1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. The response today from the Biden administration to 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: OPEC plus announcing production cuts was to once again release 3 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: some barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petoleum Reserve. 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: That's what they did earlier this year in the Ukraine 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: Russia war blew up into high gas prices. They're gonna 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: release ten million war barrels. That's going to probably make 7 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: about a one cent difference in what you pay. So 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: one cent, well, I'm just throwing out a number, but 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: I remember reading analysts say it makes a very small 10 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: dent in the gas. Yeah, it's to get a headline, 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: that's all. We're fighting back. We're taking steps. I think 12 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: it's strange for people looking here in California at our 13 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: horrible roun running up and gas prices in the last 14 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: couple of weeks, But actually the price of oil on 15 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: the world market has been dropping. So OPEC plus has decided, 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: and that's what some are accusing the refiners here in 17 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: California are doing to just cut production back. It's kind 18 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: of weird that as the pinch demand as the world 19 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: oil priced ops, our prices go up. But if the 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: world oil prices go up, our prices aren't going to 21 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: go up to so our prices only go up when 22 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: the world oil drops. Well, what's the real mystery is 23 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: they went up earlier this year when we had the 24 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: big run up like the rest of the country did. 25 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: Remember some of the countries, state states hit four or 26 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: five dollars a gallon. They were freaking out, and then 27 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: we went down and then but suddenly in the last 28 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: month we've gone back up again. Yeah, went up adopting 29 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,199 Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. It's as of the last 30 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: article I'm looking at from the ol Times. As of 31 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: four pm, the price is now about six fifty a 32 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: gallon in the state, even higher in La City and County. 33 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: And drill, listen to your head. The price is three 34 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: dollars and twenty three cents higher here than Florida. Three 35 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: twenty three, three twenty three a gallon, just about double. Yeah, 36 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: so they're paying half as much in Florida as we're 37 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: paying here. It means that over the course of a year, 38 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: if you use a twenty gallon tank of gas a week, 39 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: you're going to pay three thousand dollars more in gas 40 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: than somebody similar in Florida three thousand dollars a year, 41 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: and obviously much of this is driven by Governor Newsom's 42 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: policies and the legislature's policies. So if you want to 43 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: hear a fun debate over California gas prices, go back 44 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: and listen to the John and Ken podcast from the 45 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: three o'clock. Our guest was a professor at UC Berkeley. 46 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: Severn Boyns team right now. The other day we had 47 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 1: on the Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher from Yuba City, 48 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: a Republican, and John just challenging him that there's so 49 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: many problems in California and people here are really suffering, 50 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: but they vote for the same people in the Democrat Party. 51 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: We're a one party rule state. So you were kind 52 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 1: of saying they have to do something, you have to 53 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: really wake people up. Today, at a news conference in Sacramento, 54 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: California Republican leaders and that included James Gallagher rolled out 55 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: to what they're calling the California Promise. Catchy name, but 56 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: what does it mean. We're going to talk now to 57 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: Assemblyman Vince Fong from Baker's Field, also a Republican. From 58 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: more on this event, bench, Thanks for coming on, Thanks 59 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: for having me again. All right, what's this about what's 60 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: in it. Well, we are offering Californians a clear vision 61 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: of what we would do if Republicans got more elected 62 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: officials in Sacramento and if we actually ever were able 63 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: to get the majority. But the Democrats, as you indicated before, 64 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: I have had majorities in Sacramento. They have been in 65 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: one party rule in Californians have watched California change before 66 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: their eyes and it hasn't gotten better. And so we 67 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: aren't going to sit back and do nothing. We're gonna 68 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: give Californians a choice, a clear back to basics platform. 69 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: So we are going to fix the economy. We promised 70 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: to reverse successive fees, regulations, and taxes. You talked about 71 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: gas prices. That's a clear fundamental reason why your gas 72 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: prices are higher in California the rest of the country. 73 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: Going to fund our police, public safety, there's our number 74 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: one priority right now. You see that throughout communities throughout California. 75 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: We're gonna focus on quality education, you know, keep our 76 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: schools open, keep good teachers, take on you know, the 77 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: special interests that I've taken money away from the classroom, 78 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: and we're gonna deal with homelessness. Finally, we're gonna get 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: people off the street. We promise you do that. And 80 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: we're going to address addiction and mental illness. And we're 81 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: going to build infrastructure. We promise to take the budget 82 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: that we have and fix water infrastructure and build news 83 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: stage facilities. And lastly, we're going to make major investments. 