1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. How are you welcome? 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: We've got plenty to do today. 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 2: Hello Deborah, Hello, mister Cobel. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: How are you. 6 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: I'm dandy. 7 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: Uh, you are dandy. We are going to get right 8 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 1: to it. Carl Demayo's coming on in just a moment, 9 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: because there were two terrible votes, and let me tell you, 10 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: these votes are important. These votes affect your life and 11 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: what you pay for gas and electricity in this state. 12 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: The first we're going to talk about is the Democrats 13 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: voted to kill Assembly Bill twelve. That bill would reverse 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: that sixty five cent gas tax hike from the California 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: Air Resources Board. This is the new low fuel carbon 16 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: standard and it's a sixty five cent increase, and I 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: believe it's on pause for a few months while they 18 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: sort out some technicalities, but it is definitely coming, and 19 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: it's coming within a number of months. And we're going 20 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: to talk now to Carl Demyo, the Republican assemblyman who 21 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: is on the front lines of the battle in Sacramento. 22 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: Because there was some mutterings by Democrats at a hearing 23 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: recently they were upset with the California Air Resources Board. 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: In fact, one Democrat wanted the chairwoman to resign and 25 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: I wanted is that going to change the way they vote? Well, 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: they were given some red meat here. It's like, yeah, well, 27 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: why didn't you kill this sixty five cent gas tax increase? 28 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: And it looks like the Democrats said, no, we will 29 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: not kill that. Let's get to Carl Demayo. 30 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 3: How are you, Oh well, I'm pretty frustrated. In California, 31 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 3: drivers and families should be really pissed because what you're 32 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 3: seeing up here in Sacramento is absolutely a war on 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 3: working families. The cost of living crisis is not going 34 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 3: to get better, It's only going to get worse. So 35 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 3: the Democrats in December, when they were sworn in, said, Okay, 36 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 3: we understand the results of this election. We're going to 37 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 3: do something about cost of living. That was six months ago. 38 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 3: Now this week is the end of the legislative process 39 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 3: for the entire year. All the bills have to get 40 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 3: out of the Assembly or else nothing else happens. And 41 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: they've done nothing, not a single bill of consequence to 42 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 3: reduce the living. So what we Republicans decided to do 43 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 3: is te up all the bills that they've killed along 44 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 3: the way and buried in the committee and decided to 45 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 3: put it into some desk drawer and forget about it. 46 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 3: And we decided to call the question force a vote, 47 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: a floor vote on each of those good bills, this 48 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 3: one on suspending the sixty five cent gas tax increased 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 3: with a low carbon fuel standard. It should be an 50 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 3: easy one, right, but no, the Democrats voted it down. 51 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 3: And even some of the one that were critical of 52 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 3: the California Air Resources Board for being out of control 53 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 3: and not considering cost impacts from these regulations, they didn't 54 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 3: lift a finger to do anything about actually reversing the policy. 55 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 3: These people are liars, cheats, and thieves, and that is 56 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 3: being as kind as they can possibly be. They have 57 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 3: failed working families, and anyone who gets hit with higher costs, 58 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 3: you know who to blame. And you know the only 59 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 3: way that your household budget's going to get relief, vote 60 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 3: a Democrat out of the next election. 61 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: So there were a few Democrats who made some loud 62 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: noises at the California Air Resources Board a chairwoman, and 63 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: like I said, one asked for her resignation. So those 64 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: Assembly people did not vote to reverse this incoming sixty 65 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: five cent tax. So they were faking it publicly at 66 00:03:55,120 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: the hearings scolding, and that's where Card the card lady admitted, 67 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: It's like, hey, we don't take into account how this 68 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: is going to affect price increases. 69 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 3: And that's why I firmly believe that when these politicians 70 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 3: are grand standing, when they're lying, when they're trying to 71 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 3: connive and deceive the voter, nothing is more clarifying, John 72 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 3: than a bill that actually does something. It's not rhetoric, 73 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 3: it's not for social media, it doesn't grandstand. It simply 74 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 3: solves the problem. And these Democrats showed us where they 75 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 3: really stand. They don't stand with working families. They want 76 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 3: to continue to make things more expensive. Because here's the deal. 77 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 3: At the end of the day, they don't want you 78 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 3: driving a car. They have set it for decades. They 79 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 3: do not want you driving a car. They want you 80 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 3: in some sort of public transportation, or they want you 81 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,679 Speaker 3: in an electric vehicle. And so for them, eight dollars 82 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 3: a gallon gas, which is what we're on track to hit. 83 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 3: Eight dollars gallon gas, is exactly the desired outcome of 84 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 3: this nonsense and so we're calling them out on it. 85 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 3: I always say, call the question and get a list 86 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 3: of names, the names of these politicians who are lying 87 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: through their teeth and not wanting to actually solve the problem. 