1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Can't. If I am six forty, you're listening to the 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 2: Carl Demayo filling in for John Cobelt. We're having a 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 2: great conversation this week about all the failings, corruption, wasteful spending, 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 2: self dealing, money laundering of California politicians. In other words, 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 2: is John ever going to come back? I think we've 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 2: got a lot to talk about. No, he's going to 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: be back next week. I am so honored to be 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 2: sitting in at his microphone for this ongoing conversation. By 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 2: the way, if you want me to talk about any issue, 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 2: answer any question, give you this story behind the story, 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: take you behind the scenes of what's really going on 13 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 2: in your California state government. Use the talkback feature on 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. Ask me a question or just pitch 15 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: me an issue that you want me to respond to, 16 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: and I'm going to get to those later on today 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: and tomorrow, coming at three o'clock, We're going to talk 18 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 2: about the judges that are trying to stop Donald Trump's 19 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: various agenda items and why California is ground zero in 20 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: whether or not Trump's agenda during his term will get implemented. 21 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 2: But first, let's talk about why the environmentalists here in 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: California hate the environment so much. No, no, I'm serious. Look, 23 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 2: I love the environment. You love the environment. Everyone loves 24 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: the environment. I'm still trying to find the person that 25 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: doesn't like the environment. 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 3: All right. 27 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 2: The Democrats and the liberal media like to say Republicans 28 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: don't like the environment. I'm sorry. I have yet to 29 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: find a Republican who says, yeah, I I'm the one 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 2: that likes the dirty air and the dirty water. 31 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 3: Oh, Carl, you guys are always protecting the polluters. 32 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 2: No, what we're doing is asking the question, how much 33 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: does that regulation cost and what is the benefit. It's 34 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: called cost benefit, and we find that a lot of 35 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 2: the well do gooder ideas that come up there, are 36 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: invented by environmentalists, are actually not They're not good for 37 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 2: your pocketbook, they're not good for your job, they're not 38 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 2: good for your quality of life, and we're actually finding 39 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: more and more they're not even good for the environment. 40 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 3: But nobody talks about that. 41 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 2: Okay, And this is what I think Republicans need to 42 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: do is instead of just saying, oh, that regulation's gonna 43 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: cost money, and it's gonna take away convenience. Yeah, okay, fine, 44 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: we know that. But people still like the environment. So 45 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 2: they're like, well, we got to kind of all do 46 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: our part. 47 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 3: Gotta do our part, Carl, gotta do our part. Environment's important, 48 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 3: Mother nature, she's depending upon us. Well what if I told. 49 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: You, not only does this proposed environmental regulation cost money, 50 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 2: destroy jobs, take away convenience, but it's really lousy for 51 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 2: the environment. 52 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 3: And guess what. 53 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: So many of the the current environmental propose the recent 54 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 2: environmental proposals of California Democrats are bad for the environment. 55 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 2: Perfect example, remember in twenty of twenty fifteen when they 56 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 2: passed the mandate to get rid of plastic bags in 57 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,119 Speaker 2: the supermarket. 58 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 3: Remember that, Remember you. 59 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 2: Know those flimsy plastic bags that we used to get 60 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: for free in the supermarket. Well, the Democrats came along 61 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 2: and said, we need to reduce the plastic waste in 62 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 2: our landfills. We're going to ban the plastic bags at 63 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 2: the supermarket. Well, they implemented a bill that banned free 64 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 2: plastic bags, the thin ones, but then said you could 65 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 2: sell for ten cents a plastic bag that's thick. And 66 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: as a result of this law, we almost tripled. The 67 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 2: amount of plastic waste that went into our landfills almost tripled. 68 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 2: Another example electric cars. Democrats say, oh, we got to 69 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 2: get rid of. 70 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 3: Gas powered cars. They're bad for the environment, so they 71 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 3: mandate these evs. 72 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 2: Well, if you ever look at the full environmental footprint 73 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 2: of an electric vehicle with a big battery, you understand 74 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 2: all the mining impacts cobalt, You understand anything having to 75 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 2: do with a battery an electric vehicle. You'll find that 76 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 2: the carbon emitted to make the battery to mine the 77 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 2: materials and components for that car, and that battery actually 78 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: outstrips the carbon savings. 