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the radio show you I've been playing around with artificial
intelligence sites, just asking questions do I no, No, I do?
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Oh I do? Because they work pretty well. It's like
super Google. Instead of going through twenty two Google sites
looking for what you want, you ask a question of
you know any one of the big sites, chat, GPT
or groc which you feel it is pretty So sometimes
I just type random things, so I wrote, who is
Deborah Mark?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, I'm sure that all that stuff's not true, and
don't worry. I don't believe it. I don't have time.
Alex Stone's coming on. Yeah, it's probably not true.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I heard it is.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh have you seen on that groc one where you
can take old photos and tell it to animate it
and it just animates it. No, yeah, it brings it
to life. And I had one from when I was
a little boy with my grandpa. I didn't quite like
the way it animated it, it looked like we were
doing weird stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Together, but it does bring it to life. Oh I
have seen that.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, I was like, why are we dancing like that?
And he's holding my hands? But and then I told
it to reanimate. Well, I guess you could do that
with anyf photo.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Huh. Yeah, yeah, you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Have a picture of you and your old prom day
and animate this all right, Alex ABC News, and he
has been covering the FAA Air Traffic Controller flight reduction
situations since the government was shut down. Still is shut
down because they haven't completely passed the reopening bill and
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it's gonna get worse this week before it gets better. Yeah,
well it's getting worse today because ultimately, if the shutdown
goes on long enough, they plan to get to ten
percent of flights being canceled, if they've got to get
to that point. Sean Duffy today said that they may
not institute ten percent unless they feel like they've got to.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
But they began with four.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Percent of flights canceled last week. Today they went to
six percent. And even though this deal may be coming
for now that they are moving forward like it's not
coming and the impacts are ramping up because they've got
to be ready in case the deal falls apart. So
today around eighteen hundred flights have been canceled in the
US that went up over the last couple of hours.
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The regional carriers sky West and they fly so many
of the flights for Alaska and United and Delta and
others that are flying out of LA and Ontario and
Burbank and John Wayne and Republic Airways. Republic they are
the most heavily impacted today, followed by Southwest, Delta, and United.
This lady says she was trying to go from San
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Francisco to the East Coast ended up in Ohio because
of all, I.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Was in San Francisco and when I got to the airport,
my connecting flight when Charlotte, was canceled. So I went
to Charlotte and then they rebooted me to.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Ohio and then he ended up in Ohio and go,
now what do I do it?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So the with the Senate approving the deal and looks
like it being hands the House tomorrow even if there
is a deal. Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, is warning
that when the shutdown ends, it's gonna take a while
to get everybody back in. There are systems that have
been neglected over these last number of weeks. They've got
to get those recalibrated. So the clock is ticking to
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getting a deal done, getting everybody back in, and with Thanksgiving,
with the big travel rush coming up, so they're kind
of running out of time and they got to get
it done soon. But he a few minutes ago, he
was in Chicago Hare and he talked about all this.
He says, oh, numbers of staffing for air traffic control
today look really good, at least compared to the last
couple of weeks. And they think that that is because
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air traffic controllers are incentivized. It looks like an end
is coming, and that they think that this is about
a controllers saying okay, like it may be over this
week and then they're gonna get paid so they have
a reason to come back in. But he says that
there are minimal staffing problems today for air traffic control
just based on the rosy picture.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Maybe this thing's gonna end. He said this a minute
of air.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Traffic controllers are seeing and end to the shutdown and
feel more hopeful and they're coming in to their facilities,
So we're grateful to them for all that they're doing here. Now,
that is the optimistic, the sunny way of looking at it.
I could also see the argument here that after the
President said over the weekend and today that he's going
to penalize those who haven't been coming in and for
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those who have worked every day, he's going to give
them full pay and ten thousand dollars bonuses, that may
be a reason why magically they began showing up today,
But either way, they are coming to work today. And
Duffy is san John that if a deal gets done
with air winn it gets done within twenty four to
forty eight hours of the government reopening, the controllers will
get seventy percent of their back pay over the last month,
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so there is a potential to buy the end of
this week, they're gonna see a lot of money in
their direct deposit, and then to get the rest of
their money beyond that seventy percent, that'll take a little
bit more time and then they're their current pay, but
after not getting paid for a number of weeks, that
they could get a lot of money by the end.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Of the week.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, I saw today that we're still three thousand air
traffic controllers short, Well that's just a normal done when
everything's running normally. Yeah, they're way behind God, but everybody's
got to be perpetually exhausted and overworked. It's the same
thing at the LAPD and the fire department at LAFD.
