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Well, Friday night, 11 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: it was announced that the state legislature has reached a 12 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: budget deal. They have this near one hundred billion dollars surplus. 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: People have been waiting since January when Governor Knwsom first 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: talked about it. What are you doing about the high 15 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: price of gasoline? And back then Newsom said, well, what 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: I'm proposing is that the scheduled gas sales tax height 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: that comes into effect on July first, let's suspend that. 18 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: But the legislature immediately said no, oh no, we have 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: to protect the road projects. We need that source of funding. 20 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,919 Speaker 1: So they went about with their own plan about giving 21 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: money to Californians, and they had an idea that would 22 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: be scaled to people on the poorer end to get money, 23 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: and at some point, if you make over a certain amount, 24 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: you won't get anything. And eventually in this budget deal 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: they kind of went towards that proposal. Newsom's idea was 26 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: to send everybody that had a registered vehicle some money. 27 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: But the and of course the Republican idea was to 28 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: suspend the state sales tax, which is over fifty cents 29 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: a gallon for a period of time to help people, 30 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: because that directly helps people if you're dealing with high 31 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: gas prices. But this kind of got repackaged into inflation relief, 32 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: high price relief. I'm going to talk to Assemblyman Kevin 33 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: Kylie now about all this and let's bring them back 34 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: on the show. Kevin, welcome, thank I'm great to be 35 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: with you as always. Yeah, so this has been repackaged 36 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: into just another stimulus check, is what it sounds like? Yeah, exactly, 37 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: I mean, we know what it's not, right. Number one, 38 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: it's not any suspension of the gas tackle, though interestingly enough, 39 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: it does include a suspension of the diesel tax. And 40 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: number two, it's not a tax rebate, it's a it's 41 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: a spending program. Because they're deciding who gets the checks, 42 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: what the criteria are receiving them. Some people get more 43 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: than others, some people don't get anything, and so forth. 44 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: And so you know, we've gone from let's give folks 45 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: relief from these outrageous gas prices, to let's give people 46 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: a tax relief, to let's just have another spending program. 47 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,239 Speaker 1: Intuitively speaking, giving people money when we're facing inflation doesn't 48 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: seem to make sense because that's just more money that 49 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: will be spent, which could lead to higher prices. I'm 50 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: not really sure I understand this, but well, yeah, I 51 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: mean you're assuming that intuition or common sense or anything 52 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: of the sort, you know, is a force that matters 53 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: for much here of the capital. But unfortunately that just 54 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: isn't the reality. And so yes, you often have a 55 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: quote unquote solution like this that only makes the problem worse. 56 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: So there apparently was no serious consideration about suspending the 57 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: actual gas tax, was there. Well not in this sort 58 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: of back room deal hashed out by three people, the 59 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: governor and the Senate President of the speaker. You know, 60 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: they didn't consider it at all, apparently, But we now 61 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: have well over a dozen Democrats who have joined with 62 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: the you know, the entire Republican Caucus in calling for 63 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: the gas tax to be suspended, so that our efforts 64 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: to push this forward have you gained momentum, but the 65 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: leadership has just sort of been unwilling to entertain it 66 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: at all. And to make matters worse, this backroom deal 67 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: they came up with. It looks like they were pushed 68 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: this through within the next couple of days, even though 69 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: we all just learned about it last night. So there's 70 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: basically no opportunity for any sort of publican put either. 71 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: And the money's not even coming until late October. And 72 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: that's the other thing to your check. You know, people 73 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: are struggling right now. They're paying six dollars seven dollars 74 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: for gas right now, they're having trouble, having trouble putting 75 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: food on the table right now, and you know, the 76 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: legislature and the governor say, okay, we'll send you a 77 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 1: check in several months, which you know is happens to 78 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: fall at the very time when they'll probably be receiving 79 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: their ballot in the mail. Maybe it's on the same day. Yeah, 80 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: the timing I think is pretty questionable. I don't see why. 81 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: I mean, they had this budget surplus, why they couldn't 82 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: send this out in a few weeks. Why they have 83 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: to wait till late October to process is probably doesn't 84 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: take that much. No, And I mean, honestly, I have 85 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: no faith actually they're going to do this right. I mean, 86 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: we've seen what they did with the edd checks and 87 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: what a disaster that was u you know, so it 88 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: shouldn't be that hard to do administratively. It's just that 89 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: the States has