September 15, 2023 • 28 mins
Newport Beach breaks ground on Newport Bay Trash Inceptor. Inflation continues as gas prices and interest rates continue to rise and it's not looking good. A measure to suspend gas taxes is shot down in the State Senate and the GOP is man. The rest of the stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
App more stimulating talk.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Cheap preview here is that I be back on Sunday,
so I will not have Deborah though, which is really
unfortunate to Deborah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
The talent really drops off.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I've been there, done that for many years. The weekend, yeah,
I love it, I really do, you know I do.
I love working on the weekend. One.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It gives me an excuse not to do whatever the
stupid thing is my wife wants me to do. So
I just go, oh, I can't, Oh, I can't. I
can't go to yard sales with you today, Honey, I
have to work. Oh I can't do that, honeydew list today.
I have to work, you know. I love that. But
the crew that we have there on Sundays, they're wonderful.
They're just there's so much fun to work with. I
just I look forward to it all week long, so
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I enjoy that. I'll be in Sunday four o'clock, I think,
So we'll see you then. Corbck Carson joins me right now,
because Corban, who doesn't love a mouse That keeps growing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That seems to be the case for disney We're gonna
see some more, some more expansion there in Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Huh. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Now, this is a very long plan. Variations of these
plans have been to expand Disneyland have been kicked around
three years. To do this, Disneyland would need to update
an Anaheim City Council plan from the nineteen nineties to
allow for a mix of theme park, hotel, retail, dining,
and entertainment on the eastern and western edges of the
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current Disneyland resort. Now. The Disneyland Forward project was announced
formally in twenty twenty one, along with some cool renderings
and some theme park attraction possibilities, including like a Frozen Land,
a Toy story Land, a Peter Pan Neverland, and the
park is also hinted to a Tangled Rippundle Tower, a
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z Utopia exhibit, a Zutopia exhibit, and maybe even a
tron roller coaster. So all of that's going to take decades.
But first up is this kind of restructuring of the
Anaheim City Plan from the nineties that I mentioned, and
I spoke with Anaheim City spokesman Mike Lifter. He says
that the project would stay within the five hundred acres
that the park already owns.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Potentially see theme park attractions mixed with dining, entertainment and hotels.
Just on the west side of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure,
we could see something similar to the south east of
the two theme parks today on what is known as
the Toy Story parking area. Many people may be familiar
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with that as a surface parking area that many used
to visit the park today.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
So the biggest the biggest change is really this mix
of all these different amenities. Normally you would have the
hotel and the hotel area, the parking and the parking area,
the dining, the entertainment at the attractions, et cetera. But
the idea from the long term planets to.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Mix all that. Okay, so we can park in the hotel,
all right, and we can dine. We can dine in
the tron.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Roller coaster, right, but not necessarily like that, but more
of a where you would see these attractions together instead
of having to traverse long distances to get from one
to the other. It would be more of a mix
of the group.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I suppose that way they could get all your
money one day in one area and then all your
money the next day in the next area, and you
wouldn't have to walk so far.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's one thing we hate doing as Americans.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean that's fair, right, I mean, all this walking
and all this use of my legs, I really don't
like that. So if you could just condense everything so
I can just roll from place to place, that make
it a lot easier for people like me.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Or better use of these things. Because keeping in mind,
the idea would be to add all these cool lands
and new attractions that I mentioned, the toy story Land, Fords,
atlant et cetera, and having room to put all that
in there. And also the idea would be to bring
together parking, so there would be this connecting and building
of a brand new parking structure that would be essentially,
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with some reports indicate the largest parking structure in the world,
which isn't a new issue for Disneyland. It has held
that title before. But now it would be consolidating all
that parking and building new bridges and new ways into
and out of these of these attractions. Now, the newest
thing that happened today, the thing that was The most
recent news is this release of a seventeen thousand page
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impact study from the City of Anaheim that is tackling
all the different things that could be potentially again impacted
by this by these changes if they were to come
to fruition. And again here's Mike Lister discussing how some
of that, what some of the seventeen thousand pages is.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
For, then we could also see construction not it.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Hold on a second, I have that ready.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
The Environmental Analysis is a comprehensive and technical document spanning
thousands of pages, that looks at potential impacts. You could
see if we see developments that has already been approved
and planned for, if we see that move from one
area to another within property Disney already owns. The document
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looks at all kinds of areas, including transportation, noise, esthetics,
the general look of something, air quality, public services, and
several other areas.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And then so, yeah, the idea of being you can't
put a roller coaster right next to somebody's house.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like that all right, So next step then,
I mean, we're they're hoping to get this what taking
care of next year.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I mean, this is already a couple of years into.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
This project, right, No, and keep in mind, so there's
two there's several things going on. It's going to take
the city about eight months to go through these different
different processes. So they're gonna have a public workshop outlining
some of the highlights of the Disney Forward Plan. That's
going to be October ninth, and then the City Council
is going to have to take it up and you know,
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pick apart what parts count, because you're gonna have construction
over decades, you're going to have things moving around, and
they're gonna have obviously the construction is going to cause
problems with air quality, and all of those things are
in this seventeen again thousand page Environmental Impact Report, and
that's what's going to take it. And one more thing
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is just to remember that once all of that is completed,
then is when Disneyland is going to start rolling out
some of these things that will take years. New attractions
or moving parking around from one place to another, because
of course they're going to want to keep their doors
open through all these changes and continue people coming in.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, wow, massive undertaking.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I wonder it's taken thirty years to update that and
it's going to take years for them to even get
the plans approved.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So I guess it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Comes on the heel of their one hundred year anniversary,
so fits.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Oh yeah, so it's fitting. Yeah, right, bringing the bulldozers.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Corbeck Carson, KFI News Corbett, Hey, great reporting, nice job.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I appreciate that. Well done. All right, how about we
talk about how stupid gas prices are.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
One thing we'd love to complain about gas prices, and
we will next. Chris Merril I Am six forty. We're
live everywhere in your iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Forty talking about inflation today, and we'll be talking about
this for weeks to come up. Sure you hear about
things like the consumer price Index and the gross domestic
product and employment numbers and YadA, YadA YadA, But I
don't know. For me, I know if things are good
or bad based on how much I'm paying for that
loaf of bread. Right when I check out at the
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grocery store and they say it's fifty bucks, and I
look down and I only have two bags of groceries.
