January 6, 2025 • 39 mins
2024 Ghoul Pool Results. State of the State message from John. Gov. Newsom's press conference on high-speed rail.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one
until four and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show
on demand on the iHeart app. We're back in the
session here. Uh and well, what's what's the thing? I
knew him? You know, if he's talking or not.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Nope, No, I have the YouTube page open on where
it will be live, and it is still just a
graphic that says building California and a California bear.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh okay, Bill, all right, Well if that if that
bear has anything to say or newse some I will
pump up. Yeah. Eight seven seven Mois staighty six is
the moistline eight seven seven Mois Steady six er, usually
talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Ray you have something?
Oh you can do the Yeah? The cool pool, goodpool. Okay,
(00:50):
so much going on Googpool. Twenty twenty four, we had
three listeners go three for three. This is how it works.
We haven't been around for the last few decades.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Three for three. You pick three celebrities that you think
are going to drop dead in the coming year, and
we decide if they're really celebrities or not. In fact,
we decide everything and uh, there's a point system, you know.
Obviously you get more points if they're young, fewer points
if they're old. Here are the three. Do you have
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the names of the winners or I don't have the names.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Were waiting for them to get back to us so
that way they can get a gift.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh, there's prizes this year. Yeah, well, you know we've
gone cheap over the years, well, yeah, to almost nothing, right, Yeah.
I think some years are the big You just got
an hon Air thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I think maybe we can give away a buick this year,
like in nineteen ninety two, nineteen ninety two Buick Sable.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's our that's our gift. I think nineteen ninety two
is the last time we gave a prize away. So
all right, here here are the winners. Listener number one,
Shannon Doherty, Jimmy Carter and Barbara Rush. Barbara Rush. Do
you know Barbara Rushes? Deborah?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
You know it's funny that you're saying that I was
just about to google.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Uh yeah, she's if none of us know.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, and that's that's the point is, you know, Ken
used to have a very tight.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Point system for rice.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, so so obviously, Yeah, Jimmy Carter is one hundred
and he was you know, he was hanging out, you
know what. His tongue was hanging out of his mouth
for the last three years off the air. Can we
say what we're Whenever we would see a picture of
Jimmy Carter, we would said it. We texted to each other.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You just said it. Barbara Rush was who I mean,
an actress.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
She was mainly you know, famous in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh okay, she's an old actress from Yeah, she was
doing like science fiction.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Uh uh at the shows. Well, one time she was famous,
I guess. Then the second listener, Shannon Dougherty. Yeah, that's
a sad one. You know, she was for a long time.
That's why last cancer, that's why she showed up on
a lot of ballots.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Our listeners are so cruel. I mean, they want to win,
but they really don't care.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, they google celebrity cancer and then whatever pops up.
And then the contestant number two also had Jimmy Carter.
Uh so two of the winners had Dougherty and Carter,
and then this one Irish app Fell.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, so she is again an older one, right, but
she is a famous Uh what does she? I forget
what she is, but she's some some socialite.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
She was American businesswoman, interior designer and designer.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
My wife knew who she was.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Flambuoyant style.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Doctor Ruth and Bob Newhart. So is Iris Appfield Doctor
Ruth and Bob Newhart. That's the that's the third big
winner was doctor Ruth on.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
KFI Am I thinking about you're thinking of doctor Yeah, Jacky,
I want.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You to say it.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
There's a joke there.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I guess. I don't know if there's a joke. We're
not gonna go looking for it. All right, this is Ray,
it's in the studio. Yes, okay. So forty two people
picked two out of the three celebrities and the top
of vote getters this year Jimmy Carter ninety six, Channon
Dougherty forty nine, Bob Newhart twenty seven, O J. Simpson five.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
He used to be in the ninety six category. He
was in the hundreds at some point at one point,
especially when he was in Vegas when he had got popped. Yeah,
and people wanted they wished him dead.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
They wanted him dead. Yeah, I noticed that some years
certain people you could tell just how hated they were
by how high they showed up on this list. Donald
Sutherland picked by four, Willie Mays four, and then Toby
Keith I skipped over twelve. Toby Keith was a sad one.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
He was beloved by the country music crowds, and yeah,
the big following. And he has some really good song
I really, I've met him before. He was really cool,
very nice to me. Do me Toby Keith, I did
not know she used to be a country music DJ. Yeah,
I used to work in country music too long, long
time ago. He was a good guy. Yeah, And we
had a lot of a lot of people had two
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for two, right, three for three is tough, Yeah, no
it is.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Some years we've had nobody get three for three. Then
here's the top vote getters of the year. A thirty
six picked Joe Biden only thirty six. Well, the combination
of the oh you know, no, that is Joe Biden. Yeah,
Hunter got nine, but Joe Biden was a was a
big one. Celine Dion nineteen is a cruel crowd. Dick
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Van Dyke forty five, Dick van Dyke got chased out
of his house because of the fire. I believe they
had that to carry him out. Yeah yeah, uh, Trump
got sixteen mel Brooks thirty two picks. I think he's
ninety eight or ninety ninety nine. Clint Split thirty two,
Britney Spears thirty four. Well, Britney Spears is crazy. She's
a perennial too. Yeah. Yeah, the crazy actresses or the
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drug addicted actresses. Uh Bruce Bruce Willis.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Oh so at this time it last year, it was
we found out that he lost his marbles.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And so that's the trend. That's that is so rare.
That's a medical medic.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
He lost his marbles. He's suffering.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Wow, okay, sure, but he still lost his marbles. I
mean the argument could be made for me too.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, that is true.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You're you'd be on this list if you were famous.
Now the Pelosi is combined. Yeah, I think I got
nailed over. We got hit over. The held over there
and an old bag. Pelosi is a you know, he
was a walker. All right, So we've got we've got
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voting open now till midnight.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Wait a second, nobody put I mean, he's still alive.
But not one. Did anybody put Harvey Weinstein.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
He's a perennial to I stopped counting Harvey Weinstein because
I figure he's not going to die.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
We all die ray, So yeah, poor guys like like
Toby Keith and Shannon Doherty are dying right right, No,
and Harvey Weinstein is alive.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yes, that's my argument that there is no God. Somebody's
got to explain that to me before I sign up.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
But one thing we have to talk about, and we
have to make clear the Stuart Scott rule.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, right, okay, so you can explain that if they
that's the one where they that's correct. It used to
be the Sonny Bono route. That too. If somebody dies
during this coming week, it doesn't count, all right. So
if if you pick a celebrity and by chance they
die this week, you're just out of lot.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
But why is that?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Because people try to fake it. They like say celebrity
dies on a Monday, Then on Thursdays they submit a
ballot and it's it's got that dead celebrity.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Okay, I'll tell you. I never because our listeners are cheaters. Yeah,
they're cheaters. There's a lot of cheaters in the world. Okay,
and especially there you know, we're talking about people dying here,
you know, and so there's everything's out the window.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
No, they've got no conscience and so little cheat.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
It's a new year, but it's a new year. It's
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Just this week, it doesn't count, okay, right.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh and I guess last week too, right, because that's correct. Okay,
So if anybody died, or you're gonna pick anybody that's
gonna die in the next few days, they don't count
up until count sucker Friday, Friday, the tenth Friday the
tenth Okay, any other rules that we should you know,
I was just thinking from looking at the you know,
I think that you know we we uh you know,
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go to the website right away and go and do it,
and make sure you just have one right, just enter
one time.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Don't be be a cheating three choices. You got three choice,
three choices, one ballot, right. If you try to cheat,
we're gonna catch you.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Well, well, unless it's a really good pick, you know,
unless Hunter Biden, I don't know, and you picked them.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I remember something a couple of years ago, didn't somebody
get a young singer from a who's like, yeah, I
could have no, No, it was from one of those
boy bands.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Oh are you talking recent?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, a couple of years, three years ago. Yeah. Half
to half the people I don't recognize anymore. I mean
mostly I recognized the elderly ones because you know, they've
been around for.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And we have a lot of those two A lot
of people picked the ninety year old you know, we
get Kirk Douglasses and all these you know, you know,
but they don't they don't die.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Some of them don't keep going.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Look, Jimmy Carter was on hospice for two years.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, that's uh, I am, I'm I'm, I'm glad he.
