1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Can't f I am six forty. You're listening to the 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: from one to four o'clock and every day after four o'clock. 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Whatever you missed, you get on the John Cobelt podcast. 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: It's called John Cobelt Show on demand, all right, and 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: then you can play it all night and all day 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: tomorrow to your heart's content. And I really like that 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: bad Gavin song. 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: I really want you to learn those words because I 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: will be so happy to hear you sing along with that. 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: I don't know why. It's an awful sound when I sing. 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 2: Well, let me hear you sing a little something, so 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 2: I'll be the judge of that. 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: I have a guest coming on. 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, great. 16 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: She just showed up just seconds ago. All right, in fact, 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: quick find me somebody. 18 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: Wait, you're lying to me. 19 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: Katie Grimes just showed up. She's like the emergency shoot. 20 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: Katie Grimes is with californiaglobe dot com and she has 21 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: She's been writing stories on forever for for years and 22 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: years about the insanity of high speed rail. Yesterday, the 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: Trump administration, UH, the the UH Transportation Department, the Federal 24 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: Railroad Association specifically announced that they are cutting off four 25 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: billion dollars in planned funding for high speed rail, saying 26 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: that they have violated the agreement. Those people at high 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: speed Rail so many different ways you can you can't 28 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: even counted. And there's there's there's no high speed rail 29 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: that's been built, no track, no trains, no train stations. Uh. 30 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: They have nine different categories of offenses that has been 31 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: committed by California high speed Rail. Let's get Katie Grimes on, Katie. 32 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: How are you hey? 33 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 4: John doing great? Thank you? 34 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: Well, this is quite a moment. We set rated a 35 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: lot yesterday and it looks like California is finally in 36 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: hell wall. They're out of luck. They're not going to 37 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 1: be able to reverse this cutoff. 38 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm enjoying this immenseally. I've been covering this since 39 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 4: voters passed the initial bond in two thousand and eight 40 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 4: and have What was so interesting, John, is just three 41 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 4: years into the whole project. Some polling was done on 42 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 4: voters in the. 43 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 5: State who at that point were willing. 44 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 4: To even put another ballot measure on to overturn the 45 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 4: whole thing and put an. 46 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 5: End to it. 47 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 4: So back in twenty and eleven, voters were sick of it, 48 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 4: And here we are today in two and twenty. 49 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 1: Five is really three years in people wanted to reverse it. 50 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 5: Huh yeah, I'm not kidding. 51 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 4: Even the legislative analyst wrote about it. 52 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 5: Funny. 53 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: People sniffed it out right away that this was a scam. 54 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 4: Yes, that's what was so interesting. And it was a 55 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 4: field pole. It wasn't some you know, you know, just 56 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 4: phony poll. It was legitimate. 57 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: Yeah. 58 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 4: So, I mean, this has been going on for a 59 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 4: very very long time, and the California Legislature Democrats have 60 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 4: completely ignored the voters will who wanted to overturn this thing. 61 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 4: And of course they've ignored Republicans, and they've ignored the 62 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 4: legislative analysts, and they've ignored just about everybody who has 63 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 4: said this thing was a boondoggle from the word go. 64 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 4: And you know, now here we find ourselves, what you know, 65 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: seventeen billion dollars into it with no track, no train, 66 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 4: no electricity, no. 67 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: Nothing was Was this meant to be a scam? 68 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 4: You know, I have wondered that, and I've even written that, 69 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 4: you know, asking that question. I don't know what was 70 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 4: in the hearts and minds. 71 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 5: Of the people who put it on the ballot. I 72 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 5: think it was. 73 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 4: Ridiculous and naive because even at the time, I remember, 74 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 4: just you know, smuggly thing. We already have high speed 75 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 4: rail in California. It's called Southwest Airlines. You can easily 76 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 4: get there from here, you. 77 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: Know, yeah, in an hour exactly. 78 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 4: And so this was totally unneeded, and it seems like 79 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 4: like the people who were behind it kind of wanted 80 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 4: to dip their big toe in the water, and instead 81 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 4: it was completely taken over by by rent seeking consultants 82 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 4: and anybody. 