1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: For the twenty seventh consecutive day. Gas prices rose in 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County. They are now sixty seven cents a 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: gallon higher than they were a week ago, and the 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: overnight increase was fifteen point three cents. That's the highest 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 1: since July of twenty fifteen, when there was one overnight 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 1: increase of fifteen point one cents a gallon. What the 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: h is going on? Six twenty six now average price 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: in the city of La We are going to talk 9 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: with getting closer to the six forty six high that 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: we set in June. Kevin Schlago from the Western States 11 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: Petroleum Association, and he's coming on with us now to 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: talk about this. Kevin, how are you well? I'm all right, 13 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: but I'm sure this would be a fun first part 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: of the interview about those carts. Yeah, it will be, 15 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: because I think I think everybody's really fed up at 16 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: least this time. I'm seeing Kevin that in other states 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: they're seeing some increases. But we have been bucking the 18 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: tread here for a while where gas prices were still 19 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: going down, all right, But in Mississippi it's three dollars 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: and six cents. Here it's six twenty six. It's more 21 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: than double, it's an extra three twenty. We've been covering 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: this story for a lot of years, heard every single excuse, 23 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 1: every tired old cliche and deflection imaginable. When it gets 24 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: to be more than double, then one other state, Mississippi, 25 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: there's got to be some crimes being committed here. Well, look, 26 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: I think he asked a really good question, and nobody 27 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: likes higher field costs. I mean, it affects us all, 28 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: and I don't want to, you know, I certainly don't 29 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: want to deflect. But really, what we are facing is 30 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: another instance of supply not keeping up with demand. And 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: there are some reasons why. You know, I understand we've 32 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: had there a couple of refineries in the state right 33 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: now that are undergoing some maintenance. We have two refineries 34 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,279 Speaker 1: in the Barrier that are currently moving from petroleum products 35 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: to renewable diesel products. So there's those are two refineries 36 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: that can ask you because we've heard the refinery story, 37 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: you know, for many years, don't don't other states have 38 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: refineries that break down or need mainte how come it's 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: always California refineries seemed to be in some terrible state. No, certainly, 40 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: you know, refineries everywhere have to continue to put in 41 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: the most modern equipment and do upgrades as they go along. 42 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: What makes California unique is that we're a fuel island, 43 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: so we don't have pipelines of finished products coming in 44 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: from Texas or Washington or other places where the refineries. 45 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: So when our states refineries are undergoing maintenance, the impacts 46 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: are just a lot greater because we don't have the 47 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: ability of the pool from other part now country, We've 48 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: heard that one a lot too, and we maybe a 49 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: fuel island. What are they doing in that in Arizona 50 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: they have refineries and where are they pulling from it? 51 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: What is this? Yeah, well, Nevada gets their fuels largely 52 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: from uh from California. Arizona is a combination I think 53 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: of Texas and some California. So you know what, So 54 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: there's there's the hubs that are fineries and fuel. All right, 55 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: but we maybe a fuel island. Hawaii is an actual island. 56 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: It's three thousand miles out there there. It's more than 57 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: a dollar or less per gallon, right, Yeah, their gas 58 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: is a buck lass. I mean they don't have any refine. 59 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: You're gonna say it's taxes, right, well, it's you know, 60 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: they they obviously have they have a refinery there, and 61 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: they get they get shipped in from other parts of 62 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: the world as well. Um, you know, look, I get it. 63 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,119 Speaker 1: It's it's a great question. It's frustrating for us. All 64 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,959 Speaker 1: there's no setup because I would even I would even 65 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: buy into you know. Oh, well, the oil companies are 66 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: really greedy. They're taking advantage of the situation. Blah blah. 67 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: Why aren't they greedy in the other forty nine states? Hackam, 68 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: it's California. It's three bucks more a gallon because they 69 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: can do it. Yeah. No, well, you know, we're not 70 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: greedy anywhere. I know it feels like it at times 71 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: like this, but that's not that I'm not saying you are. 72 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: But we're hearing stories of record profits, Kevin, record profits, 73 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 1: guess of course, No, no, I get it. And it's 74 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: you know, with with record demand comes you know, high 75 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: profits certainly, and so I you know, you're right, this 76 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: is all the runner that we hear. In fact, there 77 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: is build about it this year. But it does come 78 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: back to demand being high, supply being affected by a 79 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: number of factors. And you know then of course, our 80 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: regulatory and policy environment in California, which we guys know 81 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: very well. Is this task after after all these decades, 82 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: they didn't build any pipelines from California to where the 83 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: oil is refined in the South. Can you imagine trying 84 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: to get a pipeline for petroleum products permitted in California. 