79 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 3: Oh and by the way, where you getting the electricity. 80 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 2: You're plugging into the wall, so you go from gas 81 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 2: power to electricity power. 82 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 3: Where's the electricity coming from? 83 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 2: Sometimes it comes from solar, but a lot of times, 84 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 2: because we import one third of our energy in this 85 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 2: state comes from a natural gas peaker plant in New 86 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 2: Mexico or worse south of the border. Oh yeah, and 87 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 2: when you import energy across long distances, you lose energy 88 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 2: because you have to use kilot our energy to actually 89 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 2: transport energy. So about a third of our energy that 90 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 2: we import is lost just to transport it here to 91 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: California because we don't make it within our own state. 92 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but my mama taught me 93 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 2: environmentalism meant waste not, want not. But these environmentalists, they're 94 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 2: very wasteful. I remember in the eighties growing up, and 95 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 2: everyone was talking about the clean natural gas bus. Remember 96 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 2: that we need to use clean natural gas. And all 97 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 2: the politicians held press conferences saying, we're here today to 98 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 2: announce that our police department, our fire department, our bus 99 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 2: for our school district is gonna now be powered by 100 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 2: clean natural gas because we. 101 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 3: Care about the environment. We love the environment. That's why 102 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 3: we spent so much money on a clean natural gas bus. 103 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 2: Now they say natural gas buses are the work of 104 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 2: the devil. 105 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 3: Satan made us do it. It's destroying the environment. 106 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 2: Wait, wait, hold on, I remember just a few years 107 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,559 Speaker 2: ago you were saying, well, how we should be giving 108 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 2: you credit and patting you on the back for being 109 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 2: so green and so good for the environment because you 110 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 2: were spending extra money for clean natural gas. You know what, 111 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 2: I'm sick and tired of listening to people who've been 112 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 2: wrong so many times. The same Yahoo's saying that we're 113 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 2: going to die in twelve years because a climate change 114 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: are running ran around and said we're going. 115 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 3: To die because of COVID nineteen. 116 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 2: By the way, up here in Sacramento, when people come 117 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 2: into the hearing room wearing COVID nineteen masks and sit 118 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: there and want to lecture me on what you know 119 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 2: is going on with the environment, I roll my eyes 120 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: and I say, I mean, dude, you are still wearing 121 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 2: the mask. And again I'm not saying you can't wear 122 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 2: a mask, but I don't really think you have a 123 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 2: good handle on science. 124 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 3: You don't have a really good judgment. These people have 125 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 3: been wrong so many times. 126 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 2: I mean, remember we were supposed to be gone in 127 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 2: twenty ten, two thousand and five, Remember the hockey stick 128 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 2: graft from al Gore. 129 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 3: In two thousand and one. 130 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 2: The ice caps will be gone on by two thousand 131 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: and nine, the polar bears are going to be gone. 132 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 3: They're going extinct. Nobody calls these people out on their bs. 133 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 2: Nobody says, wait, you said this ten years ago and 134 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 2: this is where we are today. You were wrong. Nobody 135 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: says they're wrong. The media doesn't hold them accountable for 136 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: being wrong. They say, oh no, no, No, these are the environmentalists. 137 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 2: We have to listen to them. 138 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 3: They're they're they're they're they're completely. 139 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 2: Uh uh reliable and and and and you can't question them. 140 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 3: Anyone who does hates the environment. 141 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 2: No, I just don't like listening to people who've been 142 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 2: wrong so many times and who are bad for the environment. 143 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 2: That brings me to the natural gas appliance ban coming up. 144 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 2: Let me tell you just how expensive it's going to 145 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 2: be if they implement a ban on gas appliances. And 146 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 2: I'm not just talking about a ban, they're talking about 147 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: retrofit mandates. How much is that gonna cost you? 148 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 3: Coming up? As Carl to Bio sits in for John 149 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:03,959 Speaker 3: co Belt. 150 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 4: You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI Am 151 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 4: six forty. 