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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know where. I feel like if I could
see the mountains due to all the smoke and the
fire up there, I said, it feel like you're out
in like Nicker Roguar somewhere. Coming out saw, I started
to see all the palm trees and all these big
mansion houses and tennis courts, and I thought, my word,
it totally feels different. But then you get out here,
and if you're not looking at the foothills of the mountains,
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you turn around and it could look like you're in
South Dakota or on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas
with all the pick them up trucks that you see
on the four corners out here. Thanks to everybody that's
been by so far. In the first two hours, c
K anniversary time for K and his wife this weekend,
so Isaiah Green sat him with me. In three o'clock hour,
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the former Bulldog Capen went on with the Bills and
the Steelers. Thanks for him out here. He was the
record at thirteen thousand. We packed, man, but somebody came
up with twenty three seven. Twenty three, seven hundred is
the high score. Something tells me Agent Squires could beat that,
but he worked. Thanks for iHeart so he will not
be able to pull that off over here. But what
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do you do if you get the high score on
the all over the Place tour, Well, you're gonna be
going seeing some people that really know about a tour.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Blake Shelton, he's touring and he's gonna be He's gonna
be stopping into Woodward Park for the Boots in the
Park a week from tomorrow on the thirteenth, the same
day the Bulldogs are back taking on Southern University at
Valley Children. So you can't be in two places at
the same time, but you still got about half hour.
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We might even push it to forty two minutes past
this hour to let you get in out here and
play pac Man to see if you win. The tickets
to Blake Shelton and also the next day party in
the Park with Pittbull and we got tickets to Midland
as well. They're going to be out here at the
end of the month. So man just prizes galore And
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I want to say what's going on to Rico slave Girardo,
thank you for sending your son and daughter out. They
showed up out here, and did you guys get to
play the pack meet.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh you got some couple of prizes there, so thank
you for sending them out here. Man. We're going to
be out here till six o'clock. And it's so easy.
North Fresno. Shepherd to Toll House and go right on Academy.
You can come straight out Shawl you run right into it,
or you can take the one to eighty, then turn left,
go north on Academy. You'll see us up here, two ravens.
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I talked to the owner in the first hour. They've
been around for about three four years here. It's really
a unique place. And I was just sitting there talking
just a few minutes ago with the manager Dan. I said,
your clientele, you're kind of right out here in between
all rural and the city of Clovis. It's growing, and
he said a lot of clientele very ruled. They pull
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from a big area out here as well. And I
can tell why they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
In the three o'clock hour, our boss she stopped out
here and started handing out I said, like she was,
you know what I say. John Gottie with turkeys at
Thanksgiving out on the sidewalk handing out these powerball tickets.
I think it's one point three one point four billion dollars.
It's the third the third largest there one point eight
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thank you, director Ryan Nigel on the headphones. One point
eight billion dollars. You take the lump sum after taxes,
you still what what would you do with it all?
And I can tell you right now. Before I bought
a I don't think I would buy a mansion. I
would not buy a sprawling, huge spread like that you
just walk around lonely like Kurt Cobain. Now. It would
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be something cool historic, Maybe an old castle when I
wanted to live over there. Maybe an underground bunker if
I wanted to stay in California.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
For a while.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Uh, you know, I'd have three or four different places
that weren't just like, wow, you know mansions out there.
But I would tell you, and this is a trend
that I've seen that they're starting out there, and I actually, yes,
maybe a trendsetter. I didn't tell anybody about it, but
I did this years ago before I moved into my
house i'm in right now. And when I was in
an apartment, I was checking out houses and I found
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one that I was looking to rent. It was nice
and I got the whole tour, and I said, is
it okay tomorrow after work if I just leave work
and drive there and then take my lawn chair and
go sit in the backyard for a little bit. I
just need to test drive it. I didn't ask to
go back in. He goes, yeah, sure. So after work
I drove to what the drive would be like to
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feel every day, and I was feeling it. I'm sitting
in the backyard and here ro just dogs everywhere, and
it just didn't feel right. I wanted something a little
bigger in the back so I test drove it. They're saying,
now home buyers are pushing to actually have a sleepover
before they buy a house, A try it before you
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buy it, as anybody heard of that? But doesn't it
doesn't it make a whole lot of sense, especially you're
making what could be a lifelong choice, your investment in
your house. Why not let people have one night in it.
I saw this in the Wall Street Journal. I mean,
especially imagine if you're gonna like it, like when I
win the power ball, like that kind of money that
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I'll be spending on a house, something like that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It's gonna be your house, whether it's a middle income
house or a mansion. I was reading in here about
this Manhattan couple. They wanted to get out of the
out of the city, so they went up to the
Hudson Valley and they slept in the house. Yeah. I
think that makes a whole lot of sense. Enough time,
you got to get the vibe of the place. You
need to stay there for a reason, right, Yeah, you
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gotta make sure.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
There's no uh going on.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I can talk about woo. My son and I were
just talking about it this week in Elk Grove, California.
The house that we bought up there, we rented it
from the guy that we bought it from, and weird
things were happening. I'm gonna go into all the weird,
but we called the guy that we bought it from
and he goes, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I had those things happening too.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And when I would go next door our neighbor's herban
rooth older couple. You used to invite us over for dinner,
so the wife the kids would be all over there,
and if I had to run back to the house
to get a pacifier or a bottle or something. It'd
be the only time I was ever alone in the
house and I would walk in that house and I
would feel something. It's just a different feeling than it
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was next door. Yes, I'm telling ghost stories. Hey, maybe
next week. You know, anytime I talk about UFOs, people
call in and want to tell them. But I'm sure
everybody's got a maybe not everybody's got a spooky ghost story.
I even have a picture that I could post up
from a digital camera of a creature between myself with
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the digital camera and my two oldest kids in front of.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Cannot explain it, And no, I'm not smart enough to
go in back in two thousand and three or even
today and photoshop something in like that. But hey, well
I'll as supervisor Nathan Maxig if he's got a ghost story,
because hey, everybody does. I remember in Elk Grove also,
when the guy behind the old eighteen eighties brewery he
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was gonna rint me an office back there, and it
was too big of an office, so he built me
a little one right up on the stairwells in the back.
I'd open up an old metal door walk up these stairs,
and he built me a little office and there are
no windows, none at all. And I would be there
at night, sometimes not really really really late, but i'd
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be there at night and I would just know somebody's
coming up those stairs, and I'd be waiting for a
knock on the door. No, I would be like, Okay,
why aren't they knocking? Are they outside breathing? I'd go
and I'd open my office door and I'd look at nobody.
I'd looked down the stairs nobody. I know I heard it.
I know I heard it. Okay, if I ever see
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a UFO though, you know what I'm doing right, I'm
quitting my show. I'm doing the podcast from the basement
full on Trevor UFO Ology, I'll be all into it
if I ever see one. But tonight you're probably not
going to be see much. If you look up to
the skies, we got a lot of smoke, we got
a lot of haze, and of course, as from a
lot of fires that are burning. It almost seen this
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year outside of Southern California, Pacific Palisades and all that
that we had. Kind of maybe, I don't know, I'm
gonna say we ever can dodge it, because we don't
even know when fire season starts and ends, but it
seemed like we hadn't had as many. But suddenly with
those storms coming through, lightning coming down a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Of the start here.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But that's what happens when you leave all those matchsticks
laying around that lightning can start infernos. And I think
we're well, that's a supervisor Mazig. I think at fourteen
percent with the closest here containment. But yeah, it's bad
air quality out there.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
We even got a.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Call ahead or find out ahead, look online ahead if
you're going to local high school sports up and down
the valley tonight football games they could be canceled. They
were already talking about it a few hours ago because
of the bad air quality.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We're gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
We'll talk Fresno State football with Supervisor Nathan Magzig and
I'm again I'm glad the game's out of town with
the bad air quality, and we'll be talking the fires.
