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Speaker 1: Moistline coming up, but first, this is a classic out

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Speaker 1: in the Mohave Desert. They've had the Yvanpah Solar Power

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand of them over ten years flew past this

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Speaker 1: energy consultant named Edward Smeloff. He told The New York Post,

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Speaker 1: the mirrors reflect heat from the sun to a receiver

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Speaker 1: It's complicated, and there was a billion and a half

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Speaker 1: to talk with Steve molloy, publisher of junk science dot com,

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Speaker 1: which is a great website. He's had it for many years.

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Speaker 1: He's a former Trump EPA transition team member, a great

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Speaker 1: climate change skeptic, and he's written again about all these

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Speaker 1: scams and hoaxes and panics for many years. Let's get

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Speaker 1: Steve maloy on. How are you, Steve.

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Speaker 2: I'll doing great, John, Thanks for having me explain this.

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Speaker 1: What the hell was this thing? Two billion dollars?

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a rude Goldberg way of producing electricity.

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Speaker 2: They thought it was green, and of course, you know,

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Speaker 2: I was checking my ex speed. It wasn't working back then.

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Speaker 2: It's really sort of sort of an inefficient gas plant

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Speaker 2: camouflaged as this solar monstrosity. And you know, you're right

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Speaker 2: about the birds. I mean, it just gets these really

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Speaker 2: they you know, get zapped and and fry. They were

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Speaker 2: called streamers aside from the aside from murdering birds. Stream Yeah, streamers.

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Speaker 2: And so like every green project around the world, it's

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Speaker 2: all fraud and disaster. It has no purpose. None of

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Speaker 2: just all subsidized nonsense. And my god, I didn't even

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Speaker 2: it's two billion dollars. Oh yeah, well I got dos

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Speaker 2: for you. The Biden administration in it's in its closing days,

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Speaker 2: gave to Stacey Abrams two billion dollars to go buy

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Speaker 2: Part of right, that was part of the green new

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Speaker 2: So what's two billion dollars? Uh? You know, we go

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Speaker 2: So that's what it's all about.

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Speaker 1: Why are all the true believers or criminals still left

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Speaker 2: though you guys are supposed to be green and all that,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna drill two thousand new or wells. Well, right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and use that as his calling card. The success

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Speaker 1: It's a great mystery. Steve good talking with you again.

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Speaker 1: Steve Maloy, junk Science dot com, former Trump EPA transition

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Speaker 1: member on the closing of the one one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest boondoggles this side of high speed rail, and it's

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Speaker 1: the Avantpas solar power facility in the Mojave Desert. We

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four, and

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Speaker 1: this is really a scam. It's really a racket. It's

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Speaker 1: the Avanpa solar power facility, two billion dollars in tax

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Speaker 1: there's absolutely no reason for it. Now onto you know,

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Speaker 1: coming out very strongly against Prop fifty to redraw the

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Speaker 1: districting lines. That's the big newsom scamp. But I just

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Speaker 1: because you know, one thing, I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are unhappy with Lennondi Gretti's appearance from Santa Monica

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Speaker 1: trying to explain away all the vagrants and mental patients.

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Speaker 1: But one thing she said is true, and I've heard

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Speaker 1: it from a number of people. Nobody has told me

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Speaker 1: it's wrong. The mental patients are coming off the train.

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Speaker 1: It's the E line now used to be the Expo

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Speaker 1: the end of the night, and then they wreak havoc

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Speaker 1: and they're still there the next morning or you know,

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Speaker 1: for the next year. And there's a lot of you know,

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Speaker 1: homeless services in the city that the county has put in.

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Speaker 1: So it's a it's a huge magnet for mental patients

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Speaker 1: and drug addicts. And you know, they stop their program

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Speaker 1: of requiring all these characters to tap their metro card

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Speaker 1: on the way out to prove that they paid. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of the vagrants aren't paying anymore again because

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Speaker 1: they don't have to tap to get out of the system.

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Speaker 1: Zoram Mamdani in New York City wants an entirely free

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Speaker 1: public service system public transportation system. They tried this in Albuquerque.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's happened. They used to charge a dollar for

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Speaker 1: a bus fare in Albuquerque. Now they got rid of

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Speaker 1: that dollar charge, and all the homeless in the city

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Speaker 1: has flocked to the buses because they can relax all

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Speaker 1: they can stay out of the rain storms. So the

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Speaker 1: city's buses, according to the National Review Paul Guessing, they've

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Speaker 1: become rolling homeless shelters. They've also become getaway vehicles for shoplifters.

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Speaker 1: As soon as as soon as the program started. Albuquerque

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Speaker 1: media reported two years ago that the free buses were

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Speaker 1: being used as getaways for shoplifters. They they just steal

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Speaker 1: their stuff and they jump on board the bus and

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Speaker 1: they could sit on the bus all day and join

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Speaker 1: the drug addicts and the mental patients. A Democrat, a

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Speaker 1: former New Mexico Attorney General named Hector Balderos, says, well,

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Speaker 1: I think that the no fee for riders seemed like

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Speaker 1: a well intentioned policy. That's how they always defended. Progressives

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Speaker 1: always said, well, it was well intentioned, stupid, but there

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Speaker 1: must be safety requirements. You can't just let everyone ride

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Speaker 1: on the bus with stolen's. They the Albuquerque Police undertook

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Speaker 1: a sting operation. They arrested thirty one people. Ten of

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Speaker 1: the thirty one used a city bus for a getaway.

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Speaker 1: One city councilor said there was a twenty five percent

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Speaker 1: increase in police calls at buses and bus stops since

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Speaker 1: they gave free bus rides away drugs. Big problem on

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Speaker 1: the buses because they take the bus all day and

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Speaker 1: they shoot up and they snore it and they smoke.

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Speaker 1: Twelve to thirty one people arrested. Nine of the ten

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Speaker 1: the thirty one had drugs or drug paraphernalia on them,

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Speaker 1: mostly related to fentanyl. So the Albubuquerque bus system now

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Speaker 1: ferries fitted the laddics up and down the city streets

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Speaker 1: fentanyl wears off and they come back to consciousness, they

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Speaker 1: get out of the bus and they steal some stuff

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Speaker 1: and they get back on the bus. This is truly

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Speaker 1: what's going on. Nine bus drivers have quit and they

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Speaker 1: said it was it was the free fairs program. There

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Speaker 1: are now eighty six vacant driver positions. The city council.

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Speaker 1: Some of them wanted to require writers to at least

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Speaker 1: show government ID to ride on the bus, but the

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Speaker 1: proposal was never adopted over concerns about equity equity. I

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Speaker 1: have never seen a progressive policy that didn't cause destruction,

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Speaker 1: that didn't fail miserably, and I think that's the idea.

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Speaker 1: It's not well intentioned. The idea is to destroy the system,

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Speaker 1: any system, all systems, just destroy our way of life.

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Speaker 1: That is the central tenet of progressivism, destroy civilized society.

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Speaker 1: And even in Albuquerque the bus program proves I'm correct, nothing,

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Speaker 1: nothing good has come out of progressive politics, and people

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Speaker 1: keep voting for it. When we come back, we're gonna

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