1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the show. We 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: are on every day from one until four o'clock and 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. Whatever you missed, you go to the website, 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: you go to the iHeartRadio app. Rather John Coblt on demand. 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: That's the podcast. And it's good to have you all here. Now. 8 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: There are a lot of we laughing at I'm trying 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 2: to sincerely welcome people, and you laughed like, yeah, I 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: saw that look on your face, like, oh, come on, 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 2: who are you kidding? You don't care? You might be right. 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: There's plenty of crime stories right every day. We can 13 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: do nothing but crime stories. But every once in a 14 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 2: while one hits home. This one hit home. This is 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 2: the Santa Monica shooting of the police officer yesterday. This 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 2: started and this is the problem with you. No, my 17 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: wife's got a big issue with this. Most of my friends, 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 2: our friends do is how can we keep living here 19 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: because there's virtually no government keeping us just normally safe, 20 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 2: just the normal stuff. There are so many vagrants running around, 21 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: and crazy drug addicts and mental patients, violent criminal vagrants 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 2: and Karen Dass hasn't done anything about it. Okay, I've 23 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: said this almost every day. Do not believe a word 24 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 2: she says. It's as nutty out there as ever. Tracy 25 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: Park Council women on the West side. For me, she 26 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: has cleaned up some of the encampments, quite a few 27 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 2: of them actually, but it ends. You know, these people 28 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: just get relocated. And I'm happy they're relocated because you know, 29 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: people on my side of town are fighting, and people 30 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 2: on your side of town have to fight too, and 31 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 2: you have to elect new people. Jacy can't do everything. 32 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: But one of the places that has absolutely just collapsed 33 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: has been Santa Monica, which is right next door to 34 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 2: where I am. I just yeah, maybe two three miles away, 35 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 2: and it's where we've gone for years to go to 36 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 2: the beach, to go to the park, to go shopping, 37 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 2: to go to restaurants. We can't go there anymore. We 38 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: had John Alley on, a business leader, and we talked 39 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 2: with him at great length, and he talked about how, 40 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 2: you know, drug cartels have taken over some of the 41 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: public parks, like the one my wife and I used 42 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 2: to take. We take a morning walk maybe four days 43 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: a week and most of the time we would go 44 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 2: to Palisades Park, which overlooks the cliff overlooks the ocean 45 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: along Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, and there is an 46 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 2: upscale but used to be an upscale Santa Monica Mall 47 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: known as Santa Monica Place. You ever gone there? I have. 48 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever gone there. 49 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: Anchored by a Nordstrom. 50 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 3: Oh yes, I have, yes, because I've been in. 51 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 2: That nor Nordstrom's is. I knew you were there, and 52 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,839 Speaker 2: it's it's mostly an outdoor moil two three tiers I think, 53 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 2: and a lot of upscale, upscale stories. I used to 54 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 2: go there when I had to get a special gift 55 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: for my wife. 56 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 3: Of course she did. 57 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 2: That's That's that's where I felt because it wasn't too big, 58 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: and they had the right kind of stores. It had 59 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 2: stuff that I knew she'd like, and it was easy. 60 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 2: And then some years ago it got so disgusting and scary. 61 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 2: I mean, guys living in the parking garages. You can't 62 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 2: go to Santa Monica. There are people living in the stairwells, 63 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 2: people living in the elevators, people living in between cars. 64 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: They're doing drugs, They're just complete back bleep, crazy frightening. 65 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: I mean, nobody wants to be in a dark parking 66 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 2: Sata Monica anymore. We've screamed about this. John Alley has 67 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: been on screaming about this. The people who run Santa 68 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 2: Monica don't change anything. They consider all the drug addicts 69 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 2: and the vagrants and criminals to be oppressed, and all 70 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: of us residents to be the oppressors. That is the 71 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: heart of the progressive theory. I was reading somebody who 72 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 2: was writing about this recently, and it's like, you have 73 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 2: to understand how they think. All the people that we 74 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 2: are disgusted by or afraid of are considered the oppressed 75 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 2: according to progressives, and then we all who work for 76 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 2: a living and pay all the bills and pay all 77 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 2: the taxes, we're the oppress ors. So we're always bad. 78 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 2: They're always good. The vagrants and criminals. Okay, those are 79 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 2: the two sides. Okay, I do really believe this, And 80 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 2: somehow they have majorities when it comes to to the vote. 81 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 2: They're run for office, they win. They're run for office, 82 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 2: they're part of the majority, whether it's in the Assembly 83 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 2: of the state Senate or it's your local city Council. 