WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.200 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:09.039 Chris Merril KFI AM six forty by anytime on the 3 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:10.199 iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:14.000 Let's see this. 5 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:17.359 I send out a call if you've got a If 6 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:19.679 you've got the app and you're listening, just hit that 7 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:22.120 talkback button and let me know why it is that 8 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:26.800 you're not watching the game instead. Not that un complaining, 9 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:29.000 very happy that you're here, but what is it that 10 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.359 has got you here instead of taking. 11 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:31.960 Part in the Super Bowl? 12 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.719 Your your feedback always welcome to that talkback button. 13 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:39.399 Hey, I'm not listening to the game or watching because 14 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:40.560 I get too nervous. 15 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:42.479 Oh so, if you guys are going to get the 16 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:44.200 score of the game, please. 17 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.320 Announce spoiler alert. 18 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.159 Ah, all right, thank you, and I love hearing hearing 19 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:50.920 you on the show. 20 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.840 Merrill. Thank you very much. I appreciate that you're the 21 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.240 rest of you. That's you, I mean, you're the rest 22 00:00:57.240 --> 00:00:57.399 of you. 23 00:00:57.759 --> 00:00:59.880 Huh wait a second spoiler alert? 24 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:01.679 Spoiler alert? Yeah? 25 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:02.359 Is it? 26 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:03.000 Uh? 27 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.519 I mean, do people go back and watch it againler alert? 28 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:10.840 You're supposed to say spoiler alert, but it's. 29 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:17.959 Already andrewiler alert. I've never known anyone to say oh, 30 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:20.239 let me go watch the Super Bowl. You know now 31 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.319 now that it's been recorded, Likelerer, who does that? 32 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:27.000 He's nervous, Andrew, I get it. 33 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:28.560 Boiler alert. 34 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:31.040 I am curious now, I am curious if anyone watches 35 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:32.599 it on demand after it's over. 36 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:36.280 I once spent an entire Final four in the bathroom. 37 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.079 I was so nervous one year. I get it. I 38 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:40.439 get it. 39 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.920 I just saw it that needed a spoiler alert, boiler alert. 40 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:47.879 That's what we needed. So now you know, right, I 41 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.519 hite that talk back button. Let us know why it 42 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.280 is that you are listening today, and I appreciate that you. 43 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:53.480 Are so uh. 44 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:55.599 Moving on to politics as usual, in this case, what 45 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.640 is national becomes local. Governor Batman says that he is 46 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.799 meeting with Donald Trump over the LA wildfire aid and 47 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:04.359 he said that was really good. 48 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:05.159 It went well. 49 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:09.319 California Governor Gavin Newsom on Capitol Hill Wednesday, advocating for 50 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:12.960 disaster funding following the deadly and devastating wildfires in Los 51 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.199 Angeles on X The governor saying the state is removing 52 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.599 red tape and suspending regulatory barriers to fast track clean 53 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:23.919 up efforts and help Los Angeles quickly recover and rebuild. 54 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.159 What I honestly don't know what this is. We're removing 55 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.759 red tape, and we're making it easier. Why is the 56 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:32.479 red tape there in the first place? And I think 57 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.199 there's oftentimes a disconnect when it comes to things like regulations. 58 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:37.039 We say, there's too many regulations. 59 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:38.520 The regulations are the problem. 60 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:43.120 There's so much red tape, and then politicians miraculously come 61 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.120 through and they fix all the red tape. 62 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.159 And I always think, why is the red. 63 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:49.800 Tape there to begin with? And I know in many 64 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:51.840 cases it's well, because it was so and so's pet 65 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:53.439 project or so and so I wanted to make sure 66 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:55.360 the unions were taken care of or whatever that might be. 67 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:57.199 And I get that that certainly happens. 