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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Lou Penrose on news radio six hundred co Goo. We
are live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Good to have you along with us. Big night for
the World Cup. The United States is in is in
the house up in Seattle versus Belgium, and if the
United States advances, it'll be historic first time we got
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to this round. Everybody's into it. It was a great match
last night, a heartbreaker for our fans of Mexico, who
many of whom live in San Diego. But we were
rooting for you and it was right up to the
last second, a very exciting match, and tonight's going to
be exciting. And there's some there's some astresses on this
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one too, as flow. It was determined earlier today that
abllution is going to be able to play, so that
red card ruling was I guess amended or suspended. And
every buddy is out at watch parties, including Coco's own
Phil Farr. Phil. Where are you now?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I am at the SDFC house here in Mission beat. Now,
we gotta we got to clear up something, Lou. It's balligan,
faux balligan.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, I want to make sure get it right.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, I want to get that. I want to get
that right. So he is obviously the center of controversy.
But here at this SDFC watch party that's going to
be taking place. This is almost like the fourth of
July as far as parking is concerned. The number of people.
I'm still looking for a parking spot. People have come here.
I've been here for a little more than forty minutes
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just trying to get a spot. We see USA flags
all over the place, people dressed up in red, white
and blue. It's going to be a big crowd. We're
here at the Belmont Park that's where the SDFC house is,
and people are ready for this one. They're ready for
this one. There's obviously a lot of controversy now about
this game. Belgium ranked ninth in the FIFA Cup World standings,
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the United States ranked sixteenth. As you can throw all
of that out of the window, especially when you go
up to Seattle and play in one of the loudest
stadiums in the United States. But here's going to be
loud as well.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Is a target tonight. Are they going to go after him?
Are they going to try and either just get into
his head, throw him off, make him feel attacked upon
or make him try to draw him out to retaliate.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
My You know, the biggest question I had was will
he start, because you know they've been they've been practicing,
and they've been, you know, preparing for Belgium without thinking
that they would have Baligan. So it's gonna be interesting.
I don't know if they can get into his head.
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I mean, the guy's a pro. He's played all over
the world. Born in Nigeria, grew up in London, wanted
to play for the London team in England and grew
up and his family moved here. But I don't you know,
he's a pretty heavy player. He is the leading scorer.
He scored two goals in the first game and then
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he scored a third one the last game they played.
So I don't think they can get you know, you've
got Christian polistic as well.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So this team is the reason I ask is because
of the circumstance. I mean, you literally have the President
of the United States weighing in over this call. The
whole world literally is talking about this call, and you
know it was uncertain whether or not he'd be playing tonight,
and ratings are through the roof. Betting is through the roof.
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I mean, there's a kind of it cannot be like
any other match he's gone into in his life.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No, what happened was President Trump and the FIFA president
has just been unprecedented. No one has ever ever seen
anything like this before. And they've talked before, you know
about I guess Croatia and Argentina was the Argentinian player offside,
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but this, you know, usually nothing is overturned. I mean
Belgium did go to FIFA and say hey, and FIFA
said immediately no. But there was another court or another
legal avenue that they could have taken they did they
said no because they never go against FIFA. So this
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we are an unchartered territory. Does a World Cup win
for the United States does that mean a tink or
does that mean that well, yeah, that we just make
it to the quarterfinals and we play on. This is
gonna be a really really interesting game and I think
there's gonna be a lot of controversy around surrounding this.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Coco's Phil Ferrar, thanks so much for joining us. We
will we'll keep a sharp eye on the score because
it's going to kick off here around five o'clock. So
I'm up against it. The padreser up against it, you know,
anything else, anything that's not football, and you can hear
it all live on our Assisoctation Sports seven and sixty.
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So I got about forty five minutes left with y'all
and then you're all gonna split and do what I
would do, and that is turn off lou Penrose and
and watch or listen to this. But yeah, balligant and
I can't the amount of pressure that's on him. I
just think that this is unprecedented in that a single
player has look, you know, me and others, Butchering just
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trying to get through his name. Now he's you know,
he's well known on planet Earth.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
When the US and Belgium meet in the Round of sixteen,
will indeed be in uniform. As for now, the Belgian
Soccer Federation formally wrote to FIFA to appeal the matter,
and the right to appeal was granted. The submission for
the appeal had to be in by eight am Eastern time,
as well as the response from US Soccer. After receiving
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the red card, Dallagan was supposed to miss Monday night's game.
The Belgian Soccer Federation is quote astonished by FIFA's decision
to suspend the ban, citing Article twenty seven of its
disciplinary code.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They always got articles over there. Everything in Europe, there's
always an article twenty seven as to why you can't
do this. I don't I'm not familiar with soccer and
World Cup rules, so I did not know the frequency
of appeals. I feel like they're appealing all the time.
In Major League Baseball these days, we have courts of appeal.
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In the United States, the governor and the Attorney General
appeals President Trump's executive order every single day. What we
do in this country is appeal. So I don't know
if appeal. They made it sound like if they if
the United States appealed, then it would upset the people
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that listened to the appeal, like there was a there
was a discouraging tone about it all. And again I
don't know how that all works. But apparently they took
the chance and appealed. And President Trump admitted he said, yes,
I absolutely made the call. Well I did, well, I did.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I asked for a review because I didn't think it
was a foul. And you know, again, I'm good at
this stuff. I didn't think it was a foul. I
thought it was two great athletes to question into each
other and got entangled. That was not a That was
not a guy punching somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
In the face or anything that you know would be different.
