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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Be at your back. We're going to help you escape
from law enforcement arresting criminals. All right, haven't learned anything?
Have you? Newsom or Democratic Party? You got beat down.
In twenty twenty four new polling from Echelon Insights, they
ask a near even split of twenty twenty four Kamala
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Harris voters and Trump voters their opinion, including job approval
for Trump, and thoughts of a twenty twenty eight Democrat
front runner. Who do you think Democrat voters at least
here in the summer of twenty twenty five have their
confidence in in three years from now, who do they
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want to be their nominee. Kamala clocked in at twenty
six percent, outpacing old Booty Judge and Newsom Buddha Judge
by fifteen. Newsom sixteen. Look at that. Thissom Kenny beat
Kamala and he's polling. See they seal something that we see.
That's the only reason they would go for something with
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the cackler. I guess she is.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
This is gonna sound im modest, but I'm obviously a
top tier candidate.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You are, Kamala.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You are.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I hope you kept your notes on how you spent
one and a half billion dollars in three months and
couldn't generate other things than other than hitting Joy. Read
on MSNBC to say, it's a campaign of joy guys.
One and a half billion dollars in three months. All right,
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According to this Echelon polling, who would be your choice
in the primary if we were held today and Kamala
Harris was not running? Tim Walls came in first at
fourteen percent. Well, he let us know the other day
that he's not gonna run for president. He's got too
many turkeys to shoot in Minnesota and he's got to
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keep putting tampons in boys room. Now, when you look
across the aisle in this Essaon polling twenty twenty eight,
on the Republican side, it's clear by a cuntry mile
all the way down to the hallers. Jdie Vance forty
two percent, Ron DeSantis at nine, Marco Rubio at seven.
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I don't I'm already looking at me, already looking so
far ahead here, But I am president Vance and vice president?
Who would that be? I got some a wait and see,
I don't see DeSantis being a vice president. He didn't
fit the bill. Maybe a Rubio could but yeah, he could,
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he could do that. He's doing good job Secretary of State.
But Newsom has been elevating himself to this his national profile.
Go back about three years ago. It kind of kicked off,
you know, when it was starting to be hinted and
rumored that Joe Biden would not be running for a
second term. I'll never forget. We knew some guy on
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an airplane flew there knowing Joe Biden was like overlooking,
you know, trying to find paratroopers in France or something.
Some trip he took over there. And Newsom was doing
the tour in DC, walking around the grounds of the
White House being interviewed, are you considering a ro oh no, no, no, no,
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I was just in here with an interior decorator. Why
do you ask? Yeah. Right after Trump has sworn in Beack,
newsm really kicked it up a notes right started his podcast,
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Kevin Newsom Show. Started it off
getting in trouble with the lgbt Q. I A plus
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that what part lgbt T T trans It's not it's unfair. Yeah,
way to make yourself the face of the resistance, even
the resistancy, says hypocrisy. He's going across the country, lecturing
red states, taking out ads in Texas and Florida, running
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ads in other states that hey, if you need an abortion,
California is your state. Hey, is a local judge told
your ex husband that your boy can't become a girl.
I'm Gavin Newsom, set your GPS to California. Come on out, y'all.
Crime and homelessness in this state. The problem. It's thirty
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years in the making. Newsom's been involved in it with
for how long twenty five years, early two thousands, he
was in San Francisco. Is the mayor, right, he's promising
failed to clean it up. Just a failure. And now
he's going to think he's going to take this on
a national level. Well, I gotta say he's going. He's
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He is not somebody to just think, Oh, his record
will shine and through and they'll see the debacle that
they've done. Now, listen, we know about it because we
live here. Even if you don't like pay attention to
politics and listen to news talk every day and read
news feeds it, you still hear about it and feel
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about it, and you see it with your own eyes.
So knew someone to change the message across America about
California because they've also picked up on the stories and
heard the national stories of the Uh. Well, it's kind
of a laughing stock of what's happening. Oh that's used
to be. That's so California was a cool thing. Now
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now it's not.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
New.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Someone wanting to prove that California is currently not a
deep hole. So his office posted up and he said
the s word whole uh in parentheses. The governor news
some press office put this out with four beautiful pictures
of California, Like, no, it's not a people hoole. No,
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it shows two eight year old pictures of California and
eleven year old picture of California and a picture of
Nevada on the Tahoe side of the lake. Yeah, so
he's running for governor. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco he
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copied what Newsom did, but in his four pictures he
had the reality of what's happening in California. Tariffianco said
Newsom could highlight California's natural scenery all he wants. These
pictures show his contribution to California's Democrat created scenery. It
shows Venice beachs with all the tents and the palm trees,
and that looks like the actual dump. But it's a
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sidewalk in La so much stuff stacked it looks like
a dump. And I'm sure Newsom's taxpayer funded polit Bureau
staff up there. Hey, guys, find four great pictures of California.
That was even too difficult for him. They can do
anything right getting a picture from the Nevada side of
Lake Tahoe. And then you see a picture of Hollywood
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from twenty fifteen, before Newsom was governor, And we thought
it might have been a little rough in twenty fifteen
or two thousand and five or nineteen ninety five or
nineteen eighty five. No, it has gone so far down
the hill. My ex girlfriend in Colorado Brazilian that was
she's spoking extremely well. But instead of saying, oh, it's
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gone downhill, she would always say it's gone down the hill.
And I was like, I'm gonna start saying that. I
like it better and said, oh, boy's gone downhill. Oh
Boy's gone down the hill. California's gone down the hill.
Ask people that have done the the San Francisco excrement.
App that's where we are, guys, as as residents of
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smell a what they think. Ask people driving around towntown Fresno,
And I did recently when my parents were in town.
We went and there's some antique thirst stores down there
that are really cool. But man, walking from the car,
if you got to park a little bit around the
corner or something, you gotta keep your eyes filled there everywhere,
crazy gut in the corner and just yell it out loud.
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Just no, he wasn't a street preacher. He's somebody that
needed mental health. We ignore it. Somebody was laying on
the corner with their heart stopping. We called nine one one.
Somebody broadcasting on the corner. Hey, my brain is not
working right. Let's go in a little, a little looking
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around in the store and watch out keeping on on
that guy. Newson admitted back too years ago, I'm thinking
around now. And he had the Chinese coming in and
some of the other international leaders were coming in, and
some other people around our country were coming in, and uh,
he admitted, they were cleaning it up. They were going
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to clean up San Francisco. And he was asked about it.
He he literally said, I know folks are saying, Oh,
they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy
leaders are coming into town.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
That's true, because it's true.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But it's also true for months and months and months
prior to APEX, we have been having conversations about it.
That's where I got that. That's true because it's true.
Knewsom now admitting that he understands supply and demand in
this state when it comes to housing, and boy, he's mad.
He's mad that somebody didn't take control of that.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
We have too much demand chasing two little supplies. Not complicated.
This is econ one oh one supply demand, I balance.
