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Speaker 2: just so you know, because you might show up at

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Speaker 2: any moment. Here, we're going to talk with Josh Hoover.

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Speaker 2: He's the Republican Assemblyman from Falsom. He wrote a piece

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Speaker 2: for the Sacramento b We've discussed this as well, and

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Speaker 2: we wanted to talk to somebody who's actually in the

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Speaker 2: belly of the stuff there in Sacramento to explain how

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Speaker 2: the state can spend twenty four billion dollars in tax money,

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Speaker 2: twenty four billion. If you have some time tonight, try

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Speaker 2: to count to twenty four billion. See how long it takes.

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Speaker 2: Since twenty eighteen, they've spent this money to solve homelessness,

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Speaker 2: and homelessness has gone up dramatically in that time. In fact,

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Speaker 2: in Sacramento, the homeless population has grown by sixty seven percent,

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Speaker 2: and Sacramento's homeless is bigger than San Francisco's homeless. Now,

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Speaker 2: all right, let's get Josh Hoover on the assemblyman from fulsome.

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Speaker 1: Josh, how are you.

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Speaker 4: Having me?

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Speaker 1: It's good to have you on this.

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Speaker 2: All this information came from the state auditor, a two

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Speaker 2: part report. One tells you this blew twenty four billion

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Speaker 2: dollars and the other tells you that they don't know

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Speaker 2: where the twenty four billion went. And everybody listening is

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Speaker 2: pounding the table, pounding their steering wheel and saying, what

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Speaker 2: the hell is going on here? How can this be?

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Speaker 2: How can they blow twenty four billion and not know

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Speaker 2: where most of it went?

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Speaker 4: Now, that's exactly right. Twenty four billion dollars Over a

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Speaker 4: five year period, we saw homelessness increase by thirty two

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Speaker 4: percent statewide. During that same period, of time. In Sacramento County,

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Speaker 4: where I'm.

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Speaker 1: At, it was double that.

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Speaker 4: If you live in a major city, it was in

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Speaker 4: some cases, you know, exponentially greater than that. So we

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Speaker 4: put this audio request forward because we wanted to figure

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Speaker 4: out where the money was going. The most troubling finding

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Speaker 4: is that most of our agencies don't even.

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Speaker 1: Know and they haven't been interested.

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Speaker 4: No, they haven't been interested. They're not interested in results.

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Speaker 4: In fact, I talked to the auditor and he said,

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Speaker 4: you know, one of the more concerning things that he

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Speaker 4: really found was that the focuses on meeting the spending deadlines,

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Speaker 4: getting the dollars out the door, rather than are these

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Speaker 2: Well, this is overwhelming. I mean, twenty four billion dollars

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Speaker 2: go up thirty two percent in just five years is shocking.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's absolutely shocking. And this is what I suspected.

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Speaker 2: None of the employees in any of these agencies particularly

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Speaker 2: which and I think a lot of the nonprofits are

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Speaker 2: criminal enterprises and they certainly all have political connections. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is this is massive corruption? How could it not be?

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Speaker 4: So? This is you know, the other really concerning part

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Speaker 4: and zero accountability and zero transparency. And I really believe

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Speaker 2: So after this auditors report came out, there was no

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Speaker 2: be rolling here. Newsom hasn't said anything. It's another big

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Speaker 4: I have not heard from Newsom. In fact, quite the opposite, Right,

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Speaker 4: we just knew Someom just fought the pass Proposition one.

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Speaker 4: By the way, this audit was supposed to be back

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Speaker 1: Of course it did.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it should have come out before, but had it

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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely, So I'm working on legislation right now with

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Speaker 3: We do next?

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Speaker 2: Well, is anybody on the Democrat side interested in holding

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Speaker 2: government is spending the money and doesn't care to find

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Speaker 2: out if it works or not. I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 2: there's got to be people who run these agencies whose

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Speaker 4: There were a couple Democrats that joined forces with me

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Speaker 4: on this audit request, but the question is, you know,

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Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't sense a ground swell here though.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're, you're the only one who's really

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Speaker 2: surfaced as far as we can tell in the media.

