June 4, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (06/04) - CA State Assemblywoman Laurie Davies comes on the show to talk more about CA's attack on gas-powered appliances and how members of the legislature are trying to combat it. More on Pres. Trump announcing he is cutting off federal funding for CA’s high-speed rail project. High-speed rail is supposedly going to cost $135 billion dollars! Karine-Jean Pierre has officially left the Democratic Party after her time as the White House Press Secretary under Pres. Biden.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We are going to talk a lot about the Trump
administration defunding high speed rail here in California. Says there's
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no viable path for it, pulling away four billion dollars
that high speed railer is going to get from the
federal government. Earlier in the show, we had Congressman Tom
McClintock and State Senator Tony Strickland give their views. So
if you want to hear that on the podcast, I'm
going to give you a rundown coming up in the
next segment because all kinds of politicians are weighing in.
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You wouldn't believe, Oh yeah, you would. How many supporters
in politics here in California exist for high speed rail. Still,
after seventeen years and seventeen billion wasted dollars and no track,
there are still politicians cheerleading insisting that we have to
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keep going. It makes you wonder if they're if they're
in on the grift, they must be part of the
con somehow money's getting back to them. But first, another
atrocity here. If you live in Southern California, the Southern
California Air Quality Management District, I'm sorry, it's the South
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Coast Air Quality Management District. Excuse me, I keep doing that.
South Coast air Quality Management District. They have announced last
year they tried to ban gas powered water heaters and
space heaters. They're at it again, but they're coming in
through a side door this time, but it would lead
to the same place you wouldn't be able to have
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a gas powered water or space heater. We're going to
talk here with Lorie Davies because she's leading a coalition
opposing the gas appliance ban and have to have to
work quickly because Friday, at nine in the morning, there's
going to be a the regulators will be having a
meeting on this. Let's get Lori Davies on Republican Ada,
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Laguna Neguel.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Hi, Laurie, how are you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm good, John, Thanks so much for letting me talk
on this. It's really important.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Explain to people who haven't heard about this. What is
the South Coast Air Quality Management District trying to do here.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
What is their goal, Well, the bottom line is their
goal of course is cleaner, which we all certainly know
is worthy. However, their decision that they will vote on
this Friday one pack approximately sixteen million Californians, half of
the state. We have an affordability crisis in southern California.
This will significantly impac renters and homeowners in a time
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when our finances are incredibly tough. What this is going
to do is the action that the board will take
will consider is to men rule eleven eleven and eleven
twenty one. This will force consumers to choose a much
more expensive option of all electric space and water heaters.
Electric clients cost more than gas appliances, so you know,
we can't afford to make the switch, and you will
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be required to pay a fee to continue using your
natural gas water heater and furnace. So additionally, there will
be a substantial cost to retrofit and upgrade infrastructure on
all their homes. I mean this is a government mandate
and could cost about forty seven thousand dollars for new
appliances and to retrofit and old their home, and about
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fifteen hundred fees to keep your gas appliance.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So this is going to are people to to be
able to keep their current gas powered water or space
heater or they're being forced to buy a new one.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, once it dies, your option is either to pay
fees about fifteen hundred dollars or to retrofit. So sooner
or later it will icy. It will be there.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
As soon as you need a new one.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Then you've got to buy an electric heater, which is
a lot more expensive. You got to retrofit your heater,
which is also expensive. And that's how they're going to
drive out gas powered heaters exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And we already know the cost of electricity is much
higher than the cost of gas.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh yeah, and it's double the national average the cost
of electricity in this state.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And then you and I both know that the grid
can't handle this. I mean, the grid is not reliable
on you know, it needs to have sources such as
natural gas generate power, and once again we'll end up
with blackouts and we're not going to have enough electricity
out there. So they're always putting the cart before the horse.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The public responded strongly against this just last year, right
there was like thirteen thousand messages sent to the air
quality management district saying don't do this. We don't want
it get out of our lives.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Absolutely, So when we saw this was coming up, and
again it's one of those things that you don't hear
about until so as soon as we got hold of this,
we started having community outreach meetings. I was able to
get fifteen legislators signing a letter sending it to them.
And this board, this board is ben up of twelve
members and three of them are appointed by the governor.
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This governor, the Speaker, and the Senate rules. But the
others are actually elected officials that are appointed, such as
supervisors in the district and city council members. So it's
really important that we get the message to them. And
I can tell you right now what we have is
we have a site you can go to it. We
can't afford this dot com and we have to do
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this before June six because that's when they're going to
be having the hearing. And this is a direct link
to fill in comments and opposition. And it's also filled
a lot of great deal of economic impact information on
the website, so have more understanding to it. But it
is so important that we stop this.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
We can't afford this. Dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, we can't. Exactly, we can't afford it. Dot com
is right.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So that's where you go to fill out the form
to let the South Coast Air Quality Management District know
that you can't afford this new requirement that leads to
electric water heaters and electric space heaters.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's exactly right. And I think it's important that you know,
two thirds of the sport are electric electro officials, so
we need to make sure they understand that the people's
voice is important.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It is so expensive obviously that live in California, and
this week it's one thing after another. I mean, we're
talking about the sixty five cent gasoline increase that is
coming maybe July first, and then on top of that,
we're going to have this water heater increase and the
space heater increase here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Right and right now we are voting on the floor
with all these bills, and you know, trying to stop
the bills that are just going to keep raising the
cost of living here. It is so.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We I mean, it's the number one thing that is
driving people out of California. And then we have a
legislature and a governor that that that piles on the costs,
five piles on the penalties just to live.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Absolutely, you tend to wonder what the agenda is.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I don't know what is the upside of driving out
you know, the middle class and the working class. It's
gonna leave nothing but wealthy people and illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
There's not going to be anything else.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
No, there's not.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
We're not going to have businesses and we're not going
to have you know, we're not going to have the
funding that we're going to need, the revenue that we
need right now. We are the most tax states and
so we don't have a revenue problem here. We have
a problem with managing the revenue. And they keep putting
out bills and we're just up here fighting. But I'm
telling you what, California is really starting to get informed
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and their voice makes a difference. So when they call
in we can't afford this dot com or any other issue,
it does make a difference.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Okay, we can't for this dot com. Fill out the
forum that will get sent to the South Coast air
Quality Management District. They're meeting Friday morning at nine o'clock
and this if they get their way, you're going to
be spending thousands of dollars on electric heaters and uh
electric space heaters because gas space heaters and gas uh
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and gas water heaters are going to be phased out
and then well we'll.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Be mixed gas, you know. So it's just getting the
foot into the door.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Right, all right, Laurie, we'll talk again. Thank you for
coming on my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Thanks again, John Bye.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
It's stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Why can't you be left alone if you want a
gas water heater? What's at their business? God, it's just
like a bunch of communists, a bunch of Soviets thought
your business if I have a gas water heater or
a gas space heater, get out of my life. Said,
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they're going to make you pay thousands of dollars extra. Well,
we can't afford this dot com. You better go sign
it up. Don't go complaining afterwards, because they're meeting Friday,
June sixth, at nine o'clock in the morning when we
come back, Yai. It is it is the biggest news
of the day. The Trump administration said no more high
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speed rail federal funding.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Done gone enough of this.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
We'll tell you what The Trump officials said, and we'll
tell you now what these Democratic politicians in California are saying.