a record of such unbelievable incompetence. But 90 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: you know, the the nice thing about a suspension of 91 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: the gas tax is it doesn't require really any administration 92 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: at all. You know, you just have people who start 93 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: paying less in taxes. But of course that's not what 94 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: they want to do. They don't like to shut off 95 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: any source of revenue. They want it to land at 96 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: the state treasury and then have control over where it goes, 97 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: which is why they've just sort of Even when New 98 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: York and Connecticut and Joe Biden are calling for a 99 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: suspension of the gas tax, Gavin Newsom and the legislature 100 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: still refused to do it. Yeah, and that's lame excuse 101 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: they use while the oil companies won't pass it along. 102 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: Has been disproven. In the states that actually has suspended 103 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: the gas tax, prices have gone down. That's exactly right. 104 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: It's been disproven. You could observe it empirically. Wharton at 105 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvania's came out with a study showing that 106 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: this is what happens. The consumers get the savings. Our 107 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: own legislative analyst has said the same thing, and so 108 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: it's like they just keep asking us to sort of 109 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: deny reality or even now to believe that Joe Biden 110 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: apparently wants the oil companies to get some massive windfall, 111 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: since even he is calling for a suspension of the 112 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: federal gas tax and is calling up on states like 113 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: California to suspend theirs. So when you make Joe Biden 114 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: kind of look reasonable by comparison, I mean, you've really 115 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: kind of gone off the depend And they kind of 116 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: messed up here because the one thing that's really affecting 117 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: people that they notice every day they drive around is 118 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: the price of gas in California. So if they had 119 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: framed this as gas price relief, which they did. Originally 120 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: it probably would sell better, but instead it's just like, oh, 121 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: you're going to get a check in the mail, and 122 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: it's because of inflation. I think they really screwed up 123 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: the optics on this. I think they could have made 124 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: this really revolve around what we have, which is the 125 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: highest gas prices in the nation, and instead the check's 126 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: not going to come from months and it's really not 127 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: that much. It's a few hundred dollars depending on your 128 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: income ruble. So I really think that this has become 129 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: just a big bust here. Yeah, I think you're exactly right. 130 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: I mean, the sort of origin of this, by the way, 131 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: is that when we brought the gas tax suspension vote 132 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: to the floor of the Assembly, they got so much 133 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: blowback for refusing to do that that they figured they 134 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: have to look like they're doing something, and so that 135 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: was sort of the genesis of this rebate idea, which 136 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: you know, as you've as you mentioned, has sort of 137 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: now morphed into has taken various forms. There are a 138 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: lot of proposals out there, and they've only now after 139 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: several months, landed on some sort of a proposal that 140 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: won't do anything for anyone for several more months. So 141 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: you know it in a sense, you know, you can 142 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: claim sort of a small victory in the sense that 143 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: we forced them to do something. But it just goes 144 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: to show you how much of an uphill battle it 145 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: is for common sense and to actually serve to prevail 146 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: and for you know, to get this set of politicians 147 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: to do the right thing for Californians. Yeah, nothing indicates 148 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: more just how horrible they are in Sacramento. When they 149 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: took that bill to suspend the gas tax, they gutted, 150 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: amended it, and then turned it into an oil company tax. 151 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: Remember when they did that a few months ago, I do, 152 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: I was there, you were there. And then what they 153 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: didn't want to put their name on it or something exactly. 154 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: They refused to even to sign their name to the bill. 155 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: They wanted to have my name on the bill. My 156 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: bills to spend the gas tax. This is their really 157 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: clever idea. I know, let's change my bill into this 158 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: massive tax increase. But it was so humiliating for them 159 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: they actually had to backtrack and sort of delete the 160 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: entire bill from existence, so there was no record of 161 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 1: what they tried to do. So, I mean a ninety 162 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: seven billion dollars budgets are plus and how much is 163 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: this supposedly going to cost? Like ten billion these inflation 164 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: relief checks. I think that whole inflation relief package was 165 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: something like seventeen billion. I think they said, I mean, 166 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: at some point, it's just like these numbers are unreal. 167 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: The budget itself is well over three hundred billion dollars. 