1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 2: We're on every day one until four o'clock, and after 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: four o'clock you can get John Cobelt's show on demand 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 2: on the iHeart. 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: App and listen to what you missed. 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: Spend a lot of time last hour on Donald Trump 8 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: taking over the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, d C. 9 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: Sending in the National Guard and saying he's fed up 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: with the crime and the murders and the homeless people. 11 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 2: We'll do more on that later on. Now Here in California, 12 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 2: we've got Gavin Newsom, who is obsessed with Texas and 13 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 2: after the Texas legislature tried to pass a new law 14 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 2: that would redraw the districts, they haven't been able to yet. 15 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: You may have seen the Democrats and the legislature there 16 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: fled to Chicago, but they continue to try this. Newsom says, well, 17 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: if they do that, then we are going to have 18 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 2: a special election, and I'm going to get the voters 19 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 2: to overturn a constitutional amendment that we passed about fifteen 20 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 2: years ago, which said for congressional district lines, we have 21 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 2: an outside Commission draw them, and Newsom wants to bamboozle 22 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 2: us into changing the law and then and then the 23 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: Commission would would no longer draw the lines for the 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 2: next few years because he wants they have a plan 25 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 2: to make it forty nine Republicans and three Democrats representing 26 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: California in Congress forty nine to three. Right now, it's 27 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: forty three to nine, and that's. 28 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: Not enough for him. 29 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 2: Now over forty percent of voters vote for Republican congress people, 30 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 2: and even then it's forty three to nine, so he 31 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: thinks it's equitable to make it. It's good democracy if 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 2: the Republican resident representation was reduced to about six percent 33 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 2: of our delegation. Well, Carlamo's on because Naber backs down 34 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 2: from a good fight with Newsom, and he's got his 35 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 2: organization Refum California. 36 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: And if Newsom. 37 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: Does this, there's going to be a strong resistance that 38 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: tomorrow is going to organize. Carl, how are you. 39 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 3: Well, we're gearing up for a fight. It's not a 40 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 3: fight that we chose. We'd rather be dealing with the 41 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 3: cost of living in California, or balancing the budget, or 42 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,399 Speaker 3: dealing with homelessness. But oh no, No, Davin Newsom wants 43 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 3: to play politics. He's running for president. He needs to 44 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 3: go out there and show vote. At a cost of 45 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty million dollars from worthless unnecessary special 46 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 3: election all designed to allow politicians to get their power back, 47 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 3: to manipulate lines so they get to choose the voters 48 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 3: versus an independent commission drawing line so that the voters 49 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 3: choose the policy. Phisicians and John, We've got both a 50 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 3: legal strategy to stop them in the courtroom, but we 51 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 3: also have a political stat strategy, a campaign strategy to 52 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 3: stop them at the ballot box if necessary. We cannot 53 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 3: allow this to happen, or else the notion of fair 54 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 3: elections in California will be dead and over and our 55 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 3: state will be unrecognizable. The politicians will have all the 56 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 3: power backs. 57 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 2: What's the legal strategy? Is there a simple way to 58 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 2: explain it so people can understand. 59 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 3: Well, I will tell you this tomorrow. I am going 60 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 3: to be unveiling three violations of the state constitution that 61 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: the governor and the state legislature will be committing if 62 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 3: they vote next week on maps and call a special 63 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 3: election next week. The first violation is clear the state 64 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 3: constitution prohibits mid cycle redistricting. This is illegal what they're 65 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 3: trying to do. The Constitution of the state of California 66 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 3: says that we will do this in the the one 67 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 3: years each decade, so twenty twenty one, twenty thirty one, 68 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 3: twenty forty one. By then calling a special election outside 69 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 3: of that schedule, they're violating the timeline that the voters 70 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 3: put into the state constitution. Second is, the legislature is 71 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 3: expressly prohibited from engaging in map making and in redistricting. 72 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,919 Speaker 3: And next week they're going to introduce a map and 73 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 3: vote on a map, and that's patently unconstitutional. And bird, 74 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 3: the state constitution expressly prohibits the use of politics or 75 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 3: political parties or political candidates as a criteria for drawing maps. 76 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 3: I'm going to quote from the constitution. It says, quote, 77 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 3: districts shall not be drawn for the purpose of favoring 78 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: or discriminating against any incumbent political candidate or political party. 