July 7, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/07) - Jim Ryan comes on the show to talk about the flooding in Texas that killed multiple people including campers at a sleepaway camp. Gov. Newsom is suing Fox News over pushing the idea of a phone call that Newsom claims was fake. Gas price update. Gen Z doesn't know that the US declared their independence from Britain.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
To get you going, or use the talkback feature on
the iHeart app as well. The biggest story nationally, most
tragic story, has been what's going on Hurrville, Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Massive flooding.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The Guadalupe River flooded after getting an enormous amount of
rainfall in a very short time, and the death toll
keeps rising and rising, a lot of it little girls
at summer camp. Jim Ryan, ABC News has got a
report for us, Jim, how are you hey?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
John?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The death count now stands at ninety four and it's
almost inconceivable that in twenty twenty five you could have
one hundred people die in a natural disaster in the
United States. But that is what is going to happen here.
You're right. It was just it was the convergence of
a lot of different factors that all came together on
Friday morning before dawn. The moisture coming up from the
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Gulf combined with moisture coming over from the Pacific across Mexico,
combining with moisture that came down from the South Plains.
All of it dumped right onto the hill country called
the hill country because it is very hilly here. The
drought has made the ground very hard to throw. It's
a concrete essentially. So all that rain came down ten
to twelve inches per hour right into the tributaries that
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feed the Guadalupe and a wall of water was built
that came crashing about fifteen seventeen miles downstream.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And this they'd had a big flood I think about
almost forty years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Nineteen eighty seven, another flood. Yes, it killed ten kids
who were in a bus. And it does occasionally have
not to this degree certainly, but this area does see
flash floods. It's known colloquially here as flash flood Alley
because this does occasionally happen the topography where it sits
within the weather pattern, and the effect is that we
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get these flash floods occasionally.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What happened with the warnings I've heard constant debate over
the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, there is a lar of debate about that. The
Weather Service actually put out advisories starting on Wednesday, two
days before the flood came. They staffed up, they added
some staffing to the National Weather Service office at New
bron Fuls, which covers this area. But in terms of
issuing warnings in an area where cell service is spotty
at best, where nobody's watching TVs or really listening to
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the radio, they're out there to get away from all
that stuff. And in fact, the seven hundred and fifty
girls at Camp Mysstic, this girls camp, they are not
allowed to have their phones with them, right, so in
an emergency situation like this, suddenly these kids don't have
their cell phones and aren't getting those alerts. The counselors
had them, and they know they were caught off guard
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at three thirty in the morning when the water started
to rise and trying to hustle all these people out.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Right, whoever had a phone was asleep at three thirty
in the warning exactly so that they did they couldn't
hear the warning, and I have heard there's a controversy
that they had no air raid sirens.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
There no sirens.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You're right, there are tornado warnings that happened, you know,
sirens system apparently was not in place to warn people
about the flash flooding that was about to happen here,
and that's a problem. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has been
talking about that today and saying that there needs to
be a push to install some sort of warning system
like that that doesn't rely on cells, doesn't rely on broadcasts,
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something that can just literally wake people up in the
middle of the night to tell them the danger is coming.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
John, how many more people do they think they're going
to find.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's just impossible to say. We know how many kids
were registered at those day camps, and I think ten
girls from that camp Mystic are still missing now. But
beyond that, you also had people who were just camping.
They were in their RVs or on their you know,
they had pitched tents alongside the river. We're just there
to enjoy the Fourth of July holiday. Nobody knows how
many people that might encompass because they didn't register, they
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didn't check in anywhere, they pitched their tents to a
part their RVs. Now they're gone, all.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Right, Jim, thanks for coming on. Thanks John, Jim Ryan,
ABC News. Eight years ago, there was a reather. This
is called Texas Hill Country and they had a river
flood and people in current in Kerk County Kerr They
had a big debate whether to build a warning system
along the Guadalupe River because they've had summer camps for
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decades and decades, filled with hundreds of children, and they
had a word of mouth system. When the floodwaters started
to rise up river, camp leaders warned those downriver of
the water surge coming their way. But obviously, when you
have that much rain falling, I mean they were getting
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twelve to eighteen inches in an hour, in the middle
of the night, it seems so archaic to rely on
a word of mouth system.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Can you imagine how those parents feel. They send their kids,
just summer camp kids, all excited or maybe scared to
go away for the first time, and this happens.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh, I heard a heartbreaking story just when I was
driving in. There was one mother, I think it was
a mother, It might have been a camp counselor who
said buses filled with the surviving kids showed up at
a staging area and parents are all lined up, and
the kids come pouring out of the buses, a lot
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of them girls, and ran up to their parents.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Some parents are standing there.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Nobody came out of the bus, and nobody ran into them,
and they were the last bus.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And I just had that was just it was just terrible.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's known as flash flood Alley. They contemplated installing a
flood warning system, according to The New York Times in
twenty seventeen, but officials decided was too expensive. The county
has an annual budget of sixty seven million. They tried
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to get a million dollar grant to fund the project,
but they lost out on that bid. As recently as May,
they talked about a flood warning system. This is classic
political nonsense. Everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I've read that.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Since nineteen sixty nine in Texas they've had a thousand
people die of floods. And this is called what was
that name? He came up with flash flood alley. All right,
So this happens regularly, not to this extent, obviously, but
the Guadalupe River frequently overflows, and like Jim Ryan explained,
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you had a system coming out of the Gulf. You
had the remnants of a tropical storm that was passing
from the Pacific Ocean, because you know, the Pacific and
the Atlantic come close together. Once you get south of
Texas into Mexico and say had a storm from one side,
storm from another side, more moisture coming from the north,
and then the system stalled. However, they converged over Texas.