I don't do well when when people die and and
then the pub there's a lot of media adulation for
for somebody that I really didn't like or I thought
was wildly overhyped. I don't tend to mourn well people
who I don't think deserve the kind of eulogies that
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they get. You're following what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Like OJ yeah, Like, but uh, Jimmy Carter really was
an awful president, and I couldn't I couldn't listen to
the TV for a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But he was such a great humanitarian.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, I didn't care. I just I thought his presidency
was just awful. That that's when he really mattered.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Though.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You know, anybody, anybody can be a humanitarian, but it
doesn't count anymore. But when it counted, that was terrible.
I mean, he was, he was just bad.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I remember my parents stick it. I had pissed my
pants waiting for gas. Blame Jimmy Carter for that.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, I was a little kid, that's right, because they
didn't they didn't live, they didn't know how bad that
time was where you had to stand in line for
two hours. So and I hear a humanitarian.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I just remember peeing my pants and you know, waiting
wid your boulevard for my mom to put you know,
two dollars worth of gas.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah. Yeah. So when Jimmy Carter died, that death thank
got him off the air because I just I just
don't want to deal with it. I can't. I can't
do fake ilogies for people I thought did terrible jobs.
Terrible work. We got more coming up.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
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Speaker 1 (11:41):
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radio show. Now where are we on Newsome speech? It
was supposed to be three o'clock. Look at the incompetent
boob that knew some is any staff? They can't even
get his internet feed hooked up to give his stupid speech.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So they've done like three sound checks and every time
it's been like stattered static, garbled like noise.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
How hard is this? Hey, we can get on the
air right Well, exactly, We're not geniuses here. So we
have been waiting now twenty minutes. Gavin Newsom was going
to give a speech on his budget. There was supposed
to be some announcement on his high speed rail stance.
The behind the scenes, the high speed rail authority is
begging the Biden administration to give them more money before
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Biden gets booted out of office. And because without the
federal money, well even with the federal money, it's just
all going to be wasted. It's never going to be
built either way. But they want to keep lining their
pockets for another couple of years. They should spend the
money on new tech for a stream. Yeah, I mean,
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how embarrassing is that? For God's sakes, Silicon Valley right
here in the state, they can't set up an Internet feed.
It's just one microphone, right, It's just supposed to be Newsome.
I don't even see a podium yet, so I don't know. Well,
while we await Newsom to give us his dissertation, here
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is some a collection of California statistics. Consider this a
state of the state message from me. We got a
lot of this information from Dan McLachlan. He's a writer
for the National Review. The Public Policy Institute did a
poll a few weeks back and found that most Californians,
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whether they were Democrat or Republican, whether they were white, black, Hispanic,
they have given up on the American dream in California,
and most people here expect things in California to get worse.
In fact, fifty two percent of Californians have declared the
America can dream dead. And actually even more than that
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because fifty two percent think it is dead but used
to be something real. Fifteen percent that it was always dead.
So you add those two up, what do you got?
You got sixty seven percent. Sixty seven percent of California
think the American Dream does not exist. Only a third
of Californians think the American Dream still holds true. And
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by the way, this is this is pretty much across
the board. Thirty nine percent of Republicans believe in the
American Dream, thirty two percent of Democrats, only twenty nine
percent of Independence, forty two percent of Asians, thirty percent
of Latinos. So it seems like a big majorities in
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all demographic categories say the dream is dead. Seven and
ten think children in California are worse off financially than
their parents. Will be worse off seventy percent. If you
have a child grow up in California, then will be
worse off than their parents. Eighty percent of Republicans, seventy
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nine percent of Democrats. Let me see what else they
have here most Californians fifty six percent. Then California will
have bad times financially in the next twelve months. This
is true across all regions. There's nobody optimistic in this
state right now nobody. But what did they do? They
largely re elected the same crowd of buffoons and clowns
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in the legislature. Unemployment in California is the second highest
in the nation five point four percent. Only Nevada among states,
has a higher unemployment rate. According to Quickened Loans an
analysis from November, California is number two in the cost
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of living, next to Hawaii, which is what, three thousand
miles in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that I
might have something to do with it. So number two
in the nation cost a living, number one among the
U forty eight states on this continent. California has the
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most expensive transportation costs. It has the highest marginal income
tax rate. It is number two in median home costs,
number three in grocery costs. How about that, there's nothing,
there's no category where we're not among the most expensive
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states in the Union. Groceries cost twelve percent more than
the national average. Utilities cost forty two percent more, transportation
forty one percent more. What's he going to talk about
in his speech? This is a disaster. We're number one.
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I've a whole set of homelessness statistics, which I think
I'll get to tomorrow. But we're number one in homelessness
by far. I mean, things cost so much here. And
on top of that, we have the highest taxes, We
have the highest energy costs, highest gas prices. Oh my god,
Oh this is funny. I got to call this up.
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So one of my sons has been living in North
Carolina and he sent me something because he finds these
things funny like I do. Let me see where it is. Okay,
So he sends me a text. Gas here is different.
You want to hear this North Carolina thing? No, he
he got thirteen point four gallons, all right, about thirteen
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and a half gallons, thirty seven dollars, thirty seven dollars,
And by coincidence, that day I had to fill up
my car almost the same thirteen point one gallons. My
cost was fifty seven dollars, almost exactly the same amount
of gas. He spent thirty seven bucks. I spent fifty
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seven bucks.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
It's a ripoff here.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It is twenty dollars more. And that's not even a
whole tank. That is two thirds of a tank I got,
and it was twenty dollars more. Again, why does everybody
put up with this twenty dollars more for thirteen gallons
of gas?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
How many years have we been talking about getting screwed
here in California with the gas prices and nothing's been
done about it?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I know ever since they started that that stupid California
Air Resources Board. That's when it started, and that was
that was a Schwarzenegger debacle. But I bet Jerry Brown
and Jerry Brown and knew some has exasperate exacerbated the
problem because almost the entire California Resources Board is new,
some appointees. Now this we haven't even entered the new
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phase of price increases which we warned you about late
last year year, where it could be up to ninety
cents extra a gallon because of various mandates by the
California Air Resources Board and other taxes that are going
to kick in. So right now it's a twenty buck
difference for thirteen gallons of gas between here in North Carolina.
