June 5, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (06/05) - Katy Grimes comes on the show to react to the Trump Administration cutting off federal funding for CA's high-speed rail project. Climate change is not really a big issue to everyday people. Pres. Trump announced a new travel ban. More on CA's attack on gas powered appliances.
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She just showed up just seconds ago. All right, in fact,
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Speaker 2 (00:56):
Wait, you're lying to me.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Katie Grimes just showed up. She's like the emergency shoot.
Katie Grimes is with californiaglobe dot com and she has
She's been writing stories on forever for for years and
years about the insanity of high speed rail. Yesterday, the
Trump administration, UH, the the UH Transportation Department, the Federal
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Railroad Association specifically announced that they are cutting off four
billion dollars in planned funding for high speed rail, saying
that they have violated the agreement. Those people at high
speed Rail so many different ways you can you can't
even counted. And there's there's there's no high speed rail
that's been built, no track, no trains, no train stations. Uh.
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They have nine different categories of offenses that has been
committed by California high speed Rail. Let's get Katie Grimes on, Katie.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
How are you hey?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
John doing great? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, this is quite a moment. We set rated a
lot yesterday and it looks like California is finally in
hell wall. They're out of luck. They're not going to
be able to reverse this cutoff.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, I'm enjoying this immenseally. I've been covering this since
voters passed the initial bond in two thousand and eight
and have What was so interesting, John, is just three
years into the whole project. Some polling was done on
voters in the.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
State who at that point were willing.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
To even put another ballot measure on to overturn the
whole thing and put an.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
End to it.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So back in twenty and eleven, voters were sick of it,
And here we are today in two and twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Five is really three years in people wanted to reverse it.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Huh yeah, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Even the legislative analyst wrote about it.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Funny.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
People sniffed it out right away that this was a scam.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yes, that's what was so interesting. And it was a
field pole. It wasn't some you know, you know, just
phony poll. It was legitimate.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
So, I mean, this has been going on for a
very very long time, and the California Legislature Democrats have
completely ignored the voters will who wanted to overturn this thing.
And of course they've ignored Republicans, and they've ignored the
legislative analysts, and they've ignored just about everybody who has
said this thing was a boondoggle from the word go.
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And you know, now here we find ourselves, what you know,
seventeen billion dollars into it with no track, no train,
no electricity, no.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Nothing was Was this meant to be a scam?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You know, I have wondered that, and I've even written that,
you know, asking that question. I don't know what was
in the hearts and minds.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Of the people who put it on the ballot. I
think it was.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Ridiculous and naive because even at the time, I remember,
just you know, smuggly thing. We already have high speed
rail in California. It's called Southwest Airlines. You can easily
get there from here, you.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Know, yeah, in an hour exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And so this was totally unneeded, and it seems like
like the people who were behind it kind of wanted
to dip their big toe in the water, and instead
it was completely taken over by by rent seeking consultants
and anybody.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Who could make a buck off of it.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And it's really only been consultants that have somehow blown
through seventeen jillion dollars of tackle there fund.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I guess you'd have land use lawyers. You've had environmental lawyers. Well,
you got the labor unions. I mean they claim they
got thousands of jobs out of this. I don't. It's
fifteen thousand people working for seventeen years. Why can't we
see anything, Well, that's exactly it.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
What were they doing and who were these fifteen thousand people?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, and there were lit fifteen thousand people.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I mean, you know, if you look at the database.
Would there be fifteen thousand employees with paychecks that they're
getting every two weeks because what they do well.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It could have been the way caltrans says things, where
you have you know, twenty five hundred engineers on payroll
who don't do anything, so but they're union members, so
you know, it was the full employment project for the SEIU.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And I assume then money is further laundered back to
politicians in the form of always donations, either above ground
or below ground. I mean, it's got to be just
a big circular.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm just hoping this time that sticks to the wall,
that this funding is actually fully cut. I heard Governor
Newsom announced today that of course he and Rob are
going to sue the Trump administration. I've yeah, again, more
taxpayer dollars wasted because they don't there's nothing to sue for.
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The federal government gets to decide whether or not they
give you know, the high Steed Reil Project money.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And they related the agreement at least in nine major ways,
according to excerpts. Well, I've read in your in your
story here in California Globe.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yes, and it was a lot of violations and Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy has done a lot of TV and
radio about this and said, I mean this, He even
called it open fraud. So you know, if a guy
in Washington, DC who wasn't the Transportation secretary a year
ago can see this makes you wonder what the Transportation
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secretary a year ago was still promising money for.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Well, if you paid let's say seventeen million dollars to
build a vast mansion here in California and seventeen years
later you still had an empty lot, I think you'd
be suing for fraud.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yes, I'm athletes.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is preposterous.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
It is. It is preposterous.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And this has been going on so long that Senator
Tony Strickland, who's now a senator again, back when he
was a senator I don't know what eight ten years ago,
was screaming about it. Then he finally got his wish
as well.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I mean, if we lived in a rational state, Rob Bonta,
the Attorney General would be doing a full fledged fraud
investigation into the high speed rail organization.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Oh exactly, And frankly there have been calls for that
again over the years. I wrote, I remember writing about
it in twenty eleven and calling for that and actually
going through Proposition one A and showing all the areas
that they were violating. And these weren't just suggestions, these
were actual mandates that came with the ballot initiative. And
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so from the word go, they violated the actual mandates.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And there's no interested party that could take this to
a state court here and get the whole thing and
validated because it didn't live up to the deal that
was presented to the voters back in two thousand and
eight when we voted to borrow nine billion dollars. We
were told if we bar the nine billion dollars by
twenty twenty, we would have this, and we have nothing.
