1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: from three till six, then after six o'clock John Cobel 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: Show on demand. That's the podcast and that's what you 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: listen to in case you miss any part here, and 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: it's been quite a program already. We are going to 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: now talk with Monica Rodriguez, excuse me, city councilwoman here 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. There was a housing and Homelessness committee 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: yesterday and she said very clearly that the homelessness in 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: LA it's not a money issue, it's a leadership failure 11 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: and really described how the whole structure is a disaster. 12 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: You know, the city and county county had this joint 13 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: operation over the last thirty plus years and it was 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: called LASSA La Housing Services Authority, and the county got 15 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: out of it, but the city is still part of 16 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: that agency and just nothing's worked, and it is billions 17 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: of dollars that have been flushed down the toilet. We're 18 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,759 Speaker 1: going to get Monica Rodriguez on now. Monica, how are 19 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: you hi? 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 2: I'm pretty good. 21 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: What made you finally announce publicly that hey, not a 22 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: money issue. 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 2: Well, I think it's far from saying that all of 24 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 2: a sudden. I've been calling this out for the last 25 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 2: few years, and in fact introduced the motion to separate 26 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 2: from LASA and establish actually our own homelessness department two 27 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 2: years ago. In fact, it was MS Rahman who was 28 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 2: chair of the committee had been obstructing scheduling that item 29 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: for yesterday was three hundred and sixteen days since the 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: report was available for us to discuss it. But since 31 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 2: that time that the report was completed so that we 32 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: could discuss and have a pathway to figure out what 33 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 2: to do next and separating ourselves, the county had already 34 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 2: pulled out. A lot of dynamics have changed, but it's 35 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: far from all of a sudden. I have been calling 36 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: this out for some. 37 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: Time, yes, And I didn't mean to suggest that you 38 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: hadn't been on top of this for a long time. 39 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: It just seemed that this headline really popped out in 40 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: a way that I hadn't seen any public official acknowledge. 41 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: And I'm glad you did it. And look, it's pretty 42 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: clear after all these years and these billions of dollars 43 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: and now you have these various investigations going on that 44 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: a lot of this money is getting looted by these nonprofits, 45 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: and I just suspect that there's a lot of kickbacks 46 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: going on to people in government. 47 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: I wouldn't go as far as to, you know, suggest 48 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: that it's kickbacks. I just think there's clearly no evaluation 49 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: of the contracts that are being administered. And one of 50 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 2: the problems that I think people have rallied upon is 51 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: like just or relied upon rather is to offer outreach services. 52 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 2: But as I described it in committee yesterday, I so 53 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 2: that's the equivalent of offering a number of hostesses at 54 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 2: a restaurant with no new tables, so all you're doing 55 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 2: is taking reservations. It's we have a system that is 56 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: outreach rich and housing poor. You also have a number 57 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 2: of individuals that are suffering with mental health and substance 58 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,679 Speaker 2: use disorder that are frankly within the purview of the 59 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 2: county to address. But where's the level of accountability across 60 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 2: all of these systems to help ensure that those things 61 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 2: are happening and they're being they're they're seeing them all 62 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: the way through. It's not simply housing. It depends on 63 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 2: the circumstances of the individual, and the reality is is 64 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 2: that everyone is at a different juncture in this in 65 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,279 Speaker 2: their state of homelessness. 66 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: But intelligent people would be able to analyze what you're 67 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: analyzing and arrange the departments, the organ the whole organization 68 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: so that it addresses all the different components of homelessness 69 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: and just done what you've been saying. The whole thing's 70 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: a mess, and it's uncoordinated, and the whole system obviously 71 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: doesn't work. You just open your eyes and walk around town. 72 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: So what's wrong with the people who work in the agencies, 73 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: who work for the government, what's wrong with them? Why 74 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: can't they put it to get it together? 75 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 2: I think the challenge is is that you have a combination. 