79 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 3: What they're doing is they've actually gone out and admitted 80 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 3: it's not even evidence there are actually giving us the 81 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 3: smoking gun. They're admitting a violation of their oath of 82 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 3: office to adhere to the Constitution. This is as plain 83 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 3: as day. The media has not picked up on this, 84 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 3: but we're going to spell it out in legal memo 85 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 3: tomorrow and if they if they proceed forward with this 86 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 3: illegal and unconstitutional scheme, we are going to take them 87 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 3: to court. And that's not just state court. We'll pursue 88 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 3: them in federal court as well, because what they're doing 89 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 3: is on the face of the illegal. The conclusion of 90 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 3: the legal memo that's going out tomorrow is that the 91 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 3: legislature and the governor do not have the ability to 92 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 3: call a special election or put something on the ballot. 93 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 3: That the only way is for citizens to do an 94 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 3: initiative with signatures. Since the citizens amended the constitution, the 95 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 3: notion that the governor or the legislature have any involvement 96 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 3: in redistricting is off the table, and the only way 97 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 3: for that to be changed is with the signature drive 98 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 3: a citizen's initiative. That is where we are. The voters 99 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 3: made that change in twenty ten, and no amount of 100 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 3: puffing and huffing by Gavin Newsom is going to change that. 101 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 3: What he's doing is patently illegal and he needs to 102 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 3: stand down. 103 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 2: Needless to say, I haven't seen the information that you 104 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 2: just gave us in any news coverage anywhere, just. 105 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 3: Because the media either is too ignorant or too unwilling 106 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 3: to cover the story properly. But this is plain English 107 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 3: spelled out in our state constitution. And I know what 108 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,679 Speaker 3: the politicians are going to say, Well, yeah, it's against 109 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 3: the constitution now, but we're going to do a special 110 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 3: elections and the voters are going to ratify what you've 111 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 3: done after the fact. That's like saying you're going to 112 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 3: commit a crime, but you're going to then go instead 113 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 3: of going to court, you're going to go to the 114 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 3: legislature and ask them to retroactively make it not a crime. No, 115 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 3: what you're doing right now is not lawful, it's not constitutional, 116 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 3: and therefore you're not allowed to do it, period, end 117 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 3: of story. No debate. Do they should be reporting on this, 118 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 3: but they won't. 119 00:06:58,520 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: Do they do? 120 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: The Democrats know this, is Newsom know this, and they're 121 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 2: doing it anyway. 122 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 3: Newsom is as dumb as Dirt. Okay, this is a 123 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 3: guy that's not particularly sharp, and I'm so sorry to 124 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 3: offend Dirt by putting him in the same category as Newsome, 125 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 3: But I don't think any of them think that there's 126 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 3: any consequence. I think they're just like, well, you know, 127 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 3: they can sue us, but we have the Supreme Court 128 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 3: on our side. Here's the thing. The US Supreme Court 129 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 3: very well will get involved in this because it deals 130 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 3: with redistricting for the US Congress, and that's always been 131 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 3: seen as a federal purview, even when the states engage 132 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: in redistricting. Now, if this were just for assembly districts 133 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 3: and Senate districts, the US Supreme Court might not have 134 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 3: a reason to get involved. They might say, well, you know, 135 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,559 Speaker 3: that's up for the voters of that state. But these 136 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 3: are for congressional seats. And so I think that the 137 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 3: likelihood that the US Supreme Court sees what's going on 138 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 3: and come in and says, no, you're not allowed to 139 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 3: do this. Your own legislature is acting in an illegal manner. 140 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 3: You don't even have the authority to do this based 141 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 3: upon your own state constitution. We're going to nullify the 142 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 3: map because you acted illegally. I think that that ultimately 143 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 3: we're headed to federal court because I don't trust the 144 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 3: California Supreme Court to actually stand up to the people 145 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 3: that appoint them. 146 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 2: I only got a minute but just you mentioned you 147 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 2: also have a political strategy, you know, to let the 148 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 2: people understand what's going on here. Can you outline what 149 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 2: that strategy is going to be? 150 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, do you know what we're doing October first? We've 151 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 3: already you know, previewd on your show multiple times. We're 152 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 3: launching a statewide campaign to collect a million signatures for 153 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 3: fair elections in the form of our California Voter Idea initiative. 