2:00

Yeah, but anyway, I couldn't sign there. Love, love the

2:02

man. I went to Chicago because Swara was going to

2:04

be a cub. Really? Yeah, came within, I would say

2:06

48 hours. Who else went

2:08

there? Ron Say, didn't he go there? Ron Say

2:10

went there. David Lopes, I think. Oh wow, okay.

2:12

So, Dustin Baker, manager. Yeah, but one thing led

2:15

to another, and I think the president of the

2:17

club felt he was being left out in negotiations.

2:19

It was big, you know, high profile, and

2:22

things started to stand still. So

2:24

he said, well, let's renew this. We're on a

2:26

tour. But when they're courting you, and Steve Garvey's

2:28

with us, and you're going to one of these

2:30

five teams, do they fly you private, and they

2:32

put you to the best hotel, the best car,

2:34

the best meal? They must go all out. Oh,

2:37

okay. All right. Southwest,

2:40

Holiday Inn. We flew Northwest,

2:42

Southwest, and Eastern Airline. You'll

2:44

transfer in Denver. That's it. But now, if they're doing that.

2:47

It's a two and a half hour layover. Oh, sure. If

2:49

they're doing it now for like show, showing those

2:52

funny, it's all private jets. Oh, sure, absolutely. And

2:54

now, his own fleet. Yeah, right,

2:56

exactly. Okay, so I didn't mean to interrupt. Go

2:58

to New York, Steinbrenner. Steve would

3:00

love to have you. And my agent, Jerry Capstine,

3:02

is George. Gary

3:05

De Garvey. I mean, it's New York. Think of

3:07

this. Like they say, I know,

3:09

I know. I'm thinking about three American League

3:11

guys, but I'll pump up my offer to

3:14

get things higher. And all I wanted was Parity. And Parity

3:16

was about 1.4 million a year. That's

3:19

how far back it was right then. So

3:21

go to Houston. I

3:24

didn't really want to go play in the dome. The dome

3:27

was dead. But on the board, one

3:30

mile per hour, northeast, out

3:34

in the west in terms of the wind. And

3:37

in the center is 420 in the galleys,

3:39

alleys are 390. So I went

3:41

to San Diego and Ray

3:44

Kroc, who was the owner back then. So

3:46

listen, I want to talk to Stevie. Call

3:48

me Stevie. Just Stevie and I. So I

3:50

went to his Cliftop Mansion and

3:52

you could look down the coast and it was

3:54

Mexico and you could look the other way and

3:56

you could see the planes taking off from LAX.

3:58

That kind of view. And I

4:00

walk into the house and it's a huge three

4:03

four thousand square foot grand room and he's got

4:05

a desk and he's there He's got a little

4:07

golf cap little cigar and he's he's doing something

4:09

and I can't see what he's doing And he

4:11

said mr. Crock. What are you doing? He said

4:13

jazz, Steve? He's just checking on the stores. Just

4:15

checking on the I

4:17

said, okay. Look he had six monitors. This was

4:19

early on now and he was

4:21

checking the stores North America McDonald's McDonald's

4:23

Japan Europe and so forth. I said,

4:25

how you doing? He says that's a

4:27

good day 42

4:30

million up in sales I'm

4:33

thinking Spoke

4:39

at our prayer breakfast a couple years ago and

4:41

he said son I was really impressed and you

4:44

touched my heart and he said I Really

4:47

want you here. And you know, you always want to be one

4:49

sure and I said, well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that He's