I've said it before, I'll repeat it. This issue of
housing explains more things, in more ways and more days
than any other issue to explain the challenges and the
plight of so many Californians. So many of the challenges
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that ail us can be connected back to this issue.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Does he make any sense at all? Well, he's mad
at somebody because they didn't understand supply and demand. He said,
It's very simple. It's so simple.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
This is the Trevor Carry Show on the Valley's Power.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Talk, Simonman, David Tonga, Pod is going to be joining
us at the bottom of the hour. He's got a
big event going on Sunday in Clovis, voter initiative with
Reform California, Reform California. That's part of Simonman. Carl de Mayo,
he was Carl before he became a Simbleman. He started
the same time that Tonga Pod did. Yeah, the Mayo,
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He's been on show many times. He was an iHeart
talkos in San Diego. Ko ge O down there and
he said, I'm going to run for this Emily, and
he did. Anyone, very very proud of these two men here,
part of the small small crew in Sacramento of Republicans,
conservative minded Republicans. We'll talk to simonem and David Tungerbah
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coming up here at the bottom of the hour. Than
at five o'clock when we talk about the Wall Street
Journal birthday letter that they're saying President Trump wrote to Epstein. Ah,
they were just saving that one, or maybe they just
made it up on a napkin over some Gen and Tonics. Yeah,
let's come up with this. We'll talk more about that
(11:41):
coming up at five. But looky here, looky here, the
not funny guy that they call a comedian, Stephen Cobert
gonna be exiting.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I mean, Brian, you know CBS is saying this is
a financial decision.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It is certainly the timing of this is kind of stunning.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Right from the optics standpoint, The timing could not be
worse for CBS. Colbert is such an outspoken Trump critic,
He's just back from vacation, and as he showed there
on Monday on his first night back from vacation, he's
also a thorn in his parent company's side. So this
looks to a lot of Colbert's fans like another form
of capitulation by CBS to the President of the United States.
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If you look at Colbert's Instagram page already, his fans
are pouring their hearts out and blaming CBS for this.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, that's potato head Brian Stelter there on CNN. I
don't know. I would think, and I haven't watched late
night TV in a while, but I would think if
I were sitting there with my funions and Fresca, I
wouldn't this would make me turn at all.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
The Republicans have gotten better at having a media arm
that helps inflate their worst instincts than the Democrats do.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Aren't you nice? Somebody put this little montage together.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Donald Trump has been sworn in as President of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Listen, listen, We're just as con used as you are.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Joe Biden did it.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
I sat down and just started crying with relief, and
Evy said, you never have to talk about him again,
and then I cried with joy. After a bizarre and
vicious campaign fueled by a desperate need not to go
to jail, Donald Trump has won the twenty twenty four election.
Next year will be our last season. The network will
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be ending the Late Show in May. Donald Trump has
been sworn in as President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah twice, you fool. You're not even funny, not even close.
I remember when he used to do those. Was it
ac Delco or he started out doing TV commercials. He
even bugged me. Then all right, let's go listen to
potatahead because he's reported on profitability for these shows in
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the past, and he's seen this happen before.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
But here's the reporting that I have just in the
past few minutes. Anderson about this financial explanation. Think back
to twenty twenty three, when the Late Late Show with
James Cordon went off the air. I reported at the
time that that show had become unprofitable, that CBS was
not able to sell enough ads to make that show profitable. Well,
that is now the case for Colbert as well. I'm
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told by a source close to the network that the
Late Show Stephen Colbert is now technically unprofitable. So that
does give the company a financial reason to end the
show starting in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Okay, I guess that makes sense. You stand a good
chance of tuning out a majority of your audience, more
than half. Yeah, but old potato Head had a hmmm.
What I said was true.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
But however, however, it's not as if Colbert was given
a chance to take a pay cut or maybe change
the format of the show or moving out to the theater.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
This seems to.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Have happened all at once, and it comes on the merge,
on the verge of that big paramount Skuid Dance merger.
He's taking over sky Ends. Larry Ellison, a friend of
President Trump and his son David. So there may be
a lot more of the story. It's just happened in
the past hour, but there's a lot more POI to
do on that.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, let's turn Cobert not being funny. Let's turn CBS
not being able to possibly turn a profit. It would
seem into let's see where do we go? Oh wait,
that's in my back pocket. Let me take that. It
could be President Trump. No matter what the story stays
in the headline, Cobert, you're probably up there at Bohemian
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grove like doing a voodoo dance around a sacrifice goat
or something. That's what I think about him.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
I feel like I should sacrifice a goat or something.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
See, I knew it. I knew it. I knew it,
I knew it. What better place to go when we
want to get the pulse of America when it comes
to Cobert, then let's go around that CNN show where
Scott Jennings since around the table. This is where we
get the reality on here. But this was a man
that made sense.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Part of the conversation that's been complete admitted from this,
and that is when you do a show that attacks
half of America every night and you don't have conservatives
on and by the way, you're not funny, but attacking
half of America and your ratings suck.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You might lose your show. This is a reason that.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Old Bear, I mean, but there's a lot of reasons
why that co Bear ratings are not working out that
have nothing to do with the political device.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Talking constant he's having on Democrats to trash Trump. He
is constantly in trashing conservatives. He referred to on Trump
as a Nazi lover in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Usually that does make half of the country happy, you know,
but you don't have to get country. But you don't
need to have the whole country watching your show.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
This is a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Is everybody listening.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Every human being in the United States of America has
a right to decide what they find is funny. And
if half of America likes Colbert and half of America
likes Scottfeld, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
In the United States of America. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That's okay.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
But my point is the real is why it can't
because he was no longer funny, and that's.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Not what's going on at all.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Cancer we walked with.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I just explained, we're witnessing the end of an American
television institution.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It doesn't make enough. Another one is it's throwing Colbert Colbert.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Will forever be known as the person who frittered away
David Letterman's legacy, which is something.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
This is the Trevor Kerry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'd like to welcome to the show brand new up
there in the Assembly some of them and David Tongan,
Pa Silm and welcome. Uh. It's been what five months now,
six months.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
A little bit, but I'm sad I couldn't make it
to join you in person just yet. But yeah, we're
just starting starting this first six months off pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well. I even found a perfect size indoor not nerve.
It's a leather, smaller, scaled down football, but it would
be great to play catcher in the studio next time
you're in to see how your hands are still doing.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Yeah, we are, We're still working back. I could tell
you that I can definitely use some more working out
in athleticism. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well. For those that do not know, the Assemblyman was
tied end Forresto State Bulldogs. What class of twenty eighteen
if I do recall off the top of.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
My head that was at eighteen?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Hey all right, hey, I always ask Assemblement Patterson. I'd
be like Hey, what's it like up there in the
You know, he'd been up there so long. He's like
a sleep on my boat. Nothing big, right, But let
me ask you what's it been like for the first
six months up there as a brand new assemblyman? Are
you enjoying it? Because you talk to other people in
politics before you ran, you've worked with Supervisor Nathan Mags
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and you've been in political offices, but the assembly is
are kind of a different beast and you'd never done
it before. Give us your six month take.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
You know, it is a different beast. And I can
tell you this with the issues that are coming to
fruition right now. You know, I would say that that's
the difference between when Jim came in in versus when
I came in. You know, Jim, Jim came in and
they were really building the economy started to pick up
steam and what they were working on. But some of
the issues that Jim had often warned about that we
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had a spending issue that we weren't prioritizing the right areas.
