Speaker 1: Well, please welcome back to the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the second most famous export from beautiful Bakersfield, California,
Speaker 1: after Buck Owens, has been Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader. Kevin,
Speaker 1: how are you, sir? I'm good, I would say. Third.
Speaker 1: We also had excellent point I apologize, and we had
Speaker 1: we had Chief Justice Earl Warren, we had Frank Gifford.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had quite a few people. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: we're glad you're here. Keep falling down. Huh. Most people
Speaker 1: don't try to drive themselves down the list. Um. So
Speaker 1: I live in an area where if it gets too windy,
Speaker 1: they turned my power off, and if it's not windy enough,
Speaker 1: I don't have any power. And then if it gets
Speaker 1: too hot, I don't have any power. Is there anything
Speaker 1: that can be done about that? Yeah? Move out of California.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, are you supposed to say that as a
Speaker 1: guy from California. No, but thanks for one moment. Okay.
Speaker 1: We we live in California because we knew what California
Speaker 1: was and could be. But based upon who runs California,
Speaker 1: we now pay higher in electrical electrical bills than anybody
Speaker 1: else in the nation. And now you get rolling blackouts
Speaker 1: for paying that higher fee because they cannot maintain it
Speaker 1: all the way through because the wind goes down and
Speaker 1: the sun stops shining. Because they make that mandate, they
Speaker 1: also allow mobs to control what we're doing. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about it. You've got Kamala Harris on the ticket.
Speaker 1: She wants to make San Francisco like America. So what
Speaker 1: does San Francisco, San Francisco skyhight Texas. San Francisco is
Speaker 1: a sanctuary city. You know it as well as I do.
Speaker 1: San Francisco has sidewalks nobody wants to walk down. And
Speaker 1: now we're watching Portland's, Chicago, New York. These are places
Speaker 1: happening wherever else. But if you want to pick a
Speaker 1: shiny place in California, you could go to Bakersfield, you
Speaker 1: could go to San Diego. And what's the common nominator.
Speaker 1: They've got Republican mayors, so they don't have the homeless
Speaker 1: problem that we do that's destroying l A, San Francisco
Speaker 1: and others. But it's the mandate that's coming out of
Speaker 1: Accramento that we all see in fear, and now that's
Speaker 1: being pushed nationwide. Well, what makes me crazy. We we
Speaker 1: call California cal Unicornia where realism goes to die. UM.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with environmentally sound electrical generation, but
Speaker 1: you have to be a realist about it and say
Speaker 1: we need capacity to provide power for when it's not
Speaker 1: sunny or the wind isn't blowing or something like that.
Speaker 1: Otherwise we come off looking like Heaiti. And it's it's
Speaker 1: crazy to me that that that's common sense. Look at
Speaker 1: I in my district were number one and win number
Speaker 1: one and solar, but we're also number two in the
Speaker 1: entire nation when it comes to oil production. You need
Speaker 1: all of that, you need all the above. I have
Speaker 1: nuclear just outside, we have geo thermal. You just tied
Speaker 1: to one or two, you're going to have this problem.
Speaker 1: The other thing, I am probably one of the biggest
Speaker 1: people who care about the environment to anybody else. We
Speaker 1: have some of the most beautiful scenery in California ever
Speaker 1: hyped to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the lower
Speaker 1: forty eight. But you know what we could do. We
Speaker 1: could go out and plant a trillion trees. Trees are
Speaker 1: the lungs of the earth, right They take in carbon
Speaker 1: dioxide and they release auctions they hold the carbon, and
Speaker 1: it would take away if we planted a trillion trees
Speaker 1: on this earth, two thirds of all the carbon created
Speaker 1: by man since the Industrial Revolution till today. You know what,
Speaker 1: and this, I hate the plastic in the ocean, but
Speaker 1: do you realize all the plastic in the ocean that
Speaker 1: comes from rivers only comes from tin rivers in the world,
Speaker 1: and none of them are in America. We just focused
Speaker 1: on clear Yeah, what if we just focused on cleaning
Speaker 1: up those we would do more than anything else. And
Speaker 1: this is the thing that gets me. We can have
Speaker 1: common sense environmental rules that keep an economy moving. Because
Speaker 1: I listened to all the Paris Accord and all that.