83 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 5: Who could make a buck off of it. 84 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 4: And it's really only been consultants that have somehow blown 85 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 4: through seventeen jillion dollars of tackle there fund. 86 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: I guess you'd have land use lawyers. You've had environmental lawyers. Well, 87 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: you got the labor unions. I mean they claim they 88 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: got thousands of jobs out of this. I don't. It's 89 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand people working for seventeen years. Why can't we 90 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: see anything, Well, that's exactly it. 91 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 4: What were they doing and who were these fifteen thousand people? 92 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, and there were lit fifteen thousand people. 93 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if you look at the database. 94 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: Would there be fifteen thousand employees with paychecks that they're 95 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 1: getting every two weeks because what they do well. 96 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 4: It could have been the way caltrans says things, where 97 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 4: you have you know, twenty five hundred engineers on payroll 98 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 4: who don't do anything, so but they're union members, so 99 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 4: you know, it was the full employment project for the SEIU. 100 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: And I assume then money is further laundered back to 101 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: politicians in the form of always donations, either above ground 102 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: or below ground. I mean, it's got to be just 103 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: a big circular. 104 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely. 105 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 4: I'm just hoping this time that sticks to the wall, 106 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 4: that this funding is actually fully cut. I heard Governor 107 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 4: Newsom announced today that of course he and Rob are 108 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 4: going to sue the Trump administration. I've yeah, again, more 109 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 4: taxpayer dollars wasted because they don't there's nothing to sue for. 110 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 4: The federal government gets to decide whether or not they 111 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 4: give you know, the high Steed Reil Project money. 112 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: And they related the agreement at least in nine major ways, 113 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: according to excerpts. Well, I've read in your in your 114 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: story here in California Globe. 115 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: Yes, and it was a lot of violations and Transportation 116 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 4: Secretary Sean Duffy has done a lot of TV and 117 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 4: radio about this and said, I mean this, He even 118 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 4: called it open fraud. So you know, if a guy 119 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 4: in Washington, DC who wasn't the Transportation secretary a year 120 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 4: ago can see this makes you wonder what the Transportation 121 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 4: secretary a year ago was still promising money for. 122 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: Well, if you paid let's say seventeen million dollars to 123 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: build a vast mansion here in California and seventeen years 124 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: later you still had an empty lot, I think you'd 125 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: be suing for fraud. 126 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 5: Yes, I'm athletes. 127 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: This is preposterous. 128 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 5: It is. It is preposterous. 129 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 4: And this has been going on so long that Senator 130 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 4: Tony Strickland, who's now a senator again, back when he 131 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 4: was a senator I don't know what eight ten years ago, 132 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 4: was screaming about it. Then he finally got his wish 133 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 4: as well. 134 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: I mean, if we lived in a rational state, Rob Bonta, 135 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: the Attorney General would be doing a full fledged fraud 136 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: investigation into the high speed rail organization. 137 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 4: Oh exactly, And frankly there have been calls for that 138 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,119 Speaker 4: again over the years. I wrote, I remember writing about 139 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 4: it in twenty eleven and calling for that and actually 140 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 4: going through Proposition one A and showing all the areas 141 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 4: that they were violating. And these weren't just suggestions, these 142 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 4: were actual mandates that came with the ballot initiative. And 143 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 4: so from the word go, they violated the actual mandates. 144 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: And there's no interested party that could take this to 145 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: a state court here and get the whole thing and 146 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: validated because it didn't live up to the deal that 147 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: was presented to the voters back in two thousand and 148 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: eight when we voted to borrow nine billion dollars. We 149 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: were told if we bar the nine billion dollars by 150 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, we would have this, and we have nothing. 151 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: That just seems like we should be able to public 152 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: ought to be able to bring the lawsuit and. 153 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,239 Speaker 5: Win, one would assume. 154 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 4: So I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know, and 155 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 4: I'm with you though, I'm very, very surprised that nobody 156 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 4: has done that thus far. But I think they had 157 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 4: so much cover from everything from the you know, the 158 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 4: Public Utilities Commission, to the Independent System Operators to you know, 159 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 4: of course, the legislature and two governors. It's too many people. 