1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. And of course, the big story concerns the 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 1: three La City Council members who had a racially charged conversation. 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: The main one says, a lot of the talking loves 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 1: the F word. As the council president, Nor Martinez, she 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: resigned that position today, but she's still on the La 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: City Council. Not a foul mouthed woman. She is Jay's 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: that's supposed to meet tomorrow, which ought to be a 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: real crazy She couldn't go fifteen seconds dropping an F 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: bomb's that's just her style. Some people don't like that. 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: Some people, some people are a vulgar and uncouth, really, 11 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: but they dis many of their fellow politicians, and they 12 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: took shots at Mike Bonnen, Mitchell Farrell, they took shots 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: at Nitia Rahman, and they took shots at well hacking people. 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: We have the recordings we're going to play in the 15 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: five o'clock hour in case you haven't heard them, and 16 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: we're also wondering about the source of these recordings. Apparently 17 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: it looks like it was a meeting at the union 18 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: offices Elle County Federation of Labor Offices, because the president 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: is among the four speaking, and we think that maybe 20 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: somebody just to laid a little phone somewhere hidden to 21 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: pick up this conversation, because they wanted to expose these 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: people for what really goes on behind closed doors. They 23 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: were talking about redistricting and trying to get district maps 24 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: that favor not only themselves but also probably helped to 25 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: get other Latinos elected. And that's why they go on 26 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: dissing people of other races. And yeah, they went, they 27 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: went against wall Hawkins. That neram Tannis. Yeah, she's upset 28 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: skin color, called them ugly, didn't didn't like the color 29 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: of their skin. Who gets that upset about Wall Hawkins? 30 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: I mean that is that is a real damaged soul. 31 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: We have an update on the Vegas stabber coming up 32 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: later on this hour, and a strange story going back 33 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: to well, not George Gascone, but Jackie Lacy was La 34 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: County Day. Apparently there was a case against the Vegas 35 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: stabber a few years back that they missed a deadline 36 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: to file. We'll bring you all these details coming up 37 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: later on this hour, but we will begin with an 38 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: El Segundo Times special that ran over the weekend. Headline 39 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: California repeatedly warned about spiking gas prices, fragile supply, but 40 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: fixes never came. This is like a soft cell. They 41 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,399 Speaker 1: got a staff runner by the name of Grace Twee too. 42 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: You know, people are not understanding the high gas prices 43 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: and it just isn't enough to talk about, you know, 44 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: the change to renewables. So why don't you write something 45 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: that sort of explains it to maybe, I don't know, 46 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: tamp down the anchor that's out there. Now, this will 47 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: make you more angry if it's all true. They quote 48 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: our new friend Severin Bornstein, who we threw in the 49 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: dubster last week. Yeah, it's the first person quoted, director 50 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: of UC Berkeley's Energy Institute at the Host School of Business. 51 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: So you know, he's very important and very intelligent, and 52 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: he says we've got to make longer run plans and 53 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: not just wait until the crisis is upon us. He 54 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: sat on a statewide committee in nineteen ninety nine and 55 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen and aimed at finding possible solutions for the 56 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: volatile wait fuel market. So wait a minute, he's responsible 57 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,399 Speaker 1: for this. Twenty three years ago they had a meeting saying, hey, 58 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna have a terrible gas shortage. And big price spikes. 59 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: We got to do something twenty Well, they did make recommendations, 60 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: he said, but none were imployment recommendations. Recommend Well, they 61 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: can't actually put us a committee. We wrote this on 62 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: paper here. Look look what we wrote. Will you read this? No, 63 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read it. Oh why do we do it? Then? 64 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: Who are the governors? That that idiot? Gray Davis, the 65 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: idiot Arnold Schwarzenegger, the idiot Jerry Brown, the idiot Gavin Newsom? 66 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: Case closed? What do you expect? They quote Amy Myers Jaffee, 67 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: the managing director of Tufts University's Climate Policy Lab. What 68 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: does that look like? She was also a former executive 69 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: director for Energy and Sustainability UC Davis. But she's got 70 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: it right here. She said, whoa do you have the 71 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: new infrastructure fast enough before you retire the old infrastructure? 