88 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 3: And we have a list. 89 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 4: Now. 90 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 3: We are compiling list after list after list, and I 91 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 3: hope that these lists will be actually weaponized in the 92 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 3: upcoming lest now. 93 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: They're complete phonies. I was talking with somebody the other 94 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: day and I said, exactly what you just said. This 95 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 1: is the plan eight dollars gas. They want ten dollars 96 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 1: a gallon gas. That's what they're shooting for in the 97 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 1: near term. This is exactly what they gained out years ago, 98 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: and they're getting it. And now they're faking outrage. But 99 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: when it comes to a vote, they run and hide 100 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: and they vote against step repealing this gas tax increase. 101 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: Let's go to part two here, another vote. I assume 102 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: you forced this bill up to be voted on a 103 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: proposal to reduce electricity in utility rates. I've got something 104 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: here that was just published earlier this year. The headline 105 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: California's power rates second highest in the US. It's double 106 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: the average of the rest of the country, and it 107 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: is soaring even higher in the near future. And what 108 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: was your bill designed to do? 109 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, so some of the listeners who are sitting in 110 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 3: their electric vehicles saying, well, the sixty plague said to 111 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 3: Gala doesn't apply to me. Hey, how about the fact 112 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: that you're paying double per kilowat hour for your electricity? 113 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 3: That does impact you. And so we offered a bill 114 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 3: on that issue to basically reduce the cost of the 115 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 3: electricity and utilities in the state of California. Our bill 116 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 3: would have said that you cannot increase rates above the 117 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 3: national average, and that the state of California would have 118 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 3: to rescind taxes, fees, and regulations in order to hit 119 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 3: that bogee hit that cost cap every single year, which 120 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: is completely doable. Okay, So if other states can get 121 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 3: their killowt hour down to half of our rate, we 122 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 3: can certainly do it. It's it's it's a failure of 123 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 3: government policy. And so Democrats once again voted down the bill. 124 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 3: And this is why forcing a vote is so important. 125 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 3: When I got up here, one of the things I 126 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 3: told my Republican colleagues is not only are we going 127 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 3: to fight, but we need to get the list of names. 128 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 3: We have to force them to vote yes or no 129 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 3: on these bills because the list of names is what 130 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: has to be presented to the voters so the voters 131 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 3: can actually know who to vote for and who to 132 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 3: vote against in the upcoming election. And we now have 133 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: another recorded vote on electricity rates where the Democrats said, nope, 134 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 3: they're not going to give any any relief to working families. 135 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: And that would be reducing the taxes and the regulations. 136 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: And you know that that's that's driving up the cost 137 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: of electricity. Electricity does not have to be this expensive 138 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: in California, just like the gasoline. They choose for it 139 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: to be this expensive. 140 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 4: Yep. 141 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 3: They they their policies are designed to produce high costs 142 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 3: because they want to manipulate you into doing what they 143 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 3: believe is good for society. Well, I actually think that 144 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 3: you should be able to afford to live in California. 145 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 3: And the idea that we are paying more in every 146 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 3: category and energy prices, both gas and electricity have a 147 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 3: ripple effect. It's not just you know, the electricity that 148 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 3: you're paying or the gas that you're paying at the pump, 149 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 3: the price at the pump. Remember, with all these energy 150 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 3: costs and gas costs there will be a ripple effect 151 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 3: for food. Everything we do has to be transported, everything 152 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 3: we buy is transported, and so it's a ripple effect 153 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 3: of inflation across of all of California if we don't 154 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 3: get a handle on these energy and gasoline prices. 