And in just a few minutes here we'll be announcing
who's gonna be seeing Blake Shelton and Pittbull with a
double a double Bam bam boots in the park, Party
in the park next weekend. And if you want tickets
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to Fresno State as they take on Southern University from
Baton Rouge. They'll be back in town next weekend taking
on Oregon tomorrow. They'll be back next weekend. We got
your tickets here at two Ravens Brewery and tomorrow C
K and Kenny. They kick off at ten thirty in
the morning, the pregame at eleven thirty with Paul Coach
and Cam live from Corvallis, Oregon. Then the kickoff at
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twelve thirty right here on Power Talking ninety six, seven AM,
fourteen hundred, Fox Sports thirteen forty, All Up and Down
the Valley thirteen sixty and Modesto and I the iHeartRadio
app as well. So we're looking forward to it. We
got your tickets.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Come on by.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We're gonna come back and talk with supervisor Nathan ma
Sig about the fire. We'll talk football and anything else
he wants to throw out there. It's a Trevor Nation
all over the Place tour live at two Ravens Brewery,
five zero five four North Academy on the outskirts of Clovis.
I want to ask him his name. He's focusing on
pac Man. If he looked over here. If I said, sir,
what's your name? He's trying to get the ice score.
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We got an ice score at twenty three thousand. If
that guy playing right now can beat it, he'll be
going seeing Blake Shelton and next day party in the
park with pitball. We are partying at two Ravens prew
We with supervisor Nathan Magxig. Now, I know what you
played football at Boston a few years after Flutie.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
What was your football career like?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh, yeah, you've been reading my bio clearly, so yeah,
I played for the Rams after that, and then you know,
decided to.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Call that beer.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sometimes you had a younger Merlin Olson look to you
with the Rams. Remember, didn't I send you a picture?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I think I did. I compare when you went with
the Beard. I think that could be.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That's a compliment, I.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Said a younger Merlin Oldson when you said the Rams.
Did you play Pop Warner? Did you play any high
school or anything like that?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So I played in high school. I played at Clovis West.
I had the opportunity to play under coach Blancanship. And
for those who are listening out there right now, who
played under coach Blankenship. You remember just those difficult days
when discipline was no water on one hundred degree days
until you got plays right. The worst player game had
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away wear a pink jersey at heavy the nineteen hundreds,
it was.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Water they would hold water on all and you had
two day calling two a day's is it?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh well, even sometimes three a day. So you'd get
up early in the morning, show up for practice, come
back at you know, lunchtime, and then be there in
the evening. So in the off season, spring ball, all
that kind of stuff. You really, football was a religion
and still kind of is a religion there at Clobus.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know, weren't you excited?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I mean, see, sports is so awesome because I know you,
even those three a day's you loved it, even though
you were tired. You love to talk about it. You
were proud that you went through it.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
So with sports in general, football for me, it's it's
the camaraderie. I got to play my football quarterback all
the years through junior high and high school was Billy Volok.
And Billy, of course went on to play at Fresno
State and eventually went on to play in the majors
as well in the in the professional leagues. And I
forget all the different teams that he played for, but
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I mean, we had some incredible athletes that came out
of Clovis West.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I was not one of them.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
But what position, right, well, so, believe it or not,
I was an offensive and defensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, so you had to have some did you worry
about the same site height you are right now? Then
I would be a defensive lineman and offensive. Yeah, it
was the same height.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I used to be fast, and we ran the wing
t offense, and so there was a lot of running,
not a whole lot of passing, and so you never
really took the defender straight on as a as an
offensive lineman and uh, and so it required a lot
of uh, you know, a lot of the offensive linemen
to be quick and strong, and so we constantly were
doing different drills, you know, pulling and blocking.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So but you know, you're the one that opens up
the hole. And then the running back or the quarterback
of the wide receiver, they get all the all the
cheers and the celebration and the touchdown dance and the
cheerleaders excited about and you're like, man, nobody comes.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Uh. You know, at the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Sometimes a quarterback we'll think it's a line you know,
rightfully so, but it's not a glory position.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And two of the line coaches who I've got fond
memories of her, Coach Pickford and coach Tom Deal. So
Tom Deal was a defensive line coach and he coached
for decades even after I left high school. But you know,
when those guys would cheer you on for making a
good play, making a good block, you felt fantastic for
the rest of the week. And so you know, again,
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playing football it is about camaraderie. And I was an
average player but played my heart out and you know
a lot of those lessons that you learned operating as
a team. The team that I played for we had
a tremendous winning record, and we went up against Fontana,
and I can remember us beating Fontana. It was one
of the most fantastic games I've ever been a part of.
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We ended up winning by three points and we were
expected just to get blown out because Fontana was nationally ranked.
This is back in nineteen ninety four, and we ended
up playing them and we beat them, and just the
excitement that these games brought. And when everybody plays as
a team, you play at a whole other level. And
many times there are teams that have tremendous talent and
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everybody plays individually and they end up losing. So when
you have a group of guys, I will take an
average group of guys playing as a team over people
with top talent playing as individuals.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Not if you're trying to put people in the seats
and you had to make money and you were in
the pros, well I wasn't. So there you're talking high school. Hey,
that's a great story though. See that sticks in your mind.
I bet you You even run around some of the
old players from the team that you see around here
and you go remember that game with Fontana we beat
them by three. I know in high school at Burrows
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High School and Ridgecrest, I have zero stories of our
baseball team like that because we didn't beat any by
my stories.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Are we were horrible.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I would see some guys come up like maybe three
times in one inning. Yeah that was tough. In our mascot,
are you ready? The school was named after a gentleman
named Sherman E burrows B you r r o U
g h s. So they called it Burrows and they
needed a mascot. So somebody in the back of the
room said, so we were the Burrows.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Burrows B you r r O s.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So when a grounder would go through your leg at
second base, the score you know e four I would
you would hear?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Who wouldn't name who wouldn't name their mascot that?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, but through through all of those high school days,
you clearly have u you have learned a lot, you've
developed a lot, You've come a long way. So again
it does sometimes those tough lessons make you into a
better person.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Annelote Valley also didn't tell us that they had painted
and it wasn't fully dry the dugout things. So we
went to a whole game with paint marks on the
back of our uniform, hearing.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
He hal gotta love it good old days.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well, but baseball is such a memory and all of
that sports is so awesome now I don't remember. My
guest is Froznoe County Supervisor Nathan Maxig. At no point
have you ever moved somewhere else and then come back
or have you been here ever since you were born
and raised? No?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I actually was born in Vancouver, Washington, and my father
at the time flew for the Oregon National Guard and
later he became I went to seminary, became a pastor,
and what eventually led us to come to the Fresno
area was in the late eighties there was a church
that needed us here. But I've been here in the
area since nineteen eighty nine and I've never left. I
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fell in love with this place and I plan on
dying here.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Something is slashing back now. You were mayor of Clovis.
I think I first got when I first got here
eight nine years ago, tim whatever, And I.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Probably ask you that we are both preacher kids. In yes,
we were.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Okay, why does society if somebody goes, hey, my dad's
in prison, they don't rub your head and go watch
out for this one. But when you're a preacher's kid,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
They preconditioned us to Like I remember going like, why
are people going to watch out for me? Why do
they think that about me?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
They do that to preach your kids, Right, you've had
your head rub like that, watch out for this little guy?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, I mean, just if you think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Sometimes, when you grow up in a Christian household, especially
where you're you know, your mom's involved in marriage counseling
and your dad is a pastor. Sometimes there are some
families where kids are not allowed to do anything, and
so once they become teenagers, they rebel. Fortunately for me,
my dad was amazing. I grew up in a great
household where my dad tried to He always took me camping.