154 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 3: Well guess what. The ballots for a special election on 155 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 3: November fourth, They hit the mailbox October first as well. 156 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 3: So we already have ten thousand foot soldiers as part 157 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 3: of this grassroots army. They're already going to be out 158 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 3: there collecting signatures in front of stores, going door to door. 159 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 3: So you know what we're going to do. We're going 160 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 3: to have them also educating voters at the door that 161 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 3: army is not something that Newsom has. They've got money, 162 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 3: but they don't have an army. I also know that 163 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 3: there are a lot of national donors who are going 164 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 3: to pour money in on our side to save these 165 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 3: congressional seats. And so Newsom is used to having all 166 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 3: the money advantage. Not in this fight, baby, Plus the 167 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 3: polling shows that voters don't want to get rid of 168 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 3: the Independent Redistricting Commission. They don't want partisan maps, they 169 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 3: want competitive, nonpartisan maps. And that's why I think we're 170 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 3: going to win this height. We need everybody involved. 171 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: I saw a polling there wasn't much immediate support for this. 172 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 3: No, there's not, even with the misleading ballot title. Even 173 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 3: with them claiming that they're retaining the Independent Citizens Redistricting 174 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 3: Commission when in fact they're nullifying it and giving the 175 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,439 Speaker 3: power back of the politicians, they still only get fifty 176 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 3: two percent of the vote right now in the polling, 177 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 3: with a bunch of people undecided, and a lot of 178 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 3: those people once they hear arguments that fifty drops to 179 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 3: the low thirties. The low thirties. We're winning thirty percent 180 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 3: of Democrats. So if people want to get involved in 181 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 3: the fight, go to the website Reform California dot org. 182 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 3: That's reform California dot org and sign up. 183 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 2: And if somehow Newsom's idea went to the ballot, he 184 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 2: needs a two thirds majority. 185 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 3: Correct, No, he needs a majority vote. But I am 186 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 3: very bullish on this fight being won by us because 187 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 3: the issue is on our side. I am Democrats. 188 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 2: If this putting a new constitutional amendment requires a higher 189 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 2: threshold than that, but. 190 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 3: No, it requires a two thirds vote of the legislators 191 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 3: to put it forward, but only a majority vote of 192 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 3: the voters. But we're going to win that majority vote. 193 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 3: We have the right side of this issue. We just 194 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 3: need to get everyone involved in the fight. 195 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 2: All right, Very good, Carl, Thank you for explaining all that. 196 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, Carl Demayer, Reform California, the assembleman 197 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,719 Speaker 2: from San Diego. 198 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 199 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 4: six forty. 200 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 2: Well, we have been telling you for probably at least 201 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 2: a couple of months that Gavin Newsom is just driven 202 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 2: his political future into a brick wall when it comes 203 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 2: to gas prices, because, as you know, we have the 204 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 2: highest gas prices in the country, and it's averaging about 205 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 2: four point fifty a gallon for regular and there are 206 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 2: many states that are below three bucks. I'll give you 207 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 2: an example. Mississippi is selling gas average two sixty nine 208 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 2: right now to sixty nine, Oklahoma two seventy one, Texas 209 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 2: two seventy one. In Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina 210 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 2: in the two seventies, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, 211 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:06,559 Speaker 2: North Dakota, Iowa in the two and then you have Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota, 212 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 2: South Dakota in the two nineties. And we're at four fifty. 213 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 2: And he promised to he promised to destroy the oil industry, 214 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 2: and he was doing his best to make good on 215 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 2: the promise. But there wasn't a replacement for oil and gas. 216 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 2: The electric cars are mostly unpopular. The one popular car 217 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 2: out there, the owner of the company, is wildly unpopular. 218 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 2: So there is no market to buy many electric cars 219 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 2: in California. There just isn't. Maybe you have one or 220 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 2: your neighbor has one, but get out of your bubble. 