84 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 2: And it's the most bizarre thing that I've ever seen 85 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 2: in my life. There was just no such thing for 86 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,799 Speaker 2: most of my life, most of your life. So now 87 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 2: at this upscale Santa Monica Place shopping mall, an officer 88 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 2: tried to detain a likely homeless person. This guy, his 89 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 2: name is David John Harston, was a suspect in a 90 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 2: Sunday shooting. There were two teenagers in a waymo, one 91 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 2: of those self driving robot taxis, and this guy, David Harriston, 92 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 2: started shooting at them. Now, how frightening is that? Another 93 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 2: limitation about these idiot way moos. A driver sees a 94 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 2: bad guy a gun, he could hit the gas and 95 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 2: peel out of there. Stupid robot doesn't know it's a threat, 96 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 2: so it's can continue following the law, doing the speed limits, 97 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: staying in the lane. It's not going to jump the curb, 98 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 2: it's not going to swerve and pass somebody. It's not 99 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 2: going to run over the bad guy. And it's like, 100 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 2: I hadn't thought of that. Absolutely, I'm never taking a 101 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 2: weimo And I was thinking about that the other well, 102 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 2: when they were sitting waymows on fire downtown during the 103 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 2: riots what if you're in a weymo and there's a 104 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 2: terrible disturbance or there's a bad neighborhood coming up. The 105 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 2: Weymo's not going to know the WAYMO will drive right 106 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 2: into the bad disturbance. They'll drive right into the riot. 107 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 2: They'll drive right into Uh like if the if the 108 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 2: if the software tells you drive down of the fifteenth Street, 109 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 2: well he doesn't know if that's a gang neighborhood. We 110 00:06:57,839 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 2: know what the gang neighborhoods are. You're not supposed to 111 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 2: say out loud, right, you're not supposed to say out 112 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 2: loud which neighborhoods you never drive into. But we know them. 113 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 2: And regular Uber drivers, taxi drivers, they know them. 114 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 3: These things need to be reprogrammed. 115 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, you do that though, It's like, well this is profiling, 116 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 2: is it it? Racial and ethnic profile? 117 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 3: Then you can argue against the driverless cars. 118 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I'm never going to take one, because 119 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 2: the weaimo, as brilliant as it must be technologically, doesn't 120 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: have a brain in his head and is not going 121 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 2: to know not to drive into a bad neighborhood or 122 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 2: not to drive into a disturbance. I look at the 123 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 2: five dumbass Waymos that ended up getting set on fire. 124 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 2: Those Waymos, if they were human, would have known there 125 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 2: was a riot going on and they were setting fires, 126 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 2: and they wouldn't. But I guess the warrant riders were 127 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 2: calling for the Waimos on their phones. And then the 128 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 2: Waimos show up all happy and shiny, and next thing 129 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 2: you know, they're on fire and toxic smoke is billowing 130 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 2: out of their electric their electric engines. So anyway, this 131 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 2: guy starts firing at well, he start firing at the 132 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 2: Waymo and the two kids got hurt and they start 133 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: getting pursued by the police, and David Harriston, according to police, 134 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 2: ambushed the officer, fired multiple rounds at him and struck 135 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 2: the cop. Now he's going to be okay eventually, by 136 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 2: four twenty he gets caught in Palisades Park. That's where 137 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 2: we walk every day. So the shopping center we used 138 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 2: to go to all the time and the park we 139 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 2: used to go to all the time. That the book 140 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 2: ends for this this shooting spree, that this whack job 141 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 2: went on. 142 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 4: Well, I don't want to hear you complaining about my 143 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 4: travels and that I have a travel curse, because look, 144 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 4: at you. 145 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 2: You're right, I've got a local, local travel curse. So 146 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 2: David Harriston arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, fell in 147 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 2: with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, controlled substance 148 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 2: or what do you know? He was on drugs and 149 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: he's thirty one. He's listed his employment as a table busser, 150 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 2: so he claims he's I don't think he currently had 151 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 2: a job. And when they asked for his address, he 152 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 