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I loved camping. I grew up as a camp kid,
and so maybe I was a little bit crazy. I
was talking to someone earlier today about the times that
I got suspended in school. But while I wasn't perfect,
I don't feel like I caused a two bunch of
many ulcers for my dad. You wanted to play football,
you had to see.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
That's what sports as they keeps guardrails, honest, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, it burns your time up because you know what
do they say about people with idle hands?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You know, so I can become governor of California.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
But growing up playing sports, so it wasn't just football.
I did football, ran track, and wrestled, and so there
was no off button.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
For me. So once one sport ended, I.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Will transition defensive lineman. But I was fast, I went, okay,
but obviously you're running track, you are. I used to
be fast, yes, so yeah, yeah, okay. When I ask
you if you'd ever left and then come back, so
you've been here for quite a while, what was your
favorite Fresno State like moment? I know, boy, this this team,
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this college's town is so based on tradition. They love it,
they love to talk about They've had glory moments that
made Tresne State famous around the nation and world at times.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Now this is going to blow your mind because my
favorite Fresno State football moment didn't happen on the football field.
So here you go. When I was chairman of the
Board of Supervisors back in twenty nineteen, Fresno State had
just finished their best, most winning season ever, and so
I wanted to honor the starters and that entire team,
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and so I invited the Fresno State football team to
the Fresno County Board of Supervisors. I was going to
give him a proclamation and recognize them. And they all
came out, and their spokesperson was David Tonguy, Paw. And
at that meeting, David Tonguypaw was speaking, and he was
a tight end at Fresno State and he was graduating
and he said, you know, one day I want to
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be governor of California. And my ears perked up to that,
and I told my staff, I said, look, we're going
to take that team out to lunch. By the way,
it was very expensive. I'm I'm still paying for that Bill.
And he became as Roger Stone in that moment. So yes,
And about a year later, an opportunity arose for to
go to work with me at the county, and so
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he and I worked together for about five years, and
now he's doing great things in Sacramento. So that is
probably one of my it's my favorite Fresno State football memory.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I'll keep it in the sports world. Call you branch Rickey.
You're out there looking at the Farm League, weren't you,
and you sent one up to Sacramento. He what I
found fascinating, and I'm sure probably one of the reasons
you saw after he you know, started working at you
real quick. His memory. I have a lot of people
that I've interviewed, and I mean his memory of Assembly
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Bill recalls by the number with no notes in front
of him. I've seen a few people that way. I'm
not that way. So he's got a brain in there.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Man.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
You know he's still he's a young man, and so
there's something to be said about young brains.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So they worked great.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
He had been Joe bidenives yet Joe bidenis ye? Aren't
you feeling that more? I got to write so many
notes down now and put things on my phone for
an alarm, and now I'm past I'm not even remember
what the alarm at six oh one when I got
off the air meant. I have to write in there
what it means.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, you have notes, and I just write notes on
my skin. So I look down at my head. Oh yeah,
I gotta I gotta take my medication, don't I.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Hey, it all works now. You have been with a
lot of folks up in the mountains. I know during
the fires. I know when Tanga Pod David Tangapo work
with you, he got a lot of experience up there,
because he's always talking about the time that he worked
with you.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
We got a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You can see it right now, and we're going to
come back and talk to supervisor Nathan Max sick about
the fires that are going on and all the issues
that we seem to face, and it seems to be recurring,
and it's Sacramento and it has been for a long time.
John Magic. Should we give it? Let's go ahead and
give it another seven eight minutes here, somebody wants to
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play pac Man for Blake Shelton and Pittbull. It's a
Trevor Nation all over the place to our live. We're
at two Ravens Brewery five zero five four North Academy
on the outskirts of Clovid going on. We got your
friends on state tickets too, till six o'clock. You want
to come over and play pac Man. I don't think
anybody's going to hit the twenty three thousand, Okay, he's
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I seem celebrating, Okay, he is.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Congratulations to Dave.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Dave he came out to the all over the Place
tour and he's going to be going to Boots in
the Park to see Blake Shelton next Saturday at Wilbord Park.
Also the next day Party in the Park with Pittbull,
Little John Supervisor, Nathan Maczig and Fat Joe. It's going
to be a big show, and we also gotten in
last few minutes out here. If you want your tickets
to see to see Midland, Well, Supervisor Mac Sigg, you
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haven't performed on stage, but I just learned during that
break that you performed on a bicycle going forty miles
an hour around city hall. That's not in your bio.
What was that about.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, So there was a period of time where I
fell in love with with bicycle racing. So back in
about two thousand and nine, the Tour of California made
it one of its stops in the city of Clovis,
and so the Cloba City Council we were asked to
ride a portion of that particular leg, which was only
going to be about forty miles, and so we all
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started training for that, and I fell in love with
riding a bike, and so I kept riding, and then
I entered some races and entered more races, and then
I started riding for a couple of different teams like
Central Valley Cycling and Momentum Racing.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You were sponsoring Global.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
CTI, we had sponsors.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Were you on ESPN six Probably not ESPN six that
was too you know, two high dollar for me.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But hey, did you look all Tour de France like
with the tight fitting bike riding? Did you have pads
on if you're going forty miles an hour around corners?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Shamefully, yes, I wore lecra and my wife reminds me
that that's a big no no. But I will say,
on a bicycle, I never I've never shaved my legs.
All right, I drew the line somewhere. I just swimmers.
I was willing to wear light grub, but I'm not
going to shave my legs.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I thought that was just swimmers. I didn't know bike riders, right,
How does that affect your aerodynamics? Well, I mean hair
under material. I'm like, slow it down.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You had to shave your beard? I bet right, back then,
back then I didn't have a beard. But so the
whole reason you shave is when you crash, you lose skin.
And so when you lose skin and you got to
get all bandaged up, it hurts bad when you have
to tear those bandages off because you lose a lot
of hair. So you might as well just shave it
all off. So when you crash, you lose skin, you
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don't have to worry about the secondary pain of pulling
your hair out too.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I see the middle aged guys around Wilburd Park are
even older a little bit, and they are all decked
out like their lance Armstrong minus performance.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Drugs, I guess.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
But you never see grown up men get together and
go out and all dressed in giants uniforms playing baseball catch.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right usually know that would be like a red flag.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
But the bikes, you got to do it, man, They're
into it, and I applaud them. They're being healthy. They're
out there riding around as well. But I wouldn't suggest
getting out on any bike. I wouldn't even take a
kid out in a stroller with this air quality that's
going on. And I was saying, you know, in your
living room when the sun comes through the curtains and
you see all the fuzzy stuff floating, and you don't
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realize what's around us, And that's just in our living room.
If we could see out there right now what we're breathing,
that's pretty rough, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I will tell you, with all the fires that we
have burning right now, the amount of particulates that are
in the air is extremely elevated. And for those of
you out there listening, who you don't need to be
reminded because your lungs right now are constantly burning. But
we've got on the west side of the valley, we've
got the Salt Fire, which last time I checked, I
want to say it's somewhere around seventeen thousand acres. That's
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more of a grass and bush fire, but it is.
It's grown pretty rappidly. It was started by lightning.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And then I give us a landmark on that, a
town or something near.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Kalinga, okay, but it's just past Kolingas west of Kalinga
in those foothills. And then on the east side you've
got the Garnet Fire, which everybody's aware of, which is
a little over thirty three thousand acres, and that of
course is near Balch Camp. It's not quite to Dinky
Creek it as it would say, if.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You go up ninety nine between Modesto and Stockton and
just head east, you kind of right toward the mountains,
you'll run right into it.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Is that kind of so you're too far north, so okay,
if you want to hit it. So basically that was
the China campfire. Yeah, so if you want to hit
the Garnet Fire. Basically, it is due east of Pine Flat.