85 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: So we can't even permit the infrastructure needed for electric 86 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: vehicle transition. So the idea of being able to ship 87 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: fossil fuels in California to be a pipeline that makes sense, 88 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: but very difficult. Why wasn't it done? I fifty years 89 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: ago before California politics went insane, you know, that would 90 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: have been a good question. Yeah, yeah, I mean no, No. 91 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: Maybe it's then perhaps they don't think the politicians would 92 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: put us in this place down the road. Maybe they 93 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: thought we were gonna have a little bit more thoughtful 94 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: future than we currently have when it comes to these 95 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: sorts of issues. But certainly those types of solutions are 96 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: almost politically, I'm certainly politically off the table for our 97 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: state unfortunately. So we've got to deal with with our 98 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: circumstances now. And that's where do you think though, do 99 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: you think politically it's going to stay that way forever. 100 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: Is there any breaking point that the public is going 101 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: to have, because you know, a lot of people know 102 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: we have a ton of oil underground here, and once 103 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: you get double the price of other states, I think 104 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,799 Speaker 1: some ordinary normal people are going to say, the hell's 105 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: going on here? We're sitting on a ton of oil. 106 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 1: We don't have any pipelines leading into the state. You 107 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: know that this green energy thing has been a disaster 108 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: so far. You know, we're running out of electricity every 109 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: five minutes during the heat waves. I mean, I mean 110 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: this is chaotic. Well you think they become a breaking 111 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: point to all this, and certainly we're very close to that, 112 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: not only with these these duel costs and a production 113 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: band that's basically been implemented in California, the easy band, 114 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: tonus where and how and when we can drive, and 115 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: what type of vehicles our families need to purchase. All 116 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: of these factors are going to add up to a 117 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: place where, you know, look, client policy is important, Energy 118 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: policy is important. But if we go too far, which 119 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: we are right on that edge, if we've not already 120 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: passed it, there's going to be a backlash the other way. 121 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: And yeah, people are gonna say, look, how do we 122 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: get to this absurd place? Why are we doing things 123 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: that don't that don't make sense from a from a 124 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: family standpoint, doesn't make for an economic standpoint, and we 125 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 1: just don't have an infrastructure to do it. And you 126 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: know this, you're seeing effects on costs when we just 127 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: have a couple issues that a couple of refineries in 128 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: this state imagine a day or maybe there are none 129 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: because they've been driven out of state by Californians, by 130 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: California politicians at policies. Well, I know is like forty 131 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: nine other states didn't have an energy shortage during the heatwave. 132 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 1: Forty nine other states don't have six six cent gas, 133 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: you know, forty nine other states do not have these 134 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: stupid electric car Well, forty nine other states don't have 135 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: Governor Newsom either. So that's you know, when you look 136 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: at that, and you look at a legislature that for 137 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: years now has continued to work against affordable and reliable 138 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: energy in our state. And this is a place that 139 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: we get ourselves too unfortunately. So yeah, I mean, I 140 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: hope that in this election cycle and wants to come 141 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: and just in the public policy discussion we have in 142 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: the state that people see the facts and what it means, 143 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: what it means in our day to day lives, whether 144 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: it's costs or choice or the you know, you know 145 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: things are coming next. We're gonna be faced with being 146 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: told how much we can drive. Um, you know, carbon 147 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: is trying to figure out how to tell us tell 148 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,119 Speaker 1: to drive like twenty five percent less in the years ahead. 149 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: So all of these things are coming. Um, we're seeing 150 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: it certainly at the pump, but we're going to start 151 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: to see it even even more places than our lives unfortunately. 