4:52

I got one problem. I said, what's that? He said

4:54

I can only pay him Big Mac's and French You

4:59

Say I could probably find a few shekels for you,

5:01

you know, and I said, okay And he said no,

5:03

he says I know what you can do on the

5:05

field. I think off the field you can really Help

5:08

this community understand what winners and professional

5:11

real professionals look like that's an honor. It

5:13

was it was he said So

5:15

it was more than just a baseball player and

5:17

most people know that I've always been involved in

5:19

community and charities and such So

5:22

he said, okay What

5:24

do you want he said nice a world

5:26

Jerry Kepstein and his son-in-law ballad Smith was

5:29

the president and I said I

5:31

think they've been talking he says, okay I'm gonna call

5:33

ballad and I want the deal done tomorrow by three

5:35

o'clock and the deal was done next

5:37

day at three o'clock so five five years it at

5:40

about one point four a year

5:42

and that's our a dollar for

5:44

every fan over 2

5:46

million. Okay, so they hadn't drawn

5:49

they had only barely broke that at one time

5:51

and I You

5:54

were there by that by the first

5:56

year they barely broke it then 1984 was the biggest Oh,

6:00

yeah, really on that one. Yeah, as a matter

6:02

of fact on on July 10th in

6:04

San Diego They're celebrating the 84 championship

6:07

team I

6:10

forget who did you play in the World Series in

6:12

84 Detroit? Oh, that was that phenomenal? No,

6:18

no I

6:22

had a triple off a mark in the all-star

6:24

He's a character, yeah, I thought he had a

6:27

chance at a line drive and it turned into

6:29

a triple and Fidgetch

6:37

or something else. What did that World Series go

6:39

to six games or five? I think

6:41

just five five Yeah, they were they

6:43

had beaten. I think Oakland three straight. They

6:45

sat around for a week with Sparky Anderson

6:47

managing that team Yeah, he was

6:50

okay. Yeah, curd Gibson was on that team Kurt

6:52

hit a three-run home run off of goose gossage

6:54

in the in the final game that really put

6:56

it away Yeah, but it was it was great

6:58

to help lead the team to beat the Cubs

7:01

who nobody thought we could beat in five games

7:03

Yeah, that was great. I had the big walk-off

7:05

in game four. That was voted the greatest moment,

7:07

San Diego history Oh, yeah, and that was them

7:09

that was the series that the fans of San

7:11

Diego. It was their baptism Was their epiphany is

7:13

this is what a really good

7:15

team does and we had Gossage and Nettles at

7:17

that time Tony Gwynn was in his third year

7:20

We had Templeton and Kennedy and McReynolds and

7:22

it was really a good team and and

7:26

That's the closest they've gotten to a World

7:28

Series, right? Well 98 they they played the

7:30

Yankees in the World Series Oh, I don't

7:32

but dick Williams was the manager and and

7:34

I may have a record played for three

7:36

Hall of Fame managers You

7:39

know it was Tommy the Sorda, you know

7:41

was one dick Williams and then the venerable

7:44

Old manager of the Dodgers, you know who

7:47

when I first came up Out

7:49

of those three managers who worked the blue who

7:52

had the blue streak most of the

7:54

time in the post games at LaSora

7:56

Oh Williams is a master really Tommy

7:58

started to understand somebody else And Tommy

8:01

William, Tommy Lasorda? Yeah, because

8:03

Tommy had started to temper

8:06

himself because he now was the manager of

8:08

the Dodgers. Right. Right.

8:11

And of course, he got thrown average of three or

8:13

four times a year for sure. But he also had,

8:15

he was chewing tobacco too. And

8:17

the problem was, it wasn't necessarily what he said.

8:19

It was the spray on the umpires that got

8:21

him kicked out. But

8:24

Walt, Walt Tolson was the stoic manager

8:27

who would watch. And when he, when

8:29

he said come over, you listen to him because he

8:32

had really had something that's going to work

8:34

for you. Tommy talked a lot. And

8:36

for those who have played with him in the minor leagues,

8:38

we could pick out words and phrases that told us what

8:40

to do. And of course, Dick was just the drill sergeant.

8:42

We got to take a break. Can you stay with us?

8:45

Of course. Okay. Steve

8:47

Garvey is with us. Mark Thompson is here as well. This

8:49

is great. Go to stevegarvey.com. stevegarvey.com.

8:53

And he's leading in the polls 90% to 10% over Adam Schiff.