So and I asked the only person that I know
that knows more about this than anybody I know, and
that is Mike Usher, the assistant program director here at Kogo,
And I said, so, what what was it? He said,
It's it's complicated because it can be properly viewed either way.
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It seemed accidental, but you don't know for sure it
was accidental, and a split second, somebody knows they're falling
down can strengthen their foot if they feel the side
of their foot coming down along someone's cap so that
it slams on the ankle, like he could have intentionally
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did that in the last moment. I mean, they were
not completely randomly falling on each other, so there could
have been there was contact. If you wanted to hurt
the other player, you would have done it just like that,
and the other player was hurt, So in that regard
you could argue for the red card. You could also say,
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look when two players who did not intend to hit
into each other they were going for the ball. It
was a loose ball. It's a live match. Clock is
ticking up. Clock ticks up in soccer, not down, So
everyone's running at a high speed. As Trump said, I
just saw two spectacular athletes going for the same ball,
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and they collided into each other and legs and arms
went wherever they went. So there was no malice or intent,
and he didn't get a broken ankle. So it's a
yellow card. So it's a call, and most people, including
the President, thought it was a bad call. And uh
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now it's yourversed, all right. So a lot of questions
about whether or not President Trump should have waited in
on this at all, and a lot of excitement over
tonight's match and the ratings through the roof. Wait to
hear about that. That's all coming up next to Lou
Penrose on news Radio six hundred Cogo watch parties all
across San Diego. Everybody's getting ready. Soccer fever has indeed
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hit the United States.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Hey, Lou, I totally agree with the flopping and understand
where you're coming from with that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Come on, get the magic spray. Oh I'm good now.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I think what they're really doing is they're running a
whole game, ninety minutes or forty five minutes, whatever it is.
They're taking a break, they're tired, they're getting their breath.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Maybe they're catching a breath. I saw a guy down,
like in the last thirty seconds of the match last
night between England and Mexico. There was a guy down
on the sidelines holding his leg and nobody was helping him.
And I don't know if they just said, ma, right, well,
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we got thirty seconds here to do a Hail Mary
of some kind just to just tie this forget him
and just keep playing. So sometimes they really roll around
and ham it up, and sometimes I think they're really hurt,
and nobody comes to the raid. You get to.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Realize that Bernardo who just played for Paraguay or played
against Spain today, his was overturned and he had a
three game suspension, but since it was just before the
World Cup started and they didn't want him missing things,
they suspended those three games suspensions. So it isn't anything
that's new for FIFA to do.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Well. That was my question is how frequently are these
appeals heard and how do you get a three game suspension?
The card is already read Is there a reddor card?
Like I thought, you get a red card? Is you're
out for the rest of the game and they can't
replace you. So for the rest of the match you're
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down a man and then you can't play the next time.
That was Flow's situation, but I appreciate the call.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Hey, it's also Italian Heritage Night tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
At the ballpark.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
First pitch?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Six forty chow? Italian Heritage Night at he coo? What
is that like? How have I not been invited to
Italian Heritage Night at Petco by the Padres? How have
I not thrown out the first pitch on Italian Heritage
Night at Petco by the Padres. I'm like the most
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upstanding Italian American in San Diego. All right, so Trump said, Look,
at the end of the day, this is a good thing.
Both teams should have all their star players. And if
we win, if we lose it was.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Rigged, we're gonna have a full team and Belgium this
would this game would have a big mark on it
if we lost. If we want no matter what happened,
you have to let them use their best players.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And the game tonight's going to be amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
And we're gonna have a full team, and Belgium is
gonna have a full team. And you know what, if
they beat us, then they can be really proud. The
other way, if they beat us, will say it was
I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
There you go. You gotta love President Trump. He keeps
his sense of humor going at all times. If they
kept the suspension and Belgium one, then it was rigged.
And we'll go with that. But now we won't say
it's rigged if we lose. If they win, they should
be very proud. But it was fair. That is classic.
(13:27):
That is classic. Donald Trump ta't good enough of that.
He said, indeed that he had personally asked the FIFA
president his name is Gianni Infantino to review the red
card against USA striker Floren Falligan. But they call him flow.
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It's f ol Wow. Everything is strange about the sport,
saying that the president believed that the dismissal was unfair,
but insisted that he'd not pursue for Bulls governing body
to overturn the suspension. So I'm not sure who Belgium
is sore with, but they're sore they don't like it.
They think it is unprecedent. Everything's unprecedented, but the ratings
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are certainly unprecedented.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
America is discovering soccer. The US Men's World Cup win
over Bosnia and Herzegovina Wednesday, Drew combined thirty three point
five million viewers across Fox.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Okay, so thirty five point three million. Seinfeld finale had
seventy five million viewers, Is that right, mister finnerty seventy
two to seventy five? I think seventy five. I think
seventy five. So that puts into perspective, right, I mean,
mass appeal of Seinfeld a little higher than sports certainly,
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and any single sporting event, any single sporting event that's
not America's pastime. So that's pretty handsome. Thirty five million
viewers for Fox.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Drew combined thirty three point five million viewers across Fox,
thirty three to five Telemundo and Peacock, shattering the previous
US record for any soccer match Fox's.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That could not have been hard to do. I don't
know that you shatter the previous record for a soccer match.
I think you are doing very well.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Fox's English language audience alone top twenty four million, a
record in its own right. That's according to preliminary Nielsen numbers.
The victory was the American men's first knockout stage win
at a World Cup in twenty four years, setting the
stage for tonight's match on Fox and Fox won as
the US men's team faces Belgium in the round of sixteen.
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The winner advances to the quarterfinals.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh boy, so this is a big one. This is
a big one the United States to advance. I think
the writings are going to be even higher. So this
is good for everybody, all right when we come back.
