1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: If I am six forty live everywhere on the I 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: I I Hot Radio Hop. Maybe it's pancakes. Actually, you 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: can put in an eyehop order when you listen to 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: the program, and yes you, I'll take the big stack, 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: and Ken delivers the pancakes. Soon as the show is over. 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: He'll be make them. It used to make pancakes. Man, 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: all right, it's okay. You're just excited because there's so 8 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: much we're gonna get the damn Well, I wasn't excited 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: really until yeah, then I heard it. If we got it, 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: we got another unidentified object. What the hell is it? 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: It's the size of a small car that was forty 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 1: thousand feet up there off the coast of Alaska and 13 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: we blew it down. Yeah, this one. We weren't interested 14 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: in finding out what it was made of. It was 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: capable of doing. Oh god, is that what it sounded like? 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: That is actually thought it hit the water? Did it 17 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: hit the cartoon? Nature? It was a pigeon. Actually they 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: fired at it and admiss Well, the size of a 19 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: small car. So it's not one of them their balloons. Right, 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: that's smaller the balloon with several buses, right right, they're 21 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: not calling it was it another Chinese attempt to get 22 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: into our airspace and take a look. They are not 23 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: calling it a balloon, They're just calling it an object. Yes, 24 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: an object I have here A size of a small 25 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: car is all I know about. It's a general shape 26 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: or whatever. So I mean, they had a press conference 27 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: and it was filled with a lot of nothing. Now 28 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: you may wonder why they shot this down immediately and 29 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: they did not shoot down the balloon from last week. Well, 30 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: they're saying this one was flowing flying lower and could 31 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 1: have been a problem for air traffic. Or maybe it's 32 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: they got so much crap from from everybody in the 33 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: country for Leno flying crab. It's like, all right, all 34 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: right down. Yeah, it was shot down over frozen water 35 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: near the Canadian border in the Arctic Ocean. They say, yeah, 36 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: there we go. That's that's what it sounded like off 37 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: the coast of northeast twenty two fighters. Yet did it 38 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: off the coast of northeast Alaska, right near the Canadian border, 39 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: flew out of the Air Force base in Alaska. Elment 40 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: too our fan just to shut it down. I think 41 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: you're right as a pr move if they let this 42 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: one fly. When somebody saw it and started pointing at it, like, man, 43 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: it's all sorts of things in the sky, do you 44 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: know what that? Of course, there's always things in the 45 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: sky that people aren't sure of what they are, but 46 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: they want to take a chance. I think it could 47 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: be another embarrassment. Oh no, I think this explains. You 48 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: know how many times you've heard about UFOs floating in 49 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: the sky and people freaking out making all kinds of 50 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: stupid claims. This is what they are. It's dozens of 51 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: countries have probably a balloons and floating objects. Yeah, I 52 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: know that's what it is, and we have a lot 53 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: of it too, and we test out a lot of 54 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: our stuff here. But you know, they're they're designed. They're 55 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 1: designed to be whatever you know, spy technology, and they're 56 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: supposed to be so they don't look like planes, and 57 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: people will get all freaked out thinking that there's little 58 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: green men on board. They're gonna come down and snatch 59 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: your soul. They were quick to say it's unmanned. Whatever 60 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: this was, I hope they can retrieve it see what 61 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: it was. If it's not the Chinese thing or just 62 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: some strange person's large drone, I don't know. It's I mean, 63 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: did it landed on the ice. I don't know how 64 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: thick the ice is, whether it through the ice, through 65 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: the ice, and they're gonna bother to go out there. 66 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: It's probably very cold and treacherous to try to retrieve it. 67 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's sunk. Yeah, well it's impossible 68 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: to tell now I now, But but do you know 69 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: what the White House said, John, They did this out 70 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: of an abundance of caution, one of your favorite phrases, 71 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: stupidest phrases, abundance at the recommendation of the pentagons. And 72 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: the Pentagon didn't want to shoot down the balloon. But 73 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: they're saying it's okay to shoot down the small car. Well, 74 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: they didn't know what it was. They still are not 75 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: explaining what it was. So how do they know it's 76 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: okay to shoot down it's I'm puzzled by this. How 77 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: do they know it's not filled