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It stalled out and just sat there, no movement in
any direction, and so the rain kept coming down and
coming down and coming down for hours and hours. So
the river surged, I think in a matter of forty
five minutes, up over twenty feet. But everybody's asleep and
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there's no sirens. Nobody wanted to pay for the sirens.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know a lot. It's like the Palisades situation.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
We have to have such a tragedy for something to change.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
They yeah, they always wait.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
They always wait until you have a ninety five people dead,
dozens of them children. Now they're going to find the funding.
Now they're going to have the meeting. All of a sudden,
it'll be in the budget to have a siren system.
Can't possibly cost that much when you know there are
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storms in the area. And the Weather Service had given
out several warnings that there could be flooding. Nobody knew
it would be there. And that's the thing. There's no
forecast in the world that's going to tell you, you know,
oh hey, you know in six hours it's going to
stall out and dump eighteen inches of rain. It's just
you become alert and you have a siren system, and
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then you could pack everybody up in a matter of
minutes and get out. Just all you have to do
is go to higher ground. Obviously, you don't have to
evacuate one hundred miles. I all got more coming up.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
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Speaker 1 (09:15):
Over the last week, Gavin Newsom sued Fox News for
seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars. Probably heard that
that number matters because that is the number that Fox
had to pay the Dominion Voting System company because so
many people went on Fox after the twenty twenty election
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and claimed that Dominion's machines were all rigged and cost
Trump the election. There was guests who said that members
of the Trump administration or campaign. Some of the anchors
agreed with it, went along with it, promoted and publicized it,
and there were a lo lot of it. There were
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a lot of background texts being sent among Fox employees
that made it clear that they knew the story was nonsense,
but this was this was good for business because some
of the Fox viewers were upset because Fox had called
Arizona for Joe Biden pretty early, and they stopped watching.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Fox, some of them for a little while.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And so Fox jumped on the bandwagon that the election
was rigged and dominion was bad and they should have
known better, and they had to pay seven hundred and
eighty seven million dollars in a settlement. So now Gavin Newsom,
who is like a child, has decided he's going to
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sue Fox for exactly that same amount. And you may
have heard. The crime is that Trump was giving an
interview on the fly and at about the time that
the National Guard was being sent to Los Angeles, and
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a reporter asked if he talked to Newsom, and Trump said, yeah, yesterday,
a day ago, and implying that the conversation took place
the same day the Marines were being deployed. Apparently, one
of the Fox hosts then took that and said well,
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why is Newsome lying? Trump even had a phone log
that he printed out. Well, it turned out Trump didn't
speak to Newsom a day ago. It was maybe two
days ago, three days ago, and Newsom felt he was defamed.
Now he wasn't defamed. But okay, we get it. You
want some cheap publicity, you're suing Fox. Trump lied because
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he didn't remember the exact day. But I'm listening to
him carry on all week about the phone call and
the lie and Fox and Tromp, and I'm thinking, wait
a second, does anybody remember during the fire when Newsom
was found in a neighborhood near the Palisades and a
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woman came running up to him. Why don't we play
that clip? Eric, we want to talk about somebody lying
about a phone call.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Governor, you got a second.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Governor, Governor, I live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Governor, Please tell me what you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I'm of my promise.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically
answer the question of what we can do for you
and your daughter.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Can I hear it?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it.
I'm sorry, there's literally I've tried five times.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
That's why I'm walking.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Around to make Why is the president not taking your
call because it's not going through. Why I have to
get cell service? Let's get it, Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I want to be here when you call the President.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'm doing that right now, and to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance and.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
To help you'd death is looking for. I'm so sorry,
especially for your daughter.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I have the four kids, everyone who went to school there,
They lost their homes. They lost two homes because they
were living in one and building another.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Kevin, please tell me, tell.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Me what are you going to do with the president.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Right now we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Why is there no water in the hydrants? Govenor? That's all? Literally?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Is it going to be different next time?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It has to be.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It has to be.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Of course, What are you going to do to fill
the hydrants? I would fill them.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Up personally, you know that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I literally I.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Would fill off the hydrants myself, I dare But would.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You do that? I would do whatever I can do.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Not I see the do you know there's water dripping
over there?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Governor?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
There's water coming out there. You can use it. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'm going to make the call to address everything I
can right now, including making sure people to make sure.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Can I have an opportunity to at least tell people
you're doing what you're saying you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Can somebody have a contact? Can I have your contact
right now? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, I'm talking to to Joe Biden right now. Literally
he actually emphasized with the word literally, he was talking
right now. And she goes, well, let me get on
the phone. Well, I'm trying to get through. I've tried.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Oh I thought you.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Were literally talking to him right now, as if Joe
Biden was taking phone calls from anybody, right. Joe Biden
wasn't answering the phone. Joe Biden was asleep with a
sheet over his head. He wasn't coordinating rescue missions from
Washington or the Delaware beachever the hell. He was in
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the midst of his dementia. Oh I called him five times?
Oh oh, so now you've called him five times. Joe's
not picking up for you. Oh, I don't have a
signal here. Well, why don't you get in your taxpayer
paid uh state car and go to where there's a
phone signal. What the hell are you doing here? You
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say he was lying? He was lying lying? Why can
she sue him for defamation? The shameless phoniness of Newsoman
Bass just makes me want to vomit sometimes.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So then he sues Fox.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Because Trump said I talked to him a day ago,
when it was uh two days ago or three days ago,
and one of the talk hosts went on a spree, Oh,
I've been defamed. No, nobody can defer fame him worse
than he defames himself pretending to talk to the President
of the United States while a mother is begging for help,
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and then when she calls him on it because she
knew her instinct was correct, then he starts changing his story.