Betting now off the charts because now everyone wants something
to bet on. They're all betting on soccer in the
United States all of a sudden. I don't even know
how you begin to bet on soccer. I can't follow
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it at all. All I know now is about the cards.
Penroe on News Radio six hundred COBO. We are live
and local. Thank you for tuning in. Good to have
you along with us.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Hey, Ligi, if you want to throw out the first pitch,
give me.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Call Hey Lou, make the padres an offer they cannot refuse.
Love your show, Bro, everybody's a comedian, mister Finnerdy. They're
all trying to become content creators and get in on
the act. They need to have better content. Yeah, that's
that's the seven thirty show. We need the ten thirty
show material. But I look, I appreciate it. I truly
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do all right. Betting everybody is sports betting. Last football
season was record setting with the amount of money that
was wagered on these online apps, which are illegal in California.
It's a fascinating world out there. You can't bet on sports,
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or you're not supposed to, I mean technically speaking, making
up little boxes with you and your friends, you know,
and putting dollars in the boxes. Even that's illegal, but like,
nobody obeys the law and instead and the California has
tried a couple of times to modernize the rules and
regulations on sports betting, and it's too late. Horse out
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of the barn, toothpastes out of the two. Everybody's just
betting online and now they're betting on soccer.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Analysts are tracking the World Cup to set this record
gambling numbers. Given the fact technology continues to improve by
the day and people from all over the world are
focused on this World Cup for now. Some analysts predict
more than fifty billion in global wagers.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Wow, fifty billion and global wagers. That's incredible, That is
really incredible. Everybody talks about affordability in the United States,
and I think the United States is a powerhouse of economics.
The Dow Jones Industrial average was over fifty three thousand
today closed just under but it was in record territory
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and which means it will be in record territory. They're
looking at big banks JP, Morgan, Chase, uh and Wells
Fargo are all looking at gold reaching six thousand dollars
of Troy allns.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I mean I never lived at a time where everything
was up. Usually, you know, stocks are up and the
precious metals are down and real estate's down, or real
estate's up, but stocks are down recect. No, everything is up,
every single thing. The value of your house, the value
of the apartment building unfortunately, your rent, your gold, your
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gold necklace, any silver you got in your teeth, your
your portfolio, your four to one K, whether it's tech
heavy NASDAC or old school IBM. Everything at Coca Cola.
Everything is up. Everything is up. So things are flying high,
and people talk about affordability, all it's, well, somebody has
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budgeted for sports betting, because you can't have those kinds
of numbers without Americans getting in on that.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
For now, some analysts predict more than fifty billion in
global wagers, right, so.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Who else is wagering? I don't think you're allowed to wager,
and I might be wrong, so you're free to correct
me if I'm wrong. But certainly in the more conservative
corners of Islamic nations you're not allowed to wager, and
that so that knocks out, you know, the Dubai money, right,
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the Europeans, they're spending all their money flying all over
the United States and going to bars and staying at hotels.
They don't have any extra money to bet with on
top of it, and what else that's it? I mean
Central and South America. I don't think they should be betting.
They don't look like they have disposable incomes those countries.
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Although Mexico City did look very handsome on TV last night.
People for god. First off, Mexico City is like a
mile high It's like Denver. It's like a mile high city,
and it just it's I think it's the largest city
in the world, and it's just a beautiful place, what
a stadium. So maybe some of those people in the
stands they have some extra money to bet, But we're
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talking about global betting, like worlds in the world. Do
people have extra cash to put down on the United
States over Belgium or vice versa.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Deutsche Bank projecting three point three billion dollars in wagers
through sports books, led by sites like DraftKings and fan Duel.
While legal sports betting continues to boom, it does make
it difficult to rain in other sports betting. Just one example,
college sports limits are advocated for prop bets. In college sports.
A proposition or prop bet is when someone places a
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wager on a specific player, but that bet isn't tied
to the final score of the game.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh yeah, you're just betting on the guy. I know
they're coming up with new ways to bet, and I don't.
I can certainly bet on football, I can bet on basque,
I can bet on baseball. Pete Rose did not bet
on baseball. He said, you can bet on professional wrestling
if you want. I don't know how to bet on soccer, Like,
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what what would be the spread? A half a goal.
It seems like it's a low scoring game. It's so
fast moving, so I'm not even sure what I would
bet on. But they come up with different things to
bet on, different ways and betting, and people are enjoying it. Look,
I don't look at this as a terrible thing. I
know that it's often viewed that more betting is bad
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for society because irresponsible people will bet the rent money
and then the wife and the child will be homeless
and it will be the guy the dad's fall like
that's the standard narrative. But most people that are enjoying
adding some spice to a sporting event that they like
by putting money at stake, which is what you're doing,
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You're just adding some spice to it. You're making it worthwhile.
You never heard that phrase we're gonna shoot pool. Okay,
we're gonna make it interesting. Yeah, all of a sudden
it becomes interesting. Why because you got twenty bucks on
the table. So I like that betting is an option.
But I treat people like adults, So bet with your head,
not over it. The The app isn't gonna make a
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responsible person less responsible. I've seen these people in the
Sopranos who wind up, you know, on a miss extra
point and they wind up losing their bar, like I've
seen some of the things that happened with Tony Soprano,
or He's Gonna have to go it picks up a
son's suv from some guy that lost at poker. I mean,
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those people are gonna lose to somebody at some point,
so you might as well be the recipient of their
foolishness because somebody else is gonna get the money anyway.
So that more people are betting isn't necessarily a bad thing.
It just means people are enjoying the sport even more.