155 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: All right, very good, Carl, and I am going to 156 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: find the story because I believe we just did it 157 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 1: yesterday on or maybe Friday. Whoever was squawking at that 158 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: Assembly committee hearing against the carb representatives and the California 159 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: Energy Commission representatives, and I'm going to see how they voted. 160 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 3: Jazz Meat Blank is Jazz Meat Vans. Yes, she's from 161 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 3: Central Valley and she's running for Congress. That's the only 162 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 3: reason why she did it. It's nothing but a political stunt. 163 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 3: But we exposed her for what she is. She's a fraud. 164 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 3: She's a complete phony in fraud. 165 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: All right, we'll keep on top of it. You're doing 166 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: great work up there, Thank you, Thank you. All right, 167 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: Carl Demiel, the Assembly Republican. We will tell you about 168 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:34,239 Speaker 1: those who tried to create a ruckus against the California 169 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: Air Resources Board chairwoman and then it looks like backed 170 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: away and voted down or hid from reversing the sixty 171 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: five cent gas tax increase and refused the proposal to 172 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: reduce electric and utility rates. We'll get into all that next. 173 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 174 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 1: Forty Fine for Friday is eight seven seven moist eighty 175 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: six eight seven seven moist eighty six. Or use the 176 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 1: talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. And you heard it here. 177 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: You're not going to get this news anywhere else. We 178 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: had Carl Tomay on the Republican Assembly woman. Assemblyman, excuse me, 179 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: been reading too many stories about those trans athletes. Carl 180 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: produced a bill and dared the Democrats to vote against it. 181 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: It's Assembly Bill twelve. It would reverse the sixty five 182 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: cent gast axe hike that the California Air Resources Board 183 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: is laying on us with their new Low Carbon Fuel 184 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: Standard regulation sixty five cent increase. This is on top 185 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: of the two oil refineries that are closing. That now 186 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: has some Democrats freaking out because they're believing the predictions 187 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: by USC's Michael Mache that eight fifty gallon gas is coming, 188 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: and it's coming within the next year and a half. 189 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: So Carl tried to ease their pain and say, hey, 190 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: here's a bill. This reverses the sixty five cent gas 191 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: tax hike for the low carbon Fuel standard. But the 192 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: vote went nowhere. It lost thirty nine to eighteen. Although 193 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: it does seem that some of these people were either 194 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: absent or they decided to abstain. Some of them are 195 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: getting cowardly where they don't want to vote on a 196 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: bill if they know for sure it's going to fail, 197 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: but they don't want their name on blocking the bill. 198 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: And then the second one is a proposal to reduce 199 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: electric and utility rates. Again, we pay double the electricity 200 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: of the rest of the country. I think we're paying 201 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 1: thirty cents to kill a lot hour. Rest of the 202 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: country is paying fifteen cents to kill a lot hour. 203 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: And it's solely because of regulations and taxes from the 204 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: California A leedgeislature and governor. So in this case, Carl's 205 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: proposal would reduce the rates, and forty nine forty nine 206 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: Assembly people said no, keep the high electric rates, keep 207 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: the utility rates. Coming up. In about five minutes, we're 208 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: going to have, well, actually about ten minutes after Dever's news, 209 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: we're going to have Senate Transportation Vice Chairman Tony Strickland 210 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: on because what the Democrats did agree to spend money 211 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: on was seven hundred thousand dollars to study high speed rail. Seriously, well, 212 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: first of all, there's nothing to study because there is 213 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: no high speed rail. There's nothing to see here, but 214 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: they want to study it at seven hundred thousand dollars. 215 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: And we're also going to talk to Tony Strickland about this 216 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: gas price situation here. This comes, as Carl said, six 217 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: months after the Democrats claim they were going to attack 218 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: the cost of living here in California, which everybody is 219 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: crushed by except you know, the wealthy billionaires in the 220 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: tech industry up in northern California. Uh, and everybody else 221 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: is fighting it bad. We've got the most misleading statement, 222 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: and I see it repeated over and over because people 223 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: are basically monkeys and they just copy whatever the monkey 224 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: next to them says or does. Most ridiculous statement, and 225 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: Newsom is pushing this that we have the fifth fourth 226 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 1: largest economy now in the world was number five, and 227 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: that it's number four and therefore we're really rich and 228 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: wealthy and we can afford all these taxes. That is 229 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: complete total crap, bold leap, just nonsense. Much of the 230 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 1: wealth is tied up in tech companies and tied up 231 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: in wealthy employees and wealthy executives of tech companies. In fact, 232 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: that's what this same left wing crowd always preaches. Income inequality. Well, yeah, 233 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: and that income inequality means that although California has the 234 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: fourth largest economy in the world, most of the people 235 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: in California don't have much money because we have the 236 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: highest poverty rate in the nation, and everywhere from middle 237 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: class on down is struggling. I mean, I mean six 238 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: six percent of the country struggles to make ends meet 239 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: week to week. They're living week to week. Sixty percent 240 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: of the country doesn't even have one thousand dollars in 241 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: the bank to cover an emergency, and those percentages are 242 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: probably even higher here in California. So his statement that 243 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: we're wealthy, most of the people are not wealthy. A 244 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: tiny sliver are extremely wealthy, and that tilts things and 245 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: makes it look like we're all swimming in money. Obviously 246 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: we're not. And the biggest boulder around the necks of 247 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: so many people in this state is is gas prices 248 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: and electricity prices, and that affects the cost of food, 249 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: anything that has to be transported in this state. I 250 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: mean today, I went to my local station, which has 251 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: the lowest price in my neighborhood, and I guess this 252 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: is as low as gas can get in my area 253 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: on the west side, four fifty nine a gallon, four 254 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: fifty nine. And I actually looked this up today because 255 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: Trump was claiming that there are places in the US 256 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: where you can get gas for a dollar ninety eight 257 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: or a dollar ninety nine, which I assumed he was 258 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: full of it on that, but I went to check, 259 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: and yeah, there is nobody selling it for a dollar 260 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: ninety nine. They did find a gas station in Texas 261 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: selling it for two dollars and eleven cents. Two dollars 262 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: and eleven cents, And I was looking at four point 263 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: fifty nine today, and that's the bargain price in California. 264 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: The last time I checked the average was yesterday, it 265 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: was for seventy seven across the state. But somebody right 266 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: now is at a gas station, probably in rural Texas, 267 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: and they're pumping for two eleven a gallon. So we 268 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: are way, way, way out of whack with the rest 269 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: of the country and it's only because, well it's two things. 270 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: They belonged to this bizarre climate religion and they're having 271 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: no effect on the climate none at all. And secondly, 272 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: they have a lot of dirty deals that they're all 273 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: profiting from this high speed rail, which we're going to 274 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: talk with Tony Strickland about next another seven hundred thousand 275 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: dollars to about some bogus consultant to look at the 276 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: economic impact of having a train go from Bakersfield to Merced. 277 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: We'll hear from Tony Strickland, the Republican out of Huntington Beach, 278 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 1: the state senator that's coming up next. 279 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 280 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 5: six forty. 281 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,239 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four o'clock and 282 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: then after four o'clock John Cobelt on demand the podcast 283 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Among the big news today, these 284 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: the Democrats have are passing a bill to spend seven 285 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars of your money to study high speed rail. 286 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: Tony Strickland, who's the Republican state senator out of Huntington Beach, 287 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: objects to this and we're going to find out why. Tony, 288 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: how are you. 289 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 4: I'm good, John, How are you? Thanks for having me on? 290 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: What is this about seven hundred thousand dollars to study what? 291 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 4: You can't make this stuff up? And it's ridiculous. It's 292 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 4: another way to based are hardered dollars that people send 293 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 4: tax dollars to to Sacramento. We all know, everybody in 294 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 4: this building knows, as proposed, this train is not going 295 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 4: to be built that was promised to the people of 296 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 4: California from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And the spending 297 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 4: is out of control. It's already over one hundred and 298 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 4: twenty billion dollars and climbing. And now they're saying it's 299 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 4: a train from Merced to Bakersfield, and they want to 300 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 4: study the impacts of a train from Merced to Bakersfield. 301 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 4: Study the impact exactly. They say, Oh, we're going to 302 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 4: study the economic impact of having a train from Merced 303 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 4: to Bakersfield. 