72 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: And what happens if you're in the middle. The way 73 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: we're doing it now is you just let the few 74 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: costs go up. Then we leave poor people with no 75 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: ability to get anywhere. And then California leaders grandstand against 76 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: the oil companies. That's not a solution that she's referring to. 77 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: New them there and that's exactly what they did. What 78 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: they did is they put so much regulation, so much taxes, 79 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: the cap and trade taxes that are on the oil companies. 80 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: The oil companies decided to get out of the oil 81 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: business here. Slowly, little by little, over the course of 82 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: the last twenty three years, they closed down refineries. They 83 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: they're not drilling for oil because they're not allowed to. 84 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: They got the hint the California government doesn't want their 85 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: industry and California. So as these plants break down, they 86 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: close them, they leave. It's like, fine, we'll stop drilling, 87 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: we'll stop refining gas. We'll get the out of forty 88 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: nine states. Cal globe it's a California globe dot com. 89 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: Listen to this paragraph. In nineteen eighty two, California had 90 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 1: forty three operational oil refineries and a population of about 91 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: twenty five million. Today we have eleven operational oil refineries 92 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: in a population of nearly forty million. And you know what, 93 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: a lot of those forty million I'm not driving electric cars. 94 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: So there's your problem. So we got double the population 95 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: and one quarter the number of refiner refineries. Yeah, and 96 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: that's by design, because they have told the oil companies 97 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: you're not welcome here. Okay, so we're gonna tax you 98 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: and tax you, and you can pass it onto your consumers, 99 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: which they've been doing. But that's still not good enough 100 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: to them to expand operations. Instead, they shrunk. When one 101 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: of the refineries has to close down because of maintenance 102 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: or there's an accident or a fire, then there's less 103 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: gasoline being refined in the state. You have a shortage. 104 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 1: What happens with a shortage, the price goes up because 105 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: everyone who sells gas in California has to bid on 106 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: an ever shrinking amount of available gasoline. And so that's 107 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,799 Speaker 1: why the gas prices here are two dollars and fifty 108 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: cents more than the other states. We cannot import gasoline 109 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: from other states because other states don't make our stupid 110 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: summer blend that we require. So there is no product 111 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: like this that exists in the other forty nine states 112 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: at those refineries. We're stuck with our eleven refineries with 113 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: double the population, one quarter of the number. This is 114 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: an entirely self inflicted wound. And by the way, it's 115 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: on purpose. Somehow they want to drive that they want 116 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: to stop us from driving without any other way of 117 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: getting around. There is no other practical way to get around. 118 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: It simply doesn't exist. And they want to deflect the 119 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: blame to the oil company's profits, which are probably good profits, 120 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: but that doesn't explain the supply problem. They're responsible for 121 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: the supply problem. It doesn't matter what their pro story says. 122 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: They withheld over a thousand drilling permits. Yes, yes there's 123 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: a there's a thousand that have been applied for, only 124 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: twelve have been approved. Much what was the Bakersfield This 125 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: is on purpose? These are the fanatics. So what were 126 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: some of the ideas they had from all these committees 127 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: that met to try to ease us into these high 128 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: gas prices. They wanted the state to keep an emergency supply, 129 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: or the refineries to keep emergency supplies of fuel, or 130 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: like the federal government has yeah strategic oil reserve that 131 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: we would have kind of the same idea for the 132 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: state through gasoline reserve. One idea was a state owned 133 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: gasoline reserve, which was a possible option for price spike mitigation. 134 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: Actually is one of their ideas well. What they have 135 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: to do more refineries, They have to stop all the 136 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: taxes in the fees and get rid of the regulation. 137 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: That's what they have to do. That's what you go 138 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: by what the other forty nine states are doing, and 139 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: do it like all those states. Period. This doesn't work, 140 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: and you're going to see it doesn't work. It's me 141 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: give up our special blend. You you give up all 142 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: the restrictions and all the complications and all the taxes 143 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: that is causing these high prices and these gas shortages. 144 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: You must live like the other forty nine states live. 145 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: You can't. You can't do this. It doesn't work. This 146 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: idea is almost like it's like a theological religious idea. Well, 147 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna have sustainable energy. It's all going to be renewable, 148 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: and you know we are going to transition to there's 149 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: no such transition coming. They're calling this just a rough transition. 