Trying to defend high speed rails. Still after seventeen years
of failure, Still.
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High speed rail four billion dollars has been pulled by
the Trump administration. Federal money pulled from California and the
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Trump administration through there well, a couple of spokespeople the
Transportation Department, the Federal Railroad Administration.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They said there's no viable path. That's that's the word
they use.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And California has thirty seven days to write a response
and the Trump administration will go and then the money
gets pulled.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Now, the Feds have so far.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Paid eighteen percent of the cost, so this is a
big hole blown in the budget eighteen percent. There's a
three hundred and ten page compliance review that they released.
The Department of Transportation said there's a lot of budget shortfalls,
a lot of deadlines, missed, and a lot of this
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is polite, misleading projected ridership. In other words, they'd lied
their asses off about how many people would use this thing.
And they were still analyzing the San Francisco to La Idea,
the high speed you know, two hour and twenty minute,
two hundred and twenty mile an hour train that's never
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going to happen. But the review for federal money targets
the construction just in the central Valley. This is the
Bakersfield to Merced wing of this high speed rail. Now,
I'm going to read your quote from the Federal Railroad
Administration's acting administrator, Drew Feey. He wrote, California High Speed
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Rail Authority relied on the false hope of an unending
spigot of federal tax dollars. In essence, California high Speed
Rail conned the taxpayer out of its four billion dollar investment,
with no viable plan to deliver even the partial segment
on time. The High Speed Rail Authority disagree with the findings,
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and I'm thinking, what do you disagree with?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Go look out the window.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
There's no rail there is there, There are no trains,
and there are no rail stations. A spokes hole for
high speed rail. Boy, this is the job you want.
This is the job you want, Debora high speed Rail
spokes hole.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Why would I want that?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Let's see how convincing you can say this?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Okay, the authority will fully address and correct the record
in our formal response.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
The authority will fully address, address and correct the record
and correct the record.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
In our formal response.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
In our formal response.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It sounds convincing, convincing. You sound like you mean it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
We remain firmly committed to completing the nation's first true
high speed rail system.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Can we remain fully committed? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
No, go ahead, Well, we remain fully committed.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
We remain fully committed.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
To completing the nation's first true high speed rail system.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
To you know what you're reading, So that's not there.
I can't memorize. You can read it off a screen.
You can send it to me.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Bring in the next candidate.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I didn't get the job. Clearly.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I'm sorry. I set you up.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Here's some responses from the politicians. Let me let me
get to the democratic politicians here. This just came over
from the Los Angeles Times. Oh, here's one from Andy Kunns.
That's an unfortunate name. Andy Kunns, President and chief executive
of US High Speed Rail Association. California voters are tired
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of traffic jams and airport delays. If you build high
speed rail from Bakersfield to Merced, how does that relieve
traffic jams and airport delays here in Los Angeles and
the guns?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
He Actually people say these things and they put their
names to it. Support for the California High speed Rail
project is growing as the state's transportation system continues to
grind to a halt. What kind of mushrooms are these
guys smoking? Support it's growing. Here's another guy. Rick Harnish,
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the executive director for the High Speed Rail Alliance, called
the review angering. Oh his paycheck must depend on this angering,
and said it would only create further roadblocks for the
project that he believes is critical for the state. This
isn't just about the Bay area of the La Basin. Well,
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they're not building it from the Bay area to the
La Basin. They're trying to get funding for Bakersfield and Merced,
about transportation for the whole state. And it would be
the catalyst for truly making financially viable communities, for making families,
for making families.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Is it going to help people make families?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Is there a sex component?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
There might be maybe a trains make people.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Horny, and maybe a special sex car on the train.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, giving the more economic opportunity, it would just be huge.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, you want where Rick Harness's smoking?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
There?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Nancy Pelosi?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
What is she?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
One hundred and four? She's very upset. This announcement is
the rejection of the future. California has been a leader
in realizing the vision of high speed rail to meet
the needs of working families.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
What do you meet the needs of working families?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
There's no track at seventeen years, there's no track, there's
no trains, there's no stations.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
John, these things take time. You're so impatient.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm just being negative.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's just it is unfortunate that the Secretary, Sean Duffy,
has misrepresented the facts.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, are there trains and we just can't see them?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Are is there?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Raal?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
She sees them? I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It promotes commerce and proves the quality of life for Californians,
creates good paying jobs. Oh, they're good paying jobs, but
they don't produce anything. I mean, these people are insane.