76 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: So like again, a lot of moving parts at LASA. 77 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 2: You have seen and just in the time that I've 78 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 2: been on the City Council, it seems like the leadership 79 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: changes at LASA every two years, and so the conversations 80 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: started over and over again. It's why I coined the 81 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 2: phrase get me off this marry go around from hell. 82 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: We kept starting the conversation over again because new leadership 83 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 2: would come in. You would see some minimal changes or 84 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 2: things that were coming in. But the reality is is 85 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: that these systems are structured in a way that are 86 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 2: not being directed by the elected officials who would be accountable. 87 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: LASA was an in intermediary and it continues to be 88 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 2: an intermediary where the county has now removed themselves from it. 89 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: But here we are as a city is still tethered 90 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 2: to best and so my push has constantly been we 91 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 2: need to set something up within the city that would 92 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 2: be able to operate in the contract management space to 93 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 2: do that oversight and that we can have direct accountability 94 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 2: on because right now what we're doing is we've got 95 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 2: to pass through and it's clear that there's no accountability 96 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 2: with the contracts that are being awarded. So if you 97 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 2: have a department that manages it in house, we should 98 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 2: be able to evaluate, have the metrics, and have directed 99 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 2: exposure to what the results of the work are. There's 100 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 2: a number of redundancies in contracts that are going out 101 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 2: around outreach services and alike, but you don't see the transition. 102 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 2: I asked the question back when Lakasa was being formed, 103 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 2: which is a new agency that was that's not LASA. 104 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 2: They changed the name and so called it Lakasa was 105 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 2: based on the La County to Measure a proposal where 106 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 2: all of the moneies are now being distributed there that agency. 107 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 2: When we were getting briefed on how does the structure work, 108 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: and it's still unclear to me how it all truly functions, 109 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: But when we were having a conversation about it, it 110 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 2: was constantly the word accountability was thrown into the mix. 111 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: And what I asked was, with all of the same 112 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 2: actors involved in this structure, help me understand what is 113 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 2: going to be different and what consequences for failures to 114 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 2: perform is going to be Meaning who's going to lose 115 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 2: their contract? And what are the metrics around who loses 116 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 2: their contract if you can evaluate and when you evaluate 117 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 2: whether or not they're performing. And I couldn't get a 118 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: clear answer, but. 119 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: What you're talking about here, it's like a clause specifically 120 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: a metric to judge performance and what the ramifications are 121 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: if you don't meet those metrics. That is built into 122 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: every business contract that I've ever seen or been a 123 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: part of. That is that is automatic. And this is 124 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: what I don't understand. You got fifteen council members here 125 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: in the mayor and this isn't automatically built in to 126 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: every agreement with every single uh nonprofit organization. UH. And 127 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: there's must be hundreds of them that have been gotten 128 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: tax money all these years. I mean, that's that's. 129 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 2: Well again, I'm just I'm going I'm going back to again. 130 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 2: You're saying that this was directly under the purview of 131 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: the council. This is what's being administered by LASSA, which 132 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 2: is separate, which is why I wanted to bring it 133 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 2: in because then you have the direct accountability. What I 134 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: was also explaining to you is that this new system 135 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 2: La CASA, which is born out of the measure aid 136 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 2: tax money that the county passed, that has a number 137 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 2: of elected officials serving on the board, And to me, 138 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 2: I asked the same question, how are you going to 139 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 2: evaluate the performance issues around these same nonprofits? We so 140 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 2: have the same problem, and I'm not I don't have 141 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 2: any greater clarity on that new structure, whether not that's 142 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 2: going to happen or how that's going to happen. All right, 143 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 2: So my point is is that that's why we have 144 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: to we have to tighten it, rein it in, and 145 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 2: we have to so that we can directly be held 146 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 2: accountable to the performances of those that we contract. 147 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: Can you can you hang on for another segment? You 148 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: got time? 149 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 2: Yeah? 150 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let me just take a quick break here. 151 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: Monica Rodrigas with the City Council. She says money is 152 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: not the issue with this persistent homelessness in La. 153 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 154 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 3: six forty. 155 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: We're talking to Monica Rodriguez and the Housing and Homelessness 156 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: committee that she's on, and she said publicly yesterday it's 157 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: not a money issue. The persistent homelessness a leadership failure. 