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It's going to be far more than that, maybe in
a matter of weeks. All right, Still, let's continue checking
on Newsome. Still no connection there, nothing, Wow, what a
bunch of incompetent boobs. You just have to flip a
switch and turn on a microphone that's connected to their
internet feed. They can't do that. I got a bunch
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of boobs.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I guess the feed is starting to work, the internet
feed from Sacramento. Newsom was supposed to give some kind
of speech on the budget and high speed rail, and
we've been monitoring it is did they get the sound
connected yet?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They got the sound, they just turned the video on
after the live chat was going crazy that there was
no video. The sound quality is quite interesting, so.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
There was no audio at first, and then they had
trouble with the video too. Yes, and now the sound
quality still stinks. Sound quality stinks, but there's video.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Uh, some guys talking and Newsom is standing off to
the side with some other people and then a bunch
of guys in hard hats and safety vests.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
All right. Well, oh, he's probably hiding behind union workers
for some reason. I mean, the union workers are the
guys getting the payoff for this high speed rail debacle.
Because Newsom was making noises about pulling the plug on
some years ago, and then the union leader showed up
and he changed his mind real fast. I don't know
what they said to him. I don't know if they
threatened him, but they you know, they financed a lot
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of the campaigns in corrupt Sacramento. So just just bring
it up if he starts talking, all right, because I
just missed the sound of his voice. I just haven't
heard from him in weeks. It's going to sound real
garbled when you hear it, though, sound real garbled anyway.
Are you are you sure they're having audio problems or
is that just some cliche? Yeah, the gas prices I mentioned.
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My son sent me a snapshot of what the gas
is in North Carolina. He purchased thirteen and a half gallons, roughly,
and it only cost him thirty seven dollars. I purchased
slightly more than thirteen gallons and it costs me fifty seven.
So it made me want to look up the gas
prices because I regularly redo this because you ought to
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know what's going on in the rest of the country.
We are in some kind of weird bubble. We're the
only ones putting up with this, the successive price situation.
In fact, what I just tell you that so many
things in California are the most expensive or close to
being the most expensive. Yeah, utilities here like electricity costs
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forty two more, transportation forty one percent more than the
rest of the country. We're first in transportation costs, first
in the top tax rate, second in median home costs.
Unemployment is second in the country. So we're first or
second in a lot of bad categories. I looked up
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the gas prices and we are second behind Hawaii. We're
at four dollars and thirty eight cents for regular Oklahoma
two fifty five. How about that? That's a dollar what
is it? A dollar eighty three more in California for gas,
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a dollar eighty three more than in Oklahoma. And there's
about thirty states or so that is below Oh my god,
it's actually all right. There's actually one, two, three, four,
five six. There's forty four states that's below three point
thirty a gallon forty four states, and there's only two
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in the fours California and Hawaii, and Hawaii's out in
the middle of the Pacific. Meantime, that feeble buffoon Joe
Biden on his way out the door. He's issued an
executive order to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling
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along the entire East Coast, West Coast, and Eastern Gulf
of Mexico, and part of the Bering Sea in Alaska.
No oil or gas drilling in the future six hundred
and twenty five million acres. This is after Trump explicitly
campaigned on We're going to be drilling for more gas
and oil because it's the only way you can exist
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in modern life. It's impossible to have a healthy American
economy unless you are drilling for more and more gas
and oil. If you believe otherwise, you are a a
silly child. So here's the reality. This climate change stuff
doesn't matter. We've got to live our lives, and it's
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wildly exaggerated. What we need is gas and oil unless
you want to live like they did in the seventeen hundreds,
and that's what would happen. So bidenoked the Outdoor Continental
Shelf Lands Act. It governs energy leasing in submerged land
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under US jurisdiction. See US jurisdiction extends three miles beyond
the Visible Coast, and there's an open ended provision that
give us the president the authority to permanently withdraw parts
of the Continental Shelf without providing a way for a
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new president to reverse course. So Trump has said he's
gonna unban whatever Biden bans, except maybe he can't the
way the law is written, passed in nineteen fifty three.
So they did this on purpose. This is a really
stupid idea because that all that's going to happen is
we are going to be more reliant on the Middle
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East for energy or Venezuela. What Russia. We're gonna have
to buy oil from Russia or Saudi Arabia or Iran
or Venezuela. Right, all the worst governments in the most
violent countries are sitting on lots of oil. We are
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sitting on tons of oil that we don't drill for.
I mean here in California, Oh my god, We've got
so much oil and gas underneath the land. So it's
an incredibly stupid idea to risk being held hostage to
these foreign countries that are run by by nitics. Stupid
stupid thing. So the workaround is Congress is going to
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have to take action. So presumably the Republicans, if they
could band together for more than five minutes, they will,
along with Trump, undo this idiotic executive order Biden is
you see with with with a senile person, with somebody
who has dementia, you know, they will act impulsively, sometimes violently,
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flail about, They'll get they'll they'll be angry, they'll lose
their temper. And if he's so angry and bitter with
Trump and angry and bitter about being pushed out of
the presidency, that he is just going to start signing
all sorts of ridiculous declarations fed by all the progressive
lunatics on his staff, all these global warming cultists. So
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this is the perfect marriage between a bunch of religious
fanatics who are worshiping the climate change gods, and a
a and a senile president. And then this is what
you get. I mean, actually banning new gas and oil
drilling across the entire American coastline. That is so crazy.
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And they've been doing a lot of these things. In August,
they banned mining and drilling on twenty eight million acres
of land in Alaska. Last month they proposed to ban
oil gas leasing on a quarter million acres in Nevada
for the next two decades. There's a there's an expert,
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John Allen Gay. He's written a book on the Middle East.
He says, to put it bluntly, if there's a big
war in the Middle East that impacts the ability of
the Middle East to export oil, we're going to regret
not developing our own domestic capacity. Give you've got one
crazy thing going haywire in the Middle East, and I
think that happens every once in a while, then the
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whole country. He's going to be paying California gas prices,
and you know, we're going to be paying eight dollars
a gallon, And all you have to do to keep
that from happening is drilled. For what other purpose is
the oil underground? What's the point of leaving it underground?
I've never understood that. We're not what's the point of
conserving it? If it's undergrounds, It's useless as long as
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we need it. And there isn't a better way yet.
All their alternatives have been wildly overhyped, and everybody knows it,
and there's nothing wrong, but the climate and a couple
of degrees isn't going to make that much of a
difference one hundred years from now. I mean, this is insanity.
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This is just absolute insanity. And that's why Trump's got
to undo all this. He's got to repeal all this.
The Congress has to repeal it. What I've never seen
such a stupid eye idea, the idea that we can't
use oil and gas to power the greatest economy in
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the world. That's the only that is the number one
reason you have the greatest economy in the world is
our ability to burn gas and oil. There's no other
way to do this. It's like arguing with little children, ignorant,
uneducated little children. More coming up.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It looks like the audio and video have finally connected
from Sacramento and Newsom has finally gotten to the podium.