And by the way, six months later, did they explain
what the cause of the fire is yet? Did they
explain why they didn't fill up the reservoir?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Apparently they filled it last week? A year and a
half later, the reservoirs filled. Did they explain why so
many fire hydrants hundreds of fire hydrants didn't work. There's
virtually no water pressure that had this sixth month anniversary
celebration that Bass and Knewsom were holding a press conference
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over I watched it briefly. It was Newsom droning on
with slides. Did they explain any of those questions? What
started the fire? Why didn't they have the reservoir filled?
Why were all the hydrants broken? Why wasn't the fire
department pre deployed in that region? Why didn't Newsom have
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the brush cut on the state land that fed the fire?
Why didn't they turn off Why didn't the DWP turn
off the electricity to the Palisades? Twelve hours later and
there were still electricity going through the power lines, and
then those power lines collapsed and started a second round
of fires because the lines were energized and then they
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collapsed on the dry brush. There was really two rounds
of fire, one at ten thirty in the morning, which
they kind of said maybe fireworks, which as time goes on,
I believe less and less, because God, that was a
whole week.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That was a whole week since the fireworks.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
They sure it wasn't a bunch of bums, wasn't any
homeless people?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Really? Sure? How come it's?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
How come it's taken six months and you still don't know?
Why are they hiding it? Why is Karen Bass and
Gavin Newsom hiding the cause of the fire. Why are
they not explaining why the reservoir wasn't filled for a
year and a half. Why were hundreds of fire drants
not working? Why did they cut the fire budget. Why
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was the fire department not fully deployed in that area.
Why did Karen Bass not act on the extreme fire
warnings some of the National service. Why did she go
to Africa and ignore? And now she's grand standing over
the immigration exercise this morning?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
She Bass and Newsom.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They are so full of crap, absolutely shameful, and damn
the idiots in this city and state who vote for
these two.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
God, why do we have to live with these peopleeople?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Why don't all the Bass and Newsom voters deport themselves?
In fact, here's a deal. How about everybody who voted
for Karen Bass and everybody who voted for Gavin Newsom
get deported in exchange for the immigrants who want to
stay here. How about that deal? Okay out, I will
take like twenty million Central American immigrants in exchange for
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the millions of voters who put Bass and Newsom in office.
I was running things, I'd do that in five. If
I was the president, that's what I would do. I'd say,
everybody gets to stay. If the following people leave, every
bass and newsom voter out.
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Speaker 2 (20:07):
All right, The.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Gas price is I went to Colorado during the vacation.
It was a family wedding in the Denver area. I
sent everybody the gas price in Colorado that we paid
was two dollars and eighty seven cents a gallon two
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dollars and eighty seven cents a gallon, a full two
bucks lower than the gas in my neighborhood. Bought nine
and a half gallons, almost half a tank, and the
total price and I didn't believe it. It looked so
weird to me. It was twenty seven dollars and twenty
seven cents. I got nine and a half gallons of
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gas for twenty seven dollars and twenty seven cents. It's
almost like it's another currency outside of California. So I
looked today at the gas price averages, and you idiots
who vote for Gavin Newsom. Uh, gas prices around the
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country averaged three dollars and fourteen cents three fourteen, and
in California it's four fifty six. But there's twenty one
states under three dollars under. Oklahoma is at two sixty nine,
Mississippi's two sixty nine, Texas is two seventy Tennessee is
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two seventy five. Colorado, where I was well, I got
a cheap it was three dollars average in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I got it for two eighty seven. But that was
over a week ago.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And uh, New Jersey's three eleven. New York is three eighteen.
These are high tax democratic states. Their gas is nowhere
year we're paying. Massachusetts so famous for their taxes, A
lot of people call it Taxachusetts. Their gas is only
three oh six. So I noticed, and we're going to
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try to get them on as soon as we can.
Michael MChE has another piece that The La Times published
this morning. Michael mcche is the USC professor, and he
had two big studies that he discussed at length publicly
in recent months, and one of them was he did
a fifty year examination of gas prices in California and
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found that they're almost always much higher than the rest
of the country, and it's almost always self inflicted by
state taxes and state regulations. And secondly, hey things, gas
is going to go to at least eight to fifty
a gallon because two refineries are going to shut down,
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and we're getting a massive price hike because of a
new low carbon fuel standard from the California Air Resources Board.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
All that's still hanging in the air.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And I've now seen multiple stories in multiple left wing
news outlets that confirm the basics of Michael machet's research
and claims. And he wrote this piece in the La
Times trying to explain to the dents, to the stupid,
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to the religious fanatics how important gas and oil is
to California. He writes that fossil fuels account for about
eight percent of California's three trillion dollar economy. But that's
the first eight percent, And I thought this was such
an important point. This is what he tells his students.
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If you don't get that first eight percent, you don't
get the rest of the economy. Oil powers everything trucks
to tractors to construction equipment. He writes. Without it, you
cannot build roads or bridges. You cannot get goods to
grocery stores. Without gas or oil, you cannot make cement, steel, plastics,
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or even the lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles. And
despite these realities, California energy policy is leading to the
dismantling of the critical infrastructure that supports this essential system.
Our state has lost more than thirty refineries in the
last few decades. It's true, we used to have over forty.
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We're now down just to nine major refineries, and two
more are closing Phillip sixty six here at La and
Valero in the Bay Area. That's two hundred and eighty
four thousand barrels of daily production eighteen percent the state's
refining capacity. Eighteen percent are going to be taken off
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the moor, off the market because of excessive taxes and
regulations that these companies can't pay anymore. Now get this again.
