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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 2: app John Cobelt Show, can if I Am six forty

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Speaker 2: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm here to let

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Speaker 2: the world know just what a freaking disaster Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: has been to the state, and it's been destroyed right

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Speaker 2: in front of our eyes. You know, I've been here

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Speaker 2: over thirty years, and when I was a little kid,

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Speaker 2: this looked like paradise on TV. I came here and

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Speaker 2: it actually was and it stayed that way for the first,

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Speaker 2: you know, twenty plus years or so, and then it's

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Speaker 2: gone really downhill, and it's it's almost entirely due to

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Speaker 2: self inflicted bad democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader

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Speaker 2: for any political party, but I am telling you that

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Speaker 2: this progressive movement over the last ten years has utterly

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Speaker 2: disemboweled the state. It is terrible and it's heartbreaking. It's

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Speaker 2: very sad, and you know, it's funny. I've got I've

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Speaker 2: got three sons who are in their twenties and they

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Speaker 2: all they all moved out, and none of them want

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Speaker 2: to come back to California. And but we visit them

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Speaker 2: around the country, and when I go to other states,

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Speaker 2: within a few hours.

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Speaker 1: I look around and I go, what happened? Like, where

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Speaker 1: are the homeless people?

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Speaker 2: You know, where are all the woe level criminals skulking about?

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Speaker 2: Look at that gas price, that's two eighty nine. That's

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Speaker 2: two sixty nine a gallon. I feel like I've broken

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Speaker 2: out of Cuba, I mean, or we're communist Russia. I

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Speaker 2: really have that feeling. And my sons used to hear

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Speaker 2: my wife and I complain and grumble all the time

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Speaker 2: about various policies and taxes and just everything, quality of

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Speaker 2: life issues, and the insta role arives.

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Speaker 1: At us until they moved out. And so now they

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Speaker 1: go out.

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Speaker 2: And I have one son of Wyoming, one in North Carolina,

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Speaker 2: one in Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: They're going to school.

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Speaker 2: Or various you know, early parts of their career and

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Speaker 2: they come back.

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Speaker 1: They're shocked.

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Speaker 2: Now they're shocked by la because they spend you know,

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Speaker 2: three six months in peace before they return for a visit,

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Speaker 2: and they go, you know, now, I know what you're

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Speaker 2: talking about, because they get so used to normal life,

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Speaker 2: pleasant life. I visited one of my sons in North

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Speaker 2: Carolina over the summer and then we took a road trip.

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Speaker 2: We went through Savannah, Georgia, we went to Charleston, South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: We ended up in Sarasota, where my wife grew up

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Speaker 2: a part of her childhood as a teenager, and beyond

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Speaker 2: because her parents had moved. And so just seeing those

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Speaker 2: four cities, seeing Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Sarasota, and I'm looking around,

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Speaker 2: it's like, look at this.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's on the sidewalks. We're not looking at our shoulder.

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Speaker 1: We're not afraid.

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Speaker 2: And that is the single thing that makes you crazy

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Speaker 2: in La. We never know when somebody's going to come

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Speaker 2: flying at you, because it happens. People get punched in

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Speaker 2: the face, they get stabbed. There is a girl that

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Speaker 2: my sons went to school with from the local school,

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Speaker 2: and she'd gone to college and she was taken a

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Speaker 2: job to earn money and to leave it a furniture store.

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Speaker 2: Homeless guy who'd been arrested, you know, many many many times,

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Speaker 2: in the furniture store. It's like, oh my god, you

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Speaker 2: know what. My sons knew that girl. I used to

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Speaker 2: see her. She used to work out at a park

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Speaker 2: that I worked out at, and I remembered her. And

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Speaker 2: it really hits home to a lot of people. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we know, we know dozens and dozens of people who

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Speaker 2: lost their homes in the fire because many of the

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Speaker 2: people in the Palisades went to the same school as

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Speaker 2: my children. And so the pain is intense, The pain

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Speaker 2: is personal. You go from paradise to what we have now,

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Speaker 2: and now a lot of people have packed up and left,

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Speaker 2: and I understand. And people always say, well, why are

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Speaker 2: you staying. Well, I do have a good job, and

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Speaker 2: we do have a lot of friends. You know, you

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Speaker 1: That just doesn't sound appealing. Let me tell you about

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Speaker 1: some of the fraud.

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Speaker 2: And we went over with Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com.