84 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: And we promised to focus on creating a fire safe 85 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 1: California while off our prevention stream landing regulations, minimizing the 86 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: fire danger that currently exists. If you give Republicans a 87 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: chance to lead, these are the things that we're going 88 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: to do. All right, let's talk about the gas prices, 89 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: because that is the big story of the day. Six 90 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: fifty a gallon on averaging California, it's three dollars and 91 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: twenty three cents less in Florida. What specifically would you 92 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: do if you had the power in Sacramento to the 93 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: absolute well one, we would separately suspend the gas tax 94 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: right now, take off close to sixty cents off the 95 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: price of gasolene. Who would approved the permits that would 96 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: allow for more in state domestic oil and natural gas 97 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: production that we really need at this very moment. The 98 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: governor wants to deflect and distract Californians from the consequences 99 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: of his own energy policies. I mean, what do you 100 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: expect when demand goes up and there are the governor 101 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: of California and the President United States is attacking the 102 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: very energy sources that we need. And so when the 103 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: governor wants to complain, when Newsom wants to complain that 104 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:47,799 Speaker 1: our foreign dependence on oil is going up, well, why 105 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: is that? It's because he's crushing domestic energy production in California, 106 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: and he's forcing refineries, and he's forcing all of us 107 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: to go abroad into a very volatile energy market and 108 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: buy energy from countries that don't like us. You're in Bakersfield, 109 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: I mean that, yes, maybe the oil capital of the California. 110 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: How much how many oil wells can you not get 111 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: permits for? We have over a thousand permits right now 112 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: sitting before the Governor's desk. And for context, Current County, 113 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: which I represent, generates seventy percent of the state's oil 114 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: production and more than ninety percent of the state's natural gas. 115 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: And what's important in this whole conversation is that California 116 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: is an energy island. So what I mean by that is, 117 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: let's say, oil production goes up in Texas, it goes 118 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: up in the Midwest, it goes up in other states. 119 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: That oil and energy doesn't come to California because of 120 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: the lack of infrastructure, the lack of pipeline transportation costs, 121 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: So California has to produce it ourselves. So I've always said, 122 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: we need California energy produced by Californians for Californians. I 123 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: don't understand the philosophy where they're trying to cut oil 124 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: production and all their other all their other policies to 125 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: stop greenhouse gases from getting into the atmosphere when we're 126 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: going to end up using oil anyway made somewhere else. 127 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: It's all the same atmosphere. Has anybody ever addressed that 128 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: the idiocy of this policy. We have reminded the News 129 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: administration of how tone deafits policies are. His energy policies 130 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: make no sense in the real world. I mean, just 131 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: a few days ago, the governor is calling for a 132 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: tax on energy production. So just think of it, right, 133 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: we need energy production, we need more domestic energy production, 134 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: and he wants to tax the very industry that produces 135 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: affordable and dependable energy. And he thinks the price is 136 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: going to go doc, but his alternative hardly affordable. At 137 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: the moment in California, between electricity and gas, it's very expensive. 138 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: His alternatives aren't working because they can't get what they 139 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: need out of the solar and wind. The price of 140 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: energy here electricity seventy six percent higher than the rest 141 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: of the country. We almost had a series of blackouts 142 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago. We don't have charging stations 143 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: for this electric vehicle paradise that he's planning. I mean 144 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: there is as he's dismantling the oil industry, dismantling our 145 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: ability to get affordable gasoline or affordable electricity. There's nothing 146 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: to replace it. There's no infrastructure there to replace it. 147 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: I don't understand. You're one hundreds of You're one hundred 148 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: and ten percent right in. All of those consequences are 149 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: because of Newsom. Those are all of his policies. He's 150 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: forcing everyone to go to an unreliable electricity grade. He's 151 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: creating unreliable energy sources at a time when you know, 152 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: wind and solar doesn't When wind and solar doesn't doesn'tccur 153 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,599 Speaker 1: a night right. We need baseload, consistent, continuous energy, so 154 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: where does that come from. It comes from natural gas, 155 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: that comes from imported energy from other states, which of 156 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: course is coal and natural gas, and it's nuclear. The 157 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: reason why Governor Knewsom flipped on extending the nuclear power 158 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 1: plant off the Central Coast is he knew that if 159 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: ten percent of the electricity went away, there was nothing 160 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: to replace it. Every thing that I have read by 161 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 1: anybody who follows this, whether they are fanatical about global 162 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: warming or don't care, no matter where they stand on 163 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: the spectrum, whether they want this new future or not, 164 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: they all agree that we have no infrastructure ready at 165 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: all as we phase out fossil fuels. Absolutely, So what 166 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: do they think in Sacramento is going to happen? Because 167 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: they have all these deadlines looming. I mean they're claiming 168 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: in four years we're supposed to be buying thirty five 169 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: percent electric vehicles. How could you possibly do that by 170 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six? I mean it's really three years away, 171 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: three years and three months. There's hardly any electrical chargers around. 