That hurts, right, And I feel like all right, that's
inflation right there. Right If I'm thinking about buying a
car and I see interest rates are at eight percent,
and I go, well, that's crazy. This seems really really high.
The most obvious sign for me is when I'm driving
by the seventy sixth station and I see the price
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of gas and it's going up, and it ain't good.
We did get some economic numbers that showed inflation went
a little faster this last month than they.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Expected, largely because of gas prices. So joining me right
now to discuss exactly what the hell is going on
is Patrick Dehan from a Gas Buddy, and Patrick, great
to have you on the program, where you know, we're
over five dollars again statewide, the according to Triple A,
the average is five and a half dollars in California.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
This is really starting to hurt people. Every time gas
prices go up. We start having people who are in
businesses that you know that involve transportation and delivery and
all these things, and they go, it's killing us.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's just crushing us right now.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So give me the latest update on what we're seeing,
what the numbers are showing, and what to expect.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
All we're seeing right now, is you indicate gas prices
well over the five dollars gallon market. In fact, in
some areas approaching six. The average price right now across
LA at about five sixty one a gallon. That's up
fourteen cents from a week ago. What's gotten this here, Well,
the national average is not nearly as much as what
we're seeing in the West Coast. A lot of this
really tied to refinery issues. In fact, just yesterday, another
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refinery issue that developed it chev runs al Sacunda refinery.
And you know, it's been a hard summer for refineries.
That is, they've had various outages. We had the hurriquake
that set refineries back. And when there are disruptions, whether
it be weather, power related, refiners can't process as much
gasoline and that unfortunately impacts what we're all paying at
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the pump. And that's been a big factor for the
West Coast.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, it's so frustrating for us because we hear about
refinery things. It used to be the well, the price
of oil is so high and that's why gas prices
are high. And then it's like, well, you know, if
you take a look at the price of oil now,
versus where it was when gas prices were at you know,
gas prices were lower, but oil prices were higher, So
why is it higher now? And then it seems to
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be we're shifting our blame to refinery issues. It is
very frustrating for the consumer because we don't really have
a look at any of those different things, right well,
all we see is what the price is at the pump.
What can we as consumers do a sort of level
pay for ourselves. In other words, look, I don't want
to pay five sixty five a gallon. Is there any
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way that I can play the game? I suppose so
that I'm averaging my dollar cost average on fuel.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Is less and not a whole lot unless you know,
you become somebody that just stores a vast amount of gasoline.
And by the way, it's probably not the greatest idea
given the shelf life of gasoline. That's you know, it's
a hard game to play, and there's a lot of
issues that do impact price. And as you mentioned, there's
a lot of different things that can impact prices, and
that's why it is a lot more complicated because one
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day it can be just the price of oil. The
next day it can be a refinery, it can be
Saudi Arabia, can be anything that really touches on any
one of the these levels. So it's I'm sure as
the consumer it's maddening to try and be able to
keep up with what the quote unquote latest excuse is.
But a lot of the time when we say what's
going on, it's you know, these things are affecting the market,
and gasoline is still very much a just in time
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delivered commodity, and when you have refineries interrupt how much
gasoline they're supplying, it can very quickly lead to outages,
as we saw during the Colonial pipeline outage in the
East Coast in twenty twenty one. And there's just no
margin for r anymore. And a lot of the reason
has become because we've become more reliant on a declining
number of refineries. In California's kind of the epicenter of that.
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No new refineries have been allowed to be built, so
you know, it's a tough landscape to survive when refineries
can't be built. Expansions are viewed extremely skeptically. How else
are you going to be able to boost the amount
of gasoline in the system to bring prices down.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That's one that the politicians like to bicker over, and
of course the people like to scream about that at
at the cafe tables as well. What about the ideas
that others have had about bringing fuel in? Is it
just not cost effective to bring fuel in from other
states to increase refinery output elsewhere?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Well, the only difficulty with that is CARB mandates a
specific blend of gasoline in California. So if it's not
one thing, you know, if it's not a refinery in California,
then you have to have your special blend of gasoline,
which you know, it's not the easiest blend of gasoline
to produce. And again, a lot of this is because geography,
that is, the West Coast is isolated from the rest
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of the country when it comes to infrastructure, and so
it's very difficult to ship a gallon of gasoline that's
produced elsewhere in the country off to the West Coast
because the Rocky Mountains basically cut off the flow of gasoline.
There is a limited ability. There are refiners that run
from Texas to Arizona, but again the infrastructure just isn't there,
and that's why this is so difficult, and that's why
so often California is seemingly on its own when it
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comes to these high prices is if it's not tax,
it's the bureaucracy that requires its you know, own blend
of gasoline. There's just a lot of red tape that
gets in the way.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Prick behind with gas buddy.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
As we talk about the gas prices and they're starting
to really tick people off again, I think it's leading
to road rage, Patrick.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think those gas prices put people on edge.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They get behind the wheel and they see that and
they know that, Yeah, it gets frustrating, and then counterintuitively
they tend to drive faster and more aggressively, which burns
fuel faster, which never really made a whole lot of
sense to me. You talked about blends, Patrick, It seems
like every spring we say, well, gas prices are going
up because we have to go to the summer blend,
and then in the fall we say, well, gas prices
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are going up because we have to go to the
winter blend. Is there a cheaper blend of fuel that
we can expect at some point.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
In time, Yeah, there is.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
The winter blend is actually cheaper regardless of what misinformation
you might hear. There's a lot of different miss about
gas Unfortunately, while the rest of the nation is actually
transitioning to that cheaper blend of gas lane this winter, again,
regulations in California require the use of that summer blend
for longer, Southern California doesn't make the switch until October
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thirty first. And how so all the rest of the
nations getting access to the cheaper blend California because of
its temperatures, the ambient temperatures, and because they'm on a
vehicle that are, you know, burning gasoline. The decision is
that in California you don't switch until later when air
temperatures are cooler, when you know, when pollution numbers are reduced.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Is there is there an expectation that we're going to
actually see prices at the pump drop when the winter
blend finally comes.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
See, I'm so anxious about this. I'm looking six weeks ahead. Now.