8:57

Big search. This is just that layout,

8:59

man. This is great. You're

9:01

listening to Tim Conway Jr. on

9:04

demand from KFI AM640. Mark

9:08

Thompson's here. We're following a pursuit on

9:10

channel seven. A pursuit on channel nine

9:12

is over. There were two different pursuits.

9:14

And we're monitoring this one on channel

9:17

seven. Steve Garvey is with us. And

9:19

then during the commercial break, your youngest

9:21

daughter Olivia Garvey comes on channel four.

9:24

She's the new sportscaster over there. So proud.

9:26

It's unbelievable. You must be proud as hell.

9:29

Make it more than me. I'm so proud. So

9:31

that's why I filled up her tank, washed her car and sent

9:33

her back home yesterday. My daughter's 18. I filled

9:35

up her tank over the weekend so she can go to

9:37

the beach like an idiot. I do that because you know

9:39

you're dead. What the hell? But

9:41

I also heard from somebody who works at NBC,

9:43

and you can tell me whether this is true

9:46

or not, that she's the only

9:48

reporter on the field that doesn't work with a

9:50

teleprompter or a script. Is

9:52

that true? Yeah, she doesn't. I can't believe that. No.

9:55

She seems so fluid out there. I thought for sure it

9:57

was written. Yeah. That's

9:59

great. I mean, she's gonna go ESPN

10:01

and then national to her own show in that

10:03

whole well, you know, she grew up around sports

10:06

She loves it. She played, you know

10:08

some Some hockey and

10:10

soccer and all that stuff and how many kids you have

10:12

like nine Touching

10:16

all the bases there seven great kids

10:18

now Probably seven

10:20

years mine and ours. Yeah five girls

10:22

two boys Wow We

10:24

had the immaculate son Ryan and then

10:27

Shawn and but the girls are they're

10:29

all successful all around the country Well, that's great. You're wake

10:31

up in the morning go. Oh wait. I think I forgot

10:33

someone's birthday You're a panic like

10:36

that. Well, not not with my phone But

10:41

you know, I was an only child and then around

10:43

25 guys every day and Starting

10:46

giving one girl to girls and so forth.

10:48

So it's God's blessing For

10:50

somebody like me because people used to always say don't you

10:52

want a brother? I said no I can pull guys out

10:54

of it their houses and that's right this and that but

10:56

it's right and then I realized if I would have had

10:58

a sister it would have been like on the job training

11:00

I would have learned about a lot of things that you

11:03

know, eventually took time Steve Garvey's with us

11:05

He's running for Senate in the state of

11:07

California Steve Garvey comm what is the difference

11:09

before we get into politics? What is the

11:11

big difference between athletes now and athletes before

11:14

our athletes in better shape now? I heard

11:16

that athletes and I don't want to say

11:19

Bill Russell's name, but I heard that some

11:21

athletes Smoked cigarettes during I

11:23

in the middle of an inning. Is that

11:25

true? Yeah

11:28

back then they did obviously yeah, I mean they you

11:30

know Concealed

11:32

carry, you know, it's chewing tobacco

11:34

is prevalent They

11:37

go they are they in better shape now though. Absolutely.

11:39

Yeah. Yeah, it's it's higher technology

11:41

science More

11:44

things to help them get flexible

11:46

stronger faster but

11:48

you still What God

11:50

gives you is still the inherent difference that that

11:52

you make when she get on the field It's

11:54

it's it's think it's you know Expectations

11:57

is it true though that I don't remember who said

12:00

And Mark, maybe, you know, because you're a big baseball

12:02

fan, that the hardest thing in sports to do is

12:04

to hit a round ball with a round bat.

