In this episode of the California Underground Podcast, host Phil discusses California's defiance of federal orders regarding transgender athletes in school sports, the state's potential shift towards increased oil drilling amidst rising gas prices, and the immigration crackdowns led by ICE in Los Angeles. The conversation also touches on the irony of protests in Mexico City against American expats while advocating for undocumented immigrants in California.
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Original air date 7.8.25
Chapters
00:00 California's Stance on Trans Athletes
13:29 The Shift Towards Oil Production
29:36 Political Implications and Public Sentiment
31:38 California's Political Landscape and Public Servants
32:27 Immigration Crackdown in Los Angeles
34:57 California Wildfires and Recovery Efforts
37:36 Gavin Newsom's Presidential Aspirations
39:00 Karen Bass and Federal Immigration Enforcement
45:11 Protests in Mexico City: A Cultural Irony
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California is still going to defy federal orders regarding
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trans athletes in school sports. Is Newsom ready to drill, baby
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drill. And LA continues to see more
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crackdowns from ice and Border Patrol and Karen Vasco's full
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Karen mode. So let's get into that all on
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tonight's episode of the California Underground podcast,
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starting right now. What's going on, everybody?
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Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the California
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Underground Podcast, the most trusted podcast for all things
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California politics. I'm your host, Phil.
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We have a ton of stuff to get to tonight. 3 big stories, one
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involving trans athletes in school sports.
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And now California continues to defy federal orders in the
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Department of Education under the Trump administration.
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We're also going to get into whether or not California is
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ready to drill, baby drill and start producing more oil here in
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the state to help with gas prices.
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And LA continues to see crackdowns by ICE and Border
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Patrol. And Karen Bass has nothing else
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to do but go full Karen mode and use it as a publicity stunt.
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So let's get started and before we do, make sure if you are new
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hanging out in the chat tonight. I'll make sure to get to all of
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your chats and stuff like that throughout the show.
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But let's get first started in our first story.
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So news broke yesterday that California, the Department of
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Education here in California basically said we are not going
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to comply with the federal orders of the Department of
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Education, the federal Department of Education under
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the Trump administration regarding trans athletes in
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school sports. And this is obviously probably
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no surprise to most people who have been paying attention to
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politics here in California that this is become sort of a hot,
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hot button issue. We're going to get into a little
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bit of why maybe Democrats are on the wrong side of this issue,
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but I do want to get into this story.
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First off, this is from the Sacramento Bee goes on to say
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that California will not ban transgender athletes from
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competing in K through 12 school sports or change its anti
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discrimination policies to exclude them, becoming the
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second state after Maine to defy the Trump administration over
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the issue. USUS Education Secretary Linda
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McMahon gave California 10 days from June 27th to rescind any
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sports prizes award to trans athletes and ban them after the
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agency's Office of Civil Rights said that the state had violated
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federal anti discrimination in law by allowing transgender
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girls to compete with cisgender girls.
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Now that you see this picture of this was sort of what started it
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all. His name is AB Hernandez.
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This individual right here was one of the transgender girls to
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compete with cisgender girls. If you're as confused as I am, I
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always get confused as to what particularly is the language,
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but that started this whole issue here in California and the
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Trump administration's crackdown of it.
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The California Interscholastic Federation, which governs school
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sports, piloted a program last month allowing cisgender female
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athletes to advance to a statewide championship track me
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if they lost a qualifying position to a trans competitor
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after President Donald Trump singled out a 16 year old high
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jumper, AB Hernandez, online. For more than a decade,
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California has allowed student athletes to use any facility and
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play on sports team that reflect their gender identity.
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That law enacted way back in 2013 under former Democratic
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Governor Jerry Moonbeam. Article goes on to say
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California's refusal to violate its own laws now tease it up for
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a potential court battle over whether federal law prevents
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states from enacting laws protecting all students,
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including transgender 1 And according to Shannon Minter, the
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director of San Francisco based National Center for LGBTQ
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Rights. All right, there's a lot of
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stuff to unpack here. If you are not really familiar
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with the story. They mentioned this, the
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California Interscalactic Federation.
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And I want to just point out who the California Interscholastic
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Federation is because I didn't know who the inter this who the
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CIF was. I want to make sure that they
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were they're not a government entity.
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So they are not a government entity.
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I thought they were part of the state.
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They were part of the government.
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That is not the case. They are actually a nonprofit
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that you buy membership into this California Interscalactic
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Federation, and they've created this pilot program regarding
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transgender athletes in school sports here in California.
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And I also had to dig in and see that CIF is not just for public
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schools. It's for private schools as well
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because again, it's not a government, it's not necessarily
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a government thing. It gets a tiny, tiny bit of
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government funding, but most of it, and as you can see right
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here, I'm pulling up. This is pro publica.
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This is a great site if you want to look up any sort of charity,
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they give you all the information.
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So their revenue in 2024 was 9.46 million.
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Their total assets are 15.
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They expensed about 7.54 million.
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So a lot of this comes from different memberships.
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So schools pay to be a part of this organization, the CIF.
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And there's also receipts from championship.
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So it's it's a nonprofit that kind of governs everything.
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And the CIF started this pilot program regarding transgender
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athletes. And now because the Trump
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administration and Linda McMahon, the US secretary of
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Education, said no, we think this is a violation of Title 9,
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this is not fair to those girls who are competing in sports.
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You have about 10 days to comply with our rule.
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So that's who CIF is. Now, the California State is
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obviously standing by this because they think it's a hot
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button issue. That's a winning issue for them
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in, I don't know, the midterms as well as in 2028.
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The truth is that's not the case.
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And we're going to get to that in a second.
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I want to talk about whether or not they're setting themselves
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up to lose federal funding over this.
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Because if the Trump administration and the
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Department of Education at the federal level is saying you
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violated this, where you can now punish you because we can take
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federal education dollars away from you for not complying with
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basically our guidance, they could lose federal funding.
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And I just want to point this out.
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I had to look up the numbers. California receives about $16.3
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billion in federal aid education funding.
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That's a lot of nice 16.3. Now, keep in mind the budget
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deficit for this year was $12 billion.
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So losing $16.3 billion in federal education funding would
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be an enormous hole to fill. And if you remember we talked
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about last week, there is a they did some pretty unique ways of
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borrowing money to try and get and plug those holes for for the
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budget to make it look like it was a balanced budget that was
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$12 billion. And now it's $16.3 billion they
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could lose for federal funding just for scope alone.
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The city of Los Angeles gets about $1.6 billion annually.