68 00:02:57.479 --> 00:02:59.840 But in some cases, I wonder, is the red tape 69 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.800 there because it's things like building code, or it's there 70 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.360 because it's things like the Coastal Commission. And I know 71 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:09.680 you might be frustrated with the Coastal Commission, but you 72 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:13.919 know they have a purpose. I always wonder when we 73 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.080 say we're gonna get rid of the red tape, what 74 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:20.319 is it that we are getting rid of. Look in 75 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.800 many cases, I'm all for it. Please don't misunderstand what 76 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:28.120 I'm saying as being an advocate for more regulation. I 77 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:30.240 just think there's a reason in most cases that we 78 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.400 have regulation in the first place. And I'm a little 79 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:35.240 nervous about us saying, oh, we get rid of regulation. 80 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.240 It's like when we say let's cut government waste. What 81 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:40.960 does that mean? What is government waste? People say it's 82 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:45.000 a seventeen thousand dollars hammer. Okay, I agree, that's government waste? 83 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.960 Is it? Is it three million dollars so the president 84 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:51.479 can go golfing? It is on golf cup club. Well, no, 85 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.680 that's not government waste. Okay, all right, that's a lot 86 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.280 of hammers. Right, So all of a sudden, we pick 87 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.280 and choose what we consider to be waste, or we 88 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.360 choose which regulations we say are important which ones are not. 89 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:06.520 All right, back to what Newsom was doing. 90 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.960 Newsom's saying he's committed to assisting the Los Angeles community 91 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.240 recover from these fires, not hindering their efforts. 92 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.079 What's on my mind is what's on everybody's mind in 93 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.680 the state, is can we get a past partisan ship? 94 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:24.639 Newsom meeting with bipartisan lawmakers like Brad Sherman, Judy chu Ken, Calvert, 95 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:28.839 Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, Rafael Warnock, and Patty Murray. 96 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.199 Oh good, Yeah, it's all star team. 97 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.920 What Newsom also met with President Trump at the White House? 98 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:36.319 All right, that's the one we wanted to hear. 99 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:40.120 California in North Carolina who continue to be on our hearts, 100 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.120 and the President and this administration are committed to ensuring 101 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:45.319 that these individuals get the funding that they need. 102 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:50.439 It's impossible to see how California could rebuild without a 103 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.600 tremendous amount a federal financial aid. 104 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:56.639 Yeah. Agree, and so yes. 105 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.160 It's in the governor's best interest. 106 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.079 Yeah, to do every think he can, uh huh, to 107 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:03.600 make amends to Trump. 108 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:07.600 Even given the very significant differences they've had in the past. 109 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.279 Okay, I agree, and I'm glad that he's doing that, 110 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:14.360 although I think this is part of Newsome playing Trump. 111 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.360 When you fight Trump, you lose. When you when you 112 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:23.600 sidle up to Trump, you win. And Newsome's figuring that out. 113 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:28.120 That's that's he goes. Okay, what's more important? Is it 114 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.279 more important that I get the win for California or 115 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.800 is it more important that I resist everything Trump does? 116 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:35.279 Right? 117 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:36.920 There'll be a time for each of those, But in 118 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.399 this case, he goes, I gotta have what's in the 119 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:41.920 best interest of California. I don't think anybody here disagrees 120 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.120 we're gonna need federal assistance to rebuild so much of 121 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.480 what we've lost. I just think we're gonna need some 122 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:49.480 regulation along the way to make sure that we're rebuilding 123 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:50.839 it in a way that doesn't set us up for 124 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:57.639 another horrible disaster in the next ten years. Meanwhile, on 125 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.399 one thing that Trump is doing, which we should have 126 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.480 done ten years ago, but we're not, As he says, 127 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:05.839 we got to stop throwing good money after bad at 128 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:06.600 the high speed rail. 129 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:09.560 High speed rail in California, a project that has been 130 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.680 under construction and development for several years now and one 131 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:16.480 that eventually seeks to connect southern California to northern California, 132 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:20.319 specifically Anaheim to San Francisco at first and eventually San 133 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:21.639 Diego to Sacramento. 