After some opening speakers, he's supposed to do a speech
on his budget and high speed rail. Let's just pick
up and see what it is.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Jobs plan that the state has advanced, thirteen local and
regional plans that fulfill a state vision, state vision realized locally.
I was proud, not I'm sheared to be here just
a few week weeks ago, receiving the second plan here
in current County, talking about economic development, talking about workforce development,
(30:07):
talking about family because he's talking about place culture identity.
Talking about a place and culture identity and lifts people up,
talking about people in a way that they feel heard
and included. That is not often the case when you
read the newspapers, turn on the TV.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I deeply am mindful that people out here feel left behind.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I'm deep After six years, he's suddenly trying to connect
with people in Bakersfield.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
The supervisor from Current County and.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Leaders in the state of confe talking about this project.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Thankmber about county and knows that he loves the county
of current County.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
They said, it's his seventh year as governor and he
just discovered Kerrent.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
County and Fresno and Bakersfield.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Does he understand that, folks, making sure mostly is about
pumping whales lives out.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Loud and the menu factoring in the ware hout is
the logistics and the extraordinary investments that are being made
in advanced manufacturing, the extraordinary investments in bio therapeutics.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Bio get readay it gets on high speed rail, get
back to it. One of the things I want to
follow up on because this this commercial ran in the
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You'rel okay. Turn it back on work.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Over the course last decade decade, APP is a big
damn deal to the cynics that are filled with cynicism,
that stand on the sidelines and don't engage. We're here
making this work. Would we have started this whole thing
in twenty eight with a different that's you know what,
we can't we can't go back. We just have to
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accept the responsibility of where we are, and that's exactly
what we are doing. We're advancing one hundred and seventy
one mile system from Merced to Bakersfield. I appreciate this thing.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Applauded for that.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
We're making investments along the lines of the investments we
made here and was highlighted by in the eleven specific
investments that are part of this construction project number four,
which includes the overpasses.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Some pedestrians cheerleading for one hundred and seventy one.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
But we've done fifty major projects full to completion. We
have procured and this is important. People don't see this,
but they have to understand this. Where is the investment gone?
Two thousand, two hundred and seventy parcels have been procured
for the first one hundred and nineteen mile phase of
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this project. Ninety nine percent of all those projects now
are In the.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Thirteen years, we have moved over.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Eleven hundred pieces of critical equipment.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
You put land for a useless project, So what you
wasted money on land for a useless project that's benefiting nobody.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Maura to work through permits, my gosh, we have work
through provements.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
They're your permits process. You've set up these laws.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Handsomely in the process. But we finally got all the
NIPA is done between San Francisco, and all of the
sequel is done san Francisco. In this damn thing doesn't
speak English actially, We've cleared the way, so I get it.
(34:11):
You're struggle to see. Wait a second, how's this making sense?
It's not fifty projects. How are they connecting to one another?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
What's the No one was looking behind the scenes at
those parcels.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
All those utilities will be moved.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Around by the men and women here for what to
go from bakers We're going to start laying down this
track in the next couple of years. Finally the point
where we're going to start laying down the high speed
rail track after the track itself will allow us to
get the equipment and the track equipment specifically to lay
down that track gets moved. We're finally at that place.
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We've substantially funded this project. Yes there is a gap,
but it's not a gap that we cannot close to
get the merced Bakersfield operationals be serious created gap in
mindset and this goes back Proud of this we were
able to already accomplish seven hundred and fourteen million reasons
(35:06):
I can lay claim to this. Fifty one million, fifty
one miles of line was electrified for Caltran, one of
our partners. So we began to build that partnership with Caltran.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Which was important.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Finally, yeah, sure, we're doing the same, working to see
how we can share maintenance burdens, design burdens, focus on
interoperability with bright Line and the investments they're making to
take advantage of the investments they have received from the
federal government and the investments that we received.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Shut it down government. Nobody wants to go from Banker's
show when you get to Merced, what are you going
to do?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Opportunities that persist and exist there. It's building now partnerships
and developing that framework of engagement and sharing not just
best practices, but.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Sharing the stresses and the opportunities.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
And we're just well, I'll be careful, say, months not
weeks away from making some early commitments on train sets.
This is about to get very very real. And so
it's a long way of saying this.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Thank you, you're telling me thank you. It's a long way.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
All the folks and the been in constructions, unions, my friends,
the carpenters and others for.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
All my friends. How many friends does he have? More carpenters?
A lot? Who does he know that it's a carpenter?
All right, it's enough for that. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
You heard him talk about the gap that they said
that they'll be able to close. How much money that
they can use towards closing the gap is in his
bank account right now?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I don't know. I don't know exactly how big the
gap is. Oh my god, that's that's just hard to believe.
All right.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
Conways, being dong with you, haven't seen you in a while,
like three weeks, four weeks, get out?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
We were both gone. Yeah, we passed each other night.
The rumor on you is that you were out.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
Because you and your lovely wife had another child. Is
that true? Because that's not true. That would be some
kind of medical miracle on both parts.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Both. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I remember we were working at a at another radio
station here in town, and a buddy of mine had
a baby with his uh with his wife, and I said,
you know, you should have a DNA test to see
if it's yours.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And he said, I will if she will. I'm like, buddy,
it came out of her. I'm pretty much. I'm pretty
sure she's she's half way half into that. He didn't
major in reproductive science. He did not, No, he did not.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
John Decker is coming on with us, the National White
House correspondent. Four years to the day after the January
sixth attack, Donald Trump back in office. Well, I guess,
you know, not until the twentieth, but at least it's
been confirmed.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
In the electoro. So there you go. What a comeback?
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, but they don't call it to come back. Isn't
that what it goes? No? I don't know. All right,
you got it right?
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Who does that? That's a good question.
Speaker 8 (38:08):
Don't call it a come back. Oh oh, and Biden
called him.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Ll cool l J. I remember that, Yeah, ll cool.
Speaker 8 (38:20):
Hell, we're gonna have an unbelievable day tomorrow with the weather.
The winds are going to kick up, and they said
it's going to be dangerously life threatening, destructive winds tomorrow
here in southern California. Last time we had something like that,
those poor people up in Ventura, a lot of them
lost their home. And then after that in Malibu with
that wind. A lot of people lost their home, so
(38:40):
you gotta be careful tomorrow, gotta be careful.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Oh yeah yeah, red flag warnings, yes, the whole run,
the whole run. Lots of warnings. Yes, we'll take care
of all of it today. All right, we got Conway next,
and we got Michael Kurzer with the news, well, the
Cafe twenty four hour news. Hey, you've been listening to
The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the
show live on KFI Am six forty from one to
(39:03):
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Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one
until four and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show
on demand on the iHeart app. We're back in the
session here. Uh and well, what's what's the thing? I
knew him? You know, if he's talking or not.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Nope, No, I have the YouTube page open on where
it will be live, and it is still just a
graphic that says building California and a California bear.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh okay, Bill, all right, Well if that if that
bear has anything to say or newse some I will
pump up. Yeah. Eight seven seven Mois staighty six is
the moistline eight seven seven Mois Steady six er, usually
talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Ray you have something?