304 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: Okay, who's getting the contract? This is just more corruption 305 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: to me, it is It must be some politically connected 306 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: consultants and this is a gift to them. 307 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 4: It's an outrage. In fact, when I spoke on the 308 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 4: floor not only against this, but you know, I told 309 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 4: the members that we need to There needs to be 310 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 4: a serious conversation, and they're pulling the plug on this train. 311 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 4: This is absurd. We've already wasted billions of dollars. Those 312 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 4: money that we keep spending will be better spent on 313 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 4: my proposals to take that money and lower the gas 314 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 4: prices for everybody in California. When we continue to raise 315 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 4: the gas prices every single year since Governor Newsin has 316 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 4: been in office, and that falls disproportioned on hard work 317 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 4: in California families across the state. That would be a 318 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 4: better way and better use of our money instead of 319 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 4: just wasting on this train that we know is never 320 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 4: going to be built. 321 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: Well, what are they going to study the economic impact 322 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: of Merced to Bakersfield. I mean, there's very few people 323 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: who are traveling between Merced and Bakersfield, and they're going 324 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: to take the highway. I don't There's nothing to study 325 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: here and there's no train to study, So I don't 326 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: get it. 327 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 4: I couldn't agree with you more. And obviously, as proposed 328 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 4: to the people of California, if they would have came 329 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 4: up and say, hey, we want to spend one hundred 330 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 4: and twenty billion dollars on the train from said the Bakersfield. 331 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 4: My guess is that vote wouldn't have gone as well 332 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 4: as it did when they lie to the people of California. 333 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 4: They knew the money was not going to come from 334 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 4: the federal government, and they knew that. You know, I 335 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 4: always asked the question because I was in the legislature 336 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 4: during that time, and I asked, well, how much is 337 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 4: it going to cost to go get a train ticket 338 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 4: from San Francisco Los Angeles One. They couldn't even answer 339 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 4: that question. 340 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: Because it didn't matter. 341 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, I mean, I drive their cars. People are 342 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 4: going to take a point. 343 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: I realized some years ago that the the arguments that 344 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: people like you and I would discuss publicly are not 345 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: the point. The point is that they set up these 346 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: elaborate mechanisms that are nothing more than scams. They're they're 347 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: just they're just stealing money and then they're laundering the money. 348 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: And whether it's high speed rail or you know, the 349 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: whole climate infrastructure they created, the homeless industry they created here. 350 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: You could argue with them all day and you'd be 351 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: one hundred percent right, But that was never the point. 352 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: The point was to create a revenue source, so their 353 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: friends and family and business associates and consultants and donors 354 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,959 Speaker 1: can steal the money and run off with it. 355 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, and now they're saying, oh, we have a budget deficit. 356 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 4: And I'll tell you, over the last ten years they've 357 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 4: increased spending by triple. You would think if we increase 358 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 4: the spending by triple, we would have better services. But 359 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 4: we still have homelessnesses out of control, rising crime, and 360 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 4: krumblin infrastructure. They are wasting money. California doesn't have a 361 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 4: revenue problem. It has a wastefile spending problem. 362 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: They've had several audits of high speed rail. The last audit, 363 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 1: or maybe it was the next to last audit, they 364 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: couldn't find any record of where the money was spent. 365 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: There were no invoices, there were no receipts. It simply 366 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,360 Speaker 1: disappeared as if you had guys stuffing it into their 367 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: to those cloth bags that robbers back in the eighteen 368 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: hundreds would carry around when they rob banks. 369 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 4: How do you spend billions of dollars? And I laid 370 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 4: down one track of rail And that's well again, you're 371 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 4: you're absolutely right. 372 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 1: It's you never. But if you never intended to lay 373 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: down track. Yeah, which I think is what this is about. 374 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: They never intended to and they don't care about all 375 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: the criticism. It doesn't bother them because everybody in their 376 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: group is getting is getting paid. 377 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 4: Well. We need a new leadership here and we need 378 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 4: to turn around California. I mean, we need, you know, 379 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 4: to bring back some common sense and what they're doing 380 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 4: at the federal level, we need to do here at 381 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 4: the state level and start, you know, have more oversight 382 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 4: on this wastefol spending that they're doing. 