1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: day from one until four o'clock, and then after four 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: o'clock it's the podcast John Cobelt's Show on demand on 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: the iHeart app. And that's where you get to hear 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: whatever you miss during the day, or maybe you just 7 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: want to hear it all over again. I am often 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: baffled by everything what goes down in the world. Wow, 9 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: how media covers stories, weird issues or phrases that get 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: repeated over and over again by everybody in politics and 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: the media, and you know, you can almost see the 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: wheels of the propaganda machine working. So I've noticed, if 13 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: you follow news at all, you can't help but notice 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: that there's a word that was rarely used in recent years, affordability, 15 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: which being repeated over and over again. Self evident. Affordability 16 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: means do people have enough money to buy the stuff 17 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: they need to live at a decent level, and that 18 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: nation has suddenly maybe this happened a week ago Tuesday, 19 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: become unaffordable and so it's become a big weapon to 20 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: be used for the next election cycle against Trump and 21 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out, like, why suddenly they 22 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: keep talking about people upset about prices. Prices are high, 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: prices are high, But why are people upset when the 24 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: inflation rate is so much less than it was under Biden. 25 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: Under Biden it was over nine percent. Now it's under 26 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: three percent. And I think what's happened is is that 27 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: Trump campaigned and people over promise and distort when they 28 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: campaigned that he was going to lower prices. Now I 29 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: don't remember in my lifetime, Eddie president actually lowering prices. 30 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: What he can help do is lower the rate of inflation. 31 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: But that's not what he was saying. He said lower prices. 32 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: And since most people have no sense of history or 33 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: memory and they can't do math, that kind of claim 34 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: should have been dismissed immediately. Well, he's not going to 35 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: do that, and because he hasn't, there's no way to 36 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: do that. You can't affect the price of well the 37 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: inflation rate with your policies, and so people, I guess, 38 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: actually thought that the price of stuff was going to 39 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: go down. And when you tell them, well, the inflation 40 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,679 Speaker 1: rates only two point eight percent or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah, 41 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: but that means you know the prices are even higher, 42 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: and yeah, that's the problem. During the Biden years, prices 43 00:02:54,080 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: went up cumulatively twenty two percent. So this extra let's 44 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: say three percent inflation is on top of that twenty 45 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: two percent, and people still have in their heads the 46 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: brain is fixed on what did stuff used to cost 47 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: five years ago, right in twenty twenty, like before the pandemic, 48 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: what did stuff cost? And that's still in everybody's heads, 49 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:20,839 Speaker 1: and they never got used to the last five years 50 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: of inflation. And now Trump comes along and you got 51 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,119 Speaker 1: another three percent inflation. It's like, well, the prices still 52 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: are bad, and they are bad. But I think that's 53 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: the disconnect between Trump's crowds saying well, we've lowered the 54 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: rate of inflation. It's like, well, yeah, but he promised 55 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: to lower the prices, which is a bad promise. Nobody's 56 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: ever done that. That's not possible. I think the only 57 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: time prices go down significantly is if you have the 58 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: Great Depression, and nobody wants that. So the Democrats are 59 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: using that, trying to build that as an argument and 60 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: make a case going into the election cycle next November 61 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: for the mid terms for Congress, and then eventually the 62 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: presidential race, which is now three years away, and Gavin 63 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: Newsom has become the leading candidate by all accounts in 64 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:20,559 Speaker 1: these early polls because he says nasty things about Trump 65 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 1: and apparently that's all half the country is looking for. 66 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: But if this affordability question is really important to people, 67 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: then the world has got to look at what has 68 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: happened to prices in the state of California since Gavin 69 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: Newsom took over. H John Fleischman, political analyst. He has 70 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,799 Speaker 1: a website called so does Itmatter dot com? So does Itmatter? 71 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: Dot Com? And you have to you have to pay 72 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: for many things on the website and it's worth it. 73 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: And he wrote a piece this Gavin Newsom's gift to 74 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: the state soon could be his gift to the nation. 75 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: Got to take seriously this idea that Newsom is the 76 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: leading candidate, because I don't think you want to live 77 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: in a country where Gavin Newsom is the president. And 78 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: I'm going to run down all the price changes here 79 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: in California, and most of this has to do with 80 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: his policies. But you go through this and you realize 81 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: he is like the worst candidate if he's going to 82 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: be prattling about affordability. I remember, he's not going to 83 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: be running against Trump, so he's going to have to 84 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: promote what he's done in California. Right, What else is 85 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: on the resume? Eight years of being governor, eight years 86 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: of being lieutenant governor, eight years of being the mayor 87 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: of San Francisco. What do you have to show after 88 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: twenty four years at high levels of government? Well, according 89 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: to the Legislative Analyst Office in Sacramento, you know what 90 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: it costs people to carry a typical mid tier home, 91 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: like a middle of the pack house. You got to 92 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: pay fifty five hundred dollars. Fifty five hundred dollars. That 93 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: is about eighty percent higher than it was five years ago. 94 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: Even if you look at the bottom tier of housing, 95 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: your monthly payment is over three thousand. Yeah, I mean 96 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: it's extremely expensive here for housing, as you know, and 97 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: for rent. If you just want to buy a modest 98 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: starter home, well, now you need income that exceeds the 99 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: statewide median income. Not affordable. That's why I'm just I 100 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: don't understand how everybody's carrying on about the affordability. And 101 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: then Newsom is the top candidate. All right, that's a disaster. 