150 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: Now they're in the middle. Right now, we're on our way. 151 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: If you guys can just hang on with these high 152 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: gas prices, now you'll see what's around the cool It's 153 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: a fantasy. They drive your ev and your electricity prices 154 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: will be triple what they are today. Religious people, but 155 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: that'll be next. Even if everybody bought evs, we'd find 156 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: out that electricity prices are even further through the roof 157 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 1: than they are now. Right when we find that out, 158 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: because there's no electricity enough. The press electricity would be 159 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars every time you try to charge your car, 160 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: because they've literally millions of cars backed up for the 161 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: for the twelve charging stations we have. Look, this is 162 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: what it comes down to. The human brain is easily 163 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,119 Speaker 1: fooled and deluded. And here you have, by by definition, 164 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: people who believe deeply in religions, believe in fantasies. They 165 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: believe in fantasy stories of the past, They believe in 166 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 1: fantasy stories of the present. The people are into this 167 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: green energy renewable religion, believe in a fantasy that we're 168 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: going to transition to wind and solar and all the 169 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: rest of the blah blah. It's not going to happen. 170 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: It's a fantasy. It doesn't work now, it's never gonna work. 171 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: And they've been looking at this for twenty years in 172 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: terms of short what they knew would be priced by. 173 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: And there's people. Do you remember at the turn of 174 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: the millennium and there were people standing on a cliff 175 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: in the Middle East and they thought Jesus was going 176 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: to come down we were going to have the rapture 177 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: and Jesus was going to come down and lift them 178 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: up into the heavens. And so they had quit their jobs, 179 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: and they sold their homes, and they took their families 180 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: and stood on the cliff as the sun rose, and 181 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: they waited for Jesus to come down. These were grown 182 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: men and women who did this, and so it's the 183 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: same thing here. They're standing on a cliff waiting for 184 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: the rapture to happen and Jesus to come down. All right, 185 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: we got more coming up Johnny Ken Show and kf 186 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: I Am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app 187 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: we'll bring you all. There is in the LA City 188 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: Council a big racially charred scandal concerning a conversation the 189 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: three LA City Council members were having. They were all 190 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: Latino with a labor hack, also Latino. It was about redistricting, 191 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: but boy, they made some comments about their colleagues, including 192 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: Mike Bonnen. Will bring all that coming up in the 193 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: five o'clock hour, play some more clips. Everybody hates Mike Bonden, Yeah, 194 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: it would seems. So that's what brings Los Angeles together, 195 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: people being sick of Mike Bonden. It doesn't matter who 196 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: you are, doesn't matter your race, doesn't matter what you do. 197 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: Big story last week was the attack on the Las 198 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: Vegas Strip. A man stabbed a couple of showgirls, then 199 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: stabbed a couple of other passerbys. He killed two, wounded six. 200 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: His name is Yanni Christian Barrios. Then anything ensuing hours, 201 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: we learned a couple of things. He's in the country illegally, 202 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: and he's probably was homeless. He made his way from 203 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: southern California to Vegas. He apparently was carrying a large knife. 204 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: He walked into the casino there. I believe it was 205 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: the win. He was asking for a job. They apparently 206 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: told him to step in front of a train. That's 207 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: one quote we saw in a police report. I wouldn't 208 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: recommend that as a response. He's already not stable. He 209 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: goes outside, he sees the show girls who walk up 210 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 1: down his trip to take pictures with people, and he 211 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 1: asked for a picture with them, and they got the creeps. 212 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: He actually pulled out his knife and said, can I 213 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: pose with this? I think the large suppose he's a chef, 214 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: he says, and they really said no, and they set 215 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: him off. Well, they should have scattered immediately as soon 216 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: as they pulled the knife out. You know what I 217 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 1: saw here A quote from one of the officials is that, 218 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 1: you know, we're trying to understand why somebody would do this. Yes, 219 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: here it is the Clark County DA, Steve Wolfson. We're 220 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: still looking to why a person would do this. And 221 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, he told you he thought he was 222 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: being made fun of. That's why. Because he's a crazy person. 