I'm coming into the legislature with all those areas now
starting to really crumble and fall apart, and so you know,
he's highlighted a lot of these issues, and now they're materializing,
and that's what we've come into. I mean, first week
in we have the LA wildfires, which is collapsing the
insurance industry here in the state of California. We have
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the wild spending and the spending issues that we have
here that are completely falling apart with the programs that
we can't even satisfy. And then we're seeing with what's
going on throughout, whether it's immigration enforcement, some of the
housing issues. You know, I think Jim did a really
good job at highlighting them, and now we've got to
take them on head on. And so that's what the
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six months have been. I keep telling people I am
still playing football because I feel like I'm running into
everything head first. And that is what Sacramento feels like.
I think the majority party has gotten over their skis
on what they think they can do in this overweaponization
of compassion, when right now we've got to start having
the reality and the real hard conversations and just bring
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us back to reality.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I'm going to work this into a question, but do
I recall you saying once that you were sleeping on
somebody's counts because you didn't have anywhere to live, all right?
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Are you talking about when that happened while I was
playing football?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah? So okay, what right? I do remember you telling that,
don't I?
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Yes, while I was playing football, there was a time
I spent some time on my teammates couch because I
was a walk on at first, and then I eventually
earned a scholarship.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
All right. Now, I say that to say I've been
in situations like that where our bank accounts might even
be negative, and we act and we live differently when
we don't have as much money at times and when
we have maybe a little more. Let me ask you
this a similar MONTNGA pod with a deficit in California.
Are you shocked up there? How Democrats talk and act
with spending like they don't realize, they don't even go
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to the ATM and look at the balance.
Speaker 9 (21:08):
It's it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate that we you know, we
even have the Department of Finance and our governor news,
we have the Legislative Analysis Office, which is a third
party entity that analyzes our books, often warning us what's
going on. But I mean, this is kind of what
happens California. Voters are getting everything that they voted for,
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and it's unfortunate. I feel like a lot of voters
didn't know what they were getting, and you know, we
we had elected officials that had more platitudes and weaponized
compassion instead of coming back to rooted reality. When it
comes to the finances coming in, there's a lot of
individuals that they've never ran a business, they probably never
worked outside of government office, they've never had negative ten
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dollars in their bank account, which I did, and I
the again, reality portion of it is somewhat missing. But
I think it's starting to be exposed and we're starting
to peel back to the onion. I mean, I think
about how just this week I was attacked as a
Republican because Republicans don't want sexual predators in community off
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in the community. That is what the Democrat majority leadership
attacked us on for not wanting sexual predators. So I
think there's this big disconnect in Sacramento with everywhere else
across California. I know there's a lot of Democrats that
don't believe that that is what they actually believe, but
they're just not getting that same type of representation in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I Greg Guttfeld made the comment of like it's like
watching Jaws and rooting for the shark. It's like everything
that they do is the opposite of what you would
think somebody would just human compassion in their heart, whether
the Republican or Democrat would do up there. Let me
ask you, Assemblyman, does Newsom ever show up? Does he
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ever say hello, hell oh? Does he stroll through? Does
he do anything like that?
Speaker 9 (23:03):
That is one thing that I'm going to make sure
to highlight if he's going to run for presidential office.
I'm one of the eightiest elected Assembly members, you know,
out of one hundred and twenty of the elected state officials.
I have never seen Governor Newsom. I have never interacted
with him. I haven't had a chance. I've called him
out try and just meet with him. I've tried to
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talk to him. I've even called him out trying to
debate him while he's trying to call Jadie Vance. We've
got enough issues here in California. He should really stop
worrying about what's going on in Washington and really start
worrying what's going on here in California. And if he's
not going to talk to me, one of the eighty
assembly members, one of one hundred and twenty state legislators.
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How's that going to be for people, everyday people? How
is he going to say that he listens to the
everyday person?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Well, maybe you could tell him you want to come
on his podcast and talk college football. You might can
get in that way to meeting.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Yeah, that might be the easiest way, but that one
the podcast might already be camped.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I yeah, I haven't heard much about that going on.
He did his big burst out there and then kind
of fizzle dizzled out, kind of like, let's let's segue
into high speed rail. Howld are you now twenty nine?
Speaker 9 (24:17):
Twenty nine?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Now, so you were like eleven or twelve when high
speed rail was first said it was going to come
into fruition. Here are there democrats amongst your coworkers up
there that you know say this is let's just use
the word boondoggle. What's the vibe? What's the vibe in
sack on this?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well?
Speaker 9 (24:36):
I mean you actually took exactly what I say all
the time when it comes to high speed rail. I
can be for sure with everybody I did not vote
for high speed rail when I was on the bout
in two thousand and eight. I was twelve years old,
and you know, I'm turning thirty years old this year
and still high speed rail more than fifteen billion dollars
spent and all we have is concrete and freebarn. There
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are some Democrats up here that, I mean, they believe
that there's something wrong with high speed rail. I don't
think they understand what is wrong. I don't think that
they see that, you know, we're overly spending and there's
nothing in return. But a lot of them just keep
going along to get along because of you know, they
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this is this is something that that they inherited and
they have to keep funding it, and they have to
keep funding it because certain groups keep telling them to
do so, and they don't want to push back and
actually have the hard conversation. Again, one of the conversations
I had with some of the other state electeds was
we have found out in our internal investigation that over
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seven hundred million dollars has been spent on change order delays.
And so what that means is that they've spent over
seven hundred million dollars on not working because they didn't
even know where the easement lines were they didn't know
where the utility lines were and they had to have
a delay. But with that, there's one hundred and seventy
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thousand dollars that has to be paid out to the
contractor because the contractor has to take a pause And
if they pause for two weeks, or if they pause
for an entire month as they identify the lines, that
contractor is owed five million dollars for not working.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, that'd be a nice kickback around the pool making
some money. See that gets back to the Godfather theme
that I always play when I talk about this seems
like a tony soprano move. A work stoppage in so
many areas, it just kind of basically boils down to
can we say this nobody knows how to build it? Well,
I think there.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
Are people who do know how to build it, But
we can say this for a fact, the state of
California does not know how to build it. The state
of California has not done a good job with infrastructure projects.
And this is the biggest poster child for why it
is a lot better to trust the private industry when
it comes to it. We should remove government regulations and
we should make sure that we're empowering the locals and
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the local industry and private industry to get shot to
get projects like this done.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well. I do have to brag a little bit on
high speed rail. I've seen some press conferences and releases
they've held with hard hats on, and they've cut some
ribbons and held some shovels and assemblement. It was for
walking pass and bike pass that are going to be
next to the Chu Chu train, So it's the opposite
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of the train, but that's what they're celebrating now. I
guess we can see some of the I've seen some
of these bridges, you know, down by ninety nine and all.
I don't know if I'll ever see it. Congress Congressman,
sorry nitt Me, are you running for something else? Assemblement
Tonga PA Voter Initiative Reform California. Your fellow assemblement Carl
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de Mayo Reform California. He's been doing that for quite
a while here, and you're going to be holding something
up here in Clovis on Sunday. Is this going to
have anything at all to do with elections being you know,
counted and done within twenty four to thirty six hours.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
We are working on that. We are making sure and
we believe that with voter ID, with the transparency that
we are building with the voter ID initiative, we think
that will accelerate our elections. We hate that our elections
are thirty days long. We hate that.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Can you believe we're even saying that now that elections
are thirty days long? That would have sounded bizarre in
twenty seventeen.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
And it should still sound bizarre, But we have been
We've allowed this shifting the goalpost to happen, and I
think people just don't feel comfortable with elections. It's funny
when Republicans and Democrats, whether they're attacking each other. In
twenty sixteen, the amount of Democrats that got up and
said that they believe that the you know, whether it
was a Russian hoax or blah blah blah, whatever they
(28:43):
wanted to say, but they came up and in Congress
tried to not certify the election because they didn't have
efficacy in it. And now Republicans took office and again
in twenty twenty, there were discrepancies as well that I believe.