That just seems like we should be able to public
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ought to be able to bring the lawsuit and.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Win, one would assume.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
So I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know, and
I'm with you though, I'm very, very surprised that nobody
has done that thus far. But I think they had
so much cover from everything from the you know, the
Public Utilities Commission, to the Independent System Operators to you know,
of course, the legislature and two governors. It's too many people.
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This was like US AID, but for California. Yeah, and
I really, yeah, I really think this money was being recycled.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's just it's just awful. They also like screwed up
a lot of people's lives in the Central Valley because
they carved up so much land. They went through uh
you know, ranch land and farmland and and cut right
through the heart of some of people's properties, or they
they cut off the property at odd angles.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Oh yeah, oh no, it was horrible what they did.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
And then to you know, then to turn around and
shorten it from you know, Baker's Field to Madeira, which
I nicknamed the conjugal Express because you're just going from
prison to prison.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Who goes from Baker's Field to Madeira for any other reason?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You know, if by some miracle in fifty years they
actually built that stretch, there would be literally zero people
taking the train, exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It was the student And again, it was the stupidest
thing most of us could see, and yet you had
people in the state capitol pretending that this was really important.
It just terrifies me that these people represent us.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Seventeen years they got away with it, though, yeah they did.
And when they do audits, they can't. They can't find
a paper trail, they don't find invoices, they can't. They
don't know how the money went from A to B,
who received it, where it went, how it was spent.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, I know. I'm hoping Carl Demayo brings his Doge
project to it, because we really need a forensic auditor
to dig into this thing. And I think votered, I
think there's a lot of people in the state would
contribute some money for that.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh, it just makes me just nuts, absolutely nuts. Yeah. Well, Katie,
you've done like some of the best work in the
whole state on this. Thank you, really, n you've been
doing it since the very beginning. I mean you were
quoting your own story from twenty twelve.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I know.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
He's sad, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You were right thirteen years ago?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Yeah, now, well we all smelled it. It was bad,
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
All right, Well, thank you for coming on, Katie. Thanks John,
Katie Grimes, Californiaglobe dot com. Go read her whole archive
and you won't believe how many stories she's written on this.
She was right every time where yep. But they get
the Democrats get such protection from the television media here,
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the Los Ange, those Times, the Chronicle, this is Sacramento
Television and the Sacramento be except for that one reporter
at the Channel three, Ashley Zavalla. I don't understand no
way this is would have happened in any in any
of the other forty United States. The media in every
other major market would have absolutely destroyed and devoured these bastards.
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And here in California, like, what is it? What is it?
What's in it for all the television stations in the
newspapers to support this nonsense? What's the upside for them?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
How do they benefit that seventeen billion dollars is wasted
on a phantom railroad something that still doesn't exist. All right,
more coming up, in fact, we come up. There's there's
a got any right to sheriff. And he's written a
great article on how wildly unpopular climate change is as
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an issue here in the United States, that it is
the biggest loser imaginable for the Democratic Party, that they
bet all their chips on climate change, and the public
not only doesn't care, they're openly hostile everywhere. But here you're.
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Speaker 1 (12:24):
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Moistline is eighty seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven
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the iHeartRadio app. We just had Katie Grimes on from
the Californiaglobe dot com and we're talking about Trump finally
put in the end to federal funding for high speed
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rail and of course they're gonna sue, but they you know,
they sue every few hours. So it's two big deals
coming out of Washington that severely affected the climate cult members.
Because just a couple of weeks ago, the Senate in
the House voted to override California's electric car mandate. So
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that's gone. Trump will sign that and they'll fight that
out in court. And now of the high speed rail
money from the federal government has been taken back. That's
for billion dollars. And there's a guy named Roy Tashera.
He's a researcher and a really good writer. He's a Democrat.
In fact, the name of his website is the Liberal Patriot.
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And he wrote and this is like a message to
Democrats listen, this is fascinating time to face the facts
that climate change is a loser for Democrats. And he
says it might be starting to dawn on some Democrats
that their heavy bet on renewable energy emissions has been
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a huge political loser. And he talks about how last month,
thirty five House Democrats voted with Republicans to kill the
electric vehicle mandate here in California. Eleven other states had
copied it, and there weren't a whole lot of complaints
about this around the country, not even among the politicians,
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because Trump has killed the Green New Deal entirely. In fact,
to Sheriff says, it's dead and buried. That's the quote.
And Trump is deregulating the energy sector, getting rid of
renewable energy subsidies. For example, you know Tesla cars are
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not going to get a federal subsidy anymore. That's going
to make them a lot more expensive, fewer people will
buy them. And he to share a wrights Why are
Democrats retreating on an issue that was until very recently
so central, And he writes, I'll tell you why. It's
because Americans in poll after pol election after election, has
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shown that their views on a rapid energy transition runs
between indifference and outright hostility. What voters want is low
cost energy, reliable energy. That's what they want. They were
given four choices in a climate issues survey done last
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year by YouGov. Thirty seven percent said the cost of
energy was the most important thing, thirty six percent the
availability when they need it was most important. That's seventy
three percent of the public wants either cheap energy the
most or reliable energy. Only nineteen percent cared about what
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effect it was going to have on the climate nineteen percent.
So that's what all these green New Green Deal policies
a raived at eighty one percent, don't care or a hostel.