134 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:23.199 Oh won't that be nice? 135 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.240 But the product, if only we could do it for 136 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.600 what we agreed on to begin with, like thirty billion dollars. 137 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.399 Oh No object has not come without its critics, including 138 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.160 President Donald Trump and me. 139 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:38.920 This is what he said Tuesday. 140 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:43.000 The train is being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco. 141 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:47.120 Is the worst managed project I think I've ever seen, 142 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:48.399 and I've seen some of the worst. 143 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.800 Is primary concern, he says, the high cost. 144 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:55.279 Yeah, mine too. I wouldn't even say it's poorly managed, 145 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:56.800 it's just poorly conceived. 146 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.360 The California High Speed Rail Authority acknowledges the original plan 147 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:03.120 presented to voters in two thousand and eight indicated the 148 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.959 project would cost about forty five billion dollars. 149 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:08.480 Oh okay, forty five billion, little more than I wanted 150 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:10.079 to spend, but that was for the whole thing, right, 151 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:10.680 what are we. 152 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:11.240 At right now? 153 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:14.199 In fact, the twenty twenty four business plan released by 154 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.319 the High Speed Rail Authority included new projections, sowing the 155 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.079 project could now cost anywhere between eighty eight to one 156 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:22.839 hundred and twenty eight billion dollars by completion. 157 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:23.879 Nah. 158 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:28.160 Nah, I think I've told this story before. When I 159 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:32.079 when I first moved to California, it was I'm so, 160 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:33.800 we're coming up on an anniversary here. I think next 161 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:37.399 week would be exactly thirteen years since I arrived. And 162 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:41.319 when I first came here that I learned all about 163 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:45.279 this high speed rail, and I went, okay, voters approved 164 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:47.600 eight billion dollars. We expected the cost to be thirty 165 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.720 to forty five billion dollars. And then all of a sudden, 166 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.959 I first got here again twenty twelve and they said, oh, 167 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.720 that projection is up to fifty billion dollar and I said, 168 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.000 you watch, this is going to go over one hundred 169 00:07:58.040 --> 00:07:58.959 billion dollars. 170 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:00.439 And boy was wrong. 171 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:02.879 I mean, we blew past one hundred billion dollars and 172 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:04.040 we haven't even connected. 173 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:04.560 A single city yet. 174 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.800 Yeah, I mean we're at what did you say, one 175 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:10.439 twenty eight on the high It's not coming in at 176 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:13.079 the low end. No, no, new They gave you a 177 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.759 window of eighty eight to one hundred twenty eight billion dollar. 178 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:17.560 That's the window. 179 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.720 The original cost was supposed to be forty five billion dollars. 180 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.160 Now our window is almost as much as the original 181 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:29.279 estimate was. This is going to skyrocket well past two 182 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:31.000 hundred billion. And I got a feeling that in the 183 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.679 next five to ten years, I'm going to be saying, man, 184 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:35.679 I said two hundred billion, it's going to be half. 185 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:40.559 A trillion dollars. Yep. And Trump says, knock it off. 186 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:41.600 It's impossible. 187 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:42.159 That something. 188 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.879 Because that much, We're going to start a big investigation 189 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.200 on that, because it's I've. 190 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:49.360 Never seen anything like it. 191 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:51.960 Okay, enough of the investigation. We don't need an investigation 192 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.600 into it. It's just ill conceived and stop wasting money. 193 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:57.840 That's it. Cut it now now. 194 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.679 The High Speed Rail Authority is responding to two, noting 195 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.720 the original forty five billion dollar estimate quote did not 196 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.159 account for inflation or any unknown changes in scope. 197 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:10.399 Didn't think to throw that in there, thought in two 198 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:11.919 thousand and eight there would be no inflation. 199 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.679 They call that a lesson learned, as their estimates now 200 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:19.000 account for these issues, helping explain the. 201 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.519 Cost difference and the window of forty billion dollars. 