221 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 2: Most of the state, most of the country has decisively 222 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: rejected electric cars as they're currently constituted. And now he's 223 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 2: destroyed much of the oil industry. So even even the 224 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 2: Los Angeles Times has finally waved the red flag on this. 225 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 2: Tarren Luna is the writer. And of course the way 226 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 2: it the way it's written, Newsom's clash with California's thirst 227 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 2: for gasoline. Yes, it's our fault because we're so thirsty 228 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 2: for gasoline because it's some kind of weird sick addiction 229 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 2: jelly way to modern life is with gasoline. And they 230 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 2: recalled that Newsom would run ads contrasting his policies with 231 00:13:55,280 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: Florida's and Ron de Santis, and uh. It turns out, 232 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 2: according to Taran Luna of the La Times, California's battle 233 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 2: with oil both politically not the pump maybe too much 234 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 2: for the governor and the state to bear. With two 235 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 2: oil refineries expected to shut down over the next year, 236 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 2: Newsom has halted his fight with the industry that he 237 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 2: accused of price gouging and he targeted in two special sessions. Yes, 238 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 2: you remember his price gouging tantrum. Yeah, price gouging Oklahoma 239 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 2: two sixty nine. So now the Phillip sixty six refinery 240 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 2: in Wilmington is going to close at the end of 241 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 2: the year. Valero and Benetia is going to shut down 242 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 2: in April, and it looks like we're going to have 243 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 2: to increase reliance on foreign oil. The refining capacity in 244 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 2: the state will be down by twenty percent. And now 245 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 2: he's trying to get people in his administration and lawmakers 246 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 2: to help the refineries remain open. 247 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: What a blockhead? Who does this? Who does this? 248 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 2: Who takes a wildly successful industry, an absolutely necessary industry 249 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 2: for modern life, and single handedly tries to destroy it 250 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 2: and succeeds to a great extent, and it goes through 251 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: how He sent a letter to the Vice chairman of 252 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 2: the California Energy Commission, Shiva Gunda, asking that he redouble 253 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: the state's efforts to work closely with refineries to try 254 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: to keep them going even though they want to shut 255 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 2: him down. Gunda responded with a warning that the state 256 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 2: faces the prospect of continued reduction and refining capacity. And 257 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: now it's a complete one eighty, it's a complete flip flop. 258 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 2: It's it's a total reversal. And he actually said out 259 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 2: loud in front of reporters recently, Oh no, it's completely consistent. 260 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 2: And then it's completely consistent to say, though, well, all 261 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 2: the companies are godging us, and you know, we we 262 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 2: have to transition to uh electric electric cars, electric everything. 263 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well, did you did you build an electrical 264 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 2: grid to handle it? 265 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: Uh? 266 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: No? Oh uh did you build uh you know, the 267 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 2: generating capacity to create electricity? 268 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: Oh no? How about electric car chargers? 269 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 2: On the highway. They didn't do that either. Why is 270 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 2: he there? Explain this to me? Explain why this guy? 271 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: What did Carl Demio say? He's dumb as dirt? 272 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 5: He's so handsome, Not that I'm not saying that. 273 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 6: I even think he's so handsome, but I think that's 274 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 6: why he's here. 275 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 2: I wish I would love to do a focus group 276 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 2: of people who voted for him, and they're out there. 277 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 1: Because I see comments online about this stuff. I've seen 278 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: the phrase governor McDreamy. 279 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 5: I have not seen that. 280 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, one woman wrote that. 281 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 5: Well, there you go, that's why he's here. 282 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. And now environmentalists are upset and uh, this is uh, 283 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 2: who's this whack job? Mary Krisman, chief executive of California 284 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 2: Environmental Voters. We're at a crucial inflection point in the 285 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 2: transition of clean energy. The world is watching the state. 286 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 2: Now is not the time to retreat. Now is the 287 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 2: time to double down and innovate the way through this. 288 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 2: That's what the moment calls for. How do you innovate? 289 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 2: The world runs on oil and gas, period, it doesn't. 290 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: It doesn't. 291 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 2: To make electricity, you have to oil and gas. What's 292 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 2: wrong with these people. What is wrong with them? 293 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 5: They need to meet the moment. 294 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 2: We met the moment we perfected cheap, reliable energy oil 295 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 2: and gas. We did something that nobody else did for 296 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 2: the first four and a half billion years of the planet. 297 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 2: We took a natural resource in the ground, huge gigantic supply, 298 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: and we turned used it. There is no modern society 299 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 2: about gas and oil. We did something unbelievably outstanding and innovative, 300 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 2: and then he tried to destroy it all by himself. 