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I never saw any of 18 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: his movies, maybe one or two thirty years go over, 19 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: So I just don't I don't connect. He's just like 20 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: one of those things out there Johnny Depp, But I 21 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: have zero emotion invested and none in her. She looks 22 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: entirely generic to me, So it was I mean I 23 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: kind of enjoyed, you know, the stories of you know, 24 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: them beating the crap out of each other and smashing 25 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 1: liquor bottles, taking craps in the bed. That was all good. 26 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: But as far as yeah, I see people are on 27 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: social media and they've burst into tears over this, and 28 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: that's where I feel like, Man, I just landed on 29 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: the wrong planet, didn't I where's my ship? How do 30 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: I get out of here? I? What is? The sentiment 31 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: was mostly on his side. Well, he's by far the 32 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: bigger star. Maybe that's it. I have no idea, but 33 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's apparently a lot of rejoicing on 34 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: social media because he entered her out. They were both 35 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,639 Speaker 1: found liable for defamation, but he clearly got the bigger reward. 36 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: Do either one of them sound like somebody you'd want 37 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: to know, let alone date or marry. I mean, Jesus no. 38 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: I he said he just did this because he wanted 39 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: the truth to come out. They didn't want to look 40 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: like he was a domestic abuser and that's why he 41 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: decided to go to trial with this, and then she 42 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: countersuit and that's why they were trying to untangle the 43 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: whole thing. And basically what we found out in six 44 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: weeks of testimony is that they sort of abused each other, 45 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: right there you go, right, So, yeah, and that goes ways. 46 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: I mean the mutual dadns of destruction. They're only married 47 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: a year, well that some year. Yeah, a little bit 48 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: of drinking, a little bit of big crap. But as 49 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: you said, I mean, doesn't this go on. All this 50 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: stuff goes on one hundred thousand times a day in 51 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: every trailer park in the country, right, But those people 52 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: aren't worth Depth's worth a lot, I imagine, I know, 53 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: but it's but it's still basic trash behavior, like there's nothing. 54 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: That's why I wondered why he did this, because it's 55 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: nothing good is going to come out of it. There, 56 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: you're both gonna look like idiots. But I guess because 57 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: Depth fans are excited that, I guess yep, fans, Yes, 58 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: Depth fans. First, she's been getting death threats. Yeah, that's 59 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: what's that line I saw? And here people want to 60 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: put my baby in the microwave and they tell me 61 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: that that's rough. Is that is where you're telling people 62 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: I want a microwave your baby. Wow, you're just there's well, 63 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: get back there you go. That's that's the that's the 64 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg social media invention for you. That's terrific. Added 65 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: a lot to civilization. Just the short summation. It was 66 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: mostly about a Washington Post op ed that she had 67 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: published a few years back, which painted him, not by name, 68 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: but everyone figured it out as a domestic abuser and 69 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: kind of the whole me too thing, and she's a 70 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: victim too. And he didn't like that because, based on 71 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: what we heard during the six weeks of trial, it 72 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: worked both ways, didn't it. So apparently one of his 73 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: attorneys made statements. The good old Daily Mail got dragged 74 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: into this because they printed the statements, and well, jury 75 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: did find that some of that was defamation. So that's 76 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: why she got so money. The defamation. That verdict that 77 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: she won was based on what his attorney said. Yeah, 78 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: that's what I said, his lawyer man, Yet I didn't 79 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: know that. Uh So he got He got ten million 80 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: in compensatory damages five million punitive. Judge had to knock 81 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: it down due to Virginia limits. Yeah, well, well, the 82 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: punitive damages are capped, but not the compensatory damage. No, 83 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: I said, the punative damage has got capped. He's not 84 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: gonna get He's not gonna get the five million. And 85 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: then she was awarded two million compensatory for the attorney's 86 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: statement and no money for punitive. So he sends her 87 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: a ten million dollar check and she sends a two 88 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: million dollars check back. No, the other way around. She 89 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: sends him ten million dollars, he sends her two million. Yeah, 90 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: if that's so, maybe they appeal. His was a fifty 91 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: million dollar law suit that was his. Oh he she 92 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: countersuit for one hundred million. He blew most of his money, 93 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: didn't he? Probably, That's what i'd read. Yeah, he's a 94 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: troubled soul. Yeah. I think it's kind of dark. Who 95 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: cares honestly? Then she said the marriage started out great 96 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: and then it took a dark turn. What would