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And Michael, you there? Terrific, John. How are you today? I'm glad you could join us. Now, what you're saying is most people wouldn't understand or they would probably have immediately, they would recoil at the idea that somehow you could end up with more emissions by not. producing oil and gas from the ground. I know this is something you're especially an expert in, Professor Rector. Why didn't you explain the concept here? I'd be happy to. You know, there have been a lot of studies that have been done over the past decades about health effects of living near oil and gas fields. And they found more asthma and a lot of bad things that have happened to people living in the vicinity of things, these things. Because of that, California has enacted very stringent emissions monitoring. And today, as of 2025, there are virtually no emissions at oil and gas fields. And yet, these studies continue and say people are still getting sick living near oil and gas fields. And so the industry is pointing the finger at... The studies saying, oh, the studies are wrong. And the studies say, no, we're right. You're cooking the book somehow on your emissions. There are more emissions than you think. Well, they're both right, but for different reasons. It turns out that oil and gas fields occur along major faults in Los Angeles. like a straight line between L.A. City all the way through Wilshire and the La Brea Tar Pits all the way to Santa Monica, and then straight south as well. These are earthquake faults, too. They have oil pools underneath them, but they also seep oil to the surface, like at the La Brea tar pits. So being near an oil gas field means you're also near these seep locations. And people have done studies that say that the amount of toxic emissions that you were ingesting walking around Hancock Park today is about 200 times more than what you would get going to a drilling island where they're actually extracting oil and gas. So it would be better to extract it from the ground. rather than letting it from underground, rather than let it seep up to the surface, because that's where all the emissions are. That's where all the toxic elements are for us to breathe. Well, that's been going on for thousands, if not millions of years in L.A. It's never changed, okay?

So what happens, though, when you start producing oil and gas, as long as you do it responsibly and with real regulated approaches, is that you take away the oil and gas. You depressurize the reservoir, and we know that when you do that from other studies, that the emissions drop, the steep emissions go down. So the more gas and oil you produce from underground, The fewer... The seat emissions and the safer L.A. will be. Yeah. Most people probably wouldn't think that would be true, but it makes sense. If you pump oil and gas out, that does relieve the pressure, and you don't have the emissions bubbling up into the atmosphere as much. It's true. Correct. They've done studies in Santa Barbara, and some of these gaseous seats... simply disappeared after they produced oil and gas for a while. Is that right? Because the emissions, you say, are 100 times greater than the leaks? The emissions. The natural seeps are now, as of 2025, 100 times greater than the leaks from oil and gas operating equipment. This didn't happen 50 years ago. We've done a good job of making LA and California production very clean. But as of now, that's the ratio. L.A. is essentially sitting on, it's a very unique place in the world. There's more oil per square meter in some parts of L.A. than any other place in the world. It's like an oil volcano. Is that right? It's not going to explode. I mean, my next question. Yeah, it's seeping up along these faults. Okay. And it's slowly degassing all over the place along these faults. And those faults are where the oil fields are. So, of course, if it's degassing, it's toxic chemicals. It can cause health effects. But it's not the oil production is doing a good thing. Michael Mishay, and he's the USC professor. Michael. If we actually started pumping oil and converting it to gasoline from here in Los Angeles, would that have a meaningful impact on the supply and the price in this state? Well, it certainly would, Jon Ossoff Professor Rector and I and our co-author, Joe Silva, put together when we looked at production in Kern County and offshore of Santa Barbara, It was very meaningful impact. So if you increase the production in Kern and you increase the production offshore, you would have a very favorable impact on California oil supplies and gasoline supplies. And in turn, a favorable impact on the prices of those. They will come down for the consumer.