with some radiation producing 78 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: bomb or or or an it's candy or can keep 79 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: it open? Yeah, it could be candy, or it could 80 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: be you know, some biological weapons. As we said COVID 81 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: twenty three, COVID twenty three poisonous gas. I mean we 82 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: don't know so, but the stuff doesn't make sense. They claim, oh, 83 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: we don't. We don't shoot it down because it might 84 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: hit somebody. Well, they had no problem shooting this one down. 85 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: It could have hit somebody. I think this is gonna 86 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: happen every day. Now they're gonna see something that they 87 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: just decided they're better to just shoot it down. I 88 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: told you I'm suspicious of China four different ways. At 89 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: least I'm suspicious because of the balloon last week, the 90 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: fentonel that they're producing to kill a saul, the virus 91 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: that that killed a million people, and that damn TikTok 92 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: thing too, which is oh right, because is known by 93 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: the Chinese. It's got tremendous spy capabilities in terms of 94 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: tracking people's private information and private movements. That's true. This 95 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: isn't all for nothing. These aren't coincidences, you know. They 96 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: they want to be the top, the top turret here 97 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: on the planet. They want to be more powerful and 98 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: more dangerous than we are. Well, they have to be 99 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: careful because there's a chance the way things are going 100 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: that there might be migrants. So one of these objects, 101 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: one of these days. They have found many ways to 102 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: get into the country, including, of course, our southern border. 103 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: There's a story the other day that some are flying 104 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: to Canada and crossing, crossing our northern border. Did you 105 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: see that story? Yeah? I did. I did. They're actually 106 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,840 Speaker 1: taking little flights from Mexico to Canada and then crossing 107 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: because they believe it's easier to get in there. And 108 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: of course we all know about the panga boats, the 109 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: ponga boats. Yeah, that's sometimes. So maybe this could be 110 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 1: a new way to enter the US is to use 111 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: it a flying object. Well, because there's don't load in, 112 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: there's no rules anymore, so that they're gonna be coming 113 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: in every every way possible, by air, by sea, by tunnels. 114 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: They're driving over, they're walking over. Nobody's stopping them, there's 115 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: no panel. The walkesters tell us we're a horrible country. 116 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: We're racist, we're a suppressionists, we're capitalist. I wish dogs. 117 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: I wish they could be deported, don't. I mean, why 118 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: do all these people want to come here for such 119 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: a horrible country. Let's think about that. This morning when 120 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: I read a headline about migrants wanting to come to 121 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: the US because they make them. What they want is chaos, 122 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: so they'll say anything to create I mean, they got 123 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: a really good system down because they make a demand 124 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 1: that you believe what they believe, or they create a 125 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: lot of public pressure and shame, so socially get ostracized 126 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: if you don't immediately pledge allegiance to whatever their new 127 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: wacko belief is. And it's to create chaos, and it's 128 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: to make people afraid, and they've done a very good 129 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: job of that. And they're a tiny sliver of the 130 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: country and they need to be depoor, all right when 131 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: we come back. Before this took place today, that's the 132 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 1: shooting down of the high altitude object off the coast 133 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: of Alaska. That was the breaking news in the last 134 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: several hours. Biden did go on Telemundo Telemundo looking to 135 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: ingratiate himself there to that audience, but he was asked 136 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,239 Speaker 1: about the Chinese balloon. We think you'll find the clip 137 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: that we obtained interesting. When we return, you'll have a 138 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: chance for money. Thousand dollars is up for grabs and 139 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: the CAFI cash refill contest. John and Ken caf I 140 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. The 141 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: Daily Mail about eight minutes ago had a story which 142 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: said they had recovered the aircraft the small car. Yes, 143 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: I guess it crashed a small Chinese car. They crashed 144 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: onto the ice, so oh it did. We thought it 145 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: might crashed through, but wey, yeah, it says the end. 146 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: What is it? The agents recover the aircraft the size 147 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: of a car from the ice. There's not much more 148 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: than that, Okay, any other kind of description coming out? 149 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: Not yet? Huh No, No it was. It was just 150 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: a couple of extra lines attached to his story they 151 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: had filed earlier at one eleven. I did an update 152 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: and not a balloon though we know it's not a balloon. 