158 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: The whole system just simply doesn't work. Monica, did the 159 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: other council members outside of a couple, we probably would 160 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: list the same names. Are they moved at all by this? 161 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: Do they care at all? I mean, it seems obvious 162 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: that the system has to be completely redesigned here and 163 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: LASSA is a sunk ship. Do they share your urgency so? 164 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,839 Speaker 2: Well? First of all, I want to correct you. I 165 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 2: actually was removed from the committee back in twenty twenty four, 166 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 2: so I haven't been on it for well over a year. 167 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: Oh you went to speak to the committee, then, correct I. 168 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 2: Went to speak to the committee because I have a 169 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 2: number of colleagues that are new and just to give 170 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 2: some historical context and to address the motion that was 171 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 2: being heard. That was one that I had introduced two 172 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 2: years ago. So you know I have if you look 173 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 2: at the votes on whether it was some of the 174 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 2: money that was being allocated for the for Insight Safe 175 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 2: on the homeless emergency account, I was a solo vote. 176 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 2: I think I'm trying to recall if I have gotten 177 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 2: any other of members. No, I think I think I 178 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 2: still remained the whole no vote on that. M coscar 179 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 2: I think voted no on one on one of the 180 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 2: last homeless emergency accounts. But for more than gosh, a 181 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 2: year and a half, two years, I'd been voting against 182 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 2: a lot of these things and introducing a number of 183 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 2: these motions. But no that most of the committee work 184 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 2: and the conversations were not advancing out of the committee. 185 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 2: That Ni chared they. 186 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: Were not even getting out of the committee because they 187 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: didn't have the votes. 188 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 2: No, because she wouldn't schedule. 189 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: Them, wouldn't schedule votes. 190 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 2: She wouldn't schedule them, or she would continue the item, 191 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 2: so it just would never There was there was never 192 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 2: a position being taken. 193 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: This is billions of dollars of our tax money. This 194 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: is this is where I start wondering, Okay, what's the 195 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: real story here. 196 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 2: Well, that that's what frustrated me. And I opened my 197 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 2: comments with whatever you know, and I think we know 198 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 2: what the impetus is. But whatever the impetus was, for 199 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 2: now these items being scheduled. I'm glad that we're here 200 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 2: because you know, too much time has passed and the 201 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 2: people deserve to have greater accountability with their money. But 202 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 2: they deserve as long as those but these issues but 203 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 2: being shown. They weren't being addressed. 204 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 1: But it's not just accountability. There has to be success. 205 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: There has to be execution and with the result that 206 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: these these people are off the streets number one, and 207 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: that they're getting some kind of help or treatment that 208 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: is beneficial for them. And and you know, accountability means 209 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: all right, will tell you you know where the money 210 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: was wasted. I want to know where the money worked. 211 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: And because I don't think it's worked much at all, well. 212 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 2: I will say this. I started a program, an RV 213 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: to home program that was removing RVs and housing people. 214 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 2: And with the start of just a three hundred and 215 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars grant that I got from the Hilton 216 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 2: Foundation and the subsequent additional state money that we received 217 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 2: from a grant. We've housed over three hundred individuals and 218 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 2: destroyed over one hundred and fifty RVs. So there are 219 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 2: cost effective solutions. I'm piloting that in my district and 220 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 2: now working to expand that city wide. But I'm trying 221 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 2: to develop proofs of concept so that my colleagues will 222 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: have other examples that they can use and that we 223 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 2: can fund so that we don't have to rely on 224 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 2: these service providers that are just being awarded contracts in 225 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 2: that way. But I will tell you, even when I 226 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 2: started that program, I was told by a number of 227 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 2: service providers, oh, well, people that live in our vs 228 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 2: don't identify as being homeless, and we change that narrative 229 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: based on the program that based on the model that 230 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 2: we've developed in my district. 