202 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:23.720 No nothing there. 203 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:27.039 The High Speed Rail Authority tells us the portion of 204 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.759 the project connecting Anaheim to San Francisco has no completion date. 205 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.720 It's not getting done. Listen. 206 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.080 I know for you that that that like your rail. 207 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:40.440 You like your high speed rail, and I think the 208 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:42.879 one in Vegas is probably gonna be fine. You want 209 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.799 the high speed rail. You see it as being very European. 210 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.159 You go, look, this is the more sophisticated way to travel. 211 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:51.639 We're going to be we're gonna be a we're gonna. 212 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.720 Be a more sophisticated society because we're going to have 213 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:56.960 our high speed rail. I understand the romanticism you feel 214 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:59.559 around it. You will not ride a high speed rail 215 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.320 from Anah I'm to San Francisco in your lifetime. It 216 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.240 will not happen. In fact, I'm gonna go on a 217 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:07.480 limit and say it's not gonna happen during your child's lifetime. 218 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:09.200 It ain't happening. 219 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:11.720 And I know that they have it on the East Coast, 220 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:13.639 not high speed, but they have rail that's very popular 221 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:14.320 on the East Coast. 222 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:19.039 I get it. It ain't happening here. It's just not. 223 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:25.720 It's look, mass transit is fine in the urban area. 224 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.840 We are in automobile society, and California, as much as 225 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:34.320 anybody has a love affair with automobiles, it's not happening. 226 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:40.279 Quit sinking money into into this mess. We're doing it. 227 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:45.039 Nobody listens. Why would you, big goober on the radio? 228 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:49.120 Nobody listens. Sorry, more politics as usual, including taking on 229 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:51.840 maybe the biggest threat to our society. And it's about 230 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:56.600 time somebody put a stop to this abomination that's been 231 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.039 taken over our country. 232 00:10:58.399 --> 00:10:59.519 And our Starbucks. 233 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:03.360 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 234 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:10.159 I just checked the score, so yeah, wow, did the 235 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:11.320 Chiefs have the wrong weekend? 236 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.919 Andrew? They did? They not get the start time and 237 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.799 date right? What happened there? WHOA? Yeah? 238 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:22.039 No, you think he's still gonna propose maybe to Taylor 239 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:22.840 after No, he. 240 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.679 Wasn't going to in the first place. Just garbage. 241 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.159 So I asked the question, if you're listening on the app, 242 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:32.600 why is it that you're not watching the game? Not 243 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.080 that I'm complaining, I'm very excited that you're here, but 244 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:36.840 why is it that you are not taking part in 245 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:40.279 this big cultural celebration of foods ball. I've not watching 246 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:43.720 or listening to the game because I was born in 247 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:45.080 Mexico and race on a ranch. 248 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.600 Oh so I lacked the sports team, so I'd rather 249 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:49.200 listen to you. 250 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:52.679 Oh great show? All right, thanks man. 251 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:56.639 Yeah, I think if I were in Mexico, though, as 252 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.919 there's a big, you know, soccer tournament or something going on, 253 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:02.080 I think I would watch it just the same, just 254 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:04.279 be a part of it. But then again, he said 255 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:06.240 he lacks the sports gene, so I guess I've got that. 256 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:07.519 I would I would want to be a part of that. 257 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:08.279 All right, how about you? 258 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.200 The reason I'm not watching the game? 259 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:13.600 Yeah, I was born without the sports gene. Oh he 260 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.120 doesn't have it either, a lot of people without jeans 261 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:16.639 on today. 262 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.320 I mean, what about just the commercials though, I mean 263 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.360 some people just look forward to the commercials. 264 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:27.320 I cannot stand the commercial no yet, oh so overblown. 