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Speaker 2: And so I keep saying, if, like you think Waltz

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Speaker 2: is something else with the fraud, just listen to these

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom stories. And California dropped its lawsuit. Four billion

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Speaker 2: dollars in federal money was supposed to come for high

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Speaker 2: a lot of damage to Newsom. This is one example,

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Speaker 2: four billion dollars of federal money. Obama had originally appropriated

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Speaker 2: some of it. And the first thing that Newsom and

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Speaker 2: the Attorney general in California does, Rob Bonta, is they

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Speaker 2: hold a press conference. We're suing Trump, big headlines in

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Speaker 2: all the left wing papers. Newsom sues Trump, Bonta sues Trump. Well,

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Speaker 2: the follow up to that is that Newsom and Vonta

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Speaker 2: dropped their four billion dollar lawsuit. They're not even going

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Speaker 2: to try to get the four billion back because guess what,

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Speaker 2: they did violate the grant agreement.

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Speaker 1: They dismissed their own lawsuits.

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Speaker 2: Trump's Transportation Department said they did a compliance review and

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Speaker 2: found that California didn't meet federal grant requirements. There were

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Speaker 2: too many costly changes to the contracts, The ridership forecasts

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Speaker 2: were bogus.

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Speaker 1: And on and on.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you when this thing passed in two

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Speaker 2: it passed fifty two to forty eight. It was a

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Speaker 2: statewide referendum, do you want high speed rail? Here is

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Speaker 2: what they sold the public. I voted no. I knew

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Speaker 2: it was a bunch of lies. A lot of people

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Speaker 2: went for it, and I understand why because at the time,

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Speaker 2: and this was a remnant of like the Schwarzenegger administration.

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Speaker 2: They said, you were going to have two hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty mile an hour trains. Yeah, really two hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty mile an hour trains, and they were going to

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Speaker 2: run from get this, It was going to run from

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Speaker 2: Sacramento to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, then to Anaheim,

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Speaker 2: then to San Diego. The whole state, all the major

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Speaker 2: cities from north to south, would be connected by a

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Speaker 2: single track. And we were going to build that in

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Speaker 2: about within fifteen years, by twenty twenty, and the total

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Speaker 2: price was going to be thirty three billion dollars thirty

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Speaker 2: three billion dollars for the whole thing, Sacramento, San Francisco,

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Speaker 2: La Anaheim, San Diego, and the trains would go two

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Speaker 2: to order from San Francisco to Los Angeles in like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, two and a half hours. And people

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Speaker 2: got excited. Right, people love it. It's science fiction, right,

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Speaker 2: shiny bullet trains speeding you know, through the California farm

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Speaker 2: regions connecting the cities. Everyone bought into it. So now

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Speaker 2: what have we got eighteen years later? We have no track.

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Speaker 2: What we have is scattered out in the central valleys.

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Speaker 1: They call it.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of farmland, right, Well, they tore up

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Speaker 2: a lot of farmland, and they have left these pillars.

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Speaker 2: And someday someone's going to come back to California and

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Speaker 2: wonder what these pillars are for, because they're really high.

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Speaker 1: They're like twenty thirty feet high.

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Speaker 2: They're supposed to hold up the railroad track, the overhead

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Speaker 2: railroad track, except the railroad track was never built. So

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Speaker 2: you have these things that it looks like Stonehenge out there.

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Speaker 2: Like if you had, i know.

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Speaker 1: People from a foreign country come, they'd be looking around.

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Speaker 2: It's like this, this is the ancient civilization that left behind.

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Speaker 2: You know, were they tracking the sun?

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 2: Were they plotting the stars? Do these cast shadows? That's

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Speaker 2: all we have are these stonehenge pillars to hold up track.

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Speaker 1: That's never been built.

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Speaker 2: They have reduced the train to Bakersfield to Merced. You

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Speaker 2: can't run a train back and forth. There's no market there.

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Speaker 2: They're no commuters wanting to go for Bakersfield. To Mersaid.

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Speaker 2: And even then the train stops are outside Bakersfield in Merceente,

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Speaker 2: and that's the extent of the train they're trying to build.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be one hundred and seventy one miles.

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Speaker 2: There is no Sacramento, there's no San Francisco, there's no

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, no Anaheim, no San Diego, there's nothing. There's

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Speaker 2: Baker's Field to Mercede. And now they're estimating it's like, well,

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Speaker 2: if we ever built the whole thing, which we're not

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Speaker 2: going to, it would cost all one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty billion. Remember what I said at the beginning,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be thirty three billion, all five major cities.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be done about twelve to fifteen years. They

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Speaker 2: did several audits. And when the auditors went in, as

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Speaker 2: somebody else says, want they do an audit, I don't

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Speaker 2: do it forensic audit and track down every penny. Well,

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Speaker 2: when they do the audits, they find out the money evaporated.