And I think everybody knows that you generally lose at
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the end of it. All that betting, like Vegas or casinos,
is entertainment. It's the fun and the thrill of being
ahead a little bit, but you keep playing until you're
ultimately even or under and then you call it a night.
And that's what it's all about, all right. We have
California State Assembly Member Carl Demile. There is other things
going on in California, believe it or not, besides the
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FIFA World Cup, the watch parties and the teenagers in
Newport Beach from the nine h nine tearing up pavilions,
not much else but a little bit more. And Prop
thirteen is still under attack in Sacramento, and like a
one man army, California State Assembly Member Carl Demile, with
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the support of Reform California behind him, are fighting the
good fight and making sure that these opportunities to protect
Prop thirteen stay on the ballot. And that's exactly what
he's been doing, and a whole lot more. He's got
a bunch of irons in the fire, as he always does.
Voter ID gonna be on the ballot, and I think
going to pass, and I think that he doesn't get
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enough credit, which is why I like highlighting him here
on the program on from time to time, which we
are going to do next. California State Assembly Member Carl
Demao on News Radio six hundred cogo. Lou Penrose on
news Radio six hundred cogo coming up following the News
at five. A series of court rulings has forced the
city to halt their crackdown on street vendors and in
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Balbo Park in the gas lamp around some of the stadiums,
the hot dog guys are back and the local vendors
and restaurant tours are ticked about it, So we'll talk
about that coming up. Following the news at five, the
state of California is imposing a new healthcare tax, and
it's amounting to four hundred and twenty five dollars per
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family of four. California State Assembly member call Demile here,
that's the last thing Californians need is now effectively an increase,
just another fee on their healthcare, on their insurance.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
That's right. Remember, we already have the highest cost of
providing medical services in the nation, the highest hospital bills,
the highest doctor bills, because we regulate the hell out
of health care and everything else, and so on top
of all the high costs of actually providing health care,
the insurance costs are going to be going up because
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they're adding this new four and twenty five dollars per family.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Tax.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
They're taxing health insurance premiums, which are already going up
by double digits this year. No, we know who's getting
free healthcare, illegal immigrants, to the tune of thirteen billion dollars.
So today Assembly Republicans joined me in sending a letter
to the Department of Health and Human Service. Is in
Washington urging the DHS to reject California's waiver application in
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order to implement this new tax. The federal government has
a right to review any taxes on medical or medicaid programs,
and we're urging a rejection of this medical tax if
the law allows. I mean, we don't believe that the
state of California has the legal ability to do this,
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and so the federal lawyers are going to look into it.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Well, how are the Democrats and Sacramento justifying the feet
Where are they? How are they rolling it into our
insurance premiums? And what are they what are they calling it?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
They say that Donald Trump is the root of all evil,
He is Satan, and he's causing all these costs to
go up, so they need to raise taxes.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Only what they're saying, they're blaming Donald Trump for their tax.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
That's exactly what they do. They do that on right,
is because of Donald Trump's policies, we need to raise
money to cover our costs. And somehow it becomes a
responsibility of the California, working Californians, even though somehow the
other forty nine states are fine and in fact doing
better under Trump's policy, So only California or California Democrats
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seem to think that these policies singularly affect us.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Yeah, and you can do the same thing on gas.
They sit there and say, oh, Donald Trump is bad
for gas prices. Well, can you explain why we're two
dollars a gallon higher in California than the rest of
the nation. Irrespective of what's happening in Iran, which obviously
has an impact, we still are paying two dollars more,
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whether or not there's anything going on in the Middle East.
And that's all the fault of again Sacramento politicians. So
we've got to get the message out there that the
cost of living across the board's going up, and this
latest healthcare premium tax for four under and twenty five dollars
per family, people can't afford it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It's all adding up.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
It's crushing working families.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
When will you expect to hear a response from DHS?
I mean, what's the do you have a sense of
when you'll hear back?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
You know, the argument we're making on this tax as
to why they should reject it is based around the
fact that California voters voted to prevent Newsom from doing
what he's about to do. It's under Prop thirty five
from last year. The problem is is that there's some
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gray area and so there will be a lawsuit in
state court to stop this tax. And so the argument
we're making to the federal government is you shouldn't let
this tax go through until it is fully adjudicated by
state courts because this could end up being an illegal
tax and not you know, you know, being something that
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was ever a So force Newsom to first get it
validated in the courts. That way, we at least can
delay the tax by your year or two as it
gets hammered out in the courts.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
California State a semplm Ember Carl Demile, thanks so much.
Always great to catch up with you. Truly appreciate it.
We'll check in with you. You thank you all right
when we come back. So this is these are tough ones.
When court rulings stop the city from cleaning things up
and in this case, enforcing regulations on street vendors, it
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puts the city in a bad spot. And it just
got to be resolved because I understand it. If you
are a licensed business and you are selling food. The
last thing you want is some pushcart guy with a
bunch of hot dogs after a big game. So it's
very annoying, it's unsightly. I don't think we are a
street vendor nation. I don't know that we want to
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go down a street vendor route. That's very quaint when
we go to other countries. But it's not clean. So
we'll talk about are coming up following the news at
five lou Penrose on news radio six hundred KOGO and
live on the iHeartRadio app.