153 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: He's not calling it a balloon, right, A small spaceship, 154 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: some kind of an airship was another term I heard. Oh, 155 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: what's that an airship? Oh? An airship? Yeah? Okay, all right, 156 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 1: but well then then we should it's a large laboratory 157 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 1: beaker with new diseases. Come on, it could be. Would 158 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: anything surprise you? Right before? This happened today? And we'll 159 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: keep you up to date if we find out what 160 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: it is that they retrieved. Biden went on Telemundo yesterday 161 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: and one of them, I guess he talked a lot 162 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: of different things. But he was asked about the Chinese 163 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: spy balloon and the concerns over the fact that it 164 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 1: looks like it's a major security issue. We have forty 165 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: seconds of his answer here. It is, Wasn't it a 166 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: major breach security bridge for the United States? Just the 167 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: fact that the balloon came into the airspace through over 168 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: the country for something. The total amount of intelligence gader 169 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: is going on by every country around the world is overwhelming. 170 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: And the idea that a balloon could traverse, uh break 171 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: American airspace is uh anyway, it's not a major breach. 172 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: Is he having an air problem there? You're gonna play 173 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: that middle part backwards? Do you need a trick? Yeah, 174 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: that a balloon could traverse uh break American airspace is 175 00:09:55,400 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: uh anyway. It's this sounds like a small plea for 176 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: help coming out of his throat. Oh wow, all right, Well, 177 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: and that inspires confidence, doesn't it. I guess what he's 178 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: trying to say in his own slow way. Yeah, there's 179 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: gonna be things floating up there that we can't keep 180 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,719 Speaker 1: track of everything. There is a big difference between teleprompter 181 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: Joe and sit down interview Joe. There is okay, so 182 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: sit down, interview joes constantly reach for a word. Yeah, 183 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: but but they must have had him jacked up on 184 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: so much math amphetamine to do that. Oh, they did 185 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: that for Kennedy. Where you're getting this from, Yes, because 186 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: Kennedy would take a shot for all presidents are high. Yes, 187 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: well Nixon was drunk, right, drunk? Yeah, yeah, okay in 188 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: the day, that's what people did. Jerry Ford mat was new. 189 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: I mean Kennedy taken math that's really break through. Jerry 190 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: Ford would get drunk before given public speeches. Yes, so okay, 191 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: that's it's two drunks and make Carter never no, no, 192 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: maybe he should have Yes, he needed a shot. The 193 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: Bush is, well, yeah, we don't know what George Bush 194 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: w Bush was doing with the nuts twenty almost died 195 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: on the couch, choked the dead. Two point three seconds yeah, 196 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: two point three second pause? Now how long would the 197 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: pause have to be before you call him medic is 198 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: or you slap him on the back. I mean, that's 199 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: that sounded like a death rattle, didn't he But again, 200 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: I want to hear if you thought somebody was like 201 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: laying laying in front of you in a hospital, right, 202 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: and it was his final minutes, like you're leaning over, 203 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: you're leaning words. Yeah, that's right, what Joe, what are 204 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 1: your final words? And the idea that a balloon could 205 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 1: traverse uh break American airspace? Is uh? Anyway? Light? Sound? 206 00:11:54,760 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: Hear the flat line? All right? Now? It loud? That's 207 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: what it sounds like. Magnified. That almost sounds like nin 208 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: yin yin. Oh. That's great, children, Look what teacher did. 209 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: He made a funny sound. He made a funny sound. 210 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 1: Not a joke. Now on a related topic, not really, 211 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,719 Speaker 1: I want to I want to tell you this is 212 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: going on the bush Bush I called them bush. Biden 213 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: is trying to reach a deal with Mexico to unload 214 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 1: these migrants. Here's the trick. This is actually kind of brilliant, 215 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: and we touched on this with Markakorian from the Center 216 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: for Immigration Studies a few weeks ago. They're about to 217 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: make a deal with Mexico. And the deal is Mexico 218 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: will take migrants that come to the US from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, 219 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,719 Speaker 1: and Cuba. They'll actually take them as deportees because it's 220 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: tough to get them back to some of those countries 221 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: I just mentioned and change. More Mexicans will get that 222 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: parole that we talked about with Mark Kkorian, which means 223 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: they're not counted as illegals. This is just about tamping 224 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,719 Speaker 1: down the official numbers, but it probably isn't going to 225 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: change the actual migrant number one bit. Because this is 226 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: really kind of brilliant. It's like trading cards. They're going 227 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 1: to trade a Venezuelan for a Mexican, that's right, a 228 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: Colombian for a Mexican, right if you take them, because 229 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: that's what Mexico's problem was, Well, if you can't deport 230 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: them back to Venezuela and Nicaragua, we don't want them. 231 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 1: But now, well what if we take some of your 232 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: people and they send money back to your country? Remember that? 233 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: Wink wink? Oh yeah, okay, we'll take some sure, yeah, remittances. Right, jobs. 234 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: But you can tell we're headed into an election season 235 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: because now now now they're cutting deals and all they're 236 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: trying to do is get the official illegal immigrant or 237 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: migrant or whatever you call them en counters at the 238 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: border number down right. And this is the plan. This 239 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: is the wicked plan because these new Mexicans that'll get 240 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: to come in under this parole agreement. Are not counted 241 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: as illegal migrants. They're just counted in, right. I don't 242 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: know they're off the books legal immigrants. I don't know 243 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 1: what they'll be. It's really really sick. This is what 244 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: they're up to. I know there. But it's like the 245 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: way they that's the way they do their finances. You 246 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:17,359 Speaker 1: know they they will when they have these big expenditures, 247 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: like let's say they start a secret war, they put 248 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: it off the books. They call it black box spending. 249 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: The CIA is a black box. Nobody really knows how 250 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: much money goes into the CIA and what they do 251 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: with it, but they take it off the books. It's 252 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: neither an asset nor a deficit. It's not just exists 253 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: in a separate And that's what they're doing here. And 254 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: they're gonna put all these trades in a black box 255 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: and it's not going to be counted towards the total 256 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: number of migrants who are making it over the border. 257 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: But there's still going to be a lot of people 258 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: coming into the country because that's the deal that they 259 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: made and what they want to do, right, the same number. 260 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: You to believe it's less of a problem. It's the 261 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: same the mediable, stop talking about it if we just 262 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: get the official numbers down. But really, the official numbers 263 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: will not sink that much. No, we're just making a trade. 264 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: We're going to take existing illegals who made it over 265 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: the border and then trade them back to Mexico for 266 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: Mexicans who want to come here or Mexicans who are 267 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: already here but now they get legalized in some way. 268 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: And they're playing this up as this part because Nicaraguans 269 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: and Cubans and Haitians have been a big component of 270 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: migrants in the last couple of years. They think this 271 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: will be good deterrent because Mexico is now going to 272 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: take them as immediate deportees. So they think the message 273 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,119 Speaker 1: will get back to those countries don't bother to try, 274 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: But instead more Mexicans will be allowed into the US, 275 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: and that's what the Mexican president will do to help 276 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: his side. Tricky. Yeah, well, then he's got a complicated 277 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: talking point to stumble through anytime the question comes up 278 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: in reelection interviews or debates. Then he could fog up 279 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: the whole issue with some explanation on this system that 280 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: own gonna understand, But it's going to sound like an answer, 281 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: all right, when we return. Carl Demio's coming back on 282 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: the John and Ken Show, who formed California and a 283 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: talk show host on Cogo Radio in San Diego. His organization. 284 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: He touched on this. We talked him the other day 285 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: about these hidden taxes on your utility bills and everyone 286 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: knows right now how bad the electric and natural gas 287 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: bills are. Well, this is a component of it. He'll 288 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: talk about their brand new study four and a half 289 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: billion dollars in hidden state taxes is on your utility bills. 