152 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 2: Carl Tobio sitting in for John co Belt. We're talking 153 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: about natural gas appliance bans and the ban on your 154 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 2: gas cars. 155 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 3: They've got the ban on your your stove that they 156 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 3: want to put in place. 157 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 2: You wouldn't be able to get a gas powered water heater, 158 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 2: no gas powered furnace, no gas fireplace if you like, 159 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 2: if you have a pool, no gas jacuzzi, no, no, 160 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 2: heating the pool of your gas heater, no gas whatsoever. 161 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,719 Speaker 2: Gas appliance ban. Oh, but it's worse the California Air 162 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 2: Resources Board, which is implementing these natural gas appliance bans, 163 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 2: which also implemented the ban on gas powered cars by 164 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 2: twenty thirty five, immense power. None of these people are elected, 165 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 2: but they're the ones imposing these bands. Not only do 166 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 2: they want to ban new purchases of gas appliances, so 167 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 2: that if your stove breaks, you're not allowed to buy 168 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 2: a gas powered stove. You've got to get an electric stove. 169 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 2: But they're going to require retrofits of existing homes and 170 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 2: they're going to say you have until twenty thirty to 171 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: get all your appliances replaced, and if not, then we're 172 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 2: just going to shut off the gas. It's a mandate retrofit. 173 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 2: Now in order to get rid of a gas appliance, 174 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 2: you're not just having to buy a new appliance, which 175 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 2: is going to have all sorts of impractical, costly impacts 176 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 2: on the supply chain, Like if California said to everyone, 177 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 2: everyone has to go out and buy a brand new 178 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 2: water heater all at once. The supply chain globally for 179 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 2: water heaters would absolutely come falling down. The cost of 180 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 2: water heaters would spike across the globe, particularly here in California. 181 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 2: But again, these environmentalists, they don't care, they have no concept, 182 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 2: they're not tethered to practical reality. But put that aside, Okay, 183 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 2: put the insanity in the impractical impracticality of just the 184 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 2: supply chain for the appliances themselves aside. 185 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 3: Where are you going to get the electrician to hook 186 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 3: it up? 187 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 2: Because all the electricians are going to be too busy 188 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 2: to get all these appliances hooked up. So you have 189 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 2: the cost of the appliance which is going to be 190 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 2: sky high. Scarcity, supply chain won't handle it. The cost 191 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 2: of an electrician is going to be sky high. You 192 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: have to have all sorts of new things installed in 193 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 2: your house. You go from a gas hookup to you know, 194 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 2: these are not just like outlets that you put. 195 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 3: Into your wall in your kitchen. 196 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 2: These are large, high capacity, high electricity hookups. It's gonna 197 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 2: be a lot of expense to retrofit your home. In fact, 198 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: the National Association of home Builders twenty twenty one, So 199 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 2: remember this is several years ago. Inflation and construction costs 200 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 2: has gone up dramatically since twenty twenty one, but the 201 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 2: National Association of Homebuilders said the average home in California 202 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: would cost thirty thousand dollars to retrofit to replace the 203 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 2: gas furnace, the gas water heater, and the gas stove. 204 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: That's not even counting a gas fireplace or anything having 205 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 2: to do. 206 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 3: With a pool. 207 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 2: If you have one, you have thirty thousand dollars lying around, 208 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 2: and that's twenty twenty one number. Inflation has gone up 209 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 2: since then, and that's static. It's like, okay, assuming you 210 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 2: can find the electrician and you can actually find the 211 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: appliances on the market, assuming the supply chain doesn't literally 212 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 2: crash because California politicians are unhinged, untethered, out of touch, 213 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 2: bat blank crazy is what I call them. But put 214 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 2: all that as the cost, the convenience, the impracticality, This 215 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 2: isn't even good for the environment because guess what's gonna 216 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 2: be powering all those new appliances. Energy electricity that we 217 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 2: don't have, So we're not gonna be able to actually 218 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 2: plug in because the electric grids is gonna go and crash. 219 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 2: We don't have the electricity to service all of those 220 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 2: new appliances that are putting pressure on the electric grid 221 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: that used to be powered by gas. 222 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 3: Now it has to be done by kilowatt. 