I mean, that is why it is mandatory overtime, whether
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it be air traffic controllers or the LAPD or firefighters.
That this is kind of a general thing that the
public sector is dealing with. But these air traffic controllers,
they are they're working six days a week right now,
continually long shifts, mandatory over time to what is legally allowed.
And yeah, they say that they are exhausted and that
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they're you know, sleeping. However they can for a number
of hours and then right back in and doing it again.
So air traffic controllers, yeah, that's not what you want.
But I mean again, same thing LAPD is or the
LA Sheriff's Department. There are stories of LA deputies who
crash for a couple of hours at the station and
then get up and go and do it again. I mean,
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it's the same thing in all the public sectors. I
don't know why we torture the people we need the most,
why we unfund them, defund them? We have such an
idiotic political culture. It's it's just for teachers, all of them. Yeah,
they're the ones not getting paid enough. All right, Alex Stone,
ABC News, thank you, you got it, Thanks John. Why
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can't there's no reason that we can't have police fully funded,
fire department fully funded. And by the way, the LA
Fire Department needs to clean house of management. Who made
all those deadly, horrific decisions. I mean, everybody's gone radio silence.
You know, we found out today that there was at
least another fire battalion chief who knew that there was
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a hot spot that wasn't taken care of, and they
kept that information secret. Those guys gotta go. And then
we've got to fund these things and stop funding homeless
people and mental patients and drug addicts and criminals and
illegal aliens. Stop it. Air traffic controllers, give them the money.
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Give the cops in the fire department money. I don't,
I don't. This is ridiculous. Let that guy do the show.
He's much more succinct. So you're going to sue about
that artificial intelligence thinger.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Well, I'm thinking about it. I yeah, it's not true,
is it?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Okay? I didn't think you'd do that. I don't do that. Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Now I'm going to go in and ask about you.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well, those are true.
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Speaker 1 (08:12):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
We have mentioned periodically today that the La Times has
this blockbuster where there was another guy in fire department
management who knew that the firefighters at the hot spot
were told to leave and they didn't want to leave,
and that hotspot became the Palisades Fire. Remember there's an
original fire on the first of January. There was a
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hot spot on the second of January, smoldering tree stumps,
hot smoke coming out of him, hot rocks, the ground
was smoldering as well, and they wanted to stay, and
the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, said no, let's go home. Well,
another battalion chief apparently knew about it, told a outside
fire official who wrote some notes and made the.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
La Times aware of it. I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And now it's pretty clear that there must have been
a lot of people at the fire department who knew
of this story, and they all covered it. Up for
the last ten months.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The Times has a similar story that broke this weekend
Inventora County. It's almost the same thing the Mountain fire.
The Mountain fire was November sixth of last year, and
there were in this case two fires. There was a
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tractor that had caught fire, and the fire department showed
up one hundred firefighters hoses and they put a wet
line around the fire perimeter. Remember this is one tractor
on fire. Bulldozers cut away the vegetation. Aircraft sprayed retardant.
The firefighters used hand tools infrared technology to check for heat.
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What they decided to leave behind was one of the
tractor tires that was registering heat at three hundred degrees.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So what happened.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
High winds started blowing a Santa Ana event again. This
was November twenty twenty four, and it whipped up the
fire and it burned like crazy, and it had burned
two hundred and fifty homes in Ventura County. It rekindled
the old blaze. It was the three hundred degree tire
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that the firefighters decided not to spend any more time on.
I don't know why they didn't just get rid of
it everything else they did. I told you infrared technology.