301 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: In California. 302 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 303 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 4: six forty. 304 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: Well. Trump's said taking the National Guard to Washington, d C. 305 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 4: But his. 306 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 2: National Guard experiment here in Los Angeles legally is far 307 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 2: from over, because there's going to be There was to 308 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 2: be a trial today up in the San Francisco area, 309 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 2: a bench trial. A judge was going to hear real 310 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 2: arguments from both sides. This is not just a hearing 311 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 2: whether Trump has the legal authority to take over the 312 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 2: California National Guard against the will of the governor and 313 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 2: take control and send them into the streets of la 314 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 2: I remember, one judge on the district level said no. 315 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: An appeals court. 316 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 2: Said said, well, keep doing it until we have a 317 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 2: real trial on this. So that real trial was supposed 318 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 2: to start today. Alex Stone from ABC News is going 319 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 2: to have the details. I've got two people who teach 320 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 2: classes at times that I know, and I heard from 321 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: both of them in the last week that the new 322 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 2: class of students is unlike anything they've ever seen in 323 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 2: their lives, different than anything they went to, anyone they 324 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 2: went to school with, anyone they have previously taught. It's 325 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 2: it's really strange, and the best word to describe them, 326 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 2: and these are two different universities thousands of miles apart, 327 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 2: the best way to describe it is zombies. One of 328 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 2: my friends flat out said they have no social skills, 329 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 2: and the other one says, nobody pays any attention to anything. 330 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 2: They're staring at their screens on social media, and he said, 331 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 2: like almost everybody you know, there might be one, and 332 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 2: then they carry the conversation, they carry the class. Of course, 333 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 2: that's the person who's going to be wildly successful. And 334 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 2: the rest of these zombies, I don't know what they're 335 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 2: going to do. 336 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 6: Well, they won't have work because you know AI is 337 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 6: going to be taking over anyways. 338 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe they're maybe they're right on this. 339 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 2: Maybe there is no point in going to college and 340 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 2: studying and trying to get the big job, because there 341 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 2: is no big job anymore. Everything's been everything, everything's been 342 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 2: overwhelmed by the the AI monster. I'm just trying to 343 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 2: call something up here because there's a there's a chart 344 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 2: that was published today to illustrate the point I'm going 345 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 2: to about to explain to you. Yeah, here it is 346 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 2: all right. This is a study and it's the headline 347 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 2: is young adults personalities are changing their actual personalities of 348 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 2: an entire generation. John burn Murdoch wrote a column in 349 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 2: The Financial Times, and burn Murdoch finds among Americans ages 350 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 2: sixteen to thirty nine, the personality traits that equip us 351 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 2: to do well in life are in sharp decline among 352 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 2: younger people. You ever hear about the Big five attributes. 353 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 2: These are five major factors. They've done years of psychological research. Conscientiousness. 354 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 2: Conscientiousness is the ability to to. 355 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: Let me see. 356 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 2: Conscientiousness the quality of being dependable and disciplined. 357 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: You have that right, yes, okay. 358 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 2: Of all personality types, conscientious people tend to fare best, 359 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 2: They live the longest, have the most career success less 360 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 2: likely to go through divorce. They're the ones who hold 361 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 2: jobs during recessions. But they found that people in their 362 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 2: twenties and thirties are increasingly distracted and careless, less tenacious, 363 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 2: less likely to make and deliver on commitments. And they 364 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 2: have a chart here which shows how conscientious people in 365 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 2: their sixties are their forties, and then you go to 366 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 2: the age sixteen to thirty nine and the line drops 367 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 2: right through the floor. They simply don't have those qualities anymore. 368 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 2: And again those qualities are dependability and discipline. Here's another 369 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 2: one that's dropped off, agreeableness, which is politeness and compassion 370 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 2: extraversion that measures how good we are at social interaction. 371 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 2: The only personality trait that's gone up among young adults 372 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 2: is neuroticism, which is negative emotions like anger and sadness 373 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 2: that you know, you keep spinning around and spinning around, 374 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 2: and anxiety. They had and start. It goes back to 375 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 2: probably almost fifteen years ago with the iPhone and people 376 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 2: became immersed in their little handheld screen scrolling social media. 