June 3, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (06/03) - Jon Fleischman comes on the show to talk about the attack on gas-powered appliances in California. More on the Egyptian national who burned a group of Jewish people in Colorado. Matching quotes with votes of CA State Assemblymembers who voted to block a bill that would block the $0.65 gas tax hike set to take effect in 2026.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. How are you welcome
to the Second Hour. We are on every day from
one until four o'clock and after four o'clock John Cobelt
Show on demand on the iHeart app. We spent a
lot of time last hour. We spent first with Carl
Demil the Republican Assemblyment, because he put up two votes
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forced the Democrats to vote twice. One of them would
have reversed the sixty five cent gas tax hike that
we're getting from the California Air Resources Board, and the
Democrats voted to kill that bill. So they were asked
to reverse the tax hike, they said no. And also
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they killed a proposal to reduce the electricity rates. They
voted no on that. We have matched the votes with
the rhetoric we heard in the last week. Several Democratic
Assembly people were very critical publicly of the California Air
Resources Board. One of them asked the chairwoman to resign.
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They were really upset that there's a sixty five cent
increase coming, that there's two there's two refineries closing. They
made a lot of news and then you look at
their votes, and they voted to continue the gas tax increase.
And you know what's even worse is several of them abstained.
(01:32):
They seem to be against the gas tax increase, but
they won't vote to end it. We will name names
coming up after two thirty. After two thirty, so be
here for that. All right, Let's now go to John Fleischmann.
He's got a political newslet letter called flash Report dot
org and he's got something today on gas water heaters.
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Originally they wanted to ban them. The South Coast air
Quality Management District got so much blowback they have a
new scam that they have proposed. Let's get you on
how are you.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm doing fine, Sean, has been a long time. I
hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yes, I am, And thank you for putting me on
your email list for a newsletter. Your newsletter, and I've
been reading that every time you published that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, he just hearing you talk about your last hour
with Carl Demile just tells you everything you need to know.
Because what's going on at the Air Quality Management District
is just it's more of the same. It's this big, massive,
imprudent single state in a single nation assault on air
quality or on carbon emissions. That makes no sense whatsoever.
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I mean, as I was just telling somebody the other day,
there has been more carbon emitted by wildfires in California
at the last two and a half year then all
of the quote unquote savings of all of the regulations
in the history of regulations. But instead of focusing on
I don't know, stopping wildfires, their real agenda is just
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trying to control and manipulate all of us. And what
I'm about to tell you about at the AQMB is
just the next thing, all.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Right, first thing is define what the South Coast air
Quality Management District is. Most people probably have no idea,
which is, you know, part of the problem.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So at some point this is the MO. Just like
there's an air Resources Board that the legislature delegated to
that has the ability to increase gas prices while they
pretend and say, well, we didn't vote for it, although
Carl has not forced them to vote on it for good,
so good for him. They also created around the state
these air quality management districts and invested them with the
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power to tax, the power to regulate. But there's nobody
directly elected to the boards of these things. So for
La Riverside and saber Danino County, we're all in the
South Coast Air Quality Management District where there's thirteen directors
and I think made maybe four of them are Republicans.
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The other nine are all Democrats, and boy do they
love to regulate. And they've hired I mean, everyone on
their staff must have a degree from UC Berkeley or
UC Santa Cruz and they love regulations. And again there's
no prudence, there's no thought that cheap. The pain that
we're exacting on average people through higher costs isn't worth
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the dominimus savings of I don't know, clean air. And
so so the South Coast Air Quality Management District originally
proposed literally a twenty billion dollar regulatory regime. Whereas your
water heater in your house, or your furnace in your
house that was the gas powered, you know, broke needed
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to be replaced, or you were building a new house,
you would no longer be able to get a gass
water heater. You would have to rewire your house and
purchase an electric heater. This is for your pool as well.
All that costs like eight grand on top of the
more expensive unit, and they just kind of proposed it,
and everyone who found out about it, which isn't many
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people went ballistic. I think thirteen or fourteen thousand people
emailed in what a terrible idea it is. And so
these regulators are like, God, we're going to have to
do this a different way. So they came up with
their new idea, and their new idea is basically to
tax the people that are providing the water heaters, the
gas water heaters, making them so expensive that you decide, well,
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I'm going to get an electric water heater because the
cost of these gas water heaters is too high, and
they think we're all that stupid, and so they phase
it in over a period of time, over like twelve
or thirteen years, and slowly they get more and more expensive,
but there is no added expense to the creation of
your water heater attacked that they're putting on it to
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make it more expensive because their goal is to manipulate
your behavior. And it's totally crazy because the the level
of savings of emissions by doing this is tiny. I
mean the boat the big ships that go in and
out of Long Beach and in and out of la
from you know, produce a lot more of this this
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this this chemical in the air than all of the
households in southern California. So I think the most egregious
thing about this is it's happening. And I guarantee you
the listeners of this program have no idea that it's
going on. And they're going to vote on this on Friday,
on Friday, you know, on Friday, this Friday, they're going
to vote on it. And I'll I can tell you
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what people can do if they want to do something
about it. They can send an email. I can give
you an address. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, no, no, no, give it, give out an email.
Let me tell you, the host of this program didn't
know this was going on, this idea, this was all
news to me until you wrote about it and then
I so we saw another piece in the California Globe,
Katie Grimes, So please have at it. Tell people where
to send a protesting email.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yes, yes, send an email to it. This is all
one word. Clerk of board, not click of the board,
but just clerk of board at AQMD dot gov. Clerk
of board at AQMD dot gov. And you can register
your protests there. And I think what's most egregious is
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they're saying that they're doing this to comply with federal guidelines,
as if the Trump administration is going to enforce Biden
era guidelines. They're in the middle of doing all their
executive orders and rulemaking to undo all of this stuff.