290 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken caf I Am six forty live everywhere the 291 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app and we're on from one till four 292 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: and after four o'clock. Listen to the podcast on the 293 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app. Johnny on Demand. We will have the 294 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: Moistline coming today. It's Friday. They'll be here at three 295 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: twenty and three fifty or roll out whatever they got 296 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: to complain about or notice that's going on in the 297 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: world that's coming up on the John and Ken Show. 298 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: We're not gonna bring Carl Demio from a form California 299 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: back on the show. He touched on this the other day. 300 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: We were talking to him as a study out from 301 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: a foundation that he had up, the Transparency Foundation, and 302 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: their study is about these hidden taxes that are on 303 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: your utility bills. That's right, your gas bill, your electricity bill, 304 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: these little line items where they just pick and pick 305 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: up more money from you. It's a real steal and 306 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: so supposedly, according to this study, four and a half 307 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: billion is grabbed in these hidden state taxes. Yeah, this 308 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: has not been a routine bill paying month. Almost everybody 309 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: I know has been stopped in their tracks with their 310 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,719 Speaker 1: gas billing especially. Yeah, it's tripled for some people I know. 311 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: Let's go to Carl Demile and he's going to tell 312 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: us what this investigation has uncovered. Carl, how are you? Hey? Guys, Yeah, 313 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: we knew that it was bad, but we didn't realize 314 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: it was going to be this bad. We were very 315 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: fortunate to get the assistance of a guy named Al Medioli. 316 00:17:55,720 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: He used to head up until December, Moody's credit rating 317 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: agencies utility and energy portfolio practice. So basically he's the 318 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: guy that would go in and pour through in his 319 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: team the financials of utility companies and energy companies to 320 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: basically determine what was what. So he retired in December, 321 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: and when these rates hit, I thought of him immediately, 322 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: and I said, hey, would you be willing to lead 323 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: a study group to look at the rate cases filed 324 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: by utilities in California Because you got the politicians and 325 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: the liberal media saying that it's all profiteering by utilities, 326 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 1: but I suspect something else is happening. And so he 327 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: did this. And by the way, all of this is 328 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: hidden in plain sight. The utility companies, they don't set 329 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: their own rates. The politicians set the rates. And that's 330 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: something that no one is telling you in the media. 331 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,880 Speaker 1: But your rates are not set by utilities, are set 332 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: by the politicians. Even the profit margins are capped by 333 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: politicians and the regulators. And so he pulled all the 334 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: rate cases for STEG, PGN, SoCal, Edison, Social Gas, and 335 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: this is what they found. Four point five billion dollars 336 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: in hidden state taxes have been added not to your 337 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: bill that you see, but rather added to the utilities 338 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 1: rates under the hood. And so four point five billion 339 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: dollars is an effective tax rate of ten percent. But 340 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: it gets worse because eighty percent of your electricity rate 341 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: and sixty percent of your natural gas rate is actually increased. 342 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 1: The cost is increased there by climate change mandates that 343 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: result in California rate payers paying sixty seven percent more 344 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: per kilowatt hour for utility electricity bills and thirty percent 345 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: more for gas. And so we are seeing, with the 346 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: hidden taxes and these climate change mandates that the cost 347 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: of California government is at least the third, if not half, 348 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 1: of your bill. We should be able to reduce your 349 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: bill by at least a third, if not half. That 350 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: you might say, well, what about these doubling of rates 351 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 1: in January? That also is the result of government policy 352 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: in California. And in fact, the US Energy Administration said 353 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: the reason why the natural gas rates went so high 354 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: as there was a disruption and supply. Yes, it was 355 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: a colder winter in December, we used more. Yes, there 356 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: was an El Paso pipeline that had a glitch and 357 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 1: was shut down for a few weeks. But the bigger 358 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: issue for California is that PG and E in the 359 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: Social Gas have cut back on their natural gas storage 360 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: programs because the politicians have announced they're going to ban 361 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: natural gas. So why would a company invest in storing 362 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: natural gas and investing in various reservoir programs and backup 363 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 1: programs if they know that within a decade or so, 364 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: natural gas will no longer be valuable in California because 365 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: there's gonna be so many bands on it. So that's 366 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 1: what PGNI did in June of twenty twenty one. They 367 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,479 Speaker 1: told the Public Utilities Commission that they were going to 368 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 1: stop storing a lot of natural gas, so that when 369 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: you do have a disruption, there's no storage, and therefore 370 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: our rate payers are victim. They are held hostage to 371 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,199 Speaker 1: the market swings. So all of these things all in 372 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: are seen on the rate cases. One last point, real quick, 