I mean, the anomaly behind the numbers is very interesting,
But that's okay because now we're going to do something
about it. I think everybody has been talking about it.
It's time to do something about it. And that's what
(29:05):
our voter ID campaign town hall is. We're going to
be from twelve to one o'clock this Sunday. We're going
to be at the Armstrong Transit Center, so that is
the new Transit Center right across the street from Clovis
Veterans Memorial. And we are going to do something about
the elections that we have here in California. We are
going to require voter ID. We're also going to create
(29:26):
a personalized code so that way people can still make
sure that they're tracking their own ballot. But we are
still going to keep the vote by mail ballot system.
We are still going to keep some of the safeguards
because the data shows that a lot of people like
receiving their ballots. I wish I could change it. I
wish we can just have a single day of but
that's not what the data shows that people want. But
(29:47):
they do. Across Democrats, Republicans, and independents all agree that
we should have voter ID.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
How do you do voter ID? If you're mailing in
your ballot from home.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
With the system, they're going to receive their ballot through
the vote by mail, but when they drop off their ballot,
that's the voter ID process.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So we'd have to change it. You can't just drop
it in a dropbox exactly because those ballots floating around.
It's really not anymore about voters. It's about ballots. It's
not about vote you know, getting out and getting people registered.
It's really about getting all these ballots that are floating around.
And that's why they have thirty extra days to get
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it done. That's just mind boggling. I think it's actually
going to take maybe an instance to where it comes
down to a valideo versus whoever it is, and it
hinges whether the House back in DC goes Republican or Democrat,
and we wait for thirty days to figure that out.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
It may take a little bit interesting, but I will
say that I think we can make safeguards here. I've
spoken to Speaker Johnson about the voter ID initiative.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And that's something how you can excuse me for interrupting,
but you can talk to the Speaker of the House
before you can talk to the Governor of the state
you live in. Sorry for interjection that I.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Can tell you, Yep, you're exactly right. I can talk
to the Speaker of the House sooner than I can
talk to the governor of our own state, and I
work here. But when I talk to him too about
the Save Act and requiring voter ID nationally, you know,
his response back to me, I thought, at least is
respectable and says that he believed that elections should be
up to the states. That is a power that is
(31:24):
enumerated to the state, and if we want to change that,
then we need to do it here through a citizens
led initiative. And since he said that that's exactly what
we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I get. Here's how I've always felt that we have.
You know, the speed limit is sixty five and sixty
five across America, the drinking age is twenty one across America.
Voting you got to show an idea. It has to
be done in this amount of time across America. I
put it into that category. Believe me, I like states
having rights, except when I live in California. But yeah,
(31:53):
states having the rights to decide how things should be done.
But to me, voting seems like, because it affects the
entire it should all be by the same rule and law.
I know that goes against some of the founding fathers
even but that's how I feel.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
And I agree with you. I do feel the same
way because what happens in California will affect the nation,
especially since we have the most congressional seats in the nation.
That sways, who's the Speaker of the House. That's exactly
what we actually talked about. But when it comes to
the voter process, that will be done by here in
the state, and I think that's the mission that we're
on right now, is to make sure that we are
(32:28):
we are doing exactly I mean he said it. If
it's up to the state, then it's up to us
as the voters here, to show up, run the statewide
Citizens' Initiative, collect a thousand signatures, and let's get voter
on the voter idea on the ballot for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yes, as simply Mantanga, PA twelve to one Sunday Armstrong
Transit Center. What are they going to be learn? What
are they going to be asked to do?
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Well, We're going to be asking for some volunteers We're
going to need some precinct captains. We're going to have
to collect a million signatures and it's going to take
a lot of us.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Just get an auto pin. Let's just get an auto pin.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
No auto pen's allowed on this. What we'll be making
sure that we can collect as many signatures. And this
is what I feel comfortable with is I helped work
on Prop thirty six with DA Lisa Smith Camp. We
were able to do that to get some safeguards on
the criminal side. So I believe in the state wide
initiative process. We've done it before, we have one before.
We're going to do it again with voter ID and
(33:24):
we're going to win again, and we are going to
bring these safeguards. We'll need as many volunteers as we
can get. We want captains to help us. We want
to start mailing out handwritten letters asking people to sign
on to this. Again. We have the polling that shows
a majority of Democrats support this, a majority of Independence
support this, a majority of Republicans support this, and now
(33:46):
it's just time to do the work needed to get
it on the ballot.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
All right, keep up the good fight and a month
from now, Bulldogs playing in Kansas first game on thirty
seconds here. Do you ever play in Kansas?
Speaker 9 (33:58):
I have, I've not played in Kansas, but one of
my first games was in Nebraska. That was the first game.
That one of the first games I got to travel too.
But my first game I ever played in my college
career was against All Miss and we went to Ole
Miss and that's.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
A place to play. Yeah. That you got the real
college field going on there in that first game, didn't you. Well, hey, listen,
keep up the good fight as you correlated to football,
keep pounding. Man.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Hey, I'm the one who signed up for suffering at
least making suffer, and that didn't work save in California.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Thank you A simonm and David Tagapat.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
This is that Trevor carry show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I can't believe that the rock band Steve Miller Band
has canceled their entire twenty twenty five North American tour.
Yeah they have.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I have stolen my dreams.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yes, because of climate change.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Childhood with your empty words. Yet I'm one of the
lucky ones. People are suffering, people dying, and dire ecosystems
are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction,
and all you can talk about is the money.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
The money. Maybe they cancel their tour because I don't
know where people not buying their tickets. Thirty one events
down the train. And it wasn't because of like some
kind of health or technical It was because the climate change.
Here's what the band said, climate change induced weather disasters
are too much of a threat to their tour and
(35:32):
their fans. You make music with your instincts, You live
by your instincts. Always trust your instincts. So they canceled
all their upcoming tour dates. Here's what they sat down
and wrote out. This is crazy, isn't it. I told
you enjoy twenty twenty four because twenty twenty five is
(35:53):
gonna be nutty Seed Miller Band said, the combination of
extreme heat, flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and massive four fires make
these risks for you, our audience, abandon the crew unacceptable.
So abracadabra, I guess you just stay at home and
keep your garden hose going, because in case the fire
hits you, what are you going to do? Imagine being
(36:19):
that crazy that you make up an excuse to canceling
your tour then claims that it means that you're trying
to keep your fans safe from big bad weather. Who
sixty eight degrees slight crosswind is going on out here tonight,
and I would think, I don't know, are they not
(36:40):
big enough to do indoor shows anymore? Is it just
like the Paducah Fair That might be Yet, I don't
know they're going to cancel the tour.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
The assistant Trevor Jerry show Monte Sally's power Dog
Be at your back. We're going to help you escape
from law enforcement arresting criminals. All right, haven't learned anything?
Have you? Newsom or Democratic Party? You got beat down.