Once again, the progressives got an issue where twenty percent
or less of the country is behind them. It's kind
of like having boys compete in girls sports or having
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illegal aliens run across the border by the millions. It's
all eighty twenty issues. And these views are even more
pronounced among working class voters, those voters without a college degree.
Seventy six percent of these voters saying either the cost
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or the reliability of power was the most important. Seventy
six percent you don't have these climate change religious zealous
and by the way, two thirds of the country doesn't
have a college degree. Most of them do useful work.
Most voters don't care about climate change. Part of that survey,
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they were asked voters were asked to list their priorities
for the government to address in the coming year. Eighteen
eighteen issues were listed. Climate change came in fifteenth. You
know what came in last, racial issues, another big progressive obsession.
So all the stuff you hear about constantly in the news,
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global warming, climate change race, that's what the public is
least interested in. When asked if they would be willing
to pay one dollar more a month to protect the
climate one dollar more, only forty seven percent of the
public said yes. They were asked, well, would you pay
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twenty dollars a month to protect the climate? Only twenty
six percent said yes. Now, if you can't get people
to throw in a twenty for the client every month,
that is a loser issue. I see people tossing twenty
dollars bills in the tip jar at the bagel shop.
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Twenty dollars, Yeah, I've seen.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That is somebody just to hand you a bagel.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, they're like paying the whole staff. You know, if
they're in a good mood. I've seen people just toss
a whole twenty in there. I'm on the west side answer.
They asked, all right, would you spend forty a month?
Only nineteen percent said yes, sor right, how about one
hundred a month? Oh no, no? Only eleven percent said yes.
This is a loser. New York Times did a poll
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last year found that two thirds of likely voters support
a policy of increasing domestic oil and gas production mm hm,
including U seventy two percent of working class voters. White
working class voters seventy seven percent said Hey, drill for
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oil and gas. Why do you think Trump has that
catchphrase drill, baby, drill once again, it's almost an eighty
twenty issue. The Times found majority support for more fossil
fuel production across every demographic group. They measured all racial
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groups in every region of the country, in cities and
suburbs and rural areas, regardless of education levels. And what
do we have here in California. We've got gasoline that
costs two dollars more a gallon. We have electricity prices
that are double the national average because of climate change policies,
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we're the only state. Huge majorities across the country, in
every state, in every demo demographic, in every region, don't
care about this climate change nonsense. They're hostile to it.
And he writes this is one of the big reasons
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that the Democrats are in the toilet. Nobody, nobody wants
to hear about this crap. They either don't care or
they're just hostile to it. They either disagree with it,
or even if it's true, it's like, ah, gotta live
my life, gotta go to work, gotta drive my car
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to work, gotta drive my kids to school. Jackasses more
coming up.
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we're gonna play twice tomorrow in this three o'clock hour.
You use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Trump
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has a new travel ban. This is entertaining. There's been
a travel ban on citizens for twelve countries, and he
doesn't want bad people coming from these countries anymore. We
don't want them, is what he said. So, starting June ninth,
if you're in Afghanistan, Me and mar Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Retrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen,
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you cannot come to the United States. So you got
three days, you got a bucket. Then people from seven
other countries are going to be subject to a partial ban.
I don't know the details on that. Burundi, Cuba, Laos,
Sierra Alone, Turkmenistan and Venezuela and Togo. Is that how
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you say it?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Or is it to go to go to go to
go to go to go. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We were kind of impressed for a second.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, for saying It's like, I wonder, you know, I'd
be a fun game to play. See if you could, Deborah,
see if you could find these nineteen countries on a map.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, that would be difficult.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, Well, with the exceptions like athletes traveling for the
World Cup, for example, and other major events. If you
have dual citizenship and some of the Afghans who have
special immigrant visas, and the only other exceptions will be
on a case by case basis, but that'll that approval
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will come from the Secretary of State. So I wouldn't
hold out any hope. You got seventy two hours to
get here, and they have patterned it after you. Because
you may remember the Muslim travel ban from twenty seventeen,
which was temporarily blocked by the courts, and then the
Trump administration rewrote it and the Supreme Court said, yeah,
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the way you wrote it there, because things have to
be Sometimes you here, courts block a Trump proposal and
everybody goes, oh see, except it just has to be rewritten.
So you get a smart guy on the case and
then the courts, then the courts allow it. Trump says,
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you may be wondering why these countries. Uh. He says,
it's in response in part to threats of terrorism. Some
of the countries were put on the list, like Libyan
Sudan because the competence of the central authority for the
issuance of passports. In other words, they don't know what
they're doing in these countries. Passports are given out to
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anyone and they don't want They don't a terrorist come
in here. They don't want bad guys come in here.
And you know, but there's no we have enough people here, don't.
I don't know if you've been you know, out on
the one on one we we don't need any more
immigration of any kind, legal, illegal, you know, the special
visa is nothing. I think that let us take time
to digest what we have here. And now what do
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we have? We had this guy from Egypt came in
on a special visa and his visa expired. In fact,
the visa for all his family members expired. He goes
and he fires bombs a dozen Jews, and the Trump
administration wants to deport his family members, the wife and
five kids, and a judge has blocked it. And I
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heard an analysts say today is like, well, first of all,
their visas are expired. In fact, I think they expired
twice over. And secondly, the law is if you were
a family member or some close contact has committed a
crime or even been arrested for a crime, not just convicted,
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not just charged, but just arrested for a crime, then
everybody can get tossed, everybody in the family. And certainly
you have this terrorist who was walking around with a
firebomb torch, molotov cocktails and it was homemade. I don't
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care what anybody says. You're in a house with six
other people. They know what dad was doing. Dad was
working on this for over a year. They knew he
was putting together molotov cocktails and a flaming torch. And
even if they didn't know, who cares, what do you
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think he was talking about at the dinner table? So
I imagine eventually the Trump administration will prevail on those deportations.