168 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: Now when you look just going back twenty years, it 169 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: was one hundred billion. So I mean, when you think 170 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: about that, it took what one hundred and fifty years 171 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: of California history for us to get a one hundred 172 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: billion dollar budget, and then it took years for us 173 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: to add another two hundred billion dollars to the budget. 174 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: And you know, of course you look around, you're like, 175 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: as the quality of life, you know, gotten three times 176 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: better in California, Yeah, not at all. No, and then 177 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: all the money they take in and the gas tax, 178 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: the roads are just stupendous, right, They're beautiful, exactly exactly, 179 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: And that's the case in point. We have the highest 180 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: gas tax in the country and we've about the worst roads. 181 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 1: You know, you sacrifice the most as a Californian and 182 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: you get the least and return the lowest quality of 183 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: government service. All right, Kevin, thanks a lot for joining 184 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: me once again. I appreciate it anytime. Thanks all right, Assembly, 185 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: remember Kevin Kylie from up in northern California. Yes, the 186 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: Republican talking about this deal that the Democrats reached. Really 187 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: just the leader of the Assembly in the state Senate 188 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: and Governor Dipity do to give what is now being 189 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: packaged as price or inflation relief money to Californians. And again, 190 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: depending on your income level, you will get amount. It's 191 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: around three hundred and fifty dollars per taxpayer. It drops 192 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: down from there as you make more money more Coming 193 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 1: up on the John and Ken Show on KFI, and Yes, 194 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: when we come back, I won't forget it is the 195 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: keyword that you could possibly win a thousand dollars when 196 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: you went right at the website. John and Ken Show 197 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: on KFI and Hi. Coming up, we're going to take 198 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: a look at some of the fools in Washington, DC. 199 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 1: You know it's a little well, it's around dinner time. 200 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: It's getting close, so we'll have a word salad from 201 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris about the Row versus Wade decision. We'll also 202 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,719 Speaker 1: talk about what they could do in Washington, d C. 203 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: To codify a woman's right to I'm sorry, a birthing 204 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: person's right to an abortion into federal law so they 205 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: can override I guess what some of the states might 206 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: do to restrict it. We'll see, but anyway, we'll talk 207 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: about that as well. Nancy Pelosi is being criticized by 208 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 1: a new Texas congresswoman. We'll tell you what she did, 209 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: which was pretty harsh. Yeah, she doesn't drink. Okay, sure, 210 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: but now, oh and by the way, in case you 211 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: don't know, while gas prices it ben't kind of going 212 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: down a little bit and still over six dollars a gallon, 213 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: which is horrendous compared to it not that long ago. 214 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: Come Friday, there is going to be the gas tax increase. 215 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:26,559 Speaker 1: Back in twenty seventeen, they passed that horrendous bill in Sacramento. 216 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 1: They at the time they needed a few Republican votes 217 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: and they got them. It was all about the climate 218 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: and what they were doing was raising the gas tax 219 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: Senate Bill one. And then they put up all these 220 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: signs all over the state that your gas tax money 221 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: is going to improve the roads. And this project has 222 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: been supported by sp one your gas tax dollars at work. 223 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: I've noticed that many people have said this who've emailed 224 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: the show. You don't see that anymore. You don't see 225 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: those signs. They came down because the next year they 226 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 1: got on the ballot or repeat of the gas tax 227 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: hike that failed. But those signs probably convince people, oh, yeah, yeah, 228 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: this is really doing me well. I'm looking at actual 229 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: my tax dollars at work right in front of me, 230 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: with these road repairs. It was nonsense and the condition 231 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: of Rose and I was just talking to a center 232 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: Ben Kevin Kylie. You think about that the state budget 233 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: went from one hundred billion dollars and spending to three 234 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars in just a couple of decades. It's 235 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: mind boggling when you think about it. But when you 236 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: have a state with a hell of a good number 237 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: of very wealthy people who are turning in all sorts 238 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: of capital gains taxes over to this state when the 239 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: markets do well and the economy does well, and then 240 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: you have this huge like a third of the state 241 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: or more that's in severe poverty. This is the imbalance 242 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: that you have, and they need more money to support 243 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: that lower end, which is not decreasing, it's only growing. 244 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: So now they're going to give them more money in 245 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: the mail and tell them it's inflation relief, but really 246 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,839 Speaker 1: what it is, it's just another stimulus check for poor people. 