have 97 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: been great? Like what the first attentive, loving, smart, kind, funny, 98 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: and understanding were her work the first ten days she 99 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 1: didn't say how long, just earlier in their relationship. But 100 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: it all goes sour in the last week they did 101 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: all that nice. Sometimes marriages are like that. People have 102 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: that bliss, and then when you're with some and you're 103 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: living with somebody for a while, it's like, uh yeah, 104 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: But I always loved this line. Familiarity breeds contempt. But 105 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: that fast, that every little thing about them just annoys you. 106 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: I could see that over decades. But yeah, this was 107 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: a year. You said, right, they're married A year? Yes, okay, 108 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: I mean that year's pretty fast. It was a long 109 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: year for that. I mean, you can't get tired of 110 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 1: somebody after a while, but I mean one year and 111 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: then of your breaking bottles and and and pooping in 112 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: the bed, well, I don't know. Honestly, six weeks ago 113 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: in this trial began, I kind of went h and 114 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: then I'm reading, Oh my god, people are following this everywhere. Yeah, 115 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 1: I don't get it. I see. I just don't connect 116 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: with with whatever's going on out there. As one of 117 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: our listeners said today, these are probably the people that 118 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: elected George Gascone and Garcetti and do some you know, 119 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: there might be an overlap, there might Honestly, you get 120 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: people don't only vote in presidential elections intention to anything. Doy, 121 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: they get worked up for a civil trial between two actors. 122 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: Don't you have to be kind of a shallow, stupid 123 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: person to get emotionally wrapped up in this? I mean, 124 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: do you do you know anyone intelligent in your life 125 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: that talked about this even for a moment. I don't. 126 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: I've been afraid to ask because I do have some 127 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: family members that tend to follow this kind of stuff, 128 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: So I have not, So I don't want to think 129 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: any worse of than you don't want You don't want 130 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: them to confirm number Mark. You weren't following this, were you. 131 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: I I wasn't to be honest with you, only for 132 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: news purposes, but I wasn't personally. I wasn't that in right. 133 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: You weren't taken in all the details everything. Absolutely, she 134 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: is not a shallow Maybe you thought exactly Ken. You 135 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: didn't think I was shallow, did you? It's no, it's 136 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: not the reason I asked. I was just using you 137 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: as a simple an example of the public. That's all 138 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: we have here. Yeah, we don't have much. Well, I'll 139 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: be fair, Eric Sclar, did you follow this? No? I 140 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: had no interest, but I had a bunch of friends 141 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: that were interested in and they would talk about it. 142 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: But I was just the only reason I would follow 143 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: it would be for the show's purposes. Yeah, okay, but 144 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: if Johnny Depp played football, you probably would. Yeah. But 145 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: I have seen all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Well, 146 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: but you're ahead of me. I just I've seen them 147 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: all too. I mean they weren't bad. He played like 148 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: a Mick Jagger pirate. It was just kind of this 149 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: strange personality had. This is what people found amusing in 150 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: the film. Whatever. All right, we got more coming up. 151 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the new water restrictions. But 152 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: when we come back, we we got a funny for you. 153 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: The California state of emergency that's still not over because 154 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: of the pandemic. Well, Newsom was asked under both questions 155 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: about the state of emergency. We think you'll enjoy the answers. 156 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: All right, John and Ken show KFI. All right, can 157 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: it be day after tomorrow. We're already back with the moistline. 158 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: People in a short week. You can leave a message. 159 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: We understand this. Plenty of room. The iHeart radio app, 160 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: as John just mentioned, it's got a talk back feature, 161 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: little microphone. More and more people are using that you 162 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: can call one eight seven seven moist eighty six one 163 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: eight seven seven six six four seven eight eight six. 164 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: All right, shall we take calls on Amber heard against 165 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: Johnny Zipp Go ahead, do it and do it at home. 166 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,079 Speaker 1: Take the calls at home tonight. Sure, I'll give out 167 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: my personal phone. Right, you can ahead to the phone 168 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: all night from we'll conduct our own little back and 169 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: forth on the show. Governor Dippity do I guess still 170 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: has COVID. I don't know anybody really care. And of 171 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: course he's up for reelection. The June seventh primary is 172 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: next Tuesday. There is still a lawsuit against him trying 173 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: to end the California state of emergency over COVID nineteen. 