152 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: So where is this going to go from here? Is 153 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: there going to be any drop in these prices in 154 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: the in the near future? Well, we sure hope. So, 155 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: I mean, look, our guys are doing all they can 156 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: to keep costs down and get supplies back in mind 157 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: and get fuels out to the markets, um, you know, 158 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: and and and what we hope is that we can 159 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: be a part of transitioning to whatever you know, this 160 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: energy future will be. But we know bands demandates don't help, 161 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: and there's more of those you know being implemented now 162 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: there's I may ask you this, Kevin, though, if it 163 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: really is about a big demand and less supply. Our 164 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: gas stations aren't running out of gas. No they're not. 165 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: They're not running out of gas. But the but the 166 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: but the supplies are lower than they then we typically 167 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: would like them. And so when there's you know, less 168 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: of a commodity, the costs you know, whether it's fuels 169 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: or corn or whatever it might be, those those costs 170 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: are But what then you slipped in when Ken, this 171 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: isn't like buying a banana. This is people have to 172 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: have gas. Because what you said before, you said, record 173 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: demand leads to record profits. So why are they taking 174 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: advantage of the current supplying demand situation to make those 175 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: record profits when when people they're hurting so badly? I mean, 176 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: well there's yeah, now hear what you're saying. I mean 177 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: what I you know, record profits are tied to demand. 178 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: So the profit margins themselves there aren't any different than 179 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: they were in twenty twenty when oil was nothing and 180 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: industry losses were I think what John is asking Kevin 181 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: is what can't they give people a break in the 182 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: state a little bit because of this extreme situation rather 183 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: than take the normal profit margins as you're describing it. Yeah, no, no, 184 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: that's a good question. And remember there's a number of 185 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: layers to what we pay at the pump. There's a 186 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: cost of product, you know, what the refineries by the 187 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: fuel for where the refiners and sell it to marketers 188 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: for and what at the state. And you're you know 189 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: your station that you like to go to the sides 190 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: to charge. So we're one piece of it. The marketers certainly, 191 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: you know, they they also have their ups and down 192 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: during the past few years, so they also have to 193 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: make decisions on what they're charging statistically. One piece of 194 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: it is tough. Yeah. Remember the other day there was 195 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: something I think it was in the La Times that 196 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: the profit margin on a barrel of oil was so 197 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: here it is I have it. Yeah, yeah, this is 198 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: from our guest. If you're a refiner on the Gulf Coast, 199 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: your gross profit on gasoline is about six dollars and 200 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: sixty cents per barrel of oil. If you're in Los Angeles, 201 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,479 Speaker 1: it's about one hundred and one dollars. The difference is incredible. 202 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: That's from an analyst in the industry. In response to 203 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: that's a that's well, look, that type of difference would 204 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: certainly raise a lot of questions. I understand it I 205 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: don't know the study well enough to be able to say, 206 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: you know, this is why it's why it's right or 207 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 1: why it's wrong. But six dollars gross profit is a 208 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: pretty clear statistic. It's gross profit six bucks in the Gulf, 209 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: one hundred and one dollars here. Isn't that gouging? And 210 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: I would not know. I would not say that again. 211 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: I would still point back, if that's not gouging, what 212 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 1: number would make it gouging? That's uh. I want you know, look, 213 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,839 Speaker 1: I get that, it's it's a tough situation. And I'll 214 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: just again, I'll say, look, nobody likes it. We're Californians too. 215 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: No one wants to pay these prices. We're hopefully get 216 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: to supply back in line so that we can contress 217 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: it so that it doesn't feel the way that it 218 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: feels right now because nobody likes it. All right, Well, 219 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: all right, Kevin, thanks for coming on. Thank you you 220 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: bet than Kevin Slager's vice president of the Western States 221 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: Petroleum Association. Making one hundred and one dollar from making 222 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: the barrel of oil versus six dollars and sixty cents 223 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: in the Gulf. You know, I love nobody has an answer, 224 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: Oh well, what can I tell you? You know, that's 225 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: how I feel like we get it from both sides. 226 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: It's great for the oil companies making bigger profits, and 227 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: then for the politicians in California don't want us to drive. 228 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: They're like, uh, right, serves your right, your gas guzzling idiots. 229 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: All right, we're coming up John and Ken Show, k 230 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,719 Speaker 1: IF I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio 231 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: gap and furthermore, or I have to say this. We 232 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: live in a place where there's nobody on our side, 233 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: and I'm talking about if you drive a gas powered 234 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: car because the politicians don't want you doing at least 235 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: the ones in charge, right, the governor of the legislature 236 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 1: and the gas companies. They're doing great, right, the oil 237 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: companies are doing fantastic with these record profits. So who's 238 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: going to help you? You have these public interest advocates 239 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: I guess who yell on screen, but they have no power. 