160 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 4: This was like US AID, but for California. Yeah, and 161 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 4: I really, yeah, I really think this money was being recycled. 162 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: It's just it's just awful. They also like screwed up 163 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: a lot of people's lives in the Central Valley because 164 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: they carved up so much land. They went through uh 165 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: you know, ranch land and farmland and and cut right 166 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,719 Speaker 1: through the heart of some of people's properties, or they 167 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: they cut off the property at odd angles. 168 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh no, it was horrible what they did. 169 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 4: And then to you know, then to turn around and 170 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 4: shorten it from you know, Baker's Field to Madeira, which 171 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 4: I nicknamed the conjugal Express because you're just going from 172 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 4: prison to prison. 173 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 5: Who goes from Baker's Field to Madeira for any other reason? 174 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: You know, if by some miracle in fifty years they 175 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: actually built that stretch, there would be literally zero people 176 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: taking the train, exactly. 177 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 4: It was the student And again, it was the stupidest 178 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 4: thing most of us could see, and yet you had 179 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 4: people in the state capitol pretending that this was really important. 180 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 4: It just terrifies me that these people represent us. 181 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 1: Seventeen years they got away with it, though, yeah they did. 182 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: And when they do audits, they can't. They can't find 183 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: a paper trail, they don't find invoices, they can't. They 184 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: don't know how the money went from A to B, 185 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: who received it, where it went, how it was spent. 186 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. I'm hoping Carl Demayo brings his Doge 187 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 4: project to it, because we really need a forensic auditor 188 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 4: to dig into this thing. And I think votered, I 189 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 4: think there's a lot of people in the state would 190 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 4: contribute some money for that. 191 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: Oh, it just makes me just nuts, absolutely nuts. Yeah. Well, Katie, 192 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: you've done like some of the best work in the 193 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,439 Speaker 1: whole state on this. Thank you, really, n you've been 194 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: doing it since the very beginning. I mean you were 195 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: quoting your own story from twenty twelve. 196 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:30,199 Speaker 5: I know. 197 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: I know. 198 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 5: He's sad, isn't it. 199 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: You were right thirteen years ago? 200 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 5: Yeah, now, well we all smelled it. It was bad, 201 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 5: I know. 202 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you for coming on, Katie. Thanks John, 203 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:46,079 Speaker 1: Katie Grimes, Californiaglobe dot com. Go read her whole archive 204 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: and you won't believe how many stories she's written on this. 205 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: She was right every time where yep. But they get 206 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: the Democrats get such protection from the television media here, 207 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: the Los Ange, those Times, the Chronicle, this is Sacramento 208 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: Television and the Sacramento be except for that one reporter 209 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: at the Channel three, Ashley Zavalla. I don't understand no 210 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: way this is would have happened in any in any 211 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: of the other forty United States. The media in every 212 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:23,479 Speaker 1: other major market would have absolutely destroyed and devoured these bastards. 213 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,839 Speaker 1: And here in California, like, what is it? What is it? 214 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: What's in it for all the television stations in the 215 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: newspapers to support this nonsense? What's the upside for them? 216 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 5: Like? 217 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 1: How do they benefit that seventeen billion dollars is wasted 218 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: on a phantom railroad something that still doesn't exist. All right, 219 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: more coming up, in fact, we come up. There's there's 220 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: a got any right to sheriff. And he's written a 221 00:11:52,880 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: great article on how wildly unpopular climate change is as 222 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: an issue here in the United States, that it is 223 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: the biggest loser imaginable for the Democratic Party, that they 224 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: bet all their chips on climate change, and the public 225 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: not only doesn't care, they're openly hostile everywhere. But here you're. 226 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:23,479 Speaker 3: Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty. 227 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 228 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: Moistline is eighty seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven 229 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: seven moyst eighty six. So use the talkback feature on 230 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. We just had Katie Grimes on from 231 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: the Californiaglobe dot com and we're talking about Trump finally 232 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: put in the end to federal funding for high speed 233 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 1: rail and of course they're gonna sue, but they you know, 234 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: they sue every few hours. So it's two big deals 235 00:12:55,240 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: coming out of Washington that severely affected the climate cult members. 