223 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: And apparently after he stabbed the show girl, he stabbed 224 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 1: the others because he needed to let it out his anger. 225 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: Every That's the way some people might kick a chair 226 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: or punch a wall. He just started stabbing people. Officials 227 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: always say things like, well, this is just senseless. We 228 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: just don't understand why, because they're insane and violent. That's 229 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: why when he learned a little more about his criminal record, 230 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 1: he is definitely an illegal alien. He wanted to get 231 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: back to Guatemala. He was charged in twenty nineteen with 232 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: criminal domestic violence. The DA at the time was Jackie Lacy, 233 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: not George Gasconne. However, if he had been convicted, he 234 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: likely would have been in prison and supposedly. I don't 235 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: like doubt now I doubt this. It says deported, But 236 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: California has central laws. They protect when you're released from prison. 237 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: They don't want you canted over to the Not in 238 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. No, he wouldn't have been deported, not in 239 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: the state. And so that's why you have two dead 240 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: people in Las Vegas because nobody did their job. Jackie 241 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: Lacy didn't do her job. Apparently they just didn't file 242 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: the paperwork fast enough. Well, there's no to the story 243 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: from the Daily Mail. Ninety days elapsed and the judge 244 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:09,079 Speaker 1: just dismissed the case under California's speedy trial laws. They 245 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: waited too long ninety days. And we have thousands of 246 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: people working in the DA's office, thousands of people. Ninety days. 247 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: Nobody's somehow languished because people don't don't do their work. 248 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: He was criminally charged with injuring a spouse or a 249 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: cohabitant or fellow parent, a fellow parent, and an act 250 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: of domestic violence. He could have gotten four years the 251 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: incidents opposedly he credit in August eighteenth of twenty eighteen. 252 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: They filed the case a year later, but the first 253 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: pre trial hearing was left until more than two years later, 254 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: April eighth, twenty twenty one, and the judge said, I 255 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: have no choice under California penal coach always that a 256 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: COVID thing because they shut down the court system. Oh 257 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: it could be. You're right, I think that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, 258 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: you're right. Well, but he committed the act in twenty eighteen. 259 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: We didn't get COVID till beginning of twenty twenty. I know, 260 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: but they could have done something in twenty nineteen with 261 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: this Why yeah, I know. That's terrible system with people 262 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: who just don't do their jobs. I don't know what 263 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: to do. These files sit on desks or you know, 264 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: they sit in a key on someone's computer screen and 265 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: nobody does anything. Well, the quote we got from Merrick's 266 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: adal We've got him on our show, vice president of 267 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: the Association of Elle County Deputy Das. He actually thinks 268 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: if the case was thrown out, witness issues and that 269 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: happens a lot in domestic violence cases goes. Whoever gets 270 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: beat up suddenly doesn't want to turn on quote their 271 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: loved one, and they that's really all you have, and 272 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: they should They should have deported him. They should They 273 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: should have. There's no excuse for him being in the country. 274 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: The only other thing we see here he has another 275 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: criminal record in Riverside. In April twenty sixteen, he was 276 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: caught speeding. Oh what do you know, driving without a license. Well, 277 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: it's leg alali him. But what year to we get 278 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: driver's licenses for legal immigrants? I think it was before 279 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, but he not every but he applies for those. 280 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: So yeah. So supposedly he lived in la he went 281 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: to Vegas to stay with a friend. They renegged on 282 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: the offer, so he just wandered over to the strip 283 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: and attack the showgirls to let the anger out. So 284 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: this is just another one of these unhinged people that 285 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: wanders around. This one had a large when the system 286 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: becomes aware of him, the system, well this, I'm not 287 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: going to call it the system. It's people. People didn't 288 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: do their jobs. He should have been turned over for deportation. Yeah, 289 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: and I'd like to see what the real reason was 290 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: for the delay. Is it because there weren't witnesses willing 291 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: to speak or is that just kind of a papered 292 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: over excuse. A woman that runs this h it's like 293 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: an agency. I didn't. I always thought when I saw 