I really don't understand. It's like that wife beater, human
smuggler that they sent to El Salvador that caused such
a ruckus for a couple of weeks. Oh, you didn't
follow due process. What what's this due process? You let
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in ten million illegal aliens and everybody's got to have
their own trial. You got a guy torching Jewish pole.
Oh oh, and then his attorney, the guy's attorney wrote
this blistering letter accusing that the Trump administration of doing
what the Nazis do by intimidating and deporting his client.
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Excuse me, your guy was actually burning Jews. You're saying
Trump is a Nazi when your guy was lighting them
on fire. Just every day. You just cannot believe what
is what's what's going on? What is being said? Ah,
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got more stuff coming up, one more round. Who's coming
in today? Conway working yet, we don't know. I heard
a promo like Mark Thompson said again, Thompson again, Yeah,
I had Conway got what you had? He did?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Amy had it?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
How did you give it to him?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I didn't give it to him. I think it's just
one of those things.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
No, I mean it's going around. Amy can't see him.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I see him for two seconds and I say goodbye
to him every day.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
That's it. Only well, you were saying goodbye and the
virus jump jumped out of you around.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I had the virus weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I don't know. I didn't get anything because.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You have such a strong immune system.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Because they eat meat. That's one.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, I think Conway eats meat too.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
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Cobelt Show on demand and you can listen to what
you missed in fact. First thing we did today Kevin
Kylie on the Republican congressman from northern California, and he
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came on as Katie Grimes from California Globe came on
to talk about the Trump government pulling four billion dollars
in high speed rail money. Kylie wrote a bill back
in January really got this started, which would permanently defund
high speed rail, you know, forever past the Trump administration
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unless the Congress reauthorized payments. So we talked with him
about all that again on the podcast. All Right, tomorrow,
we're going to be covering something really important. If you
have a house. There's this agency which is very powerful
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but also obscure, the South Coast Air Quality Management District,
and it's like a more local version of the California
Air Resources Board. They want to ban gas furnaces and
gas powered water heaters, and the vote is tomorrow. Probably
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haven't heard about it unless you've been following our show
all week, but they want to phase them out, so
you have to buy electrical appliances. This is going to
cost people thousands of dollars, like getting a heat pump,
an electric heat pump instead of a natural gas water
heater would cost two thousand dollars more. Replacing a furnace
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would cost eight thousand dollars more. And that's on you.
I mean, even if you know they put these put
these mandates on the manufacturers, you're gonna be paying for it.
So eventually, two hundred thousand furnaces and three hundred thousand
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water heaters will be replaced annually in the region every
year for many, many years, and it'd all have to
be electric if the Southern the South Coast Air Quality
Management District gets its way. The vote is tomorrow. We're
gonna have one of the board members on tomorrow in
the middle of the hearings. Last time they tried to
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do this, thirteen thousand people wrote to them and said
you better not and they backed off. This time they
kind of hit the ball and we didn't find it
out about this till maybe Tuesday, so we publicized it
as best we could. But you know, the media doesn't
cover this stuff because why would they. It's important in
your life though, It's because of methane. Is that why
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they do that? John? It's because gas. It's methane, the
natural gas. I forget what the exact.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
It's pretty It was like, I now there's a reason
now that we open all the windows in the kitchen
all of a sudden when we turned sove on. I
think it's methane or some Carsagena, it's Carson Jenna, as.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well as it being a greenhouse gas. Yeah, I don't
know specifically, they're probably right. Yeah, yeah, that's about freedom. Mark,
damn right, John, Freedom, damn right. I've had a gas
furnace and a gas border heater and gas dove. We
all have died yet. Yeah. Well, don't push your luck, pal,
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Just don't push your luck. All kinds of stuff today.
Conway continues sick, so not a terrible immune system, he
must say. He always seems fairly hearty to me. I'm
a little surprised by this, but anyway, he probably did
enough abuse in his life and things are breaking.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
That's all catching up, you know, in the ninth inning,
you know, you run out of pictures, right. So we've
got a lot of stuff today, some new things that
could be illegal major in California court ruling. It involves
you and your driving habits. We also have I've got
some insurance news and disturbing insurance news. You know, I'm
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really over the insurance companies. I just feel as though,
let's leave. I get it fire that we're facing serious
threats and they have to pay a huge bill. Of course,
we end up paying that bill one way or the
other or they pull out of the state. But even
on auto insurance, oh my god, they are leading us.
I mean that, really they should just get sche mask
and guns have an open artery from this insurance. Oh
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you just got It's crazy. I know, it's absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I think it's an unholy marriage between the government and
the insurance industry, exactly right.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
And they green light all their requests for increases in premiums.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
It's outrageous. If you look at the insurance Commissioner and
the kind of contributions he gets from the insurance company.
Thank you, it's paid a play. He goes on. He's
gone on forty six trips around the world since he
took over. What a scam. It's it's grotesque.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
And Dean Sharp joined us today as well, So there's
a lot going on Conway shows next it'll be big.
I'm I'm loaded, I'm irritating.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I feel like you today That's not a good state
to be in, all right. Mark Thompson in for Conway.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Next.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
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bad Gavin song.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I really want you to learn those words because I
will be so happy to hear you sing along with that.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I don't know why. It's an awful sound when I sing.