236 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: Because just a couple of weeks ago, the Senate in 237 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: the House voted to override California's electric car mandate. So 238 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: that's gone. Trump will sign that and they'll fight that 239 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: out in court. And now of the high speed rail 240 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: money from the federal government has been taken back. That's 241 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: for billion dollars. And there's a guy named Roy Tashera. 242 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: He's a researcher and a really good writer. He's a Democrat. 243 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: In fact, the name of his website is the Liberal Patriot. 244 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: And he wrote and this is like a message to 245 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: Democrats listen, this is fascinating time to face the facts 246 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: that climate change is a loser for Democrats. And he 247 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: says it might be starting to dawn on some Democrats 248 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: that their heavy bet on renewable energy emissions has been 249 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: a huge political loser. And he talks about how last month, 250 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: thirty five House Democrats voted with Republicans to kill the 251 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,719 Speaker 1: electric vehicle mandate here in California. Eleven other states had 252 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,439 Speaker 1: copied it, and there weren't a whole lot of complaints 253 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: about this around the country, not even among the politicians, 254 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: because Trump has killed the Green New Deal entirely. In fact, 255 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: to Sheriff says, it's dead and buried. That's the quote. 256 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: And Trump is deregulating the energy sector, getting rid of 257 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: renewable energy subsidies. For example, you know Tesla cars are 258 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: not going to get a federal subsidy anymore. That's going 259 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: to make them a lot more expensive, fewer people will 260 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: buy them. And he to share a wrights Why are 261 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: Democrats retreating on an issue that was until very recently 262 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: so central, And he writes, I'll tell you why. It's 263 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: because Americans in poll after pol election after election, has 264 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: shown that their views on a rapid energy transition runs 265 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: between indifference and outright hostility. What voters want is low 266 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: cost energy, reliable energy. That's what they want. They were 267 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: given four choices in a climate issues survey done last 268 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: year by YouGov. Thirty seven percent said the cost of 269 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: energy was the most important thing, thirty six percent the 270 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: availability when they need it was most important. That's seventy 271 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: three percent of the public wants either cheap energy the 272 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: most or reliable energy. Only nineteen percent cared about what 273 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: effect it was going to have on the climate nineteen percent. 274 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: So that's what all these green New Green Deal policies 275 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: a raived at eighty one percent, don't care or a hostel. 276 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: Once again, the progressives got an issue where twenty percent 277 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: or less of the country is behind them. It's kind 278 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: of like having boys compete in girls sports or having 279 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: illegal aliens run across the border by the millions. It's 280 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: all eighty twenty issues. And these views are even more 281 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: pronounced among working class voters, those voters without a college degree. 282 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: Seventy six percent of these voters saying either the cost 283 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: or the reliability of power was the most important. Seventy 284 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: six percent you don't have these climate change religious zealous 285 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: and by the way, two thirds of the country doesn't 286 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: have a college degree. Most of them do useful work. 287 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: Most voters don't care about climate change. Part of that survey, 288 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: they were asked voters were asked to list their priorities 289 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: for the government to address in the coming year. Eighteen 290 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: eighteen issues were listed. Climate change came in fifteenth. You 291 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: know what came in last, racial issues, another big progressive obsession. 292 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 1: So all the stuff you hear about constantly in the news, 293 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: global warming, climate change race, that's what the public is 294 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: least interested in. When asked if they would be willing 295 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: to pay one dollar more a month to protect the 296 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: climate one dollar more, only forty seven percent of the 297 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: public said yes. They were asked, well, would you pay 298 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month to protect the climate? Only twenty 299 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: six percent said yes. Now, if you can't get people 300 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: to throw in a twenty for the client every month, 301 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: that is a loser issue. I see people tossing twenty 302 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: dollars bills in the tip jar at the bagel shop. 303 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: Twenty dollars, Yeah, I've seen. 304 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 2: That is somebody just to hand you a bagel. 305 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: Oh, they're like paying the whole staff. You know, if 306 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: they're in a good mood. I've seen people just toss 307 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: a whole twenty in there. I'm on the west side answer. 308 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: They asked, all right, would you spend forty a month? 