172 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: I don't understand this. What do they think it's going 173 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: to happen? You can't if you read the reports from 174 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: Governor k Newsom's own agencies. They say that his own 175 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: policies are not feasible. I mean, we don't have the infrastructure. 176 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: I mean, just this year, the governor all of a 177 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: sudden realize that's something that we've been telling him for years, 178 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: which is the electricity grid is unreliable, and it's unreliable 179 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: because of him and his policies. And so all he 180 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: does is he pushes everyone onto an unreliable electricity grid. 181 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: So he wants everyone to buy electric cars. And then 182 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: the very next day he's he's announcing flex alerts and 183 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: that the power is going to go out and they 184 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: don't charge your cars, and that don't charge and don't 185 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: use your appliances. Well, are they insane? In the legislature, 186 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: that's a serious question. Are they nuts? They are out 187 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 1: of touch? I would probably to be the nicer way 188 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: of putting it. But they don't nothing that they are 189 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 1: advocating when, especially in the energy space, makes any sense. 190 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: Californians are getting crushed right now, and gasoline prices are 191 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: clearly one of the biggest reasons why. But when the 192 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 1: prices of gasoline goes up, everything goes up. Food prices 193 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: go up, electricity costs go up. I mean, the price 194 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 1: of the costs of necessities just to live in California 195 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: is going to the roof because of the higher price 196 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: of energy and gasoline. Well, I don't people then vote 197 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: this way, Vince. I mean, as you said, one party rule. 198 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: You guys seem to have all the right issues, crime, homelessness, education, water, wildfires. 199 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: What is it about the California voters? Is it the 200 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: culture wars? Is that they were always sold on? Oh, 201 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: the Republicans are anti abortion, They're anti gay people, anti 202 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: transgender people. I can't vote for them. Ever, what's the 203 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: block here? Well, I think Californians are waking up. They're 204 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: tired of seeing everything, and now they're looking at their 205 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: their daily life. I mean their unsafe neighborhood. They're poor 206 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: schools there, the infrastructure breaking down, homelessness on the street, 207 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: the drought intensifying. I mean, California is defined by crisis. 208 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 1: But everything can change. Californians have a choice. So if 209 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 1: Californians are tired of the status quo, then give Republicans 210 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: a chance change direction. It doesn't have to be this way. 211 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: All right, Thanks for talking to us. We appreciate it. 212 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. All Right, Assemblymen Vince Fong, Republican 213 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: from Bakersfield, John and Kencho KF I AM six forty 214 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. A reminder that tomorrow 215 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: one or tomorrow day after tomorrow, during this very time, 216 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: we will bring you the Moist Line. People. You want 217 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: to be a part of that, You're invited to leave 218 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: a message. You can use the iHeart Radio app. That's 219 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: the little microphone icon to leave your message, or you 220 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 1: can call the toll free number one eight seven seven 221 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: Moist eighty six. That's one eight seven seven six six 222 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: four seven eight eight six. We were just talking to 223 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: a Republican sentiment by the name of Vince Fong, one 224 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: of the few left in Sacramento on the Republican Party. 225 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: So they held an event today where they were trying 226 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: to reach out to Californians. It's like that Contract with 227 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: America things their answer to all the problems, and we 228 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: continue to frustrate ourselves here at the show. We put 229 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: out a voter guide. But the one party rule, which 230 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: has been going on for far too long in this 231 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: state now is clearly not sending us in the right 232 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: direction on almost every issue that when people are asked 233 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: matters inflation and gas prices and homelessness and crime all 234 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. They're all every people really still 235 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: voting on those ridiculous, irrelevant national issues. I just saw 236 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: a commercial for I realized she's running for Congress, which 237 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: has a little more relevancy. But a Democrat running for 238 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: Congress in Orange County. They take away I right to choose, dude, 239 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: not let them do this. This the Preme Court must 240 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: be stopped. It's like, this is what people are really 241 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: busked up about. This is all right, this is my 242 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: disconnect from the world. And I'm thinking maybe it's me everybody, 243 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: and I know most of the people that we hear from, 244 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: uh from the listeners, they're upset. There's three things pissing 245 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: them off. The homelessness by far here, the crime, the inflation, right, 246 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: I mean, just those three issues alone. The people's uh 247 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: just discomfort is that is that record levels here. People 248 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: aren't just mildly upset. They're really upset with the prices 249 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: like the price of gas, right, They're really upset with 250 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: the homeless They're really upset with with crime. Here. There's 251 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: Terry Well, all the people I know and I talk to, 252 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: that's that's a sample. That's well, okay, terry picking. When 253 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: I say I don't run into anybody who well, everybody's 254 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: life is terry picking. What I'm saying is, I don't 255 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: know I live. I live in a left wing area, 256 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: but when I do the polling, it's like people who 257 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: think we're going in the wrong direction, which is so mild. Okay, 258 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is, I don't hear anybody talking 259 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: about abortion. Nobody I know is talking about trans rights. 260 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: Nobody I know really is talking about Trump anymore. They 261 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: consider him to be you know, yesterday's news. So I 262 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: don't I don't understand what people but we can't go 263 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: by people you talk to. I don't think that's representative 264 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: of the entire state and how it votes. I'm just 265 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: telling you my experience in life. Do you know people, No, 266 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: I don't either, But I don't. I don't matter much 267 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: more than you on But the broad people we know. 268 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: But the broad poles say that in California, homelessness, crime 269 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: inflation are the top issues in the state. The economies, 270 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: the topic they do. That's what the broad poles say. 271 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: But that's not how people vote. They're not connecting me 272 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: to and then my experience, as small as it may be, 273 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: match the broad polling. So where's the breakdown. Where's the 274 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: breakdown in these people? Where there are your experiences to 275 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: change all this and that does not match what actually happens. 276 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: People are not changing this and not changing who's running well, 277 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: who are the changing who's winning? Where do they think 278 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: all these issues come from? I mean, look at the 279 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: city of la the dump that it's become, and yet 280 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: it looks like people are going to elect a woman 281 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: who's just going to keep up the same dump. I'm 282 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: just I marvel at this, right. I remember back in 283 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: the nineties, you know, when Richard Reardon ran, people wondering 284 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: if he had a chance. He was a businessman, but 285 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: there were problems with the gang crime. It wasn't a 286 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: homelessness problem then, but there was all sorts of problems 287 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: with stuff like gang crime. And he won. But that's 288 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: thirty years ago. I think that the people that would 289 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: have voted to change are a lot of them are gone. 290 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: But look at all the people. Look at what the 291 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: ones that are left have just become passive. They'll tell 292 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: you in a conversation, Yeah, yeah, this is horrible. This 293 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: is awful. So why are we different? Always voute Democrat. 294 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: I gotta keep voting Democrats. Why why are we different 295 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: from the rest of the country. There's gonna be big 296 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: changes in Washington, d C. In November. There's there's going 297 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: to be a major shift coming up, right, and there 298 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: might be two or three house seats in California to change. 299 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: That's it, okay, So what is it about here where 300 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: we have the worst of everything because the other states 301 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: don't have the crime we do. We have a majority 302 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: of the homeless in the country, We have double the 303 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 1: gas rates in the country, we have double the electricity 304 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: rates in the country. Other they're not dealing with terrible 305 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,120 Speaker 1: gas prices. In the rest of the country, it's it's 306 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: three bucks. It's higher than it used to be. It 307 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: used to be too, but it's still affordable. Here we're 308 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: talking about six seven, eight. This is what I don't understand. 309 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: They're not putting up with three dollars back East, they're 310 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: pissed off. We're putting up with eight. I'm just it's 311 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 1: just shocking here. And the thing is here, it's not 312 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: theoretical you can directly tie the difference between our gas 313 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: prices and the gas prices back east to our government 314 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 1: policies and taxes. It's a direct line. It's not theoretical, 315 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 1: it's not a political spin. They actually mandate a lot 316 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: of the price increase. It's what they wanted. It was 317 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: the point of their policies. They succeeded somehow. They've convinced 318 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: a lot of these California voters that California is on 319 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: the forefront of change, protecting a women's right to choose, 320 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: protecting the environment, and that seems to be all they 321 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: care about. They might tell you privately when you talk 322 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,959 Speaker 1: to them, the crime and the homelessness, but maybe they 323 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: think that that's a local issue. When they vote for 324 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: these statewide offices, they don't think about those issues, you know. 325 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: You know a couple of things. I saw climate change 326 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: interest two percent of the country. I saw this in 327 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: two different polls, including a Gallop poll. It's hiring California, 328 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 1: though I've seen Yeah, I understand, I'm just comparing California 329 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 1: the rest of the country. And then the abortion issue. 