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That's a lot of federal money. So they are definitely in danger
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of risking and losing all of that federal funding because
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they're not going to comply with with the Trump administration.
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And the Department of Education is saying Now, with that said,
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is it going to happen right now? Is it going to happen within the
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next week or two? This is, you know, breaking news
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as of yesterday, a lot of the news was being reported this
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morning about this and how California is thumbing its nose
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at the federal government. I will burst your bubble right
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there. It's not going to happen almost
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immediately. I can guarantee you.
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And I think this has already been put out there by Gavin
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Newsom, that they are going to sue over this issue.
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They're going to take this to the federal court.
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They're going to sue over it saying that the Trump
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administration cannot do this and say that they are banned
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under transgender. They can ban these transgender
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athletes. So that's where it is right now.
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And I would imagine that a court is going to grant a preliminary
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injunction and TRO that would stop the federal government from
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implementing any sort of federal funding deduction because of the
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fact that they would be harmed if they lose their federal
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education funding. Until we figure this out, it's
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not fair that we do this. So I, I would just want to kind
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of temper everyone's expectations that even though
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the federal government says they're going to take away and
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likely take away a lot of their federal funding, this will be
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fought out in court. Now, if after a while, all of a
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sudden they find out that they lose, then California could be
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in a huge mess because of how many years this could go on and
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how many years they're receiving federal funding in violation of
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these orders. And if the, you know, federal
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courts find that, yeah, you violate this order, they have
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the right to take federal funding from you, That could be
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a whole sticky situation for, well, probably likely the next
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governor, because in 2028, that's how long it's probably
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going to take. 2026 is right around the corner.
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So probably the next governor is going to have to figure out what
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they're going to do about this federal funding.
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So I did want to bring this up, though, really quickly.
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Let me see if I can pull this up because I did want to show this.
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This is from this year, February 26, 2025.
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And This is why I brought up it's an odd issue for California
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Democrats and Democrats in general to get behind, as if
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this is some sort of big crusade issue.
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This was from February 2025. I believe We already talked
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about this on the show at some point.
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A new Pew Research Center survey finds that the majority of US
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adults favor or strongly favor laws and policies that want to
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require trans athletes to compete on teams that match
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their sex assigned at birth and then also ban healthcare
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professionals from providing care related to gender
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transitions for minors. And This is why I say it is a
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lot of California Democrats and Democrats in general seem to be
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really on the wrong side of this issue.
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The majority, not a slim majority, the majority of US
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adults who have been surveyed on this 66% are not in favor of
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translates competing in sports that they are, they're not the
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assigned gender. So example here in California,
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this hey, Hernandez, who competed against girls, who was
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a biological man. Most Americans are not for that
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and they're not in support of that.
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So what are California Democrats doing this for?
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Is it just another thing to thumb their nose at the Trump
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administration because they made it sort of a center point of
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their platform and what they've campaigned on?
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I don't know. But it didn't seem to help them
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in 2024. I don't know if it's going to
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help them in 2026. And I'm not sure it's going to
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help someone like Gavin Newsom in 2028 if this becomes the
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thing. Now.
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Keep in mind, one of the most devastating ads that a lot of
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they say highfalutin, you know, professional political
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consultants said was really the death knell or one of the
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biggest blows to the Kamala campaign was the ad where Trump
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can't, you know, it was a Trump ad.
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And it said Kamala Harris is for they them and Donald Trump is
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for you. And that was one of the most
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devastating political ads that I think they they showed.
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And a lot of people kind of saw that and were like, OK, that was
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a powerful message and it worked.
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It worked really well for Donald Trump.
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Let's see if it works again, 2026 and 2028 again, I'm not
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sure why this has become such a big issue or sticking issue for
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California, but again, it's California.
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What would you expect? Would you expect anything less?
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All right, I'm going to say hi to everybody in the chat who's
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hanging out with us live tonight.
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Wherever you are, whether it's on Instagram, Facebook,
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anywhere, YouTube, all those places.
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Make sure you leave your comments and chats and stuff
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like that so I can get to them in a little bit between stories
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and then at the end of the show. All right, I want to get to our
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next story. Hold on one, one second.
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Bear with me. All right, next story, drill,
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baby drill here in California. I know you're probably thinking
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that's a crazy sentiment, but yes, it has come out recently.
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I don't know if you've heard this news, but there is a small
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little, little sentiment coming up bubbling up through the
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California government. Maybe it's time to drill, baby
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drill here in the state of California.
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Let's get right into that new story.
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After fighting with the oil industry the past few years,
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Governor Gavin Newsom is considering new and some might
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say surprising action to keep the companies operating in
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California. The state faces the threat of
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higher gas prices and tight gasoline supply as two major oil
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refiners are preparing to shut down within the next year.
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KCR E3 Capital correspondent Ashley Zabala explains exactly
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what he's now weighing. Facing the threat of higher gas
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prices and tighter gasoline supply, California leaders,
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including Governor Gavin Newsom, are now seriously considering
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boosting oil production in the state.
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In a letter to Governor Newsom, the vice chairman of his
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California Energy Commission included oil extraction in a
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list of recommendations to stabilize the state's supply,
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Siva Gunda wrote. Quote We recommend that the
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state take action to achieve targeted stabilization of crude
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oil production in California to supply in state refineries while
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ensuring that production is consistent with critical health
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and environmental protections. That's not rolling back anything
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that's. Governor Newsom has been on the
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front lines of California's push to move away from the use of oil
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and gas. When I asked about these
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recommendations, he did not say if he'll approve, but said he's
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reviewing them. I'm not naive about the
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imperative of a transition that's rational and addresses
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nature of change and a lot of. Newsom, whenever he gets in,
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sort of a tough question. If you ever notice this, he does
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his little shoulder dance. So whenever he gets
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uncomfortable, that's a that's a telltale sign that Gavin is a
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little uncomfortable with the question.
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Changed in the global markets, a lot of change in supply chains,
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a lot continues to change. We've got some challenges and so
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just requires some some new considerations.
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One of California's challenges its reliance on foreign oil.
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The latest state data shows 63% of the state's fuel supply is
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coming from other countries, mostly in the Middle East and
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South America. All.
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Right. I've brought this up on the show
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and I always think it's worth repeating because of the
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hypocrisy regarding California Democrats who say that we can't
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produce oil and that we have to get away from oil, We have to
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get away from fossil fuels because it's bad for the
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environment, it's bad for climate change and all that
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stuff. Yet 63% of the oil that we get,
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we refine here is from foreign countries, which means that it
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has to be shipped on big ships that come here.