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Well, let me hear you sing a little something, so
I'll be the judge of that.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I have a guest coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay, okay, great.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
She just showed up just seconds ago. All right, in fact,
quick find me somebody.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Wait, you're lying to me.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Katie Grimes just showed up. She's like the emergency shoot.
Katie Grimes is with californiaglobe dot com and she has
She's been writing stories on forever for for years and
years about the insanity of high speed rail. Yesterday, the
Trump administration, UH, the the UH Transportation Department, the Federal
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Railroad Association specifically announced that they are cutting off four
billion dollars in planned funding for high speed rail, saying
that they have violated the agreement. Those people at high
speed Rail so many different ways you can you can't
even counted. And there's there's there's no high speed rail
that's been built, no track, no trains, no train stations. Uh.
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They have nine different categories of offenses that has been
committed by California high speed Rail. Let's get Katie Grimes on, Katie.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
How are you hey?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
John doing great? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, this is quite a moment. We set rated a
lot yesterday and it looks like California is finally in
hell wall. They're out of luck. They're not going to
be able to reverse this cutoff.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, I'm enjoying this immenseally. I've been covering this since
voters passed the initial bond in two thousand and eight
and have What was so interesting, John, is just three
years into the whole project. Some polling was done on
voters in the.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
State who at that point were willing.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
To even put another ballot measure on to overturn the
whole thing and put an.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
End to it.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So back in twenty and eleven, voters were sick of it,
And here we are today in two and twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Five is really three years in people wanted to reverse it.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Huh yeah, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Even the legislative analyst wrote about it.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Funny.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
People sniffed it out right away that this was a scam.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yes, that's what was so interesting. And it was a
field pole. It wasn't some you know, you know, just
phony poll. It was legitimate.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
So, I mean, this has been going on for a
very very long time, and the California Legislature Democrats have
completely ignored the voters will who wanted to overturn this thing.
And of course they've ignored Republicans, and they've ignored the
legislative analysts, and they've ignored just about everybody who has
said this thing was a boondoggle from the word go.
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And you know, now here we find ourselves, what you know,
seventeen billion dollars into it with no track, no train,
no electricity, no.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Nothing was Was this meant to be a scam?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You know, I have wondered that, and I've even written that,
you know, asking that question. I don't know what was
in the hearts and minds.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Of the people who put it on the ballot. I
think it was.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Ridiculous and naive because even at the time, I remember,
just you know, smuggly thing. We already have high speed
rail in California. It's called Southwest Airlines. You can easily
get there from here, you.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Know, yeah, in an hour exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And so this was totally unneeded, and it seems like
like the people who were behind it kind of wanted
to dip their big toe in the water, and instead
it was completely taken over by by rent seeking consultants
and anybody.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Who could make a buck off of it.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And it's really only been consultants that have somehow blown
through seventeen jillion dollars of tackle there fund.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I guess you'd have land use lawyers. You've had environmental lawyers. Well,
you got the labor unions. I mean they claim they
got thousands of jobs out of this. I don't. It's
fifteen thousand people working for seventeen years. Why can't we
see anything, Well, that's exactly it.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
What were they doing and who were these fifteen thousand people?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, and there were lit fifteen thousand people.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I mean, you know, if you look at the database.
Would there be fifteen thousand employees with paychecks that they're
getting every two weeks because what they do well.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It could have been the way caltrans says things, where
you have you know, twenty five hundred engineers on payroll
who don't do anything, so but they're union members, so
you know, it was the full employment project for the SEIU.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And I assume then money is further laundered back to
politicians in the form of always donations, either above ground
or below ground. I mean, it's got to be just
a big circular.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm just hoping this time that sticks to the wall,
that this funding is actually fully cut. I heard Governor
Newsom announced today that of course he and Rob are
going to sue the Trump administration. I've yeah, again, more
taxpayer dollars wasted because they don't there's nothing to sue for.
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The federal government gets to decide whether or not they
give you know, the high Steed Reil Project money.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And they related the agreement at least in nine major ways,
according to excerpts. Well, I've read in your in your
story here in California Globe.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yes, and it was a lot of violations and Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy has done a lot of TV and
radio about this and said, I mean this, He even
called it open fraud. So you know, if a guy
in Washington, DC who wasn't the Transportation secretary a year
ago can see this makes you wonder what the Transportation
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secretary a year ago was still promising money for.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Well, if you paid let's say seventeen million dollars to
build a vast mansion here in California and seventeen years
later you still had an empty lot, I think you'd
be suing for fraud.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yes, I'm athletes.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is preposterous.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
It is. It is preposterous.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And this has been going on so long that Senator
Tony Strickland, who's now a senator again, back when he
was a senator I don't know what eight ten years ago,
was screaming about it. Then he finally got his wish
as well.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I mean, if we lived in a rational state, Rob Bonta,
the Attorney General would be doing a full fledged fraud
investigation into the high speed rail organization.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Oh exactly, And frankly there have been calls for that
again over the years. I wrote, I remember writing about
it in twenty eleven and calling for that and actually
going through Proposition one A and showing all the areas
that they were violating. And these weren't just suggestions, these
were actual mandates that came with the ballot initiative. And
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so from the word go, they violated the actual mandates.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And there's no interested party that could take this to
a state court here and get the whole thing and
validated because it didn't live up to the deal that
was presented to the voters back in two thousand and
eight when we voted to borrow nine billion dollars. We
were told if we bar the nine billion dollars by
twenty twenty, we would have this, and we have nothing.