2: had no address. This is the La Times going to 153 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 2: any length not to describe this guy as a homeless, 154 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 2: armed criminal, just the vague line gave no address. He's 155 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 2: a table busser. I guess he has an evening shift, 156 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 2: so he was available in the middle of the day 157 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 2: to shoot at teenagers in away mow and shoot a 158 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 2: cop that's chasing him. And this is what the council 159 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 2: and the may Santa Monica allows, and this is what 160 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 2: the people of Santa Monica vote for. It's ed if 161 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 2: you're if you don't live there, don't go there. We 162 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 2: don't go We can't go there anymore because this this kind, 163 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 2: if this stuff isn't happening, it's always the potential that 164 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. That's the way you feel, because there's 165 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 2: so many of these vagrants and criminals wandering around. It's 166 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 2: so menacing, it is so scary for once beautiful city, 167 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: an absolute jewel of a city. And sometime before I die, 168 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 2: I'm going to figure out why people, especially people with money, 169 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 2: would let their beautiful jewel of city dissolve into violence, chaos, gunfire, 170 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 2: homeless people, mental patience, neth vomit, I I I don't, 171 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 2: I just it's it's just overwhelming to me that this 172 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 2: has happened. Now, when we come back, we're going to 173 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 2: take a look at Cynthia Gonzalez day three, the vice 174 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 2: mayor still of Cuta Hae. I was thinking today Denise 175 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 2: Kinoniaz is still head of the DWP and Cynthia Gonzales 176 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 2: is still the vice mayor of Cuta Haey, even after 177 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 2: urging gangs to come to cut A Hay and let's 178 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 2: start shooting at ice agents if they show up. 179 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 180 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 5: six forty. 181 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 2: Are you ready for this? 182 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 3: Yes? 183 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 2: Honestly, if you're driving, pull. 184 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 3: Over, John, you're scaring me. 185 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 2: Carlo Mile, our friend the Republican assemblyman. He put this 186 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,719 Speaker 2: out on x California should brace for more than just 187 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 2: eight dollars per gallon of gas. I just left a 188 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 2: closed door briefing for legend where we were told that 189 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 2: the California oil industry is on the brink of collapse 190 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 2: and there is a pending pipeline shutdown, the result ten 191 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 2: to twelve dollars a gallon gas and gas rationing. What 192 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: I'm going to repeat this, Karl DeMier writes, California should 193 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 2: brace for more than just eight dollars per gallon of gas. 194 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 2: I just left the closed door briefing for legislators where 195 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 2: we were told the California oil industry is on the 196 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: brink of collapse and there is a pending pipeline shutdown 197 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 2: result ten to twelve dollars a gallon and gas rationing. 198 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 2: And they have been trying to destroy the oil industry 199 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 2: and apparently they've succeeded. They have taxed and regulated them 200 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: and prevented them from doing business in many different ways. 201 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 2: That's why we've already got close to five dollars a 202 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 2: gallon gas. It's supposed to go up to about six 203 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 2: dollars a gallon potentially within the next year, because there's 204 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 2: a sixty five cent gas tax increase with the new 205 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 2: California Air Resources Board, they've got a low carbon fuel 206 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 2: standard tax. Then there's a sales tax of a few 207 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 2: pennies coming up on July first. But now, now you 208 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 2: add two refineries are supposed to close within the next 209 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 2: year and a half. That's how you get from six 210 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 2: dollars to eight dollars. And now you have the whole 211 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 2: industry collapsing and a pipeline shutdown. I don't have any 212 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 2: more details. We have put in a call to Carl 213 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 2: to see what else. But Carl has posted a lot 214 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 2: two o'clock, he's going to come on, all right. Carl's 215 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: posted a lot of provocative stuff ever since he got 216 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 2: up to the Assembly in January, and he's been right 217 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 2: on every single thing. And every time I smack my 218 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 2: head when I see his post and I say, this 219 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 2: can't be real, this can't be true. Next thing you know, 220 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 2: it turns out's absolutely true. All the crazy votes, all 221 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 2: the crazy proposals you would like. I'll give you an example. Recently, 222 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 2: he said there was a vote whether to make buying 223 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 2: teenagers for sex a felony, and the Democrats voted no. 224 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 2: It's like, come on, that can't be what politician would 225 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 2: run on run on allowing teenagers to be bought for sex. Ah, 226 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 2: he's right. They did vote no on it. They did 227 