373 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: and I know this is like drinking from a fire hydrant, 374 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: but this is all stuff you're not hearing in the 375 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: newspaper or on TV. We looked at the profit margins 376 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: because I said, look, I want to know whether these 377 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: utility companies are douging us. And the profit margins for 378 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: so Cal Edison is six percent six point two percent 379 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: last year, PGNE point six seven percent. STGN is fourteen 380 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: and a half percent. But guess what the national average 381 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: for utility companies is seventeen point five percent according to 382 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: the Edison Electric Institute. So our utility companies are actually 383 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: receiving lower rates of return on their on their profits. 384 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: But but I'm not gonna let them off the hook. 385 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: These utility companies have no incentive to tell you the 386 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: truth or to go to bat for you, the rate payer, 387 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: because here's the thing. If they see government regulations like 388 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: climate change mandates or taxes added to their rates, even 389 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: though their margin maybe six percent in the you know, 390 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: the LA area six percent for so called SoCal edison, 391 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: six percent of a million dollars is sixty thousand dollars 392 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: profit six percent of ten million is six hundred thousand dollars. 393 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: So you see what I'm talking about here. The utility 394 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: companies have no incentive to actually fight the politicians when 395 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: they add stuff to the bills, because their view is 396 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: our rate is capped, but the overall share gets higher. 397 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: There for the dollar value of our profit is more 398 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: for our investors. So while the rate is capped by 399 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: the politicians, utilities are not going to tell us what's 400 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: really driving the costs because they're in on the scam. 401 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: And so both the utilities and the politicians they need 402 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: to feel the heat from angry rate payers because this 403 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: is not sustainable I'm hearing and I know you're hearing 404 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: from people who literally are crying saying they don't know 405 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: what to do, but you know, pay the mortgage, pay 406 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: the rent, or pay the electric and gas bill. This 407 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: is a corrupt marriage between the government and the pathetic 408 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: response was we're going to give your climate credit early. 409 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, by the way, the climate credit that is 410 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 1: your own money coming back to you. But but but 411 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: not even all the money that they've thieved from you. 412 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 1: This is like a bank robber robbing your bank account, 413 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: taking everything, like wiping you out, and as they walk 414 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: out of the bank with all your money in their 415 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: back pocket, they see you crying and they say, oh 416 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: what happened. Oh so in stole from you. That's a shame. 417 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: Let me buy you a cup of coffee. And that's 418 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 1: basically what these climate credits are. The sixty dollars climate 419 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: credit this month and the forty three climate credit next month, 420 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 1: is these are crumbs compared to the money that they've 421 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: feeded from you every single month. With these higher rates 422 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: and these extra items on people's bills, they look like 423 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: according to your study, your organization Transparency Foundation, they're just 424 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: social service giveaways, right, is something to help out the poor. Yes, yeah, 425 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: we actually we actually listed each of the hidden taxes 426 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: and they are for a variety of government programs. Again 427 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: they say, oh, these are costs of providing utilities. No, 428 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,959 Speaker 1: it's not telling a utility to raise your rate and 429 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: put it into a special government fund that then is 430 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: managed by the government and then directed by the government. 431 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: That's called a tax. Okay, when you fund a government 432 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: program with someone else's money, if it's acts and so 433 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: one of the programs is for people who don't pay 434 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: their bills, the politicians can say, oh, well, I'll contact 435 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: the utility and will help you wipe that free. And 436 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: by the way, you should thank me for helping you 437 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: get your bill wipe free. So I don't think it's 438 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: fair for you or anyone else to be paying for 439 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: the utility bill of someone down the street that chooses 440 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: not to pay it, or because the rates are so 441 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: high they can't pay it. Here's another program, the energy 442 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: efficiency program. This forces all of us to pay higher 443 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: rates so that some people get free free windows at 444 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: their house or get a new appliance, And so we're 445 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 1: paying for someone else's home home appliances or retrofits. Again, 446 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: if you want to off say that government should be 447 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: doing that, then put it in the general fund, don't 448 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,880 Speaker 1: hide it in your utility bill charges. One final point 449 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: on these hidden taxes, and this is this is where 450 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: the dishonesty is so coolier. When you open your bill 451 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: and you look at you know, the bill, and you 452 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: look for the word tax. There's only one small, modest 453 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: tax on the line item it says state Energy tax. 454 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: It's about a dollar thirty nine per household. It raises 455 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: seventy million a year, very much up drop in the bucket. 