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And guess what those ships run on?
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Well, they don't run on solar and they don't run on a wind or
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renewable energy. They run on fossil fuels and
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they get here by those big ships.
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Let and not even mention the fact that these third world
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countries that are producing the oil that we are taking in.
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We don't necessarily know one the workers conditions.
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We don't know the environmental impact of what they're doing in
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these foreign countries. But I guess if it happens
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thousands of miles away, those climate change and fractions
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don't matter. But if we do it here in our
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backyard in California, like Kern County, that's bad.
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We can't do that. We can't produce the oil here.
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We have to get it from a foreign country thousands of miles away,
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which burns more fossil fuel to bring it here rather than create
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more jobs here in California. From both sides of the aisle,
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acknowledged that global conflicts could mean more
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challenges for the states. Fuel.
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The in state producers in the state of California, they
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produce the cleanest oil and gas ever.
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Republican State Senator Shannon Grove represents Kern County,
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where the state has well established oil fields with
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several environmental regulations in place.
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Right now we're in a drastic situation.
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It's actually a catastrophic Cliff.
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And that is not hyperbole. That is not something that's
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just to alarm people. We have two refiners, 2
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additional refiners that have announced closure if we don't
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get them oil to produce and we don't take care of the situation
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that we have in this state regarding in state production.
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Grove says the governor and legislature need to seriously
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consider the California Energy Commission's recommendations and
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act fast to keep refiners in the state.
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I asked if those recommendations surprised her.
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It's not about oil, it's not about in state production.
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The CEC vice chair is trying to figure out how to keep gas
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prices low for all Californians. That's his goal.
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At the state capital, Ashley Zavala, KCRA 3 News.
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Well, some other. Recommendations.
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All right, so that's the update. They are now.
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I can't believe I'm saying this. The California State government
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is recommending some parts of a maybe we should start producing
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more oil here. Maybe we shouldn't take it
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easier on the refineries. Maybe we should try to keep them
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here because gas prices continue to go up and there's all this
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rumbling that we might be facing 8 to $10 gallon gas sometime
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soon in the future. Here's some quick facts from the
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I believe it's the EIA talks about.
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California was the 4th largest total electricity producer in
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the nation. But the second point, in 2024,
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California was the 8th largest producer of crude oil among the
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50 states. I'm surprised it's actually that
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high. That's also because we have a
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ton of oil here in California, like Kern County.
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A lot of these places are sitting on a ton of oil.
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I'm going to get to that in a second.
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And the state ranked 3rd for crude oil refining capacity,
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which again, I'm surprised that we're third with the amount of
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refineries that continue to get shut down and shut down and
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pushed out of this state. Just for some more context, I
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did, I did some more numbers. This is from the US Energy and
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Information Administration. They estimated California has
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crude oil reserves of approximately 1.8 billion
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barrels. Accounting for about 3% of the
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nation's total proven reserves. This includes both onshore and
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offshore reserves, with major concentrations in the San
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Joaquin Basin, Los Angeles Basin, and along the Pacific
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Coast. Now this is even crazier to me.
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Total oil in place, including unproven, technically
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recoverable resources, is much larger.
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So this is stuff that, you know, it's not a well that they can
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identify and say, oh, here's a well of oil that there's stuff
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that they can do and they can say there's oil under here.
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It's going to take a little bit more to get to it.
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The Monterey Shale formation alone is estimated to hold
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around 15 billion barrels of oil.
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Now, this is where it says you do need some more heavy
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extraction methods such as steam injections and stuff like that,
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which environmentalists are probably not going to go for.
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But 15 billion barrels of oil are sitting on the Monterey
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Shale foundation or formation. That is a ton of oil on top of
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the 1.8 billion barrels of of oil that we already know are
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here in California. We're just not getting it out of
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the ground. And for some reason we're
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importing all of it from these foreign nations, these third
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world countries. He also talks about the fact
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that they know that California, California.
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Well, actually, let me back up here for a second.
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He knows that gas prices are going to be either make or break
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for him in 2028, right? We all know that Gavin Newsom is
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going to try and tell people that gas is not that bad in
00:22:07
California and he tried to do that just recently in a tweet.
00:22:11
He said prices at the pump have gotten lower each day this week.
00:22:15
Overall, the average prices are down nearly three whole cents
00:22:21
from the beginning of the week and $0.20 from last month.
00:22:25
Now keep in mind it's also gone up as of July 1st because of the
00:22:28
excise tax that went into effect and then the lower carbon fuel
00:22:32
emission that standard had gone to effect.
00:22:35
This comes after Republicans present 6 plus months of
00:22:38
misleading Californians about a non existent 65 cent jump in
00:22:42
prices on July 1st. Instead, Californians have seen
00:22:46
a consistent decrease. Monday to Tuesday decrease, OK,
00:22:51
Tuesday to Wednesday decrease. So he basically sites one week
00:22:55
out of the entire sample size of California he cited just this
00:22:58
week and said, well look, it's already gone down nearly three
00:23:02
cents. Isn't that incredible?
00:23:03
See, look, we're doing a great job.
00:23:06
Now obviously we're here to Fact Check old Gavin Newsom and this
00:23:11
was as of today. This actually this is the
00:23:14
article I looked this up right now.
00:23:15
This came out today. Even before July 1st, California
00:23:19
already had the highest gas tax and fuel costs in the country.
00:23:24
As of late June 2025, fuel cost 4.4 dollars and 62 got dollars
00:23:29
per gallon in the Golden State, compared to a national average
00:23:32
of $3.20. Baked into these prices are a
00:23:35
slew of regulatory costs including the state excise tax,
00:23:38
the federal excise tax, sales tax, the low carbon fuel
00:23:42
standard requirements, and cost associated with cap and trade.
00:23:46
All in all, as of April 2025, the total burden of these
00:23:51
regulations amounted to $1.25 per gallon, a staggering 27% of
00:23:58
the total sticker price. So more than 1/4 of what you pay
00:24:02
in gas has to do with regulations and taxes.
00:24:06
And that is not that's not gaslighting as much as Gavin
00:24:10
Newsom wants to say that Republicans are gaslighting
00:24:12
people to believe that there's this huge jump and this is, you
00:24:15
know, gas prices are going through the roof.
00:24:18
Well, gas prices are expensive in California.
00:24:21
But I think at the end of the day, this is really something
00:24:24
that he knows could hurt him in 2028.