12:06

Yeah, absolutely. How quickly- And

12:09

I speak and I lecture a lot and I talk about

12:11

it and people ask questions and I always say round ball,

12:13

round bat. Picture

12:15

stands on the mound, 60-piece, six inches,

12:18

basically no speed angle location. You're

12:21

standing there. You got to determine all those things in

12:23

a matter of four-tenths to six-tenths

12:25

of a second. Can you tell what's coming at

12:27

you because of the release? Well,

12:31

that's that inherent ability

12:33

to, you know, the

12:35

eyes, the reactions. And

12:37

by the way, it hurts. If it hits you, it hurts. But

12:40

really, this is a question I've always asked also. I mean,

12:42

I wonder, I watch it, I know, and then the velocities

12:44

now are even in excess of what you've dealt with. But

12:47

what do you watch? What do you look

12:49

at to actually pick up? Is

12:51

it a, you know, is this

12:55

a fast ball? Is it

12:57

a sinker? Is it, you know, is it a breaking ball?

13:00

Is there as a rotation they're picking up on? It

13:02

seems like it's all happening so quickly. Well, first

13:05

of all, you have to look at, and I

13:07

was a guest-imator. So probably one

13:09

of my virtues was I could guesstimate 80%

13:11

of the time. Really? You were correct.

13:14

80% of the time. Because I would watch, pitcher and

13:16

catcher have sequences they use. And I would watch

13:18

how they would pitch into, say, Reggie Smith in

13:20

front of me or Dusty Baker watching that. And

13:22

that's how they would pitch to me because I

13:24

had power, but I'd go to all fields, cover

13:26

the base and so forth. And

13:29

then you watch release points. If

13:31

a pitcher releases it from the

13:33

top, there's a tendency to, you

13:35

know, be more of a breaking ball and

13:37

you'll see him turn his wrist this way. A

13:40

little down a little bit, throw a

13:42

cutter, ball will move. A little down farther, ball

13:44

will sink more. Wow. If it

13:46

comes out of his hands and he's like, I gotta write this down. I

13:48

still got a shot. You still got a shot. I

13:50

can work with you. If there's a dot

13:52

to it, then it's probably a

13:54

slider. All these things factor into

13:56

repetition over and over and over again. You

14:00

have to do it so. And

14:02

back then they could use pine tar. I mean, they

14:04

could spit on the ball. They could use glue. They

14:06

could use anything back then. Just cheated. Yeah,

14:09

cheated a hell of a lot of everything. Late and cheating. Yes. But

14:12

when you played and you did get

14:14

hit by the ball, which you referenced,

14:16

do you remember one in

14:19

particular that it really hurt like hell? Who

14:22

hits you the most? J.R. Richard.

14:24

Oh, man. Six foot eight. And

14:27

he used to pitch at 104 miles an hour. Yeah. And

14:29

he got away and. He played for Houston

14:31

today. Embrace my chin. Oh, no. And

14:33

it was in Houston. And. Oh,

14:36

no. You know, I never went down.

14:38

Anytime I got hit and I get it a couple

14:40

of times the face never went down. Oh, man. Pretty

14:42

dumb. But anyway,

14:45

I'm down and I feel a dripping and I'm

14:47

thinking myself, it's, you know,

14:49

it's the astro dome. I'm not sweating that much. And

14:51

I, and I put my hand up and I'm bleeding.

14:55

And Davey Lopes, bless his heart, comes

14:57

comes running over and

15:00

he said, Garve, Garve, you OK? And

15:03

I go, yeah. And I look up and he

15:05

goes, oh, my God. Oh, wow. And he did

15:07

this with Steve Yeager in in in

15:10

San Diego. Steve Yeager is in the on

15:12

deck circle and Billy Russell was out, broke

15:14

his back. The bat came in and literally

15:16

javelin into his neck and knocked him

15:18

down. And that's why they have the neck protector

15:20

there now, too. Yeah. Because

15:22

he picked Steve. But then, you

15:24

know, I'm out there first. I was at the corner

15:27

and I looked at it and he says, Garve, my

15:29

artist, you can be fine. You're going to be fine.

15:31

Just, you know, little bully, little bleeding.

15:33

That's it. And they were

15:35

actually three splinters that were sticking out. Oh, my God.

15:38

And he ended up being less than

15:40

an inch from his artery. Oh, but

15:42

here comes Davey again. Davey comes running

15:44

over. He looks and he goes,

15:46

oh, my God. And he turns away. More

15:49

people, I think, died from shock than they do from

15:51

actual industry. And he said, what's the matter? What's the

15:53

matter? I said, just a little blood. He doesn't like

15:55

blood. I

16:00

was like, oh, we got to take a break. Can you stay with us?