It lowers the cost of housing by shortening the distance
to commute from home to work.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
But there's no train.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
This is what they keep talking like, you know, the
project just started, and this is what it's gonna do
if you just give it five years. It's they've been
doing it for seventeen, all right. But these people, but
you know, this is what criminals do. This is what
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con artists do. Lobbyists, lobbyists. Yeah, I mean these people
must be making so much money.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Hey, if I'm gonna be making millions, I'll say the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You could be bought.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I can.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Eric clip that little quote there.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I have no morals, no problem.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We'll get you real popular.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
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Speaker 7 (17:40):
The uh.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
The big news of the day is the Trump administration
has defunded California High Speed Rail. Yes, four billion dollars
was on the table and future funding and the Trump
people pulled it and said there is no viable path
for this project. They have missed too many deadlines, They've
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blown too many budgets. Their claims are really not to
be believed. The projected ridership was just fantasy. I've seen now,
as arkone California Globe, the new total cost of high
speed rail to do La to San Francisco one hundred
and thirty five billion dollars. One hundred thirty five billion.
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We've already spent seventeen billion, so we need we need
like nine times as much money as we have, and
they need another fourteen billion soon. Otherwise the project is
going to grind to a halt. And according to the
California Globe, the answer for this past month has been, well,
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let's get private funding. But they haven't had private funding.
They've been trying for twenty five years. That's not possible.
Or California might take out more loans. I mean, they
had us vote on the original ten billion dollars in loans.
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Are they going to put that back on the ballot
and try to convince us people got scammed once? Could
you scam them a second time?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah? People are going to vote for more taxes, are
you kidding?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I guess it's automatic in this state, right, there's no
tax that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Win on the ballot. We just had the homeless tax measures.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
The thing is, it's not even gray zone where the
money ends up, right, it's clearly getting stolen. We clearly
are not removing the homeless, and we are not building
high speed rail. And everybody says, oh, fine, more money. Hey,
you didn't clear out any homeless. How about another few billion.
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It's same thing with high speed rail. No, they don't
do this in other states.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I don't understand. Maybe it's drugs. Maybe it is drugs.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Maybe we need to be on drugs so that we
don't get so upset.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, maybe I wouldn't notice all this if we were
on drugs. So one hundred and thirty five billion, that's
that's San Francisco to Los Angeles. You know what which
just kills me is all these bastards. No, it's never
going to be built, but they keep begging for more
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money anyway, and now they're really they're out of They
have no private sources.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
They never did.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
They stole They stole some of the uh, some of
the tax money that the oil companies have been paying,
which is really ends up being gas tax money for us.
They can't get federal money anymore. I you know, all
they got left is if they borrowed. But I would
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think if they're going to borrow that much, that's going
to have to go on the ballot. What I mean it,
you know, when you steal billions of dollars, though, that's
a lot of people that get a pretty cool salary
for a long time, like it's worth it to them.
And most of these guys are anonymous, Like the first
first couple of rounds of executives have come and gone
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since two thousand and eight. It's like they took their
money and they left, and you know they stole it,
but hey, nobody ever called them on it. And even
if you bring up their name on the air, nobody
knows who they are. They're not going to face any embarrassment.
They're probably on the Cayman Islands.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And the language on these ballot measures very confusing. I
think a lot of people are confused when they do
vote to raise taxes. Seriously, I mean they I've talked
to people and you know, again, the narrative is, well,
but we're gonna if for instance, the gas tax right right,
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wasn't that, Oh, well, they're gonna be less police on
the streets, right, crime.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I mean, I mean there were so many.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Different ways that that was fun.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I know.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
The roads they won't get fixed, well, they didn't get
fixed exactly, and we still had crime.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
The homeless doesn't they don't get cleaned up, the roads
don't get fixed, the high speed rail isn't built.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But when you but they.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Offer another tax increase, if you say no, it's like, oh,
you don't want a world where there's no high speed
rail and there's no police and the roads aren't fixed
and the homeless or wandering around.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Well, I don't know, that's what we have.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
We need more money, another tax, another tax increase to
help with the homeless situation. Because the money was stolen.
That's not our fault.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You see it clearly. I see it clearly.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
What goes on out there, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I can't let the show go without mentioning this lunatic cringe.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Jean Pierre. She was that strange bird with the crazy hair.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Oh she's very pretty.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Oh lie, if that's your type, she's.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Not my type. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I mean she I found her to be weird.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I thought I thought she had a nice fashion sense.
You know, her makeup was nice.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oi, What do you mean.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You know she's into women? She married a CNN reporter, Yeah, okay,
cring John Pierre. Uh two years of eight months. She
was the lying spoke soul for Joe Biden. I was
looking at some clips today and they're excruciating to listen
to because she's babbles endlessly. But she was really passionate
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lecturing the reporters on how sharp and energetic.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Okay, John, let me ask you this. I mean, because
you know, you and I are on the same page
on a lot of things. But she is paid, that's
her job. She is the press secretary for the White House.