265 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.320 You don't have a favorite super Bowl commercial? Come on? 266 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:33.440 No? 267 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:35.960 But if he pressed me, I could come up with 268 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.320 some that I thought were classics. And but you know 269 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:40.279 what I like the most about the commercials is seeing 270 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.080 the rejects play a couple of weeks before the Super Bowl. 271 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.039 Oh yeah, you know you're watching streaming. I have all 272 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.519 the ad supported streamings, and so you'll see a commercial 273 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:51.840 play and you go that commercial seemed a little too 274 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:55.879 high budget, too clever, maybe a little bit silly. Yeah, 275 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.480 that was one of those that they that they commissioned 276 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.159 for the Super Bowl, but they opted for a for 277 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:00.840 one instead. 278 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:02.480 So I love that. 279 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:04.679 What I can't stand now is that we've gotten into 280 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:10.000 the commercials promoting the commercials. If you watch this last week, 281 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.679 there was a Stella Artois commercially came out where David 282 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:17.039 Beckham was told that he had a twin, and you 283 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.519 need to watch for the Stella Artois commercial to find 284 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:23.360 out who David Beckham's twin is. We're having a commercial 285 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:28.240 for a commercial. You don't like that, but yet I 286 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.120 just said Stella artois now three times, so I guess 287 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:31.559 it works. 288 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:38.159 But whatever, not my thing. Quick politics as usual run down. 289 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:42.080 Here's some stuff that happened this week, including a crackdown 290 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.679 on something that has been threatening all of us for 291 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:45.399 a very long time. 292 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.399 All right, the News Nation with a quick rundown. 293 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.200 This week, President Trump put a roadblock on Biden's electric 294 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.639 vehicle charging network. The Transportation Department says it's freezing funds 295 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:57.360 for the grid of charging stations. 296 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:02.879 Wait, we're just not going to allow charging stations. Oh, 297 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:04.759 we're not going to have the tax dollars pay for 298 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:05.440 the charging station. 299 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:09.960 Okay, all right, so whatever for three billion of the 300 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:14.519 five billion dollars appropriated through Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law has 301 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:15.879 been dished out to the states. 302 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.279 Yeah, it was passed by everybody, but that's fine, go ahead. 303 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.360 Democrats argue it's unconstitutional for the executive branch to overturn 304 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.879 actions approved by Congress. It is so essentially a major 305 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:27.039 court battle is in store. 306 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:29.360 Yeah, imagine if Biden had come in and said, we're 307 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.639 going to cut funding that was meant to help with 308 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:37.480 oil exploration in Alaska. Right, we're going to cut subsidies 309 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.879 to exceon. Oh, people go, you can't executive order that. 310 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.159 But we're just playing the game left versus right. 311 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.440 Another hot button issue a stir today. 312 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:48.440 What is it? 313 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:48.600 All? 314 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:49.960 Right, here's the important stuff. 315 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:51.080 Plastic straws. 316 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:55.360 Plastic straws the bane of society. 317 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.919 President Trump announcing he'll sign an executive order next week 318 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.600 ying bands of restrictions on plastic straws. 319 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:03.759 We're going to ban the band this. 320 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:06.919 After President Biden directed the federal government to phase out 321 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:10.600 all single use plastics by twenty thirty five. The order 322 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:14.200 could end up impacting plastic straw bands and restrictions in 323 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:16.759 more than a dozen Democratic states across the country. 324 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:18.799 It's also going to make it harder for seat turtles 325 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:20.639 to do cocaine. I don't know if you've ever tried 326 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.000 to do that with the plastic straw underwater. It is 327 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.039 not easy. I think we can all agree on that. 328 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:29.120 What about the other issue that we're all wondering when 329 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:33.159 is this going to be handled, and the answer is 330 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:37.759 probably never. What is really bugging us as we get 331 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:45.559 distracted by cocaine addicted seat turtles? It's the birds. 332 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:49.440 Man, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 333 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:55.559 I always appreciate when east Sabella plays the the Bumper 334 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:58.000 music and chooses something from Silence of the Lambs. 