Will we actually see.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That price come down at the pump or is that
a slow decrease if there is one at all.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Well, in theory, yes, we should see prices come down.
It does vary. The cost difference between this you know,
so called summer winter blend. It could help push prices
down twenty to forty cents a gallon. I know that
would only push prices down to the low five dollars range,
but there's a lot of other factors that still could
you know, get in the way. Another refinery outage or
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if opek. Saudi Arabian russ had been waging this war
against low oil prices since the summer, and they pushed
the price of oil up by twenty five dollars of
earl since early summer because they're producing less.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
All right, maybe it's just time that we all start
walking anything about that.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
You know, that's tough, especially you know, and hey, I
drive on a daily basis. There's not always a lot
of options, and you know that certainly doesn't seem like
a great one, but you save a little bit of
money that way.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, maybe we just move everybody closer to work and
we just we just create mega cities with.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
No cars work from home for everyone.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That's the dystopian hellscape that we're headed toward, all right.
Patrick Dehan from gas Buddy. Patrick, great to catch up
with you. Thank you so much for your time with friend.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Meanwhile, in California, as Patrick mentioned, one of the things
that makes our prices so high the gas taxes. There's
an effort to suspend fuel taxes in California. But what
does that mean then for California roads. We'll ask those
questions next.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Chris merril in for Johnni kiit kay if I am
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Speaker 1 (16:09):
Joining me right now is a Senator from Huntington Beach.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Janet Wynn is here and Janet I was just reading
one of the pressers there from the California Senate Republicans.
It was talking about the effort that you were behind
to lower gas prices. And we just talked with our
rep from gas Buddy about gas prices being five sixty
five I think as an average in the LA area.
What was the effort that you were spearheading here to
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lower the price of gasoline? How would that have worked.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
Well? So, what we did this week, because this is
our last week of session, we ended in last night,
and so what I did was I actually made an effort.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
To try to send the gas pack by.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
A gallon, a ball a gallon, and unfortunately it fell
Parsons lines by Parson vote. Senate Democrats says nope, We're
going to keep a gas tact. And the Republican Senate
just what are you guys thinking? We are paying the
high gas tax in the nation. We're looking at over
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dollars fifty cents per gallon right now across the nation,
California is paying the high gas prices, and yet our
street and roads are the or ranked at the bottom
in the nation.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, so, senator, what happened? I mean, that's you make
a great point. We should be very frustrated, right, we
should demand better. Yes, Then the other side of that coin, however,
is I mean we just approved a gas tax increase
in order to try.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
To fix roads.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
If we were to suspend the gas tax, what would
happen to those roads?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Would they get worse? Or are we going to find
money elsewhere?
Speaker 9 (17:49):
They're not gonna get worse? Chause, Right, if you think
about it, day, California last year had one hundred across
one hundred billion dollars short bucks. We could have used
that money just to send a gas last year. When
you remember the prices were seven eight nine dollars a gallon.
I mean depending on where you live in California. In
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Orange Town, you were picking at seven dollars a gallon.
We're just asking for a temporary suspension just to help
me give some relief to Californians right now.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I mean human you.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Know, with the outrageous you know in highest grocery prices,
utility deals, housing prices. This inflation itself is just eating
every penny that Californians are making daily, and so we need.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
To help get some of the needs.
Speaker 9 (18:38):
My Republican colleagues, DENI on the California set of costs
Republican Caucus, we have tried for several years now, last
couple of years, just to ask for suspension gas packs
or at least stop the increase annually. There's so much money.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
That we, like I said, we paid a highest gas
prices in the nation, but yet we rank.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
At the bottom in the nation for our street and
roads repairs.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, and it's it's a disgusting statistic. Senator Janet Win
from Hunting to Beaches joining me, you did mention that
the surplus and the part portion of that surplus had
to be returned per the Constitution, and that went back
and what we we deemed that as sort of a
gas relief check that people were getting. So I just
want to make that clear that we couldn't have just
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simply spent one hundred billion dollars on the roads. But
that surplus is gone now because you know, we had
to balance the budget from one year to the next.
You have to return surpluses above a certain amount. When
you say the roads can't get any worse, boy, I'm
always very cautious when somebody tells me it can't get worse.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Because.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
You know, if we if we do what we told
the voters is that hey, we're going to pass we're
going to increase the gas class of the here annually
on July first, but.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
We also will tell you what roads we're going to
fix and when it is going to be done. It's
not getting done, it's there.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
They'd advantages all over the places, these cross holes.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I mean that average most people, especially in the southern.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
California are or in my district, there's so many plot holes.
We are constantly having to fix, our break, having to
change our entires, our suspensions, you name it. The if
government wants to pass. Then tell us what you're doing
with our task dollar and making sure that it is
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what you promise us. And right now they keep on taxing,
but yet the roads are being fixed.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So how come how come the roads are getting fixed? Well,
what's the hang up there? Why? Uh, where's where's the breakdown?
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Accountability?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
We just I think, how you know from all from.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Our crosswik Stamsport, California has to spending problems.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
We don't have a revenue problem.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
We have a spending problem all we I mean, just
this week alone, we're looking there's gould be a ballot
initiative next year, whether it's March or November.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
We're waiting to hear.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
But the initiative will allow local governments to add to
go to the voters for new taxes, and that to
help fix the street and the roads in the city
or the county.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
So I still have the set up for this week.