456 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: But four point five billion of taxes are woven into 457 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: the rates that they describe as commodity price distribution, public 458 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: purpose programs, transmission. And so this isn't a scam, There's 459 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: no doubt about it. There's no way to sugarcoat it. 460 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 1: If they were going to be honest, they would lay 461 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: out that these are all taxes, but instead they deceptively 462 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,120 Speaker 1: present a modest tax so that you believe that your 463 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 1: government isn't really taking a lot out of the bill. 464 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 1: All right, Carl, we gotta go. We thank you very much, 465 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: though we'll get the word out there on this report. 466 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. People can go to the Transparency 467 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: Foundation dot org. All right, Carl Demio formed California dot 468 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: orgle so you can find the study four and a 469 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 1: half billion dollars in hidden state taxes on your utility 470 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: bills and the climate Man dates he talked about have 471 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: added so much more to the cost of electricity and 472 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: natural gas in California. Johnny ken KF I am six 473 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 1: forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. Well, our guest after 474 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: two o'clock is John's old dance partner, Gloria. Alright, Gloria already, 475 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: cam Rushow, you did a dance on who said Alex 476 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: Michaelson's show. That's right. I think that's the only televised 477 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,919 Speaker 1: dance I've ever been involved in already but immediately been 478 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: promoted to Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, I know, um, 479 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: but nobody ever called. Well, there's a lawsuit she and 480 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: her co counsel, John Carpenter of Carpenter and Zuckerman, our 481 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 1: pilot on Alec Baldwin and the whole production of the 482 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 1: movie rusted over the death of Helena Hutchins. This lawsuit 483 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,640 Speaker 1: is on behalf of hutchins parents and sister in Ukraine. 484 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: By the way, that's where that's her, Yeah, roots Ukraine. 485 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: I think that's why they were they counted on her 486 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: for financial support. Yeah, I guess that's why the lawsuit 487 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: has come in over a year later, is they got 488 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: we're preoccupied in Ukraine over the past Do I see 489 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: over the past year. Yeah, we're coming up a one 490 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: year since the invasion. So we'll talk to Gloria already 491 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: about this new lawsuit. They've already settled with the husband 492 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 1: of Helena Hutchins. This is a brand new one from 493 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: the parents and the sister, and you'll hear all the 494 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: arguments as Gloria can obviously present them well after the 495 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 1: news at two o'clock. Well, it's one of my favorite 496 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 1: stories of the day when it comes to the homeless. 497 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: And we're gonna go to San Francisco BART, the Bay 498 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 1: Area rapid Transit system. Okay, so if you've been there, 499 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: and John knows, we all know they have a problem 500 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: with homeless people hanging out in the station and sleeping 501 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: on the trains. Yeah, they decided to use outreach workers 502 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: to see if they could make a dent in the 503 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: problem at several San Francisco BART stations. They got three 504 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: hundred fifty thousand dollars and they brought them the Salvation 505 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: Army to go down to those stations and conduct outreach. 506 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: They made contact with three thousand, two hundred and seventeen 507 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: people in about a sixteen month period, and they only 508 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: got one enrolled for services, only one decided to come 509 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: and maybe try to change his or her life on 510 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: one out of thirty two hundred and seventeen. And what's 511 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: worse is apparently the number of homeless people at these 512 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: stations actually went up twenty one percent. So they had 513 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: two bad effects. What they only got one person into 514 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: a sobriety program and then homelessness increased in the stations. 