247 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: That's really what they came up with, and that was 248 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: the goal of the legislature because they're still trying to 249 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: support the poor people in the standing. I've said this before. Basically, 250 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: we've driven out the middle class. We have a sort 251 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: of a lower upper class and a very upper class 252 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: and an incredibly high upper class, and they need the 253 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: poor people to do all the services for them, right, 254 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: to take care of their kids, to work in the restaurants, 255 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: to clean their homes, to mow their lawns, all the 256 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: things that we don't have time to do anymore. That 257 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: brought in this huge and growing class that was driven 258 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: by immigration, both legal and illegal, and now we're faced 259 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: with failing schools and a permanent class of poverty. All right. 260 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 1: Joel Kotkin has chronicled this well. If you've never read 261 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: anything from him, you should about the surf kind of 262 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: fiefdom place that we live in in California. In the 263 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: year twenty twenty two, let's talk for a moment about 264 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: high gas prices, which probably aren't going to go away. 265 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: And one of the other problems is not talked about 266 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: much is refinery closures. Refinery closures are outpacing new construction, 267 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: and that will be the case over the next five years. 268 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: That's going to reduce the supply of items manufactured at 269 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: refineries to be increasing worldwide demands. According to this story 270 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: I'm reading, they were almost seven hundred oil refineries in 271 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: the world. That was January of twenty twenty. But because 272 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: of continuous overregulation, permitting delays, aging equipment, and the worldwide 273 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: support of the environmental, social, and governance to divest in 274 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: fossil fuels, in twenty nineteen, there were one hundred and 275 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: thirty five refineries in the US, but five facilities were 276 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: shuttered during the last two years. And I'm looking at 277 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: two competing stories, one that was written in a more 278 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: conservative website and then one from NPR, and they say 279 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: the same thing that when we did the lockdowns in 280 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: early twenty twenty and people stopped traveling, driving to work, 281 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: driving anywhere, the oil industry just they made some decisions 282 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: and they laid off people, and they closed many facilities, 283 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: including the refineries, not many, but enough that it makes 284 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: a difference because there aren't that needed to begin with. 285 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: There were over one hundred new refineries under construction, with 286 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: most of them in Asia. Eighty eight will be built 287 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: in Asia. Europe will have twelve, North America ten. Asia, 288 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: of course, is the reason, is the region with the 289 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: greatest number of future petroleum refineries. As of twenty twenty one, 290 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: there were eighty eight new facilities in planning or under 291 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: construction in Asia. By comparison, Europe is set to see 292 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: an addition of twelve petroleum refinery in North America will 293 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: only see about ten. So what you're going to see 294 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: down the road is not going to get any better, 295 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: particularly here in California, where we're called an isolated geographic 296 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: market from the rest of the country. And by the way, 297 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: many other products are made from crude oil too. That's 298 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: going to affect many daily products. Oil is not just 299 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: something that's refined into gasoline and put into your car. 300 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: It's in many many products that you use every day. 301 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: Says one in five twenty percent, or almost one hundred 302 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: and forty refineries are expected to be shuttered worldwide, resulting 303 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: at a twenty percent decline in products manufactured where in 304 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: this strange bind Now we have leaders like Biden and 305 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: everybody here in California wanting to get us off of 306 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: fossil fuels, but the reality when you look around is 307 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: people's everyday lives are driven by fossil fuels. Most people 308 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: are still driving, by far, not just in California, but 309 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: even worse in the rest of the country, gasoline powered cars, 310 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: and they're being dragged into the next generation of vehicles, 311 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: which is supposed to be electric, which many of them 312 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: can't afford, and who knows if there's enough electricity supply 313 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: to make this happen anyway, So we're really stuck right now. 314 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: And it's like it all took hold this year with 315 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: these accelerating and out of control gas price increases. All right, 316 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: when I come back, we'll be talking more about oh, 317 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 1: your favorite politicians. Joe Biden had a moment. He's over 318 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,360 Speaker 1: in Europe talking to the G seven leaders, and apparently 319 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: he got interrupted by the French president who was telling 320 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: him some bad news about the oil supply. Will have 321 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris here with a word salad about the abortion issue. 322 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi embarrassing herself. This and more coming up on 323 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: the John and Ken Show on KFI. A reminder that 324 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 1: the recall against the LA County District Attorney is really 325 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: coming down to the crunch time. That's George Gascone. In 326 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: just over a week, they have to turn in all 327 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: the signatures to the La County Registrar of Voters and 328 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: then hope they don't get to whittled down. So they're 329 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: looking for a cushion in the number of signatures they 330 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: have to collect, probably one hundred and fifty to two 331 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: hundred thousand additional signatures above the amount necessary because some 332 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: are definitely going to be thrown out. That does happen, 333 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 1: it could be upwards of thirty percent according to some 334 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: people who analyze these types of things. So you can 335 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: go to the website Recall DA George Gascone dot com 336 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: and if you're an LA County registered voter, you can 337 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,719 Speaker 1: download the petition. You need to drop it off at 338 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: a location. You cannot put it in the mail because 339 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: it will not get there in time for them to 340 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: be able to sort through it and then hand it 341 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: over to the Registrar of Voters on July sixth, So 342 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: go to camp go to the website recall da George 343 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: Gascone dot com making news this afternoon in the city 344 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: of La concerning the corruption that is the La City government. 345 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: We have a city councilman by the name of Jose 346 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: Weezar who has left the city council and is facing 347 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: a trial on corruption charges next year. Well, today a 348 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: jury found a downtown developer guilty of bribery in the 349 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: Weasar case. So if a jury buys the fact that 350 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: this real estate developer did indeed bribe Jose Weazar, I 351 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: don't know what kind of explanation he's going to have 352 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: to make it sound like, well, this wasn't a bribe, 353 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: This is just a generous man who gave me five 354 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in cash. The name of the developer 355 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: is Dayong Lee, and there was a labor group which 356 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: had a lot of political connections, don't they all, that 357 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: filed a challenge against his plan to build the twenty 358 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: storied tower in downtown Los Angeles. So the developer, also 359 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:22,120 Speaker 1: known simply as David Lee, paid five hundred thousand dollars 360 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 1: in cash to get rid of the union opposition. And 361 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: the worst news here for Wesar is that there were 362 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: middlemen involved and they're also pleading. So he's been guilty. 363 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: He's been found guilty of paying this five hundred thousand 364 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: dollars bribe to ensure that Jose Wesar would get the 365 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: project through the city's planning process. And we've talked about 366 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: this before. The La City Council, at least the makeup 367 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: at the time, pretty much didn't interfere with each other's 368 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: business whenever it came to things like development projects or 369 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: any other special projects. They because obviously if you meddle 370 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 1: in some one else's affair in the council, they might 371 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: meddle in yours, So you know, just let them go. 372 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: So they found this guy guilty of wire fraud and 373 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice. They also found his company guilty, which 374 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: is weird ninety h LLC, which had sought city approval 375 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: for the residential tower. This is obviously a sneak preview 376 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: what's going to happen when jose Wesar goes on trial 377 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: next year. He is, of course pled, not guilty, but 378 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,719 Speaker 1: you would think after developments like this, he might be 379 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: thinking about a plea deal. They alleged that Lee provided 380 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars in cash to ensure that Wesar 381 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 1: would support the project get rid of the appeal that 382 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: challenged it. It was filed by this construction trade union group. 383 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: Justin Kim, a political fixer that's a good name and 384 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: campaign fundraiser, picked up the cash from Lee, handing a 385 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: portion of it to Weezar's high level aid and by 386 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 1: the name of George as Sparza. As Sparza already pled 387 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: guilty in the case, testifying that he took part in 388 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,239 Speaker 1: two money drops near Lee's office. What chance does we 389 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: saw when all of these people are being found guilty 390 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: or making plea deals he had. Asparsa testified he delivered 391 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: two hundred thousands and bribe money to we's Are, only 392 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: to be told by his boss that he that he 393 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: should hide it. We's Are later tried to get the 394 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: money back as far as it told the jury. Kim 395 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: admitted keeping another portion of the bribe, as does a Sparza, 396 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: who is awaiting sentencing. So we's are who apparently because 397 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,360 Speaker 1: this was his council district, he wielded enormous power over 398 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: downtown development, and he decided, like a lot of politicians, 399 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: to I'm not paid enough to do this. We need 400 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: to find other sources of revenue, and that's what they 401 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: sometimes do, good old fashioned bribes. I think We's are 402 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: is the one with the poker chips. May have been 403 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: in Vegas, paid in poker chips, and he was apparently 404 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,679 Speaker 1: on video at the cashier Caage cashing in the poker 405 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 1: chips he got as part of the bribe. So we'll 406 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: see how this all plays out, but I think We's 407 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: are is going to be looking at making a deal 408 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: pretty soon