231 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: All right, well, listen, I appreciate you coming on and 232 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: talking about this, and I hope we can talk more 233 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: about this because it's this is a tremendous amount of money, 234 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 1: and I'm glad your your pilot program is working out. 235 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: But to me. If there is any glimmer of success, 236 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: then it should immediately be replicated in a similar way. 237 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 2: All right, well thanks, that's why we're actually and it's 238 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 2: now been adopted for citywide implementation. Now I got to 239 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 2: get somebody to give me more money so that we 240 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 2: can expand it citywide and fund it citywide. 241 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Monica Rodriguez City council woman. 242 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 243 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 3: six forty. 244 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio, on social 245 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: media at John Cobelt Radio, or subscribe on YouTube to 246 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: look at our videos every night. And you know, last 247 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 1: night's video was the celebration of the demise of Genice 248 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: Quinonez as head of the DWP, the woman who didn't 249 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: fill the reservoir head is as empty as that reservoir. 250 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 1: But she's going on to Puerto Rico to run the 251 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: electrical grid there, so the people in Puerto Rico will 252 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: be living in the dark for quite some time. You 253 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 1: could see that video. You could subscribe YouTube dot com 254 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: slash at John Cobelt Show. YouTube dot com slash at 255 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:18,839 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show. Okay, every once in a while, I 256 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: give Deborah a choice which story she wants to hear. 257 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: So the categories are the high school basketball coach who's 258 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: a pimp or the tourist who stole a live flamingo 259 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: from a Las Vegas hotel. Which would you like? But 260 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: she's passed out. I don't think she's paying attention. She's 261 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: not paying attention. Oh this is fascinating. So does that 262 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: mean I get to pick? Well? Yeah, yeah, but I 263 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: want to see, like, what is she doing. She's got 264 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: her head down and it's behind the monitor. I'm watching 265 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: on a screen. Maybe she's on the phone. Is she 266 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: on the phone? Oh, she didn't ever have phones on? Oh? 267 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 4: Okay, sorry? Were you talking to me? You know, I 268 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 4: do put news together around here. 269 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: It looked like you were asleep, had your head down, 270 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: and I thought she passed out? Last many guns? 271 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 4: What were you talking about? 272 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: I was gonna play game with you here. Okay, Eric, 273 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: you can play too, all right? Cool? All right? In 274 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: a tie, vote though you break the time? Okay. Uh, 275 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: you got your choice of stories, Deborah. Uh, the local 276 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: basketball coach who's a pimp or the tourist who stole 277 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: a live flamingo from the Las Vegas hotel the pimp. 278 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: Oh good, okay, all right, clean sweep, all right, three 279 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: for the pimp. She's just nervous. 280 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 4: That I didn't know because I didn't have my headphones on. 281 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 4: I had no idea. 282 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, here we go cal State Bakersfield, UH. 283 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: The men's basketball college. Rod Barnes back in August, got 284 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: an anonymous email from a tipster said that Barnes's assistant coach, 285 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: Kevin Mays, was working on the side as a pimp. 286 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: And it turns out it may be true. There's a 287 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: whole lot of charges against Mays, and Barnes is now resigned, 288 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: and so did the athletic director, Kyle Conder. The tipster 289 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: wrote in all capital letters, fix it or the whole 290 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: staff will fall. This is a first warning and a 291 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: final warning. And it turns out it was a true story. Mays, 292 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: the assistant, is now being held without bail. Eleven criminal 293 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: and misdemeanor charges pimping, possession of automatic firearms, high capacity magazines, 294 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: possession of meth and marijuana, intent to sell six hundred 295 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: images of youth or child pornography, and distribution of the 296 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: pornography to someone under the age of eighteen. That's your 297 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: assistant basketball. Yeah, he arrived in twenty nineteen to be 298 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: the assistant and on his application he wrote that he 299 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: was driven by basketball, team building and helping young men. Well, 300 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: that's one way. I'm glad he wasn't my coach. That's 301 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: one way to improve the morale. You know. 302 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 5: One little side piece to this. No, what, Well it's 303 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 5: cal State University, Bakersfield. Yeah, he was an assistant coach 304 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 5: paid by the school. Yeah, tax dollars went to his cell. 305 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: Well, I guess it wasn't enough. Is more lucrative? Four states? 306 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: Four states, Las Vegas, Nevada, of course, Oregon, Washington, and California. 307 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 1: That was his operating area. The email said important message 308 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: nine one one, nine one one. He is trafficking a 309 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: girl by the name of blank. And then there were 310 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: more emails and this person knew the victim new Maze 311 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: through previous travel for sex work. 312 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 5: How many recruits do you think you got by sending 313 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 5: some girls over to their hotel on an official visit? 