1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Is the orchestra available? Yeah, we have a new Pastathon number. 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: Drummer leaves quickly. Can we get a little drumber boy? 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Get back in here? Can we get a second drummer 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: to pick? Wait? Were the number six hundred eighty three thousand, three, 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty dollars six eight three three five zero? 6 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: And the total pounds of pasta and sauce nineteen thousand, 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: six hundred and sixty seven? Is there like a large 8 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: scale they stick it all on? Or how do they 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: come up that exact number? Maybe they made it up? 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. No, they do not make company numbers. 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: These numbers are vetted. There a louted did I don't 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: on the accountant? Don't say that to me? That hurts well, 13 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: I will go and vet an audit, go out and 14 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: vet alright, So you can still donate through Sunday pastathon 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,639 Speaker 1: dot Com. Go to Smart and Final, go to Wendy's 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: donated checkout. See Jennifer Jones Lee who will be at 17 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: the Smart and finally Dana Point Capastrano Beach on Saturday 18 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: from two to five. All right, now we moved back 19 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: to a topic that's been big this entire year. In fact, 20 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: last year, but this year it really came to the 21 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: forefront because Californias saw gas prices escalate tremendously through the 22 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: first half of the year, and then they looked around 23 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: to other states and said, wait a minute, two dollars 24 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: to fifty less per gallant and some of these data, 25 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 1: why are we stuck like this? So in his way, 26 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom finally stepped up and said, all companies are 27 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: gouging us. We must have a special session to look 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: into this. Perhaps we need to implement a windfall profits tax, 29 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: and that's going to begin on Monday, this special session. 30 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: Let's get Vince FONGI I should say Tuesday. No, it's Monday, 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: Monday the fifth. Yet, Vince Fong, the Republican assemblyman from 32 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: the Bakersfield area, is going to come on with us 33 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: to talk about these hearings and all the nonsense. Vince, 34 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: how are you I'm hanging in the how are you guys? 35 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: All right? Well, you're not surprised by this, right, No, 36 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: But you know, Gavin Newsom's energy tax increases a terrible idea. 37 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: I mean, this debate has been ongoing. As you've said, 38 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: you know, we should be suspending the gas sex temporarily 39 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: expanding our oil production and a refining capacity. That is 40 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: the way to provide immediate relief and to expand or 41 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: supply to meet demand. The alternative, and Gavin Newsom apparently 42 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: isn't living in economic reality, is that he thinks that 43 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: by increasing taxes on energy production, that's somehow going to 44 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: produce costs on something. Well, yeah, I mean to think that, oh, 45 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: we're just going to take our profits and turn them 46 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: over to your windfall profits tax This will probably just 47 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: raise gas prices even further, won't that would that be 48 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: the effect of this? Absolutely, it's going to raise the 49 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: cost of energy production. It's going to raise the cost 50 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: of gasoline. This makes no economic sense and it empirically 51 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: doesn't work. It's been tried throughout history and it's never 52 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: worked every economist that has reviewed this. It's so complicated 53 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: and it won't reduced the price of gasola. Did you 54 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: ever talk to a Democratic legislator or a Newsom and 55 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: point out that while Texas, for example, the price of 56 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: gas is two eighty three a gallon, why would the 57 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: energy companies be greedy in California but not in the 58 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,399 Speaker 1: forty nine other states? That's the whole point. I've talked 59 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: to Democratic legislators even even as as late as yesterday, 60 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: and they have no idea that the specifics. They have 61 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: no idea what this proposal looks like. They don't even 62 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: want to discuss this issue because they know it doesn't work. 63 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: But do they know that the price in the other 64 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: states are is up to a buck fifty less? Oh? 65 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: They know? I mean the study after study the California 66 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: Energy Commission in the in the hearing, they had presented 67 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: data that explains why the price of gasoline in California 68 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: is a dollar thirty more in California than the rest 69 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: of the United States. It's because of taxes, fees and regulations. 70 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: And so they are lying or they're not reading. They're 71 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: not reading the data. I mean, I guess how hard 72 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: is it. I mean, you go to the Triple A site. 73 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: They have the price of gas in numerical order from 74 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: cheapest and most expensive Texas at two eighty three, and 75 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: we are forty nine on the list at four ninety only. 76 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: This is Governor Newsom making the splashes political headlines and 77 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: trying to deflect from the energy crisis that his policies 78 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: are creating. I mean, the Governor Newsom is not going 79 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: to be able to tax his way out of the 80 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: consequences of his policies that have reduced refining capacity, that's 81 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: limited the supply of gasoline in California and has made 82 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: California dependent on foreign countries to power our state. Do 83 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: you think a lot of Californias are just beaten down 84 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: and don't understand all this because this is grand standing 85 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: by Newsom, because the boogeyman the oil companies. That seems 86 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: like a populous thing to do. And I have a 87 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: fully a lot of Californias don't grasp all of what 88 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: you've been talking about in terms of why they're paying 89 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: so much for gas. I think more and more people 90 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: are beginning to understand. I mean, Governor Newsom is very 91 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 1: good at demonizing individuals and industries he doesn't like, but 92 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: the facts are the facts. To power California. Every single day, 93 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: Californians use one point four million barrels of oil a day. 94 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: California produces less than four hundred thousand barrels, and that 95 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: has gone down because Governor Newsom won't approve the permits 96 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: to allow for California production. So where does that come from? 97 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: Where does the difference come from. California imports the rest 98 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: from Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, and Iraq, and that percentage continues 99 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: to grow because Governor Newsom's policies are making us dependent 100 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: on other countries. Do these geniuses and Sacramento know that 101 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: if we don't drill for the oil here, we're getting 102 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: it from Saudi Arabia. It's all the same atmosphere they 103 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: know if I mean, I mean, I don't don't I 104 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: don't understand point of all this. It's obvious it's all 105 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: the same atmosphere. It doesn't matter where you drill the oil. 106 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 1: We could drill it here and things would be far cheaper. 107 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: And California produces oil and natural gas in the most 108 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: environmentally sensitive way. I mean as this year, the legislature, 109 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: the Democrats, because they were so scared of the consequence 110 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: of the rising gas prices, what do they do? They 111 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: created a committee to study why gas prices are higher 112 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: here than the rest of the than the other states 113 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: across the country. And the conclusion is the same every 114 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: single time, and even in past years, there has been 115 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: investigation after investigation, and they've proven that it's all supply 116 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: and demand. Is this all for show? Isn't really the 117 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: truth that the Democrats and Newsom because they want us 118 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 1: to drive less, aren't really that upset about high gas prices, 119 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: But they got to put on a show here, like 120 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: going after the oil companies. It's politics, and the governor 121 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: certainly has been focusing on making headlines more than focusing 122 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: on actually reducing the price of gasoline and energy, on 123 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: on struggling Californians. And then that's the frustrating thing right 124 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: now as we as we have this energy fight and 125 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: this energy debate, We've been asking for this, this discussion, 126 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: in this in this fight for a very long time. Like, 127 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: let's let's have the debate. I'm not afraid of it. 128 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: Kurrn County produces seventy percent of the state's oil, we 129 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: produce seventy six percent of the state's natural gas, and 130 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: we produce sixty percent of the state's renewable energy. You 131 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: cannot keep the lights on without what we do in 132 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: Kern County. So let's let's have the fight, and let's 133 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: let's hear Yeah, what is this going to be about? 134 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: Because the oil companies aren't coming, So who are you 135 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: going to be talking to? Well, there was an informational 136 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: hearing this week. There this the the you know, the 137 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: special session. You know it's going to be gabbled in 138 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: on Monday. You know. I think a number of bills 139 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: are going to be introduced. We're still waiting to see 140 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: the specifics of what the governor is proposing, and then 141 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: we're going to have and then we'll see what happens, 142 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: whether there's going to be hearing or not. I suspect 143 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: that this wall roll over to January when we actually 144 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: have regular session and we'll have a debate. I am 145 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: planning to introduce a bill to say, all right, if 146 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: you want to reduce the price of gasoline in the 147 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: fastest way possible, I'll propose we're suspending the gas tax 148 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: temporarily for one year. And let's compare that proposal to 149 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: provide immediate relief to Californians versus the governor's proposal, which 150 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: is to increase taxes and hopefully and hope and pray 151 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: because somehow that reduces the price of gasoline, which every 152 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: economist says it won't. You guys have tried time and 153 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: time again to suspend the gas taxes, and they just 154 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: swap that aside. Don't they. Well, I mean, let the 155 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: governor explain to the hard working, struggling Californians why he 156 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 1: won't reduce the price of gasoline immediately. And you know, 157 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: we do have to focus on the long term. We 158 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 1: do have to expand our domestic production of oil and 159 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: natural gas in California, and we have to have a stable, dependable, 160 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: affordable supply of oil natural gas, and so we have 161 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: to increase our ability to do that. And there are 162 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: thousands of permits right now sitting before the Governor's desk 163 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: that would allow that to happen. Do you think they're 164 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: going to pass this, this gas tax, this windfall profits tax? 165 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: You mean, right, John, Yeah, but it's gonna it's gonna 166 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: gonna end up right increasing the price of impacting argument. 167 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: You really think they're gonna do this. I think they're 168 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: going to propose it. I think the governor is going 169 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: to try to push it. I just don't think the 170 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: public is going to buy what he's selling. All right, Vince, Well, 171 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,839 Speaker 1: hopefully we'll talk to you next week to see how 172 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: this is going. I'll keep you folcted. I appreciate your 173 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: tension on this, all right, to sendeven Vince Fong, Republican 174 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: from the Central Valley. Monday is that special session of 175 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: the Legislature in Sacramento to talk about the windfall profits 176 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: of the oil companies and a windfall profits tax. 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A couple of things 187 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: happened on the national scene we'll talk about after three thirty, 188 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: involving Joe Biden's illegal student loan forgiveness. That's one topic. 189 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 1: And then the possible train strike, the railroad strike which 190 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: has been averted. We'll get into that after the news 191 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: at three thirty. While we were just talking to Vince Fong, 192 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,079 Speaker 1: the Assemblyment from the Central Valley Monday, they're going to 193 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: start having these hearings in Sacramento about the incredible profits 194 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: of the oil companies in California and how they are 195 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 1: just raking the California gas consumer and maybe we need 196 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: to implement a windfall profits tax. At the exact moment 197 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: that prices are crashing, they're dropping. Yes, no, they're dropping hard. 198 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 1: I paid I paid like two dollars and twenty cents 199 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 1: less for for for a tankful of gas this morning. 200 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 1: It only cost me eighty five dollars to fill up, 201 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: and a couple of months ago it's costing one hundred 202 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars, so it's a third less. And 203 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: a lot of the drop has happened just in the 204 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 1: last few days, the last couple of weeks now. They 205 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: said that was going to happen because they moved to 206 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: the winter blend. I know you hate that, but that 207 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: was supposed to drop it like a dollar a gallon 208 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: or something like, yeah, well it will. It dropped. So 209 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: his timing is bad or he's got I mean, or 210 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: maybe it's old bys. It's just for show. It is 211 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: just they'll do a couple of days, and Vince said 212 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: they'll probably put it off the January and then people 213 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: will move on. Do you think think about it a 214 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: nice round? How many people work in his administration? How 215 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: many people have to work putting it hearing like this together? 216 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: Do the research for the questioning, right, I get all 217 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: the statistics. They know the prices dropped dramatically. They also 218 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: know that we're much much higher than anywhere else. And 219 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: they all know why because they passed all the tax 220 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: Excuse me, they passed all hic up there. They passed 221 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 1: all the taxes themselves. They passed all the regular but 222 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 1: they'll lie and not admit that. Well, that's what I'm saying. 223 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: These said they want the boogeyman, the oil refinery companies. 224 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,079 Speaker 1: We're dealing with pathological, compulsive liars. We're not dealing with 225 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: people who have a sincere difference of opinion where there's 226 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: like two competing theories on how to make life better. 227 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: There's no good faith discussion going on here. This is 228 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: just out and out falsehoods. Just well, the truth they 229 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: have is that the old companies are making good profits. 230 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: But that's because California supply is limited. And like I 231 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: mentioned back in twenty twenty, when people were not driving 232 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: thanks to the pandemic, a lot of people stayed home, 233 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: they suffered big losses. It just works that way for 234 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: this market. And right now, as things picked up, especially 235 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: this year, there was much more demand for gasoline less supply. 236 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: That's how it works. Prices go up. One of the 237 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: things that's driving down the world price of oil is 238 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: that China is locking everybody up again for COVID. Yeah, 239 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: and so they're the oil traders are sensing that the 240 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: demand for oil in China is going to drop sharply 241 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: because everybody's being sealed up in their apartments weld it in. 242 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: And so part of the price of oil comes from 243 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: the traders anticipating, predicting what the needs are going to 244 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: be down the road, and they're looking at much less 245 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: demand because China is you know those those So that's 246 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: why the oil prices are dropping a bit. That's why. Yeah, 247 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: the the yeah, the way looked at the oil of 248 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: the oil. Yeah, they're down about eighty dollars and eighty 249 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: yeah roughly, and it goes up and down a couple 250 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: of dollars every day. But it's around eighty and uh, 251 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: that's way off what it was last spring. Yeah, it 252 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: was undred twenty. I think a hundred thirty something like 253 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: that now. And so it's down, it's down about a 254 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: third off the peak. And so the price of gas 255 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: here is now down about a third, right, Um, So 256 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: it's it's all matching up. And they did take huge 257 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: losses in twenty twenty, and they do have big profits now. 258 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: But it's a complicated set of reasons. And I just 259 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: despise Newsom because he knows what he's doing. He's taking 260 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: a complicated issue and simplifying it to try to fool people. 261 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: And it's just there's so much animosity towards companies that 262 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: make money and wealthy people that make money, anybody who 263 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: successful and does well, that's just gouging. They're exploiting in gauging. Yeah, 264 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: same employers exploit the workers, and big companies gouge the consumers. 265 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: And they're dishonest the only way it's looked at. Yeah. 266 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: Well yeah, And the and the thing is they know 267 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: a lot of decisions. True, they're lying on purpose, they're 268 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: intentionally telling lies. Now, Meanwhile, The Times does this story 269 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: every few days, where is my inflation relief money? California 270 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: is so dependent somebody, Californians on getting money from the government. 271 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: They know there's an audience for this kind of story. 272 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: California has paid out five billion dollars to nineteen million 273 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: eligible residents and their families. I didn't know they called 274 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: it this the middle Class tax Refund. That's what the 275 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: state named it. There is no middle class, by the way, 276 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: in the state. It's all poor people at rich people. 277 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: That's like the Inflation Reduction Act. They're going to pay 278 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: out a total of nearly ten billion, but so far 279 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: five billion has gone out. People are getting anywhere from 280 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: two hundred to one thousand dollars, depending on your filing 281 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: status in your twenty twenty income tax returns and whether 282 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: that you claik dependence of blah blah blah. They sent 283 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: out ten and a half million payments, but apparently most 284 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: of it is a direct deposit. People that are getting 285 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: the debit cards have had to wait a little longer. 286 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: All direct deposits have been issued as in November fourteenth, 287 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: but millions of debit cards still need to be mailed. 288 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: I'm guessing those people didn't have bank accounts that they 289 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: could have the money directly deposited into. I think we 290 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: know what we're talking about here, but that's all I 291 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: can imagine. So you know, there's a demand for this money. 292 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: And we said this before. We are on our way 293 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: to a budget deficit next year or perhaps twenty five 294 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: billion dollars. So here we go down this road where 295 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: you've got the people dependent on you handing out money. 296 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: And I think that's what Newsom said about the windfall 297 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: profits tax. He's going to give that back to the 298 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: California people too. But that's if we said they're going 299 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: to turn right around and raise gas prices. That's gonna 300 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: be another cost of doing business. Well, so we're not 301 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: how the oil companies will respond, not going to get 302 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: any break. If he gives us a check. The oil 303 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: companies are going to charge us at the pump. Yeah, 304 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: they'll just becomes a watch. So so again it's Newsom 305 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: faking it, Newsome lying to people. Newsom knows that the 306 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: oil companies are gonna make up the lost money. If 307 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: I ran an oil company, that's what I would do. 308 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: That's what anybody would do. It's like he got the 309 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: government stealing money from you. It's like, now you know 310 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna I'm gonna take it back from from 311 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: the customers and and let let the customers go to 312 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: Newsom and bitch about it. I mean, it's just it's 313 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: just ridiculous. I mean, I have such contempt for him 314 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: because he's so dishonest, and he's so consistently dishonest in 315 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: so many ways. Boy, wait till he runs for president. 316 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: This is gonna be No, he's not. He's nice. He is. No, no, no, no, no, 317 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: he's lying, of course, not even in twenty twenty eighties. Not. 318 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: Oh yes he is. He No, he doesn't need that. Uh. 319 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: And behind the scenes, he's built like this army. I know, 320 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: he's got apparently a huge database of people's emails and 321 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,679 Speaker 1: phone numbers and donors. And oh, I'm not running from anything. 322 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: He's it's like that cartoon. You look behind him, you 323 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,360 Speaker 1: can see every the back office working away. Right. He's 324 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: betting Biden's gonna fall over. That's what he's counting on. 325 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: Oh so he's betting on sooner rather than later. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 326 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:11,160 Speaker 1: because he's looking at a guy who's gonna be eighty 327 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: two years old. Yeah. What did we kept Biden saying 328 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: yesterday when a guy yelled out four more years. I 329 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: don't know about that. Eighty two? And he is a 330 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: feeble eighty years old right now, you imagine him at 331 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: eighty six. Well, we'll be talking about Biden when we 332 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: come back. This has been an on and off again 333 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: subject when Biden announced some time ago that he wanted 334 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: to give out student loan forgiveness, and the response for 335 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: many immediately was you can't do that. Congress has to 336 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: act to do that. You can't just do that by order. 337 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: But well that's what's happened. In the meantime. It's gone 338 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 1: through courts and time and time again he's being smacked 339 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: back and told that you cannot do this, appeals court rulings. 340 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: Will talk next about the latest development. John and Ken 341 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: caf i Am six forty Live every Where the iHeartRadio app. 342 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: This week, it's Safeway Enjoy big savings with the Bogo Saale, 343 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: where select items throughout the store are buy one, get 344 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 1: one free. With this week's Bogo sale gets select meets 345 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 1: like Signature Farms, ninety percent lean groundb four boneless skinless 346 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 1: chicken breasts or thighs. Buy one, get one free, plus 347 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: select fresh produce items like one pound containers of sweet 348 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: strawberries or containers of blueberries. Or buy one, get one 349 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: free safe way, come in and explore and see what 350 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: other deals you can find. Coming up after four o'clock. Oh, 351 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: another story on people moving out of the state of California, 352 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: where they're going, their reasons. We'll play it for you 353 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: and then talk about it right after the news at 354 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: four o'clock. All right, I'm gonna read you a quote, 355 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: but we're gonna talk about next And maybe you saw 356 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 1: this story. John probably knows who said it, but it 357 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: is a bit surprising. This is dealing with canceling student 358 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: loan debt. This person said, yeah, he knows it would 359 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: take an Act of Congress, not an executive order to 360 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: ancel student loan debt. People think that the President of 361 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: the United States has the power of debt forgiveness. He 362 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: does not. He can postpone, he can delay, but he 363 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: does not have that power. Well, would it surprised you 364 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: to hear that the person that said that was Nancy Pelosi, 365 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: the leader of the Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives, 366 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: the San Francisco longtime congresswoman. That's who said that. You 367 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: know what the parallels are here, John, exactly exactly. Amnesty. Yeah, 368 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: remember an Obama told Latino activist groups I can't do it. 369 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 1: Congress has to give out emmy I can't. And then, 370 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: of course he issued the DACA order, which was a 371 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: limited form of amnesty. They were gonna go with a 372 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: bigger one till the court stopped him, and they decided 373 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:47,959 Speaker 1: that they remember, they were going to get the parents 374 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: of the DOCCA kids amnesty two. That was the plan, 375 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: and they abandoned that. It's very similar argument in the 376 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,719 Speaker 1: case of student loan forgiveness. Apparently a president can give 377 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: it on a limited basis, but at this much. I mean, 378 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: they're talking four hundred billion dollars that it has to 379 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: go through cong The discretion is for unusual situations, emergency 380 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: situations that the president has to make a decision quickly 381 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: because it's not practical to run it through Congress, right 382 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,199 Speaker 1: it Trump did this. What bald Trump did, though, was 383 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 1: he suspended the payments because of the pandemic. Right But this, 384 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: and the thing is everybody knows this. Obama said it 385 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: out loud. He knew that his DACA amnesty was illegal 386 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: as an executive order. But they're so there's such cowards 387 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: in the face of activists, and they know that they'll 388 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: get away with it. For a short time, they'll get 389 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: a lot of applause, maybe a few votes, and then 390 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: maybe five years down the road, a court's going to 391 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 1: reverse it and say, hey, that was illegal. Da Now 392 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: in the case of DACA, they got this going for 393 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: years and signed up a lot of young people and 394 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: then you know, judges were like, yeah, I can't really 395 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: reverse this. But what with the student loans. No, they 396 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: haven't processed any. They got a whole bunch of applications, 397 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: but they're not processing any and they're not going to. 398 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: They cited the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act 399 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: of two thousand and three, also known as the Heroes Act, 400 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: which Congress adopted after the start of the Iraq War. 401 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: It was meant for the soldiers, the military that. Yeah, 402 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: so what they did is they distorted and bent out 403 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: of shape this military vet exemption that they created during 404 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: the Iraq War and tried to adapt it to forgiving 405 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: everybody's student loans. There was nothing in that act that 406 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: gave the president the power and, by the way, forgive 407 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: everybody's student loans. There's no such thing. They didn't actually 408 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: forgive the student loans of the soldiers back then. It 409 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: was really just to help them get aid and to 410 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: suspend the payments for a period of time. But they 411 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: didn't act. But again, do you know how many months 412 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: they put into working on this, scouring all the previous 413 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: laws to get votes in November, Right, But they tried 414 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: to have a hook, right, So they spend a lot 415 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: of time looking for a hook. Where did we have 416 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: a law that gave the president some kind of emergency 417 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: powers to do something connected to loans? And so they 418 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: made up a connection that's not really there. And most 419 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: of the judges are looking at this and saying there's 420 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: no such thing. Because there is no such thing. A 421 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: couple of circuit courts have put an injunction on Biden's plan, 422 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: including the Eighth Circuit, and how I believe the Fifth 423 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: Circuit acted. So the news today is the United States 424 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: Supreme Court said okay, we'll take the case, and it 425 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: doesn't look good for the Biden administration for the reasons 426 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: we laid out. They also made a decision not that 427 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: long ago, six to three that ended the nationwide moratorium 428 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: on housing evictions, saying that Congress has to give the authority. 429 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: The CDC can't do this Congress. So this is kind 430 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: of along the same line. Congress can give the authority 431 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: to have a moratory amount evictions. Congress can give the 432 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,479 Speaker 1: authority to forgive the student loans. Congress, the Democrats never 433 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: had the votes for this. Congress, Senate and House can 434 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: give amnesty. Yeah. But but there was oh question and 435 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: answer in one of the papers today about well, why 436 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: why didn't the Senate and the House pass this? And 437 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: the truth was the Democrats did not have the votes 438 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: in their own caucus in the Senate to pass loan forgiveness. 439 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,959 Speaker 1: There were a lot of Democratic senators. They didn't want 440 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: to do it. They don't mind running on it, but 441 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: they weren't going to actually vote for it. And and 442 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: this is this is where, not not to sound like 443 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: a constitutional law professor, but this is where you have 444 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: a breakdown in our government system, where the Congress doesn't 445 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: do what it's supposed to do and the president tries 446 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: to override the situation by issuing an executive order that's illegal. Well, 447 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: that's not the way it works. And I think you 448 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: touched on it before when they did this, they said, 449 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: by the time this is unraveled and even reversed, at 450 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: least the November election will come and maybe it'll help 451 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 1: us with turn out. Yeah, from people to feel like 452 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: they're gonna get their student loans can right, because because 453 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 1: most people don't know what's illegal and illegal, they're barely 454 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: paying attention. Especially this this crowd who wants their LUN's forgiven. 455 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 1: It's like, oh cool, Oh, Daddy's gonna forgive my loan. 456 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: Oh wow, really cool. I can keep my bearista job. 457 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: You know. It's that level of sophistication. All right, we 458 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: got more coming up. Well, first thing, it's the lobsters 459 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: against the whales. What it is? Where do I have 460 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: those in my hierarchy of creatures? Deb Mark? Do you 461 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: know esters against wales? I think you like whales better 462 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,120 Speaker 1: than lobsters. Oh much better. I do it very easy. 463 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: Whales are wonderful. Lobsters are ugly and nasty. Oh yeah, 464 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: but they don't deserve to die the way they there. 465 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 1: Did you ever try to eat a lobster? I only 466 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: did once in my life. What a paint of the 467 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: neck that was there was even worse. You got to 468 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: tear it into pieces and then have to do that. 469 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 1: You can order it and have the restaurant do it. 470 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: They gave me. Oh and then the double vegan sin. 471 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: You dip the lobster and no butter. People love to do. 472 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: Oh there we go. I love lobster. He's druel. You 473 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,120 Speaker 1: don't mind fighting it, that's the fun part. I ended 474 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: up in a fight with it. Yeah. You ever go 475 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: to a place where they have like a crab buffet 476 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: and people take like all the crab legs. There's so 477 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: little meat in the crab legs. They do so much work? 478 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: Do we crab legs? To Eric? Yeah I do. That's 479 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 1: a lot of work. Do you like to wrestle your food? 480 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: Then I guess, uh, yeah, it's fun. It's a sport. 481 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: All right, we're coming up Johnny Ken Cafe. I am 482 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere the iHeart Radio app Mine started 483 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: fighting back show, remark lining the twenty four calfegs. Well, 484 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: our technical director Eric s Clark just shared a nice 485 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: picture of him enjoying a rather large lobster. I wouldn't 486 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 1: say it was nice picture. Look at it. Oh that's 487 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: holding up. I thought, I look pretty good. You look fine, 488 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: you look fine, very happy. The lobster looks dead. Oh yeah, 489 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 1: he's enjoying a lobster dinner. You just rip the meat 490 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 1: out with your with your teeth, not with my teeth. 491 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: But there's a little fork or something you pick out. Yeah, 492 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: I'm not uncivilized. Well, it's a slaughter tonight, and Deborah 493 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: Mark is unhappy. Two hundred main lobsters will be boiled 494 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: up for a fancy White House state dinner involving the 495 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: French President Macaroni, who was in town. The Biden administration 496 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: is very excited about this, and they are serving up 497 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: these main lobsters. They will be cooked in butter, and 498 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,919 Speaker 1: it is a slaughter. Deborah Market doesn't like this, so 499 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: she even protects the lobster from being consumed. I won't 500 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: even walk by a tank in a grocery store. I 501 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: find that eerie too, when they're floating and looking at you. 502 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: Go to a Chinese market, it's hysterical. They're all jammed 503 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 1: in there, trying to fight for a position. And sometimes 504 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: there's a tank of crabs and that's so mean, and 505 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: they don't know what's coming. In a tank of these 506 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: large fish, I can't even figure out what they are, 507 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: but they're all just swimming around waiting to die. Yeah, 508 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: some to take them home for dinner. Lovely and the 509 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: way because then you know what's fresh. You see it 510 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: right there, and they slaughter it for you and it's 511 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: ready to go. It's really fresh. I know you don't 512 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: like consuming animals and fish. Can people say that when 513 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: lobsters are boiled, they're screaming, they're in so much pain. 514 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: I've never heard what well it does? I have heard 515 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: that that they do have it? Yes, can you imagine 516 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: being boiled alive? Is there a recording of a lobster screaming? 517 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: Would you want to hear it? If? Yeah? I do? 518 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: I did. I didn't think they Look at Eric, he's 519 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: furiously trying to find recording of a lobster screaming. I 520 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: thought it was kind of a silent scream. But I 521 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: you might be writing, or a vibration or something. I forget. 522 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: I just need about this year. I don't think fish 523 00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 1: have vocal cords. Well it's a crustacean. Well you know 524 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, Yes. The controversy is this is 525 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: a weird story, but apparently up in Maine they've been 526 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: worked up. It's a big deal the lobster business in Maine, 527 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: in case you didn't know that, And there have been 528 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: regulations and restrictions on lobstermen in that state because it's 529 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: affecting the right whale. And you might say, who's the 530 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: right whale? That's an actual species. You guys didn't know that, 531 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: did you. No? I never heard of it, and I 532 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: looked it up. Right whales or three species of large 533 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: baleen whales, and the North Atlantic right whale is one 534 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: of them. And apparently the lobster men when they go 535 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: out there to catch the lobsters, have been ensnaring the whales. 