Oh you can do the Yeah? The cool pool, goodpool. Okay,
(00:50):
so much going on Googpool. Twenty twenty four, we had
three listeners go three for three. This is how it works.
We haven't been around for the last few decades.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Three for three. You pick three celebrities that you think
are going to drop dead in the coming year, and
we decide if they're really celebrities or not. In fact,
we decide everything and uh, there's a point system, you know.
Obviously you get more points if they're young, fewer points
if they're old. Here are the three. Do you have
(01:25):
the names of the winners or I don't have the names.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Were waiting for them to get back to us so
that way they can get a gift.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh, there's prizes this year. Yeah, well, you know we've
gone cheap over the years, well, yeah, to almost nothing, right, Yeah.
I think some years are the big You just got
an hon Air thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I think maybe we can give away a buick this year,
like in nineteen ninety two, nineteen ninety two Buick Sable.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's our that's our gift. I think nineteen ninety two
is the last time we gave a prize away. So
all right, here here are the winners. Listener number one,
Shannon Doherty, Jimmy Carter and Barbara Rush. Barbara Rush. Do
you know Barbara Rushes? Deborah?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
You know it's funny that you're saying that I was
just about to google.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Uh yeah, she's if none of us know.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, and that's that's the point is, you know, Ken
used to have a very tight.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Point system for rice.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, so so obviously, Yeah, Jimmy Carter is one hundred
and he was you know, he was hanging out, you
know what. His tongue was hanging out of his mouth
for the last three years off the air. Can we
say what we're Whenever we would see a picture of
Jimmy Carter, we would said it. We texted to each other.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You just said it. Barbara Rush was who I mean,
an actress.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
She was mainly you know, famous in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh okay, she's an old actress from Yeah, she was
doing like science fiction.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Uh uh at the shows. Well, one time she was famous,
I guess. Then the second listener, Shannon Dougherty. Yeah, that's
a sad one. You know, she was for a long time.
That's why last cancer, that's why she showed up on
a lot of ballots.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Our listeners are so cruel. I mean, they want to win,
but they really don't care.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, they google celebrity cancer and then whatever pops up.
And then the contestant number two also had Jimmy Carter.
Uh so two of the winners had Dougherty and Carter,
and then this one Irish app Fell.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, so she is again an older one, right, but
she is a famous Uh what does she? I forget
what she is, but she's some some socialite.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
She was American businesswoman, interior designer and designer.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
My wife knew who she was.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Flambuoyant style.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Doctor Ruth and Bob Newhart. So is Iris Appfield Doctor
Ruth and Bob Newhart. That's the that's the third big
winner was doctor Ruth on.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
KFI Am I thinking about you're thinking of doctor Yeah, Jacky,
I want.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You to say it.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
There's a joke there.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I guess. I don't know if there's a joke. We're
not gonna go looking for it. All right, this is Ray,
it's in the studio. Yes, okay. So forty two people
picked two out of the three celebrities and the top
of vote getters this year Jimmy Carter ninety six, Channon
Dougherty forty nine, Bob Newhart twenty seven, O J. Simpson five.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
He used to be in the ninety six category. He
was in the hundreds at some point at one point,
especially when he was in Vegas when he had got popped. Yeah,
and people wanted they wished him dead.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
They wanted him dead. Yeah, I noticed that some years
certain people you could tell just how hated they were
by how high they showed up on this list. Donald
Sutherland picked by four, Willie Mays four, and then Toby
Keith I skipped over twelve. Toby Keith was a sad one.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
He was beloved by the country music crowds, and yeah,
the big following. And he has some really good song
I really, I've met him before. He was really cool,
very nice to me. Do me Toby Keith, I did
not know she used to be a country music DJ. Yeah,
I used to work in country music too long, long
time ago. He was a good guy. Yeah, And we
had a lot of a lot of people had two
(05:19):
for two, right, three for three is tough, Yeah, no
it is.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Some years we've had nobody get three for three. Then
here's the top vote getters of the year. A thirty
six picked Joe Biden only thirty six. Well, the combination
of the oh you know, no, that is Joe Biden. Yeah,
Hunter got nine, but Joe Biden was a was a
big one. Celine Dion nineteen is a cruel crowd. Dick
(05:45):
Van Dyke forty five, Dick van Dyke got chased out
of his house because of the fire. I believe they
had that to carry him out. Yeah yeah, uh, Trump
got sixteen mel Brooks thirty two picks. I think he's
ninety eight or ninety ninety nine. Clint Split thirty two,
Britney Spears thirty four. Well, Britney Spears is crazy. She's
a perennial too. Yeah. Yeah, the crazy actresses or the
(06:08):
drug addicted actresses. Uh Bruce Bruce Willis.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Oh so at this time it last year, it was
we found out that he lost his marbles.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And so that's the trend. That's that is so rare.
That's a medical medic.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
He lost his marbles. He's suffering.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Wow, okay, sure, but he still lost his marbles. I
mean the argument could be made for me too.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, that is true.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You're you'd be on this list if you were famous.
Now the Pelosi is combined. Yeah, I think I got
nailed over. We got hit over. The held over there
and an old bag. Pelosi is a you know, he
was a walker. All right, So we've got we've got
(06:58):
voting open now till midnight.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Wait a second, nobody put I mean, he's still alive.
But not one. Did anybody put Harvey Weinstein.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
He's a perennial to I stopped counting Harvey Weinstein because
I figure he's not going to die.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
We all die ray, So yeah, poor guys like like
Toby Keith and Shannon Doherty are dying right right, No,
and Harvey Weinstein is alive.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yes, that's my argument that there is no God. Somebody's
got to explain that to me before I sign up.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
But one thing we have to talk about, and we
have to make clear the Stuart Scott rule.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, right, okay, so you can explain that if they
that's the one where they that's correct. It used to
be the Sonny Bono route. That too. If somebody dies
during this coming week, it doesn't count, all right. So
if if you pick a celebrity and by chance they
die this week, you're just out of lot.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
But why is that?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Because people try to fake it. They like say celebrity
dies on a Monday, Then on Thursdays they submit a
ballot and it's it's got that dead celebrity.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Okay, I'll tell you. I never because our listeners are cheaters. Yeah,
they're cheaters. There's a lot of cheaters in the world. Okay,
and especially there you know, we're talking about people dying here,
you know, and so there's everything's out the window.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
No, they've got no conscience and so little cheat.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
It's a new year, but it's a new year. It's
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Just this week, it doesn't count, okay, right.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh and I guess last week too, right, because that's correct. Okay,
So if anybody died, or you're gonna pick anybody that's
gonna die in the next few days, they don't count
up until count sucker Friday, Friday, the tenth Friday the
tenth Okay, any other rules that we should you know,
I was just thinking from looking at the you know,
I think that you know we we uh you know,
(08:51):
go to the website right away and go and do it,
and make sure you just have one right, just enter
one time.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Don't be be a cheating three choices. You got three choice,
three choices, one ballot, right. If you try to cheat,
we're gonna catch you.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Well, well, unless it's a really good pick, you know,
unless Hunter Biden, I don't know, and you picked them.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I remember something a couple of years ago, didn't somebody
get a young singer from a who's like, yeah, I
could have no, No, it was from one of those
boy bands.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Oh are you talking recent?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, a couple of years, three years ago. Yeah. Half
to half the people I don't recognize anymore. I mean
mostly I recognized the elderly ones because you know, they've
been around for.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And we have a lot of those two A lot
of people picked the ninety year old you know, we
get Kirk Douglasses and all these you know, you know,
but they don't they don't die.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Some of them don't keep going.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Look, Jimmy Carter was on hospice for two years.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, that's uh, I am, I'm I'm, I'm glad he.