And I said, pretiment, I thought we had.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
A gas tax to fix the roads and streets, and
now you want local government to also tax to fix
the roads and streets.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So when is it enough?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Is enough?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I hear you, But I guess as long as the
roads are broken, people are going to say, obviously, you know,
like you said, where's the accountability and how do we
increase that accountability? If the money is if the money
is being gathered right, if we're collecting the taxes and
it's not being spent, or if it's being spent elsewhere where,
wre is that accountability? I feel like you're you're so right,
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Senator that the people should be frustrated and you know
you've got to pay for suspension repairs on your car
because the stuff's not being fixed when it's supposed to
be fixed. That's why we voted for the increase. So
how do we fix the accountability issue? The tax people
were happy to pay more taxes, they voted for it,
but where's the accountability?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
How do we fix that?
Speaker 9 (22:26):
And honestly, it's election has consequences. We on the center Republican.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Process had to pose way measures.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
To hold you know, stack amountum more accountable and transparency
in terms of where the money's been, how much money spending,
where it's being spent, and where it's going and how
it's being spent. Yet those measures, those bills, every time
we could put it, it's always it dies in Parsons
vote line and so at the end of the day,
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we have to hold those senators and those.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Assemity members, and we're asked to both. If you don't
life with.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Justine today, he's a lesson of consequences. If you want accountability,
you want transparency, we need to make sure that we
hit those in office that will support accountability and transparency measures.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I'm with you, behind I'm behind that one hundred percent.
Senator Janet went from Huntington Beach. A pleasure talking with you, Senator,
and thank you so much for much for having me.
Thank you for fighting for Californians. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Uh, we'll continue here just a few moments. It's the
rest of the story.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Some other crap I can get to, including another argument
about changing state borders. Oh, I love when these come up.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It's next.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's Chris Merrill and for JOHNA. Ken k if I
AM six forty. We're live everywhere in your iHeart radio app.
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Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's Chris Maryland for John Ken k if I AM
six forty. And it looks like we've got some people
in Oregon that are playing like people in northern California
like to do, and they're saying.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
We want out.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
A number of people on the east side of Oregon
are claiming Oregon doesn't represent them, Idaho does, and so
they've drawn new borders and they want to.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
What's the word here, annex?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I suppose more than half of the geographical property of
Oregon added to Idaho and call it Greater Idaho. And
that's because you have political differences and they want to
all join Idaho. I love these stories. They never go
anywhere because everyone says I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And you know, there was a time that if you
didn't like your politician, you didn't like the politician that
got elected, you would say that's it, I'm moving to Canada.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Now it's more like, if my politician doesn't win, I'm
gonna turn us into Canada. You know what if they
send those those people to Portland, I'm moving to Poise.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And now they say, well, they sent those people to Portland,
I'm bringing Boise to me. Boyer.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
These Oregonians gonna be surprised when they realized that Idaho
is now fifty percent Bay Area expats. Yeah, you think
you're getting away from from the loony left, No, no
loony left already exported. They got their first joining me
right now is the great Tim Conway.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Now, by the way, Chris, one of the emails I
get about you is how you spell your last name
because people see it two different ways on the internet.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh, I don't want people following me on the internet.
Nobody wants that. Emmy DOUBLERI I double l oh, I
see okay, Yeah, two r shoes, but it's different, two rs,
two l's to the eye in the middle.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, Emmy R r ill like sickness. Alright, that's
great man, all right. Alex Stone is coming on with
us today. That guy's great. And then Alex Michaelson's coming
on with us. That guy's great. And Billy right, that
guy's great too.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Hey, do you you hang out with Alex Stone? You
hang out with the big names.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I don't think, Kelly, have we ever met Alex.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Stone, as I don't even think he's come into Eric.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
If you met Alex Stone, I've never met him in person.
I found with him on Facebook, though I've never met
him in per He used to rub elbows with all
the guys up there in the Bay Area. So before
he got into news.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
They all knew Alex. They were all good buddies with Alex.
Alex is that he's a good friend. I think you
should befriend him if I may, just I want to
just set you out on a playdate.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Conan O'Brien says that the late night comics aren't funny anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I have no idea that meantime, Yeah, I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And then we'll talk about the strikes, obviously, the auto strike.
I heard you yesterday talking to the guy from Detroit.
Detroit City. That's a big deal there in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
It's a huge deal. My folks are there in Michigan
and it's are you from day Yeah? Whereabouts?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah? Uh, sister kissing country up on the northwest side.
It's beautiful. I called it's the San Diego with the
Midwest nor It's just beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I'm up along Mark, Michigan is where I came from. No, no, no,
that's that's above the bridge. Oh, I see in Michigan.
They'd called me a troll because I grew up below
the bridge.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
My mom grew up in deerborn. So I spent a
lot of time in Detroit growing.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, yeah, no, I was over in vacation territory, Northern Michigan.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh I see okay, yea, all right, yeah, with boats
and everybody's got a boat in a lake. I got
a boat, and you do have a boat?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Got a boat? And is it?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Is it in Michigan?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah? Okay? How often you use it?
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Whenever I see my folks. I spent some time with
them in the summer.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
A sailboat, powerboat. It's just an old pontoon. We put
it in one of the little inland lakes and then
sometimes you go fishing out on the big lake.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
The new thing now with the pontoons. The latest one
is the try tunes. Have you seen those?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, very stable.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, not really a masculine name, like, hey, do you
want to take a ride on my try tune?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
No, sometimes something you're gonna get you weinsteined if you
that's right, that's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
But anyway, I have a great weekend, and I'll tell
everybody on the internet.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Two rs oh two l's yeah, tuesy yeah, Thanks Tim Conway.