223 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 2: Electricity, and by some magic you feet if we actually 224 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 2: suddenly we're able to buy the electricity on the market, 225 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 2: which we won't be able to to replace gas powered 226 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 2: at the source, Guess where the electricity is gonna come from? 227 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 2: Natural gas peaker plants in Mexico, in Arizona, in Texas, 228 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: in Nevada. And you're gonna transport that energy at a 229 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 2: loss of energy across state lines. 230 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 3: These people are not even good environmentalists. 231 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 2: Oh and where are you gonna put all the old 232 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 2: gas stoves, gas water heaters, gas furnaces. 233 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 3: You're gonna put those in the landfill. 234 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 2: You're gonna shove all these appliances that actually have not 235 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 2: reached the end of their useful life. 236 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 3: You're gonna shove them all in the landfill. 237 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 2: No one in the media asks these questions, by the way, 238 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 2: no one thinks through hmm, how are we going to 239 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 2: ban natural gas appliances? What would that cost? What is 240 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 2: the convenience factor, what's the practicality of it? How do 241 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 2: we power things? No, they just sit there with their 242 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 2: cheesy blank grins on TV saying how wonderful it is 243 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 2: for the environment, and anyone that questions, dares to question, 244 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 2: must hate the environment. 245 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 3: No, actually, I like the environment. 246 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 2: I love the environment, and my policies are better the 247 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 2: environment than these yahoos that don't know their rear end from. 248 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 3: A hole in the ground. Come it up. 249 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 2: I'm gonna be joined by one of my colleagues in 250 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 2: the State Assembly, Lori Davies, who's helping me fight the 251 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 2: natural gas appliance bans. We have a bill that we've proposed, 252 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 2: and we're gonna need your help to make this issue 253 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 2: a wedge issue in the twenty twenty six election. 254 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 3: That's all coming up. Carl Demiyo sitting in for John Cobelt. 255 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 256 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 4: six forty. 257 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 2: Coming up at three o'clock, we're going to talk about 258 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 2: voter ID. You can help us get voter ID on 259 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six ballot. Go to the website voter 260 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 2: idpetition dot org and sign the petition voter idpetition dot 261 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 2: org and help us restore election integrity in our state. 262 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: We're talking about California liberal politicians banning natural gas appliances 263 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 2: in your home and also imposing a ban on gas 264 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: powered cars. 265 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 3: None of these bands. 266 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 2: By the way, were voted on by the legislature. That's 267 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 2: how the politicians avoid accountability. They basically delegate broad authority, 268 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 2: you know, massive powers to unelected bureaucrats who are a 269 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: bunch of wing nuts who sit there on these boards 270 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 2: and commissions, and then impose these draconian, sweeping, costly, anti freedom, 271 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: anti consumer mandates, and then they say. 272 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 3: Oh, it wasn't me. 273 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 2: You can blame the California Air Resources Board. You don't 274 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 2: like your utility rate increase, you can blame the Public 275 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 2: Utilities Commission. Sorry, but who delegated all this power to 276 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 2: this board? Oh yeah, that's right, it would be you. 277 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 2: This is the scam that the politicians and Sacramento have 278 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 2: engaged in shield themselves from your anger when bad policies 279 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 2: are foisted on you. That's why we're trying to pass 280 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: a bill. Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight would say that 281 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: California Air Resources Board cannot ban gas powered cars or 282 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 2: gas appliances, cannot impose retrofits on your home or your business. 283 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 2: That that's something that would only be able to be 284 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 2: done if our politicians passed a law. We don't want 285 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 2: them to pass the law, but at least force the 286 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 2: politicians to vote on these bad ideas. Democrats are not 287 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 2: even allowing us to vote on this in committee. But 288 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 2: we're going to be making emotion in the coming weeks 289 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 2: to force this bill onto the Assembly floor and get 290 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 2: a recorded vote on it. Joining me on our line 291 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 2: at KFI is assembly Woman Lori Davies. She represents the 292 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 2: seventy fourth Assembly District in South Orange County and North 293 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 2: San Diego, CA. And she's one of the good ones. 294 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 2: She's fighting the good fight and she's been on this 295 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 2: natural gas appliance ban scam for many years trying to 296 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 2: fight it. Laurie, thanks for stopping by. When did you first, 297 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: you know, start hearing that the Democrats and Sacramento wanted 298 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 2: to get rid of gas stoves in people's kitchens. 