So this idea that you're promoting here sounds like a great deal for everybody. We'd have less emissions in the atmosphere if we pumped out the oil rather than let it bubble to the surface. And it would give us a significant boost to our oil supply and lower the gas prices. Yeah, because we... Yeah, it's even better than that. Right, hold on. What a time. Yeah. Sorry, it's even better than that. I'll let the... I'll let Jamie take over from there. Yeah. Yeah, it's even better than that. There's probably over a billion barrels of oil, recoverable oil, in the northern part of L.A. County. That's a lot of oil. That's, you know, billions of dollars in tax revenues and other things. But it's not just the oil coming out. It even may have impacts on things like wildfires. Because wildfires, sometimes in the mountains, are perpetuated by these oil and gas seeps. In other words, seeping oil and gas, if there's methane coming out, that's flammable. and wildfires can actually be enhanced by these seeds. All right, guys, hang on the line. You've just heard Professor James Rector from UC Berkeley and also talking with USC professor Michael Mischay about the vast amount of oil below the surface here in Los Angeles County. The city of Los Angeles wants to ban the drilling again, even though it may be beneficial to the environment and to our oil supply and to gas prices if we drill for it and extracted it. You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. We're on every day from 1 until 4 o'clock. You could follow us on social media at John Cobalt Radio. At John Cobalt Radio. I'm talking with two professors, Professor James Rector from UC Berkeley and also Professor Michael Mischay from USC. We've had Professor Meshay on a number of times over the price of gas. We've had... Dr. Rector on before as well. He's an expert in California oil and gas reservoirs and oil drilling. And this is pretty simple to understand. We have a huge reservoir of oil beneath the surface in Los Angeles. And it seeps out. Think the Libraea tar pits. So you get these toxic emissions seeping into the air. We could drill for the oil, but the city wants to ban. oil drilling. And what Professor Rector and Professor Meshay are saying is if we drill for the oil and relieve the pressure, you are going to have less seepage and less emissions into the atmosphere. And it'll be less unhealthy here.

In addition, as Michael Meshay pointed out, you have more oil production, which we need desperately, and you'll have lower gasoline prices. So it seems like a good deal, but we got, I guess, Professor Rector, we were dealing with the L.A. City Council here? Yeah, the Planning Commission, I believe. Planning Commission. And are those bureaucrats or are those elected officials? I don't know. Yeah. Now, have you made a presentation to them yet? I mean, you're aware that they would like to ban drilling again. Have you gotten in contact with them to explain how the science works? I made a public comment yesterday, or maybe it was a couple of days ago. That's the only communication I've had with them. Right. Because, I mean, how receptive are people in government usually when people like you and Michael Miche go in there and say, look, here's how it works, and we can show you that? Things could be better if we just drill for the oil and reduce the seepage and reduce the emissions that are leaking. Well, all I can say is that nobody's contacted me since my public comment, and maybe they will in the future. Yeah. Michael Mishay, I know you've been on the leading edge of fighting about the oil production issue here in the state, and you've been attacked by Gavin Newsom's office. But are you making any headway with any legislators or bureaucrats in your sphere when you talk about increasing production? Well, I think we have. And, you know, we have SB 237, which was passed to help increase production in Kern County. You know, a year ago, that thing would have never been conceived of, let alone past. And so we've had, we've made some, we've made some. you know, headway. I do think there's been quite a bit of discussion now beginning in Washington, D.C., about California oil production and gasoline and its impact on national security. As a matter of fact, I think the president or the Secretary Bergam just released a comment just a few hours ago on national security issues. related to California oil and gasoline production. So, you know, we are getting some awareness of that. And I would think we're going to get some favorable action on the part of the consumer coming up here in 26.

Let me ask you something. I mentioned this in the opening about gas prices around the country. Like we're at an average of 440 here in California. It's 294 nationally. We know much of the California problem is the excessive taxes and regulation. But how the hell can they be selling gas at 10 stations in Denver, at least? 10 stations for between $1.69 and $1.77. How can they do that? That baffles me. That's a dollar less than the average in the rest of the country. Well, it is, and it's a great question to ask. I mean, if you take a look to California gasoline prices, $1.44 of that price is up. And by the way, we're 50% higher. Summer is here, which means we all want to look and feel our best. A gLP1 may be right for you. Visit orderly meds.com to learn more about which gLP1 you could be eligible for. Getting started is fast, easy, and happens virtually through telemedicine from licensed professionals. Check it out for yourself. Go to orderly meds.com slash podcast. That's orderly meds.com slash podcast. Taking care of yourself feels great. Compout of medications are not FDA-approved eligibility required and determined by a licensed provider. Individual results may vary. See website for details. The headlines, they move on, but the heartache and the terror, they do not. Iran and its terrorist proxies are continuing to target Israel. Hezbollah continues its attacks in the north, forcing families to live under constant threat. But Israel is not only defending her people, she is standing on the front lines against terror that threatens us all. Even when the news crews leave, the international fellowship of Christians and Jews, they remain. Every day, they are on the ground, providing life-saving aid. Now, near Israel's border with Lebanon, a Hezbollah drone recently struck the home of Yelina, widowed earlier this year, and living alone, she was trapped inside by the blast. Thankfully, she was not injured, but she remained displaced. It's hard these days, she says, but I don't want to leave. Well, as Christians, we are called to stand with God's people and pray for those defending Israel and protecting the freedoms we hold dear. I want you to join the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in praying for the peace of Jerusalem. and for the soldiers, families, and civilians carrying the burden of this fight right now. Visit pray, IFCJ.org. That's pray, IFCJ.org. You want your master's degree. You know you can earn it, but life gets busy, the pack schedule, the late nights, and then there's the unexpected. American Public University was built for all of it. With monthly starts and no set login times, APU's 40 plus flexible online master's programs are designed to move at the speed of life.

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So it's really going to be the cost of their product that's reflected in that. Because California has no pipelines coming into the state, and I know that's incredulous, but it's an absolute fact. There's no pipelines coming in. We are totally dependent on maritime transportation. And because our production has fallen, as Jamie has pointed out, we now import over 65% of oil from foreign nations such as Iraq. Our costs are incredibly high. You marry the high cost of importation with high operating costs. Our refineries operate somewhere between 27 to 38% higher costs than the national average for a refinery. And then you add into that to state taxes. Well, you have high gasoline prices. So it's just the cost buildup is just so much greater. All right. Well, Dr. Michael Meshay, thank you for coming on, Professor at USC. And James Rector, Dr. Rector, thank you for coming on as well from UC Berkeley in explaining this concept. And I hope you have a good fortune trying to convince bureaucrats and politicians here that would be beneficial for everyone if we started drilling for the oil and gas under the ground in Los Angeles.

You know, I'm all about the environment in this argument, and we need more study, of course. But I think that kind of common sense dictates that if we really do want to clean up the environment, we need to get rid of the oil under L.A. Right. And get rid of the seepage. Thank you very much, both of you. We'll talk again. Thank you. All right. We've got more coming up. You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. We're on from 1 to 4 every day after 4 o'clock John Cobalt show On Demand, the podcast, same as the radio show. That'll be released after 4. And the voice line is twice next hour at 320 and 3.50. Excuse me. All right, you got to hear this, or do you have to hear this? I'm fascinated by this fraud situation in Minnesota with the Somalis. It's just stunning that a billion dollars was looted by these immigrants. And the governor, Tim Walz, in his administration, everybody was afraid to call them on it because they didn't want to be accused of racism. Apparently accusing thieves of stealing is considered racist in some circles. What do you say? This is so ludicrous. It's so silly. And Waltz is now spitting up all over himself. Every time I see a clip of him trying to explain this, he just sounds like a bigger and bigger fool because there is no explanation. Why don't you just admit it? You were afraid of activist groups and Somali groups are calling you racist. You were afraid you were going to lose their votes. So you allowed it to happen. The whistleblowers in Minnesota are saying that the Waltz administration was told over and over and over again what was happening. And they were the ones who were smacked down. The whistleblowers. Now, what did these fraudsters do with the proceeds? We've got a story here from CBS News, Jonah Kaplan. They got dozens of files and photos on what the fraudsters spent the money on. Play cut number one. A honeymoon in the Maldives, a fleet of luxury cars. Here's a box with more than $270,000 in cash. This was all evidence from a new trova files obtained exclusively by CBS News, showing how a group of convicted Minnesota fraudsters spent taxpayer dollars. One text message reads, you are going to be the richest 25-year-old. We're not even at the end of the beginning. of our pursuit of the stolen money and of the people who stole it. U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen leads the office digging into the wave of COVID-era fraud that hit Minnesota. So how much money are we talking about stolen from the American taxpayer?

I can say with great comfort well in excess of a billion dollars. In the past three years, 87 defendants have been charged, 61 convicted. The majority of them are Somali American. Minnesota has the nation's largest Somali population. The perpetrators are accused of ripping off state-run programs intended to feed low-income kids. house the disabled, and provide services to autistic children. This was a get-rich scheme. Andy Lugar was the U.S. attorney who first examined this fraud. He left in January. One of the things we discovered is that a number of the people involved were buying investment property, resort property in Kenya. Wire transfers reviewed by CBS News also show more than $1 million went to Chinese banks. The Trump administration has said it's investigating whether any of the money fell into the hands of terror groups like al-Shabaab and Somalia. But both Lugar and Rosen agree, the evidence so far shows the criminals were only interested in getting rich. So there's no evidence that any of these... convicted or those who are charged sent a check and directly gave it to al-Shabaab I think that's a fair characterization these are federally funded programs they happen in every U.S. state what happened here in Minnesota that allowed this fraud to materialize to metastasize it appears that the people at the highest levels of responsibility in the government of the state of Minnesota looked the other way A spokeswoman for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz-night tells us that fighting the fraud, it's his, quote, top priority and fraud is something that happens in states red and blue. Tomorrow, the governor plans to name a new statewide fraud czar. Members of the Somali community, meanwhile, they're warning that they as a community are being held collectively responsible. See, they continue with the racism, defense. It just keeps going on and on. Waltz should be out of office. I mean, they should be carrying him out of office and put on a train and set out of the country. He knew what was going on. His whole administration did. You want to hear the stuff they were buying? And this is from... The exhibits from the federal trial. All right. This is real. In fact, I'm looking at photos. Jonathan Kaplan mentioned, rather, Jonah Kaplan mentioned a box of cash. I'm looking at the photo of the box of cash. $270,000. It's actually fascinating to see what $270,000 looks like when wrapped in rubber bands, tightly packed. There's also a message that says $270,000. And what else are in the exhibits? A confirmation email for a stay in a villa over the water with a private pool at the Radisson Blue Resort in Maldives.