So the fire started on the south fork of the
King's River and then it burned across the north fork
and continued moving north. Right now, they've been able to
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really put black line down, so they've contained and pretty
much put out the south part of the fire, and
they kind of wrapped around to make sure that that
fire is not going to continue to move south. But
the fire is still moving north west and east, and
so they've been putting in containment lines. They're working very
hard to protect structures out there, and to my knowledge,
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no one has been injured severely in that fire. So
the goal is number one, to protect people. Number two
absolutely protect structures and also the trees. So out there
in McKinley Grove, we've got some very large trees out
there that need to be preserved and so the goal
is to protect as many of those as possible too.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I guess that China Camp that was a historic town
up there north that burned down. It seemed like I
saw a map some one local media. I had like
seventeen fires around as well, and am I correct that?
A lot of times they don't immediately respond when they
detect these fires from They don't use the towers anymore.
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It's all satellite, right.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So I'll tell you that last week when we had
that first lightning storm that came through, I was aware
of eleven fires that were started from that storm alone.
And so the US Forest Services, in my opinion, stretch
kind of thin.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
When you say you're aware to do you contact them?
They contact you, or you just watch a website.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I mean, what is that?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
What do you you know? How do you get them from?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So I'm on text threads with Cawfire as well as
US four A service, so I get texts, but also too,
I receive regular updates from the US Forest Service. Typically
it's Dean Gould, who is the supervisor of the Sierra Region.
He'll call and share with me kind of what's going on,
what resources are coming in, and I will call him
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as well and just get updates. And then of course
Dustin Hale is the CalFire chief of the Fresno Kings Unit,
So anything that's going on in Fresno County that's threatening
SRA land State Responsibility Area lands, they are going to
be the number one firefighting force on those what a
lot of people are not aware of is in Fresno
County on the east side the forests that we have
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about half of those forests are managed by the federal government.
The other half is private property, and some of it
too is the state has some lands like around Millerton Lake.
The state has some state parks and some lands there.
But really you've got the federal government and then locals
who own those lands. And so a lot of these
fires that we've seen recently have started on US Forest
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Service land, and so when it comes to the response
on those fires, they are the ones calling the shots.
If they need additional resources, they'll reach out to CalFire,
and CalFire will provide those resources if they're available. With
the Salt Fire that started a few days ago, there
have been resources that have been needed out on the
west side of Fresno County as well, because a lot
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of that land is the responsibility of CalFire. And so
as we have here in Fresno County multiple fires burning,
we're just one of fifty eight counties in the state,
and there are other fires burning in California too.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Do they decide where to send resources on how close
to humans or buildings they'll divert based on if it's
just wild grassland and aren't cities around.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I don't know exactly how they prioritize where they divert resources,
but I will tell you that the number one goal
is always human life, and then number two is going
to be structure protection. But again, if you have multiple
areas where human life is threatened, I don't know how
they are going to assign resources at that point. That's
just above my pay grade.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Well, let me ask this, My guest is Supervisor Nathan Magsig.
When you hear from the Forest Department like that, what
kind of things are required of like the Fresno County supervisors?
What kind of things do you can you assist with?
How do you guys jump in and get to action.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Well, here's where Fresno County is heavily involved. So even
though these lands are on are managed by the US
Forest Service or even private property, it's all in the
county at Fresno, and so we are responsible for the
sheriff's department. We have a duly elected sheriff, but the
Board of Supervisors we are the ones who approve expenditures
and the budgets. And then two we are the ones
who ratify a state of emergency, which we did at
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last Friday, we declared an emergency for the Garnet fire.
And so we have public works departments. So with these fires,
you have to have road closures, sheriff's departments involved in
identifying areas that they want to evacuate, and then from
their signage may need to be put up where public
works may need to man some of those signs and
deal with that. Infrastructure needs to be maintained. So even
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though areas are evacuated, you've got sewer plants that have
to continue to operate because you can't just walk away
from that infrastructure that's in the mountain areas.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
So public works never thought of that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, the basics, because you don't want to lose your
life in a fire if you work for the water
and sewer department. Yeah, correct, you're right. I had never
thought of that.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Correct, So we have that infrastructure. And then too you
have the Fresno County Fire Protection District as well, and
they contract with Cow Fire and the Fresne County Fire
Protection District. The board members are appointed by the Board
of Supervisors as well, so there's many, many layers where
the county is involved, and then we spend quite a
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bit of resources. So if people do need to be evacuated,
we work with the Red Cross for housing. If there's
animals that need to be relocated, we'll work with different institutions,
whether it be like the Clovis Rodeo Association or the
fairgrounds to relocate significant amounts of animals. And then we
find ways to just cover expenses that come up that
you wouldn't think of, but they pop up when you're
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in the midst of an emergency.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
The animals and the wildlife, and you think of this
when these fires ripped through some of these areas out
of here, people lose a lot of their income with
their animals, and there's just so much that we don't
think of.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Just the fuel, just so, the fuel cost of running
fire engines, if they're Fresnoe County Fire Protection engines, if
they're volunteer fire department engines, just the fuel bill can
be tens of thousands of dollars a day, all.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Though are not clothes and refineries. Who's charging of that?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Speaking of that, just yesterday I was in Kern County
touring a refinery in Oildale and it's one of the
largest ones in Kern County. It's on the Kern River
and that they've got twenty six square miles that they own,
and they've been operating out there since eighteen ninety nine,
and they told me there's so much more oil available.
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They've been out there for over one hundred years and
they could be there for another two or three hundred years,
but the state of California is not giving them permits
to drill new wells, and so the oil production out
of that field is dropping rapidly. So the state of
California has lost its mind. And your listeners need to engage.
You need to be writing letters, You need to be
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reaching out to your legislators, but really the governor you
need to say. You need to tell the governor. Look,
we need to change how we approach oil production. We
need to be producing our own oil because we have
it here in California. Over seventy percent of the oil
that we use in California comes from foreign countries, and
we could be completely independent. In nineteen eighty five we
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started to decline. We became less and less or independent
and more and more dependent on foreign countries. So we
can get back to a point where we are independent again.
But it's going to take your listeners, and it's going
to take a lot of hard work from those who
believe in.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
That we should be lifestyles of the rich and famous
with the crude oil the bubblin underneath this here, and
think of all the careers I was saying yesterday about
the careers that people can have. I had a firm
from high school that works in the petroleum industry and
he tours around the world. He started out in some
grunt work and worked his way up. We could have
so many stories like that. Well, I look at so
(35:47):
you look at the trucking industry. You need to have
people who can drive those fuel tankers. You need to
have people who need to change drill bits, just the
drill rigs alone. The many different businesses that are out there.
So you're right, there could be thousands of jobs created.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Supervisor. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I know you're busy, I know you got a lot.
I know you're down in Bakersfield, but thank you coming
out to Two Ravens.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Brewery for you anything.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Thank you, Thank you, sir, Supervisor Nathan Magzig. It's a
Trevor nation all over the place. Tour live at two
Ravens Brewery, five zero five four North Academy. We are
right out here on the outskirts of clothing. My heart
just touched Granny. Franny came up here and gave me
a painting. This is from your mom and she painted
that a barn up in Oregon. She called the show
(36:31):
and we talk about the boy, my son up in
Great Falls and all of this. And who do you
want me to say hi too?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I want you to, James Spreeney.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
You want me to say hi to who? There? H I'm
James Freeny. This is your mother in law talking to
Trevor and he's in Texas. I think it hurt us
once on the iHeartRadio app Ben he's on Texas, but
he lives in Fresno. Okay, that's he was traveling in Texas.
Thank you for this painting and thank you for coming out.
See see how great this is to get out on
the road right there. Not that I don't mind looking
(37:01):
at director Ryan Nigel and Agent Squiers every day, but
it's good to get out and see people. And thanks
to the management and ownership here at two Ravens Brewery
for having the Trevor nation, all over the place, tour out.