294 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: these people on the strip dressed up, you know, like 295 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: a show girls or cartoon characters, that they just did 296 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: their own thing. But in some cases they're actually sent 297 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: there by an agency who I guess helps him with 298 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: their clothing and gets them set up and then wander 299 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: up and down the strip and takes a cut and 300 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: takes a cut of their It's like a profit. It's 301 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: like a performance agency. I've never done that. I don't 302 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: know how that works, whether or not you decide how 303 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: much you want to give them and just like a tip, 304 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 1: or do they actually hide a price. I don't talk 305 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: to anybody in a in an outfit, anybody in a 306 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: costume on And I still wandering down Hollywood Boulevard. I 307 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 1: haven't been there in a while either. Yeah, I think 308 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: they remember. Sometimes they get in fights with each other. Well, yeah, 309 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: there and their their Spider Man was starting attacking Batman 310 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: or something, and their costume was rolled dirty and natted 311 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: and greasy. Well they're basically homeless. Yeah, they are homeless problems. 312 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: And some of them are sex molesters. It's like that. 313 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: I saw a few out on the strip on Saturday 314 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: when I was walking the strip. Show girls, show girls. 315 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, some of them are afraid to go back out. Yeah, 316 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: I saw show girls. I saw a couple of Mickey mouses. 317 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 1: I saw an old off from Frozen. Yeah. I saw 318 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: a few people out there. Yeah. Well, you know, did 319 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: you go to the area where this happened. Yeah, I 320 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: was actually staying at the Venetians, so I was Maria. Yeah. 321 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: Vegas still bounce us back quickly. I remember the mass 322 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: shooting in twenty seventeen. I went there just a couple 323 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: of months later, and they did put up signs Vegas strong. 324 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: But other than that's Vegas strong everything. They don't want 325 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: anything to interfere with the flow of tourists that there's 326 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 1: so much money. There's so much Yeah, they don't have 327 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: time to care about people getting stabbed. There's there's money. Well, 328 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: they don't want to turn off people, right, They don't 329 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: want to. They don't want to focus too much on 330 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: something that because that could that could cause people not 331 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 1: to come. Scrub the blood and let's let's move on, 332 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 1: all right, We got more kind of party. John and 333 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: Ken k if I am six forty live everywhere in 334 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. There's a columnist named Kurt schleeest that 335 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: I read a lot. He's very funny, and he wrote 336 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: something on the elections, but as a passing thought, he 337 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: called the people who believe in climate change, uh, members 338 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: of the bizarre pagan weather religion. That that that's followed 339 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: by the wine women of San Francisco. Women, the wine women, 340 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: you know they San Francisco. That's what I talk about 341 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: all the time. The white wealthy women who are ultra progressive. 342 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, is a certain kind and that's 343 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: that's the kind that support is the bizarre pagan weather religion, 344 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: which is the perfect way to describe this climate change 345 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: crowd and this renewable energy crowd. It is absolutely a 346 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: set of religious beliefs that have no use in practical 347 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: daily life. Come up after five o'clock, a complete rundown. 348 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: All you need to know about the La City scandal 349 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: concerning the leaked audio of a conversation between three of 350 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: the council members and a labor leader that was recorded. 351 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: It's a year ago, but it just got posted and 352 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 1: then the media got ahold of it, including Nil Sigondo Times. 353 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: So you get to listen to all the racists on 354 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: the City Council. There will be an entertaining hour. Yea, 355 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: many many, many are calling for all three to resign 356 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: from the city Council. That has not happened yet. The 357 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: only thing to happen and is the one resigned as 358 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: council president. We'll bring all this news after five o'clock. Well, 359 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: to my surprise, and John Cobelt saw this story too. 360 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: Somebody that we've talked about for years on the John 361 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 1: and Ken Show for their series of columns for the 362 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: El Segundo Times about California's high speed rail appeared in 363 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: the New York Times. I think Ralph Bard abedi and 364 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: moved on from the El Segundo Times. Yes, I guess 365 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 1: he did. But he wrote a long expose for the 366 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: New York Times how California's bullet train went off the rails. Yeah, 367 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 1: and he was one of the few El Segundo Times 368 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: reporters in the history of things that I think told 369 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: it like it is rather than you know, someone in 370 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: the news assignment room would say, well, we really believe 371 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: in high speed rails. It's a way to cleaner energy future, 372 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 1: so you know, don't go too hard. But Doug, he 373 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 1: found a lot of good stuff, and now he's doing 374 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,360 Speaker 1: it for the New York Times. Rich right, because this 375 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: is exactly the kind of writer that the LA Times 376 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: doesn't have anymore. Is not if they go off scrap, 377 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: not if they go off the agenda, which to them 378 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: is the climate change. And I don't know whatever racist 379 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: angle they want to take today. That'd be interesting to 380 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: see why he switched papers. Is it because they had 381 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: no tolerance for imprinting the truth about the bullet train? 382 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,679 Speaker 1: Or is it is as he was too old to white, 383 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 1: cost too much money because he'd been around a while. Yeah, 384 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder what the story is there, But 385 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: I tell you he did a great piece for the 386 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: New York Times here. And you know what really struck 387 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: me how many former heads of the High Speed Rail 388 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: Commission are an ALP talking public and on the record. Right. 389 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: Listen to this. Michael Tanenbaum was the first chairman of 390 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: the rail Authority twenty years ago, and Tenenbaum said, I 391 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: was totally naive when I took the job. I spent 392 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: my time and didn't succeed. I realized I realized the 393 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: system didn't work. I just wasn't smart enough. I don't 394 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: know how they can build it now. Then this name 395 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: you may recognize if you followed this story, Dan Richard, 396 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: the longest serving rail chairman. This is a guy who 397 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 1: shoveled so much horsepreneur at the public for many, many years. 398 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: And he said starting the project to go from LA 399 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: to San Francisco was a strategic mistake. They should have 400 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: started with the line between LA and San Diego. Quentin Kopp, 401 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: another chairman who served as a state senator in a 402 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: Supreme Court judge, said the system would be running today, 403 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: but there's been so many bad political decisions it's almost 404 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 1: impossible to build. I don't think it is an existing project. 405 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: It is a loser. Three chairman of the Rail Commission 406 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: all said it's over stumard of The initial budget for 407 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: this in two thousand and eight was thirty three billion. 408 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 1: Now Vartabedian rights costs have continue to ex escalate well. 409 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: The California High Speed Roun Authority issued its new twenty 410 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: twenty two draft business plan in February. The cost is 411 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 1: now one hundred and five billion. Less than three months later, 412 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: oh a final plan came out raised into a one 413 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen billion says. According to engineer's projections. There's 414 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: no way they can complete this train and its entirety 415 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: this century. Do you realize this is twenty twenty two. Well, 416 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: be that's seventy eight years away. It was the Fothers 417 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: don't think they'll ever be able to complete it. It It 418 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: was supposed to be done by now. It was supposed 419 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: to be Sacramento to San Francisco to La to Anaheim 420 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:31,399 Speaker 1: to San Diego. Thirty three billion, twenty twenty. What was 421 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: was the goal and now it's going to be twenty 422 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: one hundred. A lot of the blame here goes to 423 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: political deal making that added so much costs and so 424 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: much complication to the project that had just made it untenable. 425 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: That's another theme that runs. Oh yeah, I'm looking at 426 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: that picture of Tenenbaund. It's about one hundred years old. Yeah, 427 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 1: it was twenty years ago when he was They they 428 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: even threw Mike Antanovitch under the bus, remember Mike on 429 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: ton Of it's from the only county board of supervisors. Yeah, 430 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: he delivered a multi billion dollar plum to his constituents. 431 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 1: Tanenbaum said it was ridiculous, it was wasteful. But apparently 432 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: what U and ton of it's pulled off was bringing 433 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: the high speed rail through his district. He was a 434 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: powerful member of the county Board of Supervisors, and he 435 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: diverted it through the growing desert communities of Lancaster and Palmdale. 436 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: The extra forty one miles to go through Palmdale would 437 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: increased costs by sixteen percent, a difference of today of 438 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: about eight billion dollars. Well, did you on the kind 439 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: of examples they provide that these political deals just really 440 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: through this thing in wild Didn't you wonder why they 441 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 1: didn't build the train down the five. That's what they 442 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: planned to do originally, right, I was supposed to go 443 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: through the Grapevine, through the Grapevine. Yeah, And as late 444 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: as nineteen ninety nine there was an engineering report, another 445 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: final report said that was the preferred option for the corridor. 