote for Karen Bass. Man, I, I want to say this with love and admiration, man. I know a lot of people who work for her, who work over there. Just. You guys have a bad reputation for poor follow up for not coming through and not finishing the task. Man, if my job is to tell it like it is, y' all gotta get your together.
We, I, I remember watching Karen Bass as a young organizer agenda at a town hall in South Central where the liquor permit for a liquor store in a bad neighborhood with a lot of violence was up for it. And Karen Bass stepped up to that microphone and presented things that she had bought from that liquor store. It was like individual needles, razors to cut cocaine, rubber bands to shoot heroin, 40 ounces, red and blue rags, house slippers that the cholos use, Raider hats, all the gangster gear. Remember we used to get our hairnets and our three flowers and all that shit from the liquor store. But then she compared it to the food and she said they only have processed food. They just have Doritos and potato chips. I think 40% of the aisles were full of beer. She had. They had no fresh fruits, they had no meat, they had no vegetables. And I was just like, man, this lady just destroyed. That's when they were called Community Coalitions Against Drug and Alcohol abuse. And they were a badass organization then.
And she was a badass leader of their. Her. Denise Fairchild, Anthony Thigpen. I really looked up to them. There were 60s radicals that taught me a lot. I loved working with them. And I just think that they have not recreated the same. I'm not speaking to Denise. I don't know Denise personally, but I know some good people that came out of her. But I think that Karen just has not.
Marquise and Alberto are. Are two unique things. I know Elmer and some other people. People came out of there, Lucy, but like, you have to.
You have to have a good tree, man. Like, a good DJ has 20 people that they taught that know how. Teach you how to dig in the crates and learn music and loop music and how to mix things. And we need to teach the next generation. And I think that when I look at Karen Bass's staff, I look at, like a fashion show. It looks like a fashion show to me. All the.
All the glitter.
And I'm just being honest because I really. I really do like Karen.
And I know she, you know, much respect to any mom with blessed to have one kid and lose that kid and that. That's a tough one. So if you want to vote for Karen Bass, I think that's. That's proper. If you want to vote for Anthony Rendon for superintendent of instruction, that's proper. If you're looking for something with the governor's race, peace, that shit's a trip. I don't know about that.
So if you think that voting and democracy is circling in a little bubble every couple years, you're full of, bro, we got to do more than this. This is not rising up. We have to rise up. Voting is the establishment's approved form of dissent. And I think that a lot of these people like DSA and these other people, their job is to get you to vote, to get you to believe. Believe in the system. They run different people to galvanize the different groups. They run a Latino to get the Latinos. They run a woman to get the woman. They run an African American to get the African Americans. They run a Green Party, an Asian person, a right winger, a short person, a tall person, a fat person, a stupid person. And they think that you'll relate to these people and you'll run, but, like, they're giving you the choices. It's like telling you, do you want to owe me $10,000 or owe me $50,000? I don't want to owe you.
Every time I go to the store, they Say would you like a, a, a bag for 10 cents? I said no, I want one for free. You asked me what I want. I want one for free. Like it used to me. I know that they like Alex Padilla. That's why they considered him for Senate, that's why they ran, wanted him to be governor because he wrote the bill for the plastic bag bag. Do you know that there are more plastic bag wasted after the bill was passed than before it? And guess what the cost of the bill is $400 million million dollars in profits to the grocery store selling those 10 cent bags, 15 cent bags. That's why everywhere you go now they sell you bags, paper bags, plastic bags, bigger bags. It's the last way to get a dollar from you on your way out the door. And I think it's so I don't go for the, I don't think that, that circling a bubble every two or three years is democracy. I think you need to rise up. And until we rise up, man, I don't really give a talk about this election.
So what I'm gonna do is, is hopefully not this up is this is what I think of this election, bro.
And I'm being totally honest with you. I'm not excited about the governor candidates, I'm not excited about the assembly candidates, I'm not excited about the Senate candidates, I'm not excited about the ballot measures.
You know what I didn't figure, I'm not excited about turning this off. I didn't even think about that.