We're gonna be out doing it every Friday
Speaker 3 (37:15):
The Assistant Trevor Jerry Show in Londo Valley's Power Talk
I don't know where. I feel like if I could
see the mountains due to all the smoke and the
fire up there, I said, it feel like you're out
in like Nicker Roguar somewhere. Coming out saw, I started
to see all the palm trees and all these big
mansion houses and tennis courts, and I thought, my word,
it totally feels different. But then you get out here,
and if you're not looking at the foothills of the mountains,
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you turn around and it could look like you're in
South Dakota or on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas
with all the pick them up trucks that you see
on the four corners out here. Thanks to everybody that's
been by so far. In the first two hours, c
K anniversary time for K and his wife this weekend,
so Isaiah Green sat him with me. In three o'clock hour,
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the former Bulldog Capen went on with the Bills and
the Steelers. Thanks for him out here. He was the
record at thirteen thousand. We packed, man, but somebody came
up with twenty three seven. Twenty three, seven hundred is
the high score. Something tells me Agent Squires could beat that,
but he worked. Thanks for iHeart so he will not
be able to pull that off over here. But what
(01:04):
do you do if you get the high score on
the all over the Place tour, Well, you're gonna be
going seeing some people that really know about a tour.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Blake Shelton, he's touring and he's gonna be He's gonna
be stopping into Woodward Park for the Boots in the
Park a week from tomorrow on the thirteenth, the same
day the Bulldogs are back taking on Southern University at
Valley Children. So you can't be in two places at
the same time, but you still got about half hour.
(01:35):
We might even push it to forty two minutes past
this hour to let you get in out here and
play pac Man to see if you win. The tickets
to Blake Shelton and also the next day party in
the Park with Pittbull and we got tickets to Midland
as well. They're going to be out here at the
end of the month. So man just prizes galore And
(01:57):
I want to say what's going on to Rico slave Girardo,
thank you for sending your son and daughter out. They
showed up out here, and did you guys get to
play the pack meet.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh you got some couple of prizes there, so thank
you for sending them out here. Man. We're going to
be out here till six o'clock. And it's so easy.
North Fresno. Shepherd to Toll House and go right on Academy.
You can come straight out Shawl you run right into it,
or you can take the one to eighty, then turn left,
go north on Academy. You'll see us up here, two ravens.
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I talked to the owner in the first hour. They've
been around for about three four years here. It's really
a unique place. And I was just sitting there talking
just a few minutes ago with the manager Dan. I said,
your clientele, you're kind of right out here in between
all rural and the city of Clovis. It's growing, and
he said a lot of clientele very ruled. They pull
(02:55):
from a big area out here as well. And I
can tell why they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
In the three o'clock hour, our boss she stopped out
here and started handing out I said, like she was,
you know what I say. John Gottie with turkeys at
Thanksgiving out on the sidewalk handing out these powerball tickets.
I think it's one point three one point four billion dollars.
It's the third the third largest there one point eight
(03:23):
thank you, director Ryan Nigel on the headphones. One point
eight billion dollars. You take the lump sum after taxes,
you still what what would you do with it all?
And I can tell you right now. Before I bought
a I don't think I would buy a mansion. I
would not buy a sprawling, huge spread like that you
just walk around lonely like Kurt Cobain. Now. It would
(03:47):
be something cool historic, Maybe an old castle when I
wanted to live over there. Maybe an underground bunker if
I wanted to stay in California.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
For a while.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Uh, you know, I'd have three or four different places
that weren't just like, wow, you know mansions out there.
But I would tell you, and this is a trend
that I've seen that they're starting out there, and I actually, yes,
maybe a trendsetter. I didn't tell anybody about it, but
I did this years ago before I moved into my
house i'm in right now. And when I was in
an apartment, I was checking out houses and I found
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one that I was looking to rent. It was nice
and I got the whole tour, and I said, is
it okay tomorrow after work if I just leave work
and drive there and then take my lawn chair and
go sit in the backyard for a little bit. I
just need to test drive it. I didn't ask to
go back in. He goes, yeah, sure. So after work
I drove to what the drive would be like to
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feel every day, and I was feeling it. I'm sitting
in the backyard and here ro just dogs everywhere, and
it just didn't feel right. I wanted something a little
bigger in the back so I test drove it. They're saying,
now home buyers are pushing to actually have a sleepover
before they buy a house, A try it before you
(05:05):
buy it, as anybody heard of that? But doesn't it
doesn't it make a whole lot of sense, especially you're
making what could be a lifelong choice, your investment in
your house. Why not let people have one night in it.
I saw this in the Wall Street Journal. I mean,
especially imagine if you're gonna like it, like when I
win the power ball, like that kind of money that
(05:26):
I'll be spending on a house, something like that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It's gonna be your house, whether it's a middle income
house or a mansion. I was reading in here about
this Manhattan couple. They wanted to get out of the
out of the city, so they went up to the
Hudson Valley and they slept in the house. Yeah. I
think that makes a whole lot of sense. Enough time,
you got to get the vibe of the place. You
need to stay there for a reason, right, Yeah, you
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gotta make sure.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
There's no uh going on.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I can talk about woo. My son and I were
just talking about it this week in Elk Grove, California.
The house that we bought up there, we rented it
from the guy that we bought it from, and weird
things were happening. I'm gonna go into all the weird,
but we called the guy that we bought it from
and he goes, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I had those things happening too.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And when I would go next door our neighbor's herban
rooth older couple. You used to invite us over for dinner,
so the wife the kids would be all over there,
and if I had to run back to the house
to get a pacifier or a bottle or something. It'd
be the only time I was ever alone in the
house and I would walk in that house and I
would feel something. It's just a different feeling than it
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was next door. Yes, I'm telling ghost stories. Hey, maybe
next week. You know, anytime I talk about UFOs, people
call in and want to tell them. But I'm sure
everybody's got a maybe not everybody's got a spooky ghost story.
I even have a picture that I could post up
from a digital camera of a creature between myself with
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the digital camera and my two oldest kids in front of.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Cannot explain it, And no, I'm not smart enough to
go in back in two thousand and three or even
today and photoshop something in like that. But hey, well
I'll as supervisor Nathan Maxig if he's got a ghost story,
because hey, everybody does. I remember in Elk Grove also,
when the guy behind the old eighteen eighties brewery he
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was gonna rint me an office back there, and it
was too big of an office, so he built me
a little one right up on the stairwells in the back.
I'd open up an old metal door walk up these stairs,
and he built me a little office and there are
no windows, none at all. And I would be there
at night, sometimes not really really really late, but i'd
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be there at night and I would just know somebody's
coming up those stairs, and I'd be waiting for a
knock on the door. No, I would be like, Okay,
why aren't they knocking? Are they outside breathing? I'd go
and I'd open my office door and I'd look at nobody.
I'd looked down the stairs nobody. I know I heard it.
I know I heard it. Okay, if I ever see
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a UFO though, you know what I'm doing right, I'm
quitting my show. I'm doing the podcast from the basement
full on Trevor UFO Ology, I'll be all into it
if I ever see one. But tonight you're probably not
going to be see much. If you look up to
the skies, we got a lot of smoke, we got
a lot of haze, and of course, as from a
lot of fires that are burning. It almost seen this
(08:33):
year outside of Southern California, Pacific Palisades and all that
that we had. Kind of maybe, I don't know, I'm
gonna say we ever can dodge it, because we don't
even know when fire season starts and ends, but it
seemed like we hadn't had as many. But suddenly with
those storms coming through, lightning coming down a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Of the start here.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But that's what happens when you leave all those matchsticks
laying around that lightning can start infernos. And I think
we're well, that's a supervisor Mazig. I think at fourteen
percent with the closest here containment. But yeah, it's bad
air quality out there.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
We even got a.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Call ahead or find out ahead, look online ahead if
you're going to local high school sports up and down
the valley tonight football games they could be canceled. They
were already talking about it a few hours ago because
of the bad air quality.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We're gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
We'll talk Fresno State football with Supervisor Nathan Magzig and
I'm again I'm glad the game's out of town with
the bad air quality, and we'll be talking the fires.