314 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: That probably was Maybe that's why the athletic director resigned. 315 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: In the head coach resigned, although they claimed they didn't 316 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: know anything about it. But you know, if you have 317 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: an especially good recruiting yearable. Yeah, yeah, he was a 318 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: professional gambler and was he a hunter too? He wasn't 319 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: that bad. You came out against hunters and fishermen. 320 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 4: I heard, Yes, I did. Yeah, people off the monks 321 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 4: and merrill. 322 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 1: Way to bond. But the audience. Those two guys are 323 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: trying to build a new audience, and here you go 324 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 1: popping off and. 325 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm authentic. 326 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: No, I'll not get more trouble here. May's told the 327 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: tipster he was a professional gambler. Okay, So May's got 328 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: involved and threatened to take away the person's child if 329 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: Mays was exposed. So he threatened to take away I 330 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: guess the sex workers child. 331 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 4: I god, that that is reprehensible. 332 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: Now you want to hear about the the tourist that 333 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,239 Speaker 1: stole alive Flamingo. You're not gonna like this. 334 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 4: Well, that's why I didn't choose that. 335 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: Mitchell Fairburn, thirty three year old guy, thirty three years old. 336 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: You know you're supposed to be past this. He's from Ontario, Canada, 337 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 1: and at the Flamingo Hotel they have a cage with 338 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: you know, a little enclave with flamingos, and I guess 339 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: he got loaded and he kidnapped Peachy the flamingo. Do 340 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: you guess he got loaded? I wasn't there. I don't know. 341 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: Around five in the morning, they caught him on camera 342 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: and it was a bright, pink Chilian flamingo. Grabbed it 343 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 1: by the neck and started laughing, and he shouted, I'm 344 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: taking it home. He then dragged the three foot flamingo 345 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: into an elevator and took it up and took it 346 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: up to his room on the fourteenth floor. 347 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 4: And what did he do with it? 348 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: And he recorded this on his phone, and he chased 349 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: the bird and then pinned it down and clipped its 350 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,959 Speaker 1: wings and then tried to pop the wing back in place. 351 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 4: Jean, I don't want to hear this anymore. 352 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: I'm not terrible. Yeah, and it harmed the flamingo. The 353 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: poor thing needed stitches. 354 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 4: Sean, we got the point. 355 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: I didn't do it. 356 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 6: I know, but I don't think you want to hear 357 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 6: any more of that. We need to do the same 358 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 6: to this idiot. 359 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: He claimed he knew what he was doing because he's a. 360 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 4: Farm Oh sure, uh okay. 361 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: Footage from his phone. Oh and there was he had 362 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: a friend do this. Born Fairbarn Uh and his friend 363 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: chased peache through the hallway, then started choking it as 364 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: they posed for photos. They took selfies and they found 365 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: a large bloody feather in the hotel room. He was 366 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,199 Speaker 1: charged with torturing, maiming and harming an animal. 367 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 4: Is it die? 368 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: No? No, but it had to be taken to a 369 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: veterinarian Uh And it's recovering though. Two other Flamingos were 370 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: also injured during the incident, but they're expecting that Peachee 371 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:40,360 Speaker 1: will make a full recovery. 372 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 4: I want to punch that guy in the you know. 373 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: What trunk do you have to be? You know, people are. 374 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 6: I'm telling you, when people are cruel to animals, they did, 375 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 6: they deserve the death penalty. 376 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: Well, you know, often animal cruelty leads to horrible cross 377 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: against people. 378 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 4: The animals are so defenseless. 379 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: What's gonna do? Right? You know? 380 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 4: And why. 381 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: Canadian farm boy loaded? 382 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 6: He just wants us to adopt peach Angel Martinez, She says, 383 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 6: can we can we do that for the show? 384 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 4: We have a Well. 385 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think living in an enclosure at the 386 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: Flamingo Hotel is much funny, right exactly? 387 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,479 Speaker 4: So working with you or being with you, with you 388 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 4: every day. John, you have a farm at home? 389 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 3: Bring it home. 390 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 1: I have a farm at home. 391 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 4: You have, I told you yesterday your doctor Doolittle. 392 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: Like, yes, I have a lot of one more that 393 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: live inside the house. Okay, I don't have a farm. 394 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: I don't have that much land in. 395 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 4: Your spacious bougie backyard. You can't put peache. 