WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.240 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:12.119 President Jimmy Carter given an elaborate national sendoff that starts 5 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:14.880 today's on his should say, the body is on its 6 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.760 way from Georgia to Washington. 7 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:17.640 D C. 8 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.440 Taken to the US Navy Memorial in Downtown d C. 9 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.800 Before the casket is delivered to the US Capital by 10 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:27.039 a horse drawn casson than in the rotunda. He will 11 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:28.879 lie in state for a day and a half before 12 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:33.240 the formal state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday. 13 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.240 The other big news, politically speaking, District Judge A. Ling 14 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:42.119 Cannon has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing Special 15 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:46.840 Counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump's two prosecutions. This was 16 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.039 a request from his legal team comes after Trump's two 17 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:53.240 code defendants in the document's case asked her to bar 18 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.719 the release of both sections of Smith's report, including one 19 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.520 that dealt with the election interference case. Trump's lawyers went 20 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.719 to Attorney General Mayrick Garland to ask him to stop 21 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.519 this release, saying it would simply be a political move 22 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:09.439 if they did so before the inauguration. 23 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:12.439 You've noticed it all morning long, probably woke you up 24 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.480 sometime in the middle of the night if you're in 25 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:19.400 the valleys. This windstorm it's been called destructive, life threatening. 26 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.200 These gusts could last for days, up to one hundred 27 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:27.000 miles an hour. We wanted to get an update from 28 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.400 Mike Wafford with the National Weather Service about when we 29 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:32.719 can expect the peaks to be, what we should be 30 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:34.840 on the lookout for, and when we can put this 31 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:35.719 all behind us. 32 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:37.319 Mike, what's going on today? 33 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:41.159 Well, as you see and I've heard, we have a 34 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.760 strong wind event in the area of Santa Ana. Wind 35 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:47.640 event that's been generating some winds anywhere from forty to 36 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:50.519 sixty miles per hour in through the two ten corridor, 37 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:54.840 including the Rose Bowl area, and upwards of eighty eighty 38 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.879 five miles per hour up into some of the foothills 39 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.879 and mountains. We're expecting to continue through the day when 40 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:05.400 I see a little bit of a decrease through the afternoon, 41 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.879 but then the strongest part of the wind is supposed 42 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:08.479 to be tonight. 43 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:11.840 Yeah, this has been a weird weather pattern, at least 44 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:14.000 for the lay person because when I got up this morning, 45 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.080 I was expecting to see a lot of clear skies 46 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:17.680 just based on the fact that the winds were going 47 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:20.639 to be kicking up. But there's plenty of clouds out there, 48 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.919 and we saw some light rain and some snowfall up 49 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:24.479 in the mountains. 50 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.879 That's right. This is this windstorm is coming from this 51 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.319 particular storm system that does have a little bit of 52 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.680 moisture with it. That's not too unusual to see something 53 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:39.560 like this. We do have, as you said, some light showers, 54 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:41.879 including some light snow up and right Wood, and we 55 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:44.360 even had some light showers down into some of the 56 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:46.039 basin and also the Animal Valley. 57 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.319 You bring up showers here in the areas. You did 58 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:54.039 not just mention we usually start getting weather sometime around 59 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:57.120 after October, a little bit of rain, not real weather, 60 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.120 but a little bit of rain. We haven't seen anything 61 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:02.039 for months. How's that playing into this. 62 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:06.800 Well, it's it's a very big factor because normally our 63 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:10.240 fireweather season is over by now. But because we've had 64 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:14.520 such little rain across the area, and we have very 65 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:18.840 low humidities coming as we move into this event tonight 66 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:22.199 and tomorrow, and that's going to play into a very 67 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:27.840 strong fireweather concern. If a spark were to generate somehow, 68 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.520 that could take off quite quickly and spread rapidly. So 69 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:34.719 we're hoping that doesn't happen, but the conditions are right 70 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.719 for something that to that to that, What does that happen? 