00:24:27
Now, you got to keep in mind next year is his last year as
00:24:31
governor. He only has a certain amount of
00:24:33
time left to make good on some promises so that he can kind of
00:24:37
go into 2028 held with his head held high, saying I've did XY
00:24:42
and Z in California and it got better.
00:24:45
So he has a small window. He's got to make some of these
00:24:47
changes, and that's why he's backtracking on a lot of this
00:24:51
stuff. And what's the golden rule about
00:24:53
politicians is that they never like to admit that they're
00:24:55
wrong. He doesn't want to admit that
00:24:57
this is the guy who put into place the executive order that
00:25:00
everybody should be in EVs and electric cars by 2035, which the
00:25:04
one big beautiful bill just actually overturned and got rid
00:25:08
of. For him to go back now and say
00:25:10
now, OK, maybe we should produce more oil here in the state,
00:25:13
Maybe we should embrace fossil fuel.
00:25:15
Maybe we should be a little bit more rational about it is him
00:25:17
kind of backtracking, admitting that he's wrong.
00:25:19
But he also knows if he wants to run for president, the swing
00:25:22
states, they're going to look at gas prices in California and go,
00:25:25
I don't want those gas prices in my state.
00:25:28
And if there's one thing that people always, always get upset
00:25:31
about is gas prices because it is sort of like a hidden tax for
00:25:34
a lot of people. I didn't want to talk about this
00:25:38
regarding the refineries. So the war on refineries since
00:25:43
2019 for oil refineries since 2019, January 2019 when Gavin
00:25:50
Newsom was sworn in as Governor of California for his first
00:25:56
term, 4 oil refineries have shut down or have announced closures
00:26:02
with two additional refineries under consideration.
00:26:04
Foreclosure. So we have the Marathon Martinez
00:26:07
refinery seized crude oil processing in 2020 and converted
00:26:12
to renewable diesel production. Phillips 66 in Santa Maria
00:26:16
refinery shut down in 2023 with operation shifted to renewable
00:26:20
fuels at the Rodeo facility. Phillips 66 Wilmington refinery
00:26:24
in Los Angeles announced closure by the end of 2025, representing
00:26:28
about 8% of California's refining capacity.
00:26:32
The Valero Banancia refinery announced closure by April 2026,
00:26:38
accounting for roughly 9% of the state's refining capacity.
00:26:42
And this is a in addition, Valero is considering closing
00:26:46
its Wilmington refinery. This is in Los Angeles, which
00:26:50
along with Benicia represents over 14% of California's
00:26:55
refining capacity. No final decision has been
00:26:58
confirmed for this facility, but they are considering getting rid
00:27:01
of that facility as well. SO44 refineries have shut down
00:27:06
or been chased out because of Gavin Newsom and they are no
00:27:10
longer producing any gasoline for people to be able to use.
00:27:14
And now they are backing up slowly.
00:27:16
But sure. Well, maybe we should be a
00:27:18
little bit more rational. Maybe we should start producing
00:27:21
oil here. Maybe we shouldn't be so tough
00:27:23
on refineries. Someone's feeling the heat and
00:27:27
someone knows that if gas does spike up to 678910 dollars a
00:27:35
gallon by the end of 2025 in California, he can kiss the
00:27:39
White House goodbye because no one is going to elect a
00:27:42
president that saw gas prices go up to $10 a gallon while the
00:27:46
rest of the country is paying around $3, if not less than
00:27:49
$3.00. So he knows this is political.
00:27:52
He's going to play it very, very sneaky and very sly to try and
00:27:57
back up and talk about bringing back the, you know, doing his
00:28:00
little dance, bringing back the refining capacity, bringing
00:28:04
back, producing more oil, drilling from oil, oil creating
00:28:07
those jobs, which I mean, if it gets that way, great.
00:28:11
I think we do have an abundance obviously from those numbers,
00:28:15
you know, 15 billion or barrels of oil we're sitting on top of
00:28:19
plus 1.8 billion that we know that is out there.
00:28:22
That's a lot of oil that we're sitting on.
00:28:23
And California could be reducing that here, creating great middle
00:28:27
class jobs. You could keep an eye on it.
00:28:29
You can have workers protections.
00:28:30
You could do all that stuff and create a thriving industry,
00:28:33
bring back a thriving middle class here in California, and
00:28:38
also make sure that Californians are benefiting from the fact
00:28:42
that we produce a ton of oil. So we'll keep an eye on that.
00:28:46
He's desperately trying to gaslight us into believing that
00:28:50
they're not rising. But we all, you know, you know
00:28:54
what they say, don't trust your lying eyes, right?
00:28:57
That's what they always say. Don't trust your lying eyes.
00:28:59
Gas prices are spiking. They are continuing to go up in
00:29:02
California. Gavin Newsom's trying to stop it
00:29:04
before it gets too bad, whether or not he actually does have the
00:29:08
ability to at this point or whether we're too far down the
00:29:11
road or we're going to see. But we'll keep an eye on that
00:29:15
and let me know in the comments in the chat and what you think
00:29:18
about whether or not Gavin Newsom really is going to follow
00:29:20
through a producing more oil and is he ready to drill, baby drill
00:29:23
here in California? All right, let me take a minute.
00:29:28
I want to talk about, hey, what's going on, everybody who
00:29:32
is tuning in live. Thank you, everybody, for coming
00:29:35
out on YouTube, Instagram, all those places.
00:29:40
Let's see, how is Gavin Newsom still in office after two
00:29:46
recall? At this point, I'm inclined to
00:29:47
believe, you know, it's. Yeah, well, we can get, we could
00:29:51
probably do a whole episode about the recall action.
00:29:53
I'm sure we've done plenty of episodes.
00:29:54
If you go back in our archives, we've we've done plenty of
00:29:57
episodes. The problem is I'm having, I got
00:30:02
everything so expensive that we have to constantly work to
00:30:04
survive. We have little time with our
00:30:06
families, but the solution is to run for office.
00:30:09
Well, you know what they say, politicians are very good at
00:30:16
creating the problem and then selling you the solution.
00:30:19
In today's politics, they are very good at creating the
00:30:24
problem and then selling you the solution.
00:30:27
And that's sort of how politics works now, especially in
00:30:30
California. They create the crisis, whether
00:30:33
it's affordability, energy, utilities, anything like that.
00:30:40
They create the crisis. And then what do you do?
00:30:43
You turn to the government and you turn to the government and
00:30:45
you hope that someone can help you.
00:30:48
Me personally, that's not my belief.
00:30:51
I believe that government has done more than its share of
00:30:53
harm. And I think the government needs
00:30:55
to get out of the way of pretty much basically everything.