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 2: not want to make it a felony until there was 228 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 2: huge outrage, huge star of protests, and so now buying 229 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 2: teenagers for sex is a felony. I do know from 230 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 2: everything I've read that this eight dollars a gallon gas 231 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: is not hype. It's real. Michael MChE the USC profess, 232 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 2: Sir who did the research on this, We've had him 233 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 2: on several times and we're trying to get him on 234 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 2: as well to see what he knows about this. So, 235 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 2: if you're just joining us, California, according to Carl Demo, 236 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 2: should brace for more than eight dollars a gallon gas. 237 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 2: Closed door briefing, we were told the California oil industry 238 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 2: on brink of collapse, there's a pending pipeline shut down. 239 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 2: We're looking at ten to twelve dollars a gallon and 240 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 2: gas rashing that. So it says Carl Demyo again, another 241 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 2: one of those things is like, no, this can't be true. 242 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 2: This kid. But look look what they've done. We are 243 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 2: what they call an energy island, a gasoline island. We 244 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 2: don't have pipelines coming in from the Gulf of Mexico. 245 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 2: We don't have pipelines coming from the outside to bring 246 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 2: us gas and oil. And they will not allow us 247 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: to drill for our own gas and oil, whether it's 248 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 2: oil natural gas. They don't allow us to build refineries 249 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 2: to turn oil and gat into gasoline. They don't. Everything 250 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 2: is taxed, everything is overregulated, Everything is in the name 251 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 2: of their stupid climate change religion, which is totally bogus nonsense. 252 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 2: And Trump has put an end to the electric car mandate. 253 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 2: That's gone at least because nobody wanted the electric cars, 254 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 2: and there were no electrical chargers to service us, and 255 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 2: there's no electrical grid to serve to chargers. These people 256 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 2: are dangerous fanatics. It's the same progressive ideology that brings 257 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: you all the Mayhem and Santa Monica yesterday. Everything the 258 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 2: progressives believe in is destructive. It ruins civilization, and we 259 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 2: have it here more than anywhere else. Although it looks 260 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 2: like New York City is going to give it a 261 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 2: good run, because they've just nominated for their Democratic mayoral candidate, 262 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 2: Zorn Mandami, absolute five star lunatic. Hete put the LA 263 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 2: City Council to shame this guy. They got to stop 264 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 2: him or New York City is going to be destroyed. 265 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 4: And John Cynthia Gonzalez, her attorney, just put out a statement. 266 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 3: This is the Cutahey, Vice Mayor, do you want to 267 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 3: hear it real quick? 268 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 2: Yeah? 269 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 4: Okay, so she just broke her silence. Gonzalez's attorney, Damian Martinez, 270 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 4: said her client called upon her local community to exercise 271 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 4: their First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly to 272 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 4: express their views on recent ice enforcement actions. In the 273 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 4: social media post, doctor Gonzalez is no way encouraged anyone 274 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 4: to engage in violence. Any suggestion that she advocated for 275 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 4: violence is categorically false and without merit, Martina said on 276 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 4: behalf of the Vice mayor, who has an education doctor 277 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 4: grew up from the UCLA blah blah. 278 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah bull crap says me. 279 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 4: She was trying to challenge her community to join other 280 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 4: Angelinos to peacefully organize in response to ongoing immigration enforcement. 281 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 4: She explicitly mentioned two of the most notorious groups we 282 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 4: know that in the video. 283 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 2: Uh, that attorney ought to come on the air here. 284 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: He's full of crap. Attorney's life for a living, And 285 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 2: that's a whopper. That is total nonsense. Everybody knows exactly 286 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 2: what she did. There is no other purpose for doing that. 287 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, this is why I want 288 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,959 Speaker 2: to get to you can always rely on the La Times. 289 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 2: One of their columnists actually wrote a semi apology column 290 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 2: explaining what Cynthia Gonzalez was really trying to stay. 291 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of what our attorney is saying. Yeah, 292 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: I don't so we had it all wrong. Yes, apparently 293 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: we did. How the Eighteenth Street Game and the Florencia gang. Hey, 294 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: cholo's he she's saying, Cholo's. 295 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 2: I looked it up. I didn't know that's the word 296 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 2: for gangster. What do gangsters do? What are these what 297 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 2: are these two gangs? 298 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 4: He wants them to come out peacefully and to just 299 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 4: show a show of support. 300 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 3: Don't kill any immigrant community. 