16:02

We'll talk about your campaign. Absolutely. Oh, the campaign.

16:04

I love to share with you. I went to Israel,

16:06

by the way, last week. Okay, yeah, we'll talk about

16:08

Israel as well. But you know, I

16:10

want to get back to, you mentioned you did a lot

16:12

of charity work. That's the first time I got to meet

16:14

you when you were doing your charity work in Orange County

16:17

at Roundtree Gardens. You

16:19

spoke at Roundtree Gardens.

16:22

You did it out of the kindness of your heart. And

16:24

I saw you speak to a hundred,

16:26

you know, seniors, and they were sitting on

16:28

the edge of their, you know, wheelchairs the

16:31

whole time. It was great. It's my people.

16:33

It was terrific. It was great. I

16:35

couldn't believe it. I mean, you spoke for 45 minutes without

16:38

a single note in your hand, without fumfering

16:40

over a single word, and the only other

16:43

person I've ever seen do that, Vin Scully.

16:46

Vin Scully. All right, we'll come back.

16:48

Steve Garvey's with us. It's Tom Meine

16:50

Thompson. Chase on nine, chase on seven,

16:53

chase on four, and we're monitoring that

16:55

as well. You're listening

16:58

to Tim Conway Jr. on demand

17:00

from KFI AM 640. Steve

17:03

Garvey's with us. We're watching the end of

17:06

a chase where four guys are running away

17:08

from a stolen vehicle and the cops don't

17:10

seem to be around or bothered by it.

17:13

So I don't know. It looks like they

17:15

pulled back after a while. These are four

17:17

kids. Yeah, they look very young. Yeah. They

17:20

gotta be in there. And teens. there's

17:23

a woman right now that's walking after. Yelling

17:25

at them? There were multiple people, I

17:27

saw all men that were pointing and trying to run

17:30

after them and now I see a woman that's walking

17:32

after them and I only see three of them. Wow.

17:34

Yeah, I see three of them. One guy has a shirtless,

17:37

kind of a casual day. What

17:39

the hell? Taking it easy. All right,

17:41

Steve Garvey is with us. You've just returned from

17:43

Israel. Yes. What

17:45

a time to go to Israel. Fascinating. Yeah.

17:48

People tell you that it's life-changing when you

17:50

go to Israel. And in

17:52

our campaign, only eight months now,

17:54

and we always talked about going to places that

17:57

Californians need to know answers about. and,

18:00

uh, and no more glaring now than

18:02

the war in Israel. And I think, uh, when

18:04

we decided to go, uh, we put this

18:06

trip together, it turned out to be good timing

18:08

because who knows what's going to happen in that

18:11

area. The war's still going on. And,

18:13

um, there

18:15

for a week. Okay. Um, first two days,

18:18

uh, we spent, um, learning more

18:20

about, uh, when the war began, uh, which

18:22

was around six 36 45 on uh,

18:25

October 7th. And we went to

18:27

a kibbutz. And, uh, one of the

18:29

first thrusts of the, uh, Hamas and,

18:32

uh, just disaster. You heard

18:34

about it. You've seen videos, but

18:36

you've got to go there and you've got to walk it with

18:38

one of the IDF young men who lived there. I

18:40

wanted to have him talk about that morning

18:42

and how they started here in wrestling and

18:44

then gunshots. And he came out of his,

18:46

his, uh, home. And he looked

18:49

around and he started seeing Hamas fighters on

18:51

top of the roofs and shooting at anything

18:53

that moved. And, um, they had

18:55

kept their ammunitions and, and, uh, their guns

18:57

in it and a special building. So

18:59

they had to tack their way over there, get

19:02

in there. And there was probably about eight or

19:04

nine that were there first in terms of, you

19:06

know, the, um, the idea of, um, Israelis

19:10

and then all hell broke loose. And,

19:12

uh, you can see what happened. Uh,

19:14

the fires, uh, the devastation.