In twenty twenty four new polling from Echelon Insights, they
ask a near even split of twenty twenty four Kamala
(00:22):
Harris voters and Trump voters their opinion, including job approval
for Trump, and thoughts of a twenty twenty eight Democrat
front runner. Who do you think Democrat voters at least
here in the summer of twenty twenty five have their
confidence in in three years from now, who do they
(00:42):
want to be their nominee. Kamala clocked in at twenty
six percent, outpacing old Booty Judge and Newsom Buddha Judge
by fifteen. Newsom sixteen. Look at that. Thissom Kenny beat
Kamala and he's polling. See they seal something that we see.
That's the only reason they would go for something with
(01:03):
the cackler. I guess she is.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
This is gonna sound im modest, but I'm obviously a
top tier candidate.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You are, Kamala.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You are.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I hope you kept your notes on how you spent
one and a half billion dollars in three months and
couldn't generate other things than other than hitting Joy. Read
on MSNBC to say, it's a campaign of joy guys.
One and a half billion dollars in three months. All right,
(01:36):
According to this Echelon polling, who would be your choice
in the primary if we were held today and Kamala
Harris was not running? Tim Walls came in first at
fourteen percent. Well, he let us know the other day
that he's not gonna run for president. He's got too
many turkeys to shoot in Minnesota and he's got to
(01:58):
keep putting tampons in boys room. Now, when you look
across the aisle in this Essaon polling twenty twenty eight,
on the Republican side, it's clear by a cuntry mile
all the way down to the hallers. Jdie Vance forty
two percent, Ron DeSantis at nine, Marco Rubio at seven.
(02:24):
I don't I'm already looking at me, already looking so
far ahead here, But I am president Vance and vice president?
Who would that be? I got some a wait and see,
I don't see DeSantis being a vice president. He didn't
fit the bill. Maybe a Rubio could but yeah, he could,
(02:45):
he could do that. He's doing good job Secretary of State.
But Newsom has been elevating himself to this his national profile.
Go back about three years ago. It kind of kicked off,
you know, when it was starting to be hinted and
rumored that Joe Biden would not be running for a
second term. I'll never forget. We knew some guy on
(03:05):
an airplane flew there knowing Joe Biden was like overlooking,
you know, trying to find paratroopers in France or something.
Some trip he took over there. And Newsom was doing
the tour in DC, walking around the grounds of the
White House being interviewed, are you considering a ro oh no, no, no, no,
(03:26):
I was just in here with an interior decorator. Why
do you ask? Yeah. Right after Trump has sworn in Beack,
newsm really kicked it up a notes right started his podcast,
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Kevin Newsom Show. Started it off
getting in trouble with the lgbt Q. I A plus
(03:46):
that what part lgbt T T trans It's not it's unfair. Yeah,
way to make yourself the face of the resistance, even
the resistancy, says hypocrisy. He's going across the country, lecturing
red states, taking out ads in Texas and Florida, running
(04:10):
ads in other states that hey, if you need an abortion,
California is your state. Hey, is a local judge told
your ex husband that your boy can't become a girl.
I'm Gavin Newsom, set your GPS to California. Come on out, y'all.
Crime and homelessness in this state. The problem. It's thirty
(04:33):
years in the making. Newsom's been involved in it with
for how long twenty five years, early two thousands, he
was in San Francisco. Is the mayor, right, he's promising
failed to clean it up. Just a failure. And now
he's going to think he's going to take this on
a national level. Well, I gotta say he's going. He's
(04:54):
He is not somebody to just think, Oh, his record
will shine and through and they'll see the debacle that
they've done. Now, listen, we know about it because we
live here. Even if you don't like pay attention to
politics and listen to news talk every day and read
news feeds it, you still hear about it and feel
(05:17):
about it, and you see it with your own eyes.
So knew someone to change the message across America about
California because they've also picked up on the stories and
heard the national stories of the Uh. Well, it's kind
of a laughing stock of what's happening. Oh that's used
to be. That's so California was a cool thing. Now
(05:40):
now it's not.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
New.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Someone wanting to prove that California is currently not a
deep hole. So his office posted up and he said
the s word whole uh in parentheses. The governor news
some press office put this out with four beautiful pictures
of California, Like, no, it's not a people hoole. No,
(06:10):
it shows two eight year old pictures of California and
eleven year old picture of California and a picture of
Nevada on the Tahoe side of the lake. Yeah, so
he's running for governor. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco he
(06:31):
copied what Newsom did, but in his four pictures he
had the reality of what's happening in California. Tariffianco said
Newsom could highlight California's natural scenery all he wants. These
pictures show his contribution to California's Democrat created scenery. It
shows Venice beachs with all the tents and the palm trees,
and that looks like the actual dump. But it's a
(06:58):
sidewalk in La so much stuff stacked it looks like
a dump. And I'm sure Newsom's taxpayer funded polit Bureau
staff up there. Hey, guys, find four great pictures of California.
That was even too difficult for him. They can do
anything right getting a picture from the Nevada side of
Lake Tahoe. And then you see a picture of Hollywood
(07:22):
from twenty fifteen, before Newsom was governor, And we thought
it might have been a little rough in twenty fifteen
or two thousand and five or nineteen ninety five or
nineteen eighty five. No, it has gone so far down
the hill. My ex girlfriend in Colorado Brazilian that was
she's spoking extremely well. But instead of saying, oh, it's
(07:46):
gone downhill, she would always say it's gone down the hill.
And I was like, I'm gonna start saying that. I
like it better and said, oh, boy's gone downhill. Oh
Boy's gone down the hill. California's gone down the hill.
Ask people that have done the the San Francisco excrement.
App that's where we are, guys, as as residents of
(08:10):
smell a what they think. Ask people driving around towntown Fresno,
And I did recently when my parents were in town.
We went and there's some antique thirst stores down there
that are really cool. But man, walking from the car,
if you got to park a little bit around the
corner or something, you gotta keep your eyes filled there everywhere,
crazy gut in the corner and just yell it out loud.
(08:32):
Just no, he wasn't a street preacher. He's somebody that
needed mental health. We ignore it. Somebody was laying on
the corner with their heart stopping. We called nine one one.
Somebody broadcasting on the corner. Hey, my brain is not
working right. Let's go in a little, a little looking
(08:55):
around in the store and watch out keeping on on
that guy. Newson admitted back too years ago, I'm thinking
around now. And he had the Chinese coming in and
some of the other international leaders were coming in, and
some other people around our country were coming in, and uh,
he admitted, they were cleaning it up. They were going
(09:18):
to clean up San Francisco. And he was asked about it.
He he literally said, I know folks are saying, Oh,
they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy
leaders are coming into town.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
That's true, because it's true.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But it's also true for months and months and months
prior to APEX, we have been having conversations about it.
That's where I got that. That's true because it's true.
Knewsom now admitting that he understands supply and demand in
this state when it comes to housing, and boy, he's mad.
He's mad that somebody didn't take control of that.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
We have too much demand chasing two little supplies. Not complicated.
This is econ one oh one supply demand, I balance.