Speaker 1: Do you know the country that has lowered their c
Speaker 1: O two is America more than all those others combined.
Speaker 1: And we've done it by growing our economy at the
Speaker 1: same time. And then they let China expand and we
Speaker 1: are one world. They are polluting the world. We're talking
Speaker 1: with Congressman Kevin McCarthy. He's the House Minority leader and
Speaker 1: the fifth most famous person ever come out of Bakersfield. Um,
Speaker 1: so not the other problem you got with California, you know,
Speaker 1: And this is another thing that could move across the country,
Speaker 1: which is why is you know, people are gonna start
Speaker 1: coming on business trips to l A, San Francisco, wherever
Speaker 1: Land find out they can't get an Uber and have
Speaker 1: to get back into the old yellow cab and think,
Speaker 1: what what did I leave the country? I can't use
Speaker 1: Uber anymore? Explain that whole situation. Well, it's a it's
Speaker 1: another brilliant move by the majority Democrats in California. Remember
Speaker 1: that's where all their crazy ideas started. And remember Biden
Speaker 1: has put a California on that ticket that comes from
Speaker 1: San Francisco by B five And that's going to be
Speaker 1: terrible for business people coming. But you know who, it's
Speaker 1: worse for those Californians that that's their job, that they
Speaker 1: no longer have a job. It is the new gig
Speaker 1: economy that allows somebody who can determine when they want
Speaker 1: to work. Maybe their refrigerator breaks so they go drive
Speaker 1: for Uber to pay for a new refrigerator, or maybe
Speaker 1: they have a little time off and they want to
Speaker 1: make some money to take their kids to Disneyland. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, the Democrats don't believe you should have
Speaker 1: that option. They don't believe you should have greater choice
Speaker 1: in your life and decisions on your own. They think
Speaker 1: you should focus more on defunding the police, defunding the border,
Speaker 1: dismantling this country, and letting a mob rule and tear
Speaker 1: down any statue they think is appropriate. For folks not
Speaker 1: familiar with it, just really quickly. AB five is a
Speaker 1: law passed in California that essentially illegalized gig work. You
Speaker 1: have to be a full employee with benefits and payroll,
Speaker 1: tax and everything. Even if you just want to drive
Speaker 1: three hours a week for Uber or left what do
Speaker 1: you want to deliver some food? We're in the middle
Speaker 1: of COVID in any in any You know you're thinking
Speaker 1: of the future, right, So what you do you probe
Speaker 1: the traditions of the past to a changing future we have.
Speaker 1: California is the leader when it comes to tech jobs,
Speaker 1: gig jobs, and others. And here Democrats control of the state.
Speaker 1: And what are they doing. They're crushing them. That's why
Speaker 1: you watched job after job after job leave California. Not
Speaker 1: because they don't love the state. The policies that have
Speaker 1: made this state great have changed under the Democrats, and
Speaker 1: they're moving it away. And now they want to push
Speaker 1: that nationally. Yeah, and that's why we're trying to warn
Speaker 1: the rest of the country. A lot of these policies
Speaker 1: sound good, but they're just not realistic, and they end
Speaker 1: up punishing the workers. That that guy, that gal who
Speaker 1: was driving eight ten hours a week whatever for uber
Speaker 1: or lift enjoying the extra money. Now they get nothing.
Speaker 1: And who thought that that person who's getting a little
Speaker 1: side money, a little side hustle was interested in becoming
Speaker 1: a full time employee or whatever. That's not what they wanted.
Speaker 1: And now they'll get enough flexible. Yeah, it's more flexible
Speaker 1: for them for their children. This is the problem. This
Speaker 1: is the philosophy that we're going to and it's I
Speaker 1: don't believe. It's no longer republican versus democrat. This is
Speaker 1: about socialism versus freedom. They think they know what's better
Speaker 1: for you. They think they're going to make the decision.