So what is she supposed to say? Hey, you guys,
you're right, he has this cognitive disorder and he shouldn't
be running. But you didn't hear that from me.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, we're paying her, We're paying our tax money, so
she could lie back to us.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
I know, But I'm just saying, what do we expect
her to do?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And nobody believes her, although the reporters.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I was looking at some of these montages and the
reporter has hardly ever challenged her.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I don't understand that.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Well, yeah, but now everybody is is you know, that
book is out and everybody is upset. You know, they
didn't know.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
One guy said, he goes, why is there controversy that
the press covered it up? It was out there for
you to see. You didn't need the press to tell
you what was happening. You saw it with your own eyes.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
But you know what again, the narrative was, oh, those
clips were edited to show that President Biden was walking
slow or falling down the stairs, or whatever it's to
suit your purpose, John.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I just we're in an age of unreality. We're no
matter what happens, they tell you the opposite. I'm reading
all these outraged politicians over cutting off the high speed
rail funding as if we were this close, you know,
as if we were just like, I don't know, ten
feet away from reaching the train station. An now we're
out of money. Everybody lies, it's all they do.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Did you say what she's doing or did I interest?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, you interrupted me.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Sorry, she is leaving the Democratic Party, she's becoming an independent.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
And why is she doing that? Because you know what
ignorance is bliss. She didn't know. She thought everything was okay,
and when she left the job, and she has found
out that oh, isn't If Biden did have some issues,
she felt very upset if she was in the dark.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You know, I don't know how somebody who could get
paid that much money to lie for two and a
half years, I don't know how they would feel after
it all gets blown up in their face. But you know,
she's writing a book.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
She's going to deny it. She's going to say that
she didn't know, and she was just saying what she
was told, and she didn't have any alone time with
the president. And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Do you remember my favorite one? Real quickly?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
A congresswoman named Jackie will Orski died and that's when
Biden went out and he knew he would just she
had just died a short time before, and she went
out to an event and called out, hey, where's Jackie?
And so they went to Karine Jean Pierre, and Karine
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Jean Pierre said, well, he did that because because she
was top of mind.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Well maybe she was top of mine. She wasn't really lying.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You're you're auditioning, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
No, I'm just I'm just saying, I look, I try
not to be a hypocrite, right, And I get this
sometimes in certain jobs. You you and you're getting paid
a lot of money. What are you supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Let's go to Debora Mark.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Hey, look, you know I am your spokesperson, all right,
and I never lie.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't want you to. There's nothing to lie about exactly.
We're not hiding here.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
No hard to hide on, right, We're always telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Six forty more stimulating talk radio moistline eight seven seven,
Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or
use the talk back feature on the iHeartRadio app. And
we're going to do that on Friday twice in the
three o'clock hour. One of the disturbing to this high
speed rail story today the Trump administration announced that they're
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pulling four billion dollars in federal funding, cutting off this crooked,
corrupt high speed rail criminal enterprise, is that Newsome wants
to spend a billion dollars a year for the next
twenty years on high speed rail. That's their response to
(28:27):
Trump pulling four billion, wasting a billion dollars of a
tax money every year until what the year twenty forty five.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Well, how do you want to waste it? John? If
we don't waste it that way, I.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Have other ideas on how to waste money.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, what should happen with the high speed rail? What
do you think?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Stop?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Just stop, just stop. They can't do it, So do
you what do you dismantle the project? That's I mean,
it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
There's nothing to dismantle. They didn't build anything.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Well, I know they've got short They've got a short
span built, don't they. They've got a little bit of
construction done.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Now they've got some of the Buya ducts.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
They look like stonehengeboard, right.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Right, right right, yeah, yeah, those are the support.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It's crazy to think about all the money spent and
that's always and all they built it.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Thegant it's like what he didn't do anything?
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Yeah, well half of it is the you know, removing
people from their homes, buying the real estate clearing. It's
so you say, let's full stop, just stop, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Come up, let's go.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well Tomic Clintock said, why don't we widen some of
the freeways. Sure that would releave the traffic.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
All right, problem solved, next issue, Yes, Sir Alex Stone
joins us off the Top, always like It with Alex
Stone from ABC joins off the Top of the Conway
Show Conway of course, still ailing Mohammed Soloman or do
you say solo Man?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I've heard it both ways, I think.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Anyway, he told the cops that he tried to make
this attack an active shooter situation, but they wouldn't sell
him a gun.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Just so, what an odd admission to make.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Yeah, I really wanted to wipe out some more people
with a gun, but couldn't get it because I'm in
the country illegally.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
And I just saw a documentary. I don't know if
I think you know, you're actually got a pretty broad
area of interest. You might like it. It's the new
Pee Wee Herman Doctors.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh, I already watched it.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Didn't you find it? Fella?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It was great, Yeah, it was. It was fascinating. I
think he got a really really raw deal.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
He got just the destroyed his life, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
And he was just sitting at the back of the
theater minding his own business.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
And it wasn't even that I mean even here LAPD
with that investigation. They didn't even charge him with anything,
did they say he was being investigated.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
For child child pornography. He didn't have any.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
He didn't have any, but but you know, once you
smeared his name that way, it really destroyed him.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
The poor man had his life destroyed.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I felt so bad for him watching it, and he
did people were out to get him.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Yeah, people set him up. That's exactly right. Courtney was
in tears. She was like really inconsolable for like five
or six minutes.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
She was so moved by it.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I didn't go that far, but I wouldn't felt sad.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
I'm not looking for tears review, but I found that
you even anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Make me cry one of those a game show, remember
the game show?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Make me laugh? Yeah, made me cry.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
You go anyway.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Someone from that documentary was actually featured in the documentary
and in another documentary Prudence Fenton, who had a lot
to do with Pee Wee Herman and the creative on
Pee Wee, and also another film about Ali Willis, who's
a film a songwriter wrote the theme to Friends. Right anyway,
she's going to stop through and we're gonna talk about
that and Mark it's a big show John.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It really was a terrific documentary on Pee weeh, absolutely,
and I really I really felt bad for him.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Yeah, there's no question. And you saw at the very end.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
I mean, I want to give away any spoilers, but
his last remarks I thought made it clear that it
was ruinous to him.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, I mean it really was.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
He was an outcast as a result of it, and
it was incredibly unfair.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
But I didn't cry. Did you cry?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
I felt that of sadness, Yeah, that I felt. I understood.