174 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 1: I know that sounds hard to believe. After two years 175 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: and like two months, we're still under a state of emergency, 176 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: which is not a small deal because that gives him 177 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: special powers. Among those powers, no big contracts. Why would 178 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: he want to give that up? Then he couldn't funnel 179 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: money to his buddies. Yeah, it's a great way to 180 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: help your donors. And by the way, people like Barbara 181 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: Ferreir had their abuse of powers come directly from the 182 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 1: state of emergency. If his state of emergency is lifted, 183 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: her powers are curtailed to some extent. That was that right, Yeah, Yeah, 184 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 1: all the local emergencies feed off the state of emergency 185 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: that Newsman sign. Yeah. Unfortunately, as I see it, right now, 186 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: everybody's almost back to normal. I really haven't talked to 187 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: anybody that's not doing what they were doing over two 188 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: years ago, from traveling to just going places and seeing people. 189 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: And oh there's an increase in masks. Oh there is. 190 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: I haven't really noticed. I still see one out of 191 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: twenty people. Maybe you go Whole Foods. That's my barometer. Oh, 192 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: that's a subset of crazy people to want to live 193 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: their life under fears. There's such stereotypes. There's so many 194 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: stereotypes in the world, and that is one of them. Boy, 195 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: Like you said, to face diaper is their way of 196 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: telling the world what they believe in. So there's been 197 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: suits against Newsom to end the state of emergency. They 198 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: were suits by some Republican State Assembly members. One of 199 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: them is Kevin Kylie, who happens to be running for Congress. 200 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 1: He sent out this tweet on Friday. There is a 201 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: lawsuit against Newsom to end the state of emergency. He 202 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: just had to answer questions under oath. Here are his 203 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 1: quote responses. Interrogatory number one, I like that. Interrogatory. Identify 204 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: the objective criteria you're relying on to determine when to 205 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: end the COVID state of emergency. NEWSOM response. Defendant declines 206 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: to respond to this interrogatory. Interrogatory number two, Identify any 207 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: standards provided by the California Legislature that you've relied on 208 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: to determine when to end the state of emergency. NEWSOM response. 209 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: Defendant declines to respond to this interrogatory. All right. Interrogatory 210 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: number three, identify any standards in the Emergency Services Act 211 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: you've relied on to determine when to end the state 212 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: of emergency. NEWSOM response, You guessed it. Defendant declines to 213 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: respond to this interrogatory because there aren't any Yeah, the 214 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 1: reason in the fifth And he also resents this because 215 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: he's a real well but snob and he thinks he's 216 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: above this. You know what, There aren't any There is 217 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: no answer. His answer is correct. He just made this up. 218 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: He just he did it because he has the power 219 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: to declare an emergency, but he doesn't have to declare 220 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: What made him do it or what would make him 221 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: withdraw it. There's no guidelines. No, this is what people 222 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: who have dictatorial traits do. They just declare and dictate 223 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: because he feels like it, because it's it's fun to 224 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: be the king. Yes, yeah, kings. Kings never abdicate. They 225 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: have to be killed, they have to be overthrown. Not 226 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: suggesting that here, but I'm just trying to make a point, 227 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: is that kings never voluntarily give up their power. They don't. Dictator, emperors, dictators, 228 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: whatever name you want you want for it, they do. 229 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: But like I was saying, I'm not seeing the power lately. 230 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what's left. I mean, he he withdrew 231 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 1: some of his active There's still a few state of 232 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,719 Speaker 1: emergency orders out there, but it's I don't really see 233 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: the effectiveness of it or what nott. The effectiveness is 234 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: stopping COVID, the effectiveness of changing people's lives, I don't 235 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: even know what they are anymore. There is none. I 236 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 1: guess he just wants this out there because we keep 237 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: seeing a rise and fall in cases, we could be 238 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: back onto water again forever. I have to be ready. 239 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: I want to lift the state of emergency just to 240 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: issue it. And again, all that's really hard to do 241 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: is everybody. Everybody knows that there's no real threat anymore 242 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: in the world. Everybody knows that intellectually, unless you're emotionally 243 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 1: disturbed like the West Side women at at Whole Foods 244 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: and Whole Foods. Yeah, outside of that crowd, and you're 245 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: always going to have that crowd, there's those people emotionally 246 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: disturbed and afraid and anxious in this and that. Outside 247 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: of that clear thinking, rational people, No, there's no threat anymore. 