446 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: Then a ton of it came stomping in and somehow 447 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: had the Jews to get it rooted through Palmdale Lancaster. 448 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: But now you've got to put it through that mountain 449 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: range that the hatch By mountains, Hatby mountains. Yeah, and 450 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: that we know is like an engineering nightmare. Yeah, And 451 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: that's and that's never going to happen that that that 452 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: that'll all these idiot politicians was just trying to get 453 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: the money for their local unions or their local you 454 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: know groups that we're going to profit from this. They 455 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: you think Antanovitch probably had no understanding of the engineering 456 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: difficulties of boring through a mountain range. I mean, really, 457 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: do you think any of them could even stay awake 458 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: for the explanations? No even quoted Hassana Krata in here 459 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: the Communist It's quite a good read. In fact, a 460 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: story that also was uncovered in there as a French 461 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: owned state, a French state owned railroad operator was going 462 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 1: to get involved with California in the high speed rail, 463 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: but they left because the high speed rail thar he 464 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't listen to their recommendations. As well, corruption scandals took 465 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: away three La City Council members just in the last 466 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: couple of years, jose We Sar, Mitch Englander, and of 467 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: course Mark Ridley Thomas more recently or three more Leavin 468 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: thanks to these racially charged comments that were well talk 469 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: about that is a sure huh city is roiling. That 470 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: is a human store of the La City Council. We 471 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: will play you low collection that we have coming up 472 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: after the news at five o'clock. Really, the leader is 473 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: Nuri Martinez, without a doubt. Council. It's just filled with 474 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: criminals and racists. I mean criminals and racists. Yeah, it's 475 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: a jeopardy category. And this is what the unions vote for. Yeah, 476 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: these are the campaigns that the union's fund, criminals and racists. 477 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: You people vote for him. I don't know what to 478 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: tell you. I don't know how many City of La 479 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: residents we have left listening. Our show is so broad 480 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: now that hey, probably not a big well of people there. 481 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: But all right, so I'll get into this coming up 482 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,479 Speaker 1: after five o'clock. All right. So when I mentioned him 483 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,479 Speaker 1: last week, you went on your usual rant that all 484 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: Trump does it his rally now is talking about the 485 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 1: election being stolen. I said, he does talk about other things. 486 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: He came to Nevada on Saturday night for a rally 487 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: near Lake Tahoe, a place called Minda, Nevada. He's campaigning 488 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: for the Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and a guy 489 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: running for governor by the name of Joe Lombardo. And 490 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: the theme of this basically was from all the speakers 491 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: we don't want to become California. In fact, it said 492 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: vote Republican or see or state become a haven for 493 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: the radical left like California. That was the theme, and 494 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: were particularly close to our state too. So we do 495 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,400 Speaker 1: have one clip from Trump. And here's the thing about 496 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: Trump that both you and I agreed and understood when 497 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: he came onto the scene big time in twenty fifteen 498 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 1: to run for president. He has a way of simplifying 499 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: things just enough that reaches everybody. When he's making a 500 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 1: come point, everyone can comment, yes, yes, you can, really, 501 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: so we have it's about forty seconds and talking about 502 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 1: California's energy policies, which we all know well on the show. 503 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: Let's listen to Trump at this rally. Look at what 504 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 1: is happening to our country. Look at their energy policies, 505 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: Look at their everybody has to have an electric car, 506 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: and we don't have electricity to turn on an air conditioner. 507 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: Now in California, they write a letter, please don't use 508 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: your air conditioning, and then they want to send millions 509 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: and millions of cars onto a grid that's broken. And 510 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: yet we have that beautiful liquid gold right under our feet. 511 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: They don't want to use it, but they'll take it 512 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: from places like Venezuela, and it's very dirty, very thick, 513 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: very ugly, and the only place that can refine it 514 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: is here, So we refine their dirty stuff here. And 515 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: he thinks he's helping us. Yeah, you know, you go. 516 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: You kind of touched on all the big parts of 517 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: every every word he said, it's true, all that stuff 518 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: we've talked about for the last months, it's all true. 519 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: You're not doing anything for the climate by refusing to 520 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: drill for oil and refine gasoline here in California. And 521 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: then we end up buying it from Venezuela or Saudi Arabia. 