I'm trying to address the religious fanatics. California sits atop
one of the largest untapped reserves in the world. Untapped oil.
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One of the largest in the world is under our feet.
It's called the Monterey Shale. But because of policies and regulations,
he says, we import most of our oil from Iraq,
Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Guyana, and Ecuador. We've also imported from
Russia and Venezuela. We have the world's cleanest refining standards,
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but we import fuel from places with lower environmental and
labor protections. So we don't produce oil in California. Because
of the climate, the emissions into the air, well, we
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all have the same atmosphere, so nothing has changed where
it's just Saudi Arabia is producing the emissions, and so's
a rock. In Brazil and Russia and Venezuela, we haven't
saved anything. We're still burning the oil in the gas
because there's no civilization without it. We have no major
pipelines bringing oil to California. We rely on ships, he writes,
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many many from Asia that take thirty to forty days
to deliver fuel. These foreign tankers pollute at staggering rates.
Can you imagine a stupider system than this? Can you
imagine a stupider system, especially if you're worried about the environment,
the air quality, and the climate. Stunningly, all this pollution
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happens over international waters, so it doesn't get counted by
the vegetables on the California.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Air Resources Board.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
This is what's crazy about those cultists, those fanatics on carbon.
They don't count all the pollution that the tankers make
over the Pacific Ocean. They only want to stop emissions
here in the state of California, as if the air
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stops at the coastline or the western border. Those carbon
people are morons, brainstems vegetables. Close a refinery in California
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and importing more fuel, he says, causes an increase in pollution.
You got that by forcing California refineries to close the
name of air quality and climate change and whatever religious nonsense,
actually increases emissions because we now have countries with very
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low environmental standards producing lots of oil and gas and
shipping it by tankers for forty days across the Pacific.
You couldn't do it more inefficiently, more expensively, more stupidly.
You couldn't come up with a system that pollutes more
than the system we're forced into.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But more coming up.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
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Speaker 1 (28:48):
John Cobelt here moistline is eighty seven seven Moist daty
six eight seven seven moist eighty six are usually talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app. The idiocy of Americans is astounding.
This came out over the weekend. They pulled over one
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thousand people and found that only fifty seven percent of
Americans knew which country we gained our independence from on
July fourth, seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Do you remember do you know which country? Eric Britain?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Very good, Deborah, Well, he just took my answer.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Are you sure? Are you just copying? No?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
No, no, no, I swear, I swear.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Would you believe that only fifty eight percent of Americans
knew it was great Britain? Eleven percent thought we declared
our independence from Native Americans, eight percent thought we declared
independence from s South America, seven percent from Europe, two
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percent from French Canada, one percent from Spain, twelve percent
said none of the above, But it's the incoming generation
that's really scary. H Two out of three young adults
in Generation Z don't know who America declared its independence from.
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A third of gen Zers think it was Native Americans.
Is this what they're This must be what they're teaching
in school. I think, by I don't know first grade,
we knew that America was declaring its independence from Great Britain.
How is it that a third of gen Zers think
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we're declaring independence from Native Americans? It's just a gain, yes,
so it doesn't even come up anymore. They don't They
don't even bother to raise the issue. Or there asleep,
Well they're asleep that day.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Did you see the video a few weeks ago of
the UCLA student at graduation that flashed his laptop with
chat GPT doing all of his finals on the JumboTron
at UCLA's graduation.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Uh huh?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
How did he get on the JumboTron?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
He had his laptop with him at the graduation ceremony
and the camera was panning to him in his seat
at the graduation and he flipped his laptop and showed
it off.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I read that almost one hundred percent of students used
chet GPT to.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Do all their work.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Wouldn't surprise me?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, so I mean, I'll show it to you during
the show it to me.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, and and and they've discovered that this might surprise you.
Like most people who use chet GPT do not remember
any of the information now because they didn't research it
and collect it and write it themselves. They have no
idea what it is. They submitted to a teacher or
a professor, so literally they learn nothing because they just
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asked a question to check GPT and then print it
out the answer. They probably didn't even read it. They
have found that when you research things yourself and you
write it yourself, you'll remember it more likely to remember it.
But now you have an entire generation. I mean, how
long does that go on? Well, schools don't care anymore.
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We come back. There's a story today I found. It's
in a magazine called Futurism dot com. People are now
being involuntarily committed and they're ending up in jail. Suffer
from chet GPT psychosis. They get so heavily involved with
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their bot, with their chet GPT friend that they have
a psychotic break with reality.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
And family.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Members have to commit them to mental institutions. This is
for real. They get off on whatever crazy philosophical tangents
with the chet GPT bot and they can't come back,
and the family loses the guy, and next thing you know,
he's in a mental institution.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
And I just read a few days.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Before this article that people are getting romantically involved with
their AI robot friends, and that guys are staying up
late at night talking romantically, confiding, creating deep friendships with
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the AI bot. They're give them little names, and that's
their life. They talk to the bot, and the bot
knows exactly what to say. The bot listens to them,
understands them. I guess you can talk dirty to the
bot and the bot talks dirty back. What a what
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a sad species? I mean, what men have become. It's
so embarrassing. You're sitting at home talking to a bot,
sitting in your underwear or less to say yeah, city, yeah,
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and every night all right, see see see how difficult
women are? You know, no guys are giving up.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Yeah, it's our fault. It's our fault that you guys
are creepy and slimy.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Okay, all right, so we'll talk about check gp T
Psychosis coming up.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Oh that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
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Money has happened just in the last hour.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
To get you going, or use the talkback feature on
the iHeart app as well. The biggest story nationally, most
tragic story, has been what's going on Hurrville, Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Massive flooding.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The Guadalupe River flooded after getting an enormous amount of
rainfall in a very short time, and the death toll
keeps rising and rising, a lot of it little girls
at summer camp. Jim Ryan, ABC News has got a
report for us, Jim, how are you hey?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
John?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The death count now stands at ninety four and it's
almost inconceivable that in twenty twenty five you could have
one hundred people die in a natural disaster in the
United States. But that is what is going to happen here.
