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We're on every day from three until six, and then after six o'clock, the podcast, John

Cobalt's show On Demand.

And in the first hour, we played clips of Scott Pike, the Los Angeles Fire Department

firefighter who testified in a deposition about he seemed to be the only one in the fire department

that day who noticed the hot spots, the hot coals, the smoking, the smoldering. I mean, he wouldn't

even touch the hot rocks with his gloved hand.

And he's telling people, and nobody, everybody wanted to go home.

Nobody wanted to put out the fire.

It was still bad.

We're going to play you some more clips later on in the hour.

Now it's USA Professor Michael Meshay.

He's been a guest on a show a few times because he correctly had predicted for a while that refineries in California were going to close.

Two of them did close in the last six months, and that was going to drive up the price of gas.

And that did happen and went up at least 40 cents since the beginning of the year because of these closed refineries.

And now we've got the Iran war that began over the weekend.

And oil prices, which averaged $65 a barrel in this country, bumped up about 10%. It moves up and down quite a bit, but that's the

general range. It's in the low 70s. Let's get Michael Meshay on. Michael, how are you? Terrific,

John. How are you today? I am good. So what's this war? What's it done to the price of gasoline and what's likely to come?

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