240 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: A couple of academics some university write a paper. That's right, well, 241 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: we've written a paper. It's like, oh, thank you, thank you. 242 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 1: We'll put this right in the drawer, have a good day. 243 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: But I'm saying there's nobody on our side. In other states, 244 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: you might find people fighting for you that understand what 245 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: it is to try to get by when you know, 246 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: the cheapest mode of transportation, of the most convenient, is 247 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: your gas powered car. But in those states they have 248 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: people that understand that. In California, we do not have 249 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: anybody in there is you out of that gas power. 250 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: There is no rational expert you want the damn bus 251 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: for six twenty six a gallon, other than you're getting 252 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 1: ripped off by the oil companies and by the California government. 253 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: They're they're just stealing money from you. Both entities here 254 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: because you know what, the oil companies could be screwing 255 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: people over in the other forty nine states and they aren't. 256 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: The other forty nine state governments could be screwing their 257 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: citizens and they don't. Not to this extent. I understand 258 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: supply and demand. That's what our guests was trying to 259 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 1: say that I don't know why the demand is any 260 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: greater now that it was all right a year ago. 261 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: But the demand is not greater than it was just 262 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. Just a few weeks ago, prices 263 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: were firing up. Just in the last few weeks. The 264 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: thing is the catch all excuses. Well, you know oil 265 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: prices are set by the world market. Okay, Well, the 266 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: world market oil price has dropped by a third since 267 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: the height. It was one hundred and twenty dollars a 268 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: gallon at one point, it's now about now, it's sooner 269 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: it'll be a gallon one hundred and twenty dollars a barrel. 270 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: Now it's eighty dollars a barrel. And if if the 271 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: prices are set by the world market, then why we're 272 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: told that when that works, When that argument works, we're 273 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: told bad. And then when it does now the argument 274 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: we get is the refineries might need maintenance and supply, 275 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: a demand is really high. It's the California market. Well, 276 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: which is it. It's the world market or it's the 277 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: California market. But there's no excuse for six dollars and 278 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: twenty six cents when it's less than half that in 279 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: the South. That's just that's just criminal. That's criminal on 280 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: the part of news, it's criminal on part of the 281 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: oil companies. The last part is it's you just leave, 282 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: then just leave if you don't like it. Well, people are, 283 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: aren't they. Here's some news Chevron. Chevron just sold its 284 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: current headquarters in California. Now they're not leaving the state 285 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: as far as their headquarters are concerned, but they're going 286 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: to downsize. They have least space nearby at one third 287 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: the size. Did you know the Chevron Park headquarters where 288 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: it is. It's in San Ramon, up in the Bay Area. 289 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: And there are some that say they would leave the 290 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: state entirely, and maybe you would too, with the hostile 291 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: politicians we have. But because they were they've been here, 292 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: they were kind of founded here. They want to stay. 293 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: But they have been moving people in operations bit by 294 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: bit too. Anybody of a guess what state? Wow, Texas, Yeah, Texas, 295 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: that's right. It's like the whole world has gone to 296 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: Texas and Florida Houston. Their employee population has now grown 297 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: to six thousand people, three times the size of the 298 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: head count in San Ramon. So they're doing what a 299 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: lot of companies are doing, particularly if you're in the 300 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: oil industry. You're going to go to a place that's 301 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: probably more friendly business wise and tax wise, right, But 302 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: they are. I think it'll be like a figurehead keeping 303 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: headquarters in the state of California. So you know, you 304 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: can just see this coming. This is why what if 305 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: everybody moves all their operations out of California. I guess, 306 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: I guess that's what That's what the idiots in our 307 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: government want. They do want to destroy the energy business here, 308 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: and we're all just going to go on. We're all 309 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: going to run on wind and sunshine, right, that's the idea. 310 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: So you can only drive during the day and then 311 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: a solar powered car. Yeah, sure, California will run on 312 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: wind and sunshine. And then fantastically, the the the entire 313 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: world's climate will cool by zero point zero three tenths 314 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: of a degree, that's right. And you'll see those hurricanes 315 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: won't be as fierce. That's right. We can affect the 316 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: world hurricanes ian will be only maybe one hundred and 317 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: fifty three and a half miles per hour instead of 318 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five I mean. And that's the 319 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: bottom line here. This is all going for what. There's 320 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: a massive increase the suicide in carbon pollution in China 321 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: and uh and India, and that's a third of the population, 322 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 1: and Africa two is going to go that way. In fact, 323 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: John Kerry, that buffoon did I mention this on the air, John, 324 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: I haven't yet. John Kerry was actually lecturing African leaders 325 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: about the increase in their carbon footprint. Do believe this, 326 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: mister private plane is telling people who've been living in 327 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: poverty for a hundred thousand years that they have no 328 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: right to access modern life and start burning fossil fuels 329 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 1: or burning more fossil fuels. I couldn't believe this. Oh, 330 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: that guy in Texas just sent us a photograph from 331 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: a gas pump in Conro, Texas. Two dollars and seventy cents. Again, 332 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: we're six twenty six and two seventy nine. That's three 333 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: fifty higher, three thy fifty cents higher. All right, we 334 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: got more coming up on the John and Ken Show. Now, 335 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: Governor Dippity Due has got a deadline Diansas tomorrow where 336 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: he's got a signer veto bills, A couple of them 337 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,919 Speaker 1: worth talking about. The main one was there was a 338 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: bill I don't know how it passed that was going 339 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: to limit the powers of a governor in an emergency situation. 340 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: And what do you think he did with that bill. 341 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: We'll talk about all of this coming up, John and 342 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: Kensch on CAF I am six forty live everywhere in 343 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio ad. We'll be talking after four o'clock two. 344 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: Sheriff alex via Auava Vale County. They offered him to us. 345 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: We said sure, and of course they put out new 346 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: fundraising numbers. He's been collecting quite a lot of money 347 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: in his campaign to stay the Los Angeles County sheriff, 348 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: despite well, doesn't really matter opposition from what newspapers and 349 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: most every other politician in the county, the entire board 350 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: of supervisors. That's right. His enemies are our enemies. His 351 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: enemies are your enemies. To quote him, they are the 352 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: architects of failure. Yes, and look around, there's a lot 353 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: of failure. Oh. You know, today I was watching a 354 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: lot of hurricane coverage. Is I could do that forever, 355 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: And so I was watching way more TV than I 356 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 1: normally do. And I had seen the Crusoe ad about 357 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: Karen Bass in Scientology because I looked it up online 358 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 1: and when the day we were talking about it. But 359 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,959 Speaker 1: I saw it on like a big screen TV, and 360 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: it surprised me. Right, I wasn't expecting it. So I 361 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: looked at it in a different way, and wow, that 362 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: makes her look crazy. I mean, it really makes her 363 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: look crazy standing there because they keep the cruiser. They 364 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: keep flashing headlines of all the horrible things that the 365 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: Scientology leadership has done, you know, all the dark, ugly 366 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: secrets of that Scientology cult. And then you see her 367 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: standing there, preening, her eyes bright, She's all lit up 368 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: on this luxurious stage, and the very attentive cultists standing 369 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: in the audience they're looking and she's just going on 370 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: and on about how wonderful Scientology is, and I'm thinking, wow, wow, Yeah, 371 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: the implication there is that she's one of them, which 372 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: she's not. I mean, that's it's really I know, but 373 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: tricky but powerful it is. But the thing is, she 374 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: must have known a lot about it or she wouldn't 375 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: be carrying on about how cool it all is. Right, 376 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. It was in twenty ten, and I 377 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: don't know why she went to that thing. I know 378 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: they were opening up a new the thing is church 379 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: or whatever was. But the thing is, then if she 380 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 1: doesn't know a thing about it, then she looks like 381 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:46,199 Speaker 1: just this craven politician who's just trolling around trying to 382 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: make contacts and get money. Like no matter how you 383 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: want to interpret it. It's terrible. Either either she's endorsing it, 384 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: or she's just using them to try to shake them 385 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: down for money. Either she's the biggest phony in the 386 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: world on that stage, or are she utterly clueless about 387 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: scientology or is she secretly into it. All the options 388 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: are bad news for her. March fourth, twenty twenty. Do 389 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: you know what happened on that Dayton history in the 390 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: state of California? Is that the avenusum signed his state 391 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: of emergency over COVID last Day of Freedom. He went 392 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,439 Speaker 1: on to issue more than five