00:30:57
Because let's say we've tried this whole, let's give the
00:31:00
government more power and more authority over this.
00:31:04
I don't know how many past 4567 decades of let's just keep
00:31:08
giving the government more power to see if they can fix things.
00:31:12
And I would say that I'd probably give him a failing
00:31:13
grade on being able to fix a lot of this stuff.
00:31:15
So maybe we try it the other way.
00:31:16
Maybe we try it where the government gets out of the way
00:31:19
and let's people fix it. Let's, you know, independent
00:31:22
citizens do that. All the Shell rock and oil
00:31:25
preservers in California are a fraction of what states like
00:31:27
North Dakota, Texas and Oklahoma and Alab, Alaska produced.
00:31:31
Newsom's grifting, hoping nobody will call him out on his false
00:31:34
promises. Or.
00:31:38
Or you're saying that all this is a fraction of what they
00:31:40
produce? Yeah, but I mean, why not?
00:31:43
Why? Why can't we do that?
00:31:45
Why can't we do it? Property tax area in SFA just
00:31:51
keeps rising. Yep.
00:31:52
Yep. I hope this state can be fixed.
00:31:54
It's beautiful here. I agree.
00:31:56
I I would not. Look, I wouldn't be doing this
00:31:59
show if I didn't think we could actually fix this.
00:32:04
Does Newsom realize both Shell Rock and oil preserves in
00:32:07
California make up the estimated 80 million barrels of oil?
00:32:11
Yeah. All right, Do All right, let's
00:32:15
get to our next story. Actually, let me take a sip
00:32:21
first real quick. All right, Karen Bass goes full
00:32:31
Karen mode on ICE and Border Patrol, when they do, sweeps
00:32:36
through MacArthur Park in Los Angeles as part of their
00:32:39
immigration crackdown in Los Angeles.
00:32:43
Let's get right into the story and we'll discuss.
00:32:46
What a disgrace What's happening in MacArthur Park.
00:32:50
What theater? Governor Gavin Newsom slamming
00:32:53
President Trump for the federal immigration raid on MacArthur
00:32:55
Park, including horses and troops.
00:32:58
That's the message from the polluted heart of the President
00:33:01
United States. Governor the the the Border
00:33:04
Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino said to Fox.
00:33:06
The federal government is not leaving.
00:33:08
Lai don't work for Karen Bass. The federal government doesn't
00:33:12
work for Karen Bass. We're going to be here till that
00:33:14
mission's accomplished. What's your response?
00:33:15
Tough guy. He does work for us.
00:33:18
He may want to check his pay stub.
00:33:21
He's a public servant. We're taxpayers.
00:33:28
I'm sorry, do you want to say that again?
00:33:33
You are a public servant, so you work for the people.
00:33:38
Public servant works for the people because we, the taxpayers
00:33:41
are the boss. Yet we have officials in
00:33:45
California who act like kings, like Gavin Newsom did during
00:33:49
COVID and told people whether or not they could go spend time
00:33:51
with their family on Thanksgiving or Christmas or any
00:33:53
other holiday. And now he's lecturing people on
00:33:58
the fact that they're taxpayer funded, so therefore they work
00:34:01
for us. What a novel concept, Gavin.
00:34:04
The idea that public officials and public servants work for the
00:34:07
people of the state and the country.
00:34:11
What a novel idea. What about in Los Angeles?
00:34:15
The people who have made millions off of homeless and are
00:34:18
been held have not been held accountable for the millions and
00:34:21
millions of dollars that have been have gone missing.
00:34:26
Do they still work for the people of the state?
00:34:29
Because it feels like a lot of these public officials act like
00:34:33
they know better than us and they like to talk down to us and
00:34:36
lecture us. So interesting theory here,
00:34:40
Gavin Newsom. When when you want to assert
00:34:42
your authority, all of a sudden every public servant and every
00:34:45
government employee works for the people.
00:34:50
But when it's you, you have this moral high ground, and you and
00:34:54
other officials like you believe you have the audacity or the
00:34:57
moral high ground to lecture the rest of us.
00:35:01
It works for the people of the United States of America.
00:35:04
These images distracting a bit from these images of rebuilding.
00:35:07
Oh my God, exactly 6 months since California's wildfires in
00:35:11
January. I wanted just to briefly sort of
00:35:14
mark this moment. The governor hosting an event at
00:35:17
Pasadena City College featuring a variety of leaders that give
00:35:20
credit to the Trump administration for what they
00:35:22
call the fastest fire recovery in modern history.
00:35:25
Debris removal is 96% complete by the US Army Corps of
00:35:29
Engineers. And this is going to be
00:35:31
something that is going to help people navigate the rebuilding
00:35:35
effort. LA County Supervisor Catherine
00:35:37
Barger lays out what she calls the blueprint for the next
00:35:39
steps, including streamlining, permitting, accelerating
00:35:41
inspections, restoring key home utilities, and water, gas, power
00:35:45
and Internet coordination. That could include AI powered
00:35:48
permitting within the next week to speed up the process, you put
00:35:52
out a letter to DWP. In January, Governor Newsom told
00:35:56
us that he was launching an investigation into all the water
00:35:59
issues that made the fires worse.
00:36:01
Today I asked for an update. We'll have that information for
00:36:04
you in August. Big question now.
00:36:08
Keep that in mind. He'll have that information for
00:36:12
us in August. OK.
00:36:15
OK. We'll be waiting, we waiting,
00:36:17
Gavin. We'll be waiting for that
00:36:18
investigation as to what happened with the Department of
00:36:21
Public Works. House Republicans fund more
00:36:24
assistance for Californians, especially those uninsured and
00:36:27
underinsured. You know, the governor has asked
00:36:29
for $40 billion from the federal government to help pay for all
00:36:33
of this. Democratic Congressman Brad
00:36:35
Sherman represents the Palisades.
00:36:37
Frankly, I don't think we'll get the the entire request.
00:36:39
To me, the most important part of the request is what would go
00:36:43
to individuals who lost their businesses or lost their homes.
00:36:47
He says aid for Texas's flood victims could be part of one big
00:36:51
bill that would also help California.
00:36:53
Those two disasters and other disasters do.
00:36:56
You think Republicans are going to give you the money that
00:36:58
you're asking for if this conflict?
00:37:00
All in this together, I'm going to South Carolina.
00:37:02
I think they should get every penny of what they need.
00:37:04
North Carolina should get every penny of what they need.