301 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 2: Don't kill any more cops than you've done in the past. 302 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 303 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 5: six forty. 304 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 2: Oh, it's like the conveyor belt of doom here sorry 305 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 2: to bring all this bad news, but somebody's got to 306 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 2: do it. It's not like anybody else covers it in 307 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: the media in this city. So this is it here 308 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 2: we're going to bring you. Carl DeMaio coming up at 309 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 2: two o'clock, the Republican Assemblyman. He has put out an 310 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 2: x that he just got out of a closed door 311 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 2: meeting and legislators were told that the California oil industry 312 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 2: is on the verge of collapse and we may be 313 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 2: looking at ten and twelve dollars a gallon gas very soon. 314 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 2: I don't know a lot of details because he didn't 315 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 2: publish anything else, just that the industry is on the 316 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,919 Speaker 2: brink of collapse. There's a pending pipeline shut down. I 317 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 2: don't know why. You know two refineries are going to 318 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 2: be closing in the next year and a half. You know, 319 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 2: there's a huge sixty five cent gas techts coming from 320 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 2: the California Air Resources Board. And again, nobody else in 321 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 2: the country is anywhere close to our gas prices. In fact, 322 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 2: maybe the next segment, just to set up, Carl, I'll 323 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 2: give you a rundown of gas prices around the country 324 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 2: because most people don't know. Most people don't know anything, 325 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 2: which I guess is the root cause of the problem. 326 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 2: All right, So Cynthia Gonzales is the vice mayor of 327 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,199 Speaker 2: Kada Hay. She's been in the news everywhere if you 328 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 2: watch the news or read the news anymore, or listen 329 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 2: to us. She's the vice mayor who called on two 330 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: major violent gangs who have a history of killing cops, 331 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 2: Eighteenth Street Gang and Florencia Gang, to come to kut 332 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 2: of Hay, which is ninety seven percent Latino, and face 333 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:12,120 Speaker 2: off with ice if needed. And virtually everybody except her lawyer. Well, actually, 334 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 2: most politicians in this city and county are dead quiet. 335 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 2: It's amazing. They are so woke. So PC sell in love. Well, 336 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 2: I mean the same crowd that the defunded the police, 337 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 2: that was kneeling in front of the UH, the agitators 338 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 2: and anarchists during the twenty twenty riots. So of course 339 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 2: they're not going to criticize CYNTHI and Gonzales. I guess 340 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 2: that day is gone right now. Now you can call 341 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 2: on gang members to shoot cops and no other no 342 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,919 Speaker 2: other politician is going to say, hey, wait, wait a second, 343 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 2: you've gone too far. I can't even get that best 344 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 2: you can hope for is silence. Okay, so her attorney 345 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 2: is blowing a lot of gas, and you can always 346 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 2: rely on the La Times. There's always Why was this? 347 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 2: I was opening up the paper the last couple of days. 348 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 2: I got who's going to be the columnist who goes 349 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 2: out there and at least somewhat defends Cynthia Gonzalez And 350 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 2: the winner is Gustavo Ariano. Of course, Gustavo Ariana. We 351 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 2: have a limited history with him, going back many years. 352 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 2: He used to take potshots at Ken and I all 353 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:28,479 Speaker 2: the time over illegal immigration. He was totally wrong. He 354 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 2: also briefly, very briefly had a show on KFI a 355 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 2: long time ago called Aska Mexican. I think it ran 356 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 2: on Saturday night or Sunday night, something like that. I 357 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 2: never heard it. So he I will give him this 358 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 2: much credit. We printed this out and after describing the 359 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 2: situation with Cincia Gonzales, he said that this is going 360 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 2: to backfire because the Trump administration is looking for any 361 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 2: reason to send even more National Guard troops. If inviting 362 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 2: a gang to help, let alone, two gangs as notorious 363 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 2: as eighteen Street in Florencia, doesn't sound like what Trump 364 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 2: claims he's trying to quatch. I'm not sure what is. 365 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 2: At least, he's admitting that it was clear she was 366 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 2: inviting a gang to come and take on the National Guard. 367 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 2: He writes, perhaps worst of all, Gonzales brought political and 368 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 2: nominee once again to southeast La County. It's small super 369 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 2: majority Latino cities have long been synonymous with political corruption 370 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 2: and never seem to get a lucky break from their leaders. Well, 371 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 2: maybe it's because the voters keep voting in these corrupt bastards. 