I had a melancholy, Yeah, but I didn't. I didn't cry. No,
I didn't had a melancholy. A melancholia as that's.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
A good drink. I think that's happy. If I had
a drink I found.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
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We are going to talk a lot about the Trump
administration defunding high speed rail here in California. Says there's
(00:20):
no viable path for it, pulling away four billion dollars
that high speed railer is going to get from the
federal government. Earlier in the show, we had Congressman Tom
McClintock and State Senator Tony Strickland give their views. So
if you want to hear that on the podcast, I'm
going to give you a rundown coming up in the
next segment because all kinds of politicians are weighing in.
(00:44):
You wouldn't believe, Oh yeah, you would. How many supporters
in politics here in California exist for high speed rail. Still,
after seventeen years and seventeen billion wasted dollars and no track,
there are still politicians cheerleading insisting that we have to
(01:05):
keep going. It makes you wonder if they're if they're
in on the grift, they must be part of the
con somehow money's getting back to them. But first, another
atrocity here. If you live in Southern California, the Southern
California Air Quality Management District, I'm sorry, it's the South
(01:26):
Coast Air Quality Management District. Excuse me, I keep doing that.
South Coast air Quality Management District. They have announced last
year they tried to ban gas powered water heaters and
space heaters. They're at it again, but they're coming in
through a side door this time, but it would lead
to the same place you wouldn't be able to have
(01:48):
a gas powered water or space heater. We're going to
talk here with Lorie Davies because she's leading a coalition
opposing the gas appliance ban and have to have to
work quickly because Friday, at nine in the morning, there's
going to be a the regulators will be having a
meeting on this. Let's get Lori Davies on Republican Ada,
(02:10):
Laguna Neguel.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Hi, Laurie, how are you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm good, John, Thanks so much for letting me talk
on this. It's really important.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Explain to people who haven't heard about this. What is
the South Coast Air Quality Management District trying to do here.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
What is their goal, Well, the bottom line is their
goal of course is cleaner, which we all certainly know
is worthy. However, their decision that they will vote on
this Friday one pack approximately sixteen million Californians, half of
the state. We have an affordability crisis in southern California.
This will significantly impac renters and homeowners in a time
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when our finances are incredibly tough. What this is going
to do is the action that the board will take
will consider is to men rule eleven eleven and eleven
twenty one. This will force consumers to choose a much
more expensive option of all electric space and water heaters.
Electric clients cost more than gas appliances, so you know,
we can't afford to make the switch, and you will
(03:09):
be required to pay a fee to continue using your
natural gas water heater and furnace. So additionally, there will
be a substantial cost to retrofit and upgrade infrastructure on
all their homes. I mean this is a government mandate
and could cost about forty seven thousand dollars for new
appliances and to retrofit and old their home, and about
(03:30):
fifteen hundred fees to keep your gas appliance.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So this is going to are people to to be
able to keep their current gas powered water or space
heater or they're being forced to buy a new one.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, once it dies, your option is either to pay
fees about fifteen hundred dollars or to retrofit. So sooner
or later it will icy. It will be there.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
As soon as you need a new one.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Then you've got to buy an electric heater, which is
a lot more expensive. You got to retrofit your heater,
which is also expensive. And that's how they're going to
drive out gas powered heaters exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And we already know the cost of electricity is much
higher than the cost of gas.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh yeah, and it's double the national average the cost
of electricity in this state.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And then you and I both know that the grid
can't handle this. I mean, the grid is not reliable
on you know, it needs to have sources such as
natural gas generate power, and once again we'll end up
with blackouts and we're not going to have enough electricity
out there. So they're always putting the cart before the horse.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The public responded strongly against this just last year, right
there was like thirteen thousand messages sent to the air
quality management district saying don't do this. We don't want
it get out of our lives.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Absolutely, So when we saw this was coming up, and
again it's one of those things that you don't hear
about until so as soon as we got hold of this,
we started having community outreach meetings. I was able to
get fifteen legislators signing a letter sending it to them.
And this board, this board is ben up of twelve
members and three of them are appointed by the governor.
(05:17):
This governor, the Speaker, and the Senate rules. But the
others are actually elected officials that are appointed, such as
supervisors in the district and city council members. So it's
really important that we get the message to them. And
I can tell you right now what we have is
we have a site you can go to it. We
can't afford this dot com and we have to do
(05:39):
this before June six because that's when they're going to
be having the hearing. And this is a direct link
to fill in comments and opposition. And it's also filled
a lot of great deal of economic impact information on
the website, so have more understanding to it. But it
is so important that we stop this.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
We can't afford this. Dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, we can't. Exactly, we can't afford it. Dot com
is right.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So that's where you go to fill out the form
to let the South Coast Air Quality Management District know
that you can't afford this new requirement that leads to
electric water heaters and electric space heaters.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's exactly right. And I think it's important that you know,
two thirds of the sport are electric electro officials, so
we need to make sure they understand that the people's
voice is important.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It is so expensive obviously that live in California, and
this week it's one thing after another. I mean, we're
talking about the sixty five cent gasoline increase that is
coming maybe July first, and then on top of that,
we're going to have this water heater increase and the
space heater increase here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Right and right now we are voting on the floor
with all these bills, and you know, trying to stop
the bills that are just going to keep raising the
cost of living here. It is so.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We I mean, it's the number one thing that is
driving people out of California. And then we have a
legislature and a governor that that that piles on the costs,
five piles on the penalties just to live.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Absolutely, you tend to wonder what the agenda is.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I don't know what is the upside of driving out
you know, the middle class and the working class. It's
gonna leave nothing but wealthy people and illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
There's not going to be anything else.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
No, there's not.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
We're not going to have businesses and we're not going
to have you know, we're not going to have the
funding that we're going to need, the revenue that we
need right now. We are the most tax states and
so we don't have a revenue problem here. We have
a problem with managing the revenue. And they keep putting
out bills and we're just up here fighting. But I'm
telling you what, California is really starting to get informed
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and their voice makes a difference. So when they call
in we can't afford this dot com or any other issue,
it does make a difference.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Okay, we can't for this dot com. Fill out the
forum that will get sent to the South Coast air
Quality Management District. They're meeting Friday morning at nine o'clock
and this if they get their way, you're going to
be spending thousands of dollars on electric heaters and uh
electric space heaters because gas space heaters and gas uh
(08:24):
and gas water heaters are going to be phased out
and then well we'll.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Be mixed gas, you know. So it's just getting the
foot into the door.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Right, all right, Laurie, we'll talk again. Thank you for
coming on my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Thanks again, John Bye.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
It's stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Why can't you be left alone if you want a
gas water heater? What's at their business? God, it's just
like a bunch of communists, a bunch of Soviets thought
your business if I have a gas water heater or
a gas space heater, get out of my life. Said,
(09:02):
they're going to make you pay thousands of dollars extra. Well,
we can't afford this dot com. You better go sign
it up. Don't go complaining afterwards, because they're meeting Friday,
June sixth, at nine o'clock in the morning when we
come back, Yai. It is it is the biggest news
of the day. The Trump administration said no more high
(09:24):
speed rail federal funding.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Done gone enough of this.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
We'll tell you what The Trump officials said, and we'll
tell you now what these Democratic politicians in California are saying.
