1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Caf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. One 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: of the ongoing stories today and this was really interesting 4 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: a couple of hours ago and now it's been kind 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: of dead. Is the man in the white pickup truck 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: in Compton on Poplar Street who took police on a chase, 7 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: survived a couple of pitt maneuvers, got spun around, but 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: kept going, and he took police into a dead end 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: situation at the end of Poplar Street. And he's facing 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: a chain link fence and one of our lovely cement 11 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: rivers down below, and he can't go anywhere. We saw 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: him sucking. I guess helium audible does a big blue 13 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: helium tank on his lap? Oh? Does he really? Yeah? 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: Was helium? It looks like That's what it looks like. 15 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: Nitrous oxide. I just it looks like a helium tank. Right, 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: Can you get high off a helium? Eric would know 17 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: this stuff? Whoa, whoa, whoa? Can you can? You? I 18 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 1: don't believe. So maybe if you inhale enough of it, 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: but your voice just goes maybe it's a right. Nitrous 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: oxide would be laughing gas that would definitely give you yeah, 21 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: So maybe that's that's what it is. Although he was 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: blowing up a balloon earlier, that's right. It's very weird, 23 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: and he was blowing smoke out of maybe a vape 24 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: pen or a bond too. And he's been sitting there 25 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: now for an hour and a half and he's barricaded 26 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: in by the police and they have guns trained on 27 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: him and occasionally he leans out the window and shouts 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: at them, and they've hit him with pepper balls and 29 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: tear gas the whole bit. Now they have this big 30 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: Bearcat which the swat team uses. This this tank like 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: vehicle and it's pretty much bulletproof and it's how they 32 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: transport swat guys, and they're probably going to put that 33 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: in position and to eventually do what they can to 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: take him out. It's it's a monster truck and it 35 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: really would be impossible for him to fight it. You 36 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: see it every once in a while brought out for 37 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: these standoffs, So that could be coming up sometime this hour. 38 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: See how that plays out. Hey, let's talk to Jim Patterson. 39 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: As I told you at the end of the last hour, 40 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: we've got we've got a couple of high speed rail stories. 41 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,959 Speaker 1: Number one, it's gonna be one hundred billion dollars short 42 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: in funding, and number two, the governor wants to waste 43 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: a half billion in the budget this year even though 44 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: the state's got a twenty two billion dollars deficit. There's 45 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: like no chance these thing's ever going to be built, 46 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: but he's shoveling money at it anyway. And we're going 47 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: to talk to Jim Patterson. He's the Republican assemblyman from Fresno. Jim, 48 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: how are you. I'm doing good. Thank you, appreciate the invite. Well, 49 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 1: the boy you talk about a groundhog Day segment. Huh, 50 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: fifteen years we've been getting together talking about this dude thing. 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 1: Let's start at the beginning here, when the voters were 52 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: promised in two thousand and eight a nine billion dollars 53 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: state costs to complete a high speed rail that connects 54 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: San Francisco to Los Angeles by twenty twenty. Well, guess what. 55 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: Here we are in twenty twenty three, and we don't 56 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: even have the initial operating segment completed. I've been on 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: the legislature and on a number of the committees that 58 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: oversee high speed rail, and every year we're supposed to 59 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: get a business plan update, And every single business plan 60 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: I have seen in these ten years always costs more 61 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: than the previous one, takes longer than the previous one, 62 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: builds less than the previous one. And now we have 63 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: a project that was supposed to be nine billion to 64 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: get it in San Francisco to La. The new project 65 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: cost is about one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars. 66 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: So I think I don't think I've ever seen a 67 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: large public works project be scoped in the beginning and 68 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: estimated in the beginning that was so out of whack 69 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: with the reality of building what they wanted to build. 