299 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 5: You know, I've been hearing it. And by the way, 300 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 5: Carol's great to hear you on air again. 301 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 3: Thank you, thanks for coming on. 302 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 2: We've been listening. 303 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 5: Yeah, we've been listening to this for years and you know, 304 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 5: just a matter of time and when they get to 305 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 5: the point. But as always, you've got you know where 306 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 5: we were talking about twenty thirty air quality boards banned 307 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 5: the sale of gas furnaces, water heaters, And every time 308 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 5: they say the word affordability, they do the opposite. They 309 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 5: go ahead and they push something that isn't affordable. So 310 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 5: I knew this was coming, and especially you know, I 311 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 5: think getting the message out is so important because of 312 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 5: my background was a food and average and restaurants. Trust me, 313 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 5: the chefs really, you know, got wind of this many 314 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 5: years ago and really put a lot of pressure. I 315 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 5: think they did that in another state. We're able to 316 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 5: know they did then another city and they were able 317 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 5: to stop it. 318 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 2: When just it wasn't it just twenty years ago we 319 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 2: were hearing these same Democrat politicians before they got in 320 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 2: the Assembly, they were serving on county boards or city councils, 321 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 2: and they were lecturing us on why we needed to 322 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 2: go to clean natural gas buses. And they were, you know, 323 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 2: doing press conferences standing in front of natural gas buses 324 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 2: with a big bow, big red bow on it or 325 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 2: green bow, as the case may be, and they would 326 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 2: say how wonderful they are for protecting the environment because 327 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 2: they're moving everything to natural gas. Now they claim natural 328 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,959 Speaker 2: gas is the work of the devil. I mean, has 329 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 2: anyone like pointed this out to them? I mean, are 330 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 2: they ashamed of the fact that they were the ones 331 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 2: pushing natural gas several years ago? 332 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 5: I don't think they remember that far back. I had 333 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 5: said on Orange County Transportation Authority Board, and like you said, 334 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 5: is we were doing natural gas, you know, and they 335 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 5: had to take the money and go ahead to make 336 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 5: sure everything was natural gas. And then all of a 337 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 5: sud they're like, nope, now it has to be electric. 338 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 5: And the money that has been lost and through the 339 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 5: tax payers is just incredible. It's kind of onto their 340 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 5: nixt whim of what they want to do. 341 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 2: So I introduced this bill, Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight, 342 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 2: and it's very simple. It doesn't say that we're going to, 343 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 2: you know, make a decision on natural gas or the 344 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 2: electric vehicle mandate. It just simply says that if we're 345 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 2: going to ban anything in the state of California, then 346 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,479 Speaker 2: by golly, the politicians who are elected by the people 347 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 2: in the legislature, they should be the ones and the 348 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 2: only ones with that power, and they should be forced 349 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 2: to put their name behind these bad policies. We can't 350 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 2: even get a committee vote on Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight. 351 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 2: They don't even want to take it up. 352 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 5: No, you're you're right, and that's just it is. They 353 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 5: don't want to be a countable for it. They want 354 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 5: to be able to point fingers. And again, this is 355 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 5: not the agenda of California. There was a poll taken 356 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 5: just recently and at least seventy percent of the people 357 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 5: in California said they do not want their gas taken away. 358 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 5: And yet once again they tend not to hear it, 359 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 5: and they do what third gend is and not the agenda, 360 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 5: the people's. And that's why getting this onto a ballot 361 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 5: really makes a difference. We saw that with PROMP thirty six, 362 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 5: that the public came out, their voices were heard, and 363 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 5: unfortunately with the super majority up there, that's really the past. 364 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 5: Sometimes we have to take to let Californias vote so 365 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 5: that they really do hear you know what they want. 366 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 3: Well, I know that. 367 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 2: You know, we have only a few opportunities to go 368 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 2: to the Assembly floor and do something called wharf that's 369 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 2: a parliamentary procedure to force a vote on bills. I 370 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 2: planned a Wharf Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight soon, just 371 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 2: because I think people need need to know that there 372 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 2: is a recorded vote where Democrats voted down the ability 373 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 2: to stop these unelected bureaucrats from banning gas stoves, gas furnaces, 374 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 2: gas water heaters, gas powered cars. We need a list 375 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 2: of names, and that way the voters get to decide 376 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 2: whether those politicians should continue to serve an office. And 377 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 2: as you pointed out, the polling on this, every poll 378 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: I've seen shows seventy percent, as you said, seventy percent 379 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 2: of Californians don't want natural gas appliances to be banned. 