Lou Penrose on news radio six hundred co Goo. We
are live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Good to have you along with us. Big night for
the World Cup. The United States is in is in
the house up in Seattle versus Belgium, and if the
United States advances, it'll be historic first time we got
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to this round. Everybody's into it. It was a great match
last night, a heartbreaker for our fans of Mexico, who
many of whom live in San Diego. But we were
rooting for you and it was right up to the
last second, a very exciting match, and tonight's going to
be exciting. And there's some there's some astresses on this
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one too, as flow. It was determined earlier today that
abllution is going to be able to play, so that
red card ruling was I guess amended or suspended. And
every buddy is out at watch parties, including Coco's own
Phil Farr. Phil. Where are you now?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I am at the SDFC house here in Mission beat. Now,
we gotta we got to clear up something, Lou. It's balligan,
faux balligan.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, I want to make sure get it right.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, I want to get that. I want to get
that right. So he is obviously the center of controversy.
But here at this SDFC watch party that's going to
be taking place. This is almost like the fourth of
July as far as parking is concerned. The number of people.
I'm still looking for a parking spot. People have come here.
I've been here for a little more than forty minutes
(01:41):
just trying to get a spot. We see USA flags
all over the place, people dressed up in red, white
and blue. It's going to be a big crowd. We're
here at the Belmont Park that's where the SDFC house is,
and people are ready for this one. They're ready for
this one. There's obviously a lot of controversy now about
this game. Belgium ranked ninth in the FIFA Cup World standings,
(02:06):
the United States ranked sixteenth. As you can throw all
of that out of the window, especially when you go
up to Seattle and play in one of the loudest
stadiums in the United States. But here's going to be
loud as well.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Is a target tonight. Are they going to go after him?
Are they going to try and either just get into
his head, throw him off, make him feel attacked upon
or make him try to draw him out to retaliate.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
My You know, the biggest question I had was will
he start, because you know they've been they've been practicing,
and they've been, you know, preparing for Belgium without thinking
that they would have Baligan. So it's gonna be interesting.
I don't know if they can get into his head.
(02:55):
I mean, the guy's a pro. He's played all over
the world. Born in Nigeria, grew up in London, wanted
to play for the London team in England and grew
up and his family moved here. But I don't you know,
he's a pretty heavy player. He is the leading scorer.
He scored two goals in the first game and then
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he scored a third one the last game they played.
So I don't think they can get you know, you've
got Christian polistic as well.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So this team is the reason I ask is because
of the circumstance. I mean, you literally have the President
of the United States weighing in over this call. The
whole world literally is talking about this call, and you
know it was uncertain whether or not he'd be playing tonight,
and ratings are through the roof. Betting is through the roof.
(03:46):
I mean, there's a kind of it cannot be like
any other match he's gone into in his life.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No, what happened was President Trump and the FIFA president
has just been unprecedented. No one has ever ever seen
anything like this before. And they've talked before, you know
about I guess Croatia and Argentina was the Argentinian player offside,
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but this, you know, usually nothing is overturned. I mean
Belgium did go to FIFA and say hey, and FIFA
said immediately no. But there was another court or another
legal avenue that they could have taken they did they
said no because they never go against FIFA. So this
(04:43):
we are an unchartered territory. Does a World Cup win
for the United States does that mean a tink or
does that mean that well, yeah, that we just make
it to the quarterfinals and we play on. This is
gonna be a really really interesting game and I think
there's gonna be a lot of controversy around surrounding this.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Coco's Phil Ferrar, thanks so much for joining us. We
will we'll keep a sharp eye on the score because
it's going to kick off here around five o'clock. So
I'm up against it. The padreser up against it, you know,
anything else, anything that's not football, and you can hear
it all live on our Assisoctation Sports seven and sixty.
(05:26):
So I got about forty five minutes left with y'all
and then you're all gonna split and do what I
would do, and that is turn off lou Penrose and
and watch or listen to this. But yeah, balligant and
I can't the amount of pressure that's on him. I
just think that this is unprecedented in that a single
player has look, you know, me and others, Butchering just
(05:49):
trying to get through his name. Now he's you know,
he's well known on planet Earth.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
When the US and Belgium meet in the Round of sixteen,
will indeed be in uniform. As for now, the Belgian
Soccer Federation formally wrote to FIFA to appeal the matter,
and the right to appeal was granted. The submission for
the appeal had to be in by eight am Eastern time,
as well as the response from US Soccer. After receiving
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the red card, Dallagan was supposed to miss Monday night's game.
The Belgian Soccer Federation is quote astonished by FIFA's decision
to suspend the ban, citing Article twenty seven of its
disciplinary code.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They always got articles over there. Everything in Europe, there's
always an article twenty seven as to why you can't
do this. I don't I'm not familiar with soccer and
World Cup rules, so I did not know the frequency
of appeals. I feel like they're appealing all the time.
In Major League Baseball these days, we have courts of appeal.
(06:51):
In the United States, the governor and the Attorney General
appeals President Trump's executive order every single day. What we
do in this country is appeal. So I don't know
if appeal. They made it sound like if they if
the United States appealed, then it would upset the people
(07:15):
that listened to the appeal, like there was a there
was a discouraging tone about it all. And again I
don't know how that all works. But apparently they took
the chance and appealed. And President Trump admitted he said, yes,
I absolutely made the call. Well I did, well, I did.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I asked for a review because I didn't think it
was a foul. And you know, again, I'm good at
this stuff. I didn't think it was a foul. I
thought it was two great athletes to question into each
other and got entangled. That was not a That was
not a guy punching somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
In the face or anything that you know would be different.
So and I asked the only person that I know
that knows more about this than anybody I know, and
that is Mike Usher, the assistant program director here at Kogo,
And I said, so, what what was it? He said,
It's it's complicated because it can be properly viewed either way.