70 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: And here we are others. There's something else too. I've 71 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 1: always questioned the writership numbers right there. A lot of 72 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: the reports we would get, the high speed rail execs 73 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: would come in and they would they would exaggerate. I 74 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: was kind of snicker to myself when I was in 75 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: the committee hearing this that you know, pretty soon they're 76 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: going to come to us and say, the entire state 77 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: of California will write it every single year. Right, these 78 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: were crazy numbers. Well, we now know that they have 79 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: gotten they have now to reduce their ridership numbers by 80 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: twenty five. Now what that means is fewer writers, fewer 81 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: money in the tillbox, and a much higher probability that 82 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: high speed rail is going to have to be subsidized 83 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: in its operating cost. By the way, the bond measure 84 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: expressly forbid the state of California the taxpayers having to 85 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: put up a subsidy for the operation. And now on 86 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: top of that, Newsom is spending five hundred and twenty 87 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: six million to spend. By the way, California asked the 88 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: Biden administration for one point two billion grant request because 89 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: they thought that it needed it and the FEDS were 90 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: going to probably come through and Biden was going to 91 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: help Newsom bail out the project. Well, you know what, 92 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: Biden's administration simply denied the request. I was really surprised 93 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: at that, because you know, they use high speed rail 94 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: as one of the rallying points to combat climate change, right. 95 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it's a fantasy, but they like to use it. 96 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: And for the Biden administration, of all groups to say no, 97 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 1: we're not putting any money in this, well that that 98 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: is really a nail in the coffin there. It is 99 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: to think about. It's a competitive bid. There are all 100 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: kinds of states who are competing for that rail money 101 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars, and that comparison is obvious 102 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 1: when you look at what California has done with billions 103 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: of dollars. It's not complete nowhere near complete, huge cost overruns, 104 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: no money to really complete it from you know, just 105 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 1: outside to Bakersfield and shafter to just just outside Merseid. Yeah. Right, 106 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: if they do get it done, you're going Bakersfield to Merced. 107 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: Can you hang on? I want to continue this because 108 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: this is really a joke, and we're talking with Jim Patterson, 109 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: is the assemblyman, Republican from Fresno and high speed rail. 110 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: Another estimate, it's one hundred billion dollars short of funding. 111 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: Biden administration doesn't even want to throw money into this, 112 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: and and there's no sign this is going to end 113 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: because Newsom wants to spend a half billion of this 114 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: year's state budget on it, even though we're twenty two 115 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: billion in death in deficit. So that's coming up next 116 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: on the John and Ken Show. You're listening to John 117 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: and Ken on demand from kf I AM sixty. The 118 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,239 Speaker 1: guy who's has the standoff with the La County Sheriff's 119 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: Department in Compton at the end of a dead end street, 120 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: has gonna have to deal with two bearcats, now, two 121 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: of them. These gigantic tanks that the Sheriff's Department uses 122 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: to truck in swat team people and position them and 123 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: give them an advantage. They're pretty much bulletproof and they're 124 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: impossible to move, so he's not going to be able 125 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: to back his white pickup truck and do any damage. 126 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: But they've got two of them. I don't know what 127 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: they think he's got inside his pickup truck, but they're 128 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: treating him like he's a huge danger. Let's continue now here. 129 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: On The Johnny Ken Show, Jim Patterson. Jim is the 130 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: Republican Assemblyman from Fresno, and we're dealing with high speed 131 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: rail stories because they're over one hundred billion dollars short 132 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: of what they need and the governor wants to spend 133 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: another half billion on it when the state has a 134 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: twenty two billion dollar deficit this year. It's an incredible 135 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: waste of money for an astoundingly stupid project, and is 136 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: the whole reason with Newsom is he gets a lot 137 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: of funding from the construction workers, and so because it 138 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: seemed like, you know, a year or two ago, he 139 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: was making noises like maybe we ought to shut this 140 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: thing down. Yeah, well, I this governor is not a governor. 141 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: He is a he's a performance actor. He is a 142 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: pretty boy who knows that he's pretty, and he is 143 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: posing as the governor. He goes on these rants that 144 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: are utterly irrational. He's going to penalize the oil companies 145 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: because they're you know, screwing Californians over the fact remains 146 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: that our oil is extracted in California is cleaner, they 147 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: do it better than any other place. And the more 148 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: oil we don't produce, the more we are reliable on 149 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: other countries that you know, much dirtier and much less reliable. 150 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: But I think the thing that bugs me the most 151 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: is the former mayor of Fresno. Uh. I was I 152 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: got the introduction for this when I was first elected. 