1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 3: Who Penrose sitting in for John co Belt all this week. 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: Good to have you along with us. Well, gas prices are. 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 3: Dropping, plummeting, actually coming down across the country and that 6 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 3: is a that's fantastic news for all of us. 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: So it's a good thing. Don't misunderstand my joy. 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 3: But it is amazing to me that in a year 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 3: where California Governor Gavin Newsom has raised taxes on gas 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 3: and it was politically unpopular, that he will now benefit 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,279 Speaker 3: from the federal energy policy because the gas prices are 12 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 3: hiding his tax increases and no one notices. And in politics, 13 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 3: it is better to be lucky than good. ABC News 14 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 3: corresponding Alex Stone joins us, So, it's just the barrels 15 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: of petroleum are just stacking up. 16 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: Nobody needs them, nobody wants them, nobody's using them. 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: Well, and yeah, gas prices are going down, but we 18 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: can laugh at that in California because it's going to 19 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: be nothing like the rest of the country. But generally 20 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 2: and then on average in the US, yeah, they're going 21 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 2: way down. And this is something that that hasn't been 22 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 2: seen since the beginning of the pandemic, and not only 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 2: the average price loo going down under three dollars a 24 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,759 Speaker 2: gallon nationwide on average. That has happened from time to time, 25 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: little blips of it. Last December there was a blip 26 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 2: of that, but for it to be sustained for what 27 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: analysts believe is going to be months, and that this 28 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 2: is going to go on for quite a while now, 29 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: maybe into late February or early March before things begin 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: to come back up again and spring break travel and 31 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: summer travel, but at least for the next couple of months, 32 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 2: and this is mostly due to global oil prices are 33 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: plummeting right now, down to sixty dollars a barrel. People 34 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 2: drive less in the winter months because it's not the 35 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 2: time that most people are getting out and traveling and 36 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 2: flying places and driving places, and the winter blends of 37 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 2: gasoline are less expensive. 38 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 4: So you put all that together. 39 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 2: But the big part of that that the oil prices 40 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 2: are so low right now, and still there's an aspect 41 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 2: of travel that is waning after all that pent up demand. 42 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: You remember, everybody came out of the pandemic willing to 43 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 2: spend whatever to go to Europe and go on African safarias, 44 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: and all of that is now wane. That's why Spirit 45 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 2: Airlines and others are now having problems. But talk today 46 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: to Patrick Jahan, the lead patrolling analyst over Gas Buddy, 47 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 2: he and I chatted this morning, said. 48 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,119 Speaker 4: There's a lot that goes into this, but bottom line. 49 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 5: Is certainly the significant. The seasonal factors are also continuing 50 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 5: to play an active role. Americans simply don't drive as 51 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 5: much as temperatures progressively get cooler into the fall months. 52 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 4: Now. 53 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 2: He also says oil prices are dropping so much partly 54 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 2: because of President Trump's doing. But now this is going 55 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 2: to be where we have to see how the President 56 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 2: wants to play this this quick fall here in oil prices, 57 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 2: because it has to do with the uncertainty over the 58 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 2: friction with China and certain outcomes economically with aotential trade war. 59 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 5: So he had so potentially finally President Trump's a desire 60 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 5: to see stations at a dollar ninety nine could come 61 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 5: true in the weeks ahead. All of this as oil 62 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 5: prices plunge below sixty dollars a barrow, some of it 63 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 5: having to do with concerns over a potential new trade 64 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 5: war between the US and China. Oil prices now at 65 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 5: their lowest level since twenty twenty one. 66 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 2: So the president, you know, like any president would, can 67 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 2: and should take credit for for lower gas prices. But 68 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 2: what will the outcome be from the conflict with the 69 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: economic conflict with China. 70 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 4: That we don't know yet. 71 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 2: But some areas of the contrary prices are going to 72 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 2: go below again, not California, but below three dollars a 73 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: gallon into maybe the one eighty one to ninety range. 