with the government. All right, let's move over 409 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: to national politics. Oh, let's check out a delicious word salad. Apparently, 410 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: on Friday, after we learned to the Supreme Court's reversal 411 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: of the Roe v. Wade decision, one of those who 412 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 1: weighed in was our esteemed Vice President, Kamala Harris. She's 413 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: speaking to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed 414 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: Officials their thirty ninth annual conference, and this is what 415 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: she said. The strength of our nation has always been 416 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,159 Speaker 1: that despite the odds and the obstacles, we push to 417 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: move forward, that we are guided by what we see 418 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: that can be unburdened by what has been. The rest 419 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,719 Speaker 1: was and I know everyone in this room understands this. 420 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: I think there were puzzled looks. I actually have the 421 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: quote here we pushed and move forward, that we are 422 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: guided by what we see that can be unburdened by 423 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 1: what has been. Did somebody write this for her? I 424 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: can't imagine she made this up on the fly. That's 425 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: a delicious word salad with extra dressing. The strength of 426 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: our nation has always been we are guided by what 427 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: we see that can be unburdened by what has been. 428 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: What a muddled mess. You may have seen the story 429 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: also dealing with some of this, that a million voters 430 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 1: across forty three states switch their registration to the Republican 431 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,679 Speaker 1: Party over the last year. Now you would think the 432 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,199 Speaker 1: crowd that is really worked up over gun control and 433 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,199 Speaker 1: now a Boar writes, would think that this is going 434 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 1: to reverse back. But this just points out something I've 435 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: said on the show over and over again. It's what's 436 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: going on with the economy and inflation is really hurting people. 437 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: People outside of California never before seen five We got 438 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: six dollars and something gas prices, but they had never 439 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: before seen five dollars a gallon. Gas prices are reacting 440 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: to this stuff. It doesn't surprise me, and it says 441 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: here they weren't just Democrats switching over to Republican It 442 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 1: was also people that were independent. They didn't belong to 443 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 1: either party, but they registered with the Republican Party. This 444 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: is bad news for Kamala and the Democrats when it 445 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 1: comes to the control of Congress, because if this plays out. 446 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: In November, the Associated Press examined nearly one point seven 447 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: million voters who had likely switched affiliations across forty two 448 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: for which they had data in the last twelve months. 449 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: And while switching parties is not uncommon, the data shows 450 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: a definite reversal from the period while Trump was in office, 451 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: where Democrats enjoyed a slight edge in the number of 452 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: people who switch parties because no one ever likes the 453 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 1: guy in charge. Even if things are going well, they 454 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: kind of like ah, but once things start going south. 455 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: Over the last year, roughly two thirds of the one 456 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: point seven million voters who changed their party affiliation shifted 457 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: to the Republican Party, and all more than a million 458 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: people became Republicans compared to about six hundred and thirty 459 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: thousand who became Democrats. So that is a small portion 460 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 1: of the overall US electorate. But depending on where it is, 461 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: it could have an effect in like local congressional races 462 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: when that plays out. Now today, overseas, Biden is in 463 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: Europe with the G seven leaders. It's a summit in Germany, 464 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: and apparently his national security advisor, guy by the name 465 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: of Jake Sullivan, stepped in because French President Emmanuel Macron 466 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: was giving Biden some bad news. This was a report 467 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: about attempts to get Arab nations to produce more oil 468 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: to lower the record gas prices. And when Sullivan heard this, 469 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: apparently he came up to Biden and Macron and said, careful, 470 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: maybe we should just step inside because of the cameras. 471 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: And it's not clear as to whether or not it 472 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: was the news that Macron was going to deliver it, 473 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: but apparently he said, I had a call with MBZ, 474 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 1: referring to the leader of the United Arab Emirates that 475 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed al Nayan. He told me two things. 476 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: I'm at a maximum maximum production capacity, that's what he claims, 477 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: and then he said the Satis an increase by one 478 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand barrels a day. Maybe a bit more, 479 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 1: but they don't have huge capacities before six months time. 480 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: But apparently that was too much for the National Security Advisor, 481 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: and he decided, we don't want this to get out 482 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: and to the rest of the bds, So why don't 483 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: you just steer them this way so the cameras don't 484 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: pick up exactly what's being said here, but I guess 485 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: enough of it leaked out that reporters picked up that portion. 