And in just a few minutes here we'll be announcing
who's gonna be seeing Blake Shelton and Pittbull with a
double a double Bam bam boots in the park, Party
in the park next weekend. And if you want tickets
(09:47):
to Fresno State as they take on Southern University from
Baton Rouge. They'll be back in town next weekend taking
on Oregon tomorrow. They'll be back next weekend. We got
your tickets here at two Ravens Brewery and tomorrow C
K and Kenny. They kick off at ten thirty in
the morning, the pregame at eleven thirty with Paul Coach
and Cam live from Corvallis, Oregon. Then the kickoff at
(10:12):
twelve thirty right here on Power Talking ninety six, seven AM,
fourteen hundred, Fox Sports thirteen forty, All Up and Down
the Valley thirteen sixty and Modesto and I the iHeartRadio
app as well. So we're looking forward to it. We
got your tickets.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Come on by.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
We're gonna come back and talk with supervisor Nathan ma
Sig about the fire. We'll talk football and anything else
he wants to throw out there. It's a Trevor Nation
all over the Place tour live at two Ravens Brewery,
five zero five four North Academy on the outskirts of Clovis.
I want to ask him his name. He's focusing on
pac Man. If he looked over here. If I said, sir,
what's your name? He's trying to get the ice score.
(10:51):
We got an ice score at twenty three thousand. If
that guy playing right now can beat it, he'll be
going seeing Blake Shelton and next day party in the
park with pitball. We are partying at two Ravens prew
We with supervisor Nathan Magxig. Now, I know what you
played football at Boston a few years after Flutie.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
What was your football career like?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh, yeah, you've been reading my bio clearly, so yeah,
I played for the Rams after that, and then you know,
decided to.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Call that beer.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sometimes you had a younger Merlin Olson look to you
with the Rams. Remember, didn't I send you a picture?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I think I did. I compare when you went with
the Beard. I think that could be.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That's a compliment, I.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Said a younger Merlin Oldson when you said the Rams.
Did you play Pop Warner? Did you play any high
school or anything like that?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So I played in high school. I played at Clovis West.
I had the opportunity to play under coach Blancanship. And
for those who are listening out there right now, who
played under coach Blankenship. You remember just those difficult days
when discipline was no water on one hundred degree days
until you got plays right. The worst player game had
(12:01):
away wear a pink jersey at heavy the nineteen hundreds,
it was.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Water they would hold water on all and you had
two day calling two a day's is it?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh well, even sometimes three a day. So you'd get
up early in the morning, show up for practice, come
back at you know, lunchtime, and then be there in
the evening. So in the off season, spring ball, all
that kind of stuff. You really, football was a religion
and still kind of is a religion there at Clobus.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know, weren't you excited?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I mean, see, sports is so awesome because I know you,
even those three a day's you loved it, even though
you were tired. You love to talk about it. You
were proud that you went through it.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
So with sports in general, football for me, it's it's
the camaraderie. I got to play my football quarterback all
the years through junior high and high school was Billy Volok.
And Billy, of course went on to play at Fresno
State and eventually went on to play in the majors
as well in the in the professional leagues. And I
forget all the different teams that he played for, but
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I mean, we had some incredible athletes that came out
of Clovis West.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I was not one of them.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
But what position, right, well, so, believe it or not,
I was an offensive and defensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, so you had to have some did you worry
about the same site height you are right now? Then
I would be a defensive lineman and offensive. Yeah, it
was the same height.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I used to be fast, and we ran the wing
t offense, and so there was a lot of running,
not a whole lot of passing, and so you never
really took the defender straight on as a as an
offensive lineman and uh, and so it required a lot
of uh, you know, a lot of the offensive linemen
to be quick and strong, and so we constantly were
doing different drills, you know, pulling and blocking.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So but you know, you're the one that opens up
the hole. And then the running back or the quarterback
of the wide receiver, they get all the all the
cheers and the celebration and the touchdown dance and the
cheerleaders excited about and you're like, man, nobody comes.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Uh. You know, at the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Sometimes a quarterback we'll think it's a line you know,
rightfully so, but it's not a glory position.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And two of the line coaches who I've got fond
memories of her, Coach Pickford and coach Tom Deal. So
Tom Deal was a defensive line coach and he coached
for decades even after I left high school. But you know,
when those guys would cheer you on for making a
good play, making a good block, you felt fantastic for
the rest of the week. And so you know, again,
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playing football it is about camaraderie. And I was an
average player but played my heart out and you know
a lot of those lessons that you learned operating as
a team. The team that I played for we had
a tremendous winning record, and we went up against Fontana,
and I can remember us beating Fontana. It was one
of the most fantastic games I've ever been a part of.
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We ended up winning by three points and we were
expected just to get blown out because Fontana was nationally ranked.
This is back in nineteen ninety four, and we ended
up playing them and we beat them, and just the
excitement that these games brought. And when everybody plays as
a team, you play at a whole other level. And
many times there are teams that have tremendous talent and
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everybody plays individually and they end up losing. So when
you have a group of guys, I will take an
average group of guys playing as a team over people
with top talent playing as individuals.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Not if you're trying to put people in the seats
and you had to make money and you were in
the pros, well I wasn't. So there you're talking high school. Hey,
that's a great story though. See that sticks in your mind.
I bet you You even run around some of the
old players from the team that you see around here
and you go remember that game with Fontana we beat
them by three. I know in high school at Burrows
(15:43):
High School and Ridgecrest, I have zero stories of our
baseball team like that because we didn't beat any by
my stories.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Are we were horrible.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I would see some guys come up like maybe three
times in one inning. Yeah that was tough. In our mascot,
are you ready? The school was named after a gentleman
named Sherman E burrows B you r r o U
g h s. So they called it Burrows and they
needed a mascot. So somebody in the back of the
room said, so we were the Burrows.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Burrows B you r r O s.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So when a grounder would go through your leg at
second base, the score you know e four I would
you would hear?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Who wouldn't name who wouldn't name their mascot that?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, but through through all of those high school days,
you clearly have u you have learned a lot, you've
developed a lot, You've come a long way. So again
it does sometimes those tough lessons make you into a
better person.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Annelote Valley also didn't tell us that they had painted
and it wasn't fully dry the dugout things. So we
went to a whole game with paint marks on the
back of our uniform, hearing.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
He hal gotta love it good old days.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well, but baseball is such a memory and all of
that sports is so awesome now I don't remember. My
guest is Froznoe County Supervisor Nathan Maxig. At no point
have you ever moved somewhere else and then come back
or have you been here ever since you were born
and raised? No?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I actually was born in Vancouver, Washington, and my father
at the time flew for the Oregon National Guard and
later he became I went to seminary, became a pastor,
and what eventually led us to come to the Fresno
area was in the late eighties there was a church
that needed us here. But I've been here in the
area since nineteen eighty nine and I've never left. I
(17:36):
fell in love with this place and I plan on
dying here.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Something is slashing back now. You were mayor of Clovis.
I think I first got when I first got here
eight nine years ago, tim whatever, And I.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Probably ask you that we are both preacher kids. In yes,
we were.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Okay, why does society if somebody goes, hey, my dad's
in prison, they don't rub your head and go watch
out for this one. But when you're a preacher's kid,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
They preconditioned us to Like I remember going like, why
are people going to watch out for me? Why do
they think that about me?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
They do that to preach your kids, Right, you've had
your head rub like that, watch out for this little guy?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, I mean, just if you think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Sometimes, when you grow up in a Christian household, especially
where you're you know, your mom's involved in marriage counseling
and your dad is a pastor. Sometimes there are some
families where kids are not allowed to do anything, and
so once they become teenagers, they rebel. Fortunately for me,
my dad was amazing. I grew up in a great
household where my dad tried to He always took me camping.