00:37:06
The governor says he's going to South Carolina this week to
00:37:09
discuss disaster relief strategies, but the state also
00:37:13
happens to be a key early state in the Democratic presidential
00:37:17
primary process. Look at that.
00:37:22
How convenient Gavin Newsom is traveling to South Carolina
00:37:27
because that happens to be one of the first primary states in
00:37:32
the Democratic primary. So, you know, let's, let's take
00:37:34
a step back because Iowa, New Hampshire, and there's a couple
00:37:39
others up there and then it goes South Carolina.
00:37:42
So those first three are very crucial to gaining the momentum
00:37:46
to see if you have what it takes to be the next presidential
00:37:50
nominee of your party. Interesting.
00:37:53
Then he goes to South Carolina, starts drumming up support there
00:37:56
about how they need, they need to get all the support that they
00:37:59
need. They should get every dollar
00:38:00
they have. So for the poor people in North
00:38:03
Carolina who we're still waiting on the Biden administration to
00:38:06
help them after all those storms and everything.
00:38:09
So 0 interest in running for president.
00:38:11
Oh God, I mean Jesus, that's as he smiles for the record, for
00:38:16
all of you couldn't see his face, he.
00:38:19
Was. Right as I will.
00:38:23
It is the worst kept secret in basically all politics right now
00:38:27
is like Gavin Newsom is going to run for president.
00:38:30
We all know that's going to happen.
00:38:32
OK, I got it. Like, that is not going to be a
00:38:34
shocker. That's not going to be something
00:38:35
we're all surprised at. I mean, he is making it
00:38:37
blatantly obvious that he's going to run for president 2028.
00:38:41
He's doing everything that he can to run for president.
00:38:44
And he pretends like, oh, I'm, you know, I'm above that.
00:38:47
I'm I'm too busy doing things, not solving problems and not
00:38:51
giving you the results of the investigations.
00:38:54
Well, another Democratic politician who we all know loves
00:38:57
the publicity stunts and loves to get in front of the cameras
00:39:00
is L as own Mayor Karen Bass, who after she heard about the
00:39:05
raids going on down in MacArthur Park, decided she had to show up
00:39:11
and she had to make her presence known and she had to say some
00:39:14
bombastic things Any. Comment Mayor Beth My.
00:39:19
Comment is they need to leave and they need to leave right
00:39:23
now. They need to leave because this
00:39:27
is not acceptable. Who did you speak with?
00:39:31
Who did? You speak with on the phone just
00:39:32
now. Who did you speak with on the
00:39:34
phone? OK, now, whether or not she just
00:39:43
talked to him or not, gotta love how she's like, you gotta leave
00:39:47
right now. You gotta leave right now.
00:39:49
As if she can wag her finger at federal law enforcement, tell
00:39:52
them to get out. She almost had a tone of like, I
00:39:54
need to talk to your manager right now.
00:39:56
That's why she got on the phone. I need to talk to your manager
00:39:58
about why you guys are here. This is from Bill Malujian, who
00:40:02
is a reporter in Los Angeles. I just spoke to Border Patrol
00:40:07
Chief Gregory Bovino. He was in the video.
00:40:09
Was the official on the phone with LA Mayor Karen Bass at
00:40:11
MacArthur Park today? I asked him.
00:40:13
So First off. He was a Border Patrol chief,
00:40:15
not customs. I asked him for his message to
00:40:17
her as she demands rates and quote, I don't work for Karen
00:40:21
Bass. Better get used to us now
00:40:23
because this is going to be normal very soon.
00:40:25
We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles.
00:40:30
So just a reminder, just to kind of break it down, if you wonder
00:40:34
why ICE is going so hard in Los Angeles, there's probably a good
00:40:40
reason for it because the numbers point to why.
00:40:44
If you're going to crack down on immigration in the state of
00:40:47
California, LA might be the place to do most of your effort.
00:40:53
USC estimates that there's around 900 to 1
00:40:57
illegal immigrants in the city of Los Angeles.
00:40:59
A 2020 for 2024 report from the California Budget and Policy
00:41:03
Center referenced approximately 1.8 million undocumented
00:41:06
immigrants in California. So just for comparison's sake,
00:41:11
if we're saying 900 to 1 live in Los Angeles
00:41:15
and there's about 1.8 in California in general.
00:41:20
Now, numbers vary. I mean there's numbers all over
00:41:22
the place, but let's just take those two numbers, 900 to
00:41:24
1.8 live in California. You're talking about half of the
00:41:30
undocumented citizen or illegal immigrants live in Los Angeles
00:41:34
alone, right? That's if you're going to really
00:41:39
emphasize or focus on an area, you'd probably want to focus on
00:41:44
the city that has almost half of the illegal immigrants
00:41:47
population in the entire state. I mean, it makes sense.
00:41:52
You don't want to go run all over the state and spread your
00:41:55
resources thin. So why not concentrate on the
00:41:57
one area where you think that's probably going to have the most
00:42:02
results for you? The one big beautiful bill which
00:42:05
just passed and was signed into law last week allocates about
00:42:09
150 to 170 billion for immigration related enforcement.
00:42:13
So when Officer Bavino says that we aren't going anywhere, she
00:42:18
better get used to this is going to be the new normal.
00:42:23
The bill says what it says is that they are increasing
00:42:25
enforcement. They are increasing more money
00:42:27
for ICE and Border Patrol and all that.
00:42:28
So LA better get used to this. This is really the federal
00:42:32
government coming in and Karen Bass can wag her finger and, you
00:42:37
know, talk to the manager as much as she wants.
00:42:39
Federal law enforcement's not going anywhere.
00:42:41
ICE isn't going anywhere. Border Patrol, Customs, they are
00:42:43
not going to be intimidated by Karen Bass at all.
00:42:46
So she can come down for a little publicity stunt.
00:42:48
She can come down for a little photo and all that, but at the
00:42:53
end of the day, they're not going to be threatening.
00:42:56
They're not going to be scared off by Karen Bass running down
00:42:59
there and wagging her finger at her.
00:43:02
So get used to it, I guess. Get used to the fact that
00:43:06
they're going to be there in Los Angeles and that they are not
00:43:08
stopping. And if anything, they're
00:43:09
probably going to ramp up even more.
00:43:13
All right, just want to take a second, say hi to everybody in
00:43:18
the chat. They're big.
00:43:20
Three big fires now in California.
00:43:23
Yeah, there's fires going on right now.