Speaker 1: They're going to tell you how much bread you should have.
Speaker 1: They're gonna tell you when you can have electricity. They're
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what type of job you could have,
Speaker 1: instead of you determine your own future. Maybe you want
Speaker 1: to work three different jobs. Maybe you want to be
Speaker 1: there for your children at certain times. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: work at night, it's your choice. Are you are your
Speaker 1: kids in school? I don't remember what the ages your
Speaker 1: kids are at this point. They were young when I
Speaker 1: first started coming to your Now in my daughters with us.
Speaker 1: My son's out. He's got a startup, trying to make
Speaker 1: it in the world. Good for him. Kevin McCarthy is
Speaker 1: the House Minority leader who represents California's twenty three district,
Speaker 1: trying to bring a little realism to the capital, both
Speaker 1: of California and the United States. Kevin's always a great
Speaker 1: when we get a chance to talk. Keep fighting a
Speaker 1: good fight, huh. I appreciate it. You guys are fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's always good to get back on it. Next time.
Speaker 1: I'm not mentioned it more people from bake So I
Speaker 1: need to be down to hunt. Thank you, Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Thanks Kevin. So the state, Yeah, Sean pointed this out
Speaker 1: the state where Uber was invented. You might not have
Speaker 1: uber right the state where you mentioned this where Elon
Speaker 1: Musk and Steve Jobs and some of the most brilliant
Speaker 1: technological minds in the history of the planet lived and
Speaker 1: did their thing. You can't have electricity if this when
Speaker 1: the sun goes down, right, it's all pretty crazy. What's
Speaker 1: getting in the way of all those things? Stupid government. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was not terribly long ago that cal Unicornia was
Speaker 1: the envy not of not just of the United States,
Speaker 1: but of the world. It was so well run and
Speaker 1: it was so innovative, and there was so much freedom.
Speaker 1: To those of you who are old enough to remember,
Speaker 1: you know that the whole Beach Boys thing and and
Speaker 1: you know whatever in California's image um with you know,
Speaker 1: extremely low cost, great colleges and the rest of it. Um,
Speaker 1: the whole thing was come to California. It's try stuff,
Speaker 1: do stuff, we love innovation and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: That drew a lot of people there in the whole
Speaker 1: sil Silicon Valley thing when it fired up in the eighties.
Speaker 1: That was a fruit of that. Now, in case you're
Speaker 1: not familiar with it, the a lot of the unions
Speaker 1: have a stranglehold on the Capitol and it's all about
Speaker 1: stomping out innovation. Now you're surfing down the sidewalk on
Speaker 1: human pooh fail, your soul being crushed, Tucker. Wow, that
Speaker 1: there's that much you can serve on it. I'll be damned.
Speaker 1: Uh So anyway, it's things change, places changed bas based
Speaker 1: on the quality of the governance. And to quote Archie Bunker,
Speaker 1: another old timey reference, California is going straight into the dumper.
Speaker 1: Let's go surfing now on human pooh, that's not let's
Speaker 1: unfortunately the surf is up. The tent cities are exploding. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well, I'll tell you what. Uh, it'll
Speaker 1: either change or it won't do pending. Um, yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? There were several Republican governors of
Speaker 1: cal Unicornia just in the last thirty thirty five years,
Speaker 1: but the war in Iraq and Donald Trump have have
Speaker 1: more or less killed the Republican Party in California. And listen,
Speaker 1: I know you Trump fans don't want to hear that,
Speaker 1: but he's despised in a lot of your lefty states
Speaker 1: and it's just it's really hurt local Republicans who just
Speaker 1: want good, responsible governments since the way politics goes. So
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten to this stuff. I should. What time
Speaker 1: of day are you supposed to eat? To try to
Speaker 1: keep the weight off you? Hear people say various things,
Speaker 1: I don't know you tell me I will among other things,