Trying to defend high speed rails. Still after seventeen years
of failure, Still.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
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High speed rail four billion dollars has been pulled by
the Trump administration. Federal money pulled from California and the
(10:15):
Trump administration through there well, a couple of spokespeople the
Transportation Department, the Federal Railroad Administration.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They said there's no viable path. That's that's the word
they use.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And California has thirty seven days to write a response
and the Trump administration will go and then the money
gets pulled.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Now, the Feds have so far.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Paid eighteen percent of the cost, so this is a
big hole blown in the budget eighteen percent. There's a
three hundred and ten page compliance review that they released.
The Department of Transportation said there's a lot of budget shortfalls,
a lot of deadlines, missed, and a lot of this
(11:04):
is polite, misleading projected ridership. In other words, they'd lied
their asses off about how many people would use this thing.
And they were still analyzing the San Francisco to La Idea,
the high speed you know, two hour and twenty minute,
two hundred and twenty mile an hour train that's never
(11:24):
going to happen. But the review for federal money targets
the construction just in the central Valley. This is the
Bakersfield to Merced wing of this high speed rail. Now,
I'm going to read your quote from the Federal Railroad
Administration's acting administrator, Drew Feey. He wrote, California High Speed
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Rail Authority relied on the false hope of an unending
spigot of federal tax dollars. In essence, California high Speed
Rail conned the taxpayer out of its four billion dollar investment,
with no viable plan to deliver even the partial segment
on time. The High Speed Rail Authority disagree with the findings,
(12:13):
and I'm thinking, what do you disagree with?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Go look out the window.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
There's no rail there is there, There are no trains,
and there are no rail stations. A spokes hole for
high speed rail. Boy, this is the job you want.
This is the job you want, Debora high speed Rail
spokes hole.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Why would I want that?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Let's see how convincing you can say this?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Okay, the authority will fully address and correct the record
in our formal response.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
The authority will fully address, address and correct the record
and correct the record.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
In our formal response.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
In our formal response.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It sounds convincing, convincing. You sound like you mean it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
We remain firmly committed to completing the nation's first true
high speed rail system.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Can we remain fully committed? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
No, go ahead, Well, we remain fully committed.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
We remain fully committed.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
To completing the nation's first true high speed rail system.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
To you know what you're reading, So that's not there.
I can't memorize. You can read it off a screen.
You can send it to me.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Bring in the next candidate.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I didn't get the job. Clearly.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I'm sorry. I set you up.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Here's some responses from the politicians. Let me let me
get to the democratic politicians here. This just came over
from the Los Angeles Times. Oh, here's one from Andy Kunns.
That's an unfortunate name. Andy Kunns, President and chief executive
of US High Speed Rail Association. California voters are tired
(13:51):
of traffic jams and airport delays. If you build high
speed rail from Bakersfield to Merced, how does that relieve
traffic jams and airport delays here in Los Angeles and
the guns?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
He Actually people say these things and they put their
names to it. Support for the California High speed Rail
project is growing as the state's transportation system continues to
grind to a halt. What kind of mushrooms are these
guys smoking? Support it's growing. Here's another guy. Rick Harnish,
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the executive director for the High Speed Rail Alliance, called
the review angering. Oh his paycheck must depend on this angering,
and said it would only create further roadblocks for the
project that he believes is critical for the state. This
isn't just about the Bay area of the La Basin. Well,
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they're not building it from the Bay area to the
La Basin. They're trying to get funding for Bakersfield and Merced,
about transportation for the whole state. And it would be
the catalyst for truly making financially viable communities, for making families,
for making families.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Is it going to help people make families?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Is there a sex component?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
There might be maybe a trains make people.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Horny, and maybe a special sex car on the train.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, giving the more economic opportunity, it would just be huge.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, you want where Rick Harness's smoking?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
There?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Nancy Pelosi?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
What is she?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
One hundred and four? She's very upset. This announcement is
the rejection of the future. California has been a leader
in realizing the vision of high speed rail to meet
the needs of working families.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
What do you meet the needs of working families?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
There's no track at seventeen years, there's no track, there's
no trains, there's no stations.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
John, these things take time. You're so impatient.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm just being negative.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's just it is unfortunate that the Secretary, Sean Duffy,
has misrepresented the facts.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, are there trains and we just can't see them?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Are is there?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Raal?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
She sees them? I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It promotes commerce and proves the quality of life for Californians,
creates good paying jobs. Oh, they're good paying jobs, but
they don't produce anything. I mean, these people are insane.