And so the ideological eco zealots at the AQM deer
tend to rush through this regulation before the need to
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pass the regulation is undone by the Trump administration. And
so they really want to do this because they're true believers.
They it's like climate change is a religion, and they
believe that if we can somehow, somehow, if the water
heaters in La or band, it will create an international
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I don't know, movement to ban gas water heaters all
around the planet. And the whole thing is just it's
I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
There's three motivations. You're right. Partly they are in some
kind of religious cult absolutely. Partly they want the money, right,
these are cash cows, right for no work.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And then thirdly, this program, by the way, seven point
three billion dollars it's supposed to an outside consultants said
this proposal will cost seven point three billion dollars over
its lifetime out of the pockets of people. But all right,
so religious money money.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And the third thing is they get off on controlling
your life.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yes, as I say in the piece that I wrote,
they're playing sim City, right, They're playing. And you know,
if people want to read more about this, by the way,
it's not on the flash report dot org site today,
but they can go to my substack, which is www
so does itmatter? Dot com? Www? So does itmatter? Dot com?
(09:16):
Because if you go there, my easy to digest right
up is there and you can send it to other
people and then you don't have to try to explain
this complicated thing to your friends. Say read this and
at the bottom of it, click on the email and
send a note, or maybe you guys can link to
it on your website and then they can easily find
it that way. Tomorrow it will be on the Flash Report.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, all right, I guess I must have got an
advanced notice for that bro, probably with that email you
sent down.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Probably it's all complicated. I have a substack where I write,
and then I feature the things that I write. The
Flash Report just kind of links the stories of the day.
Sometimes you link your stuff, right, and so it's always
a day behind, all right. Nevertheless, this thing's happening Friday,
so it's clerk up board at AQMD dot gov. And again,
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thirteen thousand emails got them to not move forward on
the last one. There are more than thirteen thousand people
listening right now. So if each one of you would
send an email just saying, don't tax our water heaters,
that's all you got to say.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, this is send it a hefty tax on gas
water heaters and a hefty tax on gas space heaters too, right.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yes, space heaters, and then the gas heaters for anyone
who's got a jacuzzi or a pool or and then
the same thing will apply. By the way, if you're
moving into an apartment complex, you want to get an
apartment or you want to buy a condo, all these regulations,
everything's going to get passed to the renter. So at
the same time that the left is screaming about unaffordable
housing and they continue to be the reason for the
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unaffordable housing, this is going to be one more thing
that makes renting an apartment or buying that entry level
condo that much more expensive. It's like, you know, they
can't have it both ways. We want affordable housing and
we want to pass policies that make housing unaffordable.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
All right, John, good to talk with you again. Thank
you for coming on.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Thank you, sir, I got it.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Take care John Fleischman Flash Report dot org and also
his sub stack. We'll continue.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Coming up after two thirty. Okay, I've matched up the
quotes with the votes. We're gonna play quotes with votes,
quotes and votes. There is a set of California lawmakers
who are grand standing and publicly criticizing members of the
California Air Resources Board and the California Energy Commission, and
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they're angry over this sixty five cent increase that's coming
because the Air Resources Board implemented a new low carbon
fuel standard. They're also angry that two refineries are closing
because of excessive taxes and regulations on the oil companies.
And they are believing Professor Michael MChE from USC that
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sometime next year we're going to be dealing with eight
dollars and fifty cent gas. So these are at least
four Democrats that I have identified four Democrats in the Assembly,
and they spoke out. One of them even wanted the
resignation of the California Air Resources Board chairwoman. Well, today
Republican Assembly been Carl Donile. He proposed a bill to
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reverse this sixty five cent gas tax hike. And I'm
going to tell you how the people who were publicly
excoriating carb if they voted to reverse the tax hike
or not. What do you think. Is it possible that
they're voted not matched their rhetoric. We'll find out. Okay,
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So that's going to be the cliffhanger until after Deborah's news.
Deborah is the cliff yes, and I am a hanger,
all right. This Boulder terrorist here who had some kind
of homemade flamethrower and he was hurling homemade Molotov cocktails
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at these Well, they're all older Jewish people in Boulder
who were having a public demonstration. It wasn't exactly a protest.
They're trying to keep people aware that Israeli hostages are
still being held by Hamas in Gaza, and they go
out there once a week, and they're older. The ages
of the victims were between fifty two and eighty eight.
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And he may have heard by now that he started
fire bombing them with this torch or whatever the hell
it was. He made all this at home, and it
injured twelve people. I mean, one died and several were
seriously burned. Well, it turns out this guy's name is
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Mohammed Sabury Solomon. He's been taken into custody, so has
his wife and their five children. He was here illegally.
He'd come here on a visa, overstayed it, and you know,
under the Biden administration, nobody checks overstayed visa situations, so
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nobody came to get him. And he saw the guy.
He guys forty five years old, gray haired, thickly built,
standing there with no shirt. Can I say, as you know,
I you know, I hate to brush people stereotype? Oh
you do. I didn't know that. If you see a
middle aged guy angry and wearing no shirt, get the
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hell out of there. People who wear no shirts are
usually trouble if they're in public places. You know, if
they're in their backyard, in their swimming pool, that's one thing.
But if they're standing outside on public land and they're
screaming at people and they have no shirt, get out
of there. Something bad is going to happen, and so
he's been charged with first attempted first degree murder, crimes
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against at risk adults, the elderly, assault, criminal, attempt to
commit felonies, and blah blah, blah blah. He's from Egypt originally,
and according to three sources, he overstayed the visa. He
arrived here at Lax August twenty seventh, twenty twenty two,
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of a non immigrant visa. He was supposed to stay
legally through February tewod of twenty twenty three, but he
never left. Then he tried to claim I guess some
kind of asylum and he was granted work authorization, but
that expired in March twice, his visa's expired and he
would never go home. And he had a glass bottle
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which burst upon impact, creating large flames. Let me correct,
I said one died. Actually no one has died yet,
but there are several who are in pretty bad condition.