71 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:39.520 What does it look like in your office? Are you 72 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:42.159 guys all hands on deck keeping an eye on this thing. 73 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.199 Yes, we've been watching this for the last week or so, 74 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:51.319 this development, and yeah, we've been prepared. We've you know, 75 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.280 put out a bunch of statements over the last few 76 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.240 days highlighting this. So we're ready and we're hoping it 77 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.800 doesn't you know, isn't as strong as it as it looks, 78 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.280 but it certainly has the potential to be an event 79 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:05.280 similar to what we had in twenty eleven. 80 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:11.000 Mike, have you noticed in lace recently lately with with 81 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:14.919 weather coverage or maybe it's just me, but I feel 82 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:21.560 like there's been this catastrophized, catastrophized catas catastrophe, catastrophizing thank 83 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.680 you of weather events, you know, whether it's the polar 84 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:26.600 vortex or the atmospheric river. 85 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:28.160 Now this week we heard. 86 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:31.879 About the Arctic outbreak going through Kansas to the east coast. 87 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.079 I feel like this is not a crying wolf type 88 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:37.480 of wind event here for this area. But have you 89 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:41.079 noticed an uptick and maybe like the hysteria level when 90 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:43.959 it comes to coverage for sure? 91 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:46.800 And you know, part of that is just, you know, 92 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.079 the advent of the technology that we have out there 93 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:53.360 in terms of computers and people. You know, we've got 94 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.560 a lot of people out there who are their own 95 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.800 meteorologists and they come up with some interesting terms, but 96 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.360 you know, a lot of these are very valid and uh, 97 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:08.160 you know, we've across the country, we've seen mini events 98 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:12.759 not just during the winter, but also strong, very strong 99 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:17.480 hurricanes have been strongest that we've ever seen. So it's 100 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.439 certainly valid, and we're certainly seeing event weather events that 101 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:22.759 are stronger than we've ever recorded. 102 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:25.720 All right, Mike, we'll check in if anything happens. Mike 103 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:28.000 Wafford there, National Weather Service. Thanks for your time. 104 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:29.959 Okay, you're very welcome. 105 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:32.079 A busy day in the background. 106 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.519 There the only debt you can kind of hear? Can 107 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:35.959 I hear the energy back there? 108 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:39.120 Usually it's guys playing darts. 109 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:39.680 Darts. 110 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.560 I've never seen a dartboard at a National Weather Service. 111 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.800 Maybe ground up, ground up, waded up paper into a 112 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:46.600 waste basket. 113 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:49.399 I think they're like radar people, where they're just like 114 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:50.639 obsessed with the radar. 115 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.720 A lot of TV screens, a lot of oh yeah, 116 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:58.480 a lot of beeps and boots. Can someone please please, 117 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:01.199 and I mean this in all honesty, if you have 118 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:04.720 any way to justify high speed rail in California, please 119 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:06.399 tell me how well. 120 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:09.639 Excla, let me just walk that back a couple steps. 121 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.720 It's not gonna be high speed. It's gonna be low speed. 122 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.519 I love trains. I've ridden the high speed trains in Europe. 123 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:19.959 I love a train. I ride the train every chance 124 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.680 I can get. I just rode the train from Providence 125 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.920 to Boston just for the sake of riding a train. 126 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:26.720 I love it. 127 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:30.439 But this train in California doesn't make sense for a 128 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.800 couple reasons. Number one, there's too much bureaucracy, so this 129 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:36.519 thing would never reach a high speed. 130 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.000 It would only be low speed, and. 131 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:40.240 It would have to go through all of the people 132 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:44.600 who need their balls washed along the way from La 133 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.120 to San Francisco or what have you. Everyone wants a 134 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.319 little piece of the pie for their little town, and 135 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.199 so you're gonna have way too many stops. 