That just seems like we should be able to public
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ought to be able to bring the lawsuit and.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Win, one would assume.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
So I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know, and
I'm with you though, I'm very, very surprised that nobody
has done that thus far. But I think they had
so much cover from everything from the you know, the
Public Utilities Commission, to the Independent System Operators to you know,
of course, the legislature and two governors. It's too many people.
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This was like US AID, but for California. Yeah, and
I really, yeah, I really think this money was being recycled.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's just it's just awful. They also like screwed up
a lot of people's lives in the Central Valley because
they carved up so much land. They went through uh
you know, ranch land and farmland and and cut right
through the heart of some of people's properties, or they
they cut off the property at odd angles.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Oh yeah, oh no, it was horrible what they did.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
And then to you know, then to turn around and
shorten it from you know, Baker's Field to Madeira, which
I nicknamed the conjugal Express because you're just going from
prison to prison.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Who goes from Baker's Field to Madeira for any other reason?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You know, if by some miracle in fifty years they
actually built that stretch, there would be literally zero people
taking the train, exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It was the student And again, it was the stupidest
thing most of us could see, and yet you had
people in the state capitol pretending that this was really important.
It just terrifies me that these people represent us.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Seventeen years they got away with it, though, yeah they did.
And when they do audits, they can't. They can't find
a paper trail, they don't find invoices, they can't. They
don't know how the money went from A to B,
who received it, where it went, how it was spent.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, I know. I'm hoping Carl Demayo brings his Doge
project to it, because we really need a forensic auditor
to dig into this thing. And I think votered, I
think there's a lot of people in the state would
contribute some money for that.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh, it just makes me just nuts, absolutely nuts. Yeah. Well, Katie,
you've done like some of the best work in the
whole state on this. Thank you, really, n you've been
doing it since the very beginning. I mean you were
quoting your own story from twenty twelve.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I know.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
He's sad, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You were right thirteen years ago?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Yeah, now, well we all smelled it. It was bad,
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
All right, Well, thank you for coming on, Katie. Thanks John,
Katie Grimes, Californiaglobe dot com. Go read her whole archive
and you won't believe how many stories she's written on this.
She was right every time where yep. But they get
the Democrats get such protection from the television media here,
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the Los Ange, those Times, the Chronicle, this is Sacramento
Television and the Sacramento be except for that one reporter
at the Channel three, Ashley Zavalla. I don't understand no
way this is would have happened in any in any
of the other forty United States. The media in every
other major market would have absolutely destroyed and devoured these bastards.
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And here in California, like, what is it? What is it?
What's in it for all the television stations in the
newspapers to support this nonsense? What's the upside for them?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
How do they benefit that seventeen billion dollars is wasted
on a phantom railroad something that still doesn't exist. All right,
more coming up, in fact, we come up. There's there's
a got any right to sheriff. And he's written a
great article on how wildly unpopular climate change is as
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an issue here in the United States, that it is
the biggest loser imaginable for the Democratic Party, that they
bet all their chips on climate change, and the public
not only doesn't care, they're openly hostile everywhere. But here you're.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Moistline is eighty seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven
seven moyst eighty six. So use the talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. We just had Katie Grimes on from
the Californiaglobe dot com and we're talking about Trump finally
put in the end to federal funding for high speed
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rail and of course they're gonna sue, but they you know,
they sue every few hours. So it's two big deals
coming out of Washington that severely affected the climate cult members.
Because just a couple of weeks ago, the Senate in
the House voted to override California's electric car mandate. So
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that's gone. Trump will sign that and they'll fight that
out in court. And now of the high speed rail
money from the federal government has been taken back. That's
for billion dollars. And there's a guy named Roy Tashera.
He's a researcher and a really good writer. He's a Democrat.
In fact, the name of his website is the Liberal Patriot.
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And he wrote and this is like a message to
Democrats listen, this is fascinating time to face the facts
that climate change is a loser for Democrats. And he
says it might be starting to dawn on some Democrats
that their heavy bet on renewable energy emissions has been
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a huge political loser. And he talks about how last month,
thirty five House Democrats voted with Republicans to kill the
electric vehicle mandate here in California. Eleven other states had
copied it, and there weren't a whole lot of complaints
about this around the country, not even among the politicians,
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because Trump has killed the Green New Deal entirely. In fact,
to Sheriff says, it's dead and buried. That's the quote.
And Trump is deregulating the energy sector, getting rid of
renewable energy subsidies. For example, you know Tesla cars are
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not going to get a federal subsidy anymore. That's going
to make them a lot more expensive, fewer people will
buy them. And he to share a wrights Why are
Democrats retreating on an issue that was until very recently
so central, And he writes, I'll tell you why. It's
because Americans in poll after pol election after election, has
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shown that their views on a rapid energy transition runs
between indifference and outright hostility. What voters want is low
cost energy, reliable energy. That's what they want. They were
given four choices in a climate issues survey done last
(15:31):
year by YouGov. Thirty seven percent said the cost of
energy was the most important thing, thirty six percent the
availability when they need it was most important. That's seventy
three percent of the public wants either cheap energy the
most or reliable energy. Only nineteen percent cared about what
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effect it was going to have on the climate nineteen percent.
So that's what all these green New Green Deal policies
a raived at eighty one percent, don't care or a hostel.
Once again, the progressives got an issue where twenty percent
or less of the country is behind them. It's kind
of like having boys compete in girls sports or having
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illegal aliens run across the border by the millions. It's
all eighty twenty issues. And these views are even more
pronounced among working class voters, those voters without a college degree.
