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Speaker 1: Well, please welcome back to the Armstrong and Getty Show.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps the second most famous export from beautiful Bakersfield, California,

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Speaker 1: after Buck Owens, has been Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader. Kevin,

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Speaker 1: how are you, sir? I'm good, I would say. Third.

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Speaker 1: We also had excellent point I apologize, and we had

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Speaker 1: we had Chief Justice Earl Warren, we had Frank Gifford.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've had quite a few people. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: we're glad you're here. Keep falling down. Huh. Most people

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Speaker 1: don't try to drive themselves down the list. Um. So

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Speaker 1: I live in an area where if it gets too windy,

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Speaker 1: they turned my power off, and if it's not windy enough,

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Speaker 1: I don't have any power. And then if it gets

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Speaker 1: too hot, I don't have any power. Is there anything

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Speaker 1: that can be done about that? Yeah? Move out of California.

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Speaker 1: Oh jeez, are you supposed to say that as a

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Speaker 1: guy from California. No, but thanks for one moment. Okay.

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Speaker 1: We we live in California because we knew what California

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Speaker 1: was and could be. But based upon who runs California,

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Speaker 1: we now pay higher in electrical electrical bills than anybody

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Speaker 1: else in the nation. And now you get rolling blackouts

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Speaker 1: for paying that higher fee because they cannot maintain it

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Speaker 1: all the way through because the wind goes down and

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Speaker 1: the sun stops shining. Because they make that mandate, they

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Speaker 1: also allow mobs to control what we're doing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: think about it. You've got Kamala Harris on the ticket.

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Speaker 1: She wants to make San Francisco like America. So what

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Speaker 1: does San Francisco, San Francisco skyhight Texas. San Francisco is

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Speaker 1: a sanctuary city. You know it as well as I do.

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Speaker 1: San Francisco has sidewalks nobody wants to walk down. And

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Speaker 1: now we're watching Portland's, Chicago, New York. These are places

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Speaker 1: happening wherever else. But if you want to pick a

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Speaker 1: shiny place in California, you could go to Bakersfield, you

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Speaker 1: could go to San Diego. And what's the common nominator.

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Speaker 1: They've got Republican mayors, so they don't have the homeless

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Speaker 1: problem that we do that's destroying l A, San Francisco

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Speaker 1: and others. But it's the mandate that's coming out of

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Speaker 1: Accramento that we all see in fear, and now that's

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Speaker 1: being pushed nationwide. Well, what makes me crazy. We we

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Speaker 1: call California cal Unicornia where realism goes to die. UM.

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with environmentally sound electrical generation, but

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Speaker 1: you have to be a realist about it and say

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Speaker 1: we need capacity to provide power for when it's not

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Speaker 1: sunny or the wind isn't blowing or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise we come off looking like Heaiti. And it's it's

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Speaker 1: crazy to me that that that's common sense. Look at

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Speaker 1: I in my district were number one and win number

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Speaker 1: one and solar, but we're also number two in the

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Speaker 1: entire nation when it comes to oil production. You need

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Speaker 1: all of that, you need all the above. I have

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Speaker 1: nuclear just outside, we have geo thermal. You just tied

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Speaker 1: The other thing, I am probably one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: people who care about the environment to anybody else. We

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Speaker 1: have some of the most beautiful scenery in California ever

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Speaker 1: hyped to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the lower

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Speaker 1: forty eight. But you know what we could do. We

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Speaker 1: could go out and plant a trillion trees. Trees are

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Speaker 1: the lungs of the earth, right They take in carbon

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Speaker 1: it would take away if we planted a trillion trees

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Speaker 1: on this earth, two thirds of all the carbon created

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Speaker 1: by man since the Industrial Revolution till today. You know what,

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Speaker 1: and this, I hate the plastic in the ocean, but

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Speaker 1: do you realize all the plastic in the ocean that

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Speaker 1: comes from rivers only comes from tin rivers in the world,

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Speaker 1: and none of them are in America. We just focused

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Speaker 1: on clear Yeah, what if we just focused on cleaning

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Speaker 1: up those we would do more than anything else. And

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Speaker 1: this is the thing that gets me. We can have

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Speaker 1: common sense environmental rules that keep an economy moving. Because

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Speaker 1: I listened to all the Paris Accord and all that.

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Speaker 1: And we've done it by growing our economy at the

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Speaker 1: same time. And then they let China expand and we

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Speaker 1: with Congressman Kevin McCarthy. He's the House Minority leader and

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Speaker 1: so not the other problem you got with California, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming on business trips to l A, San Francisco, wherever

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Speaker 1: what what did I leave the country? I can't use

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Speaker 1: another brilliant move by the majority Democrats in California. Remember

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Speaker 1: that's where all their crazy ideas started. And remember Biden

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Speaker 1: terrible for business people coming. But you know who, it's

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Speaker 1: worse for those Californians that that's their job, that they

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Speaker 1: economy that allows somebody who can determine when they want

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Speaker 1: make some money to take their kids to Disneyland. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what, the Democrats don't believe you should have

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Speaker 1: that option. They don't believe you should have greater choice

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Speaker 1: you should focus more on defunding the police, defunding the border,

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Speaker 1: dismantling this country, and letting a mob rule and tear

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Speaker 1: down any statue they think is appropriate. For folks not

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Speaker 1: familiar with it, just really quickly. AB five is a

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Speaker 1: law passed in California that essentially illegalized gig work. You

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Speaker 1: tax and everything. Even if you just want to drive

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Speaker 1: three hours a week for Uber or left what do

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Speaker 1: of COVID in any in any You know you're thinking

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Speaker 1: of the future, right, So what you do you probe

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Speaker 1: the traditions of the past to a changing future we have.

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Speaker 1: California is the leader when it comes to tech jobs,

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Speaker 1: gig jobs, and others. And here Democrats control of the state.

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Speaker 1: And what are they doing. They're crushing them. That's why

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Speaker 1: because they don't love the state. The policies that have

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Speaker 1: sound good, but they're just not realistic, and they end

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Speaker 1: up punishing the workers. That that guy, that gal who

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Speaker 1: And who thought that that person who's getting a little

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Speaker 1: about socialism versus freedom. They think they know what's better

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Speaker 1: They're gonna tell you when you can have electricity. They're

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Speaker 1: instead of you determine your own future. Maybe you want

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Speaker 1: My son's out. He's got a startup, trying to make

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Speaker 1: it in the world. Good for him. Kevin McCarthy is

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Speaker 1: the House Minority leader who represents California's twenty three district,

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Speaker 1: when we get a chance to talk. Keep fighting a

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Speaker 1: good fight, huh. I appreciate it. You guys are fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It's always good to get back on it. Next time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Kevin. So the state, Yeah, Sean pointed this out

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Speaker 1: getting in the way of all those things? Stupid government. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That was a fruit of that. Now, in case you're

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Speaker 1: stomping out innovation. Now you're surfing down the sidewalk on

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Speaker 1: human pooh fail, your soul being crushed, Tucker. Wow, that

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Speaker 1: Uh So anyway, it's things change, places changed bas based

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Speaker 1: another old timey reference, California is going straight into the dumper.

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Speaker 1: Let's go surfing now on human pooh, that's not let's

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Speaker 1: unfortunately the surf is up. The tent cities are exploding. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: and it's just it's really hurt local Republicans who just

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Speaker 1: I haven't gotten to this stuff. I should. What time

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Speaker 1: I don't know you tell me I will among other things,