372 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 2: It's the people's fault. You could vote in somebody who 373 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: isn't corrupt and destructive, they choose not to. It's like 374 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 2: the people of Santa Monica. And he goes on. So 375 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 2: he gives some criticism. He writes, trying to enlist gangs 376 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 2: to advocate for immigrants comes off as both laughable and offensive, 377 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 2: and describing the Eighteenth Street in Florencia as the Latino 378 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 2: community is like describing the Manson family as fun loving hippies. 379 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 2: Gang members have extorted immigrant entrepreneurs and terrorized immigrant communities, 380 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 2: going back to the days of gangs of New York. 381 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 2: Their modus operandi is expanding turf profit and power via 382 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 2: fear and bloodshed and will forever peg Latinos is prone 383 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 2: to violence. In the minds of too many Americans. Transnational 384 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 2: gangs like Trendy, Iragua and MS thirteen are Trump's ostensible 385 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 2: reason for his deportation Tsunami, and now a politician thinks 386 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 2: it's wise to ask cholos to draw closer. So he's 387 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 2: on the right track, right, and I'm like two thirds 388 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 2: of the way through now here it goes off the cliff. 389 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 2: This is a Gustavo Ariano. And yet I sympathize and 390 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 2: even agree with what Gonzales was really getting at. As 391 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: imperfect and bumbling as she was, Homeland securities claim that 392 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 2: she was riling up gangs to commit violence against our 393 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 2: brave ice law enforcement doesn't hold up in the context 394 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 2: of history. Latino activists for decades have strained to inspire 395 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 2: gang members to join move A Biento, not as stormtroopers, 396 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 2: but as wayward youngsters and veteranos who can leave La 397 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 2: vina Loca behind if they only become enlightened. I don't 398 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 2: know what all this means. US throws in a lot 399 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 2: of Spanish words but a lot of people don't know 400 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 2: these words, and once you know, speak English. At the 401 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 2: height of the Chicano movement, there was a manifesto and 402 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: they envisioned a world where there would no longer be 403 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 2: acts of juven delinquency, but revolutionary acts. There was some 404 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 2: planned they sent to Barber some other revolutionary manifesto. Weren't activists. 405 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 2: They must be able to relate to all segments of 406 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 2: the barrio, from the middle class assimilationists to the volos locos. 407 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 2: It's one thing to about gibberish, but us about gibberish 408 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 2: in a foreign language. A lot of readers get lost, 409 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 2: he says. From homeboy industries to colleges that develop prison 410 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 2: inmates to earn a degree, people still believe in the 411 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 2: power of forgiveness and strive to reincorporate gang members into 412 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 2: society as productive people. Oh I see, So he thinks 413 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 2: she was asking them to come back home to cut 414 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: a hay and be productive and be part of the 415 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 2: community and defend the illegal alien community members who are 416 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: under siege. Yeah, that's what they're gonna do. These aren't 417 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 2: rehabilitated gang members. These are current gang members. These are 418 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 2: guys who are like get nineteen years old with lots 419 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 2: of testosterone and adrenaline and and grievances, and they've got 420 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 2: no prefrontal cortex to put a break on their desires. 421 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 2: But he writes their relatives and friends and community members. 422 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 2: The thinking goes, not irredeemable monsters. I believe they're irredeemable monsters. 423 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 2: Gonzala's video comes from that Do good or vain A 424 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 2: closer listen show. She isn't lionizing eighteenth Street or Flancy thirteen. 425 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 2: She's pushing them to be truly tough by practicing civil 426 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:35,360 Speaker 2: not criminal disobedience. Good lord, when you go on social 427 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,360 Speaker 2: media and give an hour long speech scolding gang members 428 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 2: that they've got to come here and defend their home turf, 429 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 2: you're not talking about civil disobedience. You're not talking about 430 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 2: holding a sign and doing a stupid chant. Everybody's been 431 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: doing that and it hasn't stopped ice. You know what 432 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 2: she's talking about. The only thing that's going to stop 433 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 2: Ice are guns. That's what she's saying. That's what she means. 434 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 2: That's what they all mean, all the activists, that's what 435 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 2: they mean. Because the reason they're so frustrated and angry 436 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 2: is the signs didn't do anything, The chance didn't do anything. 437 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: Deportations are still going on. You haven't slowed them down 438 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 2: at all. 439 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 440 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 5: six forty. 