74 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine in the next couple of 75 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 2: months and any other areas the. 76 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 5: Golf where you combine relatively low gas taxes and proximity 77 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 5: to major refineries. States like Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and 78 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 5: Louisiana are going to see the nation's lowest gas prices 79 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 5: as we enter into the holiday season. Those states already 80 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,839 Speaker 5: well low the three dollars a gallon mark. In fact, 81 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 5: Oklahoma's state average today just two dollars and fifty two 82 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 5: cents a gallon. 83 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: No, I was just talking to somebody in Ohio and 84 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: he said, they right now are at like two eighteen 85 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 2: a gallon in the area. Yeah, around Columbus, and that 86 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: if you add in that when he goes to Kroger 87 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: he gets a buck off. He's paying one nineteen a 88 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 2: gallon right now. So when I went to Costco the 89 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 2: other day and I think I paid four forty something 90 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 2: or four point thirty something at the Bourbank Costco, that 91 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I'm spending what seventy eighty bucks 92 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 2: to fill up and he's spending fifteen dollars to fill up. 93 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 4: It's amazing. That's the other part of this. 94 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 2: At California, the average right now is four forty six 95 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 2: a gallon, and the Hans and We're not gonna get 96 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 2: much relate the. 97 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 5: West Coast still having some refinery issues coupled with the 98 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 5: highest gasoline taxes in the country and carb mandated gasoline, 99 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,799 Speaker 5: California is really one of the nation's highest price states 100 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 5: that won't really be having much of a party at 101 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 5: the pump. California is still four sixty four a gallon, So. 102 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 2: These next couple of months could be nicer in California, 103 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: but really nice elsewhere in the country. But as happens 104 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: every year, they know when the gas prices are going 105 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 2: to come back up. It's when they switch the more 106 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 2: expensive summer blends. It's when people are hitting the roads 107 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: and they're they're filling up the tank skin ready for 108 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 2: spring break and summer travel oil because the supply and 109 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: demand goes up at that time in the February to 110 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 2: March time span, and prices will no doubt come back 111 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 2: up again, but for the next couple of months, even 112 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: in California, they're going to be lower and stable, but 113 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 2: not the one eighty or whatever it ends up being 114 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 2: in other areas. 115 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 4: Of the country. 116 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 3: Well, if you're talking about spring break, that means we 117 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 3: have a six month run at four sixty four a 118 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 3: gallon a California. 119 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be back that. I'll take that every day 120 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 2: of Louis Yeah, it won't be that long. It's usually 121 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 2: end of January, early February, maybe into March is when 122 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 2: the switch goes to summer blend and it's getting ready 123 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 2: for the expected uptick and travel that they've got to 124 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 2: get the production up and get it into the tanks 125 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: and everything. So it's usually in the February ish that 126 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 2: that will see that the prices go back up, but 127 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 2: even still that means we've got the rest of October 128 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 2: November December January. 129 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 4: Four months, four and a half, five months, that'd be great. 130 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 3: Plus everything that you have is brought to you by 131 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 3: a truck, so it has to have a downward effect 132 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 3: on the prices of the things in the store. 133 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 4: True. 134 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know you would hope that it means 135 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 2: that airline prices will go down as well, But you 136 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 2: know that's not gonna happen. They're not going to say, 137 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 2: you know what, we're getting a break, We're going to 138 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 2: give you cheaper tickets. But but yeah, I mean, in general, 139 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 2: it should cause things to go down. 140 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 3: Growing up, I always heard that whenever there were gas 141 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 3: price changes, it was always partially due to sable rattling 142 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 3: in the Gulf. Remember that the party the straight the 143 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 3: Straits of horor moves. I always heard that was a factor. 144 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 3: Do what about low gas prices? Is that destabilizing to 145 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 3: the Middle East? 146 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 2: For the Middle East, I'm sure it is because they're 147 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 2: not bringing in as much money, and and OPEC has 148 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 2: the ability to tweak supply and then they could bring 149 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 2: it back up for economic reasons if they wanted to. 150 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 2: But more powerful than OPEC right now is the politics 151 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 2: that are at play. Uncertainty is never good for the 152 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 2: markets and at least price wise of causing them to 153 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 2: go up if you're trying to make money off of 154 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 2: the oil markets. 155 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 4: And that is where right now. 156 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 2: The uncertainty over what's going to go on between the 157 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: US and China has caused those prices to go down. 158 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 2: And will the US buy Chinese oil? As California gets 159 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 2: a lot of its oil from overseas and that we 160 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 2: are a big buyer of Chinese oil, So if that 161 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 2: were to go away, that would hurt the supply and 162 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 2: demand aspect of the oil market. So all of that uncertainty, 163 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 2: that's where you get people pulling out and saying, we 164 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: don't know what's going to go on between US and China. 165 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 2: Intel that stabilized, but in the meantime it's good news 166 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 2: for those of us filling up that it causes prices 167 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 2: to go down. 168 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: No doubt. 169 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 3: ABC News, Alex Stone, thank you so much, preciate, thanks 170 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 3: the report, good stuff. Yeah, I am sure I'm going 171 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 3: to be jealous when my Facebook friends from other states 172 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 3: post the you know, the obligatory photograph of the gas 173 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 3: pump and it's what he said, what eighty one or 174 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 3: two eighteen in Ohio but I can I can handle it. 175 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 3: I know that gas is more expensive in California. I 176 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 3: know we have blends and we have carbs, and we 177 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 3: have carb rules, and we have blends, and we have 178 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 3: Democrats that like to put taxes on gasoline. But if 179 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 3: we can keep that at the four sixty range and 180 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 3: that's average, I think we take that and enjoy it, 181 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 3: just a little bit of a win. Louke Penrose on 182 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 3: The John Cobelt Show. 183 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 184 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 6: six forty The John Cobelt Show. 185 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 7: You're telling me, in the eight months Trump's been in office, 186 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 7: he's opened up oil fields, put wells in, got that 187 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 7: oil to the refineries, and it's been refined and that's 188 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:04,959 Speaker 7: why the price of gas is down. 189 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 3: No, that's not what I said. The price of gas 190 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 3: is down across the country. The average price, the lowest 191 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 3: average price is two fifty seven in Oklahoma. The average 192 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: price is three twenty. Nationwide, the average price in California 193 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 3: is four sixty four on average. 194 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: Those are good numbers. There's no question those are good numbers. 195 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 3: And Comma, this administration is opening up our country for 196 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 3: domestic energy exploration. 197 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,839 Speaker 1: Of all kinds. That's good. 198 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 3: And the president is opening up and war in Alaska 199 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 3: where there's a lot of oil, that's good. And the 200 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 3: president is not belligerent to coal, and coal filtering technology 201 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 3: is unbelievably. 202 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: Good, So that's good. 203 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 3: Why the animosity to energy. I like cheap gas prices. 204 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 3: We can have cheap gas prices. We have some challenges 205 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 3: here in California. Alex Stone mentioned the refinery. Refinery things 206 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 3: are temporary. Those will be solved, so that will put 207 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 3: more things online. 208 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: Of course, it takes time. 209 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 3: You can't turn these things around in just a matter 210 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 3: of months, of course. But moving in the right direction 211 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 3: creates positivity. Moving in the right direction creates excitement about 212 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 3: the future. Movement in the right direction creates certainty in 213 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 3: the markets, and that matters. And I would argue that 214 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 3: a more stabilized Middle East, for what it's worth, is 215 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 3: good for a stabilized world petroleum market. And a lot 216 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 3: of the people that make money on barrels of petroleum, they. 217 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: Also give money to terrorist groups. 218 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 3: They have interesting hobbies over there in the Middle East, 219 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 3: in some of these oil rich nations, and they fund 220 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 3: all kinds of groups that are not necessarily good for 221 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 3: you or good for me. So one hundred and sixty 222 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 3: dollars a barrel good for them. Sixty dollars a barrel 223 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 3: not as good. So there's no bad way to look 224 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 3: at this. You get a better price at the pump. 225 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 3: The terrorists and their benefactors have less profit. We are 226 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 3: producing energy domestically and everybody's happy. 227 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 7: In the eight months Trump's been in office, he's opened 228 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 7: up oil fields, put wells in, got that oil to 229 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 7: the refineries and it's been refined. And that's why the 230 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 7: price of gas is down. 231 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,839 Speaker 3: No, I love, are you talking about the gas price 232 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 3: haven't changed and they walk change? Oh, the gas prices 233 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 3: have changed and they're going to continue to change. Hey, 234 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 3: speaking of your car. Gavin Newsom signed a number of bills, 235 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 3: an awful lot. He wrapped up the year with an 236 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 3: astounding number the volume of legislation that was signed into law. 237 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: I have the number here. Nine. 238 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 3: There were nine hundred and seventeen bills awaiting the governor's signature. 239 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: On Monday, Newsom. 240 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 3: Signed seven hundred and ninety four bills into law and 241 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 3: vetoed a total of one hundred and twenty three seven 242 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 3: hundred and ninety four new laws in California this session alone, 243 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 3: Can you name anything that needed to be a law, 244 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 3: like even if they were like. 245 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: Just some fixes to things that weren't right. 246 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 3: Just the wording was wrong on a closing document in 247 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 3: the sale of a house, and the California Association Realtors 248 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 3: needed a law to change this word so. 249 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: That it was it was appropriate. 250 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 3: Like maybe maybe there's a couple of those, like in 251 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 3: the business Code, Like maybe there's a couple of things 252 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 3: that need to be made into law. Seven hundred and 253 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 3: ninety four new California laws in a year, and he 254 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 3: calls Trump a dictator, but he was able to veto 255 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty three. What would it take in 256 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 3: California to have no new laws in a year? 257 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,319 Speaker 1: Would it be possible? Would we be able to. 258 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 3: Survive go through an entire legislative session and lawmakers come 259 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 3: to the conclusion that. 260 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: We're good, everything's fixed. We've run out of ideas. But 261 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: doesn't sound like that's going to happen anytime soon. 262 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 3: Anyway, He signed the law new legislation now that bans 263 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 3: smaller teenagers from sitting in the front seat of the car. 264 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 3: You have to be thirteen years old now to sit 265 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 3: in the front seat used to be able to get 266 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 3: out of the booster seat at age eight. Originally they 267 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 3: wanted to keep you in the booster seat until you 268 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 3: had a driver's license. That was the original verbiage of 269 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 3: the legislation was that until you were sixteen you had 270 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 3: to be in the back seat in a booster seat. 271 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 3: They watered that down because they thought it would just 272 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 3: be impossible to enforce. And now you u thirteen is 273 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 3: when you can be in the front seat, and also 274 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 3: the seatbelt has to fit you. 275 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 8: A new law could mean that you'd stay in that 276 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 8: car seat for a lot longer and maybe have to 277 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 8: ride in the back until you get your license if 278 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 8: they are not tall enough. All kids under ten, though, 279 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 8: would have to use a booster seat, and anybody under 280 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 8: thirteen would have to sit in the back. 281 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 3: So back of the car no more shotgun. So here's 282 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 3: now the legislation's been watered down a bit. Fine still 283 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 3: is four hundred and ninety dollars. If you get stopped 284 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 3: by a cop and the cop thinks that the situation 285 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 3: is unsafe in the car and the kids are all 286 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 3: over the place and you have a very short brood, 287 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 3: then you have to be able to affirmatively answer these 288 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 3: five questions. This is the new law instead of compelling 289 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 3: the sixteen year old to sit in. 290 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: A booster seat. 291 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 3: Question number one, does the child sit all the way 292 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 3: back against the seat? 293 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: Child has to be able to do that. Do the 294 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: child's knees bend at the edge of the seat. 295 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 3: So their leg the knee has to go over the 296 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 3: edge of the seat and go down, otherwise they can't 297 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 3: be sitting without a booster Number three? Does the belt 298 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 3: cross the shoulder and rest on the collarbone? 299 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: Well, that's always been a thing. 300 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 3: It's not really supposed to go around the neck of 301 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 3: a child, but most of the new cars now have 302 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 3: the thing that goes up and down the seat belt. 303 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 3: Number four is the lap belt as low as possible, 304 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 3: touching the thigh. And number five can the child stay 305 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 3: seated like this for the whole trip? So you can 306 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 3: have the kid making maneuvers to fit without the booster seat, 307 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 3: just to show the cop that you have not earned 308 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 3: the fine. So that's one of the over nine hundred 309 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 3: new laws that are now going to be in place 310 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 3: in California that all that seatbelt stuff with the kids 311 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 3: that takes effect July first, twenty twenty six, The John 312 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 3: Covelt Show. 313 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 314 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 6: six forty. 315 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: Blue Penrose in for John Cobalt. This week. 316 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 3: The first rain of the season, and it's here and 317 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 3: we are tracking it and keeping an eye on it. 318 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 3: It does seem like things have calmed down in Los 319 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 3: Angeles for a while, but the National Weather Service is 320 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 3: calling for more rain in the evening as the storm, 321 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 3: according to radar, seems to have left Los Angeles Long 322 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 3: Beach and is for the most part out of Orange County, 323 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 3: now over San Diego. 324 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: But we may have. 325 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 3: Dodged a bit of a wet bullet, although traffic editions 326 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 3: on the freeways are still still a bit of a 327 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 3: mess and will be throughout the rest of the afternoon commute. 328 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 9: The reason largely, well, you guessed at oil, we have 329 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 9: now crashed down through the sixty dollars barrel point. 330 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: We got lots of supply, not as much. 331 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 9: Demand, and that has brought gas prices down to the 332 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 9: average gallon of regular at three dollars and seven cents 333 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 9: right now nationally three. 334 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 3: Dollars and seven cents, So nationally we're literally swimming in gasoline. 335 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 10: If a barrel of oil is at fifty nine to 336 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 10: sixty dollars a barrel, why are we still paying close 337 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 10: to five dollars a gallon. I mean, come on, when 338 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 10: a barrel of oil was at eighty nine to ninety 339 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 10: dollars a barrel, we were paying between five and six 340 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 10: dollars a gallon. We should be paying like two dollars 341 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 10: and fifty. 342 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: Cents a gallon. I'm with you. That's how they get you. Hey, 343 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: there's a lot of oil in Baker's field. We're going 344 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: to open up drilling. It's a good business to be 345 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: in the state. 346 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,679 Speaker 7: Will make money, everyone will make money, will make it 347 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 7: cheaper at the pump for everybody. 348 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 3: I don't know that that's happening anytime soon. California has 349 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 3: a bit of a geographic problem. There are no pipelines 350 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 3: from Alaska to California. There are no pipelines from Texas 351 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 3: to California. So even if the price of energy just 352 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 3: drops everywhere else, you still have to get it here, 353 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 3: and you have to get it here by truck or 354 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 3: by ship, and then you've got to train it to 355 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 3: the refineries. And it's just one of those geographic problems, 356 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 3: but we don't help ourselves by constantly placing taxes on them. 357 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 3: But I still say that it's better to be lucky 358 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 3: than good in politics, And this time Governor Newsom got 359 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 3: lucky because his tax increases are hidden by the drop 360 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 3: in the price of oil. 361 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 1: It won't be forever, but it's a little enjoyment. 362 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 3: I'm trying to give you something to enjoy, and not 363 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 3: having stick a shop at the pump is worthy of enjoyment. 364 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 3: Makes me happy. It's one of those things. There's lots 365 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 3: of things that go on in the economy. I'm hearing 366 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 3: all this belly aching about how you know the prices 367 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 3: for toys at Christmas time are gonna go up because 368 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 3: of these trade war threats with China, and your Xbox 369 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 3: is gonna go up, and your iPhone seventeen's gonna go up, 370 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 3: and why is Trump doing this to us? And all 371 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,719 Speaker 3: these things right, We're doing our best to get prices 372 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 3: under control. The one thing that will certainly bring prices 373 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 3: under control is the cost of the gasoline that goes 374 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 3: in the truck that brings it. 375 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: Everything that you have, a truck brought it. I don't 376 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 1: care what it is that you have. 377 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 3: Look around you, what do you have. I'm looking at 378 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 3: a laptop, there's a desk, there's a chair. A truck 379 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 3: brought it. All the food that you wait for lunch, 380 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 3: your truck brought it. The car, a truck brought the 381 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 3: car you drove to the auto dealership. So if that 382 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 3: guy's cost is lower, then your cost will be lower. 383 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 3: I don't know who's taking these photographs for Time magazine, 384 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 3: And I don't know if Trump is right about everything 385 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 3: like the hat suggests, but he's certainly right that this 386 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 3: is not a good photograph. Who in the world would 387 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 3: have said, yeah, let's go to print and put this 388 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 3: photo on the front cover of magazines. Who is even 389 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 3: buying Time magazine anymore? I don't even see it at 390 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 3: the checkout do they even have them? Where where do 391 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 3: you even buy a Time magazine? There are no bookstores anymore. 392 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 3: Nobody goes to shopping malls anymore. Where are Time magazines? 393 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 3: Maybe at the airport, I guess, But you can read 394 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 3: Time magazine on your phone. But a lot of these 395 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 3: cover photos weren't necessarily for the person that's buying the magazine. 396 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: It was for the people waiting for the cash. 397 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 3: Registered lady to hurry it up, and you're just glancing around, 398 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 3: and look, who's on the cover of People magazine, who's 399 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 3: on the cover of Time magazine, who's on the cover 400 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 3: of Newsweek this week? And now they're not even there anymore. 401 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 3: But the photograph, if you've not seen it, I'm sure 402 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 3: you'll see it. Maybe we can put it up on 403 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 3: the website. It is the most unflattering angle. Nobody that 404 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 3: is an actual professional photographer would say, let me get 405 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 3: on the ground and you stand and look, you gaze 406 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 3: out into the far away and I'm going to take 407 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 3: a photograph of you looking at your chin. And that's 408 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 3: that's what we have here. I mean, there are so 409 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 3: many photographs of President Trump, and you can like him 410 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 3: or not like him. You can think he's photogenic or 411 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 3: not photogetic. Whatever. He's on the cover of the magazine. 412 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 3: They're giving him credit. The title of the article is 413 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 3: called his Triumph. In a social media post today, he 414 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 3: did credit Time Magazine for doing a good story on him, 415 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,120 Speaker 3: but he criticized the photograph. 416 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: And I think it's fair. This is common though. 417 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 3: You don't see this with celebrities, and you don't see 418 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 3: this with sports figures. But you do see this with politicians, 419 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 3: and from both sides of the aisle, whether it is 420 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 3: a Republican or a Democrat. 421 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: When they're in the newspaper, they always have some kind 422 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: of goofy expression on. 423 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 3: Their face, or they're caught mid sentence so their mouth 424 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 3: is open, and there's really no reason to have a 425 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 3: candid shot of a politician. Trust me when I tell 426 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 3: you they will pose. They are happy to take photographs. 427 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 3: It's in the DNA of politicians. And Trump knows the 428 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 3: value of a photograph, so. 429 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: He would have posed. 430 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 3: I don't know if this is candidate or not. I 431 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 3: don't know how the photographer would have got in this 432 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 3: position to be literally down by Trump's waist with the 433 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 3: lens under his chin. But he's got the blue suit, 434 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 3: the white shirt, the red ties, got the Trump look. 435 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: But he almost looks. 436 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:03,439 Speaker 3: Like a younger version of President Gerald Ford because the 437 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 3: Trump's Trump's hair is completely washed out by the sun, 438 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 3: so it doesn't look like he has hair and hairs 439 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 3: his whole thing. So he's got kind of a kind 440 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 3: of a cross between Ford and almost a bit of 441 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 3: a Carter glance going on. But it does not look 442 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 3: anything like Donald Trump, and it's on the front cover 443 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 3: of Time magazine. So I guess that's about as good 444 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 3: as you get the John. 445 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 1: Co Belt Show. 446 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 6: You're listening to John COBLT on demand from KFI AM 447 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 6: six forty. 448 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 3: Lou Penrose sitting in for John Coblt this week. This 449 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 3: Romney story is strange. So Carrie Romney was reportedly found 450 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 3: dead at eight thirty in the afternoon Friday. Her car 451 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 3: was in the parking garage near the High Regency Hotel. 452 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: In a well. It was just north of Los Angeles 453 00:23:59,200 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: County Here. 454 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 3: According to former Senator Romney, our family is heartbroken by 455 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 3: the loss of Carrie, who brought warmth and love to 456 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 3: all our lives. Romney said, we asked for privacy during 457 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 3: this difficult time. Sure, I mean, I don't want to 458 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 3: invade anybody's privacy. But it's kind of a strange story. 459 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 3: People just don't die. She was located on the street, 460 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 3: but it was unknown at the moment whether she jumped 461 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 3: or fell from a multi story. 462 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: Parking garage near the Higher Regency Hotel. So do you 463 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 1: know who this is? Carrie Romney was married to Scott Romney. 464 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 3: Scott Romney is the father of Ronna Romney McDaniel. Remember 465 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 3: Romney McDaniel. She was the head of the RNC. And 466 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 3: this is not her mother, but this is the woman 467 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 3: that her father married later in life. He's now eighty one. 468 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 3: She died she was sixty four. They got divorced eight 469 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,479 Speaker 3: years ago, and it's just a a very strange story 470 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 3: and we'll get more details about it coming up following 471 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 3: the news at three. 472 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 7: We actually are more oil in California if they're in 473 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 7: Bakersfield than they do in Texas. 474 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they tell you, Lucky. 475 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 11: I went to California this weekend and at the border 476 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 11: there near blythe it was two eighty six. Here in Arizona, California, 477 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 11: it was like four seventy eight. Four sixty four is 478 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 11: a bargain. People there are trained seals. 479 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 3: Well, I was just in Arizona two And it isn't 480 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 3: just the gas. It is a stark contrast when you 481 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 3: cross that river, There's no question about it. I was 482 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 3: like way out, but when I got gassed right before 483 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 3: I crossed into California, because why witn't you top off 484 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 3: in Arizona? And you're right, it's under three dollars, like 485 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 3: two eighty nine at a gas station you immediately crossed 486 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 3: the border into Blythe and it's for eighty nine. 487 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 1: So some of that, A lot of that is tax 488 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: let's be fit. I mean it's the oil is the same. 489 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 3: Transporting the oil to California a little bit more expensive, 490 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 3: but Arizona and California kind of close. So probably the 491 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 3: same truck that's filling up the gas tanks at the 492 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,679 Speaker 3: gas station in Arizona are filling them up in Blythe. 493 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if they're driving all the way to 494 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: Palm Springs, but these trucks are on the road a lot. 495 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 3: I see them all the time on the ten, so 496 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 3: you have to think that the same gasoline is going in. 497 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 3: And when you see a two dollars two dollars and 498 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 3: thirty cent difference in less than a ten mile spread, 499 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 3: it is suspicious. But that's always been the case. What's 500 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 3: interesting about Arizona and I noticed this because I'm starting 501 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 3: to look. 502 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,360 Speaker 1: Around a little bit more. My brother lives in Charlotte, 503 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: North Carolina. 504 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 3: I spent some time in other states over the last 505 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 3: year or so, just happen to be in town or visiting. 506 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 3: And it's not just the gas. We're told gas is 507 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 3: expensive in California. We have winter blend in summer blends 508 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 3: in their carb you know, credits, and. 509 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: There's the gas tax and all of that. 510 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 3: So we are a tax heavy state when it comes 511 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 3: to things like gasoline, and the states run by Democrats, 512 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,120 Speaker 3: and Democrats don't want you in the car, so it's 513 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 3: no secret that they're trying to make you driving unpopular, 514 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 3: so you'll go take a train somewhere like that's not 515 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 3: a secret. And I don't mean that in a disparaging way. 516 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,159 Speaker 3: I don't like it, but I think Democrats have been 517 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 3: pretty honest with us that they don't want us in cars. 518 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: And if they do want us in cars, they got 519 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: to be electric cars. So we roll with it. 520 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 3: Why we continue to elect these people that don't want 521 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,360 Speaker 3: us in cars, I don't know. I don't vote for them, 522 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 3: but a majority of people don't want me in a car, and. 523 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: They just want to make it as painful on you 524 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: and me as possible. So you roll with it. You 525 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: deal with it. It's price of living in California. What 526 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: I have come to learn is it's not. 527 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 3: Just the price of the pump in a couple of 528 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 3: stores and you start looking at the price of produce. 529 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 3: You look at the price of the things in drug stores, 530 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 3: and I mean, you don't have to go that far. 531 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 3: You can just go to Phoenix. You don't even have 532 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 3: to go to Phoenix. You've gotta Parker, Arizona, and you 533 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 3: go into a grocery store and things are significantly cheaper. 534 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 3: I wasn't buying like steaks for dinner, but I just 535 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 3: had to go over there to see how much they're 536 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 3: getting for New York or a rabbi, and it's significantly cheaper. 537 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 3: And like the normal things like eggs, a half gallon 538 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 3: of milk, I don't smoke, but the price of cigarettes 539 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 3: a lot lower. 540 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: So I kind of think we're getting screwed. 541 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 3: I think that it's not just the cost of housing 542 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 3: or the rents, or the gasoline, or the light bill, 543 00:28:54,480 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 3: or insurance or fire insurance, or the of school supplies, 544 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 3: or the cost of Christmas or. 545 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: The cost of Fourth of July dinner. I think it's 546 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: all of it. 547 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 3: I mean, I think we're just getting screwed in California 548 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 3: that somewhere along the lines, they somewhere along the way, 549 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,959 Speaker 3: they just decided that by and large, Californians just don't 550 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 3: worry too much about price, not like they do in 551 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 3: some of these other states. They're not as price conscious, 552 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 3: or they'll just endure it. They call it the Sunshine tax. 553 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 3: That has to be it, because it'd be one thing 554 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 3: if it was just the cost of gas. Like I mentioned, 555 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 3: we have strict standards here in California and they've been 556 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 3: in place with quite some time. 557 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: And it should be no surprise. 558 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 3: And whenever there is an increase at the pump because 559 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 3: of a tax, it's a great big argument and we 560 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 3: yell and scream about it and we usually lose, but 561 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 3: we all know it's coming. But it's all the other 562 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 3: things that are for sale at the store, and you 563 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,959 Speaker 3: go into stores in other states and they're not a 564 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 3: little bit cheaper, like significantly significantly cheaper. 565 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 4: So we are. 566 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. 567 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 3: I've not been able to figure it out completely. But 568 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 3: I don't know if it's because our wages ought to 569 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 3: be higher here in California and we're not getting paid 570 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 3: what we're worth, or if things are higher than they 571 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 3: are in other states because we are just we're just 572 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 3: paying more in regulation and in taxes and the cost 573 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 3: of logistics and delivery, or someone's just screwing us, or 574 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 3: maybe it's all three all right. When we get back, 575 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 3: it's been a rainy day. A deluge is the word 576 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 3: that's being used. Deluge is French for flood, So we 577 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 3: know there's a lot of water around, and there's still 578 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 3: some trickling that I'm seeing here on the monitors and 579 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 3: the radar in and around the La Basin. So there's 580 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 3: still rain in the forecast for the night. And then 581 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 3: show Weather Service still has flash flood alerts and flash 582 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 3: flood warnings in effect. 583 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: And the areas of. 584 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 3: The burn scar where earlier today there were evacuations, we'll 585 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 3: get an update on whether those individuals can return to 586 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 3: their homes or if evacuations are still in effect. We'll 587 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 3: talk with kfi's Michael Monks coming up out of the 588 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 3: newsroom following the news at three o'clock. 589 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt Show. 590 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 3: On KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 591 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 592 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 593 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through 594 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 2: Friday and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,