377 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 2: Influenced by social media, the current generation is dating at 378 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 2: the lowest rates ever. They are having sex at the 379 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 2: lowest rates. They're getting married at the lowest rates, they're 380 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 2: drinking at the lowest rates. I mean, there is no 381 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 2: fun going on there. And you know, the guys are 382 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 2: playing video games in the basement. The girls are scrolling 383 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 2: influencers on TikTok, and they don't know how to talk 384 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 2: to each other. And that's what my my friends told me, 385 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 2: is like they don't engage. They literally didn't develop that 386 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 2: part of the brain. Where as a child, or is 387 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 2: when you're very young, you learn how to react, how 388 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 2: to read a room, how to read body language, how 389 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 2: to think quickly. 390 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: Is that scary? 391 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 5: Yeah? 392 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 6: And imagine what your grandchildren are going to be like, John, 393 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 6: I don't know. 394 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 2: This is why you know it's time to get out. 395 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 2: And all these attributes can be shaped in formed when 396 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 2: a child is young, right through their teenage years. This 397 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 2: was an entire parental generation abandoning their children to the screen. 398 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 2: Nobody dealt nobody could deal with the social pressure where 399 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 2: everybody felt they had to be looking at the screen, 400 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: they had to be texting, they had to be scrolling 401 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 2: social media because everybody else is doing it and everybody's 402 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 2: following the influencers and all the guys are playing video games, 403 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 2: and nobody wanted to set nobody no, no parent wanted 404 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 2: to say no, this is this bad idea, This is 405 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 2: no good because the kids don't know any better, right, 406 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 2: this is the world they grew up in, so they 407 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 2: they see everyone else doing it, and they will never 408 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 2: know what they could have been in life. They'll never 409 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 2: know how focused and confident and successful they could have been. 410 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: Isn't it sad? 411 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 5: Very sad? 412 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: But I'm looking at this chart and. 413 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 2: If if you could see this, and it's it's correlated 414 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 2: right with the start of the iPhone erar. The iPhone 415 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 2: era was like the peak of people being conscientious and 416 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 2: agreeable and extroverted with lower neuroticism. 417 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: There's always some. 418 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 2: But it is a steep slope downwards, like after twenty thirteen, 419 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: and it's hit bottom, but it hasn't bottomed out yet. 420 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 2: It's this is the scariest thing I've saying. I just 421 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 2: don't know what the what's it like to be living 422 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 2: in a world where nobody has any life to them, 423 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 2: No one's able to engage. 424 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 6: That's all AI, right, They're just going to be Everyone's 425 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 6: going to. 426 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 5: Be a robot. 427 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 2: And that's why they're so frightened to go to college 428 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 2: and hear opposing viewpoints or controversial viewpoints, and they freak out. 429 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 2: They don't have the equipment to deal with it, and 430 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,400 Speaker 2: so they have panic attacks because they hear somebody say 431 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 2: something that sounds offensive or insulting or disagreeable. 432 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 433 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 4: six forty. 434 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,959 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we've got Alex Stone from 435 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: ABC News. Trump is Take it On, Take it over, Washington, 436 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 2: d C. But the whole business of sending the National 437 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 2: Guard to Los Angeles is not done legally. In fact, 438 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 2: there's a bench trial that was supposed to start today 439 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 2: in California with a federal judge to see if what 440 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 2: Trump did in La truly is legal or not. An 441 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 2: appeals court decided you could keep with your National Guard 442 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 2: experiment here in Los Angeles until it's determined whether it's 443 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 2: truly within the bounds of the Constitution in federal law. 444 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 2: We will talk to Alex Stone to see what what 445 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 2: came of the trial today. Now you may have heard 446 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 2: that the Department of Water, Water and Power, run by 447 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 2: the great idiot Genie Keinonias seven hundred and fifty thousand 448 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 2: dollars a year. 449 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 1: Janie Knonez, she of the empty. 450 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 2: Reservoir, Well, they had a big botch up last week 451 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 2: in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch. Ninety two hundred customers. 