486 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: And finally, one of our other California Nationalist team leaders, 487 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: and she's another one that's been around way too long, 488 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi is well, she's getting some criticism. Last week, 489 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: there was a swearing in for a newly elected Republican 490 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: Texas congresswoman. This actually made big news because it's a 491 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: long time Democrat district. Her name is Mira Flores, and 492 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: at the photo op, Nancy Pelosi is giving her young 493 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: daughter a shove. If you haven't seen the video, it's 494 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: actually pretty remarkable and pretty funny. There's just no questioning 495 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: that Pelosi had decided this kid's in too good a 496 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: position here and I need room and kind of gives 497 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: her a nudge. The congresswoman did not know about it. Immediately, 498 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: but later on saw the video and said, I'm proud 499 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: of my strong, beautiful daughter for not allowing this to 500 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: phase her. She continued to smile and pose for a 501 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: picture like a queen. No child should be pushed to 502 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: the side for a photo op, period, so she was 503 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: pretty worked up about this. Pelosi's deputy chief of staff said, 504 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: the speaker tried to make sure that Floris's daughter would 505 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: be visible in the photograph. If you watch the video, 506 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: that's not what's going on. She's not pulling the child 507 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: towards her. She's kind of elbowing her sort of further 508 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: outside because there's two little girls on the left side 509 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: of the picture. Yes, she gives a outside. That's pretty funny, 510 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: all right. We got more it up on the John 511 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: and Ken show here on K five. Well, I don't 512 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: know what it is about men, not all of them, 513 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: but men on airplanes. There are some men who think, 514 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: particularly when they take the overnight flights, that what they're 515 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: going to do to a female sitting near them is 516 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: either permissible or be undetectable. I haven't been able to 517 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: figure out which. Apparently this is a guy from Alta, 518 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: Dina by the name of Brian Patrick Derning. This is 519 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: an overnight flight from lax to Orlando on Delta last week. 520 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: He sat in an aisle seat to the left of 521 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: a girl who was under the age of sixteen. They're 522 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: not giving out her age. She's only called m V 523 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: from minor victim. The girl's mother was sitting two rows 524 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: ahead of her daughter because there were reservation issues so 525 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: they couldn't sit together. But don't you normally ask if 526 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: somebody will change seats and maybe that's usually what you 527 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: do in in that kind of But anyway, not blaming them, 528 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: because this is if this is true, it's inexcusable. So 529 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: he started touching the little girl's hair and neck and 530 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: then moved his hand up to her inner thigh because 531 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: a woman who was asleep next to the victim saw 532 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: him remove his hand from her thigh as soon as 533 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: she woke up. He then touched the woman's breasts the 534 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: woman who was asleep next to the victim, and also 535 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: unzipped his pants. What you think, It's it's nighttime and 536 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: you're embedded home and this is your partner with you? What? 537 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: What is wrong with people? Well, he was taken in 538 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: for questioning and wouldn't you know. He did confess to 539 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: doing this, but he said, I had white wine and 540 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: beer and I took an ambient pill. Is of course 541 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: awaiting trial for this sex assault, and he, of course, 542 00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: and he's been banned from flying Delta ever again. His 543 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: name is Brian Patrick Derning, age fifty one, and they 544 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: took him into custody in Florida when the flight landed there. 545 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: And I guess, because this woman is testifying as to 546 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: what she saw, it's probably not good. He did order 547 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 1: a glass of white wine after the plane departed. He 548 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: had already consumed several beers before he boarded the flight. 549 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: He began to cough and sneeze on the minor victim. 550 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: At some point he began to touch her hair and neck, 551 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: and also tried to put his arm around her. When 552 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: he did so, he tried to lean away, she tried 553 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: to lean away. Durning runs a fitness company and operates 554 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: as a real estate agent, according to the public records. 555 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: The other guy that's worth mentioning there was a guy 556 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 1: on a Southwest Airlines flight. This is also hard to believe. 