It lowers the cost of housing by shortening the distance
to commute from home to work.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
But there's no train.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
This is what they keep talking like, you know, the
project just started, and this is what it's gonna do
if you just give it five years. It's they've been
doing it for seventeen, all right. But these people, but
you know, this is what criminals do. This is what
(16:58):
con artists do. Lobbyists, lobbyists. Yeah, I mean these people
must be making so much money.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Hey, if I'm gonna be making millions, I'll say the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You could be bought.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I can.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Eric clip that little quote there.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I have no morals, no problem.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We'll get you real popular.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
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Speaker 7 (17:40):
The uh.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
The big news of the day is the Trump administration
has defunded California High Speed Rail. Yes, four billion dollars
was on the table and future funding and the Trump
people pulled it and said there is no viable path
for this project. They have missed too many deadlines, They've
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blown too many budgets. Their claims are really not to
be believed. The projected ridership was just fantasy. I've seen now,
as arkone California Globe, the new total cost of high
speed rail to do La to San Francisco one hundred
and thirty five billion dollars. One hundred thirty five billion.
(18:28):
We've already spent seventeen billion, so we need we need
like nine times as much money as we have, and
they need another fourteen billion soon. Otherwise the project is
going to grind to a halt. And according to the
California Globe, the answer for this past month has been, well,
(18:53):
let's get private funding. But they haven't had private funding.
They've been trying for twenty five years. That's not possible.
Or California might take out more loans. I mean, they
had us vote on the original ten billion dollars in loans.
(19:13):
Are they going to put that back on the ballot
and try to convince us people got scammed once? Could
you scam them a second time?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah? People are going to vote for more taxes, are
you kidding?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I guess it's automatic in this state, right, there's no
tax that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Win on the ballot. We just had the homeless tax measures.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
The thing is, it's not even gray zone where the
money ends up, right, it's clearly getting stolen. We clearly
are not removing the homeless, and we are not building
high speed rail. And everybody says, oh, fine, more money. Hey,
you didn't clear out any homeless. How about another few billion.
(19:58):
It's same thing with high speed rail. No, they don't
do this in other states.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I don't understand. Maybe it's drugs. Maybe it is drugs.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Maybe we need to be on drugs so that we
don't get so upset.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, maybe I wouldn't notice all this if we were
on drugs. So one hundred and thirty five billion, that's
that's San Francisco to Los Angeles. You know what which
just kills me is all these bastards. No, it's never
going to be built, but they keep begging for more
(20:35):
money anyway, and now they're really they're out of They
have no private sources.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
They never did.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
They stole They stole some of the uh, some of
the tax money that the oil companies have been paying,
which is really ends up being gas tax money for us.
They can't get federal money anymore. I you know, all
they got left is if they borrowed. But I would
(21:03):
think if they're going to borrow that much, that's going
to have to go on the ballot. What I mean it,
you know, when you steal billions of dollars, though, that's
a lot of people that get a pretty cool salary
for a long time, like it's worth it to them.
And most of these guys are anonymous, Like the first
first couple of rounds of executives have come and gone
(21:24):
since two thousand and eight. It's like they took their
money and they left, and you know they stole it,
but hey, nobody ever called them on it. And even
if you bring up their name on the air, nobody
knows who they are. They're not going to face any embarrassment.
They're probably on the Cayman Islands.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And the language on these ballot measures very confusing. I
think a lot of people are confused when they do
vote to raise taxes. Seriously, I mean they I've talked
to people and you know, again, the narrative is, well,
but we're gonna if for instance, the gas tax right right,
(21:59):
wasn't that, Oh, well, they're gonna be less police on
the streets, right, crime.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I mean, I mean there were so many.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Different ways that that was fun.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I know.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
The roads they won't get fixed, well, they didn't get
fixed exactly, and we still had crime.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
The homeless doesn't they don't get cleaned up, the roads
don't get fixed, the high speed rail isn't built.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But when you but they.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Offer another tax increase, if you say no, it's like, oh,
you don't want a world where there's no high speed
rail and there's no police and the roads aren't fixed
and the homeless or wandering around.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Well, I don't know, that's what we have.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
We need more money, another tax, another tax increase to
help with the homeless situation. Because the money was stolen.
That's not our fault.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You see it clearly. I see it clearly.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
What goes on out there, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I can't let the show go without mentioning this lunatic cringe.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Jean Pierre. She was that strange bird with the crazy hair.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Oh she's very pretty.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Oh lie, if that's your type, she's.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Not my type. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I mean she I found her to be weird.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I thought I thought she had a nice fashion sense.
You know, her makeup was nice.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oi, What do you mean.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You know she's into women? She married a CNN reporter, Yeah, okay,
cring John Pierre. Uh two years of eight months. She
was the lying spoke soul for Joe Biden. I was
looking at some clips today and they're excruciating to listen
to because she's babbles endlessly. But she was really passionate
(23:52):
lecturing the reporters on how sharp and energetic.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Okay, John, let me ask you this. I mean, because
you know, you and I are on the same page
on a lot of things. But she is paid, that's
her job. She is the press secretary for the White House.