Junior Show is next. I love you guys, looking forward
to the next time. I'll see you. On Sunday, it's
Chris Merriland for JOHNA. Ken, k if I AM six
forty live everywhere on your iHeartRadio app. Hey, you've been
listening to the John and Ken Show.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
You can always hear us live on k if I
AM six forty one pm to four pm every Monday
through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John and Ken Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
App more stimulating talk.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Cheap preview here is that I be back on Sunday,
so I will not have Deborah though, which is really
unfortunate to Deborah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
The talent really drops off.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I've been there, done that for many years. The weekend, yeah,
I love it, I really do, you know I do.
I love working on the weekend. One.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It gives me an excuse not to do whatever the
stupid thing is my wife wants me to do. So
I just go, oh, I can't, Oh, I can't. I
can't go to yard sales with you today, Honey, I
have to work. Oh I can't do that, honeydew list today.
I have to work, you know. I love that. But
the crew that we have there on Sundays, they're wonderful.
They're just there's so much fun to work with. I
just I look forward to it all week long, so
(00:57):
I enjoy that. I'll be in Sunday four o'clock, I think,
So we'll see you then. Corbck Carson joins me right now,
because Corban, who doesn't love a mouse That keeps growing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That seems to be the case for disney We're gonna
see some more, some more expansion there in Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Huh. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Now, this is a very long plan. Variations of these
plans have been to expand Disneyland have been kicked around
three years. To do this, Disneyland would need to update
an Anaheim City Council plan from the nineteen nineties to
allow for a mix of theme park, hotel, retail, dining,
and entertainment on the eastern and western edges of the
(01:34):
current Disneyland resort. Now. The Disneyland Forward project was announced
formally in twenty twenty one, along with some cool renderings
and some theme park attraction possibilities, including like a Frozen Land,
a Toy story Land, a Peter Pan Neverland, and the
park is also hinted to a Tangled Rippundle Tower, a
(01:56):
z Utopia exhibit, a Zutopia exhibit, and maybe even a
tron roller coaster. So all of that's going to take decades.
But first up is this kind of restructuring of the
Anaheim City Plan from the nineties that I mentioned, and
I spoke with Anaheim City spokesman Mike Lifter. He says
that the project would stay within the five hundred acres
that the park already owns.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Potentially see theme park attractions mixed with dining, entertainment and hotels.
Just on the west side of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure,
we could see something similar to the south east of
the two theme parks today on what is known as
the Toy Story parking area. Many people may be familiar
(02:42):
with that as a surface parking area that many used
to visit the park today.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
So the biggest the biggest change is really this mix
of all these different amenities. Normally you would have the
hotel and the hotel area, the parking and the parking area,
the dining, the entertainment at the attractions, et cetera. But
the idea from the long term planets to.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Mix all that. Okay, so we can park in the hotel,
all right, and we can dine. We can dine in
the tron.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Roller coaster, right, but not necessarily like that, but more
of a where you would see these attractions together instead
of having to traverse long distances to get from one
to the other. It would be more of a mix
of the group.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I suppose that way they could get all your
money one day in one area and then all your
money the next day in the next area, and you
wouldn't have to walk so far.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's one thing we hate doing as Americans.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean that's fair, right, I mean, all this walking
and all this use of my legs, I really don't
like that. So if you could just condense everything so
I can just roll from place to place, that make
it a lot easier for people like me.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Or better use of these things. Because keeping in mind,
the idea would be to add all these cool lands
and new attractions that I mentioned, the toy story Land, Fords,
atlant et cetera, and having room to put all that
in there. And also the idea would be to bring
together parking, so there would be this connecting and building
of a brand new parking structure that would be essentially,
(04:13):
with some reports indicate the largest parking structure in the world,
which isn't a new issue for Disneyland. It has held
that title before. But now it would be consolidating all
that parking and building new bridges and new ways into
and out of these of these attractions. Now, the newest
thing that happened today, the thing that was The most
recent news is this release of a seventeen thousand page
(04:39):
impact study from the City of Anaheim that is tackling
all the different things that could be potentially again impacted
by this by these changes if they were to come
to fruition. And again here's Mike Lister discussing how some
of that, what some of the seventeen thousand pages is.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
For, then we could also see construction not it.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Hold on a second, I have that ready.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
The Environmental Analysis is a comprehensive and technical document spanning
thousands of pages, that looks at potential impacts. You could
see if we see developments that has already been approved
and planned for, if we see that move from one
area to another within property Disney already owns. The document
(05:26):
looks at all kinds of areas, including transportation, noise, esthetics,
the general look of something, air quality, public services, and
several other areas.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And then so, yeah, the idea of being you can't
put a roller coaster right next to somebody's house.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like that all right, So next step then,
I mean, we're they're hoping to get this what taking
care of next year.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I mean, this is already a couple of years into.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
This project, right, No, and keep in mind, so there's
two there's several things going on. It's going to take
the city about eight months to go through these different
different processes. So they're gonna have a public workshop outlining
some of the highlights of the Disney Forward Plan. That's
going to be October ninth, and then the City Council
is going to have to take it up and you know,
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pick apart what parts count, because you're gonna have construction
over decades, you're going to have things moving around, and
they're gonna have obviously the construction is going to cause
problems with air quality, and all of those things are
in this seventeen again thousand page Environmental Impact Report, and
that's what's going to take it. And one more thing
(06:36):
is just to remember that once all of that is completed,
then is when Disneyland is going to start rolling out
some of these things that will take years. New attractions
or moving parking around from one place to another, because
of course they're going to want to keep their doors
open through all these changes and continue people coming in.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, wow, massive undertaking.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I wonder it's taken thirty years to update that and
it's going to take years for them to even get
the plans approved.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So I guess it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Comes on the heel of their one hundred year anniversary,
so fits.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Oh yeah, so it's fitting. Yeah, right, bringing the bulldozers.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Corbeck Carson, KFI News Corbett, Hey, great reporting, nice job.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I appreciate that. Well done. All right, how about we
talk about how stupid gas prices are.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
One thing we'd love to complain about gas prices, and
we will next. Chris Merril I Am six forty. We're
live everywhere in your iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Forty talking about inflation today, and we'll be talking about
this for weeks to come up. Sure you hear about
things like the consumer price Index and the gross domestic
product and employment numbers and YadA, YadA YadA, But I
don't know. For me, I know if things are good
or bad based on how much I'm paying for that
loaf of bread. Right when I check out at the
(07:54):
grocery store and they say it's fifty bucks, and I
look down and I only have two bags of groceries.