And the he but he's facing sixteen counts of attempted
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first degree murder, eight for attempted murder with intent and deliberation,
and another eight for attempted murder with extreme indifference.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Well, you know, He's kind of an upstanding guy, John,
because you know, he was planning this for I think
a year, and he wanted to wait until his youngest
was out of high school.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
So right, Yeah, he was very thoughtful. He's a good dad. Yes,
you know, if I'm going to end up serving a
life sentence or maybe on death row, you know, I
want to make sure my kids have gotten through school. Well,
definitely father of the Year material there. Yep, really upstanding
role model for the whole family. Well, the whole lot
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of them are being sent out of the country and
now they're investigating all his family and friends to see
who else is illegal, who else knew about his plan
because he spent a year, as you said, putting it together.
So there's probably a lot of fascinating internet searches.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I'm sure he doesn't feel too happy right now that
his wife and his kids are gonna you.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Know, well, he admitted as soon as he got arrested
that he did it. He's been spilling all the details.
I maybe got his family that they were immune. Yeah,
that's a smart guy.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Well, as you said, you know he's doing this without
his shirt.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Got that shirt. I'm telling you don't trust shirtless guys.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
It's unless you have killer aps, right right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But not if you're a forty five year old. Forty
five years old, you're a little chunky, you got gray hair. Yeah,
that's not the last not the look. No, no, I
mean something else is going on. He's just not trying
to show off his physique. All right, we come back.
We are going to match the quotes with the votes.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
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Speaker 1 (18:14):
We're here every day from one to four o'clock. Are
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and it's again, it's posted shortly after four o'clock and
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you can catch up. We had on to open the show,
and I recommend that if you missed him, you listen
to it. Carl Demyo because he forced a couple of
votes on things the Democratic Assembly does not want to
vote on, and one of them was a bill to
reverse the sixty five cent gas tax coming from the
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California Air Resources Board. It's a low carbon fuel standard.
This is what's galling because there is no way the
legislature would pass a sixty five cent gas tax. They'd
be too scared that they'd be all forced out of office.
What they did is they set up the California Air
Resources Board and they recreate they create a regulation which
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leads to a sixty five cent increase. Well, it's a tax,
but they create a secret path to the back door
of your wallet, and it's sixty five cents a gallon,
and it's going to happen within a year. So he
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got that. He produced a bill that says, hey, let's
reverse the sixty five cent gas tax. Well, thirty nine
Democrats voted no, we're not going to reverse it, and
eighteen legislators voted yes. So it's thirty nine to eighteen. Now,
if you add those two numbers up, that comes to
fifty seven. And that's a little mysterious there, because there's
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eighty there's eighty Assembly people, so there's twenty three missing
from the vote. Aha. Part two of this. This has
all been playing out over the last few days, and
we are going to keep a harsh spotlight on all this,
do you remember, And let's see this was from yes
last week. Last Friday, there was a hearing the Assembly
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Utility and Energy Committee. They had the following people testify
at the hearing. Now listen closely remember these names. The
chair person of the California Air Resources Board, Leanne Randolph,
she's the head of card. The vice chairman of the
California Energy Commission, Siva Gunda. The Division of Petroleum Market
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Oversight Director Ty Milder. Because no one has a normal
name anymore, I don't know who's a guy and who's
a girl, all right, I really don't. So these three
were getting grilled, and there were angry Democrats grilling them.
I'll give you some example. And they were upset over
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two things. The sixty five cent increase from California Air
Resources Board, and then two oil refineries are closing because
the oil companies can't take the taxation and the regulation anymore.
They can't make money. So Ty Milder, who's with the
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Petroleum Market Oversight organization, was trying to explain California gas
price spikes and an assembly woman named Connie Petrie Norris
interrupted him, and she said, sorry to interrupt you. Director
I guess I'm just a little confused. So if California
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companies are raking it in, why did we just have
two refineries announce their intent to clothes Aha? She called him,
She called him on the big lie. That's because ty
Milder was not telling the truth. And and that professor
from USC, Michael Msche, proved it. He did a fifty
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year examination. There are no price gouging instances. There's nothing
of the sort. There's no price manipulation, no price gouging.
There's no spikes caused by the oil industry, because if
they were, they wouldn't close there were fineries. If there were,
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they wouldn't just do it in California. They do it
in the other forty nine states. There's twenty five states
where the gas sells for less than three dollars a gallon,
twenty five of them. Why not gouge a little there?
Go gouge people in Mississippi. That would take them a
while before they figured it out anyway. In fact, you know,
you realize that gas prices are so low in Mississippi,
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you could raise the price there fifth the seventy ninety
cents and nobody would even bark because it would still
be over a dollar cheaper than in California. So that
was just an absolute lie from Todd Milder. And remember
the name Connie Petrie Norris. She interrupted him and said, hey,
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what's going on here? Well, let me look up Connie
Petrie Norris. Because Carl's bill was to reverse the sixty
five second sixty five cent gas tax increase. Connie Petrie
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Norris voted no, do not reverse the gas tax increase.
Keep the sixty five cent increase. So in public for
the television camera, she's making a big stink. Hey, you
keep saying California companies are raking it in, but we
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got two refineries announcing their intent to close. What gives
Well you would think she's on the side of you
and me and that she wants to bring prices down. No,
when Karl Demayer presented a bill that says, let's reverse
this sixty five cent increase, she said, no, we're not
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reversing that. So her public criticism was just for show.
She's a fake, a phony, a fraud. Connie Petrie Norris.
Where is she from? Let me see here, Irvine? There
you go, Irvine, Orange County Knights going Orange County It's
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one thing to vote for a Democrat who believes in
high gas prices, but you vote for one that lies
to the public and puts on a performance tending that
she gives a rats ass about the financial problems you
have trying to get enough trying to get enough income
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to pay for the exorbited gas prices in this state.