330 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: I read an article today that tracks Google interests right 331 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: people typing in abortion related terms. There was a spike 332 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: for a short time after that Supreme Court decision. Now 333 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 1: it's down to the old levels from early in the year. 334 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: People are much less less interested in the issue. And 335 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: it's also way low on your list of what's important 336 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: to me, So those things are not interesting in most 337 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: of the other forty nine states. You know, do people 338 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: really have those obsessions here? And why do they have 339 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: those They're they're irrelevant to what's really happening in people's 340 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: day to day lives. I just I know we're flung off, 341 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 1: We're we're weird species here, all right, Johnny ken Chow 342 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: kf I AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 343 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: All right. A reminder that our voter guide is up 344 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: on the website. It's been there for almost a week. 345 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: And go to kf I AM six forty dot com 346 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: the John and Ken page and you will see a 347 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: link to our voter guide. All seven ballot props will 348 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: tell you how you should vote a number of the races, including, 349 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: of course, the governor's race, the attorney General's race, the 350 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: sheriff's race in La County, of course, and sad news there. 351 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,239 Speaker 1: According to polling, it looks like it's going to be 352 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 1: tough for sheriff. Via Nueva to hold on to his 353 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: position sheriff of La County. Polls could be wrong, they 354 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: could undercount the reality, but I'm just telling you what 355 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: they're showing. He could be down by as many as 356 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: ten points in that race to retain his job as 357 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 1: La County sheriff. We have to remember that very few 358 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: people actually vote. It really is true. When it comes 359 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: to a presidential election like in twenty twenty. Yeah, there's 360 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: a pretty good turnout, it reaches, and it did reach 361 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 1: like a record level. But when you're talking about these 362 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: in between elections, it's low, which is kind of sad 363 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: because you'd think that those are to be the people 364 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: that know the most and are the most engaged in 365 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: all the problems, and they would be the ones that vote. 366 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: That's what's baffling. Why why would you even bother to vote? 367 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: Why would you pay attention if you were content and happy? 368 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 1: It must mean with all the terrible things going on 369 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: in the La Southern California area, it must mean that 370 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: you're upset about stuff, right, So you're upset about it 371 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: and then you go vote for the people who have 372 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: brought you the mess. There's some kind of breakdown, and 373 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: I can't figure it out. We've had We've had plenty 374 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,239 Speaker 1: of revolts here in California where people were unhappy with 375 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: something and they voted differently. And same thing in other 376 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: states where where government is controlled back and forth one 377 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: side or the other, when people get fed up with 378 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: one party or the other, and it's the only state 379 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: where it doesn't matter how bad it gets, they just 380 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: vote for more of these guys. All right. It's a 381 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: pretty cool story tonight in the Daily Mail about how Ukrainians, 382 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: and I guess they're really feeling the victory because they're 383 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 1: already starting to take retali tory action against sometimes their leaders, 384 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: political officials, others inside their country who turned and became 385 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: Russian sympathizers. They're talking about another here's one guy, Voldemir Saldo, 386 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 1: who's the former mayor of the key city of Kurson 387 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: in Ukraine. He apparently was one of a handful of 388 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,679 Speaker 1: Moscow sympathizers plucked from the political margins. He was handed 389 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: Russian passports and placed into positions of power. Three weeks 390 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,719 Speaker 1: after the full scale invasion in February, he posted on 391 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: social media that Kurson is my soul. Kurson is Ukraine. 392 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: But a few months later he was in Moscow at 393 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: the Kremlin signing over his home region into Putin's hands. 394 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 1: Well a couple of months ago he got his just reward, 395 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: he apparently was that they tried to poison him. He 396 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: suffered a wasting attempt two months ago after being rushed 397 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: into a hospital for treatment in Crimea. His mind began 398 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: to cloud, his fingers went numb. He ate food made 399 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 1: by a new chef. There have been at least twenty 400 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: nine suspicious deaths starting in March. The mayor of a 401 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: town in Luhansk suffered a gunshot wound to the heart 402 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: after being abducted from his home. See, both sides don't 403 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: get around, and that's why we had Remember the origins 404 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: of hack and a dumpster is the Ukrainian mob and 405 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: what they were doing that day was they were throwing 406 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 1: in a member of parliament who was sympathetic to Russian rule. 407 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: So this is just another example we had taken to 408 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: a much wider level because now the Russians invaded. Oh, 409 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: this Ukrainian mob has really worked up over Annie traders. 