309 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: Only nineteen percent said yes, sor right, how about one 310 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 1: hundred a month? Oh no, no? Only eleven percent said yes. 311 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: This is a loser. New York Times did a poll 312 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: last year found that two thirds of likely voters support 313 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:49,479 Speaker 1: a policy of increasing domestic oil and gas production mm hm, 314 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 1: including U seventy two percent of working class voters. White 315 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 1: working class voters seventy seven percent said Hey, drill for 316 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: oil and gas. Why do you think Trump has that 317 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: catchphrase drill, baby, drill once again, it's almost an eighty 318 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: twenty issue. The Times found majority support for more fossil 319 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,919 Speaker 1: fuel production across every demographic group. They measured all racial 320 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: groups in every region of the country, in cities and 321 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: suburbs and rural areas, regardless of education levels. And what 322 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: do we have here in California. We've got gasoline that 323 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 1: costs two dollars more a gallon. We have electricity prices 324 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: that are double the national average because of climate change policies, 325 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: we're the only state. Huge majorities across the country, in 326 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: every state, in every demo demographic, in every region, don't 327 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: care about this climate change nonsense. They're hostile to it. 328 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: And he writes this is one of the big reasons 329 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: that the Democrats are in the toilet. Nobody, nobody wants 330 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 1: to hear about this crap. They either don't care or 331 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: they're just hostile to it. They either disagree with it, 332 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: or even if it's true, it's like, ah, gotta live 333 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: my life, gotta go to work, gotta drive my car 334 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: to work, gotta drive my kids to school. Jackasses more 335 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: coming up. 336 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM six. 337 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: Forty moistline is eight seven seven moist eighty six for tomorrow. 338 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 1: Any vacancies, sir, uh yeah, I mean there's some room. 339 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: There's always there's always room if you if you impress me, okay, okay, 340 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: if you're a star performer, eight seven seven moist eighty six, 341 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: we're gonna play twice tomorrow in this three o'clock hour. 342 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 1: You use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Trump 343 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: has a new travel ban. This is entertaining. There's been 344 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: a travel ban on citizens for twelve countries, and he 345 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: doesn't want bad people coming from these countries anymore. We 346 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: don't want them, is what he said. So, starting June ninth, 347 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:31,880 Speaker 1: if you're in Afghanistan, Me and mar Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Retrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, 348 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: you cannot come to the United States. So you got 349 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 1: three days, you got a bucket. Then people from seven 350 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: other countries are going to be subject to a partial ban. 351 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: I don't know the details on that. Burundi, Cuba, Laos, 352 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: Sierra Alone, Turkmenistan and Venezuela and Togo. Is that how 353 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: you say it? 354 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 2: I think so? 355 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: Or is it to go to go to go to 356 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: go to go to go. No, I'm just kidding. 357 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 2: We were kind of impressed for a second. 358 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, for saying It's like, I wonder, you know, I'd 359 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: be a fun game to play. See if you could, Deborah, 360 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: see if you could find these nineteen countries on a map. 361 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be difficult. 362 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, with the exceptions like athletes traveling for the 363 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: World Cup, for example, and other major events. If you 364 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: have dual citizenship and some of the Afghans who have 365 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: special immigrant visas, and the only other exceptions will be 366 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: on a case by case basis, but that'll that approval 367 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: will come from the Secretary of State. So I wouldn't 368 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: hold out any hope. You got seventy two hours to 369 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: get here, and they have patterned it after you. Because 370 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: you may remember the Muslim travel ban from twenty seventeen, 371 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: which was temporarily blocked by the courts, and then the 372 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: Trump administration rewrote it and the Supreme Court said, yeah, 373 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,719 Speaker 1: the way you wrote it there, because things have to 374 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: be Sometimes you here, courts block a Trump proposal and 375 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: everybody goes, oh see, except it just has to be rewritten. 