hundred orders under that 393 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: state of emergency for COVID. We're still under that state 394 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 1: of emergency. Remarkably though. The legislature passed Assembly Bill sixteen 395 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: eighty seven, and the idea of it was to narrow 396 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: a governor's emergency powers. You may only suspend a statute 397 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: or a regulation during a state of emergency in connection 398 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: with the specific conditions of that emergency. The theme behind 399 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: this bill is that this has gone on too long 400 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: and his powers are too broad. Well, anybody have a 401 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: guess as to what he did when it came on 402 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: his desk this week. He vetoed it. Of course, he 403 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: vetoed it. The King is not going to give up 404 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: his powers, but because he may have four more years 405 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: as governor. But you know what, the ball maybe too, 406 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: he's going to be president. The ball bounces back to 407 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: the legislature, they can override his veto true. I don't 408 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 1: know if there's enough, right, what does it take? Yeah, 409 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 1: I don't know what the vote is. Hey, ray, see 410 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: if you can find out what the vote was for 411 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: the original bill. Because here here's what I suspect is 412 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 1: some of the Democrats they know this has gone on 413 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: too long, right, this is abusive, him having this this 414 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: broad power for two and a half years now, and 415 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: maybe it's come up in their campaigns. Maybe they're getting 416 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: some some blow blowback. So it's like, all right, all right, 417 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 1: let's pretend where we don't want to take the power away, 418 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: and we'll pass the bill. So we could go back 419 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: home and say, well, you know, we passed a bill. 420 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: I voted for the bill to curb his powers in 421 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: but it just falls short of the two thirds to 422 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: make it stick. They know he's gonna veto it, right, 423 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: that's an absolute sure thing that he's gonna veto it. No, no, no, no, 424 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: Dictator ever willingly gave up their powers. But do they 425 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: gather together and say, well, screw you, newsom, we can 426 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: override the veto. This is the checks and balances of 427 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: our government. That would be cool. Yeah, that's what they 428 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: ought to do. So these Democrats who voted for this, 429 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: you're not off the hook until you override his veto, 430 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: because the reality is he should not nobody should have 431 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: this kind of power. I can't remember the last time 432 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: the legislature overran a veto by a governor. Maybe it's happened. 433 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: But he issued five hundred executive orders under yeah, the 434 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: emergency power is a lot of them have been since canceled, 435 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 1: but it's probably stuff you couldn't even imagine, and they'd 436 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: be funny to get the full list. But a little 437 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: bit of minutia related to the pandemic, and a lot 438 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: of stuff I meant that has nothing to do with 439 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: the pandemic. The good one, did you see? The one 440 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: of the big ones he issued the executive order was 441 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: give all the contracts to my donors. That is an order, 442 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: but let's make sure they get all the state vendor deals, 443 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: which apparently happened with a lot of them. Oh yeah, Well, 444 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: that's the default anyway. Now suddenly he's become Wow, some 445 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: of this fiscally responsible. We mentioned yesterday that he's been 446 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: vetoing some bills because of quote their cost, like mandatory kindergarten. 447 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: So the latest one because the revenue numbers. The stock 448 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: market took another big smack today. California's revenues will follow 449 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: the stock markets, trust me, they always do. So he 450 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: vetoed a bill today and I don't even know this 451 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: was around. There was actually a bus demonstration this week. 452 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: It got some media coverage. Illegal immigrants or migrants got 453 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: into buses and rode around La County advocating for this bill. 454 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: What was it, the Excluded Workers Pilot Program? What a name? 455 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: The Excluded Workers Pilot Program? What does that mean? It 456 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: was unemployment for illegal aliens, That's what it was. Unemployment money, 457 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars a week for twenty weeks. All you 458 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: have to do is demonstrate that you're a resident of California, 459 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: that you're unemployed for at least a week. Can you 460 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: imagine this and that you are actually ineligible for regular 461 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: state unemployment in Terrance? Okay, you would have qualified this. 462 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: He vetoed this bill. Yeah, because he's going to be 463 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 1: running for president and there are certain third rails he 464 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: doesn't want to touch. I see, but can you can 465 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: you imagine just the gall though of these activists. You 466 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: have people who are here, who are here illegally, and 467 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 1: we're told, oh no, they're just coming here to work, 468 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: and America needs them, America exploits them as low wage worker. Okay, 469 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: then if you came here to work, what are you 470 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 1: doing filing for unemployment after a week you're supposed to 471 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: be going for work. You see, it's another racket, it's 472 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 1: another scam. Oh, you came here to work. That's why Trump. 