136 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:52.439 It's gonna take way too long. 137 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:54.680 It's much more easy to just make the drive or 138 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.199 hop on a Southwest flight for thirty nine dollars. 139 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:02.399 Well, and even if it was high speed rail, I 140 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.639 still don't understand it. I still don't understand the value 141 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.160 of it in a place like California. 142 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.079 I do because I love high speed rail. It just 143 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.800 wouldn't be high speed. It would take longer than it 144 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:15.680 would take to drive. 145 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.160 Well, Gavin Newsom had a huge announcement about high speed 146 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:23.040 rail yesterday. We'll talk about that and hear from good 147 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:23.680 old Gaff. 148 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:26.240 I'm sorry for bringing out ball washing in the ten 149 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:26.959 o'clock hour. 150 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.120 Well, there's no restrictions. I mean, you can do whatever 151 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:34.839 you need to whenever they get gamey. Facebook and Instagram 152 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.240 are ending there fact checking and they're going to remove 153 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:39.639 restrictions on speech across their platforms. 154 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:41.519 According to Mark Zuckerberg. 155 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.000 He announced that they're going to be getting rid of 156 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.439 fact checkers and replace them with community notes, just like 157 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.759 they do on x starting here in the United States. 158 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.480 Some tech watchers are saying that this is just Zuckerberg 159 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:57.600 sucking up to Trump. It comes with a million dollar 160 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.279 donation to the inaugural fund. He's not a lot in 161 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.000 that donation, but there have been a bunch of tech 162 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.120 companies have stepped up with some money for that. 163 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.040 Let me just circle back really quick. Okay, the way 164 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.240 political wrote this up about Trump going after Carter the 165 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.519 day his body's lying and stayed over the Panama Canal 166 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.600 and him saying he gave it to him for a dollar. 167 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:23.360 The Politico article says that Carter signed this Treaties Act 168 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.160 in seventy seven, setting in motion in the nineteen ninety 169 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:29.480 nine transfer of the US built infrastructural wonder to the 170 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:32.000 country of Panama. And then they say no, part of 171 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:36.159 those agreements included a one dollar sale, taking him literally 172 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:41.080 to your point as opposed to it's just a throwaway line. 173 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.240 He gave it to him for a dollar. He doesn't 174 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:45.120 mean they he gave it to him for a dollar, 175 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:45.679 you guys. 176 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:47.240 Good lord. 177 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:51.399 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is going to launch 178 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:55.519 its first orbital rocket soon. They say, no earlier than Friday, 179 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:59.120 but it's called the New Glen One. Mission expected to 180 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.919 carry a prototype of Blue Ring, which is a Defense 181 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:07.919 Department spacecraft that has a satellite deployment platform it's not 182 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:10.080 actually going to be deployed. They're going to actually keep 183 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:11.919 it on the second stage for the duration of this 184 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.279 test flight. But Blue Origin says they have a three 185 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:17.679 hour launch window at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in 186 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:21.240 Florida that will open just after midnight Friday morning, Florida time. 187 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.679 Out of the Straight to Hell folder comes the Tale 188 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:29.240 of Three Women in Colton. There was an eighty five 189 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:33.919 year old woman who was enjoying a relaxing Sunday afternoon 190 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.039 sitting on her porch. 191 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:36.159 This was in Colton. 192 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:43.159 It's about two fifteen on your birthday, January fifth, so Sunday, got. 193 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:47.720 To connect it to me or Saturday Sunday Sunday. Well, 194 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:48.720 because it was your birthday. 195 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:51.639 She was maybe enjoying the fact that it was your birthday, 196 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:55.039 sitting on the porch joining an ice little afternoon. Margarita 197 00:09:55.080 --> 00:10:01.279 was and she was approached by a there on the porch. 198 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:05.200 She had a ring camera and there is footage and 199 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:09.519 in the footage you can see an unknown woman ask Margarita, 200 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:12.519 eighty five year old Margarita questions like is someone in 201 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.840 the house or are you alone? 202 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:16.399 Now? 203 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.000 Out of precaution, Margerita's Noah, dumb, dumb. She told the 204 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.240 woman that her son was inside the house. Her daughter said, 205 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.559 at one point, my mom said she put her hand 206 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.080 in her purse. The woman did, and that's when mom 207 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.600 worried she thought she might have a weapon or something. However, 208 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.080 instead of grabbing a weapon, the woman grabbed her phone 209 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.000 and asked Margherita to call her son, but Margarita refused, 210 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:46.279 so then she proceeded to ask about the alavera plants 211 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:49.320 outside and ask for them, persistent in keeping eighty five 212 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:53.919 year old Margarita in her attention, saying with specific plants 213 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:59.399 she may have wanted to purchase from Margarita. The moment 214 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:02.679 she got more agree to turn away from the front door, 215 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:06.159 two more women appeared from hiding behind the bushes, and 216 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:07.960 one of them quickly went inside the house. 217 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:14.039 The three women didn't know that Martinez's daughter and husband 218 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:19.080 were also home at the time, so at that point, 219 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:20.879 the daughter starts yelling, you got to get out of 220 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:21.200 this house. 221 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:22.039 Get out of my house. 222 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.799 The husband also started yelling, and they quickly left as 223 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:29.399 Martinez in the family called police. Other than plants, they said, 224 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.399 it wasn't clear if they were able to take anything else. 225 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:34.320 But like praying on an eighty five year old woman 226 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:37.840 sitting on her porch, and women on women crime too 227 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:39.480 adds another layer. 228 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:44.840 Why because girls are nasty? You went to junior high. 229 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:46.480 I know they are. They're awful. 230 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:51.960 Maybe this is sort of arrested development, these these but they're. 231 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:55.600 Awful to their contemporaries. Have a little respect for your elders. 232 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.039 An eighty five year old woman being mean to an 233 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:00.960 eighty five year old woman as a as a younger woman, 234 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:02.679 that's despicable. 235 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.559 This may be a ring, by the way, because she 236 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.080 know police are looking at a similar group of women 237 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:10.799 that match the descriptions. They broke into a home back 238 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.440 just before Christmas. This wasn't their first time. 239 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:16.799 You got to schedule that out. You got to work 240 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.600 on that one. Yeah, pretty carefully. 241 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:20.639 Anyway, straight to hell. 242 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.600 Somebody took issue with something we said earlier. 243 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.240 Hey I got one for you, Gary, Yeah, like you. 244 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.720 You started it, but you didn't finish it. As dust 245 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.679 to dust, did you drink good booze? Your pipes won't rust. 246 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:40.320 I don't think offering up little right anecdotes to h 247 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:41.919 to offer it the burial. 248 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.679 Of my parents, I don't think that that's on brand. 249 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.639 For your parents. Maybe for someone else it's not, but 250 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:48.600 not for yours. 251 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:53.559 It is not up next that high speed rail story. 252 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:56.679 What it is that Gavin Newsom said what he said 253 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.759 fourteen years ago, what he said yesterday, and and other 254 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.000 people that are trying to put it endo this debacle. 255 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:07.320 All right, We've got reports out of the Santa Monica area. 256 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:11.320 We've got a brush fire in the Palisades Highlands right now. 257 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.559 You can see the smoke. Not sure about the size 258 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:17.440 of this baby. They're usually quick to step to those 259 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:21.960 there near the Palisades. Also, La County and City fire 260 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.399 crews on the scene of a fire that is spread 261 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.240 to brush started in a structure on West Sunset in 262 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:31.840 West Hollywood. Huge gusting winds there. They say that brushfires 263 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.879 at about a quarter acre, but now they say as 264 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:36.919 the crews have been arriving, the fire has grown to 265 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:40.679 more than an acre. They are using structure protection units 266 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.879 to help prevent the flames from impacting any other buildings 267 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.879 in the area. As you know, we've got gusts like this, 268 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.960 it can carry those embers miles away. 269 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:51.120 Yeah, the. 270 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.200 We will keep an eye on both of these and 271 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:59.960 hope that none no others will pop up, but that's 272 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.559 seems pretty unlikely. Ope in one hand and the bucket 273 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.200 of water in the other. Sure, something like that. So 274 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:14.279 yesterday Gavin Newsom unveiled his annual ideal state budget. 275 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.519 It's a balanced budget. 276 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:19.399 It includes the modest surplus three hundred and twenty two 277 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:22.879 billion dollars in propose spending. He says this is an 278 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:25.559 effort at maintaining fiscal discipline in a time of deep 279 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:28.879 uncertainty because he's talking about the big boogeyman that is 280 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:29.600 Donald Trump. 281 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.200 The budget, by the way, it's kind of like crime stats. 282 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:35.279 You can fudge them to get them to say what 283 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.919 you want them to say. And their big headline yesterday 284 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.480 was the budget has no deficit and it's the first 285 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:42.759 time in a long time. And look at Gavin Newsom 286 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:44.559 when he's been able to balance the budget. 287 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:46.759 Maloney, he didn't do it. 288 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:48.039 What he did was that he. 289 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:56.720 Took the what's he is reveling in the largesse of 290 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:01.320 our wealthiest people in California who made a killing in 291 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:02.879 the stock market in the last year. 292 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:05.200 That's how he did it. 293 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.600 But he's you know, he's saying that he's got to 294 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:12.159 shore up the defense against the Trump administration and all 295 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:16.480 the whatever whatever he thinks he's going to do. Also, 296 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.960 yesterday he was out somewhere in the Central Valley talking 297 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:26.240 about how great it is that we have high speed 298 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:31.840 rail and guys, so we don't, well, we don't. He 299 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:36.279 went on to say this very important thing. Apologies for 300 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.639 the muddy audio. This came from the Governor's office. I 301 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:42.360 cannot find a cleaner version of it anywhere. Good on 302 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.919 you tech guys. But here was here was Gavin Newsom 303 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:49.519 talking about we are, I mean, on the verge of 304 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:52.919 throwing open the station doors and getting people from Bakersfield. 305 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:54.240 Were said very quickly, and. 306 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:56.840 Finally, we're at the point where we're going to start 307 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.000 laying down this track in the next couple of years. 308 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.000 Finally the where we're gonna start laying down the high 309 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.039 speed rail track after the track itself, that will allow 310 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:09.120 us to get the equipment and the track equipment specifically 311 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.639 to lay down that track gets moved. We're finally at 312 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:12.159 that place. 313 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:14.240 You understand what he's saying. 314 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:19.279 No, he's saying, we're gonna lay down railroad tracks to 315 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.279 bring equipment in to lay down the railroad tracks. That 316 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:28.120 the tracks, they're almost almost gonna lay down. Are not 317 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.039 even the wrath, are not even the high speed rail tracks. 318 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:33.080 They're the tracks that we use for construction on the 319 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.320 tracks right now. That's what he's saying. And he's talking 320 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:38.679 about how great it is and what a wonderful thing, 321 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.720 and why it is that this is so important. 322 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:43.559 This was the end of his speech yesterday. 323 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:45.720 And anything like this exists anywhere in the United States 324 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:46.240 of America. 325 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.000 You want to be big, you got to be big 326 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:48.960 in big things. 327 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.159 This is the biggest economy in the United States of America, 328 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:55.919 three point eight six billion dollars. It's about damn time 329 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:58.360 we have a high speed rail system in the great 330 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:00.000 state of California. Thank you guys. 331 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.440 It would be wonderful if we at a high speed 332 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:04.200 rail in the great state of California. 