That hurts, right, And I feel like all right, that's
inflation right there. Right If I'm thinking about buying a
car and I see interest rates are at eight percent,
and I go, well, that's crazy. This seems really really high.
The most obvious sign for me is when I'm driving
by the seventy sixth station and I see the price
(08:14):
of gas and it's going up, and it ain't good.
We did get some economic numbers that showed inflation went
a little faster this last month than they.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Expected, largely because of gas prices. So joining me right
now to discuss exactly what the hell is going on
is Patrick Dehan from a Gas Buddy, and Patrick, great
to have you on the program, where you know, we're
over five dollars again statewide, the according to Triple A,
the average is five and a half dollars in California.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
This is really starting to hurt people. Every time gas
prices go up. We start having people who are in
businesses that you know that involve transportation and delivery and
all these things, and they go, it's killing us.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's just crushing us right now.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So give me the latest update on what we're seeing,
what the numbers are showing, and what to expect.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
All we're seeing right now, is you indicate gas prices
well over the five dollars gallon market. In fact, in
some areas approaching six. The average price right now across
LA at about five sixty one a gallon. That's up
fourteen cents from a week ago. What's gotten this here, Well,
the national average is not nearly as much as what
we're seeing in the West Coast. A lot of this
really tied to refinery issues. In fact, just yesterday, another
(09:19):
refinery issue that developed it chev runs al Sacunda refinery.
And you know, it's been a hard summer for refineries.
That is, they've had various outages. We had the hurriquake
that set refineries back. And when there are disruptions, whether
it be weather, power related, refiners can't process as much
gasoline and that unfortunately impacts what we're all paying at
(09:42):
the pump. And that's been a big factor for the
West Coast.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, it's so frustrating for us because we hear about
refinery things. It used to be the well, the price
of oil is so high and that's why gas prices
are high. And then it's like, well, you know, if
you take a look at the price of oil now,
versus where it was when gas prices were at you know,
gas prices were lower, but oil prices were higher, So
why is it higher now? And then it seems to
(10:05):
be we're shifting our blame to refinery issues. It is
very frustrating for the consumer because we don't really have
a look at any of those different things, right well,
all we see is what the price is at the pump.
What can we as consumers do a sort of level
pay for ourselves. In other words, look, I don't want
to pay five sixty five a gallon. Is there any
(10:27):
way that I can play the game? I suppose so
that I'm averaging my dollar cost average on fuel.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Is less and not a whole lot unless you know,
you become somebody that just stores a vast amount of gasoline.
And by the way, it's probably not the greatest idea
given the shelf life of gasoline. That's you know, it's
a hard game to play, and there's a lot of
issues that do impact price. And as you mentioned, there's
a lot of different things that can impact prices, and
that's why it is a lot more complicated because one
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day it can be just the price of oil. The
next day it can be a refinery, it can be
Saudi Arabia, can be anything that really touches on any
one of the these levels. So it's I'm sure as
the consumer it's maddening to try and be able to
keep up with what the quote unquote latest excuse is.
But a lot of the time when we say what's
going on, it's you know, these things are affecting the market,
and gasoline is still very much a just in time
(11:15):
delivered commodity, and when you have refineries interrupt how much
gasoline they're supplying, it can very quickly lead to outages,
as we saw during the Colonial pipeline outage in the
East Coast in twenty twenty one. And there's just no
margin for r anymore. And a lot of the reason
has become because we've become more reliant on a declining
number of refineries. In California's kind of the epicenter of that.
(11:35):
No new refineries have been allowed to be built, so
you know, it's a tough landscape to survive when refineries
can't be built. Expansions are viewed extremely skeptically. How else
are you going to be able to boost the amount
of gasoline in the system to bring prices down.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That's one that the politicians like to bicker over, and
of course the people like to scream about that at
at the cafe tables as well. What about the ideas
that others have had about bringing fuel in? Is it
just not cost effective to bring fuel in from other
states to increase refinery output elsewhere?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Well, the only difficulty with that is CARB mandates a
specific blend of gasoline in California. So if it's not
one thing, you know, if it's not a refinery in California,
then you have to have your special blend of gasoline,
which you know, it's not the easiest blend of gasoline
to produce. And again, a lot of this is because geography,
that is, the West Coast is isolated from the rest
(12:29):
of the country when it comes to infrastructure, and so
it's very difficult to ship a gallon of gasoline that's
produced elsewhere in the country off to the West Coast
because the Rocky Mountains basically cut off the flow of gasoline.
There is a limited ability. There are refiners that run
from Texas to Arizona, but again the infrastructure just isn't there,
and that's why this is so difficult, and that's why
so often California is seemingly on its own when it
(12:50):
comes to these high prices is if it's not tax,
it's the bureaucracy that requires its you know, own blend
of gasoline. There's just a lot of red tape that
gets in the way.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Prick behind with gas buddy.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
As we talk about the gas prices and they're starting
to really tick people off again, I think it's leading
to road rage, Patrick.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think those gas prices put people on edge.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They get behind the wheel and they see that and
they know that, Yeah, it gets frustrating, and then counterintuitively
they tend to drive faster and more aggressively, which burns
fuel faster, which never really made a whole lot of
sense to me. You talked about blends, Patrick, It seems
like every spring we say, well, gas prices are going
up because we have to go to the summer blend,
and then in the fall we say, well, gas prices
(13:31):
are going up because we have to go to the
winter blend. Is there a cheaper blend of fuel that
we can expect at some point.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
In time, Yeah, there is.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
The winter blend is actually cheaper regardless of what misinformation
you might hear. There's a lot of different miss about
gas Unfortunately, while the rest of the nation is actually
transitioning to that cheaper blend of gas lane this winter, again,
regulations in California require the use of that summer blend
for longer, Southern California doesn't make the switch until October
(13:59):
thirty first. And how so all the rest of the
nations getting access to the cheaper blend California because of
its temperatures, the ambient temperatures, and because they'm on a
vehicle that are, you know, burning gasoline. The decision is
that in California you don't switch until later when air
temperatures are cooler, when you know, when pollution numbers are reduced.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Is there is there an expectation that we're going to
actually see prices at the pump drop when the winter
blend finally comes.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
See, I'm so anxious about this. I'm looking six weeks ahead. Now.
Will we actually see.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That price come down at the pump or is that
a slow decrease if there is one at all.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Well, in theory, yes, we should see prices come down.
It does vary. The cost difference between this you know,
so called summer winter blend. It could help push prices
down twenty to forty cents a gallon. I know that
would only push prices down to the low five dollars range,
but there's a lot of other factors that still could
you know, get in the way. Another refinery outage or
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if opek. Saudi Arabian russ had been waging this war
against low oil prices since the summer, and they pushed
the price of oil up by twenty five dollars of
earl since early summer because they're producing less.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
All right, maybe it's just time that we all start
walking anything about that.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
You know, that's tough, especially you know, and hey, I
drive on a daily basis. There's not always a lot
of options, and you know that certainly doesn't seem like
a great one, but you save a little bit of
money that way.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, maybe we just move everybody closer to work and
we just we just create mega cities with.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
No cars work from home for everyone.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That's the dystopian hellscape that we're headed toward, all right.
Patrick Dehan from gas Buddy. Patrick, great to catch up
with you. Thank you so much for your time with friend.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Meanwhile, in California, as Patrick mentioned, one of the things
that makes our prices so high the gas taxes. There's
an effort to suspend fuel taxes in California. But what
does that mean then for California roads. We'll ask those
questions next.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Chris merril in for Johnni kiit kay if I am
six forty alive everywhere in your iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Joining me right now is a Senator from Huntington Beach.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Janet Wynn is here and Janet I was just reading
one of the pressers there from the California Senate Republicans.
It was talking about the effort that you were behind
to lower gas prices. And we just talked with our
rep from gas Buddy about gas prices being five sixty
five I think as an average in the LA area.
What was the effort that you were spearheading here to
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lower the price of gasoline? How would that have worked.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
Well? So, what we did this week, because this is
our last week of session, we ended in last night,
and so what I did was I actually made an effort.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
To try to send the gas pack by.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
A gallon, a ball a gallon, and unfortunately it fell
Parsons lines by Parson vote. Senate Democrats says nope, We're
going to keep a gas tact. And the Republican Senate
just what are you guys thinking? We are paying the
high gas tax in the nation. We're looking at over
(17:10):
dollars fifty cents per gallon right now across the nation,
California is paying the high gas prices, and yet our
street and roads are the or ranked at the bottom
in the nation.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, so, senator, what happened? I mean, that's you make
a great point. We should be very frustrated, right, we
should demand better. Yes, Then the other side of that coin, however,
is I mean we just approved a gas tax increase
in order to try.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
To fix roads.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
If we were to suspend the gas tax, what would
happen to those roads?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Would they get worse? Or are we going to find
money elsewhere?
Speaker 9 (17:49):
They're not gonna get worse? Chause, Right, if you think
about it, day, California last year had one hundred across
one hundred billion dollars short bucks. We could have used
that money just to send a gas last year. When
you remember the prices were seven eight nine dollars a gallon.
I mean depending on where you live in California. In
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Orange Town, you were picking at seven dollars a gallon.
We're just asking for a temporary suspension just to help
me give some relief to Californians right now.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I mean human you.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Know, with the outrageous you know in highest grocery prices,
utility deals, housing prices. This inflation itself is just eating
every penny that Californians are making daily, and so we need.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
To help get some of the needs.
Speaker 9 (18:38):
My Republican colleagues, DENI on the California set of costs
Republican Caucus, we have tried for several years now, last
couple of years, just to ask for suspension gas packs
or at least stop the increase annually. There's so much money.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
That we, like I said, we paid a highest gas
prices in the nation, but yet we rank.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
At the bottom in the nation for our street and
roads repairs.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, and it's it's a disgusting statistic. Senator Janet Win
from Hunting to Beaches joining me, you did mention that
the surplus and the part portion of that surplus had
to be returned per the Constitution, and that went back
and what we we deemed that as sort of a
gas relief check that people were getting. So I just
want to make that clear that we couldn't have just
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simply spent one hundred billion dollars on the roads. But
that surplus is gone now because you know, we had
to balance the budget from one year to the next.
You have to return surpluses above a certain amount. When
you say the roads can't get any worse, boy, I'm
always very cautious when somebody tells me it can't get worse.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Because.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
You know, if we if we do what we told
the voters is that hey, we're going to pass we're
going to increase the gas class of the here annually
on July first, but.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
We also will tell you what roads we're going to
fix and when it is going to be done. It's
not getting done, it's there.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
They'd advantages all over the places, these cross holes.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I mean that average most people, especially in the southern.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
California are or in my district, there's so many plot holes.
We are constantly having to fix, our break, having to
change our entires, our suspensions, you name it. The if
government wants to pass. Then tell us what you're doing
with our task dollar and making sure that it is
(20:38):
what you promise us. And right now they keep on taxing,
but yet the roads are being fixed.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So how come how come the roads are getting fixed? Well,
what's the hang up there? Why? Uh, where's where's the breakdown?
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Accountability?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
We just I think, how you know from all from.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Our crosswik Stamsport, California has to spending problems.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
We don't have a revenue problem.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
We have a spending problem all we I mean, just
this week alone, we're looking there's gould be a ballot
initiative next year, whether it's March or November.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
We're waiting to hear.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
But the initiative will allow local governments to add to
go to the voters for new taxes, and that to
help fix the street and the roads in the city
or the county.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
So I still have the set up for this week.