I've said it before, I'll repeat it. This issue of
housing explains more things, in more ways and more days
than any other issue to explain the challenges and the
plight of so many Californians. So many of the challenges
(10:15):
that ail us can be connected back to this issue.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Does he make any sense at all? Well, he's mad
at somebody because they didn't understand supply and demand. He said,
It's very simple. It's so simple.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
This is the Trevor Carry Show on the Valley's Power.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Talk, Simonman, David Tonga, Pod is going to be joining
us at the bottom of the hour. He's got a
big event going on Sunday in Clovis, voter initiative with
Reform California, Reform California. That's part of Simonman. Carl de Mayo,
he was Carl before he became a Simbleman. He started
the same time that Tonga Pod did. Yeah, the Mayo,
(10:57):
He's been on show many times. He was an iHeart
talkos in San Diego. Ko ge O down there and
he said, I'm going to run for this Emily, and
he did. Anyone, very very proud of these two men here,
part of the small small crew in Sacramento of Republicans,
conservative minded Republicans. We'll talk to simonem and David Tungerbah
(11:19):
coming up here at the bottom of the hour. Than
at five o'clock when we talk about the Wall Street
Journal birthday letter that they're saying President Trump wrote to Epstein. Ah,
they were just saving that one, or maybe they just
made it up on a napkin over some Gen and Tonics. Yeah,
let's come up with this. We'll talk more about that
(11:41):
coming up at five. But looky here, looky here, the
not funny guy that they call a comedian, Stephen Cobert
gonna be exiting.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I mean, Brian, you know CBS is saying this is
a financial decision.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It is certainly the timing of this is kind of stunning.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Right from the optics standpoint, The timing could not be
worse for CBS. Colbert is such an outspoken Trump critic,
He's just back from vacation, and as he showed there
on Monday on his first night back from vacation, he's
also a thorn in his parent company's side. So this
looks to a lot of Colbert's fans like another form
of capitulation by CBS to the President of the United States.
(12:20):
If you look at Colbert's Instagram page already, his fans
are pouring their hearts out and blaming CBS for this.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, that's potato head Brian Stelter there on CNN. I
don't know. I would think, and I haven't watched late
night TV in a while, but I would think if
I were sitting there with my funions and Fresca, I
wouldn't this would make me turn at all.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
The Republicans have gotten better at having a media arm
that helps inflate their worst instincts than the Democrats do.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Aren't you nice? Somebody put this little montage together.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Donald Trump has been sworn in as President of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Listen, listen, We're just as con used as you are.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Joe Biden did it.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
I sat down and just started crying with relief, and
Evy said, you never have to talk about him again,
and then I cried with joy. After a bizarre and
vicious campaign fueled by a desperate need not to go
to jail, Donald Trump has won the twenty twenty four election.
Next year will be our last season. The network will
(13:25):
be ending the Late Show in May. Donald Trump has
been sworn in as President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah twice, you fool. You're not even funny, not even close.
I remember when he used to do those. Was it
ac Delco or he started out doing TV commercials. He
even bugged me. Then all right, let's go listen to
potatahead because he's reported on profitability for these shows in
(13:53):
the past, and he's seen this happen before.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
But here's the reporting that I have just in the
past few minutes. Anderson about this financial explanation. Think back
to twenty twenty three, when the Late Late Show with
James Cordon went off the air. I reported at the
time that that show had become unprofitable, that CBS was
not able to sell enough ads to make that show profitable. Well,
that is now the case for Colbert as well. I'm
(14:16):
told by a source close to the network that the
Late Show Stephen Colbert is now technically unprofitable. So that
does give the company a financial reason to end the
show starting in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Okay, I guess that makes sense. You stand a good
chance of tuning out a majority of your audience, more
than half. Yeah, but old potato Head had a hmmm.
What I said was true.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
But however, however, it's not as if Colbert was given
a chance to take a pay cut or maybe change
the format of the show or moving out to the theater.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
This seems to.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Have happened all at once, and it comes on the merge,
on the verge of that big paramount Skuid Dance merger.
He's taking over sky Ends. Larry Ellison, a friend of
President Trump and his son David. So there may be
a lot more of the story. It's just happened in
the past hour, but there's a lot more POI to
do on that.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, let's turn Cobert not being funny. Let's turn CBS
not being able to possibly turn a profit. It would
seem into let's see where do we go? Oh wait,
that's in my back pocket. Let me take that. It
could be President Trump. No matter what the story stays
in the headline, Cobert, you're probably up there at Bohemian
(15:31):
grove like doing a voodoo dance around a sacrifice goat
or something. That's what I think about him.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
I feel like I should sacrifice a goat or something.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
See, I knew it. I knew it. I knew it,
I knew it. What better place to go when we
want to get the pulse of America when it comes
to Cobert, then let's go around that CNN show where
Scott Jennings since around the table. This is where we
get the reality on here. But this was a man
that made sense.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Part of the conversation that's been complete admitted from this,
and that is when you do a show that attacks
half of America every night and you don't have conservatives
on and by the way, you're not funny, but attacking
half of America and your ratings suck.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You might lose your show. This is a reason that.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Old Bear, I mean, but there's a lot of reasons
why that co Bear ratings are not working out that
have nothing to do with the political device.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Talking constant he's having on Democrats to trash Trump. He
is constantly in trashing conservatives. He referred to on Trump
as a Nazi lover in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Usually that does make half of the country happy, you know,
but you don't have to get country. But you don't
need to have the whole country watching your show.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
This is a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Is everybody listening.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Every human being in the United States of America has
a right to decide what they find is funny. And
if half of America likes Colbert and half of America
likes Scottfeld, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
In the United States of America. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That's okay.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
But my point is the real is why it can't
because he was no longer funny, and that's.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Not what's going on at all.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Cancer we walked with.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
I just explained, we're witnessing the end of an American
television institution.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It doesn't make enough. Another one is it's throwing Colbert Colbert.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Will forever be known as the person who frittered away
David Letterman's legacy, which is something.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
This is the Trevor Kerry Show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'd like to welcome to the show brand new up
there in the Assembly some of them and David Tongan,
Pa Silm and welcome. Uh. It's been what five months now,
six months.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
A little bit, but I'm sad I couldn't make it
to join you in person just yet. But yeah, we're
just starting starting this first six months off pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well. I even found a perfect size indoor not nerve.
It's a leather, smaller, scaled down football, but it would
be great to play catcher in the studio next time
you're in to see how your hands are still doing.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
Yeah, we are, We're still working back. I could tell
you that I can definitely use some more working out
in athleticism. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well. For those that do not know, the Assemblyman was
tied end Forresto State Bulldogs. What class of twenty eighteen
if I do recall off the top of.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
My head that was at eighteen?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Hey all right, hey, I always ask Assemblement Patterson. I'd
be like Hey, what's it like up there in the
You know, he'd been up there so long. He's like
a sleep on my boat. Nothing big, right, But let
me ask you what's it been like for the first
six months up there as a brand new assemblyman? Are
you enjoying it? Because you talk to other people in
politics before you ran, you've worked with Supervisor Nathan Mags
(18:41):
and you've been in political offices, but the assembly is
are kind of a different beast and you'd never done
it before. Give us your six month take.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
You know, it is a different beast. And I can
tell you this with the issues that are coming to
fruition right now. You know, I would say that that's
the difference between when Jim came in in versus when
I came in. You know, Jim, Jim came in and
they were really building the economy started to pick up
steam and what they were working on. But some of
the issues that Jim had often warned about that we
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had a spending issue that we weren't prioritizing the right areas.