380 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 2: They want to be able to decide that themselves based 381 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 2: upon their own costs and convenience factors. 382 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 3: Laurie, thanks so much for stopping by. 383 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 2: You're one of the target seats that Democrats are trying 384 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 2: to flip because you present common sense and I need 385 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,719 Speaker 2: to make sure you stay up in Sacramento. 386 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 3: So what is your website? 387 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 2: If people want to check you out and maybe chip 388 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 2: in a contribution to help you get reelected, they. 389 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 5: Can go to Davies dot com. 390 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 3: Davies Davies, Just Davies dot com, d A v I E. 391 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 2: S dot com yes, Wow, you got your last name 392 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 2: dot com Davies dot com. That's that's a good one. 393 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: Most people don't get something that simple. Go to Davies 394 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 2: dot com. Learn more about Lori Davies. 395 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 3: What were you going to say? Real quick? 396 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 5: They have that this is going to be heard in 397 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 5: front of the South Coast Air Quality Board. They've moved 398 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 5: it to June sixth, so we do have a little 399 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 5: bit of time, and I think we need to really 400 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 5: get some information. I'm going to be having a town 401 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 5: hall on May fifteenth. I will get the information out 402 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 5: to you that you can put onto your site, but 403 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 5: you know, we need to really show up, you know, 404 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 5: with a lot of people and letting them know that 405 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 5: this is not okay. And we represent California they don't, 406 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 5: so you know, we still can fight. 407 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 2: This absolutely and we'll get that recorded vote on the 408 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 2: Assembly floor in addition to the town hall that you're 409 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 2: hosting in Orange County. Thanks so much, Assembly Member Lori 410 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 2: Davis Davies, doing great work. Coming up, I'm going to 411 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 2: take some of your questions from the talkback feature of 412 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. So use that feature to send me 413 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 2: your questions and we'll give you a little bit more insight, 414 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 2: insider view on the broken political system we have here 415 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 2: in California. 416 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty. 417 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: Now. 418 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 2: We've been giving people opportunities to submit questions, raise issues 419 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 2: that you want me to respond to using the talkback 420 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio app. I've heard none of these 421 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 2: in advance. This is the first time i've heard them. 422 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 2: The producer, the director, they get to select. I just 423 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 2: hear them live, just like you do. So hopefully I 424 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: won't be embarrassed by getting stumped. So let's see, Eric, 425 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 2: you got one for me. I have a question for you, Carl, 426 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 2: exactly how powerful is Robert Revis? 427 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 6: Is he the mastermind behind the strings or is he 428 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 6: just the pumpin? 429 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 2: So most of you are sitting there saying, who the 430 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 2: hell is Robert Revis. 431 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 3: It's not a dumb question. It nobody knows who he is. 432 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 2: He's the Speaker of the California State Assembly. He's a 433 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 2: state assembly member, He's a Democrat. The question is how 434 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 2: powerful is he? Well, they're the super majority. They get 435 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 2: to do whatever the hell they want. They can kill bills, 436 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 2: they can decide what's coming up on the floor. 437 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 3: But here's the deal. 438 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 2: He is presiding over a caucus of Democrats, sixty Democrats who. 439 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,120 Speaker 3: Are very liberal, and he's got his hands full full. 440 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 2: It's a pretty out of control group. And the more 441 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 2: progress people like me make in turning up the temperature, 442 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 2: the more dissension there is on the Democrat side of 443 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 2: the aisle, because you have moderates who know that I'm 444 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 2: coming for their seats, the target seats. Those are vulnerable 445 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 2: Democrats that I think we can kick out of office 446 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 2: in the purple districts. And the liberals are saying, no, 447 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 2: we have to do Green New Deal, we have to 448 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 2: do socialized medicine, we have to raise taxes. So they're 449 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 2: having their own little civil war. As messed up as 450 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 2: Republicans are. Democrats just keep their dirty laundry in the 451 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 2: closet a secret a lot better than Republicans in California. 