473 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: One of the good things he did was they reinstituted 474 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: what was called the public charge provision in immigration law, 475 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: where you can't come here unless you prove you have 476 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: a means to live to support yourself, support yourself, so 477 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: you don't become a public charge, which is an old 478 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: fashioned term for somebody unwelfare, for somebody getting some kind 479 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: of government check. Whether it's welfare or unemployment or food 480 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: stamps or whatever. It's all the same, it's just different 481 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: names for it. And so he and then of course 482 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: Biden lifted that particular provision again so you could come 483 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: here and immediately say, hey, give me, give me what 484 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: you say, I'm unemployed. Well you just got here Monday, Yeah, 485 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 1: but I'm unemployed. There was a study that came out 486 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: earlier this year. Give you an idea. The study found 487 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: that undocumented workers feel about one in sixteen jobs in 488 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: the state of California. If you want to have any 489 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: idea what the impact was, they say, it generates three 490 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: and stuff and billion dollars in state local tax revenues. Yeah, 491 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: but what is it cost in terms of schooling and benefits? 492 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: That's been that art that's been proven a hundred times 493 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: over that the cost of an illegal alien over over 494 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: the right because of his life they don't have the 495 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: skill set to get jobs that they cover all their expenses, 496 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 1: just just schools for their kids and the healthcare. Yeah, 497 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: that that dwarfs what they bring in. So that that's 498 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: always one of those half baked statistics that you could 499 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: tell see that's that's the kind of statistic that you 500 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: can use. This is what I use to just to 501 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: just to judge the veracity of an article and the 502 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: bias of the writer. If they print something like that 503 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: and they don't print the next line, which is how 504 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: much they cost us? Then I know that's not a journalist, 505 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: it's an advocate, all right, So what are the chances 506 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: they override his veto of the Illegal Alien Unemployment Bill 507 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: versus they override his veto of limiting his emergency powers? 508 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 1: They would overright either one. I don't think now they're 509 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: all afraid of him. What I read over and over again, 510 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: and sometimes it's anonymous quotes from some Democratic legislatures legislators 511 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,160 Speaker 1: because not all the Democratic legislators are nuts. And some 512 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: of them said, you just can't cross him. If you 513 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: cross him, you're gonna lose funding for your district, You're 514 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: not going to get your personal pet projects passed. That 515 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: the administration is very vindictive. So that's why nobody speaks 516 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 1: out against him. That's that's a dictatorship. That's what you 517 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: get with one party rule. That's what you get with 518 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,640 Speaker 1: unlimited emergency powers. Every every everybody is is cowed. It's 519 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: it's it's it's like the old Soviet leader. Well it's 520 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: like that with Poutin, right, Nobody nobody confronts Poutin or 521 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: you end up you're heading upside down out of your 522 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: hotel room. You're in the gulag. Yeah, so politically you're 523 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: you're thrown out of your hotel room window here in 524 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: California if you confront newsom your hotel room window. Oh yeah, 525 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: that's what's been going on, isn't it right? Yeah? No, 526 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: it's you get a handshake from Trump. Yeah. You. My 527 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: favorite story of the week, Feinstein's husband running around like crazy, Gap, 528 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: He's gonna do it. He's gonna kill her at the 529 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: debate by shaking her hand. Russia's helping him out. How 530 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: nuts is he or was he? Exactly? All right? We 531 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: got more coming up. Johnny ketchok I six forty live 532 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: everywhere in the iHeart Radio app but the only county 533 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: Sheriff Alex vieda wayroll be our guests. It's coming up 534 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: after the news at four o'clock. A reminder that the 535 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: moist line is tomorrow, tars Friday. Right. Sometimes John forgets 536 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: what day the week it is. No, I don't know. 537 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: Most of the time. I remember because it earlier this week. 538 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: You didn't know that August was gone. No, No, you 539 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: didn't know it was the end of September blue by 540 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: and I didn't. It didn't register with me. The moist 541 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: line can be accessed to via the iHeart radio apps, 542 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: a microphone icon you can use to leave a message 543 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: or call the toll free number one eight seven and 544 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: seven Moist eighty six one eight seven seven six six 545 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: four seven eight eight six. We're just talking about Assembly 546 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: Bill one six eight seven, the California Emergency Services Act, 547 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: Governor's Power of Suspension of Statutes and Regulations. It was 548 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: a bill that passed to sort of reign in the 549 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: broad powers of a governor under a state of emergency. 