248 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: But he enjoys the power. I'm just if you read 249 00:13:54,559 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: about history, history is people in power trying to have 250 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: exert control over the masses. That is the main driver 251 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: of civilization. It explains most of the wars in the world, 252 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 1: most of the aggression that goes on. It's about I'm 253 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: controlling my people. And I mean, look up Putin right, 254 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: He's killed thirty thousand of his own soldiers. What drives 255 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: a human being to kill thirty thousand of your own 256 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: people because you want to grab somebody else's land and 257 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: you want to kill them while you're grabbing their land. 258 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: I mean, if that goes on and nobody blinks an 259 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: eye to that, well, of course, this little tinpot dope 260 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: is going to keep his emergency COVID order and effect. Yeah, 261 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: an order that he did without the legislator who doesn't 262 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: care about anybody else's input. Well, well, the legislature is 263 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: completely cowed because they all have their pet corruption bills 264 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: they want to get through and they need Newsom to 265 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: sign them otherwise he'll veto them. So he's got the 266 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: hammer over their corruption. And the Republican Party, of course, 267 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: is flaccid and impotent. So this is this is what 268 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: we got for a government here. The judge, a judge 269 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: should have should have stepped in. Well, that's what I 270 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: thought was going to happen, and I think originally there 271 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: was one judge that agreed, and then this went on 272 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: to appeal and it was it was the original question. 273 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: I remember we had the first week. What happens if 274 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: there's no longer a need for a state of emergency? 275 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: What happens if there isn't a natural emergency? Can a 276 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: governor institute a state of emergency or extend a state 277 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: of emergency even when there is no emergency? Nobody ever 278 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: answered that question. I remember we asked some politicians that 279 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: came on nobody had an answer for that. Yeah, nobody did. 280 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: And I think there's probably nothing specific in the law 281 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: that explains why he should be forced to end it. 282 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: I mean, it's taken this lawsuit, which is, you know, 283 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: way late in the game. But how did it get 284 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: this far? It got this far because there's nothing that 285 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: nothing that I guess the legislature could force the issue. 286 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: They could force the issue and pass a law and 287 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: then override his veto and ended, but they don't because 288 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: they're beholding to him. All right. When we come back, 289 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: we will talk about the ridiculous water restrictions that went 290 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: into effect all over southern California. This is another one 291 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: same thing. Keep in mind the statistic that six percent 292 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: is household use of California's water. It is really absurd 293 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: to be chasing after people for watering their lawns. Although 294 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: the best quote I heard this morning was an LA 295 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: resident who was asked about this, and he said, this 296 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: reminds me the whole COVID debate. He said, I wanted 297 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: one of my trees and plants. I'll tell you what, 298 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: I won't take a shower all summer. I prefer to 299 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: one of my trees and plants. I wanted to be 300 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: my choice. That was a good one. Dad's going to 301 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: give up showering so he could water his plants. Yeah, 302 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: you know, we're supposed to grass. We're supposed to have 303 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: basic freedom. We pay a lot and taxes. We should 304 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: at least get electricity, water roads, right, Yeah, but they 305 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: did basics. They didn't build the electrical grid properly. We're 306 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: gonna have blackouts the summer. And they never built the 307 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: water grid properly, and so we're supposed to have these 308 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: shortages allegedly, and this is their massive failure for you know, 309 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: fifty one hundred years. But it's a bit also like 310 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: the global warming. We could all stop using water and 311 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: they're still going to have this shortage because we don't 312 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: use that much of the total pie right, all right, 313 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: we'll get into it coming out John and can't cafeie? 314 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: All right? So the big local story today is the 315 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: water restrictions. June first is the day they picked for 316 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: this to start to as the time says, get ready 317 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: for short showers and brown lawns. Seriously, no, six million 318 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: southern California as we placed under new drought rules today. 319 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: What is it about these progress of people that they're 320 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: constantly lecturing the rest of us on how to live. 321 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: They attack on lifestyle. They think everything about America is excessive, 322 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: but they had, they had, we consumed too much of everything, 323 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: including water, and they're so obnoxious about it. And I 324 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: want to get a hose and just start just start 325 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 1: running water down our road just for the hell of it. 326 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: If I mentioned that, I bet my neighbor across the 327 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: street just had a powerwasher guy over. There was powerwashing 328 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: everything outside. Yeah, the sidewalks, the patios and sides of 329 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: the house. They've they've had They've had a two year 330 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: run of lecturing us on COVID etiquette, right, and they've 331 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: had a two year run lecturing us about race and 332 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: transgenders and all the rest. Are they ever going to 333 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: shut up now that those issues have lost their juice. 