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Speaker 2: It's it's not written down, there's no paperwork. There's literally

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Speaker 2: no paperwork. Tax money was withdrawn from accounts and then

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Speaker 2: that we're now paying back. They also said, well, we're

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Speaker 2: going to get private investors. Way back when well a

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Speaker 2: Newsoman Bonta dropped this lawsuit, somebody said, well, where are

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Speaker 2: you going to get the money. Oh, we're going to

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Speaker 2: get private investor. There are no private investors in the world.

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Speaker 2: They've been trying for twenty five years to get private investors.

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Speaker 2: But it's a boondoggle. You know, when the private sector

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Speaker 2: says this thing is a scam, it's a scam.

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Speaker 1: But it keeps the unions employed.

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Speaker 2: We're busy building these stonehenge pillars for no reason.

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Speaker 1: It's astonishing.

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Speaker 2: in California? A speeding ticket or you run over someone

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Speaker 2: with your car and kill them. Well, in some cases,

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Speaker 2: the speeding ticket is worse. You could speed, no accident,

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Speaker 2: no casualties, You're just caught going too fast. In the

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Speaker 2: other case, you do something and you kill another motorist,

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Speaker 2: a pedestrian, a bicyclist, and you've done something wrong, and

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Speaker 2: they charge you with a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, which can

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Speaker 2: be either a felony or a misdemeanor. So you're guilty

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Speaker 2: of the hicular manslaughter, but you will get less well,

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Speaker 2: you'll get nothing on your public record potentially. Let me

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Speaker 2: explain cal Matters, which is another good news website on California.

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Speaker 2: Since most of the regular media has abandoned coverage, including

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Speaker 2: just about all the media here in Los Angeles, cal

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Speaker 2: Matters has found that there's something called a misdemeanor diversion program.

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Speaker 2: This was passed in twenty twenty by the legislature, so

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Speaker 2: a judge can erase a misdemeanor case from existence, what

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Speaker 2: they call low level crimes, so you don't have a stigma.

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Speaker 2: Because having a stigma, you have a conviction on your record. Well,

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Speaker 2: sometimes you can't get work, Sometimes you can't get an

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Speaker 2: apartment because nobody wants a criminal in the workplace. Nobody

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Speaker 2: wants to rent to a criminal, can't trust him. So

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Speaker 2: they extended this so that you could kill somebody while driving,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so good luck with it, and as time goes on,

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, I'm a good send your show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, David Goldblum. And again PBS. On

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Speaker 2: January seventh, the anniversary of the fire, you get to

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Speaker 2: at John Cobelt Radio Newsome because we are forced to

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Speaker 2: study Newsome closely. I understand his patterns.

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Speaker 1: I understand you're obsessed with him. I am. I know,

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Speaker 1: I can't. It's the hair, John, I get it.

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Speaker 2: He is so dishonest and manipulative. He's such a psychopathic,

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Speaker 2: compulsive liar that I'm fascinated by his hold over ordinary people.

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Speaker 1: Nothing.

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Speaker 2: I justlike warn't than the politician that sits there and

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Speaker 2: lies to you, and the way he finds an issue

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Speaker 2: and then postures. You know, he gets all outraged and

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Speaker 2: angry and he's waving his arms. He likes to wave

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Speaker 2: his arms and his hands. He always looks like he's

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Speaker 2: landing airplanes.

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Speaker 1: When he talked, I'm going to express my relationship to

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Speaker 1: my truth.

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Speaker 2: So two years ago, when Biden was still president and

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Speaker 2: the Green New Deal was a big thing and they

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Speaker 2: were blowing literally hundreds of billions of dollars on green nonsense,

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Speaker 2: Gavin said, Okay, that's the way the wind is blowing.

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Speaker 2: And for most of twenty twenty three and twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four he was on a crusade against high gas prices,

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Speaker 2: which I was found fascinating because.

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Speaker 1: He's the reason we have them.

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Speaker 2: A dollar fifty of the gas price is taxes and

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Speaker 2: regulatory fees imposed by the state, so it's him. But

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Speaker 2: he was pounding his fist that the oil companies, the

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Speaker 2: energy companies were gouging us, and they had to be investigated,

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Speaker 2: and they had to be further regulated, and there had

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Speaker 2: to be commissions and investigations. So today, and I just

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Speaker 2: looked at this minutes ago, you now you know what

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Speaker 2: the lowest price in America for gases. It is Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: at two dollars and forty nine cents two forty nine.