And I said, pretiment, I thought we had.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
A gas tax to fix the roads and streets, and
now you want local government to also tax to fix
the roads and streets.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
So when is it enough?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Is enough?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I hear you, But I guess as long as the
roads are broken, people are going to say, obviously, you know,
like you said, where's the accountability and how do we
increase that accountability? If the money is if the money
is being gathered right, if we're collecting the taxes and
it's not being spent, or if it's being spent elsewhere where,
wre is that accountability? I feel like you're you're so right,
(22:04):
Senator that the people should be frustrated and you know
you've got to pay for suspension repairs on your car
because the stuff's not being fixed when it's supposed to
be fixed. That's why we voted for the increase. So
how do we fix the accountability issue? The tax people
were happy to pay more taxes, they voted for it,
but where's the accountability?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
How do we fix that?
Speaker 9 (22:26):
And honestly, it's election has consequences. We on the center Republican.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Process had to pose way measures.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
To hold you know, stack amountum more accountable and transparency
in terms of where the money's been, how much money spending,
where it's being spent, and where it's going and how
it's being spent. Yet those measures, those bills, every time
we could put it, it's always it dies in Parsons
vote line and so at the end of the day,
(22:56):
we have to hold those senators and those.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Assemity members, and we're asked to both. If you don't
life with.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Justine today, he's a lesson of consequences. If you want accountability,
you want transparency, we need to make sure that we
hit those in office that will support accountability and transparency measures.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I'm with you, behind I'm behind that one hundred percent.
Senator Janet went from Huntington Beach. A pleasure talking with you, Senator,
and thank you so much for much for having me.
Thank you for fighting for Californians. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Uh, we'll continue here just a few moments. It's the
rest of the story.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Some other crap I can get to, including another argument
about changing state borders. Oh, I love when these come up.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It's next.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's Chris Merrill and for JOHNA. Ken k if I
AM six forty. We're live everywhere in your iHeart radio app.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's Chris Maryland for John Ken k if I AM
six forty. And it looks like we've got some people
in Oregon that are playing like people in northern California
like to do, and they're saying.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
We want out.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
A number of people on the east side of Oregon
are claiming Oregon doesn't represent them, Idaho does, and so
they've drawn new borders and they want to.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
What's the word here, annex?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I suppose more than half of the geographical property of
Oregon added to Idaho and call it Greater Idaho. And
that's because you have political differences and they want to
all join Idaho. I love these stories. They never go
anywhere because everyone says I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And you know, there was a time that if you
didn't like your politician, you didn't like the politician that
got elected, you would say that's it, I'm moving to Canada.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Now it's more like, if my politician doesn't win, I'm
gonna turn us into Canada. You know what if they
send those those people to Portland, I'm moving to Poise.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And now they say, well, they sent those people to Portland,
I'm bringing Boise to me. Boyer.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
These Oregonians gonna be surprised when they realized that Idaho
is now fifty percent Bay Area expats. Yeah, you think
you're getting away from from the loony left, No, no
loony left already exported. They got their first joining me
right now is the great Tim Conway.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Now, by the way, Chris, one of the emails I
get about you is how you spell your last name
because people see it two different ways on the internet.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh, I don't want people following me on the internet.
Nobody wants that. Emmy DOUBLERI I double l oh, I
see okay, Yeah, two r shoes, but it's different, two rs,
two l's to the eye in the middle.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, Emmy R r ill like sickness. Alright, that's
great man, all right. Alex Stone is coming on with
us today. That guy's great. And then Alex Michaelson's coming
on with us. That guy's great. And Billy right, that
guy's great too.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Hey, do you you hang out with Alex Stone? You
hang out with the big names.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I don't think, Kelly, have we ever met Alex.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Stone, as I don't even think he's come into Eric.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
If you met Alex Stone, I've never met him in person.
I found with him on Facebook, though I've never met
him in per He used to rub elbows with all
the guys up there in the Bay Area. So before
he got into news.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
They all knew Alex. They were all good buddies with Alex.
Alex is that he's a good friend. I think you
should befriend him if I may, just I want to
just set you out on a playdate.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Conan O'Brien says that the late night comics aren't funny anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I have no idea that meantime, Yeah, I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And then we'll talk about the strikes, obviously, the auto strike.
I heard you yesterday talking to the guy from Detroit.
Detroit City. That's a big deal there in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
It's a huge deal. My folks are there in Michigan
and it's are you from day Yeah? Whereabouts?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah? Uh, sister kissing country up on the northwest side.
It's beautiful. I called it's the San Diego with the
Midwest nor It's just beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I'm up along Mark, Michigan is where I came from. No, no, no,
that's that's above the bridge. Oh, I see in Michigan.
They'd called me a troll because I grew up below
the bridge.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
My mom grew up in deerborn. So I spent a
lot of time in Detroit growing.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, yeah, no, I was over in vacation territory, Northern Michigan.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh I see okay, yea, all right, yeah, with boats
and everybody's got a boat in a lake. I got
a boat, and you do have a boat?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Got a boat? And is it?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Is it in Michigan?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah? Okay? How often you use it?
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Whenever I see my folks. I spent some time with
them in the summer.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
A sailboat, powerboat. It's just an old pontoon. We put
it in one of the little inland lakes and then
sometimes you go fishing out on the big lake.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
The new thing now with the pontoons. The latest one
is the try tunes. Have you seen those?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, very stable.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, not really a masculine name, like, hey, do you
want to take a ride on my try tune?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
No, sometimes something you're gonna get you weinsteined if you
that's right, that's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
But anyway, I have a great weekend, and I'll tell
everybody on the internet.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Two rs oh two l's yeah, tuesy yeah, Thanks Tim Conway.
Junior Show is next. I love you guys, looking forward
to the next time. I'll see you. On Sunday, it's
Chris Merriland for JOHNA. Ken, k if I AM six
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