334 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: Now they're transitioning into water lectures and then it's going 335 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: to be electricity lectures this summer. I mean it's never 336 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: And are you open the La Times today and there's 337 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,959 Speaker 1: these long winded stories about not using water and my 338 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: reaction this morning was just a big loud fu. I'm 339 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: not against It's time my shower and I want a 340 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: green lawn. You don't like it, don't look at it. 341 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: It's gonna be green. Are you urinating now? It's Eric, Oh, 342 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 1: that's a that's a good. That's one leaky hose. And Eric, 343 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: where do you have a lot of beer? That's I 344 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: mean listened to micromanaging In the city of la You're 345 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 1: limited to two days a week watering at only eight 346 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 1: minutes per station per day or two fifteen minutes cycles 347 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: per watering day for sprinklers with water conserving nozzles. And 348 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: then it goes by your address Monday and Friday for 349 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: odd addresses, Thursday and Sunday for even ones. No watering 350 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: will be allowed between nine am and four pm, regardless 351 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: of the watering days. Are they out of their minds? 352 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: How long do they spend on this formula? Who's enforcing Well, 353 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: they claim they're going to send out the water police. 354 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: They clam, well, there's one one. Now here's the thing, 355 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 1: and that's the trick. Here, there's one water district. And 356 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: I keep seeing this name every damn time in the 357 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 1: story Last Virginus Municipal water District. They claim this is 358 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: Calabasas a Goora Hills, hidden hills that they do have 359 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: water police that will go out and we'll check on 360 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: what you're doing. What's edgeless does not and the remember 361 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: they tried that five six years ago. Remember Garcetti said 362 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: we will have a They did monitor. It was like 363 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: two guys, I think, but they didn't have it. Well, 364 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 1: there was two people. They weren't going to get far. 365 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: Two people to cover millions of homes. Yeah, that doesn't count. 366 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 1: And you tell me, I bet you. Those guys were 367 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: going off to the strip clubs, just like the DWB 368 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: workers and the cat straps. Will get the overriding statistic, 369 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: and it's even in the time story urban use or 370 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: suburban use, and sometimes they break it down into just 371 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: households versus businesses and the rest of that kind of 372 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: use is about ten percent, and for homes it's about 373 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: six percent of the total water usage. This is useless, 374 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: it's not. It's almost like the same thing they're doing 375 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: with carb and trying to pretend to Californias making dent 376 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: in carbon emissions globally. Then not, because if we're only 377 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: used in six percent of the water as residents, we 378 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: could cut by twenty percent and that only saves one 379 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: percent of the overall total which is worthless, which within 380 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: the margin of era, right, exactly something that they can't 381 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: accurately calculate. They can't accurately calculate exactly how much water 382 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: we use. That's that's just absurd and it's silly. And 383 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: we've got we've got the same number of state reservoirs 384 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: that we had in nineteen seventy one. It's been fifty 385 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: one years and they didn't add a new reservoir fifty 386 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: one years, and the population from that time has almost doubled. 387 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: So we added like a whole nother state's worth of 388 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,719 Speaker 1: EPLE and they didn't add a single reservoir. It's that 389 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,479 Speaker 1: on us or it's on them. Well, I guess if 390 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: it doesn't rain and snow, reservoirs aren't going to do 391 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: us any good. But you could store more water. Well, 392 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: if we don't get any rain or snow, we don't 393 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: have any water. No, but if we had, if we 394 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: had twice as many reservoirs, we'd have twice as much 395 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: water stored. Most of the water gets flushed out and there, 396 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: you're right, we have to start somewhere, yeah, right, and 397 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: because eventually we'll have a rainy winter, right, And then 398 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: you keep that water from the rainy winter that could 399 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 1: last you for a while. I mean the desalination plants 400 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: we should have. We should have ten fifteen of them 401 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: up and down the coast. And instead of writing stories 402 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: about that, they also going to do times over the 403 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 1: weekend had a special how long should you take a shower? 