550 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: And of course Knewsom signed one back in twenty twenty 551 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,719 Speaker 1: and long with five hundred executive orders that followed. So 552 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: we got to look at the vote. This thing passed 553 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: easily so they could override his veto. There's forty members 554 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: of the state Senate, and thirty four voted for this bill. 555 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: Only five knows and one person didn't vote, so they 556 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: have to get to two thirds in this pretty big Yeah. Well, 557 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,719 Speaker 1: I mean, because I think everybody has been pleading for 558 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: this on the Assembly floor, eighty members, sixty nine voted yes. Oh, 559 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: then they could definitely could get it overridden, and they should. 560 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: Nobody voted no. Eight people just didn't vote. Yeah, then 561 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,719 Speaker 1: they are override it. They've got the votes to do it. 562 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: There's no excuse. Then I had the Khans. Yeah, that's 563 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: the thing that now you know if they don't override it, 564 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: then you know this was staged. This was for effect, 565 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: so most of them could run on it and say, ah, right, 566 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: I voted for a bill. I was trying to answer 567 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: a few of them either voted against the idea or 568 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: they abstained and they're in safe districts so that they 569 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: won't be penalized. But I'm just guessing that people have 570 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: raised this as an issue, and probably a lot of 571 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: interest groups have raised this as an issue. And the 572 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: thing is, if we had a two party state, they 573 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: never would have done this because you never give sweeping 574 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: powers to a governor. Because you're giving sweeping powers to 575 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: the next governor from the other party. Now you have 576 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: to watch for that. Yeah, who were playing so much 577 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: in this state anymore? Yeah, if there was a risk 578 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: a Republican would replace Newsom, there's no way Newsom would 579 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: have these emergency powers. They would have been they would 580 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: have been taken away for a long time ago from him. 581 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: But they think, well, it's never gonna matter. We'll always 582 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: have a guy in there, so this will never come 583 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: back to harness. Well you had mentioned before, you know, 584 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: consequences include what Putin does. We just found this story 585 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:30,719 Speaker 1: that a Russian anti war activist who apparently had publicly 586 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: read an anti war poem, Well, he got a visit 587 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: from the Well how were they described like Russian special police. 588 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: They went to his apartment and reports are that his 589 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 1: punishment included being anally raped with a dumbbell. Oh oh, 590 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: that's an independent Russian newspaper is running this story. An 591 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: unnamed source says Compson riot gear broke into this man's apartment, 592 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: beat him severely and quote put a dumbbell in his 593 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: antal opening that that doesn't ordinarily fit. I could have 594 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: to be a two or three pounder. I have five pounders. 595 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,719 Speaker 1: They're pretty big. You guys want to go check this 596 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: outer see what happens A really big guy to take 597 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: a five pounder to her. They yanked her hair, kicked 598 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: her and covered her face with super glue and stickers. 599 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: Oh that's mean, that's what they did to the girlfriend. 600 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: Oh but the guy who got the dumbell up, his 601 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: name is r tom Artam Carmagin. Her name is Alexandra Papova. 602 00:33:52,640 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: They both got attacked. But um, according to report, they 603 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: did threaten to gang Raper. Oh this is really nasty. Yeah, 604 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 1: and what did they do again? He's been publicly protesting 605 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: the war and he actually read a anti war poem. 606 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,800 Speaker 1: All that's some sort of an artist. He's a Russian poet, 607 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: an anti war activists. All that for a poem, I 608 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: guess it got a lot of play maybe and it 609 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 1: bothered the Kremlin. Wow. So so you Yeah, he read 610 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: a poem called kill Me Militiaman during the annual public 611 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: poetry reading at a square in Moscow. So reading came 612 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: the next day. So that's why they think it was religious. Oh, 613 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,760 Speaker 1: it's expletive laden. So you read a poem that Putin 614 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,239 Speaker 1: doesn't like and you get a barbell up the correct him. 615 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, that's um yeah, see what does that? Putin 616 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: has absolute powers like Newsom does. Exactly why I read 617 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: the story, right, That's that's what's gonna happen here. We're 618 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,360 Speaker 1: gonna get a knock on the door and get a barbell. 619 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 1: Hes been hospitalized with concussions, bruises all over his body 620 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,760 Speaker 1: and chest wounds. That's the least we don't know exactly 621 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 1: the outcome with the I want to know that. I 622 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,959 Speaker 1: want to know the barbell injuries. I don't have any 623 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 1: information on that. Yeah, that's all right. 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