But if you really want to make a difference, you need to rise up. You next time you see a politician, you need to grab by the oreja like the father used to grab me by the oreja in Mexico when I misbehave. Next time you see a politician like they did Tom Stier the other day, props to those reparations folks on La Brea, you need to challenge them. Say yo, what the are you doing doing to protect our communities. Seven year old girls have more balls than politicians. Eight year old girls have more balls than political operatives. And if you're going to ask me who I'm voting for this election cycle, like I said to you bro, I'm not voting for none of these people.
And you know you can go down the road. This is my ballot.
This didn't work. I was trying to get a lighter.
But we need to rise up voting don't do.
I hate to say it. I worked on this for four years.
For four years, for many years I registered a hundred thousand Latinos in the Central Valley for what? For these idiots that we have up there, man. We got sold some.
I can't burn this no more. I think the point was made, Slow Poke, why don't we just go ahead and go into the mix?
And before I do that, slowpoke, tell me what you think about the bullshit I just said.
[00:56:57] Speaker B: I thought it was very powerful.
You know, you say your shit right here, you know, that's stepping up to the plate and showing the people how you feel. I agree with you. You know, like we have a bunch of, we like live in a kangaroo society now, right? It's like, like it doesn't matter who it is. Republican, Democrat, you know, they all let us down. You know, like I'm one of those people that I'm tired of the same old, same old, same old every year, you know, 10 years from now, we might be talking about the same thing or worse.
We can't do anything without trying something. And we could do an example of what it is to step up to the plate and really, really show you what it is.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: All we could do is raise good kids. I have two beautiful daughters to one graduate college, get her masters. Now another one about to graduate college. That's I, I, there's no, there's nothing else to measure me on. And they're, they're conscious, they're aware, they're kind hearted people. And I, I, I am closer to my neighbors now more than ever.
And I want to do local and that's why I'm only talking to people. City, Terrace, East Delay. That's who I'm voting in. I don't give a. So for all you people in Santa Barbara and Silver Lake and Echo park that want to have, take issue with, with the, that I say I don't give a what they think.
I don't listen to middle class white people from Santa Barbara, from Silver Lake, from Echo park, from Sunset Park. I don't listen to bougie white people in Leimert park gentrifying that. I don't give a. If you live in Alhambra. Like, I don't give a. Like. And I'm not saying I don't like you or support you, man, but I'm only thinking local.
So let's play some music.
Tell me a little bit about what you want to play for the next, next few minutes as we fade out.
[00:58:43] Speaker B: Yeah, the first song I'm gonna play for what action that Javier just took right now. The first song is gonna be Fire. I'm telling you that right now, it's gonna be fire on that tray. It's gonna be fire on his turntables right now.
[00:59:11] Speaker C: Ra.
The way you walk and talk really sets me off to a full on child.
Yes, it does.
The way you squeeze in cheese knocks me to my knees? Cause I'm smoking, baby, baby, the way you sway, can't really rack my legs. I'm so excited now.
The way you push, push, let me know that you're good. That's Sam.
Baby, baby, You got a lot. You did it. Something. Child, that's your arm.
[01:01:34] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:01:34] Speaker C: You're hot. You're hot. You really shoot your shot. You're not on my child.
Yeah, well, I can tell about your game. You're gonna start a play in the love, baby, baby, I'm about to jump from the smoke like to tighten up my sk.
What you want, baby, I got what you need?
You know I got it too?
All I ask you.
What you want?
What if you you got it? And what you need, baby, you got it?
All I'm asking.
Do me wrong, honey? If you want, you can do me wrong, honey, while I'm gone.
Yeah.
Hey, little girl, you sweet at the moment And I'm about to leave you all.
But all I want you to do.
That's.
Black.
Absolutely nothing.
Yeah.
What is it good for? Absolutely.
Look out.
What is it good for? Absolutely.
[01:06:51] Speaker A: To me, to me
[01:06:54] Speaker C: I just find.
Good God, y' all absolutely get said again.
Damn.
What is it good for? Absolutely.
Tomorrow may never come for you or me. Life is not promised.
[01:08:10] Speaker D: Tomorrow may never show up for you and me.
[01:08:14] Speaker C: This life is not a problem.
I ain't no perfect man. I'm trying to do the best that I can with what is I have.
I ain't no perfect man? I'm trying to do the best that I can with what it is I have put my heart to this song. Yes, yes, oh, hope you feel me?
I am wherever you are.
Tomorrow may never come before you me? Life is not promised.
Tomorrow may never appear.