You're right. It was just it was the convergence of
a lot of different factors that all came together on
Friday morning before dawn. The moisture coming up from the
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Gulf combined with moisture coming over from the Pacific across Mexico,
combining with moisture that came down from the South Plains.
All of it dumped right onto the hill country called
the hill country because it is very hilly here. The
drought has made the ground very hard to throw. It's
a concrete essentially. So all that rain came down ten
to twelve inches per hour right into the tributaries that
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feed the Guadalupe and a wall of water was built
that came crashing about fifteen seventeen miles downstream.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And this they'd had a big flood I think about
almost forty years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Nineteen eighty seven, another flood. Yes, it killed ten kids
who were in a bus. And it does occasionally have
not to this degree certainly, but this area does see
flash floods. It's known colloquially here as flash flood Alley
because this does occasionally happen the topography where it sits
within the weather pattern, and the effect is that we
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get these flash floods occasionally.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What happened with the warnings I've heard constant debate over
the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, there is a lar of debate about that. The
Weather Service actually put out advisories starting on Wednesday, two
days before the flood came. They staffed up, they added
some staffing to the National Weather Service office at New
bron Fuls, which covers this area. But in terms of
issuing warnings in an area where cell service is spotty
at best, where nobody's watching TVs or really listening to
(02:46):
the radio, they're out there to get away from all
that stuff. And in fact, the seven hundred and fifty
girls at Camp Mysstic, this girls camp, they are not
allowed to have their phones with them, right, so in
an emergency situation like this, suddenly these kids don't have
their cell phones and aren't getting those alerts. The counselors
had them, and they know they were caught off guard
(03:08):
at three thirty in the morning when the water started
to rise and trying to hustle all these people out.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Right, whoever had a phone was asleep at three thirty
in the warning exactly so that they did they couldn't
hear the warning, and I have heard there's a controversy
that they had no air raid sirens.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
There no sirens.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You're right, there are tornado warnings that happened, you know,
sirens system apparently was not in place to warn people
about the flash flooding that was about to happen here,
and that's a problem. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has been
talking about that today and saying that there needs to
be a push to install some sort of warning system
like that that doesn't rely on cells, doesn't rely on broadcasts,
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something that can just literally wake people up in the
middle of the night to tell them the danger is coming.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
John, how many more people do they think they're going
to find.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's just impossible to say. We know how many kids
were registered at those day camps, and I think ten
girls from that camp Mystic are still missing now. But
beyond that, you also had people who were just camping.
They were in their RVs or on their you know,
they had pitched tents alongside the river. We're just there
to enjoy the Fourth of July holiday. Nobody knows how
many people that might encompass because they didn't register, they
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didn't check in anywhere, they pitched their tents to a
part their RVs. Now they're gone, all.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Right, Jim, thanks for coming on. Thanks John, Jim Ryan,
ABC News. Eight years ago, there was a reather. This
is called Texas Hill Country and they had a river
flood and people in current in Kerk County Kerr They
had a big debate whether to build a warning system
along the Guadalupe River because they've had summer camps for
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decades and decades, filled with hundreds of children, and they
had a word of mouth system. When the floodwaters started
to rise up river, camp leaders warned those downriver of
the water surge coming their way. But obviously, when you
have that much rain falling, I mean they were getting
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twelve to eighteen inches in an hour, in the middle
of the night, it seems so archaic to rely on
a word of mouth system.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Can you imagine how those parents feel. They send their kids,
just summer camp kids, all excited or maybe scared to
go away for the first time, and this happens.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh, I heard a heartbreaking story just when I was
driving in. There was one mother, I think it was
a mother, It might have been a camp counselor who
said buses filled with the surviving kids showed up at
a staging area and parents are all lined up, and
the kids come pouring out of the buses, a lot
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of them girls, and ran up to their parents.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Some parents are standing there.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Nobody came out of the bus, and nobody ran into them,
and they were the last bus.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And I just had that was just it was just terrible.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's known as flash flood Alley. They contemplated installing a
flood warning system, according to The New York Times in
twenty seventeen, but officials decided was too expensive. The county
has an annual budget of sixty seven million. They tried
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to get a million dollar grant to fund the project,
but they lost out on that bid. As recently as May,
they talked about a flood warning system. This is classic
political nonsense. Everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I've read that.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Since nineteen sixty nine in Texas they've had a thousand
people die of floods. And this is called what was
that name? He came up with flash flood alley. All right,
So this happens regularly, not to this extent, obviously, but
the Guadalupe River frequently overflows, and like Jim Ryan explained,
(07:12):
you had a system coming out of the Gulf. You
had the remnants of a tropical storm that was passing
from the Pacific Ocean, because you know, the Pacific and
the Atlantic come close together. Once you get south of
Texas into Mexico and say had a storm from one side,
storm from another side, more moisture coming from the north,
and then the system stalled. However, they converged over Texas.