They flew a drone that could see the hotspots, and
they dug out smoldering material so it could cool. They
did a lot more up in Ventura County than they
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did at the Palisades fire. But they left the wheels
at three hundred degrees. And you know, one of the
fire officials, the Ventura County Fire Chief, Dustin Gardner, says, well,
heat and a burnt out tractor, a burnt out carcass
of steel. That's not alarming, that's not out of the ordinary.
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But a week later, Santa Ana wins arrived November sixth
of last year, single digit humidity and red flag warnings,
and suddenly we got a new fire where the tractor
burned and it started from the overheated tire. I I'm
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baffled by this. I have no experience fighting fires, but
three hundred degree, you know, rubber tired with high fire warnings,
that seems like a risk. I and it's weird that
we had this happen in November in Ventora County and
the same thing happens in Palisades. And clearly, whatever their
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policy is or maybe desire to save money, because fire
departments are routinely unfunded or defunded, that this is like
standard operating procedure. The attitude is what now close enough?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I uh? I mean, I mean, I mean heat.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
The intense heat from the winds and the intense wins
themselves dry out the atmosphere to single digit humidity humidity,
and it just seems to be It seems obvious, and
it seems like the whole, this whole system is broken,
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and it probably starts with with not enough money. I'm
guessing it's pretty clear. I think in the Palisade situation,
they didn't want to spend the overtime on the extra
power to keep watch. I can't imagine why they didn't
send firefighters up on the night of January sixth, when
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they knew the extreme winds were going to hit the
next morning the next day. I don't understand, and I
don't understand this where they do everything they can, it seems,
but they leave the three hundred degree fire and it's
a big miss. It's two hundred and fifty homes.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Seems to be a lot wrong here in California, a
lot wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But we have what was the story yesterday? We told
you about.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
They had tens of millions of dollars to give to
these crooked homeless nonprofits who are busy building building residences
for drug addicts and mental patients and putting them into
quiet residential areas. Right, they've got tens of millions dollars
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for that.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
They gave the.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Money to two different fraudulent companies in Chevy at Hills,
and now they're opening up this seventy bed monstrosity. Everybody's
got money for that. Nobody's got money for the fire departments.
I don't know what's wrong. I don't know what's wrong
with people who vote. I don't know what's wrong with anybody.
All Right, when we come back. This may surprise you,
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but I was. I was a fan of the Sierra
Club because I really loved nature.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Were you laughing at me? I knew you were gonna
laugh at me. Hikes, and no, I'm not. I could.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
All my vacations would be driving around you know, National
parks are out in the wilderness out. Yeah. So I
enjoyed Iceland so much because Iceland was glaciers and volcanoes
and lava were cute miscondescension.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I am, I'm like a little kid, I know. So
you know, my wife.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Used to give money to the Sierra Club and I thought,
all right, it seems like a good operation. And then
and then the Biona Wetlands situation happened. Biona Wetlands is
down near Plai del Rey, and they allow hundreds of
disgusting vagrants started living there, and the Sierra Club sent
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us one of those letters wanting more money, and it's.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Like, I'll read you what I wrote.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
There was a story today that the Sierra Club has
lost about sixty percent of its donors because they went
ultra woke. They started focusing on all sorts of woke
issues and neglected environmental issues. And everybody figured it out,
including me and my wife, and I went checking my
emails and I'm going to read you the email they
sent me and what I sent them, because I figured
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this out like three years ago. And it seems like
everybody in the country has and the Sierra Club is
collapsing because they got more interest in all kinds of
social justice non sense. And this this is actually a
good indication of what's going on in this wacko nonprofit world.