00:43:24
And I guess Gavin figures I'm going to go head out and be in
00:43:32
South Carolina. Vinny Boy says I will save us
00:43:36
the trouble and guess the government investigates itself
00:43:38
and will conclude no wrongdoing in August.
00:43:40
Yeah, probably. Now keep in mind, Miss Quinones,
00:43:45
who is the head of LADWP, she makes about 707 hundred, $50
00:43:51
a year, is the head of that department.
00:43:53
Remember that whole thing Gavin Newsom said about public
00:43:56
servants and we pay them and stuff like that.
00:43:58
And I don't know, I didn't know public servants get paid close
00:44:02
to $1 when you want to be a public servant.
00:44:04
I thought that was sort of a sacrifice, not not a get rich
00:44:07
quick scheme, but only in California.
00:44:13
They basically let the floodgates open in LA.
00:44:21
Shout out to Brett for all the housekeeping things, $170
00:44:24
billion budget for ICE. All these Blues and blue mayors
00:44:27
are now worried about losing their voter base.
00:44:31
Current BAZZ is as effective as a sleeping bag with no zipper.
00:44:36
Somebody says there's at least 10 million illegals in
00:44:38
California alone. That's 40 million people in
00:44:40
California, right? And I said these are the
00:44:44
estimates, these are different studies, but I was just giving
00:44:46
you an idea of like, OK, so if it's 900 to 1, then
00:44:50
who knows? That's almost half.
00:44:53
But either way, there is a high concentration in Los Angeles
00:44:56
County and the city of LA. It's it's it's own.
00:44:59
So all right, I want to get to our last story.
00:45:04
So I didn't mention this at the top of the show, but we do have
00:45:07
one bonus story that I think you all get a kick out.
00:45:09
It's not really California. It goes kind of, I guess it goes
00:45:15
hand in hand with this last video, but I want to talk about
00:45:19
this story again. Not california-based, but
00:45:21
sometimes we veer off from California.
00:45:23
So all right, isn't it ironic? The header says it all?
00:45:31
Isn't it ironic that sign? Pay taxes, learn Spanish,
00:45:35
respect my culture. Do you think this is, this is
00:45:41
from a, a protest here in the United States from Texas,
00:45:44
Florida, something like that? No, no, that's, that's not here.
00:45:50
Because you'd think if you saw someone holding a sign that says
00:45:52
learn my language, pay taxes and learn my customs.
00:45:57
If you told someone out of the blue and told them on the street
00:46:00
what that sign was and where do they think that protest is
00:46:03
happening? They'd probably tell you it's
00:46:04
Oklahoma or Texas or Florida or some RedState like that.
00:46:09
This is Mexico City, this is Mexico City.
00:46:13
There are protests going on down in Mexico City over the fact
00:46:17
that there are Americans who are down there who are living there,
00:46:20
who are renting out apartments and they they have a little bit
00:46:23
of a problem with Americans being down in Mexico City.
00:46:26
So let's watch the clip and see if you see any similarities
00:46:30
between what's going on here in LA and down there in Mexico
00:46:33
City. And I, I apologize to anyone
00:46:42
who's listening on audio because you can't see the subtitles, but
00:46:45
I will explain after the video. There are people coming from
00:47:05
foreign countries who want to impose their culture and their
00:47:09
prices on us, and they have a problem with that, OK.
00:47:38
It says demonstrators spoke out against wealthy digital nomads
00:47:41
driving up prices. Talk about that right after the
00:47:44
video. Particularly Americans who can
00:47:49
stay in Mexico for 100 days without a visa.
00:48:08
I don't think I'll swing you. They get a room Departamento
00:48:12
donde vivi sola precios. All right, That last guy was
00:48:23
talking about TJ. If I say right about in TJ, how
00:48:28
prices are going up now, TJ, keep in mind, is a border city.
00:48:32
It's a lot of back and forth. There's someone who lives in San
00:48:34
Diego. I know there's a lot of back and
00:48:35
forth. Love TJ.
00:48:37
There's a lot of great things. I, I will say this, love Mexico
00:48:41
City. I've been to Mexico City several
00:48:43
times. Beautiful city of art, culture,
00:48:46
food and stuff like that. I, I highly recommend if you,
00:48:49
you like Mexico, Mexico City is definitely some place to go.
00:48:52
A ton of beautiful history and art and some of the most amazing
00:48:56
food I've ever had in my life is down in Mexico City.
00:48:59
TJ also a great city. Love TJ as well, but obviously
00:49:04
I'm sure if you're watching this, you're picking up on the
00:49:07
irony of what they are saying. The irony is that you have
00:49:11
people in Mexico who are upset about the fact that Americans
00:49:14
are moving and they are staying in Mexico City.
00:49:18
Now this started. This is not a new phenomenon.
00:49:22
This is not a a breaking story. This is not something that says
00:49:26
this has been going on since basically pandemic.
00:49:29
There was an article which I tried to find pretty old, so I
00:49:33
couldn't find it right away. I remember reading an article
00:49:37
around 2020-2021 when everyone decided, well, OK, I can work
00:49:42
remotely. So why would I work remotely in
00:49:45
an expensive state like California, like Silicon Valley?
00:49:48
Why would I do that when I can go anywhere?
00:49:51
And it's hurt my home city of San Diego because a lot of
00:49:56
people moved down here from Silicon Valley and drove up the
00:49:58
prices of stuff and bought houses and drove up the prices
00:50:01
of everything. So I mean, I, I understand what
00:50:05
that's like when people move in, they drive up the prices of
00:50:07
stuff. But this has been an issue going
00:50:10
on in Mexico City for a while where they are mad that people
00:50:13
who can work remotely are moving down to Mexico City because it's
00:50:16
obviously a lot more affordable. They can live down there in
00:50:19
these nice big apartments basically for a fraction of the
00:50:23
cost. They can still do their nice
00:50:24
tech job and live really well down in Mexico City.
00:50:27
Because if you know anything about Mexico City, there is a
00:50:30
little bit of discrepancy of class kind of inequalities.
00:50:34
There are the people who have a ton of money in Mexico City, a
00:50:36
lot of people who are very, very wealthy in Mexico City, and they
00:50:39
live a very lavish lifestyle and they live very well.
00:50:42
And then there's people who are obviously on the other end,
00:50:44
which could be abject poverty. So you have a lot of these
00:50:49
people who are upset because Americans are moving in and
00:50:51
driving the cost up of everything.
00:50:53
It's happening in TJ too. They're literally building
00:50:55
apartments down in TJ geared towards those who want to live
00:51:01
in TJ because it's a fraction of the cost because you can buy a
00:51:03
condo or something like that down there and now you can't buy
00:51:05
a condo. Disclaimer, you can't buy a
00:51:07
condo if you're not a Mexican citizen.