(07:38):
It stalled out and just sat there, no movement in
any direction, and so the rain kept coming down and
coming down and coming down for hours and hours. So
the river surged, I think in a matter of forty
five minutes, up over twenty feet. But everybody's asleep and
(07:58):
there's no sirens. Nobody wanted to pay for the sirens.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know a lot. It's like the Palisades situation.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
We have to have such a tragedy for something to change.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
They yeah, they always wait.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
They always wait until you have a ninety five people dead,
dozens of them children. Now they're going to find the funding.
Now they're going to have the meeting. All of a sudden,
it'll be in the budget to have a siren system.
Can't possibly cost that much when you know there are
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storms in the area. And the Weather Service had given
out several warnings that there could be flooding. Nobody knew
it would be there. And that's the thing. There's no
forecast in the world that's going to tell you, you know,
oh hey, you know in six hours it's going to
stall out and dump eighteen inches of rain. It's just
you become alert and you have a siren system, and
(08:58):
then you could pack everybody up in a matter of
minutes and get out. Just all you have to do
is go to higher ground. Obviously, you don't have to
evacuate one hundred miles. I all got more coming up.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Over the last week, Gavin Newsom sued Fox News for
seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars. Probably heard that
that number matters because that is the number that Fox
had to pay the Dominion Voting System company because so
many people went on Fox after the twenty twenty election
(09:39):
and claimed that Dominion's machines were all rigged and cost
Trump the election. There was guests who said that members
of the Trump administration or campaign. Some of the anchors
agreed with it, went along with it, promoted and publicized it,
and there were a lo lot of it. There were
(10:02):
a lot of background texts being sent among Fox employees
that made it clear that they knew the story was nonsense,
but this was this was good for business because some
of the Fox viewers were upset because Fox had called
Arizona for Joe Biden pretty early, and they stopped watching.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Fox, some of them for a little while.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And so Fox jumped on the bandwagon that the election
was rigged and dominion was bad and they should have
known better, and they had to pay seven hundred and
eighty seven million dollars in a settlement. So now Gavin Newsom,
who is like a child, has decided he's going to
(10:51):
sue Fox for exactly that same amount. And you may
have heard. The crime is that Trump was giving an
interview on the fly and at about the time that
the National Guard was being sent to Los Angeles, and
(11:14):
a reporter asked if he talked to Newsom, and Trump said, yeah, yesterday,
a day ago, and implying that the conversation took place
the same day the Marines were being deployed. Apparently, one
of the Fox hosts then took that and said well,
(11:36):
why is Newsome lying? Trump even had a phone log
that he printed out. Well, it turned out Trump didn't
speak to Newsom a day ago. It was maybe two
days ago, three days ago, and Newsom felt he was defamed.
Now he wasn't defamed. But okay, we get it. You
want some cheap publicity, you're suing Fox. Trump lied because
(12:01):
he didn't remember the exact day. But I'm listening to
him carry on all week about the phone call and
the lie and Fox and Tromp, and I'm thinking, wait
a second, does anybody remember during the fire when Newsom
was found in a neighborhood near the Palisades and a
(12:25):
woman came running up to him. Why don't we play
that clip? Eric, we want to talk about somebody lying
about a phone call.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Governor, you got a second.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Governor, Governor, I live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Governor, Please tell me what you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I'm of my promise.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically
answer the question of what we can do for you
and your daughter.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Can I hear it?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it.
I'm sorry, there's literally I've tried five times.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
That's why I'm walking.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Around to make Why is the president not taking your
call because it's not going through. Why I have to
get cell service? Let's get it, Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I want to be here when you call the President.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'm doing that right now, and to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance and.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
To help you'd death is looking for. I'm so sorry,
especially for your daughter.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I have the four kids, everyone who went to school there,
They lost their homes. They lost two homes because they
were living in one and building another.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Kevin, please tell me, tell.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Me what are you going to do with the president.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Right now we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Why is there no water in the hydrants? Govenor? That's all? Literally?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Is it going to be different next time?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It has to be.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It has to be.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Of course, What are you going to do to fill
the hydrants? I would fill them.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Up personally, you know that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I literally I.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Would fill off the hydrants myself, I dare But would.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You do that? I would do whatever I can do.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Not I see the do you know there's water dripping
over there?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Governor?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
There's water coming out there. You can use it. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'm going to make the call to address everything I
can right now, including making sure people to make sure.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Can I have an opportunity to at least tell people
you're doing what you're saying you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Can somebody have a contact? Can I have your contact
right now? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, I'm talking to to Joe Biden right now. Literally
he actually emphasized with the word literally, he was talking
right now. And she goes, well, let me get on
the phone. Well, I'm trying to get through. I've tried.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Oh I thought you.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Were literally talking to him right now, as if Joe
Biden was taking phone calls from anybody, right. Joe Biden
wasn't answering the phone. Joe Biden was asleep with a
sheet over his head. He wasn't coordinating rescue missions from
Washington or the Delaware beachever the hell. He was in
(15:01):
the midst of his dementia. Oh I called him five times?
Oh oh, so now you've called him five times. Joe's
not picking up for you. Oh, I don't have a
signal here. Well, why don't you get in your taxpayer
paid uh state car and go to where there's a
phone signal. What the hell are you doing here? You
(15:23):
say he was lying? He was lying lying? Why can
she sue him for defamation? The shameless phoniness of Newsoman
Bass just makes me want to vomit sometimes.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So then he sues Fox.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Because Trump said I talked to him a day ago,
when it was uh two days ago or three days ago,
and one of the talk hosts went on a spree, Oh,
I've been defamed. No, nobody can defer fame him worse
than he defames himself pretending to talk to the President
of the United States while a mother is begging for help,
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and then when she calls him on it because she
knew her instinct was correct, then he starts changing his story.