I don't do well when when people die and and
then the pub there's a lot of media adulation for
for somebody that I really didn't like or I thought
was wildly overhyped. I don't tend to mourn well people
who I don't think deserve the kind of eulogies that
(10:29):
they get. You're following what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Like OJ yeah, Like, but uh, Jimmy Carter really was
an awful president, and I couldn't I couldn't listen to
the TV for a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But he was such a great humanitarian.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, I didn't care. I just I thought his presidency
was just awful. That that's when he really mattered.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Though.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You know, anybody, anybody can be a humanitarian, but it
doesn't count anymore. But when it counted, that was terrible.
I mean, he was, he was just bad.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
I remember my parents stick it. I had pissed my
pants waiting for gas. Blame Jimmy Carter for that.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, I was a little kid, that's right, because they
didn't they didn't live, they didn't know how bad that
time was where you had to stand in line for
two hours. So and I hear a humanitarian.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I just remember peeing my pants and you know, waiting
wid your boulevard for my mom to put you know,
two dollars worth of gas.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah. Yeah. So when Jimmy Carter died, that death thank
got him off the air because I just I just
don't want to deal with it. I can't. I can't
do fake ilogies for people I thought did terrible jobs.
Terrible work. We got more coming up.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
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was supposed to be three o'clock. Look at the incompetent
boob that knew some is any staff? They can't even
get his internet feed hooked up to give his stupid speech.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So they've done like three sound checks and every time
it's been like stattered static, garbled like noise.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
How hard is this? Hey, we can get on the
air right Well, exactly, We're not geniuses here. So we
have been waiting now twenty minutes. Gavin Newsom was going
to give a speech on his budget. There was supposed
to be some announcement on his high speed rail stance.
The behind the scenes, the high speed rail authority is
begging the Biden administration to give them more money before
(12:36):
Biden gets booted out of office. And because without the
federal money, well even with the federal money, it's just
all going to be wasted. It's never going to be
built either way. But they want to keep lining their
pockets for another couple of years. They should spend the
money on new tech for a stream. Yeah, I mean,
(12:57):
how embarrassing is that? For God's sakes, Silicon Valley right
here in the state, they can't set up an Internet feed.
It's just one microphone, right, It's just supposed to be Newsome.
I don't even see a podium yet, so I don't know. Well,
while we await Newsom to give us his dissertation, here
(13:18):
is some a collection of California statistics. Consider this a
state of the state message from me. We got a
lot of this information from Dan McLachlan. He's a writer
for the National Review. The Public Policy Institute did a
poll a few weeks back and found that most Californians,
(13:39):
whether they were Democrat or Republican, whether they were white, black, Hispanic,
they have given up on the American dream in California,
and most people here expect things in California to get worse.
In fact, fifty two percent of Californians have declared the
America can dream dead. And actually even more than that
(14:07):
because fifty two percent think it is dead but used
to be something real. Fifteen percent that it was always dead.
So you add those two up, what do you got?
You got sixty seven percent. Sixty seven percent of California
think the American Dream does not exist. Only a third
of Californians think the American Dream still holds true. And
(14:30):
by the way, this is this is pretty much across
the board. Thirty nine percent of Republicans believe in the
American Dream, thirty two percent of Democrats, only twenty nine
percent of Independence, forty two percent of Asians, thirty percent
of Latinos. So it seems like a big majorities in
(14:51):
all demographic categories say the dream is dead. Seven and
ten think children in California are worse off financially than
their parents. Will be worse off seventy percent. If you
have a child grow up in California, then will be
worse off than their parents. Eighty percent of Republicans, seventy
(15:15):
nine percent of Democrats. Let me see what else they
have here most Californians fifty six percent. Then California will
have bad times financially in the next twelve months. This
is true across all regions. There's nobody optimistic in this
state right now nobody. But what did they do? They
largely re elected the same crowd of buffoons and clowns
(15:36):
in the legislature. Unemployment in California is the second highest
in the nation five point four percent. Only Nevada among states,
has a higher unemployment rate. According to Quickened Loans an
analysis from November, California is number two in the cost
(15:59):
of living, next to Hawaii, which is what, three thousand
miles in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that I
might have something to do with it. So number two
in the nation cost a living, number one among the
U forty eight states on this continent. California has the
(16:21):
most expensive transportation costs. It has the highest marginal income
tax rate. It is number two in median home costs,
number three in grocery costs. How about that, there's nothing,
there's no category where we're not among the most expensive
(16:41):
states in the Union. Groceries cost twelve percent more than
the national average. Utilities cost forty two percent more, transportation
forty one percent more. What's he going to talk about
in his speech? This is a disaster. We're number one.
(17:02):
I've a whole set of homelessness statistics, which I think
I'll get to tomorrow. But we're number one in homelessness
by far. I mean, things cost so much here. And
on top of that, we have the highest taxes, We
have the highest energy costs, highest gas prices. Oh my god,
Oh this is funny. I got to call this up.
(17:24):
So one of my sons has been living in North
Carolina and he sent me something because he finds these
things funny like I do. Let me see where it is. Okay,
So he sends me a text. Gas here is different.
You want to hear this North Carolina thing? No, he
he got thirteen point four gallons, all right, about thirteen
(17:47):
and a half gallons, thirty seven dollars, thirty seven dollars,
And by coincidence, that day I had to fill up
my car almost the same thirteen point one gallons. My
cost was fifty seven dollars, almost exactly the same amount
of gas. He spent thirty seven bucks. I spent fifty
(18:09):
seven bucks.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
It's a ripoff here.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It is twenty dollars more. And that's not even a
whole tank. That is two thirds of a tank I got,
and it was twenty dollars more. Again, why does everybody
put up with this twenty dollars more for thirteen gallons
of gas?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
How many years have we been talking about getting screwed
here in California with the gas prices and nothing's been
done about it?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I know ever since they started that that stupid California
Air Resources Board. That's when it started, and that was
that was a Schwarzenegger debacle. But I bet Jerry Brown
and Jerry Brown and knew some has exasperate exacerbated the
problem because almost the entire California Resources Board is new,
some appointees. Now this we haven't even entered the new
(18:57):
phase of price increases which we warned you about late
last year year, where it could be up to ninety
cents extra a gallon because of various mandates by the
California Air Resources Board and other taxes that are going
to kick in. So right now it's a twenty buck
difference for thirteen gallons of gas between here in North Carolina.