410 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: We saw that as a funny gag a few years ago, 411 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: and that's why we adapted it for hack and a 412 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: dubster as like, I think, look at these angry Ukrainians 413 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: upset with this, shouldn't sympathize her? And they then he 414 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: was in a blue suit and they threw him in 415 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 1: the trash. They poured water on him. It was it 416 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: was funny. I had no idea it would blow up 417 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: into this. I mean that all that scent of it 418 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: would would that's not ten years ago, and that that 419 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 1: clearly was just a countdown to what eventually happened, Russian 420 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: invading Ukraine and the the Ukrainians saying, no way, you're not 421 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: getting this country. But I think this shows if they're 422 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: doing this, they're confident enough that they're doing well in 423 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: this war that they're already rounding up the traders and 424 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: punishing them. Well, it looks like the Russian soldiers are 425 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: just running away in great numbers, because I saw another 426 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: headline it was in the Daily Mail that Ukraine grabbed 427 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: another whole bunch of cities that was that the Russians 428 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: were holding. So they are definitely in retreat and they're 429 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: on the run. And so the big issue is is 430 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,360 Speaker 1: is Putin gonna launch a nuke in some way? Because 431 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: he's not winning. He's not winning the ground war. This 432 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: is over now, it's just a matter of time. It 433 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: is a of time. So they have launched investigations into 434 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: thirteen hundred suspected traders. They've launched four hundred and fifty prosecutions. 435 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: But as I mentioned a few, one guy got his 436 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: car blowed up. Look you see the Russian military barging 437 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 1: into your country, right, you want to defect. You want 438 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: to sign on with the winning team, because you know 439 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: the Russians are gonna come, are gonna come and get you, 440 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: and you're going to be thrown in a sense. What 441 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: happened to some of them thought and they believed all 442 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: the hype that Russia is going to take this country 443 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: in days. I better, you know, get get in line 444 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: with the inevitable. I don't want to be a Russian 445 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: prisoner of war, you know, I don't want to spike 446 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: impaled through my chest. So it's like, okay, I'll sign 447 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: on with the with the with the new crew. I'm 448 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: there for you to taken back dozens of these towns 449 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 1: at Putin annexed. You go to the Kremlin, you kiss 450 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: the ring, you become part of a new team, except 451 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: you bet wrong. Yeah, that's why you're gonna pay for it. Yeah, 452 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: should not give women pictured apparently was a former actress 453 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: who sells dumplings and sausages online. She became the mayor 454 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 1: of a town as Putin's Patsy they call her. They're 455 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: after her too, So they were already rounding up the traders. 456 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: And it's worse than the dumpster. Both sides are really 457 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: lucky if you get prisoned. Some of them are being killed. 458 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: No yet, both sides are into ugly torture. I read 459 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: today what the Ukrainian soldiers are now doing to Russians 460 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: that they find it's oh yeah, because a lot of 461 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: these stories about what the Russians did to torture the 462 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: Ukrainians it captured. It's it's vicious stuff. And they don't 463 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: fool around there. Remember um and um, when Yugoslavia was 464 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: breaking apart back in the nineties and the Slavs, not 465 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: the Sabs, the Serbs and the Croatians were fighting each other, 466 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,640 Speaker 1: and remember they had a civil war and one side 467 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: would kill the other and then they cut the guy's 468 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: head off and then they kicked the head around like 469 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: a soccer ball. I forget if that was the Serbs 470 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: of the crow Apps one of them. It's what they 471 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: did to each other. They play soccer with the heads 472 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: the people they captured. We thought the Mexican cartels were 473 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 1: particularly right. Yeah, so this is the big leagues here, 474 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 1: Ukranians and the Russians, all right, Johnny Ken's show caf 475 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 1: I Am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 476 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: But I was another one of those great stories that 477 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,479 Speaker 1: tells you just how made up and hypocritical our government 478 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: can be. Just how it's not Sacramento, it's Washington, DC. 479 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: As you know, just around well over a year ago, 480 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: we were pulling out of Afghanistan, and one of the 481 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 1: things we did, besides getting our own troops out of 482 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: that country, we allowed some Afghans to migrate to the 483 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: United States. They were probably a risk of being killed. 484 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: Hundreds of Afghans were airlifted into the United States from 485 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: that country during the big evacuation in August twenty twenty one. 486 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: And one of the things the government tried to do 487 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: was say, well, before you are released into American communities, 488 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: to live with some on or to get some sort 489 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: of aid, or to set up your life well, we 490 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: still have a pandemic, so you've got to be vaccinated. 