All right, here's another one. Democratic Assembly member David Alvarez.
He said, we have a crisis on our hands that
may have been self created by the actions taken by
the state by regulators. Hmm, I'm curious and frustrated as
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I sit here. Uh, we're more than six months after
the special session acting with urgency because price gouging and
skyrocketing fuel course, skyrocketing fuel costs, and I don't hear
today any evidence of that occurred. Quite the contrary. How
about that, he said, Hey, you made us work in
a special session six months ago, claiming price gouging. He goes,
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I haven't found any evidence of price gouging because there
is no price gouging. It was a lot concocted by
Gavin Newsom, and the Assembly leaders went along with it.
And now you have Democratic Assembly people sitting there going, well,
where's the price gouging? You promised I said that that
guy was David Alvarez. Let's see. Oh look, David Alvarez
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did not vote when it came to reversing the sixty
five sec sixty five cent gas tax increase. He didn't vote.
He abstained, coward, phony, fake fraud. I got a couple
of more of these characters. That's next.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
Every minute of the day, your life gets shortened. Yeah,
I know, I know. There's something weird about our culture.
This this we pretend that we could live forever, that
we're not going to die, and that every little action
we take, every morsel of food, every drink is gonna.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
We're trying to postpone their.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh I got an extra ten seconds today. Yeah, why
are we postponing the neat.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Well because people you know, look, we know we're all
gonna die.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Well, I don't want to get into it, but it's
it's it's very disturbing for a lot of people because
we just don't know what to expect.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Okay, well that's how I feel, But I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Be offensive tonight. If you if you don't know what's
coming tonight, go into your bedroom, turn all the lights
off completely. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Okay, you don't think you're gonna turn into a squirrel
or something.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I hope not. Gotta run around all day looking for
food and not. That would be a drag. Yeah, and
then you get chased by other animals. No, all right,
let's get now to two of the two more of
the frauds, fakes and phonies we told you about so far.
We told you. Oh, I was telling you about David Alvarez. Right,
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he is the assemblyman at a sandy at a San
Diego who is making noises. He's not happy with the
California Resources Board. You know, there's two refineries closing, and
they told him there was price gouging, and Alvarez is
acting like he believed it. It was proce coaging man.
So you people in San Diego. His office is at
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a Chula Visto. You elected a blockhead. David Alvarez actually
bought Newsom's big lie, or he's pretending that he bought
the lines. Oh, there's price gouging. All you have to
do every day? Do this. Go to triple A. They
have state by state gas prices. You look at California,
we're the most expensive by far, in some cases two
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dollars plus a gallon, twenty five states selling under three dollars.
And if there's price gouging, they would do it in
the other forty nine states. David Alvarez, You moron, the
hell is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Here's two other phonies who at a hearing this week,
pretended to be upset with the California Resources Board. They're
upset the refineries are closing. They're upset that there's a
sixty five cent tax increase coming. Mike Gibson, this genius,
let me tell you what he said. I'm still having
a hard time in terms of price manipulation. Can you
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help me with that? Another one who believed the big
lie must be price gouging. Another one apparently never drove
over to the Arizona border to find gas for like
two eighty a gallon. Mike Gibson, he's from the LA area, Compton, Carson, Willowbrook, Watts.
There you go. There's a lot of people there that
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cannot afford eight to fifty a gallon. Yet you elected
this representative who is going to create eight fifty a
gallon for you because he supports carb And then when
he was given a chance to vote on a bill
that would reverse a sixty five cent gas tax increase,
he voted absent, He abstained. How about there's courage and
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he's one of those stupid bow tie guys on top
of it. Good, all right, let's get to another one here,
and this one takes the cake jazz Meet Baines. Oh,
she's of course, you know, in her Wikipedia, she's all
written up because she's the first South Asian American woman
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and the first Sikh American elected to the Assembly. Blah
blah blah all that. But then you go and you
hear that she's angry with the California Air Resources Board
and she says count Carbon has been given so much power,
they're prepared to ban gas and diesel cars and trucks
single handedly. Well, they still have that power, They're still
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gonna do it. The Senate is in the Senate in
Washington's trying to take it away, but Newsom is suing.
So we'll see who wins that that game. But that
is she wants, she wants LeAnn Randolph, the chief the
chairman of the board of CARB to resign. That's what
this woman was calling for. Well, I look to see
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how she voted on Carl Demayo's bill should we reverse
the sixty five cent gas tax increase which comes from CARB.
Let's say Jessmeat Bains. Oh, she didn't vote either. She
also abstained. So of four assembly people, all Democrats. She's
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from current county, so they're all within our listening area.
All four of them either voted no to reverse the
tax or voted to abstain, but nobody voted yes to
reverse the tax. They all got written up in the paper.
They all got on television, protesting the gas tax increase,
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protesting the refiners being closed, protesting the existence of CARB, protesting,
demanding the resignation of the CAR chairwoman. All that right,
but when it came down to a vote, three of
them abstained. One of them voted to keep the acts.
So jazz beat Bains, Mike Gibson. Are two big phonies,
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David Alvarez and San Diego, a third phony, and then
we had a fourth phony. Who's the four Yes, Yes,
Connie Petrie Norris from Irvine. Four phonies, But you vote
for these phonies? Right, they're trying empathize with you. Oh yeah,
price and guests so high. Probably it's hard to make
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ends meet. All right, we come back. The other absurdity
over the last week has been uh, the guy who
competed in the state championships uh with in the girls
triple jump and long jump and high jump. National Review.