515 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: So this was called a disaster. But what's hooked onto 516 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: this which gets me is well Bart saying this, the 517 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: Salvation Army required everyone to remain sober, and we don't 518 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: think that was the right way. They should have done 519 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: a harm reduction approach, whatever that means, rather than an 520 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: abstinence approach, and we think that's why we had less 521 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: than desired outcomes. Less than desired. Well, if you're gonna 522 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: have a program in order to change their lives, to 523 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: help people to stop engaging in drug and alcohol abuse, 524 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: part of the deal is you got to stop taking 525 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: drugs and alcohol, because that, yes, is the program. I 526 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: guess they think there's some way you can wean people 527 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: up the drugs and alcohol rather than telling them to 528 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: stop cold. Is that how when I'm reading this, or 529 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 1: how do you do that? I don't know. Remember that 530 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: theory about wet houses. Oh, just get them up the streets, 531 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: but don't worry. If they want, they can go in 532 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: there and use all the drugs and take all the 533 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: alcohol that they want. We got to just get them inside. 534 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: Well that that was a disaster too, because they wrecked 535 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: all the places, right. We talked about that yesterday that 536 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: there is one major nonprofit in downtown La skid Row 537 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: going bankrupt because all the people they housed in private 538 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: single occupancy residences apartments, A lot of them trash the place, 539 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: sometimes three times over three times, like they got three 540 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: different apartments, three different rooms, and they trashed all of them. 541 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: And so now they don't have the money to constantly 542 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: repair all the apartments that the homeless are trashing. This 543 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: is not a solvable problem. These people can't be fixed. 544 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: But it's such a huge business. I don't think most 545 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: of these organizations care if these people are fixed or not. 546 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: That's not the point. Fixing them would put you out 547 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: of business. You want to just keep sucking tax money 548 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: out of the public and conning rich donors. But this 549 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: is this is accomplishing no good when you're when you're 550 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: one for three thousand, two hundred and seventeen, you know 551 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: what the problem is too, some of the chronic homeless. 552 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: There just is no rock bottom. I mean that's the 553 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: theory behind people who have alcohol and drug problems. They 554 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,959 Speaker 1: hit rock bottom and they finally come in on their 555 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: own for help. It doesn't work that way, especially with 556 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: the mental health issues. That is the danger of a 557 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: snappy cliche. Oh everybody's got to hit rock bottom. Well, 558 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: what if they hit rock bottom, they stay there because, 559 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: as we found out recently, right, they lose their survival 560 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: instinct from some of these drugs. Yes, yeah, when we 561 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: when we read this story about Sam Canons, and that's 562 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: how he described it. They lose their instinct for survice 563 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: from the new fentanyl. Right, Yes that that yes, was 564 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: that the amped up meth i forget but one um 565 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: one of the two are both. But but see that 566 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: that is that is a smarter way of analyzing and 567 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: not like here, you hit rock bottom. No, it's that 568 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: they they're happy at the bottom. They they hit rock 569 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,959 Speaker 1: bottom and they lay there right without a survival instinct. 570 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: You really don't care what happens. You just want more drugs. 571 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: You don't have the desire to set up or stand up. 572 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: You're you're you're done, you're cooked. You just want another 573 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: head of drugs. And I realize it's in all these 574 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: nonprofits best interests to mislead people with their cute little 575 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: phrases like hitting rock bottom and all their rehabilitation jargon, 576 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: because they again, they want to stay in business. If 577 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: you understand that there, they're as hard nosed as an 578 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: oil company executive. All right. The homeless are their product, 579 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 1: and they they sell that product to donors and to 580 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: governments in order to get funded. What they're doing is 581 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: they're selling all these broken lives in order to make money. 582 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: And there is not I doubt there's one nonprofit CEO 583 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: who's making less than one hundred thousand dollars a year. 584 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: They're all making good money. So they're going to manipulate 585 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,760 Speaker 1: you emotionally into thinking that if you give money, either 586 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: through taxes or donations, you're going to help these poor schmucks. 587 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 1: You're not. They're beyond repair. Our guests will be a 588 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 1: glory already. When we return the attorney, we'll talk about 589 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 1: this new lawsuit against Alec Baldwin is, of course, the 590 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: fatal shooting of CEM photographer Helena Hutchins on the set 591 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: of that movie back in twenty twenty one. Johnny ken 592 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: KF I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio