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Speaker 1: have been chronicling all the destruction of the oil and

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Speaker 1: And we're going to talk now with stan Ellis and

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Speaker 1: he is a businessman, farmer, grew up in the Central Valley.

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Speaker 1: going to talk about this, this emergency situation. Stan. Welcome again.

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Speaker 1: How are you well?

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Speaker 2: Great, John, Thanks for having me on today.

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Speaker 1: We we're really near or in a crisis, aren't we.

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Speaker 1: This is this is not hype. We have Michael Machey

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Speaker 1: and they say, this is this, this is going to

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Speaker 2: Well, so, first of all, I've learned a lot long

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Speaker 2: time ago that that honesty and hard work always wins, right,

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Speaker 2: So I have nothing to gain or lose by this.

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Speaker 2: I don't care about popularity. I don't care about any

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Speaker 2: as classified. I can't tell you, but we've burnt a

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what if another refinery has a

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Speaker 1: There seems to be very little talk from the politicians

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Speaker 1: There's nothing out of Newsom's office about this. So the

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Speaker 1: Well, if we're down to six refineries for gas, and

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Speaker 2: You cannot afford to stand business in this state. Why

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Speaker 2: it comes becomes carbon neutral? Well that's a farce.

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Speaker 1: Well, just what I'm saying. The whole thing's a scam.

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Speaker 1: The atmosphere has not been lowered by even a tenth

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Speaker 1: I mean, are they if you weren't going to if

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you how. There's a solution. Okay, there's a

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Speaker 2: I say to you, Dreenes, if you don't like greenhouse

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Speaker 2: They've ruined our state. Now there is a balance, There

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Speaker 2: If we relaxed out a little bit, we took some

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Speaker 1: Stan Allis, thanks for coming on with us.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you very much for bringing awareness to this.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk again. Stan Allis. He's an assemblyman in the

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Speaker 1: Coming up after four point thirty. Steve Hilton is now

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Speaker 1: You cannot keep cutting the refineries the way we're cutting,

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Speaker 1: There's a new poll up by Emerson, says Steve Hilton.

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Speaker 1: The Republican is leading the race for governor, and it

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Speaker 8: There's no person in any other state who is better

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Speaker 8: we have a protector right now, as the president states,

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Speaker 8: governor is a show not tell governor that protector spirit

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Speaker 1: That protector's spirit. He's protected us. I'm not an illegal alien.

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Speaker 1: I have been running through the field being chased by

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Speaker 1: That's what we needed the military for because our local

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Speaker 1: Let's play cut three here more on Julie Watts.

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Speaker 3: What do you think was a misstep of governors now?

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Speaker 8: I mean, I don't accept the premise that there is

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Speaker 8: me as a sports guy, everything's a sports analogy. I

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Speaker 8: also on housing. And it's my job now to get

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Speaker 8: gonna do on mental health, is to continue to spaned

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Speaker 1: We've been stopped stop the homeless population has increased. His

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Speaker 1: has disappeared that that he can't account for. There have

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Speaker 1: been no missteps mental health services to swallow. Drive around

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Speaker 8: H play some more, understand the difference between you know,

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Speaker 8: they need different treatment than folks who are in transition.

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Speaker 8: And then on housing, I'm gonna put more shot clocks

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Speaker 8: fifty eight counties. Is what the governor did. Put a

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Speaker 3: Well, so you're saying that you don't think there's anything

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Speaker 8: I'm saying we will do things differently, but right now,

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Speaker 8: Californians are pretty lucky to have Gavin Newsom as the

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Speaker 3: He is well, I have to ask you, is he

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Speaker 2: Is this?

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Speaker 8: I mean, listen, you're honestly the.

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Speaker 3: First person who sat here and has not been able

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Speaker 3: think it really is telling. How is this next governor

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Speaker 3: Is there anything you would have done differently than Governor?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I think what he did in the Palisades and Alta

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Speaker 8: Dina is something I'm going to do in all fifty

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Speaker 1: Burn it down. Okay, he's gonna burn down all fifty

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Speaker 1: eight counties. What Dell's he's talking? It was gn Kevin

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Speaker 1: because they were trampling the milkweed plants. What the hell

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Speaker 1: is he smoking? What is he ingesting? That is the

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Speaker 1: craziest thing I ever heard. This is the way Kamala

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Speaker 1: Everything seems he's a protector. He destroyed the oil and

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Speaker 1: it's it's four fifty to five bucks. That's all Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 1: What did he protect us from? Electricity is eighteen cents

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Speaker 1: that's about double. What did he protect us from? He

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Speaker 1: What did he protect us from?

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Speaker 1: Blew twenty four billion on homeless Oh and let's get

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Speaker 1: the high speed rail. That's another seventeen billion. How were

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Speaker 1: Play cut four.

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Speaker 8: What about the legislature, you know Center of Wiener Assembly member,

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Speaker 1: As it relates to state issues.

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Speaker 8: What I want to do, you know, is diversify like

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Speaker 8: We also know and I've been around long enough, and

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Speaker 1: I mean tax everybody else's leading Democratic candidate? Wow, is

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Speaker 1: heard anybody say all these nice, nice things about Newsham,

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Speaker 1: out that Newsom is in more disfavor than favor in California.

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Speaker 1: His discapproval rating is now at forty five percent, is

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 1: I still am stunned. I still have whiplash listening there.

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Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell claimed that Gavin Newsom is the best protector

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Speaker 1: negative about Gavin Newsom. So I thought I'd give you

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Speaker 1: And Eric Swallow was swooning, I'm completely flabbergasted by the

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Speaker 1: Everything I just listed is under his watch. From his decisions.

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Speaker 1: He has driven out the gas and oil industry with

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma too. These people they're insane, They speak nonsense. But

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Speaker 1: He gets like twelve percent of the he's the leading Democrat.

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Speaker 1: Everything's been destroyed, and Swawa has no criticisms at all. Boy,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see him in Steve Hilton. That would

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Speaker 1: truly insane this state is, or maybe how hopeless it is.

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Speaker 1: All right, we come back. The Palisades fire victims won

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Speaker 1: another major court decision. Roger Bailey, one of the lead attorneys,

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Speaker 1: is going to come on and explain it to us.

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Speaker 1: They've had two big wins in recent days. Deborah Mark

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