And by the way, six months later, did they explain
what the cause of the fire is yet? Did they
explain why they didn't fill up the reservoir?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Apparently they filled it last week? A year and a
half later, the reservoirs filled. Did they explain why so
many fire hydrants hundreds of fire hydrants didn't work. There's
virtually no water pressure that had this sixth month anniversary
celebration that Bass and Knewsom were holding a press conference
(16:52):
over I watched it briefly. It was Newsom droning on
with slides. Did they explain any of those questions? What
started the fire? Why didn't they have the reservoir filled?
Why were all the hydrants broken? Why wasn't the fire
department pre deployed in that region? Why didn't Newsom have
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the brush cut on the state land that fed the fire?
Why didn't they turn off Why didn't the DWP turn
off the electricity to the Palisades? Twelve hours later and
there were still electricity going through the power lines, and
then those power lines collapsed and started a second round
of fires because the lines were energized and then they
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collapsed on the dry brush. There was really two rounds
of fire, one at ten thirty in the morning, which
they kind of said maybe fireworks, which as time goes on,
I believe less and less, because God, that was a
whole week.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That was a whole week since the fireworks.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
They sure it wasn't a bunch of bums, wasn't any
homeless people?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Really? Sure? How come it's?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
How come it's taken six months and you still don't know?
Why are they hiding it? Why is Karen Bass and
Gavin Newsom hiding the cause of the fire. Why are
they not explaining why the reservoir wasn't filled for a
year and a half. Why were hundreds of fire drants
not working? Why did they cut the fire budget. Why
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was the fire department not fully deployed in that area.
Why did Karen Bass not act on the extreme fire
warnings some of the National service. Why did she go
to Africa and ignore? And now she's grand standing over
the immigration exercise this morning?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
She Bass and Newsom.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They are so full of crap, absolutely shameful, and damn
the idiots in this city and state who vote for
these two.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
God, why do we have to live with these peopleeople?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Why don't all the Bass and Newsom voters deport themselves?
In fact, here's a deal. How about everybody who voted
for Karen Bass and everybody who voted for Gavin Newsom
get deported in exchange for the immigrants who want to
stay here. How about that deal? Okay out, I will
take like twenty million Central American immigrants in exchange for
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the millions of voters who put Bass and Newsom in office.
I was running things, I'd do that in five. If
I was the president, that's what I would do. I'd say,
everybody gets to stay. If the following people leave, every
bass and newsom voter out.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
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Speaker 2 (20:07):
All right, The.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Gas price is I went to Colorado during the vacation.
It was a family wedding in the Denver area. I
sent everybody the gas price in Colorado that we paid
was two dollars and eighty seven cents a gallon two
(20:29):
dollars and eighty seven cents a gallon, a full two
bucks lower than the gas in my neighborhood. Bought nine
and a half gallons, almost half a tank, and the
total price and I didn't believe it. It looked so
weird to me. It was twenty seven dollars and twenty
seven cents. I got nine and a half gallons of
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gas for twenty seven dollars and twenty seven cents. It's
almost like it's another currency outside of California. So I
looked today at the gas price averages, and you idiots
who vote for Gavin Newsom. Uh, gas prices around the
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country averaged three dollars and fourteen cents three fourteen, and
in California it's four fifty six. But there's twenty one
states under three dollars under. Oklahoma is at two sixty nine,
Mississippi's two sixty nine, Texas is two seventy Tennessee is
(21:35):
two seventy five. Colorado, where I was well, I got
a cheap it was three dollars average in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I got it for two eighty seven. But that was
over a week ago.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And uh, New Jersey's three eleven. New York is three eighteen.
These are high tax democratic states. Their gas is nowhere
year we're paying. Massachusetts so famous for their taxes, A
lot of people call it Taxachusetts. Their gas is only
three oh six. So I noticed, and we're going to
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try to get them on as soon as we can.
Michael MChE has another piece that The La Times published
this morning. Michael mcche is the USC professor, and he
had two big studies that he discussed at length publicly
in recent months, and one of them was he did
a fifty year examination of gas prices in California and
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found that they're almost always much higher than the rest
of the country, and it's almost always self inflicted by
state taxes and state regulations. And secondly, hey things, gas
is going to go to at least eight to fifty
a gallon because two refineries are going to shut down,
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and we're getting a massive price hike because of a
new low carbon fuel standard from the California Air Resources Board.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
All that's still hanging in the air.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And I've now seen multiple stories in multiple left wing
news outlets that confirm the basics of Michael machet's research
and claims. And he wrote this piece in the La
Times trying to explain to the dents, to the stupid,
(23:31):
to the religious fanatics how important gas and oil is
to California. He writes that fossil fuels account for about
eight percent of California's three trillion dollar economy. But that's
the first eight percent, And I thought this was such
an important point. This is what he tells his students.
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If you don't get that first eight percent, you don't
get the rest of the economy. Oil powers everything trucks
to tractors to construction equipment. He writes. Without it, you
cannot build roads or bridges. You cannot get goods to
grocery stores. Without gas or oil, you cannot make cement, steel, plastics,
(24:19):
or even the lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles. And
despite these realities, California energy policy is leading to the
dismantling of the critical infrastructure that supports this essential system.
Our state has lost more than thirty refineries in the
last few decades. It's true, we used to have over forty.
(24:42):
We're now down just to nine major refineries, and two
more are closing Phillip sixty six here at La and
Valero in the Bay Area. That's two hundred and eighty
four thousand barrels of daily production eighteen percent the state's
refining capacity. Eighteen percent are going to be taken off
(25:04):
the moor, off the market because of excessive taxes and
regulations that these companies can't pay anymore. Now get this again.