(19:19):
It's going to be far more than that, maybe in
a matter of weeks. All right, Still, let's continue checking
on Newsome. Still no connection there, nothing, Wow, what a
bunch of incompetent boobs. You just have to flip a
switch and turn on a microphone that's connected to their
internet feed. They can't do that. I got a bunch
(19:41):
of boobs.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I guess the feed is starting to work, the internet
feed from Sacramento. Newsom was supposed to give some kind
of speech on the budget and high speed rail, and
we've been monitoring it is did they get the sound
connected yet?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They got the sound, they just turned the video on
after the live chat was going crazy that there was
no video. The sound quality is quite interesting, so.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
There was no audio at first, and then they had
trouble with the video too. Yes, and now the sound
quality still stinks. Sound quality stinks, but there's video.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Uh, some guys talking and Newsom is standing off to
the side with some other people and then a bunch
of guys in hard hats and safety vests.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
All right. Well, oh, he's probably hiding behind union workers
for some reason. I mean, the union workers are the
guys getting the payoff for this high speed rail debacle.
Because Newsom was making noises about pulling the plug on
some years ago, and then the union leader showed up
and he changed his mind real fast. I don't know
what they said to him. I don't know if they
threatened him, but they you know, they financed a lot
(20:49):
of the campaigns in corrupt Sacramento. So just just bring
it up if he starts talking, all right, because I
just missed the sound of his voice. I just haven't
heard from him in weeks. It's going to sound real
garbled when you hear it, though, sound real garbled anyway.
Are you are you sure they're having audio problems or
is that just some cliche? Yeah, the gas prices I mentioned.
(21:12):
My son sent me a snapshot of what the gas
is in North Carolina. He purchased thirteen and a half gallons, roughly,
and it only cost him thirty seven dollars. I purchased
slightly more than thirteen gallons and it costs me fifty seven.
So it made me want to look up the gas
prices because I regularly redo this because you ought to
(21:32):
know what's going on in the rest of the country.
We are in some kind of weird bubble. We're the
only ones putting up with this, the successive price situation.
In fact, what I just tell you that so many
things in California are the most expensive or close to
being the most expensive. Yeah, utilities here like electricity costs
(21:57):
forty two more, transportation forty one percent more than the
rest of the country. We're first in transportation costs, first
in the top tax rate, second in median home costs.
Unemployment is second in the country. So we're first or
second in a lot of bad categories. I looked up
(22:18):
the gas prices and we are second behind Hawaii. We're
at four dollars and thirty eight cents for regular Oklahoma
two fifty five. How about that? That's a dollar what
is it? A dollar eighty three more in California for gas,
(22:38):
a dollar eighty three more than in Oklahoma. And there's
about thirty states or so that is below Oh my god,
it's actually all right. There's actually one, two, three, four,
five six. There's forty four states that's below three point
thirty a gallon forty four states, and there's only two
(23:05):
in the fours California and Hawaii, and Hawaii's out in
the middle of the Pacific. Meantime, that feeble buffoon Joe
Biden on his way out the door. He's issued an
executive order to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling
(23:26):
along the entire East Coast, West Coast, and Eastern Gulf
of Mexico, and part of the Bering Sea in Alaska.
No oil or gas drilling in the future six hundred
and twenty five million acres. This is after Trump explicitly
campaigned on We're going to be drilling for more gas
and oil because it's the only way you can exist
(23:47):
in modern life. It's impossible to have a healthy American
economy unless you are drilling for more and more gas
and oil. If you believe otherwise, you are a a
silly child. So here's the reality. This climate change stuff
doesn't matter. We've got to live our lives, and it's
(24:10):
wildly exaggerated. What we need is gas and oil unless
you want to live like they did in the seventeen hundreds,
and that's what would happen. So bidenoked the Outdoor Continental
Shelf Lands Act. It governs energy leasing in submerged land
(24:36):
under US jurisdiction. See US jurisdiction extends three miles beyond
the Visible Coast, and there's an open ended provision that
give us the president the authority to permanently withdraw parts
of the Continental Shelf without providing a way for a
(25:00):
new president to reverse course. So Trump has said he's
gonna unban whatever Biden bans, except maybe he can't the
way the law is written, passed in nineteen fifty three.
So they did this on purpose. This is a really
stupid idea because that all that's going to happen is
we are going to be more reliant on the Middle
(25:22):
East for energy or Venezuela. What Russia. We're gonna have
to buy oil from Russia or Saudi Arabia or Iran
or Venezuela. Right, all the worst governments in the most
violent countries are sitting on lots of oil. We are
(25:43):
sitting on tons of oil that we don't drill for.
I mean here in California, Oh my god, We've got
so much oil and gas underneath the land. So it's
an incredibly stupid idea to risk being held hostage to
these foreign countries that are run by by nitics. Stupid
stupid thing. So the workaround is Congress is going to
(26:07):
have to take action. So presumably the Republicans, if they
could band together for more than five minutes, they will,
along with Trump, undo this idiotic executive order Biden is
you see with with with a senile person, with somebody
who has dementia, you know, they will act impulsively, sometimes violently,
(26:27):
flail about, They'll get they'll they'll be angry, they'll lose
their temper. And if he's so angry and bitter with
Trump and angry and bitter about being pushed out of
the presidency, that he is just going to start signing
all sorts of ridiculous declarations fed by all the progressive
lunatics on his staff, all these global warming cultists. So
(26:48):
this is the perfect marriage between a bunch of religious
fanatics who are worshiping the climate change gods, and a
a and a senile president. And then this is what
you get. I mean, actually banning new gas and oil
drilling across the entire American coastline. That is so crazy.
(27:10):
And they've been doing a lot of these things. In August,
they banned mining and drilling on twenty eight million acres
of land in Alaska. Last month they proposed to ban
oil gas leasing on a quarter million acres in Nevada
for the next two decades. There's a there's an expert,
(27:36):
John Allen Gay. He's written a book on the Middle East.
He says, to put it bluntly, if there's a big
war in the Middle East that impacts the ability of
the Middle East to export oil, we're going to regret
not developing our own domestic capacity. Give you've got one
crazy thing going haywire in the Middle East, and I
think that happens every once in a while, then the
(27:59):
whole country. He's going to be paying California gas prices,
and you know, we're going to be paying eight dollars
a gallon, And all you have to do to keep
that from happening is drilled. For what other purpose is
the oil underground? What's the point of leaving it underground?
I've never understood that. We're not what's the point of
conserving it? If it's undergrounds, It's useless as long as
(28:23):
we need it. And there isn't a better way yet.
All their alternatives have been wildly overhyped, and everybody knows it,
and there's nothing wrong, but the climate and a couple
of degrees isn't going to make that much of a
difference one hundred years from now. I mean, this is insanity.
(28:45):
This is just absolute insanity. And that's why Trump's got
to undo all this. He's got to repeal all this.
The Congress has to repeal it. What I've never seen
such a stupid eye idea, the idea that we can't
use oil and gas to power the greatest economy in
(29:05):
the world. That's the only that is the number one
reason you have the greatest economy in the world is
our ability to burn gas and oil. There's no other
way to do this. It's like arguing with little children, ignorant,
uneducated little children. More coming up.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It looks like the audio and video have finally connected
from Sacramento and Newsom has finally gotten to the podium.