333 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:05.759 We don't, We're not going to. 334 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:09.599 This is a project that has been a complete, to 335 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:13.559 use everybody else's word, boondoggle. For the politicians, for the 336 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:16.720 friends of the politicians. Nothing has got done, has gotten done. 337 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:22.079 There's too much rud tape. There's too much pork in 338 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.559 this thing as well in terms of who's getting their 339 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.240 genitals washed when it comes to the federal money that's 340 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.200 been poured into this. Nothing's been done. We've been talking 341 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.559 about this for twenty years. The tracks to the tracks 342 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:35.359 to the tracks have. 343 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:36.160 Not been laid. 344 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.799 The way this is written up California is poised to 345 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:42.200 lay down the tracks that will lead to the tracks 346 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.039 is insane. How is a journalist? Can you write down 347 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:49.319 that sentence and not realize you're just peddling their bs. 348 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.200 You're just you're falling for it. 349 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.920 Kevin Kylie, congressman out of the fullsome area alsome rancho 350 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.359 up in the Sacramento area, we'll call it. That has 351 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:02.960 introduced legislation, or at least plans to introduce legislation, to 352 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:07.240 pull every dime of federal money out of high speed 353 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:08.480 rail because it's going nowhere. 354 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.319 The high speed rail project was originally projected in two 355 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:13.480 thousand and eight to cost thirty three billion dollars. It 356 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:15.799 is now projected to cost up to one hundred and 357 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:20.240 twenty seven point nine billion dollars. Its estimated completion date 358 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.039 was twenty twenty. Of course, we are past twenty twenty now. 359 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.720 As of twenty twenty four, zero passengers have been transported. Indeed, 360 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:32.359 the majority of the system has not even been fully defined, designed, 361 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:35.640 and yet it has received six point eight billion dollars 362 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:39.319 in federal funds and they're requesting an additional eight billion 363 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:40.839 in federal funds. 364 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:45.400 Now, I'm serious when I ask if there's anybody who 365 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:50.359 knows or supports continued work on high speed rail in 366 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:55.599 the state of California, because we clearly see that government 367 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:57.079 is awful at doing this. 368 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:58.440 That's what I was just gonna say. 369 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:00.920 If it wasn't the government in charge of this, if 370 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:03.759 this was a private project, I would be one hundred 371 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:05.200 and ten percent ready for. 372 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:07.559 This, like the one that's going to go to Vegas exactly. Now. 373 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:08.839 Granted it's a short line. 374 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.599 I don't want the government, especially California government, to have 375 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.279 any of their dirty fingerprints on what has now become 376 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:15.119 a crime scene. 377 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:17.960 It's it's the end. Listen. People did leave a couple 378 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:18.440 of messages. 379 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.839 People are like, well, they want high speed rail because 380 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:23.359 they want to shuttle illegal immigrants up and down the 381 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:26.799 Central Valley or whatever. Which Listen, I got it. It's 382 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:31.039 an easy dig to take, But I'm serious. Is there 383 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:36.920 anyone anyone that doesn't have a financial. 384 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.000 Stake in it? 385 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:40.559 Is there anyone who thinks that high speed rail is 386 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:44.880 a good thing, a profitable thing, a necessary thing in 387 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:46.000 the state of comps I do. 388 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.400 If it's done by a private company, but it could 389 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:52.079 be very profitable. It could be great for tourism. I 390 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:54.880 mean it would be wonderful. I mean I've planned trips 391 00:19:55.319 --> 00:20:00.279 like Paris, Madrid, different different trips I've planned, and I've 392 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:02.079 gone to different cities that I would not have gone 393 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.319 to if there wasn't train travel that went to them. 394 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.039 If I'm somewhere in Europe and i want to come 395 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:09.519 to California, I'm probably going to choose between you can't 396 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.759 take a train, thinks I'm probably gonna I don't know. 397 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:15.519 I might choose between LA and San Francisco, just because 398 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:17.319 there's so much to do in San Francisco with the 399 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:21.400 Wine country and the just San Francisco alone and northern 400 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:24.359 California and the Redwoods and all of that, and it's like, oh, 401 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:25.680