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Speaker 2: Not that the media would cover this anyway, but the

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Speaker 2: best we can find is is you writing this piece

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Speaker 2: for the Sacramento bi Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Senator Dave Cortesi, a Democrat from San Jose. He actually

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Speaker 4: brought forward the idea to audit San Jose, and then

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Speaker 4: the auditor actually selected San Diego in their process. But

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Speaker 4: so he certainly has been interested in looking into it

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Speaker 4: at the local level. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: we have to do better by taxpayers. And by the way,

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Speaker 4: if you're a homeless advocate, you should also be concerned

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Speaker 4: about these results, because we don't even know if homeless

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm too cynical. I wonder if the homeless advocates care.

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Speaker 2: Just as long as they're getting a cut of the

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Speaker 2: money slashing through, maybe they don't care. Maybe this turns

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Speaker 2: out to be a great career move. You can make

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Speaker 2: a lot of money. I mean a lot of these

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Speaker 2: people running nonprofits make six figure salaries. So you keep

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Speaker 2: agitating for more money for the homeless, and actually these

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think in a lot of cases that's true.

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Speaker 4: In fact, if you look at what was said, a

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Speaker 4: large portion of the money they've split into three categories

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Speaker 4: is going to the middle category, people experiencing homelessness. Very

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Speaker 4: few of these dollars are going to people exiting homelessness,

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Speaker 4: and that's really should be the ultimate goal.

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Speaker 1: But it's not all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hope you can put some pressure and if

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Speaker 2: these guys, because this is an atrocity, this is horrible.

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Speaker 2: They might as well stop all their homeless programs because

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Speaker 2: everything's just getting worse and it would have gotten just

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Speaker 4: Well, I do think we need to freeze those dollars

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Speaker 4: until we know where they're going for sure.

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Speaker 2: All right, Josh, thanks for coming on with us, Thanks

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Speaker 2: so much. Josh Over the Republican from fulsome the Assembly

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Speaker 2: in the Assembly, and he just joined the Assembly in

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Speaker 2: on it. But I mean, this is just outrageous. Isn't

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Speaker 2: there a point where this all gets too stupid to continue?

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Speaker 2: Does it ever get too stupid to continue? Does it

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Speaker 2: ever get to the point where people change the way

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Speaker 2: they vote, demand that heads roll, get rid of the

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Speaker 2: governor something. Twenty four billion dollars in homelessness went up

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Speaker 2: by a third, and Sacramento went up by two thirds.

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Speaker 1: This is all a farce.

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Speaker 2: And these these homeless advocates, these these people who run

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Speaker 2: these stupid worthless and they are worthless. These nonprofits reaching

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Speaker 2: out the homeless there don't care that very very few

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Speaker 2: people really care about the homeless. There are people who

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Speaker 2: by trying to manipulate other people's emotions, by trying to

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Speaker 2: impose guilt on other people, to keep coughing up the money,

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Speaker 2: but very few actually care. This is a huge money

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Speaker 2: making industry here.

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Speaker 1: That's just it's twenty four billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: You add this to the to the tens of billions

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Speaker 2: of dollars blown on unemployment insurance that's Undernewsom as well,

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Speaker 2: the tens of billions of dollars getting blown right now

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Speaker 2: in high speed rail. I mean, we are getting looted, bloody,

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Speaker 2: aren't we?

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Speaker 1: Or coming up?

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after two thirty. Our friend Michelle Shane. Michelle

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Speaker 2: lost a daughter some years back, Emily when she got

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Speaker 2: run over on PCH by a crazed driver, and he's

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Speaker 2: been an activist ever since. To try to slow down

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Speaker 2: the death rate on PCH. More than sixty people have

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Speaker 2: been killed by cars since twenty ten, and finally, after

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Speaker 2: the pepperdynatrocity when those four college girls got run over

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Speaker 2: last year, there are two bills in the Senate Transportation Committee. Now,

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Speaker 2: will they really make a change on PCH and will

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Speaker 2: Shane thinks. Coming up after two thirty here on KF five,

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Speaker 2: we got a lot of stuff to come on the show,

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Speaker 2: and one thing I want to get to now, because

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Speaker 2: this is.

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Speaker 1: Just hand.

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Speaker 2: Where did I put it? You know, I constantly shuffle

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Speaker 2: my Oh here it is. It's like a nervous habit.

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Speaker 2: I got all agitated. I started shuffling my papers around

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Speaker 2: and then when I need the paper, now I can't

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Speaker 2: find it. But here it is. This came out as Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to believe this. Gavin Newsom has had it.