557 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: He air dropped a penis picture to all the passengers 558 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: on Saturday and when the plane landed, of course police 559 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: were there to escort him off. A user by the 560 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: name of Daddy Strange three three three on TikTok said 561 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: the guy you were calling him Larry, and apparently the 562 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: video he's getting reprimanded by a flight attendant for allegedly 563 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: sharing a graphic photo with all the passengers, especially as 564 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: kids sat behind him. I saw his iPad had air 565 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: drop open, so I knew it was him, And yes, 566 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 1: I sure did make a scene. Why do you Why 567 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: are you doing that, said the flight attendant, and he 568 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: emotionlessly replied, just having a little fun. He did apologize, 569 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: but according to the follow up video posted yesterday, the 570 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: claim is that Larry quickly went back to viewing the photo, 571 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: which apparently showed a woman orally pleasuring him. Wow. Nice 572 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: stuff going on on the planes. Not bad enough with 573 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: your flights being canceled, but guys like these on your 574 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 1: flight A Conway is here? Hey, Now do you remember 575 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: back when, you know, in the old days, you know 576 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: your mom and dad. I don't know how old you 577 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: were when you first flew, but you have to wear 578 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: a sports coat and or a suit and tie. I 579 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,279 Speaker 1: remember being you know, six seven years old, and I 580 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: had sports coat and a tie on, and my mom 581 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: and my sister was only able to wear a dress 582 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,279 Speaker 1: and we had to we had a dress up to fly. 583 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 1: They only I remember flying when I would occasionally get 584 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 1: first class. I was like, well, you have to wear 585 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: a nice clothes. Sure, absolutely, But now people are there 586 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: in their sweats and sets. Right. Yeah, people wear pajamas 587 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: on a plane and they think that's that's cool, but 588 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: it's nice if you're taking overnight flight. Do you feel 589 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: kind of yeah, look, I'm still you know, the pajamas 590 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,399 Speaker 1: are for the house, you know, they're not the ever 591 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: to be worn elsewhere. Right, Maybe in the high I agree, 592 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: Maybe in the hospital, but I didn't even like people 593 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: with flip flops everywhere. Oh yeah, I'm the same way. Yeah, 594 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,240 Speaker 1: especially the ones where near the pool. Make that noise 595 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: at bang bang bang bang bang bang. You can hear 596 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 1: them coming. And also the guys and gals that are 597 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: a little big. It sounds like, you know, Hero or him, 598 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 1: sounds like a bomb going off every time they grounds. Yeah, exactly. 599 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: Kurt Schwartzkoff is coming on with us. He's an executive. 600 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: He used to be with the Kings and he is. 601 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,760 Speaker 1: He was with the Avs two and he's in Denver. 602 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,879 Speaker 1: They're celebrating that big victory a Tampa Bay. That's right, 603 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: the Avalanche Stanley Cup. I thought Tampa Bay was going 604 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,279 Speaker 1: to come back. I did a team that never gives up. 605 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: But yeah, they were going for three in a row. 606 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,840 Speaker 1: Weren't they three in a row? Yes? Yeah, and that 607 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,359 Speaker 1: Corey Perry the last three to you know, he used 608 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: to play for Anaheim. The last three times he's been 609 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 1: in the Stanley Cup finals, he's lost all three times. 610 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: It is not horrible. That's the worst. That's I remember 611 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills lost four straight Super Bowls. Oh yeah, yeah, 612 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,799 Speaker 1: that was the worst. A lot of the same players. Yeah, 613 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: and one of them was a big, huge I remember 614 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: of them getting into or one was a huge comeback. 615 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,479 Speaker 1: I remember one year they came back from like down 616 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,799 Speaker 1: thirty points to get into the Super Bowl. All right, 617 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,400 Speaker 1: gas relief is coming. Uh, you're a seventeen billion dollars 618 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 1: will break down? Who's getting one? And then there are 619 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: three people dead and at least fifty injured with this 620 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,439 Speaker 1: amtrack that the crashed and flipped over two or forty 621 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,879 Speaker 1: three people from Lady or Chicago. I think it could 622 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: have been a lot worse. The way they were painting. 623 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: At the first hour, it was like, oh my god, 624 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,840 Speaker 1: multiple multiple casualties, but we don't know how badly. The 625 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: fifty people are hurt, so I shouldn't get too far 626 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 1: ahead of myself. But three people dead seems like not 627 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 1: too bad considering a huge trained aroundment. Well, look, it's 628 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and a train comes through. There are 629 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: one hundred miles an hour with no crossing armor or lights. 630 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 1: You know, Eventually some truck's just gonna not hear it 631 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,640 Speaker 1: or see it, you know. Yeah, well maybe the guy 632 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,320 Speaker 1: stalled out on the tracks. We don't know, because the 633 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 1: dump truck driver was killed apparently. Yeah, yeah, he was 634 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,320 Speaker 1: wiped out as well. One hundred and thirty thousand dollars 635 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 1: raised for a loyal Burger King employee for twenty seven 636 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 1: years in gofund me campaign. We want to talk about that. 637 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:52,360 Speaker 1: And then fireworks found in a Zoosa home, prompting evacuations. 638 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 1: I think the LAPD bomb truck is heading down there. 639 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 1: He dinged up. I'm gonna wipe it out, all right, Dad, 640 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: And little a little, you know, a couple of ding 641 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: Dongs Grozier in the news, and then all of a 642 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,840 Speaker 1: sudden's time for Nori. You know they're right. Kfi and 643 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,399 Speaker 1: Kosh Ding two in Los Angeles and Orange County live 644 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and You're right. Conway's next. 645 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: Michael Crozier has the news. 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