Beautiful resort islands out in the Indian Ocean. Lakefront property in Minnesota. They bought lakefront property. There's receipts showing wire transfers to China and East Africa. By the way, the money that went to China is very difficult to track when they say there's no evidence that the money directly went to al-Shabaab, the terrorist group. That doesn't mean the money didn't go indirectly to the terrorist group. That that was the original intention to get it there. It's just basic money laundering. Why would it be rooted through China? And the investigators say it's really hard when the money's rooted through China to figure out where it went. It's like an investigative black hole. An investigative black hole. Somebody bought a 2021 Porsche McCann and first class tickets to Istanbul and Amsterdam. One of these guys is abdimid Mohammed Nur. And he's 24 years old. And the judge in the case said, where others saw a crisis and rushed to help, you saw money and rushed to steal. He's getting 10 years in prison. He's going to have to pay $48 million in restitution. Another guy, Abdi Aziz Shafi Farah, 28 years in prison. He made six transfers, each worth more than a million dollars to China. Then what? Don't tell me this couldn't end it up in the hands of terrorists. Of course it could. You aren't going to write a check or a wire transfer to the leader of al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab. In one text, Farah instruct us someone to send $1,000 to Mogadishu Bakara. That is where Ashabab had a stronghold. It was the site of the Black Hawk Down incident back in 1993. Remember that? There was a famous movie. Eighteen American service members were killed. Thara opened Empire Cuisine and Market, a Minnesota restaurant that was connected with a non-profit feeding our future. They claimed they were cooking and giving meals to children. And they billed the state for $47 million. They claimed to serve 18 million meals. They never served one meal. Not one bowl of soup. Not one plate of fries. Not one bowl of macaroni. Nothing. There's video where Farah is seen popping champagne at a private pool in the Maldives.

or expose what's happening. I think that Minnesota was just the tip of the sphere. And as you continue to see what's happening across the country, I think logically you should start with a place like Ohio. We have the second highest Somalian population. I live in Columbus, Ohio. So we have between 40 and 60,000 Somalian residents. We're one of the largest Somali communities in the United States. And many came here legally. There were refugees. between the 1990s and 2000s, and many of them are law-abiding. I know the Somalian community, great people, many of them are working hard. The problem today is not the community. It's actually the criminals within the Somalian community that have exploited Ohio's Medicaid program because we have a system right now. It's one of the easiest in the Midwest to game. I was able to... All right there. Let me explain. In Ohio, if you're an individual, you could receive Medicaid payments up to $91,000 a year per person for care that you're supposed to be giving to a family member. So I guess there are no family members. And the, quote, fake caregiver is getting $91,000 of tax money. And then the doctors who approve these payments get kickbacks themselves. So you fill out a form and say, yeah, I'm taking care of my dad here, except there is no dad here. And the doctor says, okay, can I have some of the 91 grand? Yeah, sure. Let's talk about it. And Mehek Cook says they're just rubber stamping a lot of these. The same individual then, a week later. that is supposed to be bedridden is now all over social media out dancing at a party or something like that. So she said the symptoms aren't really adding up at the end of the day. And she makes it sound as if there's more in Ohio adjusted for the population than there is in Minnesota. That would be three states because we had a report from News Nation last week about Maine and the Somali community there. Tim Walz today said, well, you've got fraud in all kinds of communities. Well, there shouldn't be Eddie. You should be able to stop all the fraud. And the difference is, apparently maybe if it wasn't Somalis, you would be stopping the fraud, but you let them get away with it. Because you're woke because you don't want to be called racist and because you want their votes. He is a clown. He might be worse than Gavin Newsom. All right. Coming up next, eight high school kids in Anaheim on the running team. They got hit by a guy. And this guy has a DUI passed. And... Turns out in California, for all their daddy state obsessions, drunk drivers aren't one of them. Surprisingly lenient laws and no follow-up, we'll tell you about it coming up. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 640 from 1 to 4 p.m. every Monday through Friday. And of course, anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio app.

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