(18:41):
I loved camping. I grew up as a camp kid,
and so maybe I was a little bit crazy. I
was talking to someone earlier today about the times that
I got suspended in school. But while I wasn't perfect,
I don't feel like I caused a two bunch of
many ulcers for my dad. You wanted to play football,
you had to see.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
That's what sports as they keeps guardrails, honest, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, it burns your time up because you know what
do they say about people with idle hands?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You know, so I can become governor of California.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
But growing up playing sports, so it wasn't just football.
I did football, ran track, and wrestled, and so there
was no off button.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
For me. So once one sport ended, I.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Will transition defensive lineman. But I was fast, I went, okay,
but obviously you're running track, you are. I used to
be fast, yes, so yeah, yeah, okay. When I ask
you if you'd ever left and then come back, so
you've been here for quite a while, what was your
favorite Fresno State like moment? I know, boy, this this team,
(19:46):
this college's town is so based on tradition. They love it,
they love to talk about They've had glory moments that
made Tresne State famous around the nation and world at times.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Now this is going to blow your mind because my
favorite Fresno State football moment didn't happen on the football field.
So here you go. When I was chairman of the
Board of Supervisors back in twenty nineteen, Fresno State had
just finished their best, most winning season ever, and so
I wanted to honor the starters and that entire team,
(20:19):
and so I invited the Fresno State football team to
the Fresno County Board of Supervisors. I was going to
give him a proclamation and recognize them. And they all
came out, and their spokesperson was David Tonguy, Paw. And
at that meeting, David Tonguypaw was speaking, and he was
a tight end at Fresno State and he was graduating
and he said, you know, one day I want to
(20:40):
be governor of California. And my ears perked up to that,
and I told my staff, I said, look, we're going
to take that team out to lunch. By the way,
it was very expensive. I'm I'm still paying for that Bill.
And he became as Roger Stone in that moment. So yes,
And about a year later, an opportunity arose for to
go to work with me at the county, and so
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he and I worked together for about five years, and
now he's doing great things in Sacramento. So that is
probably one of my it's my favorite Fresno State football memory.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I'll keep it in the sports world. Call you branch Rickey.
You're out there looking at the Farm League, weren't you,
and you sent one up to Sacramento. He what I
found fascinating, and I'm sure probably one of the reasons
you saw after he you know, started working at you
real quick. His memory. I have a lot of people
that I've interviewed, and I mean his memory of Assembly
(21:36):
Bill recalls by the number with no notes in front
of him. I've seen a few people that way. I'm
not that way. So he's got a brain in there.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Man.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
You know he's still he's a young man, and so
there's something to be said about young brains.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So they worked great.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
He had been Joe bidenives yet Joe bidenis ye? Aren't
you feeling that more? I got to write so many
notes down now and put things on my phone for
an alarm, and now I'm past I'm not even remember
what the alarm at six oh one when I got
off the air meant. I have to write in there
what it means.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, you have notes, and I just write notes on
my skin. So I look down at my head. Oh yeah,
I gotta I gotta take my medication, don't I.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Hey, it all works now. You have been with a
lot of folks up in the mountains. I know during
the fires. I know when Tanga Pod David Tangapo work
with you, he got a lot of experience up there,
because he's always talking about the time that he worked
with you.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
We got a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You can see it right now, and we're going to
come back and talk to supervisor Nathan Max sick about
the fires that are going on and all the issues
that we seem to face, and it seems to be recurring,
and it's Sacramento and it has been for a long time.
John Magic. Should we give it? Let's go ahead and
give it another seven eight minutes here, somebody wants to
(22:59):
play pac Man for Blake Shelton and Pittbull. It's a
Trevor Nation all over the place to our live. We're
at two Ravens Brewery five zero five four North Academy
on the outskirts of Clovid going on. We got your
friends on state tickets too, till six o'clock. You want
to come over and play pac Man. I don't think
anybody's going to hit the twenty three thousand, Okay, he's
(23:20):
I seem celebrating, Okay, he is.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Congratulations to Dave.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Dave he came out to the all over the Place
tour and he's going to be going to Boots in
the Park to see Blake Shelton next Saturday at Wilbord Park.
Also the next day Party in the Park with Pittbull,
Little John Supervisor, Nathan Maczig and Fat Joe. It's going
to be a big show, and we also gotten in
last few minutes out here. If you want your tickets
to see to see Midland, Well, Supervisor Mac Sigg, you
(23:49):
haven't performed on stage, but I just learned during that
break that you performed on a bicycle going forty miles
an hour around city hall. That's not in your bio.
What was that about.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, So there was a period of time where I
fell in love with with bicycle racing. So back in
about two thousand and nine, the Tour of California made
it one of its stops in the city of Clovis,
and so the Cloba City Council we were asked to
ride a portion of that particular leg, which was only
going to be about forty miles, and so we all
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started training for that, and I fell in love with
riding a bike, and so I kept riding, and then
I entered some races and entered more races, and then
I started riding for a couple of different teams like
Central Valley Cycling and Momentum Racing.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You were sponsoring Global.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
CTI, we had sponsors.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Were you on ESPN six Probably not ESPN six that
was too you know, two high dollar for me.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But hey, did you look all Tour de France like
with the tight fitting bike riding? Did you have pads
on if you're going forty miles an hour around corners?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Shamefully, yes, I wore lecra and my wife reminds me
that that's a big no no. But I will say,
on a bicycle, I never I've never shaved my legs.
All right, I drew the line somewhere. I just swimmers.
I was willing to wear light grub, but I'm not
going to shave my legs.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I thought that was just swimmers. I didn't know bike riders, right,
How does that affect your aerodynamics? Well, I mean hair
under material. I'm like, slow it down.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You had to shave your beard? I bet right, back then,
back then I didn't have a beard. But so the
whole reason you shave is when you crash, you lose skin.
And so when you lose skin and you got to
get all bandaged up, it hurts bad when you have
to tear those bandages off because you lose a lot
of hair. So you might as well just shave it
all off. So when you crash, you lose skin, you
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don't have to worry about the secondary pain of pulling
your hair out too.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I see the middle aged guys around Wilburd Park are
even older a little bit, and they are all decked
out like their lance Armstrong minus performance.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Drugs, I guess.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
But you never see grown up men get together and
go out and all dressed in giants uniforms playing baseball catch.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right usually know that would be like a red flag.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
But the bikes, you got to do it, man, They're
into it, and I applaud them. They're being healthy. They're
out there riding around as well. But I wouldn't suggest
getting out on any bike. I wouldn't even take a
kid out in a stroller with this air quality that's
going on. And I was saying, you know, in your
living room when the sun comes through the curtains and
you see all the fuzzy stuff floating, and you don't
(26:24):
realize what's around us, And that's just in our living room.
If we could see out there right now what we're breathing,
that's pretty rough, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I will tell you, with all the fires that we
have burning right now, the amount of particulates that are
in the air is extremely elevated. And for those of
you out there listening, who you don't need to be
reminded because your lungs right now are constantly burning. But
we've got on the west side of the valley, we've
got the Salt Fire, which last time I checked, I
want to say it's somewhere around seventeen thousand acres. That's
(26:55):
more of a grass and bush fire, but it is.
It's grown pretty rappidly. It was started by lightning.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And then I give us a landmark on that, a
town or something near.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Kalinga, okay, but it's just past Kolingas west of Kalinga
in those foothills. And then on the east side you've
got the Garnet Fire, which everybody's aware of, which is
a little over thirty three thousand acres, and that of
course is near Balch Camp. It's not quite to Dinky
Creek it as it would say, if.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You go up ninety nine between Modesto and Stockton and
just head east, you kind of right toward the mountains,
you'll run right into it.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Is that kind of so you're too far north, so okay,
if you want to hit it. So basically that was
the China campfire. Yeah, so if you want to hit
the Garnet Fire. Basically, it is due east of Pine Flat.