So what is she supposed to say? Hey, you guys,
you're right, he has this cognitive disorder and he shouldn't
be running. But you didn't hear that from me.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, we're paying her, We're paying our tax money, so
she could lie back to us.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
I know, But I'm just saying, what do we expect
her to do?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And nobody believes her, although the reporters.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I was looking at some of these montages and the
reporter has hardly ever challenged her.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I don't understand that.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Well, yeah, but now everybody is is you know, that
book is out and everybody is upset. You know, they
didn't know.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
One guy said, he goes, why is there controversy that
the press covered it up? It was out there for
you to see. You didn't need the press to tell
you what was happening. You saw it with your own eyes.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
But you know what again, the narrative was, oh, those
clips were edited to show that President Biden was walking
slow or falling down the stairs, or whatever it's to
suit your purpose, John.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I just we're in an age of unreality. We're no
matter what happens, they tell you the opposite. I'm reading
all these outraged politicians over cutting off the high speed
rail funding as if we were this close, you know,
as if we were just like, I don't know, ten
feet away from reaching the train station. An now we're
out of money. Everybody lies, it's all they do.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Did you say what she's doing or did I interest?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, you interrupted me.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Sorry, she is leaving the Democratic Party, she's becoming an independent.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
And why is she doing that? Because you know what
ignorance is bliss. She didn't know. She thought everything was okay,
and when she left the job, and she has found
out that oh, isn't If Biden did have some issues,
she felt very upset if she was in the dark.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You know, I don't know how somebody who could get
paid that much money to lie for two and a
half years, I don't know how they would feel after
it all gets blown up in their face. But you know,
she's writing a book.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
She's going to deny it. She's going to say that
she didn't know, and she was just saying what she
was told, and she didn't have any alone time with
the president. And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Do you remember my favorite one? Real quickly?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
A congresswoman named Jackie will Orski died and that's when
Biden went out and he knew he would just she
had just died a short time before, and she went
out to an event and called out, hey, where's Jackie?
And so they went to Karine Jean Pierre, and Karine
(26:53):
Jean Pierre said, well, he did that because because she
was top of mind.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Well maybe she was top of mine. She wasn't really lying.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You're you're auditioning, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
No, I'm just I'm just saying, I look, I try
not to be a hypocrite, right, And I get this
sometimes in certain jobs. You you and you're getting paid
a lot of money. What are you supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Let's go to Debora Mark.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Hey, look, you know I am your spokesperson, all right,
and I never lie.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't want you to. There's nothing to lie about exactly.
We're not hiding here.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
No hard to hide on, right, We're always telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Six forty more stimulating talk radio moistline eight seven seven,
Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or
use the talk back feature on the iHeartRadio app. And
we're going to do that on Friday twice in the
three o'clock hour. One of the disturbing to this high
speed rail story today the Trump administration announced that they're
(28:05):
pulling four billion dollars in federal funding, cutting off this crooked,
corrupt high speed rail criminal enterprise, is that Newsome wants
to spend a billion dollars a year for the next
twenty years on high speed rail. That's their response to
(28:27):
Trump pulling four billion, wasting a billion dollars of a
tax money every year until what the year twenty forty five.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Well, how do you want to waste it? John? If
we don't waste it that way, I.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Have other ideas on how to waste money.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Well, what should happen with the high speed rail? What
do you think?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Stop?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Just stop, just stop. They can't do it, So do
you what do you dismantle the project? That's I mean,
it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
There's nothing to dismantle. They didn't build anything.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Well, I know they've got short They've got a short
span built, don't they. They've got a little bit of
construction done.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Now they've got some of the Buya ducts.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
They look like stonehengeboard, right.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Right, right right, yeah, yeah, those are the support.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It's crazy to think about all the money spent and
that's always and all they built it.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Thegant it's like what he didn't do anything?
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Yeah, well half of it is the you know, removing
people from their homes, buying the real estate clearing. It's
so you say, let's full stop, just stop, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Come up, let's go.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well Tomic Clintock said, why don't we widen some of
the freeways. Sure that would releave the traffic.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
All right, problem solved, next issue, Yes, Sir Alex Stone
joins us off the Top, always like It with Alex
Stone from ABC joins off the Top of the Conway
Show Conway of course, still ailing Mohammed Soloman or do
you say solo Man?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I've heard it both ways, I think.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Anyway, he told the cops that he tried to make
this attack an active shooter situation, but they wouldn't sell
him a gun.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Just so, what an odd admission to make.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Yeah, I really wanted to wipe out some more people
with a gun, but couldn't get it because I'm in
the country illegally.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
And I just saw a documentary. I don't know if
I think you know, you're actually got a pretty broad
area of interest. You might like it. It's the new
Pee Wee Herman Doctors.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh, I already watched it.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Didn't you find it? Fella?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It was great, Yeah, it was. It was fascinating. I
think he got a really really raw deal.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
He got just the destroyed his life, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
And he was just sitting at the back of the
theater minding his own business.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
And it wasn't even that I mean even here LAPD
with that investigation. They didn't even charge him with anything,
did they say he was being investigated.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
For child child pornography. He didn't have any.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
He didn't have any, but but you know, once you
smeared his name that way, it really destroyed him.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
The poor man had his life destroyed.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I felt so bad for him watching it, and he
did people were out to get him.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Yeah, people set him up. That's exactly right. Courtney was
in tears. She was like really inconsolable for like five
or six minutes.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
She was so moved by it.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I didn't go that far, but I wouldn't felt sad.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
I'm not looking for tears review, but I found that
you even anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Make me cry one of those a game show, remember
the game show?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Make me laugh? Yeah, made me cry.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
You go anyway.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Someone from that documentary was actually featured in the documentary
and in another documentary Prudence Fenton, who had a lot
to do with Pee Wee Herman and the creative on
Pee Wee, and also another film about Ali Willis, who's
a film a songwriter wrote the theme to Friends. Right anyway,
she's going to stop through and we're gonna talk about
that and Mark it's a big show John.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It really was a terrific documentary on Pee weeh, absolutely,
and I really I really felt bad for him.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Yeah, there's no question. And you saw at the very end.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
I mean, I want to give away any spoilers, but
his last remarks I thought made it clear that it
was ruinous to him.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, I mean it really was.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
He was an outcast as a result of it, and
it was incredibly unfair.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
But I didn't cry. Did you cry?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
I felt that of sadness, Yeah, that I felt. I understood.
I had a melancholy, Yeah, but I didn't. I didn't cry. No,
I didn't had a melancholy. A melancholia as that's.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
A good drink. I think that's happy. If I had
a drink I found.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
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