(32:52):
John Girardi wrote an article and explained why if you're
a guy you can easily win a track and field
meet against girls. Explains the physiological differences. Debra Mark Live
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
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Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. How are you welcome
to the Second Hour. We are on every day from
one until four o'clock and after four o'clock John Cobelt
Show on demand on the iHeart app. We spent a
lot of time last hour. We spent first with Carl
Demil the Republican Assemblyment, because he put up two votes
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forced the Democrats to vote twice. One of them would
have reversed the sixty five cent gas tax hike that
we're getting from the California Air Resources Board, and the
Democrats voted to kill that bill. So they were asked
to reverse the tax hike, they said no. And also
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they killed a proposal to reduce the electricity rates. They
voted no on that. We have matched the votes with
the rhetoric we heard in the last week. Several Democratic
Assembly people were very critical publicly of the California Air
Resources Board. One of them asked the chairwoman to resign.
(01:09):
They were really upset that there's a sixty five cent
increase coming, that there's two there's two refineries closing. They
made a lot of news and then you look at
their votes, and they voted to continue the gas tax increase.
And you know what's even worse is several of them abstained.
(01:32):
They seem to be against the gas tax increase, but
they won't vote to end it. We will name names
coming up after two thirty. After two thirty, so be
here for that. All right, Let's now go to John Fleischmann.
He's got a political newslet letter called flash Report dot
org and he's got something today on gas water heaters.
(02:00):
Originally they wanted to ban them. The South Coast air
Quality Management District got so much blowback they have a
new scam that they have proposed. Let's get you on
how are you.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I'm doing fine, Sean, has been a long time. I
hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yes, I am, And thank you for putting me on
your email list for a newsletter. Your newsletter, and I've
been reading that every time you published that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, he just hearing you talk about your last hour
with Carl Demile just tells you everything you need to know.
Because what's going on at the Air Quality Management District
is just it's more of the same. It's this big, massive,
imprudent single state in a single nation assault on air
quality or on carbon emissions. That makes no sense whatsoever.
(02:50):
I mean, as I was just telling somebody the other day,
there has been more carbon emitted by wildfires in California
at the last two and a half year then all
of the quote unquote savings of all of the regulations
in the history of regulations. But instead of focusing on
I don't know, stopping wildfires, their real agenda is just
(03:12):
trying to control and manipulate all of us. And what
I'm about to tell you about at the AQMB is
just the next thing, all.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Right, first thing is define what the South Coast air
Quality Management District is. Most people probably have no idea,
which is, you know, part of the problem.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So at some point this is the MO. Just like
there's an air Resources Board that the legislature delegated to
that has the ability to increase gas prices while they
pretend and say, well, we didn't vote for it, although
Carl has not forced them to vote on it for good,
so good for him. They also created around the state
these air quality management districts and invested them with the
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power to tax, the power to regulate. But there's nobody
directly elected to the boards of these things. So for
La Riverside and saber Danino County, we're all in the
South Coast Air Quality Management District where there's thirteen directors
and I think made maybe four of them are Republicans.
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The other nine are all Democrats, and boy do they
love to regulate. And they've hired I mean, everyone on
their staff must have a degree from UC Berkeley or
UC Santa Cruz and they love regulations. And again there's
no prudence, there's no thought that cheap. The pain that
we're exacting on average people through higher costs isn't worth
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the dominimus savings of I don't know, clean air. And
so so the South Coast Air Quality Management District originally
proposed literally a twenty billion dollar regulatory regime. Whereas your
water heater in your house, or your furnace in your
house that was the gas powered, you know, broke needed
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to be replaced, or you were building a new house,
you would no longer be able to get a gass
water heater. You would have to rewire your house and
purchase an electric heater. This is for your pool as well.
All that costs like eight grand on top of the
more expensive unit, and they just kind of proposed it,
and everyone who found out about it, which isn't many
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people went ballistic. I think thirteen or fourteen thousand people
emailed in what a terrible idea it is. And so
these regulators are like, God, we're going to have to
do this a different way. So they came up with
their new idea, and their new idea is basically to
tax the people that are providing the water heaters, the
gas water heaters, making them so expensive that you decide, well,
(05:39):
I'm going to get an electric water heater because the
cost of these gas water heaters is too high, and
they think we're all that stupid, and so they phase
it in over a period of time, over like twelve
or thirteen years, and slowly they get more and more expensive,
but there is no added expense to the creation of
your water heater attacked that they're putting on it to
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make it more expensive because their goal is to manipulate
your behavior. And it's totally crazy because the the level
of savings of emissions by doing this is tiny. I
mean the boat the big ships that go in and
out of Long Beach and in and out of la
from you know, produce a lot more of this this
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this this chemical in the air than all of the
households in southern California. So I think the most egregious
thing about this is it's happening. And I guarantee you
the listeners of this program have no idea that it's
going on. And they're going to vote on this on Friday,
on Friday, you know, on Friday, this Friday, they're going
to vote on it. And I'll I can tell you
(06:45):
what people can do if they want to do something
about it. They can send an email. I can give
you an address. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, no, no, no, give it, give out an email.
Let me tell you, the host of this program didn't
know this was going on, this idea, this was all
news to me until you wrote about it and then
I so we saw another piece in the California Globe,
Katie Grimes, So please have at it. Tell people where
to send a protesting email.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yes, yes, send an email to it. This is all
one word. Clerk of board, not click of the board,
but just clerk of board at AQMD dot gov. Clerk
of board at AQMD dot gov. And you can register
your protests there. And I think what's most egregious is
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they're saying that they're doing this to comply with federal guidelines,
as if the Trump administration is going to enforce Biden
era guidelines. They're in the middle of doing all their
executive orders and rulemaking to undo all of this stuff.
And so the ideological eco zealots at the AQM deer
tend to rush through this regulation before the need to
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pass the regulation is undone by the Trump administration. And
so they really want to do this because they're true believers.