376 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 1: So you get a smart guy on the case and 377 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 1: then the courts, then the courts allow it. Trump says, 378 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: you may be wondering why these countries. Uh. He says, 379 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: it's in response in part to threats of terrorism. Some 380 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: of the countries were put on the list, like Libyan 381 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 1: Sudan because the competence of the central authority for the 382 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: issuance of passports. In other words, they don't know what 383 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: they're doing in these countries. Passports are given out to 384 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: anyone and they don't want They don't a terrorist come 385 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: in here. They don't want bad guys come in here. 386 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 1: And you know, but there's no we have enough people here, don't. 387 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 1: I don't know if you've been you know, out on 388 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: the one on one we we don't need any more 389 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: immigration of any kind, legal, illegal, you know, the special 390 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: visa is nothing. I think that let us take time 391 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 1: to digest what we have here. And now what do 392 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: we have? We had this guy from Egypt came in 393 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: on a special visa and his visa expired. In fact, 394 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: the visa for all his family members expired. He goes 395 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: and he fires bombs a dozen Jews, and the Trump 396 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: administration wants to deport his family members, the wife and 397 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: five kids, and a judge has blocked it. And I 398 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:32,959 Speaker 1: heard an analysts say today is like, well, first of all, 399 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: their visas are expired. In fact, I think they expired 400 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: twice over. And secondly, the law is if you were 401 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: a family member or some close contact has committed a 402 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: crime or even been arrested for a crime, not just convicted, 403 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: not just charged, but just arrested for a crime, then 404 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 1: everybody can get tossed, everybody in the family. And certainly 405 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: you have this terrorist who was walking around with a 406 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: firebomb torch, molotov cocktails and it was homemade. I don't 407 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: care what anybody says. You're in a house with six 408 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: other people. They know what dad was doing. Dad was 409 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: working on this for over a year. They knew he 410 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 1: was putting together molotov cocktails and a flaming torch. And 411 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: even if they didn't know, who cares, what do you 412 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: think he was talking about at the dinner table? So 413 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: I imagine eventually the Trump administration will prevail on those deportations. 414 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: I really don't understand. It's like that wife beater, human 415 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: smuggler that they sent to El Salvador that caused such 416 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 1: a ruckus for a couple of weeks. Oh, you didn't 417 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: follow due process. What what's this due process? You let 418 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: in ten million illegal aliens and everybody's got to have 419 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: their own trial. You got a guy torching Jewish pole. 420 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: Oh oh, and then his attorney, the guy's attorney wrote 421 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: this blistering letter accusing that the Trump administration of doing 422 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: what the Nazis do by intimidating and deporting his client. 423 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: Excuse me, your guy was actually burning Jews. You're saying 424 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: Trump is a Nazi when your guy was lighting them 425 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: on fire. Just every day. You just cannot believe what 426 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: is what's what's going on? What is being said? Ah, 427 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: got more stuff coming up, one more round. Who's coming 428 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: in today? Conway working yet, we don't know. I heard 429 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: a promo like Mark Thompson said again, Thompson again, Yeah, 430 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: I had Conway got what you had? He did? 431 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 2: Amy had it? 432 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: How did you give it to him? 433 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 2: I didn't give it to him. I think it's just 434 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 2: one of those things. 435 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: No, I mean it's going around. Amy can't see him. 436 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,439 Speaker 2: I see him for two seconds and I say goodbye 437 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 2: to him every day. 438 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 1: That's it. Only well, you were saying goodbye and the 439 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: virus jump jumped out of you around. 440 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 2: I had the virus weeks ago. 441 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't get anything because. 442 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: You have such a strong immune system. 443 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: Because they eat meat. That's one. 444 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Conway eats meat too. 445 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand. 446 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: From KFI six, and you could follow us at John 447 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,239 Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio, at John Cobolt Radio on social media, and 448 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 1: after four o'clock we will post up the podcast John 449 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show on demand and you can listen to what 450 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 1: you missed in fact. First thing we did today Kevin 451 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: Kylie on the Republican congressman from northern California, and he 452 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: came on as Katie Grimes from California Globe came on 453 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: to talk about the Trump government pulling four billion dollars 454 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: in high speed rail money. Kylie wrote a bill back 455 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:12,439 Speaker 1: in January really got this started, which would permanently defund 456 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: high speed rail, you know, forever past the Trump administration 457 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: unless the Congress reauthorized payments. So we talked with him 458 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 1: about all that again on the podcast. All Right, tomorrow, 459 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: we're going to be covering something really important. If you 460 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: have a