383 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is horrible. This is just like 384 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: a fire hose spending. 385 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 4: Our systems need to hold each one of these legislators 386 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 4: accountable when they vote for a seven hundred billion dollars 387 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 4: a seven hundred thousand dollars study, when they keep voting, 388 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 4: you know, ten point two billion dollars to keep this 389 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 4: project going. I'm hopeful that the people of California will 390 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 4: hold these legislators accountable. Come next to November. 391 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 1: Let me ask you one more thing unrelated by but 392 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 1: in the past week, members of the Democrats on the 393 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: Transportation Committee have been criticizing members of CARB One of 394 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: them asked for the resignation of the CARB chairwoman because 395 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 1: they they are starting to believe the eight dollars and 396 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: fifty cent gas prediction from Michael MChE of USC Is 397 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: that real or is that show for the TV cameras? 398 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 4: No, I think it's real. I also called for the 399 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 4: President Card to step down. I also called for making 400 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 4: more of those decisions give them away from the Air 401 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 4: Resources Board, things like the Coast of Commission, because there's 402 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 4: no accountability when it comes to these unaccountable boards are 403 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 4: making huge decisions for California. It'd be better to have 404 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,479 Speaker 4: those decisions made in the legislature. So for example, if 405 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 4: you don't like the job I'm doing as a state center, 406 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 4: you can vote me out. But these unaccountable boards are 407 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 4: wreaking havoc on a hardworking California families, and they admitted 408 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 4: that they don't even put into question the cost of 409 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 4: their regulation. They've even admitted that, yeah, I saw that 410 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,479 Speaker 4: it will be it will be eight dollars a gallon, 411 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 4: you know, with two refineries setting down and we keep 412 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,360 Speaker 4: increasing the gas tax, people can't afford these decisions. 413 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: Are they going to do something to stop this, to 414 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,239 Speaker 1: try to help change whatever needs to be changed so 415 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: that refine those refineries don't shut down, stop these price increases, 416 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: get rid of cars power. I mean, are they really 417 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: going to do it? Are they just getting nervous with I. 418 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 4: Think more and more of my colleagues are getting nervous 419 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 4: because they're hearing from their constituents and they're trying to deflect. 420 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 4: And the start of this year they said, oh, we're 421 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 4: going to have this discussion on affordability, and we're going 422 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 4: to have affordability session. At the same time, they're now 423 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 4: proposing new tax increases to keep health care for illegals. 424 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 4: You know, they they just don't get it. At the 425 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 4: end of the day, these people are out of step 426 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 4: with reality and they're out of step with everyday people 427 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 4: in their districts. Because I always say, even Democrats in 428 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 4: their district are not these crazy people that are the 429 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 4: two thirds majority. 430 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 1: No, No, there's a huge disconnect there. Well, Tony Strickland, 431 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: State Senator, thank you very much for coming on. 432 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 4: I think thank you so much for having me. I 433 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 4: really appreciate it. 434 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: He's the vice chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, and 435 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: the legislature is passing a bill seven hundred thousand dollars 436 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 1: of your money to study high speed rail to see 437 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: what the economic impact is from Bakersfield to Merced Seriously 438 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: to somebody. Some consultants who donated money to someone are 439 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: making getting a big payday out of this. We'll have 440 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: more coming up. 441 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 442 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 5: six forty. 443 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show. We're on every day from one until 444 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: four o'clock. Follow us at John Cobelt Radio and social 445 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: media at John Cobelt Radio. We're chasing thirty thousand followers. 446 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: We are going to talk with John Heisman. He writes 447 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: the Flash Report online and he had a piece today 448 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: that's going to again affect your life. The South Coast 449 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: Air Quality Management District a while back, they had this 450 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: idea to ban any new gas powered water heaters and 451 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: furnaces in southern California that would affect seventeen million people. 452 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: They would have prohibited gas powered water heaters and furnaces 453 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: in new construction by twenty twenty six and then mandate 454 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 1: electric replacements by twenty twenty seven. They ended up with 455 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: a huge storm of blowback from anyone who owned a home, 456 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 1: rented a space, businesses, industry groups, thirteen thousand letters flooded 457 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: in and so they revised it, but they still want 458 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: to charge you for you have a gas water heater. 