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The Railroad Commission and the state’s oil industry trumpet their work to reduce flaring.

“I needed somebody that could play the trumpet and then someone to play clarinet for the polkas,” he says.

Newsom also trumpeted progress already made on crime in the state, but said the numbers alone mean little to Californians.

Their appearance was a sensation – combining sheer technical skill with a thrilling joie de vivre, as they span their double basses, twirled their trumpets and clattered their cowbells, all while clad in Venezuelan-flag jackets.

“You know this is in the Book of Revelations. The horns. Well, trumpets. But it’s like the same thing. It’s alarming.”