(08:09):
It seemed accidental, but you don't know for sure it
was accidental, and a split second, somebody knows they're falling
down can strengthen their foot if they feel the side
of their foot coming down along someone's cap so that
it slams on the ankle, like he could have intentionally
(08:29):
did that in the last moment. I mean, they were
not completely randomly falling on each other, so there could
have been there was contact. If you wanted to hurt
the other player, you would have done it just like that,
and the other player was hurt, So in that regard
you could argue for the red card. You could also say,
(08:52):
look when two players who did not intend to hit
into each other they were going for the ball. It
was a loose ball. It's a live match. Clock is
ticking up. Clock ticks up in soccer, not down, So
everyone's running at a high speed. As Trump said, I
just saw two spectacular athletes going for the same ball,
(09:13):
and they collided into each other and legs and arms
went wherever they went. So there was no malice or intent,
and he didn't get a broken ankle. So it's a
yellow card. So it's a call, and most people, including
the President, thought it was a bad call. And uh
(09:35):
now it's yourversed, all right. So a lot of questions
about whether or not President Trump should have waited in
on this at all, and a lot of excitement over
tonight's match and the ratings through the roof. Wait to
hear about that. That's all coming up next to Lou
Penrose on news Radio six hundred Cogo watch parties all
across San Diego. Everybody's getting ready. Soccer fever has indeed
(09:59):
hit the United States.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Hey, Lou, I totally agree with the flopping and understand
where you're coming from with that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Come on, get the magic spray. Oh I'm good now.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I think what they're really doing is they're running a
whole game, ninety minutes or forty five minutes, whatever it is.
They're taking a break, they're tired, they're getting their breath.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Maybe they're catching a breath. I saw a guy down,
like in the last thirty seconds of the match last
night between England and Mexico. There was a guy down
on the sidelines holding his leg and nobody was helping him.
And I don't know if they just said, ma, right, well,
(10:37):
we got thirty seconds here to do a Hail Mary
of some kind just to just tie this forget him
and just keep playing. So sometimes they really roll around
and ham it up, and sometimes I think they're really hurt,
and nobody comes to the raid. You get to.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Realize that Bernardo who just played for Paraguay or played
against Spain today, his was overturned and he had a
three game suspension, but since it was just before the
World Cup started and they didn't want him missing things,
they suspended those three games suspensions. So it isn't anything
that's new for FIFA to do.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Well. That was my question is how frequently are these
appeals heard and how do you get a three game suspension?
The card is already read Is there a reddor card?
Like I thought, you get a red card? Is you're
out for the rest of the game and they can't
replace you. So for the rest of the match you're
(11:37):
down a man and then you can't play the next time.
That was Flow's situation, but I appreciate the call.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Hey, it's also Italian Heritage Night tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
At the ballpark.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
First pitch?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Six forty chow? Italian Heritage Night at he coo? What
is that like? How have I not been invited to
Italian Heritage Night at Petco by the Padres? How have
I not thrown out the first pitch on Italian Heritage
Night at Petco by the Padres. I'm like the most
(12:21):
upstanding Italian American in San Diego. All right, so Trump said, Look,
at the end of the day, this is a good thing.
Both teams should have all their star players. And if
we win, if we lose it was.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Rigged, we're gonna have a full team and Belgium this
would this game would have a big mark on it
if we lost. If we want no matter what happened,
you have to let them use their best players.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And the game tonight's going to be amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
And we're gonna have a full team, and Belgium is
gonna have a full team. And you know what, if
they beat us, then they can be really proud. The
other way, if they beat us, will say it was
I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
There you go. You gotta love President Trump. He keeps
his sense of humor going at all times. If they
kept the suspension and Belgium one, then it was rigged.
And we'll go with that. But now we won't say
it's rigged if we lose. If they win, they should
be very proud. But it was fair. That is classic.
(13:27):
That is classic. Donald Trump ta't good enough of that.
He said, indeed that he had personally asked the FIFA
president his name is Gianni Infantino to review the red
card against USA striker Floren Falligan. But they call him flow.
(13:51):
It's f ol Wow. Everything is strange about the sport,
saying that the president believed that the dismissal was unfair,
but insisted that he'd not pursue for Bulls governing body
to overturn the suspension. So I'm not sure who Belgium
is sore with, but they're sore they don't like it.
They think it is unprecedent. Everything's unprecedented, but the ratings
(14:12):
are certainly unprecedented.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
America is discovering soccer. The US Men's World Cup win
over Bosnia and Herzegovina Wednesday, Drew combined thirty three point
five million viewers across Fox.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Okay, so thirty five point three million. Seinfeld finale had
seventy five million viewers, Is that right, mister finnerty seventy
two to seventy five? I think seventy five. I think
seventy five. So that puts into perspective, right, I mean,
mass appeal of Seinfeld a little higher than sports certainly,
(14:45):
and any single sporting event, any single sporting event that's
not America's pastime. So that's pretty handsome. Thirty five million
viewers for Fox.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Drew combined thirty three point five million viewers across Fox,
thirty three to five Telemundo and Peacock, shattering the previous
US record for any soccer match Fox's.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That could not have been hard to do. I don't
know that you shatter the previous record for a soccer match.
I think you are doing very well.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Fox's English language audience alone top twenty four million, a
record in its own right. That's according to preliminary Nielsen numbers.
The victory was the American men's first knockout stage win
at a World Cup in twenty four years, setting the
stage for tonight's match on Fox and Fox won as
the US men's team faces Belgium in the round of sixteen.
(15:34):
The winner advances to the quarterfinals.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh boy, so this is a big one. This is
a big one the United States to advance. I think
the writings are going to be even higher. So this
is good for everybody, all right when we come back.