I'm trying to address the religious fanatics. California sits atop
one of the largest untapped reserves in the world. Untapped oil.
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One of the largest in the world is under our feet.
It's called the Monterey Shale. But because of policies and regulations,
he says, we import most of our oil from Iraq,
Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Guyana, and Ecuador. We've also imported from
Russia and Venezuela. We have the world's cleanest refining standards,
(25:51):
but we import fuel from places with lower environmental and
labor protections. So we don't produce oil in California. Because
of the climate, the emissions into the air, well, we
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all have the same atmosphere, so nothing has changed where
it's just Saudi Arabia is producing the emissions, and so's
a rock. In Brazil and Russia and Venezuela, we haven't
saved anything. We're still burning the oil in the gas
because there's no civilization without it. We have no major
pipelines bringing oil to California. We rely on ships, he writes,
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many many from Asia that take thirty to forty days
to deliver fuel. These foreign tankers pollute at staggering rates.
Can you imagine a stupider system than this? Can you
imagine a stupider system, especially if you're worried about the environment,
the air quality, and the climate. Stunningly, all this pollution
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happens over international waters, so it doesn't get counted by
the vegetables on the California.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Air Resources Board.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
This is what's crazy about those cultists, those fanatics on carbon.
They don't count all the pollution that the tankers make
over the Pacific Ocean. They only want to stop emissions
here in the state of California, as if the air
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stops at the coastline or the western border. Those carbon
people are morons, brainstems vegetables. Close a refinery in California
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and importing more fuel, he says, causes an increase in pollution.
You got that by forcing California refineries to close the
name of air quality and climate change and whatever religious nonsense,
actually increases emissions because we now have countries with very
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low environmental standards producing lots of oil and gas and
shipping it by tankers for forty days across the Pacific.
You couldn't do it more inefficiently, more expensively, more stupidly.
You couldn't come up with a system that pollutes more
than the system we're forced into.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But more coming up.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
John Cobelt here moistline is eighty seven seven Moist daty
six eight seven seven moist eighty six are usually talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app. The idiocy of Americans is astounding.
This came out over the weekend. They pulled over one
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thousand people and found that only fifty seven percent of
Americans knew which country we gained our independence from on
July fourth, seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Do you remember do you know which country? Eric Britain?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Very good, Deborah, Well, he just took my answer.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Are you sure? Are you just copying? No?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
No, no, no, I swear, I swear.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Would you believe that only fifty eight percent of Americans
knew it was great Britain? Eleven percent thought we declared
our independence from Native Americans, eight percent thought we declared
independence from s South America, seven percent from Europe, two
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percent from French Canada, one percent from Spain, twelve percent
said none of the above, But it's the incoming generation
that's really scary. H Two out of three young adults
in Generation Z don't know who America declared its independence from.
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A third of gen Zers think it was Native Americans.
Is this what they're This must be what they're teaching
in school. I think, by I don't know first grade,
we knew that America was declaring its independence from Great Britain.
How is it that a third of gen Zers think
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we're declaring independence from Native Americans? It's just a gain, yes,
so it doesn't even come up anymore. They don't They
don't even bother to raise the issue. Or there asleep,
Well they're asleep that day.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Did you see the video a few weeks ago of
the UCLA student at graduation that flashed his laptop with
chat GPT doing all of his finals on the JumboTron
at UCLA's graduation.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Uh huh?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
How did he get on the JumboTron?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
He had his laptop with him at the graduation ceremony
and the camera was panning to him in his seat
at the graduation and he flipped his laptop and showed
it off.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I read that almost one hundred percent of students used
chet GPT to.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Do all their work.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Wouldn't surprise me?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, so I mean, I'll show it to you during
the show it to me.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, and and and they've discovered that this might surprise you.
Like most people who use chet GPT do not remember
any of the information now because they didn't research it
and collect it and write it themselves. They have no
idea what it is. They submitted to a teacher or
a professor, so literally they learn nothing because they just
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asked a question to check GPT and then print it
out the answer. They probably didn't even read it. They
have found that when you research things yourself and you
write it yourself, you'll remember it more likely to remember it.
But now you have an entire generation. I mean, how
long does that go on? Well, schools don't care anymore.
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We come back. There's a story today I found. It's
in a magazine called Futurism dot com. People are now
being involuntarily committed and they're ending up in jail. Suffer
from chet GPT psychosis. They get so heavily involved with
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their bot, with their chet GPT friend that they have
a psychotic break with reality.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
And family.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Members have to commit them to mental institutions. This is
for real. They get off on whatever crazy philosophical tangents
with the chet GPT bot and they can't come back,
and the family loses the guy, and next thing you know,
he's in a mental institution.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
And I just read a few days.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Before this article that people are getting romantically involved with
their AI robot friends, and that guys are staying up
late at night talking romantically, confiding, creating deep friendships with
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the AI bot. They're give them little names, and that's
their life. They talk to the bot, and the bot
knows exactly what to say. The bot listens to them,
understands them. I guess you can talk dirty to the
bot and the bot talks dirty back. What a what
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a sad species? I mean, what men have become. It's
so embarrassing. You're sitting at home talking to a bot,
sitting in your underwear or less to say yeah, city, yeah,
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and every night all right, see see see how difficult
women are? You know, no guys are giving up.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Yeah, it's our fault. It's our fault that you guys
are creepy and slimy.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Okay, all right, so we'll talk about check gp T
Psychosis coming up.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Oh that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
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