459 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: Fifty dollars for a water heater, one hundred dollars for 460 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: a gas space heater. And this is what the manufacturers 461 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 1: would be hit with. And then eventually five hundred and 462 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars for the space and water heaters, 463 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: and the plan goes on from there. This is the fanaticism, 464 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: the climate fanaticism, trying to they belonged to this weird 465 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: religious cult. They're having no effect on the climate. They 466 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: also are trying to steal money from us, and they're 467 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: trying to tell us what to do and control us, 468 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: what kind of heater we can have, how we could 469 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: power that heater anyway, John Fleischman is going to come 470 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: on about the South Coast Air Quality Management District. You 471 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: remember a few weeks ago I told you about the 472 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: guy who worked at the Harvard Medical School Morgue, Yes, yeah, 473 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: remember at Harvard. Obviously, at medical schools, a lot of 474 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: people donate their bodies to science, right, so that the students, 475 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: the doctors can do experiments and learn well. The manager 476 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: of the Morgue Cedric Lodge. He has pleaded guilty. He 477 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: was stealing the body parts. If you remember, I do, yes, Well, 478 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 1: he's now pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains. 479 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: It turns out he and his wife, what a lovely couple. 480 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: They had a business going and they were taking the 481 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: remains home and then reselling them. They lived in New Hampshire, 482 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: so they would drive over the border, which led to 483 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: some of these crimes interstate transport of stolen human remains. See, 484 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: by living in New Hampshire, they'd lived in Massachusetts, there'd 485 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: be fewer crimes that they would be charged with. 486 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 2: Can you imagine if that was one of your family member's. 487 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: Nobody knows where they are now. I mean he just 488 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,719 Speaker 1: sold them. Yeah, it was like a brokerage service. 489 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 6: I mean, come on, no morals, no values, morals and values. 490 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 2: Well, that's just not a thing anymore. 491 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: You must have been born in the old century. 492 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, I must. I mean, that's that's just that's rude. 493 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: So he uh, he would remove organs, right, I guess, 494 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: like livers and pancreas's hearts. Also, he'd remove their brains. 495 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: He would skin them he'd cut off their hands. He 496 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: would he would steal their faces. I guess he would 497 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: skin and peel off the face. I don't know what 498 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: you would do with that. 499 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 6: You you're selling the skin for graphing. You burn victims. 500 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 2: I don't know. 501 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: We're really cheap facelifts. Don't get a facelift from a 502 00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: guy in an alley. I have some ideas, Uh, dissected heads. 503 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: He was selling heads and other parts, and I don't 504 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: want to know what the other parts were. 505 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 2: How much did he make? Do we know? 506 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 4: Uh? 507 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: No, I don't know, but his his uh, the FBI, 508 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: the postal service and postal service. Well, yeah, I guess 509 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: he was packing up the heads and the skin and 510 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: the faces and mailing. 511 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 2: And wait, but wait a second. 512 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 6: Don't you have to be alive, you know, on a 513 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 6: respirator or you know, some other artificial way of keeping 514 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 6: you alive, and you your your body parts have to 515 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 6: be harvested and then sent on ice and rushed. 516 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, ever needs it. 517 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: I guess this is when this was not for media transplants. 518 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: Maybe there's people who have collections, so. 519 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 2: It's not to save lives. 520 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 6: I mean, it's not that he's making money on the 521 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 6: black market, and then people are gonna. 522 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: Know these were people who just wanted a collection, a trophy, sure, 523 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: like maybe a trophy case, like you have your golden mics. 524 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: Somebody else has livers, livers from around the world. 525 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 6: There's no There are a lot of weirdos in this world. 526 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: There are there are coming up. We're gonna have John 527 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: Fleischman on the South Coast Air Quality Management District Management District. 528 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: They tried a gas powered water heater ban and a 529 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: gas furnace band and everybody got angry with them. So 530 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: now they have a new idea. To explain this new idea, 531 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: John Fleischman, he writes the Flash Report online. We'll talk 532 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: to him next. Deborah Mark is live in the KFI 533 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the 534 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: John Cobalt Show podcast. 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