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Speaker 2: There are twenty nine states at three bucks a gallon

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Speaker 2: or less. There are forty four states under three forty

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Speaker 2: forty four. And then if you scroll away to the

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Speaker 2: bottom of the list. The most expensive state, it's California,

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Speaker 2: four sixty six a gallon, twenty cents more than Hawaii,

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Speaker 2: twenty cents more than Hawaii, almost almost fifty cents more

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Speaker 2: than the state of Washington, which is third most expensive.

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Speaker 2: So we are far and away the most expensive. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're getting close to double Oklahoma. And Dan Walters for

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Speaker 2: col Matters wrote this piece on now and we've talked

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Speaker 2: about this. Now you have refineries closing, you have the

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Speaker 2: pipeline is going to shut itself down because we produce

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Speaker 2: so little oil that the pipeline mechanics are going to

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Speaker 2: seize up. And the price of gas is out of

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Speaker 2: sight and new some like the rest of these idiots, now, Babbel,

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Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate it when everybody in politics

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Speaker 2: and the media sees on a word or a phrase

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Speaker 2: it's like, oh, it's affordability, it's all about affordability. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at you know, I'm looking at the price

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Speaker 2: of gas here and it's fourth sixty six a gallon.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know where that for sixty six is.

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Speaker 2: It's not in my neighborhood. A lot of neighborhoods, it's

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Speaker 2: closer to five dollars a gallon, but fine, and that

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Speaker 2: adds up to I don't know, if you get a

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Speaker 2: tank full of gas a week, you know twenty you know,

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Speaker 2: twenty gallons of gas, Well that's thirty dollars more than

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Speaker 2: a lot of states every week. That's fifteen hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: more a year. Affordability my ass. Now, part of his crusade,

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Speaker 2: he created the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight.

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Speaker 1: This is new.

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Speaker 2: This is supposed to track how the California oil companies

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Speaker 2: are gouging you because a year ago this week he said,

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Speaker 2: they continue to lie, they continue to manipulate. They've been

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Speaker 2: rinking an unprecedented profits because they can. Nobody who's making

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Speaker 2: record profits closes their business and moves out of the state. Somehow,

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Speaker 2: the oil companies in California are the first companies in

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Speaker 2: the history of the state who are making so much

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Speaker 2: money they've decided to go out of business and leave.

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Speaker 2: But he's such a narcissistic, psychopath, compulsive wire. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: last month, the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight released its

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Speaker 2: first annual report. It's like, ah, now we're going to

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Speaker 2: find out how much gouging is going on. Well, they

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Speaker 2: didn't find any gouge they According to Dan Walters, the

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Speaker 2: report confirmed what was already known that the price is

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Speaker 2: here are much higher than other states, and most of

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Speaker 2: the price differential is due to taxes and regulatory costs.

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Speaker 2: So all all that glovy, all that preening and primping

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Speaker 2: before the cameras, the fake outrage oil companies are gouging us,

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Speaker 2: and stupid asses in the stay gone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there, all companies are gouging us. They're gouging us.

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Speaker 2: And apparently people in California never travel to the other

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Speaker 2: forty nine states. I guess maybe everybody's so broke they

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Speaker 2: can't they don't travel anymore, because there isn't a state

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Speaker 2: I've traveled to in the last year or two where

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Speaker 2: I haven't been at first stunned by the price, because

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Speaker 2: you just get used to seeing, you know, four eighty

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Speaker 2: nine a gallon in the neighborhood. And I know Eric

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Speaker 2: runs into this all the time, and you travel and

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Speaker 2: he sends back photos and it's, you know, it's like

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Speaker 2: two eighty nine in Arizona or something like that. And

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Speaker 2: they're gran out of business because of the high costs

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Speaker 2: and high taxes. High regulatory burden because all those regulations

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Speaker 2: add more cost. There's taxes on the energy companies that

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Speaker 2: are passed to us, there's taxes directly at the pump.

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Speaker 1: And it's all from Gavin Newsom. It's entirely him.

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Speaker 2: He created a commission to find out that he's the

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Speaker 2: cause of the high gas prices.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what a bozo.

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Speaker 2: And this is going to be so entertaining because I

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Speaker 2: bet you there's gonna be ten Democrats running for president.

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Speaker 2: Let's say there's ten, right, and they're going to have

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Speaker 2: a debate, and they're all going to be arrayed across

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Speaker 2: and the other nine are going to hammer on his

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Speaker 2: head because of his hair and his jaw. He'll be

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Speaker 2: at or near the top of the poles. And you

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Speaker 2: always go after the front runner, and you are going

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Speaker 2: to see nine people. The only thing they're going to

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Speaker 2: debate in the first time they get together is Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsom's disastrous reign as governor. Here that is, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to take I'm going to talk you off, take off

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Speaker 2: work that day and just get drunk and enjoy this thing. Hey,

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