19:16

How close did you get to Gaza? Um,

19:21

very close. I mean, with, with, within a

19:23

few hundred yards, all real hour doing this

19:25

tour because the fence went behind it. And,

19:28

uh, all of a sudden we

19:30

hear boom, boom, and we

19:32

turn around and here's two big bellows

19:34

of black smoke. And I

19:36

look at the young fellow and I said, I

19:38

looked at him as if, is that, and he

19:40

said, yes, those are rockets. It happens all day

19:42

long. So that was the

19:44

reality of this. This truly was perception in

19:46

reality. It became starkly clear that the

19:48

war was still going on. And we went from

19:51

there, um, 36 to 40 people died there.

19:56

Uh, several hostages. Uh, this Kibbutz

19:58

will never, ever. open again, it'll

20:00

be a memorial to these people. What they did a

20:02

lot of times in these safe rooms is

20:05

they had to hold the handle of the door.

20:07

There was no lockers handles on both sides. And,

20:10

and Hamas was trying to open it. And

20:12

if they got it barely open, they would

20:14

take a hand grenade and throw inside. Oh

20:16

my God. Devastation. Wow. To see, um,

20:19

uh, to see skin that had

20:21

been left on, on these couches and

20:23

the reality of war, but a war

20:25

that, uh, is fought in, in caves,

20:28

uh, human using the Palestinians

20:31

as shields, unlike Ukraine

20:34

and Russia, where it's, it's a traditional war military

20:36

against military. Yeah. But it's one thing to hear

20:38

about it in the press. Another thing to actually

20:40

go there and look at it firsthand. It's gotta

20:42

be unreal. And then 10, 15

20:45

minutes from there was the no vote, um, festival.

20:48

Oh, right. There are big 3500 young men and

20:50

women were there. It was from 6 PM to

20:52

6 AM and, uh,

20:55

they were starting to leave and, and Moss was

20:57

coming down the main road from Rafa.

21:00

Uh, and they didn't even know we,

21:02

we talked to intelligence and they said,

21:04

ironically, we found out from fighters

21:06

that we captured that they didn't know

21:08

there was a festival. Little re ran

21:11

into them. Oh, I didn't know

21:13

that. And then the devastation, you know, began and 360 of

21:15

these young men and women were killed there. And it's a

21:20

memorial site. Now each one has their

21:23

own Memorial, 250 hostages. It

21:25

took over three hours for the IDF to be able

21:27

to get there. Did you go there with a big

21:29

group or did you go by yourself? A small group,

21:31

our campaign team. Okay. All right. Was there. Uh, and,

21:34

and then we started to learn more about the

21:37

country's central, um, uh, what made you decide to

21:39

go? I know it's a, it's a very, it's

21:41

a long trip and it's a, and it's a

21:43

real tough time to be there. Well,

21:45

because we said right from the beginning of, uh, of my

21:47

run for the U S Senate, uh, we

21:49

are going to do things that others don't want to

21:51

do. Okay. Uh, and one of them

21:54

was going to Israel. I said right from the

21:56

first debate, I stand with Israel yesterday, today and

21:58

tomorrow. We always stand by them. for their

22:00

needs. We can never tell them, uh,

22:02

they can't protect their sovereignty in whatever the way

22:05

they want to. And to go there and feel

22:07

it now I can come back and talk about

22:09

the devastation. We sat with a hostage family. Uh,

22:12

we had two sons, one son had gone to the

22:14

festival. The other one said, I'm going to go surprise.

22:17

So he joins them. They're

22:19

all surprised. They go. Now it's, it's 6 36 45.

22:23

How much starts the shooting starts. The

22:25

one son guy starts to go across happens to

22:27

go the wrong way. They go across the field.