So the fire started on the south fork of the
King's River and then it burned across the north fork
and continued moving north. Right now, they've been able to
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really put black line down, so they've contained and pretty
much put out the south part of the fire, and
they kind of wrapped around to make sure that that
fire is not going to continue to move south. But
the fire is still moving north west and east, and
so they've been putting in containment lines. They're working very
hard to protect structures out there, and to my knowledge,
(28:17):
no one has been injured severely in that fire. So
the goal is number one, to protect people. Number two
absolutely protect structures and also the trees. So out there
in McKinley Grove, we've got some very large trees out
there that need to be preserved and so the goal
is to protect as many of those as possible too.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I guess that China Camp that was a historic town
up there north that burned down. It seemed like I
saw a map some one local media. I had like
seventeen fires around as well, and am I correct that?
A lot of times they don't immediately respond when they
detect these fires from They don't use the towers anymore.
(28:57):
It's all satellite, right.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So I'll tell you that last week when we had
that first lightning storm that came through, I was aware
of eleven fires that were started from that storm alone.
And so the US Forest Services, in my opinion, stretch
kind of thin.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
When you say you're aware to do you contact them?
They contact you, or you just watch a website.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I mean, what is that?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
What do you you know? How do you get them from?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So I'm on text threads with Cawfire as well as
US four A service, so I get texts, but also too,
I receive regular updates from the US Forest Service. Typically
it's Dean Gould, who is the supervisor of the Sierra Region.
He'll call and share with me kind of what's going on,
what resources are coming in, and I will call him
(29:44):
as well and just get updates. And then of course
Dustin Hale is the CalFire chief of the Fresno Kings Unit,
So anything that's going on in Fresno County that's threatening
SRA land State Responsibility Area lands, they are going to
be the number one firefighting force on those what a
lot of people are not aware of is in Fresno
County on the east side the forests that we have
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about half of those forests are managed by the federal government.
The other half is private property, and some of it
too is the state has some lands like around Millerton Lake.
The state has some state parks and some lands there.
But really you've got the federal government and then locals
who own those lands. And so a lot of these
fires that we've seen recently have started on US Forest
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Service land, and so when it comes to the response
on those fires, they are the ones calling the shots.
If they need additional resources, they'll reach out to CalFire,
and CalFire will provide those resources if they're available. With
the Salt Fire that started a few days ago, there
have been resources that have been needed out on the
west side of Fresno County as well, because a lot
(30:50):
of that land is the responsibility of CalFire. And so
as we have here in Fresno County multiple fires burning,
we're just one of fifty eight counties in the state,
and there are other fires burning in California too.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Do they decide where to send resources on how close
to humans or buildings they'll divert based on if it's
just wild grassland and aren't cities around.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I don't know exactly how they prioritize where they divert resources,
but I will tell you that the number one goal
is always human life, and then number two is going
to be structure protection. But again, if you have multiple
areas where human life is threatened, I don't know how
they are going to assign resources at that point. That's
just above my pay grade.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Well, let me ask this, My guest is Supervisor Nathan Magsig.
When you hear from the Forest Department like that, what
kind of things are required of like the Fresno County supervisors?
What kind of things do you can you assist with?
How do you guys jump in and get to action.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Well, here's where Fresno County is heavily involved. So even
though these lands are on are managed by the US
Forest Service or even private property, it's all in the
county at Fresno, and so we are responsible for the
sheriff's department. We have a duly elected sheriff, but the
Board of Supervisors we are the ones who approve expenditures
and the budgets. And then two we are the ones
who ratify a state of emergency, which we did at
(32:11):
last Friday, we declared an emergency for the Garnet fire.
And so we have public works departments. So with these fires,
you have to have road closures, sheriff's departments involved in
identifying areas that they want to evacuate, and then from
their signage may need to be put up where public
works may need to man some of those signs and
deal with that. Infrastructure needs to be maintained. So even
(32:33):
though areas are evacuated, you've got sewer plants that have
to continue to operate because you can't just walk away
from that infrastructure that's in the mountain areas.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
So public works never thought of that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, the basics, because you don't want to lose your
life in a fire if you work for the water
and sewer department. Yeah, correct, you're right. I had never
thought of that.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Correct, So we have that infrastructure. And then too you
have the Fresno County Fire Protection District as well, and
they contract with Cow Fire and the Fresne County Fire
Protection District. The board members are appointed by the Board
of Supervisors as well, so there's many, many layers where
the county is involved, and then we spend quite a
(33:14):
bit of resources. So if people do need to be evacuated,
we work with the Red Cross for housing. If there's
animals that need to be relocated, we'll work with different institutions,
whether it be like the Clovis Rodeo Association or the
fairgrounds to relocate significant amounts of animals. And then we
find ways to just cover expenses that come up that
you wouldn't think of, but they pop up when you're
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in the midst of an emergency.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
The animals and the wildlife, and you think of this
when these fires ripped through some of these areas out
of here, people lose a lot of their income with
their animals, and there's just so much that we don't
think of.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Just the fuel, just so, the fuel cost of running
fire engines, if they're Fresnoe County Fire Protection engines, if
they're volunteer fire department engines, just the fuel bill can
be tens of thousands of dollars a day, all.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Though are not clothes and refineries. Who's charging of that?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Speaking of that, just yesterday I was in Kern County
touring a refinery in Oildale and it's one of the
largest ones in Kern County. It's on the Kern River
and that they've got twenty six square miles that they own,
and they've been operating out there since eighteen ninety nine,
and they told me there's so much more oil available.
(34:30):
They've been out there for over one hundred years and
they could be there for another two or three hundred years,
but the state of California is not giving them permits
to drill new wells, and so the oil production out
of that field is dropping rapidly. So the state of
California has lost its mind. And your listeners need to engage.
You need to be writing letters, You need to be
(34:50):
reaching out to your legislators, but really the governor you
need to say. You need to tell the governor. Look,
we need to change how we approach oil production. We
need to be producing our own oil because we have
it here in California. Over seventy percent of the oil
that we use in California comes from foreign countries, and
we could be completely independent. In nineteen eighty five we
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started to decline. We became less and less or independent
and more and more dependent on foreign countries. So we
can get back to a point where we are independent again.
But it's going to take your listeners, and it's going
to take a lot of hard work from those who
believe in.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
That we should be lifestyles of the rich and famous
with the crude oil the bubblin underneath this here, and
think of all the careers I was saying yesterday about
the careers that people can have. I had a firm
from high school that works in the petroleum industry and
he tours around the world. He started out in some
grunt work and worked his way up. We could have
so many stories like that. Well, I look at so
(35:47):
you look at the trucking industry. You need to have
people who can drive those fuel tankers. You need to
have people who need to change drill bits, just the
drill rigs alone. The many different businesses that are out there.
So you're right, there could be thousands of jobs created.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Supervisor. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I know you're busy, I know you got a lot.
I know you're down in Bakersfield, but thank you coming
out to Two Ravens.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Brewery for you anything.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Thank you, Thank you, sir, Supervisor Nathan Magzig. It's a
Trevor nation all over the place. Tour live at two
Ravens Brewery, five zero five four North Academy. We are
right out here on the outskirts of clothing. My heart
just touched Granny. Franny came up here and gave me
a painting. This is from your mom and she painted
that a barn up in Oregon. She called the show
(36:31):
and we talk about the boy, my son up in
Great Falls and all of this. And who do you
want me to say hi too?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I want you to, James Spreeney.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
You want me to say hi to who? There? H I'm
James Freeny. This is your mother in law talking to
Trevor and he's in Texas. I think it hurt us
once on the iHeartRadio app Ben he's on Texas, but
he lives in Fresno. Okay, that's he was traveling in Texas.
Thank you for this painting and thank you for coming out.
See see how great this is to get out on
the road right there. Not that I don't mind looking
(37:01):
at director Ryan Nigel and Agent Squiers every day, but
it's good to get out and see people. And thanks
to the management and ownership here at two Ravens Brewery
for having the Trevor nation, all over the place, tour out.
We're gonna be out doing it every Friday
Speaker 3 (37:15):
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