396 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: Peach probably would get attacked by red tailed hawks. I 397 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: don't even let my little. 398 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 4: Dog out a big enclosure. 399 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: You know you've got a pretty nice place up there. 400 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 4: No, I don't have the art. 401 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: You got room for a flamingo? 402 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 4: No, I don't. You don't have a backyard very small. 403 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM 404 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 3: six forty. 405 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: You can follow us a John Cobelt Radio on social 406 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: media or subscribe on YouTube, YouTube dot com slash at 407 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,479 Speaker 1: John co Belt's show. And you should watch the Genese 408 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: Communias celebration on the video from yesterday when in our 409 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: first hour, also of another new video up tonight. So 410 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 1: you could just spend your whole evening with us afternoons 411 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: on the radio evenings watching the videos. And we got 412 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: Conway coming up in just a few minutes here on KFI. 413 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 1: It's the gas prices are going up rapidly because of 414 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: Trump's war in Iran. Gas prices have gone up nationwide 415 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: by twenty seven cents in just a week. But look 416 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: at it this way, the average around the country is 417 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: still only three dollars in twenty five cents. In fact, 418 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: that there are there's still eighteen states, eighteen states that 419 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: sell gas for under three dollars a gallon. However, in 420 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: California it is four dollars in eighty one cents. We're 421 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: headed towards five very soon. We're at four eighty one. 422 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: The average is three twenty five. In Oklahoma, you can 423 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: get it for two seventy nine. And there's eighteen states, 424 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: like I said, under under three bucks. And I would 425 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,719 Speaker 1: like to look at the other left wing states that 426 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: you think might be prone to excessive taxes. Well, Massachusetts 427 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: is only three h nine, New Jersey is only three thirteen, 428 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: New York three sixteen, and Illinois three point thirty six. 429 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 1: We're at four eighty one. We're almost forty cents higher 430 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: than the next most expensive gasoline state. And there's more 431 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: to come. I mean, the price could go up more 432 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: because of Iran, but it's definitely going to go up 433 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:20,919 Speaker 1: more because now we're entering the summer blended season. By 434 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: the way, this is all because they're stealing money through 435 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: these taxes and they're trying to drive out the oil 436 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: and gas business with their regulations. It's under the cover 437 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: of under the cover of climate change, but of course 438 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 1: the climate has not cooled at all. It's actually got warmer. 439 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,919 Speaker 1: So we've done nothing but cost ourselves. Well. Newsom has 440 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: done nothing but cost us billions of dollars in excessive 441 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: gas and oil prices, excessive electricity prices and switching to 442 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: summer wen means it's another ten to fifteen cent increase 443 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: coming up because we're down to six refineries in the 444 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 1: state and a short list of Asian countries that can 445 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: provide us with the summer blend China, India, Saudi Arabia, 446 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:21,360 Speaker 1: Singapore and South Korea, and of course all the mayhem 447 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: going on in the Middle East could affect those shipments. 448 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 1: We are losing twenty percent of our domestic gasoline production 449 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: because of the two closures in the past few months. 450 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: Phillip sixty six in Wilmington, Valero in Benetia, up in 451 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: northern California. According to Andy Watts from Chevron, prices are 452 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: already high in California because of taxes, but what if 453 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: you can't get the products that you need and the 454 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 1: remaining refineries are warning that there's even new regulations from 455 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 1: the California Air Resources Board on top of the summer 456 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: lend prices, on top of the Iranian war prices, and 457 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: these new amendments could cause gas prices to rise another 458 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: seventy four cents according to the Legislative Analyst Office and 459 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: Sacramento the Government. The government's own analysts say that carbs 460 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: regulations at another seventy four cents. So he had seventy 461 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: four cents plus fifteen for the summer blend, plus the 462 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,400 Speaker 1: twenty seven we've already got, and you're you're looking, well, 463 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: there's one estimate that within a year we're hitting six 464 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: dollars and two cents. 465 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 4: Six. 466 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: Now they're talking six within the year. And again we 467 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,360 Speaker 1: got eighteen states where gas starts with a two and 468 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: we're looking at a six. Please keep voting the way 469 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: you're voting. We've Conway coming up next. 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