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Speaker 2: He's actually at the end of his rope. He's not

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Speaker 2: gonna take it anymore. He was sick of government workers

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Speaker 2: not showing up in the office.

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Speaker 1: Fat up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna take it anymore. People have got

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Speaker 2: to come back to work. And finally, after over four

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Speaker 2: years of people not showing up for work in the

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Speaker 2: California government, Gavin Newsom is issuing a mandate, a requirement,

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Speaker 2: an order that state employees work from the office two

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Speaker 2: days a week. Yeah, after four years, he's so mad.

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Speaker 2: They've got to come in two days a week. Still

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Speaker 2: could stay home three of the days and pretend they're working,

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Speaker 2: which is what I think a lot of people do.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of people at home pretending

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Speaker 2: they work. State employees. Oh, look at this, Look at this.

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Speaker 2: He gave them a two month, two months notice on this.

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Speaker 2: They don't have to return to the office till June seventeenth,

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Speaker 2: two months notice that they have to work two days

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Speaker 2: a week in person. This started with the pandemic, which,

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Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, was sometime in the second week

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Speaker 2: of March. There's one hundred and fifty agencies and departments,

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Speaker 2: there's two hundred and forty thousand workers, and everybody was

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Speaker 2: staying home and listen to this genius A Cabinet secretary,

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Speaker 2: back Michelle Shane. There's been sixty car crash deaths on

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Speaker 1: It's completely nuts.

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Speaker 2: Now. You know, if you drive down a road that's

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Speaker 6: One hundred percent. I mean we also we have to

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Speaker 6: I have some pretty good ideas and I've finally gotten

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Speaker 4: We got to do.

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Speaker 1: Something, all right, Michelle, Well, I wish you luck.

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Speaker 2: Something's got to be done, and these two things may

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Speaker 1: Great, all right, thank you, Michelle Shane.

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Speaker 2: And the film really good if you can find you

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Speaker 2: f four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Well this just happened.

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Speaker 2: We're going to play a clip from the Biden spokeshole,

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Speaker 2: Corinne John Pierre, who's really an empty bag. There was

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Speaker 2: a reporter and her going back and forth on gas

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Speaker 2: prices and they just flat out lie. National gas prices

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Speaker 2: are three dollars is sixty three cents. By the way, California,

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Speaker 2: California is now at five forty five, so the national

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Speaker 2: average is three sixty three, which is really high. California

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Speaker 2: is five forty five. In Colorado it's three h six.

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Speaker 2: We're two dollars and thirty nine cents more expensive per

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Speaker 2: gallon than Colorado, and we're about a dollar eighty two

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Speaker 2: more expensive than the national average. This is such a

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Speaker 2: failed state. This is such a failed state. And the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration which triggered massive inflation by dumping five trillion

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Speaker 2: extra dollars into the economy with all the excessive spending

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Speaker 2: and all the money printing that the Federal Reserve did.

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Speaker 1: That's the root of all of this.

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Speaker 2: And then the gas prices shot up, which leads to

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Speaker 2: more inflation. Since everything has to be made, the price

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Speaker 2: of everything incorporates the price of oil and the price

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Speaker 2: of gas. Much manufacturing requires oil. Much transportation requires gas. Well,

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Speaker 2: here is a reporter. I don't know which reporter this is,

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Speaker 2: but somebody finally woke up that White House Press Corps

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Speaker 2: is usually in a coma. Here is a reporter going

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Speaker 2: after Cringean Pierre.

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Speaker 7: Gas prices they've been going up over the last month

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Speaker 7: twenty cents a gallon. Is the president considering any new

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Speaker 7: action that's like releasing more of from the strategic complosion here, So.

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Speaker 8: Don't have I don't have any new actions to read out.

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Speaker 8: I will say I will note that gas prices remain

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Speaker 8: well below their peak back in twenty twenty two. I

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Speaker 8: think that's important. And the average gas price right now

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Speaker 8: is cheaper than this time last year, and that's because

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Speaker 8: of what this president has been doing over the last

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Speaker 8: three years, including the spr and look, let's not forget

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Speaker 8: jobs or up wages or up clean energy manufacturing is up.