22:29

He gets captured. The other son went the other

22:32

way and he escapes. And

22:34

for two hours, the father or is his heart

22:36

out with the mother about what it's like to

22:39

be the family of a hostage and that they

22:41

both had two, two jobs, lovely

22:43

home. They put everything on home because they don't

22:45

know for a minute to day to day what's

22:47

going to happen there. And this is what war does.

22:49

Sure. And then there was this one woman who just

22:51

died, I think yesterday or today, um, where

22:54

her son was released. She had a

22:57

very aggressive brain cancer and her son

22:59

was released just a few weeks ago

23:03

and then she died. But today or yesterday

23:05

of brain cancer, but at least she was

23:07

alive and she got to see her son

23:09

come home. So that was, that was kind

23:11

of cool. Um, we, I, um,

23:13

have to take a break. Can you stay and we'll

23:15

just talk about your campaign the whole time? Sure. The

23:18

next break. I promised you, I promised you no baseball

23:20

questions. You know, Steve

23:22

garvey.com Steve garvey.com. Yeah. Steve garvey.com.

23:24

And, uh, and, and the chase is

23:27

over on channel seven, channel nine, channel

23:29

four, channel five. They caught the, uh,

23:31

the, uh, young men who are running

23:33

away from the cops. So, uh, everything's

23:35

a normal now in Los Angeles. You're

23:39

listening to Tim Conway Jr. On

23:41

demand from KFI am 640. Steve

23:45

Garvey is with us. The chase on TV

23:47

is over. Uh, well, when they finally grabbed

23:50

these guys, uh, we'll, uh, we'll let you know.

23:52

Steve Garvey is running for Senate in the

23:54

state, uh, the golden state, I believe California

23:57

and, uh, running against Adam Schiff, who has

23:59

a neighbor. of mine. And

24:02

I saw it, you know, when you

24:04

guys had your election, when

24:07

was it? In March? Fourth.

24:09

Yeah. But you won that,

24:11

you outright won that. I mean, if you

24:13

got 50% plus one vote, you'd have been

24:16

the senator. Yeah.

24:19

Won the temporary seat by 300,000. Wow.

24:21

Okay. So we're then literally a tenth of

24:23

a point between each other in the general

24:25

election. But I think that... It's

24:27

tough for anybody other than a Democrat

24:30

to win in this state. It is.

24:32

It's been generational. It's

24:34

a one party state. It's very

24:37

difficult. The disproportion between registered Democrats

24:39

and Republicans is significant. It's

24:41

a narrow path. But when

24:43

I woke up last year, probably

24:45

in May, and decided to turn

24:47

the TV on, it was

24:50

a dysfunctional Washington. Career politicians

24:52

were running for the next

24:54

job and not for the

24:56

people. And I decided, let's

24:58

find out if there's a

25:00

path. And I said

25:03

to my wife, honey, let's rent for the US

25:05

Senate. She looked at me and turned over. And

25:07

she turned back and she said, don't you think

25:09

you're a little young? Oh, yeah, that's

25:11

a great comment. I remember the

25:13

Reagan line and I said, well, I

25:15

think I can overcome my youth and experience. And

25:19

it started about three months going around

25:21

California talking to people about their lives.

25:24

And then I decided... What's the

25:26

biggest complaint you hear from people? Is it crime, the

25:28

economy, both? Well,

25:31

it blends together because the economy, getting

25:33

up every morning, going to the

25:35

kitchen table and trying to figure out how

25:37

you're going to feed your kids this week. Everybody

25:39

I know is broke, except you. Everybody who

25:42

knows broke. Well, I'm close right now. It's

25:44

running for office. But if you think about

25:46

it, I used to go

25:48

to the gas station and take a look there

25:50

and the hardworking Californians in the morning, would

25:54

be spending $10 instead of 10 gallons. So all

25:57

these things. Here's

26:00

the stat. Over 80% of Californians

26:02

break even or lose money every day.

26:05

And that's unconscionable. Is that right? In the

26:07

state of California. Wow. And

26:09

confirmed it to Pennsylvania. I was watching the other day,

26:12

84% of the people of Pennsylvania are the

26:14

same. How can that happen in a vibrant

26:16

state like this? Arguably the

26:18

greatest agriculture in the world, technology. Greatest

26:20

coast in the world, greatest, the greatest minds

26:23

in the world up in Northern California,

26:25

the greatest creative people here in Southern California.