153 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: Uh And we were then just chosen. Nobody asked us, 154 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: but we were chosen to be the you know, the 155 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: guinea pig and all of this. And if you go 156 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: to Fresno today, all you see are these monolithic, concrete 157 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: constructed overpasses via ducts those kinds of things, right, and 158 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: they and they and they're they're not connected anything. So 159 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: number one, yeah, we've we've been ripped up and I 160 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: and if we are not left with something of value. 161 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: So when people say, well, Jim, we ought to just 162 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: shut the thing down and you know, throw it away, 163 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: what do you know what that would do to Fresno, California. 164 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: It would make us the laughing stock of the state 165 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: because we'd have these incomplete pieces of concrete. So at 166 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: the same time, I'm I'm a critic and I've been 167 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: very harsh and I've held them accountable. I was able 168 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: to get a scathing audit out of the California State Auditor. 169 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: But I am also kicking him in the behind saying, look, 170 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: I don't care if it's Amtrak. Something has to be 171 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: there of value or you have not only ripped us up, 172 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: you've ripped us off. I don't know what anybody can do. 173 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: I mean, here's a quote from Ethan L. Kind. He's 174 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: director of the Climate Change program at you See Berkeley's 175 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: Law School. See you know where his sympathies would lie. 176 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: But he said, the whole project's in jeopardy. It's dicey. 177 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: There is no path forward for the full Los Angeles 178 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: to San Francisco system, no path forward, And there's there's 179 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: a report that says that you're you're gonna need more 180 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: funding just to run it from her SID to Bakersfield 181 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 1: for a passenger service. So there's no money even to 182 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: go from her SID to Bakersfield, let alone LA to 183 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: San Francisco. Yeah, what I've been what I've talked about 184 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: in the past with leaving us with something of value. 185 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: I've repeatedly asked the High Speed Real Authority, what's your 186 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: plan be if everything falls apart? Well, they have admitted 187 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: in public hearings their plan B is to basically turn 188 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 1: it over to Amtrak as a multi billion dollar, you know, improvement. 189 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: Maybe they'll be able to run the trains at one 190 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: hundred and something miles an hour rather than eighty or ninety. 191 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: And if that was what was left over between you know, 192 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: Mercied and Bakersfield, at least we have some kind of 193 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: traffic through the city. They built, They will have built 194 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: the at grade separations and those kinds of things. What 195 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: can I ask you and no knock, no knock on 196 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,839 Speaker 1: these cities or the area, how much traffic could there 197 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: possibly be between Bakersfield and Mercid. Well again, if it 198 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: was if it was the Amtrak service, only it was 199 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: up on those elevated structures and maybe going a little 200 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: bit faster because they could run it like the Acella 201 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: back on the East Coast, which runs one hundred and 202 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: thirty five miles an hour or something like that. We 203 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: would at least have some kind of traffic. And by 204 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: the way, Amtrak does haul quite a few people through 205 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: the Central Valley. My big problem here is that if 206 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: they don't change course, figure out what their plan be 207 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: is going to be, and then build something of value 208 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: to leave behind, I just get really concerned that we're 209 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: going to end up with this concrete in the air, 210 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: and what are we going to do? I don't know. 211 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: I mean, let me read you another quote here. This 212 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: is Bill Ebbs. He's a retired UC Berkeley civil engineer. 213 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: He has he serves on the peer Review Group which 214 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: she's appointed in the state to oversee these kind these 215 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: kind of construction projects, and he has consulted on international 216 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: high speed rail projects, so he knows what he's talking about. 217 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: And he said they don't directly address the hardcore engineering issues. 218 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: For example, the thirty eight miles of mountain tunnels that 219 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: are planned for southern California alone right to get into LA. 220 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: What are the major engineering challenges that line in front 221 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: of you, and why aren't you talking about them? In 222 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: the latest report they released, they don't even discuss an 223 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: enormous issue. They don't They don't have a public plan 224 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: for drilling through thirty thirty eight miles of mountains. Yeah, 225 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: this is a herky jerky. We'll do a little bit 226 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: of this and then it fails, and then we're going 227 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: to figure out, Oh, well, geez, we've made a big 228 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: mistake here. And then they try something else and they go, 229 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: oh geez. I have been saying for the ten years, 230 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: the biggest problem you're gonna have is drilling through the 231 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: mountains down south, drilling through the mountains up north, and 232 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: that is a multi billion dollar expense. And I've never 233 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: seen ten years in the legislature on the Oversight Committee, 234 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: I've never seen a realistic plan of how they're going 235 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: to drill. By the way the Mountain of Sanberdardino Mountains 236 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: and over the down to the Pataco Pass and all 237 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: these other different areas they're going to be drilling their 238 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: fault lines. This I think is a I don't know 239 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: that it'll ever get past Bakersfield and Mercedes. They can't 240 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: even lay down the track on flat land efficiently. You know, 241 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: I drive by these mountain ranges where the track is 242 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: supposed to go and I look at it, and I'm 243 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: no engineer, but just you just use your eyes. It's 244 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: like they're not going to do this. They're not capable 245 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: of doing this. Yeah. The other problem is that that 246 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: I don't think they have enough money. Let's back up 247 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: one bit. We are supposed to have a hundred and 248 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: nineteen mile test evaluation track. It's supposed to be demonstrating 249 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: what a wonderful thing this will be if we take 250 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: this demonstration from RASED to Bakersfield, make it from Los 251 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: Angeles to San Francisco, and it will be the demonstration 252 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: project that will sell it to the private sector and 253 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 1: all of that. Are you kidding? We can't even build 254 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: two tracks, one north, one south on the demonstration project. 255 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: What's gonna be. It's gonna be one track, And so 256 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: you're going to demons and they don't even have the 257 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: money for the train sets. It's fallen apart, and the 258 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: pretty soon the governor and the legislature have to wake 259 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: up to the fact that they've got to have a 260 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: plan B to continue to try to do what they 261 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: have promised from San Francisco to La We'll just break 262 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: the bank the appetite for the State of California taxpayers 263 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: to put the build on all of this. Think about 264 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: what five hundred and twenty six million dollars would do 265 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: to help our water systems, to build storage, to to 266 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: get and he wants nothing but electric cars in twelve years, 267 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: and we have an electrical grid that malfunctions every summer. 268 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: Now with the current load, it's just everything's nuts, all right, 269 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 1: gotta go, Jim, Okay, thanks a lot. Appreciate to give 270 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: them the chance to at least began began plead for 271 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: at least high speed rail, to not just leave us 272 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: with a bunch of crap up in the air and 273 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: a bunch of our streets torn up, or we are 274 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna be the fifth largest city in the 275 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: state of California that will have an embarrassment running through 276 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: its heart. All right, Jim, thank you. I'm sad about that. Yeah, 277 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: I understand, all right, Jim Patterson Republican assemblymen in Fresno 278 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: about the never ending fifteen years story. One of the 279 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: most incredible wastes of taxmayer payer money in American history, 280 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: the high speed rail. That's what a monstrous waste. Will 281 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,479 Speaker 1: we come back, We got to talk about Will Smith 282 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: is hurt and embarrassed. His feelings are hurt because of 283 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: Chris Rock's new round of jokes in the Netflix specially 284 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: did that's coming up? You're listening to John and Ken 285 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: on demand from kf I am sixty. Just one more 286 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: note on the high speed rail, a big story that 287 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: Newson wants to spend more tax money on it even 288 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: though we have a huge deficit, and that they're over 289 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: one hundred billion dollars short of funding. I mentioned earlier 290 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: Ethan Elkin. He's director of Climate Change at UC Berkeley 291 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: Law School and he follows transportation issues. He said, ultimately 292 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: the state will have to go back to vote and 293 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: ask to borrow more money. Another bond issue we would add, 294 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: would we would have to approve to borrow more money 295 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: and pay it back with our taxes. He said, it's 296 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: going to be harder to go back to the voters 297 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: and ask for more funding. But I think ultimately that's 298 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: what's going to be needed, which is why it's so 299 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: critical that they finished the first segment. Can you believe 300 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: that they're gonna I swear if anybody votes for more 301 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 1: funding for this thing, I'm coming over your house. I'm 302 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: coming over your house. We're gonna take your hostage. I mean, 303 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: this is just beyond absurd. Ken's off today. All right, 304 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: this this cracked me up. Well aware of the Will 305 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 1: Smith smack and Chris rock last year at the Oscars 306 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: and a lot of people saw Chris Rocks special. I forgot, 307 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: did you? I watched about ten minutes of a bit. 308 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: I did hear what he said about Will Smith? Right? 