491 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: I remember we talked about this in twenty twenty one 492 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 1: with regards to what else was happening at the border 493 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: with Texas. We had so many migrants coming here from 494 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: countries like Hay. Do you remember all that unvaccinated. They're 495 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: all released unvaccinated. But you know, at the Afghans, they 496 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: were trying to be different since they were sort of 497 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: controlling the flood, since they were airlifting them out and 498 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: bringing them here and setting them up in a place 499 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: before they were released. These were like military base camps. 500 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: The idea was to get them vaccinated. Well, a new 501 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: Inspective General report says that many left and nobody knows 502 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: that they ever got the vaccine. And the reason that 503 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: this is incredibly critical is that the Department of Homeland 504 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: Security was really on top of border patrol agents being vaccinated. 505 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: They were constantly making sure that the border patrol agers 506 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: because then there was a mandate that federal employees had 507 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: to be vaccinated, and so why were I mean, that 508 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: just shows you the disparity and the stupidness of their policy, 509 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: and that they didn't do anything strict about the Afghans. 510 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: But you know they made sure all Border Patrol agents 511 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: to be vaccinator. You could be suspended from the job. 512 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: All this is critical to the health of all of 513 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: our employees in our workforce, but they they didn't care 514 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: about the Afghan nationals. And right now the Biden administration 515 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: is starting the process to fire government workers who didn't 516 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: get vaccinated, including some employees at Homeland Security, which is 517 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: the department that allowed the Afghans to go free and unvaccinated. 518 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: It's absurd. Why is people still fighting this war on vaccination? 519 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, so the prestigator couldn't say exactly how 520 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: many Afghans avoided vaccination, but the Homeland Security Department reported 521 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: that probably fewer than six hundred walked away without the shots. 522 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: In the early weeks of the evacuation. Others walked out 523 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: of military base camps before final clearance, a process that 524 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: was supposed to ensure they were vaccinated as well as 525 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: getting them acclimated to their new homes. Well, at this 526 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: point it doesn't matter, But why are they still going 527 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: after the Americans who work for the Border Patrol? Well, 528 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: I mean, how stupid is everybody here? Just give it up. 529 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,239 Speaker 1: It's over pandemic history. It's fast stop you what are 530 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: you going to be doing witch hunts on people who 531 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: didn't get a shot two and a half years ago? 532 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: I don't know. Are they still doing that in California too? 533 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: In in in LA and LAPD in the fire department, they're 534 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: still chasing after people that know refuse their vaccination mandates. 535 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: Remember the Sheriff's department had the same situation going on. Yeah, 536 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: I don't know what the outcome, you know, everybody, because 537 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 1: because the crisis is over, the pandemic is over, nobody's 538 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: covering this stuff anymore. I just hope people aren't being 539 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: chased and being disciplined or fired. They should be, But 540 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: we know from stories we've done that they were still 541 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 1: going after businesses that defined lockdown orders. Right, they're still 542 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: trying to chase after them. I know that these are 543 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: such fanatics. I don't know what else, what other words 544 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 1: to use. These people are completely unhinged, just letting go. Well, 545 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: what will happen the next time? If we allow anybody 546 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: to be an exception to our prosecution, then people feel 547 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: like they can get away with it. I don't I 548 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: don't think you can understand that if one one issue 549 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: you're shouting about freedom to control your own body. That 550 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: works on other issues too. You just can't force people 551 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: to take injections. Just stop it. That's uh. You know, 552 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 1: that's that that really is uh. You know, Nazi Germany. 553 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: You can't force people to take injections. No, you gotta 554 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: shimmer down on that. Meanwhile, from the world of government employment, 555 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: five current or former IRS employees have been charged with 556 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 1: defrauding the federal COVID relief money. These were schemes to 557 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: defraud that old paycheck protection program. Remember that something else 558 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: called the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program that one ever 559 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: heard of. These were designed to help businesses. They supposedly 560 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: did this their IRS employees, so I guess they had 561 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: sort of an inside track to know how to file 562 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: the proper paperwork. IRS employees. They submitted false and fraudulent 563 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: loan applications that collectively sought over a million dollars. They 564 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: used the loan funds for purposes not authorized, including oh, 565 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: of course, cars, luxury goods, personal travel, and trips to 566 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: good old Sin City, Las Vegas. So that's where you 567 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: can double your money and it's a way to launder it. Yes, 568 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: as we found out the city councilmen who went there 569 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: and used gives you no chips to try to all 570 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: the criminals end up in anybody who stole public money, 571 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: you run it through Las Vegas. What are they here today? 