I'm coming into the legislature with all those areas now
starting to really crumble and fall apart, and so you know,
he's highlighted a lot of these issues, and now they're materializing,
and that's what we've come into. I mean, first week
in we have the LA wildfires, which is collapsing the
insurance industry here in the state of California. We have
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the wild spending and the spending issues that we have
here that are completely falling apart with the programs that
we can't even satisfy. And then we're seeing with what's
going on throughout, whether it's immigration enforcement, some of the
housing issues. You know, I think Jim did a really
good job at highlighting them, and now we've got to
take them on head on. And so that's what the
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six months have been. I keep telling people I am
still playing football because I feel like I'm running into
everything head first. And that is what Sacramento feels like.
I think the majority party has gotten over their skis
on what they think they can do in this overweaponization
of compassion, when right now we've got to start having
the reality and the real hard conversations and just bring
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us back to reality.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I'm going to work this into a question, but do
I recall you saying once that you were sleeping on
somebody's counts because you didn't have anywhere to live, all right?
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Are you talking about when that happened while I was
playing football?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah? So okay, what right? I do remember you telling that,
don't I?
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Yes, while I was playing football, there was a time
I spent some time on my teammates couch because I
was a walk on at first, and then I eventually
earned a scholarship.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
All right. Now, I say that to say I've been
in situations like that where our bank accounts might even
be negative, and we act and we live differently when
we don't have as much money at times and when
we have maybe a little more. Let me ask you
this a similar MONTNGA pod with a deficit in California.
Are you shocked up there? How Democrats talk and act
with spending like they don't realize, they don't even go
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to the ATM and look at the balance.
Speaker 9 (21:08):
It's it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate that we you know, we
even have the Department of Finance and our governor news,
we have the Legislative Analysis Office, which is a third
party entity that analyzes our books, often warning us what's
going on. But I mean, this is kind of what
happens California. Voters are getting everything that they voted for,
(21:30):
and it's unfortunate. I feel like a lot of voters
didn't know what they were getting, and you know, we
we had elected officials that had more platitudes and weaponized
compassion instead of coming back to rooted reality. When it
comes to the finances coming in, there's a lot of
individuals that they've never ran a business, they probably never
worked outside of government office, they've never had negative ten
(21:53):
dollars in their bank account, which I did, and I
the again, reality portion of it is somewhat missing. But
I think it's starting to be exposed and we're starting
to peel back to the onion. I mean, I think
about how just this week I was attacked as a
Republican because Republicans don't want sexual predators in community off
(22:17):
in the community. That is what the Democrat majority leadership
attacked us on for not wanting sexual predators. So I
think there's this big disconnect in Sacramento with everywhere else
across California. I know there's a lot of Democrats that
don't believe that that is what they actually believe, but
they're just not getting that same type of representation in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I Greg Guttfeld made the comment of like it's like
watching Jaws and rooting for the shark. It's like everything
that they do is the opposite of what you would
think somebody would just human compassion in their heart, whether
the Republican or Democrat would do up there. Let me
ask you, Assemblyman, does Newsom ever show up? Does he
(22:59):
ever say hello, hell oh? Does he stroll through? Does
he do anything like that?
Speaker 9 (23:03):
That is one thing that I'm going to make sure
to highlight if he's going to run for presidential office.
I'm one of the eightiest elected Assembly members, you know,
out of one hundred and twenty of the elected state officials.
I have never seen Governor Newsom. I have never interacted
with him. I haven't had a chance. I've called him
out try and just meet with him. I've tried to
(23:25):
talk to him. I've even called him out trying to
debate him while he's trying to call Jadie Vance. We've
got enough issues here in California. He should really stop
worrying about what's going on in Washington and really start
worrying what's going on here in California. And if he's
not going to talk to me, one of the eighty
assembly members, one of one hundred and twenty state legislators.
(23:46):
How's that going to be for people, everyday people? How
is he going to say that he listens to the
everyday person?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Well, maybe you could tell him you want to come
on his podcast and talk college football. You might can
get in that way to meeting.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Yeah, that might be the easiest way, but that one
the podcast might already be camped.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I yeah, I haven't heard much about that going on.
He did his big burst out there and then kind
of fizzle dizzled out, kind of like, let's let's segue
into high speed rail. Howld are you now twenty nine?
Speaker 9 (24:17):
Twenty nine?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Now, so you were like eleven or twelve when high
speed rail was first said it was going to come
into fruition. Here are there democrats amongst your coworkers up
there that you know say this is let's just use
the word boondoggle. What's the vibe? What's the vibe in
sack on this?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well?
Speaker 9 (24:36):
I mean you actually took exactly what I say all
the time when it comes to high speed rail. I
can be for sure with everybody I did not vote
for high speed rail when I was on the bout
in two thousand and eight. I was twelve years old,
and you know, I'm turning thirty years old this year
and still high speed rail more than fifteen billion dollars
spent and all we have is concrete and freebarn. There
(24:58):
are some Democrats up here that, I mean, they believe
that there's something wrong with high speed rail. I don't
think they understand what is wrong. I don't think that
they see that, you know, we're overly spending and there's
nothing in return. But a lot of them just keep
going along to get along because of you know, they
(25:20):
this is this is something that that they inherited and
they have to keep funding it, and they have to
keep funding it because certain groups keep telling them to
do so, and they don't want to push back and
actually have the hard conversation. Again, one of the conversations
I had with some of the other state electeds was
we have found out in our internal investigation that over
(25:40):
seven hundred million dollars has been spent on change order delays.
And so what that means is that they've spent over
seven hundred million dollars on not working because they didn't
even know where the easement lines were they didn't know
where the utility lines were and they had to have
a delay. But with that, there's one hundred and seventy
(26:01):
thousand dollars that has to be paid out to the
contractor because the contractor has to take a pause And
if they pause for two weeks, or if they pause
for an entire month as they identify the lines, that
contractor is owed five million dollars for not working.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, that'd be a nice kickback around the pool making
some money. See that gets back to the Godfather theme
that I always play when I talk about this seems
like a tony soprano move. A work stoppage in so
many areas, it just kind of basically boils down to
can we say this nobody knows how to build it? Well,
I think there.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
Are people who do know how to build it, But
we can say this for a fact, the state of
California does not know how to build it. The state
of California has not done a good job with infrastructure projects.
And this is the biggest poster child for why it
is a lot better to trust the private industry when
it comes to it. We should remove government regulations and
we should make sure that we're empowering the locals and
(26:57):
the local industry and private industry to get shot to
get projects like this done.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well. I do have to brag a little bit on
high speed rail. I've seen some press conferences and releases
they've held with hard hats on, and they've cut some
ribbons and held some shovels and assemblement. It was for
walking pass and bike pass that are going to be
next to the Chu Chu train, So it's the opposite
(27:22):
of the train, but that's what they're celebrating now. I
guess we can see some of the I've seen some
of these bridges, you know, down by ninety nine and all.