Betting now off the charts because now everyone wants something
to bet on. They're all betting on soccer in the
United States all of a sudden. I don't even know
how you begin to bet on soccer. I can't follow
(15:57):
it at all. All I know now is about the cards.
Penroe on News Radio six hundred COBO. We are live
and local. Thank you for tuning in. Good to have
you along with us.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Hey, Ligi, if you want to throw out the first pitch,
give me.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Call Hey Lou, make the padres an offer they cannot refuse.
Love your show, Bro, everybody's a comedian, mister Finnerdy. They're
all trying to become content creators and get in on
the act. They need to have better content. Yeah, that's
that's the seven thirty show. We need the ten thirty
show material. But I look, I appreciate it. I truly
(16:39):
do all right. Betting everybody is sports betting. Last football
season was record setting with the amount of money that
was wagered on these online apps, which are illegal in California.
It's a fascinating world out there. You can't bet on sports,
(16:59):
or you're not supposed to, I mean technically speaking, making
up little boxes with you and your friends, you know,
and putting dollars in the boxes. Even that's illegal, but like,
nobody obeys the law and instead and the California has
tried a couple of times to modernize the rules and
regulations on sports betting, and it's too late. Horse out
(17:22):
of the barn, toothpastes out of the two. Everybody's just
betting online and now they're betting on soccer.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Analysts are tracking the World Cup to set this record
gambling numbers. Given the fact technology continues to improve by
the day and people from all over the world are
focused on this World Cup for now. Some analysts predict
more than fifty billion in global wagers.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Wow, fifty billion and global wagers. That's incredible, That is
really incredible. Everybody talks about affordability in the United States,
and I think the United States is a powerhouse of economics.
The Dow Jones Industrial average was over fifty three thousand
today closed just under but it was in record territory
(18:04):
and which means it will be in record territory. They're
looking at big banks JP, Morgan, Chase, uh and Wells
Fargo are all looking at gold reaching six thousand dollars
of Troy allns.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I mean I never lived at a time where everything
was up. Usually, you know, stocks are up and the
precious metals are down and real estate's down, or real
estate's up, but stocks are down recect. No, everything is up,
every single thing. The value of your house, the value
of the apartment building unfortunately, your rent, your gold, your
(18:39):
gold necklace, any silver you got in your teeth, your
your portfolio, your four to one K, whether it's tech
heavy NASDAC or old school IBM. Everything at Coca Cola.
Everything is up. Everything is up. So things are flying high,
and people talk about affordability, all it's, well, somebody has
(19:01):
budgeted for sports betting, because you can't have those kinds
of numbers without Americans getting in on that.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
For now, some analysts predict more than fifty billion in
global wagers, right, so.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Who else is wagering? I don't think you're allowed to wager,
and I might be wrong, so you're free to correct
me if I'm wrong. But certainly in the more conservative
corners of Islamic nations you're not allowed to wager, and
that so that knocks out, you know, the Dubai money, right,
(19:36):
the Europeans, they're spending all their money flying all over
the United States and going to bars and staying at hotels.
They don't have any extra money to bet with on
top of it, and what else that's it? I mean
Central and South America. I don't think they should be betting.
They don't look like they have disposable incomes those countries.
(19:56):
Although Mexico City did look very handsome on TV last night.
People for god. First off, Mexico City is like a
mile high It's like Denver. It's like a mile high city,
and it just it's I think it's the largest city
in the world, and it's just a beautiful place, what
a stadium. So maybe some of those people in the
stands they have some extra money to bet, But we're
(20:16):
talking about global betting, like worlds in the world. Do
people have extra cash to put down on the United
States over Belgium or vice versa.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Deutsche Bank projecting three point three billion dollars in wagers
through sports books, led by sites like DraftKings and fan Duel.
While legal sports betting continues to boom, it does make
it difficult to rain in other sports betting. Just one example,
college sports limits are advocated for prop bets. In college sports.
A proposition or prop bet is when someone places a
(20:46):
wager on a specific player, but that bet isn't tied
to the final score of the game.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh yeah, you're just betting on the guy. I know
they're coming up with new ways to bet, and I don't.
I can certainly bet on football, I can bet on basque,
I can bet on baseball. Pete Rose did not bet
on baseball. He said, you can bet on professional wrestling
if you want. I don't know how to bet on soccer, Like,
(21:11):
what what would be the spread? A half a goal.
It seems like it's a low scoring game. It's so
fast moving, so I'm not even sure what I would
bet on. But they come up with different things to
bet on, different ways and betting, and people are enjoying it. Look,
I don't look at this as a terrible thing. I
know that it's often viewed that more betting is bad
(21:34):
for society because irresponsible people will bet the rent money
and then the wife and the child will be homeless
and it will be the guy the dad's fall like
that's the standard narrative. But most people that are enjoying
adding some spice to a sporting event that they like
by putting money at stake, which is what you're doing,
(21:56):
You're just adding some spice to it. You're making it worthwhile.
You never heard that phrase we're gonna shoot pool. Okay,
we're gonna make it interesting. Yeah, all of a sudden
it becomes interesting. Why because you got twenty bucks on
the table. So I like that betting is an option.
But I treat people like adults, So bet with your head,
not over it. The The app isn't gonna make a
(22:22):
responsible person less responsible. I've seen these people in the
Sopranos who wind up, you know, on a miss extra
point and they wind up losing their bar, like I've
seen some of the things that happened with Tony Soprano,
or He's Gonna have to go it picks up a
son's suv from some guy that lost at poker. I mean,
(22:45):
those people are gonna lose to somebody at some point,
so you might as well be the recipient of their
foolishness because somebody else is gonna get the money anyway.