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Speaker 8: All of these things are incredibly important because of this

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Speaker 8: president's historic investment that he has made. And so but

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Speaker 8: I would I think it's important to note that it

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Speaker 8: means well below the twenty twenty peak, twenty twenty two

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Speaker 8: peak a partment.

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Speaker 7: That's only three cents lower than a year ago. It's

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Speaker 7: up fifty two percent from when President Bien came in office,

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Speaker 7: and even talk about changes in policy to encourage your

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Speaker 7: future investment in oil.

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Speaker 8: I guess so, Look, the President's committed to lowering cost

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Speaker 8: he is. It is something that you see at the

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Speaker 8: center of every economic policy when you hear giving remarks,

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Speaker 8: he's talking about lowering costs. He understands how the American

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Speaker 8: people are still thanks through this. And so the reason

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Speaker 8: that it remains below twenty twenty two the gas prices,

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Speaker 8: as you're asking me, is because of the historic investment

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Speaker 8: that the president has made. So of course we're going

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Speaker 8: to continue to monitor and.

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Speaker 1: Do everything right.

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Speaker 2: Right I stopped, Stop, stop before I blow my head off.

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Speaker 2: The reporter said, it's three cents lower than a year ago.

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Speaker 2: It's up fifty two percent when Biden came into office,

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Speaker 2: and she just ignores that and makes up a bunch

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Speaker 2: of phony statistics or irrelevant statistics.

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Speaker 1: What are you going to do?

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Speaker 2: It's impossible to have a rational conversation anymore. You tell somebody, hey,

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Speaker 2: it's fifty two percent higher. Well, you know, the President's gone,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. Whatever he's done, has it worked? It's fifty

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Speaker 2: two percent higher, And then would anybody even confront know

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Speaker 2: something about the atrocity here? California is five forty five

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Speaker 2: a gallon, Hawaii is four to seventy five. It is

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Speaker 2: seventy cents more expensive per gallon than Hawaii, which I

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Speaker 2: always have to point out is several thousand miles out

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Speaker 2: into the Pacific Ocean, so I think the transportation cost

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Speaker 2: is a little steeper there.

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Speaker 1: But look at that.

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Speaker 2: How could people live in this state at five forty five?

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Speaker 2: We took a trip up north to San Francisco. One

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Speaker 2: of my sons goes to school there, and I got

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Speaker 2: another I got a couple other stories about that, but

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Speaker 2: we stopped for casts off the five Freeway. It was

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Speaker 2: five dollars and eighty two cents five eighty two, nearly

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Speaker 2: double what the average price in Colorado is. And yet

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Speaker 2: people keep voting for the same people, People keep accepting

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Speaker 2: the way it is. You know, I was telling a

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Speaker 2: friend of mine over the weekend, because he was marveling

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Speaker 2: over how people get used to all kinds of nonsense.

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Speaker 2: I said, that is one of the flaws of human nature.

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Speaker 2: We do get used to almost anything. You think of London,

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Speaker 2: when the Nazis were bombing London during the blitz, right,

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Speaker 2: people got up and went to work every day. They

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Speaker 2: put on their work clothes, their jackets and ties, and

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Speaker 2: they walked to work. Even though even as the Nazi

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Speaker 2: planes were flying overhead and dropping bombs, killing people, destroying

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Speaker 2: buildings left and right, people still got up every day

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Speaker 2: and went to work. And that's what's happened here. Our

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Speaker 2: blitz has been massive, massive incompetence and wasted money and

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Speaker 2: crime and homelessness and all of it.

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Speaker 1: And people just go, Okay, oh's Kevin. Ne's some on

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Speaker 1: the ballot again? Turn bass eh, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, we come back. You know who's really pissed off

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Speaker 2: at all the illegal immigration going on? Increasingly Hispanic voters are.

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Speaker 2: And it's something that I said years and years ago

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Speaker 2: was going to happen, and it is because a lot

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Speaker 2: of Hispanic men, for example, it's their jobs that are

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Speaker 2: taken away by illegal alien workers who are willing to

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Speaker 2: work much cheaper. And finally it has sunk in and

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Speaker 2: they are now abandoning Joe Biden in record numbers. If

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Speaker 2: these polls are correct. You never know. We'll talk about

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Speaker 2: all that coming up, and we have Ashley Johnson live

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