They it's like climate change is a religion, and they
believe that if we can somehow, somehow, if the water
heaters in La or band, it will create an international
(08:14):
I don't know, movement to ban gas water heaters all
around the planet. And the whole thing is just it's
I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
There's three motivations. You're right. Partly they are in some
kind of religious cult absolutely. Partly they want the money, right,
these are cash cows, right for no work.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And then thirdly, this program, by the way, seven point
three billion dollars it's supposed to an outside consultants said
this proposal will cost seven point three billion dollars over
its lifetime out of the pockets of people. But all right,
so religious money money.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And the third thing is they get off on controlling
your life.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yes, as I say in the piece that I wrote,
they're playing sim City, right, They're playing. And you know,
if people want to read more about this, by the way,
it's not on the flash report dot org site today,
but they can go to my substack, which is www
so does itmatter? Dot com? Www? So does itmatter? Dot com?
(09:16):
Because if you go there, my easy to digest right
up is there and you can send it to other
people and then you don't have to try to explain
this complicated thing to your friends. Say read this and
at the bottom of it, click on the email and
send a note, or maybe you guys can link to
it on your website and then they can easily find
it that way. Tomorrow it will be on the Flash Report.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, all right, I guess I must have got an
advanced notice for that bro, probably with that email you
sent down.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Probably it's all complicated. I have a substack where I write,
and then I feature the things that I write. The
Flash Report just kind of links the stories of the day.
Sometimes you link your stuff, right, and so it's always
a day behind, all right. Nevertheless, this thing's happening Friday,
so it's clerk up board at AQMD dot gov. And again,
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thirteen thousand emails got them to not move forward on
the last one. There are more than thirteen thousand people
listening right now. So if each one of you would
send an email just saying, don't tax our water heaters,
that's all you got to say.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, this is send it a hefty tax on gas
water heaters and a hefty tax on gas space heaters too, right.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yes, space heaters, and then the gas heaters for anyone
who's got a jacuzzi or a pool or and then
the same thing will apply. By the way, if you're
moving into an apartment complex, you want to get an
apartment or you want to buy a condo, all these regulations,
everything's going to get passed to the renter. So at
the same time that the left is screaming about unaffordable
housing and they continue to be the reason for the
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unaffordable housing, this is going to be one more thing
that makes renting an apartment or buying that entry level
condo that much more expensive. It's like, you know, they
can't have it both ways. We want affordable housing and
we want to pass policies that make housing unaffordable.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
All right, John, good to talk with you again. Thank
you for coming on.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Thank you, sir, I got it.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Take care John Fleischman Flash Report dot org and also
his sub stack. We'll continue.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Coming up after two thirty. Okay, I've matched up the
quotes with the votes. We're gonna play quotes with votes,
quotes and votes. There is a set of California lawmakers
who are grand standing and publicly criticizing members of the
California Air Resources Board and the California Energy Commission, and
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they're angry over this sixty five cent increase that's coming
because the Air Resources Board implemented a new low carbon
fuel standard. They're also angry that two refineries are closing
because of excessive taxes and regulations on the oil companies.
And they are believing Professor Michael MChE from USC that
(12:16):
sometime next year we're going to be dealing with eight
dollars and fifty cent gas. So these are at least
four Democrats that I have identified four Democrats in the Assembly,
and they spoke out. One of them even wanted the
resignation of the California Air Resources Board chairwoman. Well, today
Republican Assembly been Carl Donile. He proposed a bill to
(12:41):
reverse this sixty five cent gas tax hike. And I'm
going to tell you how the people who were publicly
excoriating carb if they voted to reverse the tax hike
or not. What do you think. Is it possible that
they're voted not matched their rhetoric. We'll find out. Okay,
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So that's going to be the cliffhanger until after Deborah's news.
Deborah is the cliff yes, and I am a hanger,
all right. This Boulder terrorist here who had some kind
of homemade flamethrower and he was hurling homemade Molotov cocktails
(13:31):
at these Well, they're all older Jewish people in Boulder
who were having a public demonstration. It wasn't exactly a protest.
They're trying to keep people aware that Israeli hostages are
still being held by Hamas in Gaza, and they go
out there once a week, and they're older. The ages
of the victims were between fifty two and eighty eight.
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And he may have heard by now that he started
fire bombing them with this torch or whatever the hell
it was. He made all this at home, and it
injured twelve people. I mean, one died and several were
seriously burned. Well, it turns out this guy's name is
(14:14):
Mohammed Sabury Solomon. He's been taken into custody, so has
his wife and their five children. He was here illegally.
He'd come here on a visa, overstayed it, and you know,
under the Biden administration, nobody checks overstayed visa situations, so
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nobody came to get him. And he saw the guy.
He guys forty five years old, gray haired, thickly built,
standing there with no shirt. Can I say, as you know,
I you know, I hate to brush people stereotype? Oh
you do. I didn't know that. If you see a
middle aged guy angry and wearing no shirt, get the
(15:00):
hell out of there. People who wear no shirts are
usually trouble if they're in public places. You know, if
they're in their backyard, in their swimming pool, that's one thing.
But if they're standing outside on public land and they're
screaming at people and they have no shirt, get out
of there. Something bad is going to happen, and so
he's been charged with first attempted first degree murder, crimes
(15:22):
against at risk adults, the elderly, assault, criminal, attempt to
commit felonies, and blah blah, blah blah. He's from Egypt originally,
and according to three sources, he overstayed the visa. He
arrived here at Lax August twenty seventh, twenty twenty two,
(15:42):
of a non immigrant visa. He was supposed to stay
legally through February tewod of twenty twenty three, but he
never left. Then he tried to claim I guess some
kind of asylum and he was granted work authorization, but
that expired in March twice, his visa's expired and he
would never go home. And he had a glass bottle
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which burst upon impact, creating large flames. Let me correct,
I said one died. Actually no one has died yet,
but there are several who are in pretty bad condition.