After some opening speakers, he's supposed to do a speech
on his budget and high speed rail. Let's just pick
up and see what it is.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Jobs plan that the state has advanced, thirteen local and
regional plans that fulfill a state vision, state vision realized locally.
I was proud, not I'm sheared to be here just
a few week weeks ago, receiving the second plan here
in current County, talking about economic development, talking about workforce development,
(30:07):
talking about family because he's talking about place culture identity.
Talking about a place and culture identity and lifts people up,
talking about people in a way that they feel heard
and included. That is not often the case when you
read the newspapers, turn on the TV.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I deeply am mindful that people out here feel left behind.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I'm deep After six years, he's suddenly trying to connect
with people in Bakersfield.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
The supervisor from Current County and.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Leaders in the state of confe talking about this project.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Thankmber about county and knows that he loves the county
of current County.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
They said, it's his seventh year as governor and he
just discovered Kerrent.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
County and Fresno and Bakersfield.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Does he understand that, folks, making sure mostly is about
pumping whales lives out.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Loud and the menu factoring in the ware hout is
the logistics and the extraordinary investments that are being made
in advanced manufacturing, the extraordinary investments in bio therapeutics.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Bio get readay it gets on high speed rail, get
back to it. One of the things I want to
follow up on because this this commercial ran in the
last segment. I am going to Iceland and I want
you to come. It's going to be October the seventeenth
with Collect Travel and it's going to be a week
and you can go to KFI AM six forty dot
(31:32):
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can call this number. So call Collect and you want
to come with me this this will be fun. We
over the years have done I think five or six
other trips with listeners and it's always been a good time.
Eight four four eight seven to one, seven, eight to
two to two. That's the number to collect and you
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(31:54):
one seven eight two two And it's October seventeenth. It's
about a week in Iceland and they'll take care of
all the travel plans for you. Oh sou on high speed.
You'rel okay. Turn it back on work.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Over the course last decade decade, APP is a big
damn deal to the cynics that are filled with cynicism,
that stand on the sidelines and don't engage. We're here
making this work. Would we have started this whole thing
in twenty eight with a different that's you know what,
we can't we can't go back. We just have to
(32:28):
accept the responsibility of where we are, and that's exactly
what we are doing. We're advancing one hundred and seventy
one mile system from Merced to Bakersfield. I appreciate this thing.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Applauded for that.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
We're making investments along the lines of the investments we
made here and was highlighted by in the eleven specific
investments that are part of this construction project number four,
which includes the overpasses.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Some pedestrians cheerleading for one hundred and seventy one.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
But we've done fifty major projects full to completion. We
have procured and this is important. People don't see this,
but they have to understand this. Where is the investment gone?
Two thousand, two hundred and seventy parcels have been procured
for the first one hundred and nineteen mile phase of
(33:22):
this project. Ninety nine percent of all those projects now
are In the.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Thirteen years, we have moved over.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Eleven hundred pieces of critical equipment.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
You put land for a useless project, So what you
wasted money on land for a useless project that's benefiting nobody.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Maura to work through permits, my gosh, we have work
through provements.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
They're your permits process. You've set up these laws.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Handsomely in the process. But we finally got all the
NIPA is done between San Francisco, and all of the
sequel is done san Francisco. In this damn thing doesn't
speak English actially, We've cleared the way, so I get it.
(34:11):
You're struggle to see. Wait a second, how's this making sense?
It's not fifty projects. How are they connecting to one another?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
What's the No one was looking behind the scenes at
those parcels.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
All those utilities will be moved.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Around by the men and women here for what to
go from bakers We're going to start laying down this
track in the next couple of years. Finally the point
where we're going to start laying down the high speed
rail track after the track itself will allow us to
get the equipment and the track equipment specifically to lay
down that track gets moved. We're finally at that place.
(34:45):
We've substantially funded this project. Yes there is a gap,
but it's not a gap that we cannot close to
get the merced Bakersfield operationals be serious created gap in
mindset and this goes back Proud of this we were
able to already accomplish seven hundred and fourteen million reasons
(35:06):
I can lay claim to this. Fifty one million, fifty
one miles of line was electrified for Caltran, one of
our partners. So we began to build that partnership with Caltran.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Which was important.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Finally, yeah, sure, we're doing the same, working to see
how we can share maintenance burdens, design burdens, focus on
interoperability with bright Line and the investments they're making to
take advantage of the investments they have received from the
federal government and the investments that we received.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Shut it down government. Nobody wants to go from Banker's
show when you get to Merced, what are you going
to do?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Opportunities that persist and exist there. It's building now partnerships
and developing that framework of engagement and sharing not just
best practices, but.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Sharing the stresses and the opportunities.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
And we're just well, I'll be careful, say, months not
weeks away from making some early commitments on train sets.
This is about to get very very real. And so
it's a long way of saying this.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Thank you, you're telling me thank you. It's a long way.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
All the folks and the been in constructions, unions, my friends,
the carpenters and others for.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
All my friends. How many friends does he have? More carpenters?
A lot? Who does he know that it's a carpenter?
All right, it's enough for that. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
You heard him talk about the gap that they said
that they'll be able to close. How much money that
they can use towards closing the gap is in his
bank account right now?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I don't know. I don't know exactly how big the
gap is. Oh my god, that's that's just hard to believe.
All right.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
Conways, being dong with you, haven't seen you in a while,
like three weeks, four weeks, get out?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
We were both gone. Yeah, we passed each other night.
The rumor on you is that you were out.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
Because you and your lovely wife had another child. Is
that true? Because that's not true. That would be some
kind of medical miracle on both parts.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Both. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I remember we were working at a at another radio
station here in town, and a buddy of mine had
a baby with his uh with his wife, and I said,
you know, you should have a DNA test to see
if it's yours.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And he said, I will if she will. I'm like, buddy,
it came out of her. I'm pretty much. I'm pretty
sure she's she's half way half into that. He didn't
major in reproductive science. He did not, No, he did not.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
John Decker is coming on with us, the National White
House correspondent. Four years to the day after the January
sixth attack, Donald Trump back in office. Well, I guess,
you know, not until the twentieth, but at least it's
been confirmed.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
In the electoro. So there you go. What a comeback?
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, but they don't call it to come back. Isn't
that what it goes? No? I don't know. All right,
you got it right?
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Who does that? That's a good question.
Speaker 8 (38:08):
Don't call it a come back. Oh oh, and Biden
called him.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Ll cool l J. I remember that, Yeah, ll cool.
Speaker 8 (38:20):
Hell, we're gonna have an unbelievable day tomorrow with the weather.
The winds are going to kick up, and they said
it's going to be dangerously life threatening, destructive winds tomorrow
here in southern California. Last time we had something like that,
those poor people up in Ventura, a lot of them
lost their home. And then after that in Malibu with
that wind. A lot of people lost their home, so
(38:40):
you gotta be careful tomorrow, gotta be careful.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Oh yeah yeah, red flag warnings, yes, the whole run,
the whole run. Lots of warnings. Yes, we'll take care
of all of it today. All right, we got Conway next,
and we got Michael Kurzer with the news, well, the
Cafe twenty four hour news. Hey, you've been listening to
The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the
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