335 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:01.000 Yes, yes, yeah. 336 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:07.679 Yep, do me our doo me do me. Yeah. 337 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:10.120 No, that's that's when it was playing, right, That's when 338 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:13.080 he was yeah, well I'm yeah, yeah, it was. 339 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:15.600 You're the first person to point that out. I've really 340 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:17.399 I've used this song so many times. 341 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.480 No, no, I it's the first time I've not held 342 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:23.679 my tongue for sure. 343 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:24.679 Uh. 344 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:29.639 We asked you why you're listening to the show instead 345 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.320 of watching the Super Bowl. Not that I'm complaining, very 346 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.960 happy to have you, and some of you say you 347 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:41.360 don't have the sports gene for others Boiler Alert. Maybe 348 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:43.600 you're you're listening to the show because the first half 349 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:44.159 was so. 350 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:46.480 Bad, so bad. 351 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:50.240 It could have been so good for some so I know. 352 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:53.360 But as far as the game goes, I know if 353 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.200 you're a fan of the team, that's ahead boiler alert. 354 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:03.480 Then you're probably flying high right now. But a lot 355 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.480 of my friends live in the Kansas City area and 356 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.480 they are all talking about, oh, who needs to go, 357 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:10.680 what the team needs to do? I mean, they are 358 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.960 melting down right now. I should also point this out, Andrew, 359 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.720 are you working during the week at all this week? 360 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:17.640 I could if there's an emergency. 361 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.119 Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. The new program director, big Chiefs fan. 362 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.519 Oh yeah, well, hopefully he's not listening to this. 363 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:28.559 He might have just turned us on because he's so frustrated. 364 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.599 He's probably taking notes. We're gonna get some nasty grams 365 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.599 here very shortly from him saying, well, I wasn't gonna 366 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:34.920 watch the rest of that game, so I was listening 367 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:39.480 to your crap show. Anyway, Hit that talk back button 368 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:41.640 on the iHeartRadio app and let us know why it 369 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:43.599 is that. Maybe you're not watching the game. Maybe it's 370 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:46.759 because your team is behind by a lot. Maybe it's 371 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.200 because your team is ahead by a lot. Maybe it 372 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:51.319 is because you're just stuck in traffic, which I know 373 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.200 has been miserable around different areas. 374 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:54.680 Tonight, we're talking about the high. 375 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:58.240 Speed rail and President Trump says California needs to stop. 376 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.559 The high speed rail has been a terribly mismanaged project. 377 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:05.680 Your thoughts, right, A trolley high train in San Francis, 378 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:09.599 John would take a trouble of hours or so, it 379 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:15.680 tastes the waste makes money, efficiency doesn't huh, And trolley's 380 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:19.039 are efficient day? 381 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:20.359 All right? Thank you? You know what? 382 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.839 I like trolley's. Mister Rogers had a little red trolley 383 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:24.480 on his show. 384 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:31.039 Right, was that supposed to be? Was that set anywhere? Yes? 385 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:33.680 It was mister rogers neighborhood, I know. But was it 386 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:34.799 set in San Francisco? 387 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:35.039 No? 388 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.160 I actually believe it was Pennsylvania because that's the area 389 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:38.880 that he's from. 390 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:40.079 Oh, okay. 391 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.000 Do they have trolley's other other I mean I always 392 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:43.839 think of San Francisco. 393 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:46.880 Yeah, Yeah, there's this one in Anaheim. It's in this 394 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.960 uh California Adventure that that that theme park they have 395 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.720 a trolley. I don't count those. What what about the 396 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.680 Americana and Glendale did they still have That's a good one. 397 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:56.640 Trolley. 398 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:57.440 I like that trolley. 399 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:02.160 It's just like mass transit though, like for instance, yeah, no, right, 400 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:03.920 I lived in San Diego. They had the Old Town 401 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.640