And the he but he's facing sixteen counts of attempted
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first degree murder, eight for attempted murder with intent and deliberation,
and another eight for attempted murder with extreme indifference.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Well, you know, He's kind of an upstanding guy, John,
because you know, he was planning this for I think
a year, and he wanted to wait until his youngest
was out of high school.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
So right, Yeah, he was very thoughtful. He's a good dad. Yes,
you know, if I'm going to end up serving a
life sentence or maybe on death row, you know, I
want to make sure my kids have gotten through school. Well,
definitely father of the Year material there. Yep, really upstanding
role model for the whole family. Well, the whole lot
(17:03):
of them are being sent out of the country and
now they're investigating all his family and friends to see
who else is illegal, who else knew about his plan
because he spent a year, as you said, putting it together.
So there's probably a lot of fascinating internet searches.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I'm sure he doesn't feel too happy right now that
his wife and his kids are gonna you.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Know, well, he admitted as soon as he got arrested
that he did it. He's been spilling all the details.
I maybe got his family that they were immune. Yeah,
that's a smart guy.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Well, as you said, you know he's doing this without
his shirt.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Got that shirt. I'm telling you don't trust shirtless guys.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
It's unless you have killer aps, right right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But not if you're a forty five year old. Forty
five years old, you're a little chunky, you got gray hair. Yeah,
that's not the last not the look. No, no, I
mean something else is going on. He's just not trying
to show off his physique. All right, we come back.
We are going to match the quotes with the votes.
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We're here every day from one to four o'clock. Are
you are you attending? Are you on time? And you
stick well, no, you're not paying attention. But I'm asking
you're at home now after four o'clock In case you
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and it's again, it's posted shortly after four o'clock and
(18:36):
you can catch up. We had on to open the show,
and I recommend that if you missed him, you listen
to it. Carl Demyo because he forced a couple of
votes on things the Democratic Assembly does not want to
vote on, and one of them was a bill to
reverse the sixty five cent gas tax coming from the
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California Air Resources Board. It's a low carbon fuel standard.
This is what's galling because there is no way the
legislature would pass a sixty five cent gas tax. They'd
be too scared that they'd be all forced out of office.
What they did is they set up the California Air
Resources Board and they recreate they create a regulation which
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leads to a sixty five cent increase. Well, it's a tax,
but they create a secret path to the back door
of your wallet, and it's sixty five cents a gallon,
and it's going to happen within a year. So he
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got that. He produced a bill that says, hey, let's
reverse the sixty five cent gas tax. Well, thirty nine
Democrats voted no, we're not going to reverse it, and
eighteen legislators voted yes. So it's thirty nine to eighteen. Now,
if you add those two numbers up, that comes to
fifty seven. And that's a little mysterious there, because there's
(20:02):
eighty there's eighty Assembly people, so there's twenty three missing
from the vote. Aha. Part two of this. This has
all been playing out over the last few days, and
we are going to keep a harsh spotlight on all this,
do you remember, And let's see this was from yes
last week. Last Friday, there was a hearing the Assembly
(20:26):
Utility and Energy Committee. They had the following people testify
at the hearing. Now listen closely remember these names. The
chair person of the California Air Resources Board, Leanne Randolph,
she's the head of card. The vice chairman of the
California Energy Commission, Siva Gunda. The Division of Petroleum Market
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Oversight Director Ty Milder. Because no one has a normal
name anymore, I don't know who's a guy and who's
a girl, all right, I really don't. So these three
were getting grilled, and there were angry Democrats grilling them.
I'll give you some example. And they were upset over
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two things. The sixty five cent increase from California Air
Resources Board, and then two oil refineries are closing because
the oil companies can't take the taxation and the regulation anymore.
They can't make money. So Ty Milder, who's with the
(21:34):
Petroleum Market Oversight organization, was trying to explain California gas
price spikes and an assembly woman named Connie Petrie Norris
interrupted him, and she said, sorry to interrupt you. Director
I guess I'm just a little confused. So if California
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companies are raking it in, why did we just have
two refineries announce their intent to clothes Aha? She called him,
She called him on the big lie. That's because ty
Milder was not telling the truth. And and that professor
from USC, Michael Msche, proved it. He did a fifty
(22:16):
year examination. There are no price gouging instances. There's nothing
of the sort. There's no price manipulation, no price gouging.
There's no spikes caused by the oil industry, because if
they were, they wouldn't close there were fineries. If there were,
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they wouldn't just do it in California. They do it
in the other forty nine states. There's twenty five states
where the gas sells for less than three dollars a gallon,
twenty five of them. Why not gouge a little there?
Go gouge people in Mississippi. That would take them a
while before they figured it out anyway. In fact, you know,
you realize that gas prices are so low in Mississippi,
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you could raise the price there fifth the seventy ninety
cents and nobody would even bark because it would still
be over a dollar cheaper than in California. So that
was just an absolute lie from Todd Milder. And remember
the name Connie Petrie Norris. She interrupted him and said, hey,
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what's going on here? Well, let me look up Connie
Petrie Norris. Because Carl's bill was to reverse the sixty
five second sixty five cent gas tax increase. Connie Petrie
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Norris voted no, do not reverse the gas tax increase.
Keep the sixty five cent increase. So in public for
the television camera, she's making a big stink. Hey, you
keep saying California companies are raking it in, but we
(24:02):
got two refineries announcing their intent to close. What gives
Well you would think she's on the side of you
and me and that she wants to bring prices down. No,
when Karl Demayer presented a bill that says, let's reverse
this sixty five cent increase, she said, no, we're not
(24:23):
reversing that. So her public criticism was just for show.
She's a fake, a phony, a fraud. Connie Petrie Norris.
Where is she from? Let me see here, Irvine? There
you go, Irvine, Orange County Knights going Orange County It's
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one thing to vote for a Democrat who believes in
high gas prices, but you vote for one that lies
to the public and puts on a performance tending that
she gives a rats ass about the financial problems you
have trying to get enough trying to get enough income
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to pay for the exorbited gas prices in this state.