00:51:09
You get a 99 year lease or whatever the heck they do.
00:51:13
But they literally are marketing towards Americans who want to
00:51:16
live in TJ, which then drives up the cost because Americans are
00:51:19
now living in TJ and crossing the border.
00:51:23
With all that said, it's funny that they want to kick a lot of
00:51:27
Americans out and say we don't want Americans here, get out, we
00:51:30
don't want you, we don't want your money or anything like
00:51:32
that. Two things that when you think
00:51:35
about Mexico and where they get a lot of their income and their
00:51:38
GDP, one of them's got to be tourism, right?
00:51:41
There's got to be a ton of money coming in from tourism.
00:51:43
So this is from 20/23, it was a record of $30.8 billion of
00:51:50
people spending money on tourism going down to Mexico.
00:51:55
Now this is overall in general like everybody who goes down to
00:51:59
Mexico. Keep in mind that a lot of
00:52:02
people do come from from America.
00:52:05
So let's say about 60% of this tourism is is attributed to
00:52:10
American tourists. So 60% of that 30 billion would
00:52:14
be about $18.5 billion of American tourists pouring that
00:52:18
money into Mexico. Mexico City also a major tourism
00:52:24
hub. So if you think about it's about
00:52:27
14. I did the numbers or found this,
00:52:29
14.4 million tourists in hotels in 2023 alone in Mexico City,
00:52:35
which contributed to about 9.1% of the city's GDP and 18.7 point
00:52:41
percent to Mexico's tourism GDP. This translates to roughly $5.7
00:52:46
billion of national tourism revenue for just for that lot of
00:52:52
money pouring in for tourism. So for a lot of people who are
00:52:55
down there who are saying get out, Taurus, we don't want your
00:52:59
money. We don't want you here.
00:53:02
Mexico as a whole benefits a lot from American tourists and
00:53:06
people coming down there and spending money.
00:53:08
Now, another number conveniently that they seem to, you know,
00:53:12
want the American tourists out, they don't think it's good for
00:53:15
them to be in Mexico, say, well, take your tourism dollars, but
00:53:17
get the heck out. Don't live here.
00:53:18
We didn't. We, you know, you don't fit into
00:53:20
our culture, you don't speak our language, you don't understand
00:53:23
us. Get out.
00:53:26
Another big revenue stream when it comes to Mexico is
00:53:30
remittances. Now, remittances are when you
00:53:32
live in another country and you send it back to your country.
00:53:34
Remittance. Remittances from abroad account
00:53:37
for roughly 4.5% of Mexico's total.
00:53:39
GPGDP inform the largest single source of foreign income for
00:53:44
Mexico, outstripping the income brought in by any other
00:53:47
individual source, including foreign direct investment from
00:53:50
the United States, tourism, and net manufacturing exports.
00:53:53
The total value of remittances increased by roughly 32% between
00:53:58
2019 and 2023, rising by an average of 5% per year.
00:54:04
As of 2022, the average remittance transaction sent to
00:54:07
Mexico amounted to roughly $390.00.
00:54:11
Considering Mexico's average monthly salary is 6150 Mexican
00:54:16
pesos, which is roughly 297 dollars, such transactions can
00:54:21
contribute A sizable portion and sometimes the entirety of a
00:54:24
family's total income. So for all those who are
00:54:30
protesting down in Mexico City that they don't want Americans
00:54:33
there, I would like to are you, do you want all their money out
00:54:38
as well? And do you want them not to come
00:54:39
back? Do you want tourism out?
00:54:42
Because Mexico City definitely benefits from tourism.
00:54:44
I was a tourist there several times, spent money in Mexico
00:54:48
City. I like going down to Mexico and
00:54:49
touring and visiting Mexico. So they is is where, where are
00:54:55
we? Where are we at here?
00:54:56
Do you want the American dollars to come down into Mexico and
00:54:59
help stimulate the economy, or do you want them to all leave?
00:55:03
But I think the bigger story that anybody who's watching that
00:55:05
video finds it incredibly ironic that you have protests going on
00:55:09
here in Los Angeles where people are waving the the Mexican flag
00:55:13
and they are protesting for undocumented citizens to stay
00:55:17
here in California. And then down in Mexico, they're
00:55:21
waving the Mexican flag and they're telling Americans who
00:55:23
are there lawfully, basically because they're allowed to be
00:55:26
there for 180 days without a visa, telling them to get out.
00:55:30
So in Mexico City, they want people who are down there
00:55:33
contributing to the economy to get the heck out.
00:55:36
And then in LA, they want people who are here illegally.
00:55:38
They want them to stay. If the irony, if you don't get
00:55:43
the irony, I don't know what else to tell you and where else
00:55:46
to go from there. But that was one story that I
00:55:49
wanted to share with you. All right, finishing up.
00:55:56
Thank you, everyone who's been tuning in.
00:55:57
This is a good night. The hour always flies by.
00:56:01
When I I always think I don't have enough stuff.
00:56:03
And then the hour just absolutely flies by.
00:56:06
Some of you already guessed that it was Mexico City right off the
00:56:08
bat. Yep.
00:56:11
What else is going on? Silicon Valley tech Bros moved
00:56:13
out of the Bay, drove up to prices in Sacramento and made
00:56:16
the city unaffordable. Yeah, well, once they figured
00:56:18
out they could work remotely, they're not going to stay in
00:56:20
Silicon Valley where it's expensive.
00:56:22
They'll move somewhere else. It's all the deportees having a
00:56:26
homecoming party. I, I don't know about that.
00:56:29
They're, they're more mad about being and, and I, I don't
00:56:33
understand if you want to protest, if you want to protest
00:56:39
like you, you're not happy that Americans are there in Mexico
00:56:42
City. Why are you destroying Mexican
00:56:46
businesses like Mexican business owners?
00:56:48
Why are you destroying their businesses who are contributing
00:56:52
to your own economy in protest of Americans being there?
00:56:57
I, I don't understand that logic of like, so we're going to go
00:57:01
around, we're going to deface our beautiful city.
00:57:03
We're going to destroy property, we're going to destroy the
00:57:06
businesses. I think at a certain point we
00:57:09
got to say, are these people protesting or they're just using
00:57:11
it as an excuse to be, you know, complete jerks and using it as
00:57:16
an opportunity to just destroy property and to act like jerks.
00:57:22
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00:57:25
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