You better hold this very moment close to you right now. Very close to you.
[01:09:09] Speaker D: Right.
[01:09:26] Speaker C: For the world.
Light of the world.
Shine your light for the world to see.
[01:09:37] Speaker A: Shine your light on the world.
[01:09:40] Speaker C: Shine your.
Light for the world Sometime.
You got the power to keep my wheels turning.
And you got the power to keep my fire burning?
You got the power to keep my wheels turning.
You piss me hot.
Don't stop, give me what you got.
Oh, yeah.
Turn on your juice, turn loose, Ain't got no excuse?
Oh, no, no, no.
You got the power to keep my fire burning.
[01:12:11] Speaker A: Burn it up burn it up burn
[01:12:12] Speaker C: it up burn it up Got the power Sam.
It.
Sam.
I got so much trouble in my mind I got so much trouble in my mind I got so much trouble in my mind I got so much trouble in my mind give me the strength to carry on Give me the strength to carry on gone cuz everything I got is just about gone and I think about it I think about it I think about it step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step to step.
Sometimes I'm right I can be wrong my own beliefs are in my song the picture, the figure the drama ending makes no difference what group I'm in I am everyday people.
Sam.
It was a one room shack to slept another chair beside me we hardly had enough food or room to sleep it was hard time needed something to eat my trouble back listen my father didn't know the meaning of work he disrespected mama and treated us like D I left home seeking a job that I never did it fine depressed and downhearted I took the cloud now I'm doing fine up here on cloud listen one more time I'm doing fine.
Folks down there tell me say give yourself a chance don't let life pass you by but the world of reality lorette race where only the stone will survive it's a dog eat the world and that ain't no lie.
[01:17:09] Speaker A: Help me, help me, help me, help me.
[01:17:16] Speaker C: Survival survival of this survival I gotta get with it cause it ain't no chain.
Walking around bro and it ain't no cap.
Now when's the man my little baby needs a new pair of shoes I'm just about to lose my mind one step away from the prayer time well I'm trying to do the best I can trying to make it all through I don't know which way got tired I don't know what to do.
With.
That.
It.
Don't give him no peace down if you don't mean it from your heart united we can get over yet we're still alone cause he's big demands respect and they can't equal share and until you give it him back there'll be no peace we're gonna going to work it out brothers going to work it all night we must all join hands.
It.
His old man in the bottle.
See that black boy over there.
Bottle now don't you think you sink you sink you sink you sink you s when time after time after time People in the bottle there People living in the bottle.
Now listen to me. You see that sister? She was fine.
She told me, oh, man. Committing the crime. He's doing time now she's hanging in the bottom.
The countryside was cold and still.
And there were three crosses on a hill.
And each one wore a Burning Hood 2 had a rotten core of wood Wood.
And I said, father, Father, I hear an iron sound.
Hoof beats on the FL.
And downhill the riders came.
Lord, it was a crying shame.
To see the blood upon their two years.
The world is in our generation. Strength is all left up to us to change this present situation.
Take a lesson from our elders don't make the same mistake.
Let's fill the world with love, get rid of all the hate.
Our elders taught us one thing but practice another.
Just look what happened to the Indian.
That man shoot fly Watch that man ain't got no seller Ain't got no food shoot fly as well Watch the game.
Oh, I know the lace Ain't nobody Ain't nobody worried no Ain't no smiling, smiling faces.
[01:25:38] Speaker A: All right, everybody. Thank you, DJ Slowpoke. That was an amazing mix. We'll make the whole mix available on mixcloud. We're gonna have it on Apple Podcasts, on jg podcast.com on sub stack. The voter guide 2026 gonna surprise the out of you 70s music because it's a better vibe than this bullshit we hear today. Change is possible. A different world is possible. I come from a small town in Mexico with no corporations, tortillarias on the corner, we buy all our groceries locally. We're all friendly, we're all neighborly, we all celebrate. My cousins, my uncles, Everybody lives within 2, 3, 400 meters of one another. With different world is possible where people treat each other better and in just ways where politicians really respond to us. And the choices they set before us, I think are. That's why I did what I did with my ballot, man. If you want change, let's rise up. Follow us. Hop Gon Hov Gon. Slow Poke is DJ Slow Poke with an E.
To you guys. Soon peace.