309 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: And he explained And I wasn't even clear on this 310 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: because I don't all this stuff. Maybe maybe you do that. 311 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: Will Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett, she was sleeping around with 312 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: her son's friend. That is the rumor. Rum Well, I 313 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: mean the whole thing. Okay, I'm not gonna if that's 314 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: what she said, that's what she's I don't have photos, 315 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 1: but but I think I think they they I think 316 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 1: didn't they have an open relationship. That's been rumor that 317 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: they have a very open relationship. It's a very uh 318 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: that is really open when you're doing your son's friend. 319 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: His name is august Alcino. He's he's a singer, and 320 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: that's more than open. And I know that was fact. Well, 321 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: I mean she interviewed Will about it on the Red 322 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: Table Talk okay, and Chris made a whole joke about it. Okay, 323 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: I'm not up on this. Yeah that I just I 324 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 1: heard of that Eric because I'm that's just because I'm 325 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: my age. Um. Anyway, So Chris Rock went through that 326 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: whole complex relationship and really ripped into Will Smith. And 327 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: now Will Smith says he's embarrassed and hurt, and according 328 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: to a source, Will apologize to Chris and he would 329 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 1: like for Chris to let it go. Would you let 330 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: it go if someone slapped you on National TV? To 331 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: let it go? He, according to a source, told Entertainment 332 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: Tonight he didn't watch it. He had people tell him 333 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: what Chris said, and Will and Jada have seen comments 334 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: about it, and he thought that Netflix made a distasteful 335 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: move airing the special. It wasn't im poor taste to 336 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: suck Chris Rock right exactly. Now, maybe Will Smith needs 337 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 1: to get over that Chris Rock is still pissed. You know, 338 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: it could have been a lot worse. I mean, he 339 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: could have filed a massive lawsuit. Yeah, I don't think 340 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: Chris Rock is pissed if he turned it into a 341 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: comedy special, But I think he was. I think I 342 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,360 Speaker 1: don't think he was happy that he got I'm sure, 343 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: and it's been a year, almost a year probably, but 344 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: it's still Obviously I'm sure it still bugs him because 345 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: he's talking about it, but he also made a whole 346 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: lot of money to talk about it. Yeah, you're you're 347 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: after you get pissed, the second thought is, wow, this 348 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: is a great material, right, you know, and this is 349 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: the hook to get millions of people to show up 350 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: at the concert tour exactly. I mean, what did I hear? 351 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: Forty millions? Yes, forty million? Yeah, it was the first 352 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: ever live Netflix comedy special. They usually tape it and 353 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 1: cut it and all of that. This was live first ever. 354 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was the first live one. Yeah, 355 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: so forty million. That doesn't even count all the concerts 356 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: he's given around the country, which all sold out in 357 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: five minutes, which he probably worked all of that material into. Right, Well, 358 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: that's what anybody. I mean, that's what everybody wants to hear. 359 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: His reaction because he hasn't spoken about the slab, Sam 360 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: smart that is, you'll hold it back and it becomes 361 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: more and more valuable. He could have spilled this all 362 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,360 Speaker 1: out for free. It's been Do you realize it's been 363 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 1: The oscars are Sunday, right, So it's been almost a year. Yeah. Um. 364 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: Also funny Bill Kramer is now the CEO of the 365 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: Motion Picture Academy. Um. He says they have a designated 366 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: crisis team if anything like this happens again. We have 367 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: a whole crisis team, something we've never had before. Many 368 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: planes in place, We've run many scenarios. Oh, that must 369 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: be an entertaining meeting, fantasizing what horrible thing could happen 370 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: on live television? On stage, do they do like fire drills? 371 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:40,199 Speaker 1: Like they have a dummies getting slapped on stage and 372 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: then the guys have to run out and tackle them. Rehearsals. Okay, 373 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: you play Will Smith charging the stage, you play Chris 374 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: Rock and and and you're you know, I got five 375 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: guys stationed to the left, five guys station to the right. 376 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: They better be armed. He said, we've run many scenarios. 