Seventy six percent of these voters saying either the cost
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or the reliability of power was the most important. Seventy
six percent you don't have these climate change religious zealous
and by the way, two thirds of the country doesn't
have a college degree. Most of them do useful work.
Most voters don't care about climate change. Part of that survey,
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they were asked voters were asked to list their priorities
for the government to address in the coming year. Eighteen
eighteen issues were listed. Climate change came in fifteenth. You
know what came in last, racial issues, another big progressive obsession.
So all the stuff you hear about constantly in the news,
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global warming, climate change race, that's what the public is
least interested in. When asked if they would be willing
to pay one dollar more a month to protect the
climate one dollar more, only forty seven percent of the
public said yes. They were asked, well, would you pay
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twenty dollars a month to protect the climate? Only twenty
six percent said yes. Now, if you can't get people
to throw in a twenty for the client every month,
that is a loser issue. I see people tossing twenty
dollars bills in the tip jar at the bagel shop.
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Twenty dollars, Yeah, I've seen.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That is somebody just to hand you a bagel.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, they're like paying the whole staff. You know, if
they're in a good mood. I've seen people just toss
a whole twenty in there. I'm on the west side answer.
They asked, all right, would you spend forty a month?
Only nineteen percent said yes, sor right, how about one
hundred a month? Oh no, no? Only eleven percent said yes.
This is a loser. New York Times did a poll
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last year found that two thirds of likely voters support
a policy of increasing domestic oil and gas production mm hm,
including U seventy two percent of working class voters. White
working class voters seventy seven percent said Hey, drill for
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oil and gas. Why do you think Trump has that
catchphrase drill, baby, drill once again, it's almost an eighty
twenty issue. The Times found majority support for more fossil
fuel production across every demographic group. They measured all racial
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groups in every region of the country, in cities and
suburbs and rural areas, regardless of education levels. And what
do we have here in California. We've got gasoline that
costs two dollars more a gallon. We have electricity prices
that are double the national average because of climate change policies,
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we're the only state. Huge majorities across the country, in
every state, in every demo demographic, in every region, don't
care about this climate change nonsense. They're hostile to it.
And he writes this is one of the big reasons
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that the Democrats are in the toilet. Nobody, nobody wants
to hear about this crap. They either don't care or
they're just hostile to it. They either disagree with it,
or even if it's true, it's like, ah, gotta live
my life, gotta go to work, gotta drive my car
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to work, gotta drive my kids to school. Jackasses more
coming up.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
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Speaker 1 (20:40):
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Any vacancies, sir, uh yeah, I mean there's some room.
There's always there's always room if you if you impress me, okay, okay,
if you're a star performer, eight seven seven moist eighty six,
we're gonna play twice tomorrow in this three o'clock hour.
You use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Trump
(21:01):
has a new travel ban. This is entertaining. There's been
a travel ban on citizens for twelve countries, and he
doesn't want bad people coming from these countries anymore. We
don't want them, is what he said. So, starting June ninth,
if you're in Afghanistan, Me and mar Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Retrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen,
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you cannot come to the United States. So you got
three days, you got a bucket. Then people from seven
other countries are going to be subject to a partial ban.
I don't know the details on that. Burundi, Cuba, Laos,
Sierra Alone, Turkmenistan and Venezuela and Togo. Is that how
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you say it?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Or is it to go to go to go to
go to go to go. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We were kind of impressed for a second.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, for saying It's like, I wonder, you know, I'd
be a fun game to play. See if you could, Deborah,
see if you could find these nineteen countries on a map.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, that would be difficult.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, Well, with the exceptions like athletes traveling for the
World Cup, for example, and other major events. If you
have dual citizenship and some of the Afghans who have
special immigrant visas, and the only other exceptions will be
on a case by case basis, but that'll that approval
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will come from the Secretary of State. So I wouldn't
hold out any hope. You got seventy two hours to
get here, and they have patterned it after you. Because
you may remember the Muslim travel ban from twenty seventeen,
which was temporarily blocked by the courts, and then the
Trump administration rewrote it and the Supreme Court said, yeah,
(22:56):
the way you wrote it there, because things have to
be Sometimes you here, courts block a Trump proposal and
everybody goes, oh see, except it just has to be rewritten.
So you get a smart guy on the case and
then the courts, then the courts allow it. Trump says,
(23:21):
you may be wondering why these countries. Uh. He says,
it's in response in part to threats of terrorism. Some
of the countries were put on the list, like Libyan
Sudan because the competence of the central authority for the
issuance of passports. In other words, they don't know what
they're doing in these countries. Passports are given out to
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anyone and they don't want They don't a terrorist come
in here. They don't want bad guys come in here.
And you know, but there's no we have enough people here, don't.
I don't know if you've been you know, out on
the one on one we we don't need any more
immigration of any kind, legal, illegal, you know, the special
visa is nothing. I think that let us take time
to digest what we have here. And now what do
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we have? We had this guy from Egypt came in
on a special visa and his visa expired. In fact,
the visa for all his family members expired. He goes
and he fires bombs a dozen Jews, and the Trump
administration wants to deport his family members, the wife and
five kids, and a judge has blocked it. And I
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heard an analysts say today is like, well, first of all,
their visas are expired. In fact, I think they expired
twice over. And secondly, the law is if you were
a family member or some close contact has committed a
crime or even been arrested for a crime, not just convicted,
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not just charged, but just arrested for a crime, then
everybody can get tossed, everybody in the family. And certainly
you have this terrorist who was walking around with a
firebomb torch, molotov cocktails and it was homemade. I don't
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care what anybody says. You're in a house with six
other people. They know what dad was doing. Dad was
working on this for over a year. They knew he
was putting together molotov cocktails and a flaming torch. And
even if they didn't know, who cares, what do you
(25:37):
think he was talking about at the dinner table? So
I imagine eventually the Trump administration will prevail on those deportations.