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Speaker 1 (16:36):
If you Oh really, I need to get paid a
lot to do that. Look, look, you slip, who makes
the first demand? All right?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So all right, now, I actually, you know, I think
I think I'm a normal person, right, and normal people
most want to protect the environment, right. We love the
beaches and the national parks, and I can't stand garbage
all over the place. I don't want every square inch
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of the world to be paved over. I'm just not
a fanatic. And I know we have to drill for
oil and gas because we don't have a modern prosperous
society without the oil and gas, and the two should
not be at odds with each other. But there are
fanatics now. Years ago there was the Sierra Club, and
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it was normal it fought too for environmental projects, and
my wife used to send money and I used to
get email requests to send money. And then came the
Biona Wetlands back in the twenty tents, which is this
beautiful preserve, natural preserve near Plia del Rey and they
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have bike paths. It's near the beach and it used
to be a wonderful place for my wife and I
had to go biking. And then the mental patients and
the drug addicts took over by the dozens, and then
it was like there was one hundred of them, and
they started parking RVs on the streets all around the
Bayona Wetlands. That we destroyed a lot of the wetlands
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in southern California, but here was a place that was
still preserved and still beautiful. And then because they lived
in the RVs, they started dumping their waste out of
the RVs, so you had all this human waste, fecal waste, urine, garbage,
everything going into the wetlands. And then the homeless were
living there and we I remember this. We drove down
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the path and there would be guys like jumping out
at you and yelling, and they were living in tents
and in sleeping bags, and they were sprawl and we called,
you know, called everybody in the world. Nobody would do
anything about it. Eventually, because this was during the Mike
Bond and arrow. He was the councilman on the West
side of LA and he was an atrocious human being
still is. And when he finally got replaced, he was
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revolted against buy for many reasons.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Tracy Park came in place, got cleaned up. It was him.
It was him. It was him who allowed the filth.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
But what I noticed is not one environmental group was
complaining about it. And that's when I'd learned that, oh
there's a hierarchy here and the mental patients and the
drug addicts were considered on a higher realm.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Than the environment.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, one day I got an email from a woman
named Michelle Epstein at the Sierra Club to me and
my wife, and she was whining that they fell short
of their fundraising goal. And you know, they had some
matching money, a matching donor, and they were given an
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extra twenty four hours to hit their goal. Then the
matching do owner would come through and so they you know,
it's all the raw ross stuff that you get for
a fundraising letter, and I want to stress that the
only way we can accomplish everything we have planned is
making our campaign goal before midnight, asking for anything ten
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twenty five to fifty dollars. It really pissed me off
because by this time we've been fighting this by on
a wetlands thing for a while. So I wrote back,
and I almost never do this, Michelle, this is John
Debor's husband.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We've given money in the past. We used to bike
through the wetlands.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Why with all the money and power your organization has,
do you allow all those drug addicted, mentally ill vagrants
to dump all their human waste, needles and garbage into
the wetlands. I'll await the woke, politically correct public relations
words salad that questions like this usually generate. It's disgusting.
You have no excuse, and you feel no shame. I
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wrote back to Michelle, and then I waited. That was
on April twenty third of twenty twenty two. Six days later,
I wrote again, no answer. They never did answer.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
They never answered you.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
No, no, You needed to add one more line, right, Sorry,
but I would have said if you ever expect me
to donate money again, this is what you need to do.
How dare you ask me for money when you're not
even You don't even answer my eight letter.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And it wouldn't be controversial to keep the wetlands clean
except the Sierra Club when Ultra woke, and I didn't
know the details of it, I just judged by their behavior.
And then the New York Times had a long piece
today and it's called the Sierra Club embraced social justice.
Then it tore itself apart. They've lost sixty percent of
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their members. They used to have four million, now they
have less than two million. They've laid off three rounds
of employees. They have a forty million budget forty million
dollar budget deficit. And what happened during Trump's first term.
They had a lot of donations and they wanted to
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expand far beyond the environment. Suddenly they wanted to fight
for racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights. A
lot of the volunteers said, well wait wait, we signed
up for to protect the environment. They didn't want to
fight all these other issues. The Sierra Club leaders say no.
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In fact, those who protested the change of mission ended
up getting that investigated by the Sierra Club. The Sierra
Club hired investigators and sick demon their own volunteers, their
own workers who wanted to continue protecting the environment. And
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I'll give you an example of that in a moment. Well,
i'll give you an example of They issued an equity
language guide. An equity language guide. You should not use
the words vibrant and hardworking because they reinforced racist stereotypes.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Vibrant, hardworking was racist.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Lame duck session was out, lame was offensive. You shouldn't
even use the word Americans because it excluded non US citizens.
This was the height of woke in the late teens.