All right, here's another one. Democratic Assembly member David Alvarez.
He said, we have a crisis on our hands that
may have been self created by the actions taken by
the state by regulators. Hmm, I'm curious and frustrated as
(25:31):
I sit here. Uh, we're more than six months after
the special session acting with urgency because price gouging and
skyrocketing fuel course, skyrocketing fuel costs, and I don't hear
today any evidence of that occurred. Quite the contrary. How
about that, he said, Hey, you made us work in
a special session six months ago, claiming price gouging. He goes,
(25:55):
I haven't found any evidence of price gouging because there
is no price gouging. It was a lot concocted by
Gavin Newsom, and the Assembly leaders went along with it.
And now you have Democratic Assembly people sitting there going, well,
where's the price gouging? You promised I said that that
guy was David Alvarez. Let's see. Oh look, David Alvarez
(26:19):
did not vote when it came to reversing the sixty
five sec sixty five cent gas tax increase. He didn't vote.
He abstained, coward, phony, fake fraud. I got a couple
of more of these characters. That's next.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
Every minute of the day, your life gets shortened. Yeah,
I know, I know. There's something weird about our culture.
This this we pretend that we could live forever, that
we're not going to die, and that every little action
we take, every morsel of food, every drink is gonna.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
We're trying to postpone their.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh I got an extra ten seconds today. Yeah, why
are we postponing the neat.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Well because people you know, look, we know we're all
gonna die.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Well, I don't want to get into it, but it's
it's it's very disturbing for a lot of people because
we just don't know what to expect.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Okay, well that's how I feel, But I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Be offensive tonight. If you if you don't know what's
coming tonight, go into your bedroom, turn all the lights
off completely. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Okay, you don't think you're gonna turn into a squirrel
or something.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I hope not. Gotta run around all day looking for
food and not. That would be a drag. Yeah, and
then you get chased by other animals. No, all right,
let's get now to two of the two more of
the frauds, fakes and phonies we told you about so far.
We told you. Oh, I was telling you about David Alvarez. Right,
(27:57):
he is the assemblyman at a sandy at a San
Diego who is making noises. He's not happy with the
California Resources Board. You know, there's two refineries closing, and
they told him there was price gouging, and Alvarez is
acting like he believed it. It was proce coaging man.
So you people in San Diego. His office is at
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a Chula Visto. You elected a blockhead. David Alvarez actually
bought Newsom's big lie, or he's pretending that he bought
the lines. Oh, there's price gouging. All you have to
do every day? Do this. Go to triple A. They
have state by state gas prices. You look at California,
we're the most expensive by far, in some cases two
(28:40):
dollars plus a gallon, twenty five states selling under three dollars.
And if there's price gouging, they would do it in
the other forty nine states. David Alvarez, You moron, the
hell is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Here's two other phonies who at a hearing this week,
pretended to be upset with the California Resources Board. They're
upset the refineries are closing. They're upset that there's a
sixty five cent tax increase coming. Mike Gibson, this genius,
let me tell you what he said. I'm still having
a hard time in terms of price manipulation. Can you
(29:14):
help me with that? Another one who believed the big
lie must be price gouging. Another one apparently never drove
over to the Arizona border to find gas for like
two eighty a gallon. Mike Gibson, he's from the LA area, Compton, Carson, Willowbrook, Watts.
There you go. There's a lot of people there that
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cannot afford eight to fifty a gallon. Yet you elected
this representative who is going to create eight fifty a
gallon for you because he supports carb And then when
he was given a chance to vote on a bill
that would reverse a sixty five cent gas tax increase,
he voted absent, He abstained. How about there's courage and
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he's one of those stupid bow tie guys on top
of it. Good, all right, let's get to another one here,
and this one takes the cake jazz Meet Baines. Oh,
she's of course, you know, in her Wikipedia, she's all
written up because she's the first South Asian American woman
(30:21):
and the first Sikh American elected to the Assembly. Blah
blah blah all that. But then you go and you
hear that she's angry with the California Air Resources Board
and she says count Carbon has been given so much power,
they're prepared to ban gas and diesel cars and trucks
single handedly. Well, they still have that power, They're still
(30:42):
gonna do it. The Senate is in the Senate in
Washington's trying to take it away, but Newsom is suing.
So we'll see who wins that that game. But that
is she wants, she wants LeAnn Randolph, the chief the
chairman of the board of CARB to resign. That's what
this woman was calling for. Well, I look to see
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how she voted on Carl Demayo's bill should we reverse
the sixty five cent gas tax increase which comes from CARB.
Let's say Jessmeat Bains. Oh, she didn't vote either. She
also abstained. So of four assembly people, all Democrats. She's
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from current county, so they're all within our listening area.
All four of them either voted no to reverse the
tax or voted to abstain, but nobody voted yes to
reverse the tax. They all got written up in the paper.
They all got on television, protesting the gas tax increase,
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protesting the refiners being closed, protesting the existence of CARB, protesting,
demanding the resignation of the CAR chairwoman. All that right,
but when it came down to a vote, three of
them abstained. One of them voted to keep the acts.
So jazz beat Bains, Mike Gibson. Are two big phonies,
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David Alvarez and San Diego, a third phony, and then
we had a fourth phony. Who's the four Yes, Yes,
Connie Petrie Norris from Irvine. Four phonies, But you vote
for these phonies? Right, they're trying empathize with you. Oh yeah,
price and guests so high. Probably it's hard to make
(32:30):
ends meet. All right, we come back. The other absurdity
over the last week has been uh, the guy who
competed in the state championships uh with in the girls
triple jump and long jump and high jump. National Review.
(32:52):
John Girardi wrote an article and explained why if you're
a guy you can easily win a track and field
meet against girls. Explains the physiological differences. Debra Mark Live
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