452 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 2: So he's got to always look over his shoulder. He 453 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 2: needs always to please thirty one of his colleagues Democrats, 454 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 2: to remain speaker. So yeah, he's got authority as the 455 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 2: Speaker of the Assembly to set the agenda to throw 456 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 2: people like me off committees like he has done to 457 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 2: kill our bills like he has done to my bills. 458 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 2: But he himself is kind of in a little bit 459 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 2: of a jam and could lose his speakership if he 460 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 2: doesn't play nicey nice with the Liberals, which is why again, 461 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 2: some of them are doing some really bad policies because 462 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 2: they're forced by their left flank, their extreme left flank, 463 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 2: to just simply walk the plank. Let's go with another one, Eric, 464 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 2: do you got another talkback feature? 465 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 6: Hey, Carl, this is Chris from Riverside. Can you tell 466 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 6: me what the difference is between CARB, the California Air 467 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 6: Resources Board and the Air Quality Management District Seems like 468 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 6: they are doing the same thing. 469 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 2: Nah, yes, yes, yes, so we're getting into the nuts 470 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 2: and bolts of government. 471 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 3: They do very similar things. 472 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,679 Speaker 2: The California Air Resources Board is a statewide agency, whereas 473 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 2: air Quality Management districts are in the regions. The CARB 474 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: set standards, then each of the regions have to cascade 475 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 2: that down and comply and do specific regional standards and regulations. 476 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 2: Let's get another one in real quick well, and by 477 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 2: the way, while we wait for that, Lori Davies texted 478 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 2: me that her website is not Davies dot com. 479 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 3: I didn't think it was. It's Davies for caa dot com. 480 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 2: So if you want to learn more about her and 481 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 2: help her out in her race for re election, Davies 482 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,679 Speaker 2: da VI I E S forca dot com. One last 483 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 2: question from the talkback feature. 484 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,719 Speaker 1: I'm just curious what your opinion is that the future 485 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: of the high speed rail. 486 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 2: Isn't it obvious? It's a boondoggle, It's a grift project. 487 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 3: It's corrupt. 488 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 2: Democrat politicians are using billions of dollars under the guise 489 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 2: of building a high speed rail project to simply line 490 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 2: the pockets of their campaign contributors and then get a 491 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 2: piece of the action through campaign contributions. I can't be 492 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 2: more clear about the fact that it's a wasteful project. 493 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 2: It's never going to get done. It's only going to 494 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 2: hemorrhage your taxpayer money into their campaign coffers, into the 495 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 2: pockets of their rich supporters, and it needs to be killed. 496 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 2: I think that the Trump administration will be going after 497 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 2: California for the four billion dollars that was misspent of 498 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 2: federal taxpayer money, and hope voters are going to wake 499 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 2: up and pull the plug and demand that the plug 500 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 2: be pulled because billions of dollars going to that project 501 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 2: could go to our potholes, could go to our freeways, 502 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,239 Speaker 2: could actually How about this, I know it's crazy. How 503 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 2: about we just give it back to you? How about 504 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 2: we give you your money back? Because all that money 505 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 2: for high speed rail is coming from your gas tax, 506 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 2: It's coming from all of the cap and trade regulations, 507 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 2: climate regulations, and fees and charges and taxes. 508 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 3: That are applied. Why don't just give you the money back? 509 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 2: That would be too controversial to give people their money back. 510 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. All right? 511 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 2: Coming up, judges stopping Donald Trump on a variety of 512 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 2: executive orders, including an order that would require that we 513 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 2: check the citizenship of people before they registered to vote. Yeah, 514 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 2: a federal judge today put an end to that. Can 515 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 2: we just throw these judges off the bench. 516 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 3: I think we can. 517 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll cover that, but first, Michael Krozer in 518 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 2: the twenty four hour Newsroom at KFI has an update 519 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 2: on the news. 520 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 521 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 522 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through 523 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: Friday and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,