I really don't understand. It's like that wife beater, human
smuggler that they sent to El Salvador that caused such
a ruckus for a couple of weeks. Oh, you didn't
follow due process. What what's this due process? You let
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in ten million illegal aliens and everybody's got to have
their own trial. You got a guy torching Jewish pole.
Oh oh, and then his attorney, the guy's attorney wrote
this blistering letter accusing that the Trump administration of doing
what the Nazis do by intimidating and deporting his client.
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Excuse me, your guy was actually burning Jews. You're saying
Trump is a Nazi when your guy was lighting them
on fire. Just every day. You just cannot believe what
is what's what's going on? What is being said? Ah,
(26:46):
got more stuff coming up, one more round. Who's coming
in today? Conway working yet, we don't know. I heard
a promo like Mark Thompson said again, Thompson again, Yeah,
I had Conway got what you had? He did?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Amy had it?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
How did you give it to him?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I didn't give it to him. I think it's just
one of those things.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
No, I mean it's going around. Amy can't see him.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I see him for two seconds and I say goodbye
to him every day.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
That's it. Only well, you were saying goodbye and the
virus jump jumped out of you around.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I had the virus weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I don't know. I didn't get anything because.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You have such a strong immune system.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Because they eat meat. That's one.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, I think Conway eats meat too.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
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Speaker 1 (27:34):
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you missed in fact. First thing we did today Kevin
Kylie on the Republican congressman from northern California, and he
(27:55):
came on as Katie Grimes from California Globe came on
to talk about the Trump government pulling four billion dollars
in high speed rail money. Kylie wrote a bill back
in January really got this started, which would permanently defund
high speed rail, you know, forever past the Trump administration
(28:16):
unless the Congress reauthorized payments. So we talked with him
about all that again on the podcast. All Right, tomorrow,
we're going to be covering something really important. If you
have a house. There's this agency which is very powerful
(28:36):
but also obscure, the South Coast Air Quality Management District,
and it's like a more local version of the California
Air Resources Board. They want to ban gas furnaces and
gas powered water heaters, and the vote is tomorrow. Probably
(29:00):
haven't heard about it unless you've been following our show
all week, but they want to phase them out, so
you have to buy electrical appliances. This is going to
cost people thousands of dollars, like getting a heat pump,
an electric heat pump instead of a natural gas water
heater would cost two thousand dollars more. Replacing a furnace
(29:21):
would cost eight thousand dollars more. And that's on you.
I mean, even if you know they put these put
these mandates on the manufacturers, you're gonna be paying for it.
So eventually, two hundred thousand furnaces and three hundred thousand
(29:43):
water heaters will be replaced annually in the region every
year for many, many years, and it'd all have to
be electric if the Southern the South Coast Air Quality
Management District gets its way. The vote is tomorrow. We're
gonna have one of the board members on tomorrow in
the middle of the hearings. Last time they tried to
(30:06):
do this, thirteen thousand people wrote to them and said
you better not and they backed off. This time they
kind of hit the ball and we didn't find it
out about this till maybe Tuesday, so we publicized it
as best we could. But you know, the media doesn't
cover this stuff because why would they. It's important in
your life though, It's because of methane. Is that why
(30:26):
they do that? John? It's because gas. It's methane, the
natural gas. I forget what the exact.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
It's pretty It was like, I now there's a reason
now that we open all the windows in the kitchen
all of a sudden when we turned sove on. I
think it's methane or some Carsagena, it's Carson Jenna, as.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well as it being a greenhouse gas. Yeah, I don't
know specifically, they're probably right. Yeah, yeah, that's about freedom. Mark,
damn right, John, Freedom, damn right. I've had a gas
furnace and a gas border heater and gas dove. We
all have died yet. Yeah. Well, don't push your luck, pal,
(31:05):
Just don't push your luck. All kinds of stuff today.
Conway continues sick, so not a terrible immune system, he
must say. He always seems fairly hearty to me. I'm
a little surprised by this, but anyway, he probably did
enough abuse in his life and things are breaking.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
That's all catching up, you know, in the ninth inning,
you know, you run out of pictures, right. So we've
got a lot of stuff today, some new things that
could be illegal major in California court ruling. It involves
you and your driving habits. We also have I've got
some insurance news and disturbing insurance news. You know, I'm
(31:44):
really over the insurance companies. I just feel as though,
let's leave. I get it fire that we're facing serious
threats and they have to pay a huge bill. Of course,
we end up paying that bill one way or the
other or they pull out of the state. But even
on auto insurance, oh my god, they are leading us.
I mean that, really they should just get sche mask
and guns have an open artery from this insurance. Oh
(32:06):
you just got It's crazy. I know, it's absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I think it's an unholy marriage between the government and
the insurance industry, exactly right.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
And they green light all their requests for increases in premiums.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
It's outrageous. If you look at the insurance Commissioner and
the kind of contributions he gets from the insurance company.
Thank you, it's paid a play. He goes on. He's
gone on forty six trips around the world since he
took over. What a scam. It's it's grotesque.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
And Dean Sharp joined us today as well, So there's
a lot going on Conway shows next it'll be big.
I'm I'm loaded, I'm irritating.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I feel like you today That's not a good state
to be in, all right. Mark Thompson in for Conway.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Next.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
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