In the early twenty twenties, after George Floyd, they wanted
to defund the police. Well who do you call to
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protect the environment when something really bad happens. They wanted
reparations for slavery. They even turned on their its own founder,
John Muir, because he had used some racist stereotypes in
his ratings in the eighteen sixties. They surveyed their members,
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the DU's paying members, that's the most hardcore supporters, and
the members said they ranked climate change as their top worry.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Racism tied for last.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yet, the Sierra Club's whole mission became pointed towards racism,
and anybody who disagreed was accused of bullying or toxic behavior.
And here's one example. As a woman named Deliah Malone
and a cologist and a volunteer in Colorado, she heard
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from attorneys hired by the Sierra Club. They wanted to
interview her, and she said, well, what's the claim? Who
made the claim? And they said, well, we can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, you know what had happened.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
She had gotten scolded because she suggested at a meeting
that the club should lobby Colorado's legislature to protect wolves.
And one of the staff said, well that's fine, Delia,
but what do wolves have to do with equity, justice
and inclusion? And she protested and they sick lawyers on
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her to do an investigation. What do wolves have to
do with equity, justice, and inclusion. There's a lot more
to this story. You ought to read it. I mean,
this was one of the great environmental organizations and they
lost their freaking minds and they're wasting everybody's money. And no,
they're never ever ever going to get another dollar from me, obviously,
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and they shouldn't get your dollar because they're not spending
it on protecting the environment, and that's why they had
nothing to say about the Biona Wetlands being taken over
by an army of mental patients and drug addicts and vagrants.
And I picked it up, but I had no idea
it ran this deep. I should write them again. I
should have follow up to this letter.
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John Cobalt Show, and then four o'clock our podcast will
be released John Covelt's Show on demand, So if you
missed stuff today, we had a rundown right at the
start of the show with Joe Khalil from A News Nation,
and he told us what's been going on in Washington
behind the scenes that led to the shutdown, the end
(26:18):
of the shutdown, the vote today in the Senate, it's
going to the House tomorrow, then Trump's going to sign it.
And we also had Alex Stone on to talk about
how long it's going to take to get the airlines
and the airports back in order. So you can hear
that and many other things on the John Cobelt Show
on demand, the podcast on the iHeart app. You know
what we're gonna have on tomorrow. And you know, for
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years this idea like this would pop up, and usually
it would be a crazy person and we have them
on the show for entertainment, and they had some unworkable
idea of splitting California up into two parts, or three parts,
or six parts, and for different reasons. The reasons would
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change time, but it's been going on for decades. I'm
thinking now probably time to do the big split. And
we're going to talk to James Gallagher. He's a state assemblyman.
He represents some counties north of Sacramento and northern and
eastern California, from the Oregon border down the length of
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the Nevada Arizona border right up to Mexico. There's a
lot of counties there, and they're much more sparsely populated,
they're much more Republican, and Gavin Newsom has ripped their
congressperson away from many of them. You know, there's only
nine Republicans in Congress from California. After Newsom's Prop fifty,
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there could be only four. And so you have these
longtime Republican voters in longtime Republican districts with longtime Republican
Congress people, and they're now going to get left wing
lunatics because the way they drew the districts, one of
them goes from the eastern part of California the way
to Marine County, so you're gonna get you know, left
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wing Bay Area whack jobs and that, you know, I've
already carried on enough how wrong that is. And Gallagher
has said, well, fine, that's it. Time for a divorce,
and let's have the coast left coast of California. It'll
run along a narrow but heavily populated strip along the
coast and a wider, far less populated Eastern California or
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whatever they're going to call it. Let's separate, so at
least we get proper representation in Washington because Newsome and
a weirdo like Scott Wiener, they don't care, They have
no interest in these people, and it's completely wrong. I
think what Newsom did was destructive and unforgivable. I'm hoping
the Supreme Court will invalidate the whole thing, but if
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they don't, then I think James Gallagher is right, you know,
And I think all a lot of the progressives on
the coast, in the Bay Area here in LA they
would want all the people from me's California to disappear
and be separated from the state. I don't think anybody
would contest this divorce. So we'll talk to him about
it tomorrow and Conway's next, and we'll be back tomorrow one.
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