377 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: It's our hope that we'll be prepared for anything, thing 378 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: that we may not anticipate right now, but we're planning 379 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 1: for it just in case it does happen. Wait a second, 380 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: we're planning for things that they're not anticipating, just in 381 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: case they happen. Well, yeah, you got to you gotta 382 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: expect the unexpected. John Right, Well, somebody's gonna want a 383 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 1: lot of attention, right, I mean, it's not going to 384 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: surprise me if somebody tries to do something, because I 385 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: look at the office attention. I wonder if somebody will 386 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: try to do a parody of it. I was just 387 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: about to say, watch watch another comedian try and fake 388 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: run up on stage and see what happens if he 389 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: gets shot the crisis I wouldn't. I wouldn't test the 390 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: crisis team. God knows who they've hired. Probably the same 391 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: guys as the metro Board, or maybe some ambassadors. That's right, 392 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: All right, more coming up John and Ken Show. You're 393 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: listening to John and Ken on demand from kf I 394 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: am sixty. We talked before about this, this monstrous boondoggle 395 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 1: of ice speed Randal Lamage. He's being wasted and you 396 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 1: know the way, the way Jim Patterson our guests, the 397 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: Republican assemblyman, described Newsom was perfect. You know, he's just 398 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: a pretty boy, and he just loves making public pronouncements 399 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 1: and to get attention, and he doesn't think things through 400 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: follow things through. Even even the La Times in one 401 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: of their news stories, said that the governor often jumps 402 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: on some hot button issue jested basically the virtue signal 403 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 1: and without any explanation of how the program is going 404 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: to work and what the consequences were going to be. 405 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: And the perfect example of this, and I still don't 406 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: believe this will follow through. I'll tell you. Let me 407 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: tell you, ten years from now you are not or 408 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: fifty twelve years from now, you are still going to 409 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: be buying gas powered cars in California. And there still 410 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: is not going to be a usable high speed rail 411 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: all right, no matter how many pronouncements they make. And 412 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 1: on the high speed rail rather on the electric car front, 413 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: the calmattercalmatters dot Org ran a story about electric car 414 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: batteries and whether supply problems will keep electric cars from 415 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: ever becoming a primary way of driving here in the state. 416 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: Because it they're so most of the minerals have to 417 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: be mined in far off places that we have no 418 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,719 Speaker 1: control over. And for example, the cobalt in the Congo, 419 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: the Democratic Republic of Congo is in Central Africa, and 420 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 1: they have a huge percentage of the cobalt, which is 421 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: a rare earth mineral that you must have to run 422 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: an electric car battery. We have access to very little 423 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 1: of that around the world. The Chinese have virtually all 424 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: the access, and they're using these child slaves who are 425 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: working on these hands, on their hands and knees. And 426 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: if you see the photos, first of all, the cobalt 427 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: mine itself is this gigantic crater that they have gouged 428 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: into the earth. I can't believe any woke progressive environmentalist, 429 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: west side hippie if they saw the photos of the 430 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 1: damage being done by these cobalt mines and looking at 431 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: the children and the women who are on their hands 432 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 1: and knees completely coated in cobalt dust. I mean to me, 433 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: this is a test whether you're really a phony, a 434 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: phony about human rights, a phony about the environment, like 435 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 1: the whole lot, because they're treating these are African women 436 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 1: and men, African children, some of them very young, treated 437 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: like slaves, and they're giving all the cobalt mineral over 438 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 1: to the Chinese, who are then going to be in 439 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: charge of the market, and we're going to have to 440 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: be begging them in order to get enough batteries made 441 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: for our electric car fantasy. I mean, you know, the 442 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: Chinese also have enslaved all the weeg are as the 443 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: Muslims in their country and put them in concentration camps. 444 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 1: And if they have the child slaves who work at 445 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: the Apple factories and all the other tech factories making 446 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 1: your phones and iPads and the rest of it. I mean, 447 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: that's why I have no interest in listening to any 448 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: of these progressive phonies lecture about anyone being oppressed, any 449 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: human rights and about slavery. I mean, for a good lord, 450 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: if you could see what's out there, and you've got 451 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:58,959 Speaker 1: these automakers who are trying to appease the government. General 452 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: Motors wants to set a twenty thirty five goal to 453 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: electrify their entire fleet, where I'm going to go out 454 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: and buy three gas powered cars, I think, and just 455 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: garage them somewhere. Volvo and Mercedes want to be fully 456 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: electric by twenty thirty. Only Ford is holding back saying 457 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: they're just going to go electric only in Europe over 458 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: the next twelve years. Most of the mining is going 459 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: to be in Africa, Australia, South America and Asia, very 460 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: little of it here. They're going to be exploring to 461 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: tear up the Arctic Circle and the ocean deep sea beds. 462 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: And do you think that these supply chains are going 463 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: to work? What do you think this is going to cost? 464 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: What's going to happen when you have warring factions, because 465 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: the Congo has dealt with civil wars frequently, so what 466 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: happens when they take control of the mine? I mean, 467 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: this is just the most badly thought out virtue signaling 468 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: like nonsense that I mean, out of all the virtue 469 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: signaling nonsense we've had to endure over the past few years, 470 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: this is one of the most ridiculous. And they simply 471 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: don't have the materials and they don't have the supply 472 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: chain They have to get cobalt, nickel, lithium to build 473 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: the batteries. Without these you can't. You simply don't have 474 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: the batteries. And to deal with the Chinese, I mean, 475 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: if you're in the Chinese leader this week, he's he's 476 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: he's acting quite belligerent. You know, he's ready to go 477 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: to war in the next few years if he has 478 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: to with the United States. To give you an example 479 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: of how the costs of this is so unpredictable. Before COVID, 480 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: according to one expert, the cost of lithium was seven 481 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: to eight dollars a kilo. Now it's sixty five to 482 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: seventy dollars a kio. An increased tenfold. The price of 483 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: cobalt more than doubled from mid twenty twenty one to 484 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. It's fallen dramatically since. And but yeah, 485 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: you look at the photos. I defy if there's any 486 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: real environmentalist or any real human rights advocate to look 487 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: at the photos or the videos of the little children 488 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: working in these disgusting cobalt pits and covered in cobalt 489 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: dust and not be sick to your stomach. And then 490 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: and then you're going to tootle around in your electric 491 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: car with your with your new electric battery and feel 492 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: like you're doing something good for the planet and good 493 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: for humanity. It's just they say, only Tesla because it 494 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: has its close control of the materials and the battery 495 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: manufacturing is well positioned to avoid supply chain and battery disruptions. 496 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: But point is is like, if you if you want 497 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: to experiment and slowly roll out the product and see 498 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: if it takes, see if the supply chains work, and 499 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: if the public wants it, that's one thing. But to 500 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,479 Speaker 1: mandate banning the sale of gas powered cars in twenty 501 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: thirty five is just completely insane, just absurd, and is 502 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: going to be rolled back by somebody after Newsom's done 503 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: in office. All right, we've got Conway coming Hey, no, hey, no, 504 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: Steve Gregory's coming on with us. So I talked about 505 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: the three LAPD officers that got shot last night. He 506 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: was on the case there. Petro's papadaka said five bells 507 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: and then Dean Sharp at six twenty. I don't fee 508 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: if you guys read the La Times, but they had 509 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: a couple of articles in there today about how people 510 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 1: are leaving California, leaving LA leaving San Francisco. And I've 511 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 1: read the entire article and there's never any self awareness 512 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: how that papers endorsed nothing but one party for forty 513 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: years and this turned into an asshole. They never blame 514 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: themselves at all. No, no, for whatever influence they have 515 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: on the public. And I don't want to meet the 516 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: person who reads an LA Times editorial and then starts 517 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: voting the way it was suggesting if you want to 518 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: know that guy. Yeah, it's it's it's wild that you 519 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: know that they didn't say, hey man, we may have 520 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: booted a couple of these endorsements. Well yeah, and then 521 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: when they carry on about, you know some of these 522 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: politicians who screw up and scandalized themselves and have to 523 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: be hounded out of office, they never mentioned how many 524 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: times they endorsed the guy. I'd ever mentioned how many 525 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: times they endorsed Kevin de Leon. Yeah, Kevin de Leon 526 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: was there last night at the press conference with these 527 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 1: three officers. You know, I mean literally three months ago. 528 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: He was in a conversation. You know, he's just gonna 529 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: keep going. I guess he'll probably get reelected. But that's 530 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: the city that we live in. Yeah, you know where 531 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: that guy gets keep his job. He's been all the rules. Yeah, right, 532 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: we know the rules. He's coming out very good. Con 533 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: Let's go and the news live to twenty four hour 534 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: caf I newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 535 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: and Ken show. You can always hear us live on 536 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: caf i Am six forty one pm to four pm 537 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand 538 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: on the iHeart Radio app