house. There's this agency which is very powerful 461 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: but also obscure, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, 462 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: and it's like a more local version of the California 463 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: Air Resources Board. They want to ban gas furnaces and 464 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: gas powered water heaters, and the vote is tomorrow. Probably 465 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: haven't heard about it unless you've been following our show 466 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: all week, but they want to phase them out, so 467 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: you have to buy electrical appliances. This is going to 468 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: cost people thousands of dollars, like getting a heat pump, 469 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: an electric heat pump instead of a natural gas water 470 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: heater would cost two thousand dollars more. Replacing a furnace 471 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: would cost eight thousand dollars more. And that's on you. 472 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: I mean, even if you know they put these put 473 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: these mandates on the manufacturers, you're gonna be paying for it. 474 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: So eventually, two hundred thousand furnaces and three hundred thousand 475 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: water heaters will be replaced annually in the region every 476 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: year for many, many years, and it'd all have to 477 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: be electric if the Southern the South Coast Air Quality 478 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: Management District gets its way. The vote is tomorrow. We're 479 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: gonna have one of the board members on tomorrow in 480 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: the middle of the hearings. Last time they tried to 481 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: do this, thirteen thousand people wrote to them and said 482 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: you better not and they backed off. This time they 483 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: kind of hit the ball and we didn't find it 484 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: out about this till maybe Tuesday, so we publicized it 485 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: as best we could. But you know, the media doesn't 486 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: cover this stuff because why would they. It's important in 487 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: your life though, It's because of methane. Is that why 488 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: they do that? John? It's because gas. It's methane, the 489 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: natural gas. I forget what the exact. 490 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 6: It's pretty It was like, I now there's a reason 491 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,719 Speaker 6: now that we open all the windows in the kitchen 492 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 6: all of a sudden when we turned sove on. I 493 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 6: think it's methane or some Carsagena, it's Carson Jenna, as. 494 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: Well as it being a greenhouse gas. Yeah, I don't 495 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: know specifically, they're probably right. Yeah, yeah, that's about freedom. Mark, 496 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: damn right, John, Freedom, damn right. I've had a gas 497 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: furnace and a gas border heater and gas dove. We 498 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: all have died yet. Yeah. Well, don't push your luck, pal, 499 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: Just don't push your luck. All kinds of stuff today. 500 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: Conway continues sick, so not a terrible immune system, he 501 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: must say. He always seems fairly hearty to me. I'm 502 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: a little surprised by this, but anyway, he probably did 503 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: enough abuse in his life and things are breaking. 504 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 6: That's all catching up, you know, in the ninth inning, 505 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 6: you know, you run out of pictures, right. So we've 506 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 6: got a lot of stuff today, some new things that 507 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 6: could be illegal major in California court ruling. It involves 508 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 6: you and your driving habits. We also have I've got 509 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 6: some insurance news and disturbing insurance news. You know, I'm 510 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 6: really over the insurance companies. I just feel as though, 511 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 6: let's leave. I get it fire that we're facing serious 512 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 6: threats and they have to pay a huge bill. Of course, 513 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 6: we end up paying that bill one way or the 514 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 6: other or they pull out of the state. But even 515 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 6: on auto insurance, oh my god, they are leading us. 516 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 6: I mean that, really they should just get sche mask 517 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 6: and guns have an open artery from this insurance. Oh 518 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 6: you just got It's crazy. I know, it's absolutely unacceptable. 519 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: I think it's an unholy marriage between the government and 520 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: the insurance industry, exactly right. 521 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 6: And they green light all their requests for increases in premiums. 522 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: It's outrageous. If you look at the insurance Commissioner and 523 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: the kind of contributions he gets from the insurance company. 524 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: Thank you, it's paid a play. He goes on. He's 525 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: gone on forty six trips around the world since he 526 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: took over. What a scam. It's it's grotesque. 527 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 6: And Dean Sharp joined us today as well, So there's 528 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 6: a lot going on Conway shows next it'll be big. 529 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 6: I'm I'm loaded, I'm irritating. 530 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: I feel like you today That's not a good state 531 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: to be in, all right. Mark Thompson in for Conway. 532 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 6: Next. 533 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,959 Speaker 1: Krusher is the news live in the CAFI twenty four 534 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt 535 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: Show podcast. 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