I don't know if I'll ever see it. Congress Congressman,
sorry nitt Me, are you running for something else? Assemblement
Tonga PA Voter Initiative Reform California. Your fellow assemblement Carl
(27:43):
de Mayo Reform California. He's been doing that for quite
a while here, and you're going to be holding something
up here in Clovis on Sunday. Is this going to
have anything at all to do with elections being you know,
counted and done within twenty four to thirty six hours.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
We are working on that. We are making sure and
we believe that with voter ID, with the transparency that
we are building with the voter ID initiative, we think
that will accelerate our elections. We hate that our elections
are thirty days long. We hate that.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Can you believe we're even saying that now that elections
are thirty days long? That would have sounded bizarre in
twenty seventeen.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
And it should still sound bizarre, But we have been
We've allowed this shifting the goalpost to happen, and I
think people just don't feel comfortable with elections. It's funny
when Republicans and Democrats, whether they're attacking each other. In
twenty sixteen, the amount of Democrats that got up and
said that they believe that the you know, whether it
was a Russian hoax or blah blah blah, whatever they
(28:43):
wanted to say, but they came up and in Congress
tried to not certify the election because they didn't have
efficacy in it. And now Republicans took office and again
in twenty twenty, there were discrepancies as well that I believe.
I mean, the anomaly behind the numbers is very interesting,
But that's okay because now we're going to do something
about it. I think everybody has been talking about it.
It's time to do something about it. And that's what
(29:05):
our voter ID campaign town hall is. We're going to
be from twelve to one o'clock this Sunday. We're going
to be at the Armstrong Transit Center, so that is
the new Transit Center right across the street from Clovis
Veterans Memorial. And we are going to do something about
the elections that we have here in California. We are
going to require voter ID. We're also going to create
(29:26):
a personalized code so that way people can still make
sure that they're tracking their own ballot. But we are
still going to keep the vote by mail ballot system.
We are still going to keep some of the safeguards
because the data shows that a lot of people like
receiving their ballots. I wish I could change it. I
wish we can just have a single day of but
that's not what the data shows that people want. But
(29:47):
they do. Across Democrats, Republicans, and independents all agree that
we should have voter ID.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
How do you do voter ID? If you're mailing in
your ballot from home.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
With the system, they're going to receive their ballot through
the vote by mail, but when they drop off their ballot,
that's the voter ID process.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So we'd have to change it. You can't just drop
it in a dropbox exactly because those ballots floating around.
It's really not anymore about voters. It's about ballots. It's
not about vote you know, getting out and getting people registered.
It's really about getting all these ballots that are floating around.
And that's why they have thirty extra days to get
(30:28):
it done. That's just mind boggling. I think it's actually
going to take maybe an instance to where it comes
down to a valideo versus whoever it is, and it
hinges whether the House back in DC goes Republican or Democrat,
and we wait for thirty days to figure that out.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
It may take a little bit interesting, but I will
say that I think we can make safeguards here. I've
spoken to Speaker Johnson about the voter ID initiative.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And that's something how you can excuse me for interrupting,
but you can talk to the Speaker of the House
before you can talk to the Governor of the state
you live in. Sorry for interjection that I.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Can tell you, Yep, you're exactly right. I can talk
to the Speaker of the House sooner than I can
talk to the governor of our own state, and I
work here. But when I talk to him too about
the Save Act and requiring voter ID nationally, you know,
his response back to me, I thought, at least is
respectable and says that he believed that elections should be
up to the states. That is a power that is
(31:24):
enumerated to the state, and if we want to change that,
then we need to do it here through a citizens
led initiative. And since he said that that's exactly what
we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I get. Here's how I've always felt that we have.
You know, the speed limit is sixty five and sixty
five across America, the drinking age is twenty one across America.
Voting you got to show an idea. It has to
be done in this amount of time across America. I
put it into that category. Believe me, I like states
having rights, except when I live in California. But yeah,
(31:53):
states having the rights to decide how things should be done.
But to me, voting seems like, because it affects the
entire it should all be by the same rule and law.
I know that goes against some of the founding fathers
even but that's how I feel.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
And I agree with you. I do feel the same
way because what happens in California will affect the nation,
especially since we have the most congressional seats in the nation.
That sways, who's the Speaker of the House. That's exactly
what we actually talked about. But when it comes to
the voter process, that will be done by here in
the state, and I think that's the mission that we're
on right now, is to make sure that we are
(32:28):
we are doing exactly I mean he said it. If
it's up to the state, then it's up to us
as the voters here, to show up, run the statewide
Citizens' Initiative, collect a thousand signatures, and let's get voter
on the voter idea on the ballot for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yes, as simply Mantanga, PA twelve to one Sunday Armstrong
Transit Center. What are they going to be learn? What
are they going to be asked to do?
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Well, We're going to be asking for some volunteers We're
going to need some precinct captains. We're going to have
to collect a million signatures and it's going to take
a lot of us.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Just get an auto pin. Let's just get an auto pin.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
No auto pen's allowed on this. What we'll be making
sure that we can collect as many signatures. And this
is what I feel comfortable with is I helped work
on Prop thirty six with DA Lisa Smith Camp. We
were able to do that to get some safeguards on
the criminal side. So I believe in the state wide
initiative process. We've done it before, we have one before.
We're going to do it again with voter ID and
(33:24):
we're going to win again, and we are going to
bring these safeguards. We'll need as many volunteers as we
can get. We want captains to help us. We want
to start mailing out handwritten letters asking people to sign
on to this. Again. We have the polling that shows
a majority of Democrats support this, a majority of Independence
support this, a majority of Republicans support this, and now
(33:46):
it's just time to do the work needed to get
it on the ballot.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
All right, keep up the good fight and a month
from now, Bulldogs playing in Kansas first game on thirty
seconds here. Do you ever play in Kansas?
Speaker 9 (33:58):
I have, I've not played in Kansas, but one of
my first games was in Nebraska. That was the first game.
That one of the first games I got to travel too.
But my first game I ever played in my college
career was against All Miss and we went to Ole
Miss and that's.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
A place to play. Yeah. That you got the real
college field going on there in that first game, didn't you. Well, hey, listen,
keep up the good fight as you correlated to football,
keep pounding. Man.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Hey, I'm the one who signed up for suffering at
least making suffer, and that didn't work save in California.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Thank you A simonm and David Tagapat.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
This is that Trevor carry show on the Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I can't believe that the rock band Steve Miller Band
has canceled their entire twenty twenty five North American tour.
Yeah they have.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I have stolen my dreams.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yes, because of climate change.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Childhood with your empty words. Yet I'm one of the
lucky ones. People are suffering, people dying, and dire ecosystems
are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction,
and all you can talk about is the money.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
The money. Maybe they cancel their tour because I don't
know where people not buying their tickets. Thirty one events
down the train. And it wasn't because of like some
kind of health or technical It was because the climate change.
Here's what the band said, climate change induced weather disasters
are too much of a threat to their tour and
(35:32):
their fans. You make music with your instincts, You live
by your instincts. Always trust your instincts. So they canceled
all their upcoming tour dates. Here's what they sat down
and wrote out. This is crazy, isn't it. I told
you enjoy twenty twenty four because twenty twenty five is
(35:53):
gonna be nutty Seed Miller Band said, the combination of
extreme heat, flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and massive four fires make
these risks for you, our audience, abandon the crew unacceptable.
So abracadabra, I guess you just stay at home and
keep your garden hose going, because in case the fire
hits you, what are you going to do? Imagine being
(36:19):
that crazy that you make up an excuse to canceling
your tour then claims that it means that you're trying
to keep your fans safe from big bad weather. Who
sixty eight degrees slight crosswind is going on out here tonight,
and I would think, I don't know, are they not
(36:40):
big enough to do indoor shows anymore? Is it just
like the Paducah Fair That might be Yet, I don't
know they're going to cancel the tour.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
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