536 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: It reminds me of years ago, remember the whole thing 537 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: with dolphins safe tuna. It's the same idea that. So 538 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: because of this there's been some laws in restrictions and 539 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: Biden promise when he's running for president twenty twenty. I 540 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: guess he needed to win Maine, so he told them 541 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,719 Speaker 1: he would help them out, the lobster industry. Oh so 542 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: they don't think he's come through on that promise. And 543 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: then they're saying, oh and tonight you're going to serve 544 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: our main lobsters, do your special guests, but you've done 545 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: nothing to help us. So that's the controversy. Well, well, 546 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,239 Speaker 1: how what are they supposed to do? Well? If they 547 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: want to protect the whales. They claim its federal regulations, 548 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: an industry group with state backing. He has hired a 549 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: former solicitor general to appeal a recent court ruling in 550 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: the case. So they want Biden to recognize that Maine 551 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: lobsterman wanted to fish without his administration crushing them under 552 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: the weight of burdensome, scientifically questionable regulations. And then John's 553 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: favorite store got into this. Did you hear about this? 554 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: Whole Foods, Yeah, these wieners. They will not stock Maine 555 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: lobsters because apparently some environmental group desertified there's only three 556 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: hundred forty of these whales left in the world, the 557 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: right whales. Yeah, man, I know we haven't. I've not 558 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: really seen one, but you don't want to picture. I 559 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: don't like when species go extinct. But this is win 560 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: win for Deborah Mark. Because you don't kill the lobsters 561 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: for people to eat, you don't kill the whales. You're 562 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: getting snared in the lobster tribe exactly. There's no way 563 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: to catch the lobsters without killing the whales. Let the 564 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: lobsters be free. For crying out loud, she said last year, 565 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: Main's lobster industry had had a record year. It was 566 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: the most valuable harvest lobster harvest in history. No, oh, 567 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: I don't. And according to a main Lobstering Union spokesperson, 568 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: the Main Lobstering Union main lobster is safe. No. Right, 569 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: whale deaths have been attributed to main gear. That is 570 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: the gear they use in Maine to catch the lobsters. Right, 571 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: so they don't think there should be the regulations because 572 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: they weren't killing the whales anyway, that's what they say, right. 573 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: But Whole Foods is not going to stock any Gulf 574 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: of Maine lobster because it had lost its sustainability certification 575 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 1: from some prominent fisheries. Coup. I can that I can 576 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: main people wild up. I can barely stomach people and 577 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: Whole Foods. No, there's still like, there's still a lot 578 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: of mask holes lined up at the registers. Will you 579 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: go there often? I go there with my wife wants something. Okay, 580 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: well you can't. You can't stomach her if she's a 581 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 1: patron of Whole Foods. No, no she's not. I am 582 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: she isn't know what I mean, but at least she's 583 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 1: my wife's not wearing a mask it's these these all 584 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 1: these wiener people. Yes, they go there because there's unique products, 585 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: and I think there's healthier products. And they all look 586 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: skinny and pale and emaciated. All I'll do I go 587 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: to Whole Foods. I don't look like that. Huh. I 588 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: go to Whole Foods. I don't. I do not look amaze. 589 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: Let's get real. Lobsters don't scream, by the way, it's 590 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: the steam coming out of the show. I don't believe. Yeah, 591 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: that's what a listener says. The screaming they scream is 592 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,240 Speaker 1: the moisture and boiling escaping from not even Ken said 593 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: that he read about that years ago. I did, but 594 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: I can't say I remember much about it. It's the steam. 595 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: I may have been reading some sort of activists. I 596 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: like to believe that they're screaming because I'm, oh, come on, 597 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: you know, they're feeling pain. They have to feel pain, 598 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: and I'm feeling hungry. I think you should bring one 599 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: in and eat in front of her. They're messy too, 600 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: you know, they have those bibs. Bibs. Yeah, a sad memory. 601 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: I have to take my parents to the Red Lobster. 602 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 1: They love going there and they would have like a 603 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: special feast where they had lobster and crabing and they 604 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: had little bibs. They put the little bibs on. I 605 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: still have a picture of them with their bibs on. 606 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: It's cute. That's really Eric. He made Ken sad. No, no, no, no, 607 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: it's a red memory. It's a good He's right, it's memory, 608 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: all right. We got more coming up, including another report 609 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 1: about people leaving the state of California and one of 610 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: the big destinations they're headed for. John and Ken kf 611 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,279 Speaker 1: I Am six forty Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app and 612 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: Debrah Mark Live in the twenty four Our Cafe and 613 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 1: newsroom