452 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 2: Those are households without water service for almost a week, 453 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 2: and finally this morning at two twenty seven, water service 454 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 2: was restored. 455 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: However, they don't want. 456 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 2: You to drink it yet because they have to do 457 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 2: two rounds of water quality testing and that could go 458 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 2: on for a day and a half. So you get water, 459 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 2: but don't drink it because they don't know it's in it. 460 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 2: But you can flush your toilet. 461 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 5: Well that's good, that's very very important. 462 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: Oh my god, what were people doing. 463 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 6: Well, they were going and I think people were taking 464 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 6: water from their pools and buckets and putting it in 465 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 6: the toilets. 466 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: Oh man, that's now. 467 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 2: Probably some people were just we're just going in the backyard. 468 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 2: They couldn't take showers. Oh this is really people. I mean, 469 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 2: did people really start to reak in Grenada Hills and Porto. 470 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 5: I didn't go there to sniff under anybody's arms. 471 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 2: No flushing of the toilet, no, no personal hygiene. Uh, 472 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 2: you couldn't water your lawns. You couldn't do anything. But 473 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 2: now they have. Now they've restored the water the uh, 474 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 2: they're refilling the ten million gallons Susannah tank. 475 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: Uh. 476 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 2: And what happened is a valve broke while they were 477 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 2: doing repair work at a pump station and that cut 478 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 2: off float through a wide pipeline that feeds the Susanna 479 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 2: tank and they had to excavate twenty four feet underground. Now, 480 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 2: they didn't know that there was a collection of oil pipelines, 481 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 2: a fiber optic line, and a gas line underneath. And 482 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 2: we asked this last week, is like, isn't there a 483 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 2: map of all the lines? It should be you just 484 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 2: call it up on your tablet. 485 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 5: Right, you would think, and you see a layout of. 486 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: All the lines underground. 487 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 2: Because if anybody, a homeowner or a business, if anybody 488 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 2: decides to start digging to build anything, install anything, you 489 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 2: got to know what's under there. But the City of 490 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, the DWP had no idea. That might be 491 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 2: something else. Janise Canonians would like to get a hand on. 492 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder if those customers. 493 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 6: I'd love to see their bill to see if their 494 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 6: bills reflect not having water for almost a week. 495 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're good at that. There's probably gonna be 496 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 2: a charge. 497 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 5: Even more expense. 498 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and of. 499 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 2: Course, you know, it was very hot last week. It 500 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 2: was near one hundred degrees. They did distribute more than 501 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 2: a million bottles of water and they delivered twelve hundred 502 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 2: gallons to people who were stuck in their homes, elderly people, 503 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 2: disabled people. And they still have five service sites where 504 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 2: you could get water, and there's restrooms and showers. There's 505 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 2: that disgusting mobile laundry unit at each one of these 506 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 2: each one of these locations. But I guess by maybe 507 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 2: by the end of the day tomorrow, it should be 508 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 2: over the whole crisis. 509 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 5: I would hope so. 510 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 2: But that is one incompetent department. I mean, just a 511 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 2: bunch of boobs. For some reason, the valve stuck, but 512 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 2: they didn't explain why it's stuck. It gets stuck twenty 513 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 2: four feet underground. 514 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 5: Well do we know what caused the fire yet? 515 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 2: In the policy, no we do not, But thank you 516 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 2: for asking. Somebody has to ask the tough questions. All right, 517 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 2: when we come back, we are going to talk to 518 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,239 Speaker 2: Alex Stone from ABC News. There was to be a 519 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 2: trial today. The question did Trump have the legal authority 520 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 2: to federalize the National Guard against Newsom's will and then 521 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 2: send him into the LA streets during the protests the 522 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:31,959 Speaker 2: ice protests. 523 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: Back in June. 524 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 2: Well, even though he was allowed to do it by 525 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 2: an appeals court panel, there was no ruling as to 526 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 2: whether the whole idea was constitutional. We'll see what's coming 527 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 2: this hearing today, this trial. Actually, Deborah Mark is lied 528 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 2: in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been 529 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 2: listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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