26:27

Heartbeat of America back in the seventies and

26:29

eighties. And now just a murmur. And then,

26:31

you know, the shining sitting on the hill

26:34

and it's tarnished somewhat because of bad leadership,

26:36

a bad regulations, they're choking the people. I

26:38

want people just to come here with

26:40

American dream. Sure. They

26:42

want to start your family, you know, to start a business. Tough

26:45

to start a business. And look at the 1.2, 1.4

26:48

million people left California because they couldn't

26:50

start a small business. Right.

26:53

Middle class people who were paying good taxes.

26:55

And you want a good economy because if

26:57

you don't have a good economy, then people

27:00

don't feel comfortable about having more kids. And

27:02

that hurts us in the long run as

27:04

well. Right. Interesting. It's about

27:06

leadership. Went to the Hoover

27:08

Institute up in Stanford. How

27:11

would you, what would your reaction be if one

27:13

of your kids came to you and said they're

27:15

voting for Adam Schiff? Well,

27:17

God gave us free will and choice

27:19

and I choose to take you out

27:22

of the will. Is that where you

27:24

take the baseball bat out? Yeah. No,

27:26

all of my, almost all of my

27:28

children, you

27:31

know, are, are relatively moderates. That's

27:34

good for one. But the most important thing,

27:36

you know, and I'll

27:39

be back next week, ladies and gentlemen. You

27:41

have free will and I have free will. That's great.

27:43

So listen, at the end of the day, not

27:47

too many people get to go to work with 30, 40,000

27:49

people every night and who are judging you and making

27:51

decisions on you and cheering boo. But

27:54

it, it, it should make you very responsible. I

27:56

think I learned that in early age, responsibility to

27:58

the fans. And then I took it.

28:00

I took that after my career in

28:03

business and working with charities and all those

28:05

things in churches. But I

28:07

think that's what we need to get back to now. We need to

28:09

get back to we instead

28:11

of career politicians who

28:14

want to fail up. And

28:16

that's a big problem. I'm not

28:19

as concerned about our national defense

28:23

because I think we're America. We still need

28:25

to spend more GDP on our defense. I'm

28:28

more concerned about implosion from within in

28:31

the state of California, in this country. Those

28:35

people are trying to deconstruct the

28:37

constitution. They're trying to, and

28:39

now with the decision with the Supreme Court

28:41

yesterday, blatantly yelling

28:44

and screaming at the Supreme Court. And

28:46

this court that's I

28:49

thought made a common sense decision

28:51

yesterday, but it's now it's politicians

28:54

voting on it. 98% of the time

28:56

down party lines. And that's unconscionable. I say, I would

28:58

never do that because that means I'm not being objective.

29:01

I'm looking for all the information. And if you want

29:03

to run for all the people, and I've said that

29:05

from the beginning and you and I have talked to

29:07

the three of us that nobody

29:09

else can say they're running for all the people, but

29:12

I'm not a career politician, not a politician. I'm

29:14

a guy decided that he wanted to represent

29:16

the people of California because I love the

29:18

state. I love them. I'm willing to go

29:20

to Washington for six years as

29:22

your next elected US Senator. That's great. And

29:25

go to all 99 senators, stick out my hand and

29:27

say, let's make a difference. It's

29:30

very tough to run in California.

29:32

Steve Garvey is running for Senate

29:34

at stevegarvey.com. If you're running in

29:37

Nebraska or Idaho or Wyoming, you could

29:39

literally meet everybody in the state in

29:42

about a week, but to run in

29:44

California, it's very expensive. And

29:46

there's no way you can get to every town

29:48

and every little small city. It's

29:50

just impossible. Do you know what? The people of California

29:52

are standing up. Our people. I've

29:55

got over 95,000 donors. Oh,

29:58

that's right. And I asked them.