So that more people are betting isn't necessarily a bad thing.
It just means people are enjoying the sport even more.
And I think everybody knows that you generally lose at
(23:06):
the end of it. All that betting, like Vegas or casinos,
is entertainment. It's the fun and the thrill of being
ahead a little bit, but you keep playing until you're
ultimately even or under and then you call it a night.
And that's what it's all about, all right. We have
California State Assembly Member Carl Demile. There is other things
going on in California, believe it or not, besides the
(23:28):
FIFA World Cup, the watch parties and the teenagers in
Newport Beach from the nine h nine tearing up pavilions,
not much else but a little bit more. And Prop
thirteen is still under attack in Sacramento, and like a
one man army, California State Assembly Member Carl Demile, with
(23:48):
the support of Reform California behind him, are fighting the
good fight and making sure that these opportunities to protect
Prop thirteen stay on the ballot. And that's exactly what
he's been doing, and a whole lot more. He's got
a bunch of irons in the fire, as he always does.
Voter ID gonna be on the ballot, and I think
going to pass, and I think that he doesn't get
(24:12):
enough credit, which is why I like highlighting him here
on the program on from time to time, which we
are going to do next. California State Assembly Member Carl
Demao on News Radio six hundred cogo. Lou Penrose on
news Radio six hundred cogo coming up following the News
at five. A series of court rulings has forced the
city to halt their crackdown on street vendors and in
(24:36):
Balbo Park in the gas lamp around some of the stadiums,
the hot dog guys are back and the local vendors
and restaurant tours are ticked about it, So we'll talk
about that coming up. Following the news at five, the
state of California is imposing a new healthcare tax, and
it's amounting to four hundred and twenty five dollars per
(24:57):
family of four. California State Assembly member call Demile here,
that's the last thing Californians need is now effectively an increase,
just another fee on their healthcare, on their insurance.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
That's right. Remember, we already have the highest cost of
providing medical services in the nation, the highest hospital bills,
the highest doctor bills, because we regulate the hell out
of health care and everything else, and so on top
of all the high costs of actually providing health care,
the insurance costs are going to be going up because
(25:35):
they're adding this new four and twenty five dollars per family.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Tax.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
They're taxing health insurance premiums, which are already going up
by double digits this year. No, we know who's getting
free healthcare, illegal immigrants, to the tune of thirteen billion dollars.
So today Assembly Republicans joined me in sending a letter
to the Department of Health and Human Service. Is in
Washington urging the DHS to reject California's waiver application in
(26:07):
order to implement this new tax. The federal government has
a right to review any taxes on medical or medicaid programs,
and we're urging a rejection of this medical tax if
the law allows. I mean, we don't believe that the
state of California has the legal ability to do this,
(26:28):
and so the federal lawyers are going to look into it.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Well, how are the Democrats and Sacramento justifying the feet
Where are they? How are they rolling it into our
insurance premiums? And what are they what are they calling it?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
They say that Donald Trump is the root of all evil,
He is Satan, and he's causing all these costs to
go up, so they need to raise taxes.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Only what they're saying, they're blaming Donald Trump for their tax.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
That's exactly what they do. They do that on right,
is because of Donald Trump's policies, we need to raise
money to cover our costs. And somehow it becomes a
responsibility of the California, working Californians, even though somehow the
other forty nine states are fine and in fact doing
better under Trump's policy, So only California or California Democrats
(27:20):
seem to think that these policies singularly affect us.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Yeah, and you can do the same thing on gas.
They sit there and say, oh, Donald Trump is bad
for gas prices. Well, can you explain why we're two
dollars a gallon higher in California than the rest of
the nation. Irrespective of what's happening in Iran, which obviously
has an impact, we still are paying two dollars more,
(27:46):
whether or not there's anything going on in the Middle East.
And that's all the fault of again Sacramento politicians. So
we've got to get the message out there that the
cost of living across the board's going up, and this
latest healthcare premium tax for four under and twenty five dollars
per family, people can't afford it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It's all adding up.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
It's crushing working families.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
When will you expect to hear a response from DHS?
I mean, what's the do you have a sense of
when you'll hear back?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
You know, the argument we're making on this tax as
to why they should reject it is based around the
fact that California voters voted to prevent Newsom from doing
what he's about to do. It's under Prop thirty five
from last year. The problem is is that there's some
(28:36):
gray area and so there will be a lawsuit in
state court to stop this tax. And so the argument
we're making to the federal government is you shouldn't let
this tax go through until it is fully adjudicated by
state courts because this could end up being an illegal
tax and not you know, you know, being something that
(28:59):
was ever a So force Newsom to first get it
validated in the courts. That way, we at least can
delay the tax by your year or two as it
gets hammered out in the courts.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
California State a semplm Ember Carl Demile, thanks so much.
Always great to catch up with you. Truly appreciate it.
We'll check in with you. You thank you all right
when we come back. So this is these are tough ones.
When court rulings stop the city from cleaning things up
and in this case, enforcing regulations on street vendors, it
(29:30):
puts the city in a bad spot. And it just
got to be resolved because I understand it. If you
are a licensed business and you are selling food. The
last thing you want is some pushcart guy with a
bunch of hot dogs after a big game. So it's
very annoying, it's unsightly. I don't think we are a
street vendor nation. I don't know that we want to
(29:52):
go down a street vendor route. That's very quaint when
we go to other countries. But it's not clean. So
we'll talk about are coming up following the news at
five lou Penrose on news radio six hundred KOGO and
live on the iHeartRadio app.
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Betrayal Weekly is back for a new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at betrayalpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.