441 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 2: Carl DeMaio coming on right after Deborah's news. He put 442 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 2: out a tweet that California should brace for more than 443 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 2: eight dollars a gallon, more than just eight dollars a gallon, 444 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 2: because he left a closed door briefing for legislators he 445 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 2: was told. They were told that the California oil industry 446 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 2: is on the brink of collapse, and there's a pending 447 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 2: pipeline shut down. Could be ten to twelve dollars a 448 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 2: gallon gas rationing coming, so says Carl Demaya put that 449 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 2: out an hour ago. I guess it still holds. I 450 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 2: keep waiting for somebody to say no, no mistake. So, uh, 451 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 2: here's what you need to know about gas prices. Get 452 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 2: yourself in a frame of mind. The average price for 453 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 2: gas regular here in California four dollars sixty two cents. 454 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 2: The national average is three dollars and twenty two cents. 455 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 2: So it's a dollar forty more here. But in some 456 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 2: states it's as low as two seventy three, So it's 457 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 2: a dollar ninety more here per gallen than in Mississippi, 458 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 2: fat Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, Georgia, 459 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 2: North Carolina, North Dakota all under three bucks a gallon. 460 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 2: Florida's three oh two. If you're looking for big states. 461 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 2: If you're looking for big liberal states, Massachusetts is only 462 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,479 Speaker 2: three oh nine, New Jersey is only three nineteen. New 463 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 2: York is only three twenty two. We're four six and 464 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 2: I got two stories here, and we'll delve into these 465 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 2: in more detail after Carl. One of them says this 466 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 2: from the New York Times, Summer gas prices haven't been this 467 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 2: low since twenty twenty one, hovering around three twenty a 468 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,239 Speaker 2: gallon this week, lower since June to twenty twenty one, 469 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 2: when we're still coming out of the pandemic, so it's 470 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 2: about three twenty. Haven't been this low in four years. Meantime, 471 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 2: LA Times says California gas prices to jump in July, 472 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 2: and between the carbon tax and the sales tax increase, 473 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 2: the combined increase could boost gas prices by almost seventy 474 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 2: cents next month. So what we've been telling you is true, 475 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 2: and even the La Times is admitting it. You're looking 476 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 2: at a seventy cent increase, So if the average price 477 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 2: is four sixty two, we're looking at an average of 478 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 2: five thirty to a gallon. And this doesn't count the 479 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 2: two refineries that are supposed to close in the next 480 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 2: eighteen months. They also point out that California has a 481 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 2: goal of cutting fuel use by ninety four percent over 482 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 2: the next twenty years. These are the fanatics we have here. 483 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 2: They think they're going to cut nearly all the gasoline 484 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 2: use in the state within twenty years. It's never going 485 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 2: to happen, but they're going to use every trick to 486 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 2: try to make it happen and then drive the gas 487 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 2: prices into double digits unless you wake up, but everyone's asleep. 488 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 2: I can't believe I. I was just talking about this 489 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 2: with Eric. It's another story here that eighty three percent 490 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 2: of people if they hit a payroll a pay wall 491 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 2: on a news site, they don't read the story, which 492 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 2: is understandable because people don't want to waste money on subscriptions. 493 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 2: They think they don't need. But it means all they 494 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 2: see is a headline eighty three percent. Maybe they get 495 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 2: little one to two paragraph summaries on the Instagram feed. 496 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 2: And I'm looking at that, and I'm realizing, clearly this 497 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 2: proves most people don't know anything, because most newscasts are 498 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 2: record low ratings, whether local audiences or national audiences except here. 499 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 2: Except here. But we're you know, we're always screaming about 500 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 2: people live in a bubble. We're in a bubble because 501 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 2: this is our job, and our audience knows these things, 502 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 2: but euch of the state knows nothing. So what's gonna 503 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 2: happen when the price goes to six bucks or eight 504 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 2: bucks or ten bucks a gallon? Because most of them 505 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 2: aren't gonna see it coming. It's gonna be like a 506 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 2: locomotive in their face. Does Is that what has to 507 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 2: happen to finally overthrow the government? Is that what it's 508 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 2: gonna take? All right, we come back. Carl Demayo, the 509 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 2: Republican Assemblymen. He put out a tweet on x saying 510 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 2: left the closed door meeting told the California industries on 511 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 2: brink of collapse pending pipeline shutdown could be ten to 512 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 2: twelve dollars a gallon gas gas rationing. That'll be fun. 513 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 2: Yabra Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 514 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You 515 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 516 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 517 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app