572 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: The fraudsters are now focused on Florida because that's where 573 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: the government handouts are. Oh, of course, hurricane Yeah, you 574 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: mean hurricane relief and yeah, hurricane if whatever whatever government 575 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 1: aid you could apply for to help you out in 576 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: the hurricane in Florida. Well, there's suddenly a lot of 577 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: interest from people all over the world that are going 578 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: to be pretending they're in Florida and they just had 579 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: their house blown down. It's amazing. It's amazing. How many 580 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: people in Nigeria owned waterfront on Santa Belle Island. They 581 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: who knew, Well, we'll learn the same lesson we learned 582 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: with the COVID money. If they were in a hurry 583 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: to get the money out to people, then they won't 584 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: do much checking. And they're gonna be because the people 585 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: out there are desperate, right, I mean, they're literally standing 586 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 1: in the hot sun and they don't know what to do. 587 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: Homeless they yeah, they're homeless. They got nowhere to go, 588 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: and so they're gonna rush out the money. And now 589 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: you got the fraudsters you know in the in Croatia 590 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,759 Speaker 1: or follow the news, they know when to strike. Uh, 591 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: Conway's here, hey now, hey, now, hey, Steve Gregory's coming 592 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: on with us. That's always cool, right, it's a good 593 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: rod solid reporter. Right. But the hell? And then North Korea? 594 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: Who was you know? They threw two missiles over Japan. 595 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: So the US response to that is taking a US 596 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: aircraft carrying sticking right in their backyard. That'll show them, 597 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: They'll show them, John, we gotta fire something, that's right. 598 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 1: And then the protester. You saw that game. I know, Ken, 599 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: you're a RAMS fan. You saw that game where the 600 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: protester got tacked. I didn't show it, but you had 601 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: to see the videos again. And anyway, TV did not 602 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: show that whole scene. They just talked about it, what 603 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,239 Speaker 1: was going on down the field. But isn't that one 604 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: of the biggest oversights in the history of the world 605 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: where everyone in the stands and everyone at home wants 606 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,040 Speaker 1: to see it, and they don't show it because I 607 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: think it encourages the behavior they want to be on TV? Right, 608 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: don't let people see it, right, But that we want 609 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:10,359 Speaker 1: more of that behavior. Yeah, you want guys every game 610 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: coming on and running around and getting tackled by professional football. 611 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 1: If they're gonna get the best Rams play of the 612 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,359 Speaker 1: night for a miserable game, that's right. Yeah, they get 613 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 1: blasted by a linebacker. Yeah, I'd pay just to watch that. 614 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: That's the only tackle they made all night. Um. But anyway, 615 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: so the the the guy that got tackled is filing 616 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: a police complain against the Rams. Okay, see where that 617 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,200 Speaker 1: can live in a backwards world? Man? Yeah, that is 618 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: kind of crazy. And then Alec Baldwin settles with the 619 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 1: family over the cinema cinematographer that was killed on the 620 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: Russ set. Oh good, so we can finish the movie. Yeah, 621 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 1: that mart finishing it. They're finishing the Stope movie. I 622 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 1: know that they probably think they're gonna get a big 623 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: box office because people are aware of the movie. Yes, probably, 624 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: yet everybody knows about it. Well, they're not gonna see 625 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: her die in the movie. They're not go not gonna 626 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,480 Speaker 1: see any of her die. They're not. I don't know, 627 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the movie. It's a western, 628 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,439 Speaker 1: it's an old western. All the same man. Um, he's 629 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 1: like the old sheriff and he has to have a 630 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: shootout with the bad guys. I want to take over 631 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 1: the town something like that. Well it's not right, Okay, 632 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:14,240 Speaker 1: Well sounds interesting anyway. The American chess Sensation also accused 633 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: of cheating dozens more times than previ previously admitted to him. Yeah, 634 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,799 Speaker 1: did he use more atal beads? My favorite one? They 635 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 1: vibrate to tell him what moved? Is that right? I 636 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,800 Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yeah. They were connected to like a 637 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 1: computer algorithm that was trying to track that. Right, So 638 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 1: the beads vibrated and he knew to move the pond. 639 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 1: My wife got me the low end version of that 640 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,640 Speaker 1: for what. Nothing, Nothing vibrates. You could gambling, just fun. 641 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: I was just gonna say you could use it for poker. Now, 642 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,439 Speaker 1: you're right, black jack? Fairly even? All right? Ding dong, 643 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,279 Speaker 1: ding dong? All right. I turned in my grandfather. He 644 00:36:54,560 --> 00:37:00,799 Speaker 1: really wow joking the forties liquor. I no, no, no, 645 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 1: all right, big god uh go Crusher is the news. 646 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 1: GAFI Camus d HD two Los Angeles, Searge County Live 647 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app