522 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: And yes, they have very dirty manufacturing processes. Far more 523 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: carbon goes in the air out of Venezuela. Now I 524 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: saw this story in the Sacramento bat Trump claimed the 525 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: state's energy grid fell apart during a recent heat wave. 526 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: On the Office of Emergency Services sent out texts urging 527 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: Californians to turn up the thermostats during peak usage times. 528 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: Now here's the next sentence. The state's electric grid managed 529 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: to make it through the intense heat without instituting rolling blackouts. 530 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: Do you remember the follow up story to that? The 531 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: followup story to that is they had to use the 532 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: natural gas plants, yes, to get us through that, because 533 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: that's just not reported on by these outfits. No, those 534 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: natural gas plants were supposed to be shut down and 535 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: then they kept them going, and without them they would 536 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: not have squeaked by same thing with the nuclear plant 537 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: that's supposed to be shut down. They're going to keep 538 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: it going for a number of years. Otherwise we lose 539 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: almost ten percent of our electricity and we're not even 540 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: close to the amount of renewables they want us to use, right, 541 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: I think we're what was it one third or something 542 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: they want. Yeah, you can imagine how much they're gonna 543 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: need natural gas plants and it's impossible and all this 544 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: is impossible, Yeah, because Michael Schillenberger calculated how much, how 545 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: many square miles of solar panels and how many wind 546 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 1: turbines you have to put up to get to this 547 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: one hundred percent things. It's just it's just a ridiculous 548 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: and for what for what I mean? This is the 549 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: It can only be explained as a religion. This This 550 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: has no science to it, no based on any facts, 551 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: no nothing. This is this is actually we're just hurtling 552 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: towards a cliff, and we're gonna join hands at all, 553 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: jump off together because everybody is afraid to say the truth. 554 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: Everyone is so bullied. Everyone feels so bullied and so 555 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: afraid of being canceled or ostracized, or criticized or called names. 556 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: This whole thing is nonsense. You cannot have forty million 557 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:24,719 Speaker 1: people live off the sun and the wind. That is impossible. 558 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: Not if you want to be a modern society. No, No, 559 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: if you want to, we should all go back to 560 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,479 Speaker 1: caves and thatch Hutston. Yeah, maybe you got something there. 561 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 1: We'll all grow our own food. But I'm telling you, 562 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: I don't know when the day of reckoning is gonna come, 563 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: but it's gonna come because this is simply not feasible. 564 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: It's impossible. There's no other way to describe it. This 565 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: is a belief. This is a religious beliefs. Fans of 566 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: Trump showed up with signs such as Kamifornia. You like 567 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: that one? Yeah? And you know what, It's not about Trump, 568 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: because one day Trump's gonna die. It's not it's not 569 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: about It's not about anything other than this is complete 570 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: unrealistic fantasy by people who got caught up in like this, 571 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: This trendy social religious craze is what it is, and 572 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: that happens frequently. Every generation has something that, Yeah, you know, 573 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: it's like in the nineteen thirties, everybody latched down to prohibition, 574 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: you know, that became a religious cause, right to stop 575 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 1: people from drinking. There's always something in the air, and 576 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: it always has religious overtones, and it's an obsessive quality, 577 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: and it's always about constricting people's freedom. It's always about 578 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: taking things away from people. It's always about rolling back 579 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: modern life. It's the same thing repeats over and over 580 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: and over again, and this is our generation's version of it. 581 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 1: All right, come it up, we return after the news. 582 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: We'll give you the full rundown on the big La 583 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: City Council scandal involving three council members who should resign 584 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: being asked to resign over stuff they said that's racially charged. 585 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: Johnny Kent kf I Am six forty Live Everywhere in 586 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app arc Light in the twenty four hour 587 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: Calfein Newsroom