404 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: A long ridiculously what is the right length of time 405 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 1: for the California drought shower or they call it the 406 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: drought Shower by Laura J. Nelson talking about exactly how 407 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: much time you should spend in the shower, consider ring Really, 408 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: I mean, if you cut your shower down from eight 409 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: minutes to four minutes, that's not going to make any difference. 410 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: A matter of fact, they even admit that in the article. 411 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: It's not it's just trying to They're saying they're trying 412 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: to change people. But because you want to be more mindful, 413 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: your shower is a minute percent water you use. So 414 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 1: why are they why are they writing? I'm I've got 415 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: how many pages printed out here? Five? I mean four 416 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 1: four pages printed out on the right shower? I saw 417 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 1: you insane? Really? Are you absolutely insane? You know I 418 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 1: am going to hear this in the middle eighty percent 419 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,959 Speaker 1: of California's waters used for agriculture, the remaining twenty percent, 420 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 1: And this is kind of shifty homes, businesses, factories, and institutions. 421 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: But Holmes, what we understand is six percent, six percent. 422 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: That it's the number. Six percent is the number. All 423 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: the lecturing is two is over the six percent of water. 424 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: It is nonsense. Well, that's why it's useless. That's why 425 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 1: we largely ignore this topic. But if they're going to 426 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: start instituting these stupid restrictions, well they keep brainwashing people. 427 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: We have to be here to counter. How are they 428 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: gonna How are they gonna determine how long my shower is? 429 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: They can't. How are they going to determine how often 430 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: I'm ordering the lawn? They can't, They can't. It's a 431 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,719 Speaker 1: bunch of It's like all the mindless lecturing about COVID. 432 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: It's just constant, constant lecturing, constant finger wagging, constant the 433 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: government telling you how to live, what you should do. 434 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 1: The government should be building reservoirs and desalidation plants. They 435 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 1: should be coming up with ways for more underground storage, 436 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: ways to recycle water. That's what they should do. Technology 437 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: might have more on this. You listen to, you read 438 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: and ring at California Globe. He's been doing a long 439 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: series of articles on water abundance in the state and 440 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: he covers most of the things John just summarized, and 441 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: things we could be doing and should have already been doing, 442 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: and we've decide money to do, but haven't because it's 443 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: an unbelievable bureaucracy that prevents them from building the reservoirs. 444 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: And it was that sites reservoirs. They're still trying to 445 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: get that one going. That was just in the news 446 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: this past week. Again, No. Twenty fourteen, we passed a 447 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: seven billion dollar bond to build reservoirs, water storage. Nothing's 448 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: been built. They haven't even spent the money. I mean, 449 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: it's just there incompetence, and the bureaucracy is part of 450 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: the incompetence. They make these complicated agencies, these complicated sets 451 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: of rules. It doesn't have to be there. You know, 452 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: when California got started, do you think they had all 453 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 1: these agencies and bureaucracies and rules. No, they did not. 454 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: They just dug a hole. They dug a hole and 455 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: created modern California. They just did it. They built the roads, 456 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: They built the bridges, they built the reservoirs, they built 457 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: the dams, everything that we needed to have modern life. 458 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, adding to the absurdity 459 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,719 Speaker 1: was a pretty good story in the Orange County Register 460 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 1: over the weekend. How many three hundred and thirteen thousand 461 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: dollars water executives does Orange County really need? And we 462 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: got into this year as ago. Remember what was that 463 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: water district we covered? We actually did a show though, yes, 464 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: with their beautiful buildings. Yeah, it was a your Balinda 465 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: water district. This is what we're talking about. We'll get 466 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: more covered that board. Oh yeah, bo you remember that 467 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: guy that Johnny can't shut right, So we've been talking 468 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: about the phony water shortage. Well maybe there isn't a 469 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: phony water shortage. But this emphasis on you and your 470 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: life and your water usage, on your lawns right and 471 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: your showers is absurd. I haven't pushed this number everywhere 472 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 1: you go. Six percent of California's water goes to suburban 473 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:52,640 Speaker 1: household you six percent. How can all this ridiculous over 474 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: the top restrictions make any difference? It does not. No. Uh, 475 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: that begin and ends the arguments the almond industry alone 476 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: uses almost twice as much water as every single resident 477 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,959 Speaker 1: in the state. Think about that. The almond industry, just 478 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: producing almonds, three quarters of which go to China, use 479 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: twice as much water as all of us in the state. Clearly, 480 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: this is a corrupt scam because if you look at 481 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: the amount of money that almond companies and other farming 482 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: companies pay to Sacramento politicians, you could see what they're 483 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:37,360 Speaker 1: buying is access to nearly all of our water because 484 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 1: we only use six percent. The other ninety four percent 485 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: is used by other entities, not people, entities such as 486 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: the farming companies. And remember, there aren't little mom and 487 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: pop farmers very much anymore. Most farms are owned by 488 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: massive corporations. Now, the other aspect of this, which deserves 489 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: a few minutes of attention, is summarized in a story 490 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: in the Orange County Register. How many three hundred and 491 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 1: thirteen thousand dollar water executives as Orange County really need? 492 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: The column says, well, need might be a bit much, 493 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,479 Speaker 1: but the county has eighteen of them, and it starts 494 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: with this. Orange County is one of California's smallest when 495 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,199 Speaker 1: measured by square miles. A compact seven hundred and ninety one. 496 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 1: But despite the density, it takes eighteen completely separate, independent 497 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 1: little governments to make water gush from our taps and 498 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: flush wastewater away. In addition to about thirteen cities that 499 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: have their own water departments, these completely independent little governments, 500 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: tied to no city or county and operating largely beyond 501 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: the public gaze, employ thousands of people, including more than 502 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty directors and board members, sixty one 503 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: plant operators and senior plant operators, forty five senior injured years, 504 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: thirty eight senior mechanics, eighteen well paid general managers and 505 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: their assistance. And so far leading the pack is the 506 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,719 Speaker 1: Irvine Ranch Water District, with a total compensation for the 507 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: director there of four hundred and forty seven thousand, one 508 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty nine dollars. How about that three hundred 509 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: and eighty three thousand in salary and retirement help and 510 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: other benefits of sixty three thousand, eight hundred and fifty dollars. 511 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: Because what you and I learned when we covered your Belinda, 512 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: that these are and they act almost in secret. They 513 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: are their own little city governments, and they are fine 514 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: building out pay and benefits. Right, they skim, they skim 515 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: off hundreds of thousands of dollars for themselves off the top. 516 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 1: And they're not accountable to anybody. Right if they're not 517 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: accountable to us, well, what do you think they're gonna do. 518 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: They're just they're just gonna take some of the money 519 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 1: that's flown by. It's like it's like the contractors working 520 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: for high speed rail. There's millions of dollars falling by, 521 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: so you just skim a lot off the top and 522 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: take it home. Who's gonna know. No one's doing any audits, nobody, 523 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: nobody can be fired. We have a very very corrupt 524 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: system of government, and and it goes at all directions. 525 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: The water districts, the high speed rail, your your your 526 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: city councils. They're corrupt people. They're bad people, and they're 527 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: taking your money. And and you're you're paying ridiculous water rates, 528 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: you're paying ridiculous electric rates, ridiculous amount of taxes. And 529 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: what are you being told? Don't take a shower for 530 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: more than two and a half minutes, really, don't don't 531 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: use your laundry, uh, you know, at six o'clock at night, 532 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 1: because you're using water, and you're using electricity, right, use 533 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: all your electricity after nine o'clock. All these restrictions, all 534 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: these rules. Wait, hold on, they've got they've got hundreds 535 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: and hundreds of billions of dollars, and I can't use 536 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 1: the electricity or the water when I want. Are you serious? 537 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 1: These are called special districts. There are things like water districts, 538 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: sanitation districts, seward districts, all of these districts, and they 539 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 1: are unbelievable independent fiefdoms that rip off the taxpayer left 540 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: and right. Because who pays any attention Nobody, Any news 541 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: at all that's devoted to your tax money tends to 542 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: focus on city and state government officials. It doesn't focus 543 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: much on these districts because if you turn on the 544 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: TV news, you generally get ten to fifteen minutes of 545 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: murder stories and chases. Yeah, well those are interesting, yes, 546 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: but they're not informative or they don't change your life. 547 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: They don't affect your life, No, they don't. They don't 548 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: tell you what's going on in the world. And if 549 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: they did run those stories, few people would watch them. 550 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: You're not really interested in it, so they don't waste 551 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: their time. They're trying to sell commercials. They're not there 552 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: to inform you and enlighten you. However, you can see 553 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: what is built up over the years. 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