102 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: Then electricity. You have a house in California, you are 103 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: paying eighty percent more for electricity than the rest of 104 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: the nation on average, eighty percent. Like PGNE customers, average 105 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: rates are eighty percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen. 106 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: So you're paying eighty percent higher than the start of 107 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: Newsom's term and eighty percent higher than the rest of 108 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: the country is right now TRIPLEA gas prices. They put 109 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: out a list state by state. I read from them frequently. 110 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: National average is two ninety five. There are states like 111 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: Oklahoma where it's down to two thirty five, California about 112 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: four fifty. So we're at four fifty. The nation's averages 113 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: two ninety five. That's over a dollar fifty per gallon higher. Wow, 114 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: that's that means every time you fill up, that's an 115 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: extra thirty bucks you're paying. Times you have fifty weeks 116 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: a year, that's fifteen hundred dollars extra you're paying. Insurance 117 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 1: in California. Wall Street Journal found that nationally, premiums have 118 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:37,839 Speaker 1: risen fifty to seventy five percent. California one of the 119 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: worst markets. Back in twenty twenty, A household needed about 120 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in annual income. To 121 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: have a mid priced California home, now you have to 122 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: be making a quarter of a million dollars. The median 123 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: rent in California is over twenty two hundred a month, 124 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: fifty percent higher than the medium and it goes on 125 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: and on like this. It's like, now, these are all 126 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 1: the big ticket items, electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgages. It's extraordinarily 127 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: high here, way higher than the rest of the country. 128 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: So how does Newsome come riding in and prattle about affordability. 129 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm baffled by this. I completely don't understand it. He's 130 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: getting all kinds of tongue bads in the media. Now. 131 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: Everybody's racing to do the profile and Gavin Newsom. Hardly 132 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: a day goes by where I don't read like a 133 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: new interview, a new profile, a new analysis on Gavin Newsom, 134 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: and in the same publication there'll be some lengthy analysis 135 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: about how things are so unaffordable in this country. Who 136 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: I have They're they're doing this in insane cheerleading for 137 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: a guy who just just go by the numbers as 138 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: objectively as possible. Complete failure at providing an affordable life 139 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: for most people. Take his name away and his party away. 140 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: Look at the prices in all fifty states for electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgage. 141 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: If you saw his numbers, you'd say, well, not that 142 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: guy who is that? That's a bad record there. How 143 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: come all the other forty nine governors in the other 144 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: forty nine states have better numbers. Boy, that is that 145 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: is the word. Well, highest inflation ray, highest unemployment rate. 146 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: And you know, I can go on through the list, 147 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: talk more when we come back. 148 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 149 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 2: six forty. 150 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: You can follow us on social media at John Cobelt 151 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: Radio at John Cobelt Radio, and you can subscribe to 152 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: our YouTube channel. We're putting up new segments every day, 153 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: longer segments YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt's show, 154 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: a little different YouTube dot com slash at John coblt Show, 155 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: and you subscribe and you'll get to see these. You 156 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: will get notification of all the segments that we put 157 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 1: up there. All right, So open last segment. John Fleischman 158 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: has a piece in his on his website, so does 159 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 1: it matter dot com? And it was it was addressing 160 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: this this whole craze right now, like almost everybody's writing 161 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: about it and talking about it in the media and 162 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: politics is affordability. How the price of everything is so difficult, 163 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: especially real estate, and it is people are are having 164 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: a hard time because Trump didn't lower prices. He can't. 165 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: The inflation rate is lower. But that lower inflation rate, 166 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: and it is a lot lower than it used to be, 167 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: still is another two and a half three percent higher 168 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: means two and a half three percent on top of 169 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: the already inflated prices. So people are looking around saying, well, 170 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: wait a second, nothing's changed. In fact, it's gotten slightly worse, 171 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: and it will always get slightly worse. You'll always get, 172 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: in the best of times, an inflation rate between two 173 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: and three percent. You hope your wages can keep up 174 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: that the inflation also kicks up your wages. Some cases 175 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: it is, some cases it isn't. You know. It kind 176 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: of depends what industry you're in. But all right, so 177 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: everybody's decided. But this is the issue with a moment, well, 178 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: with a presidential election coming up after this midterm cycle 179 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: and Gavin Newsom being at the front of the pack 180 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: right now, I'm really going to be curious to see 181 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: how long it'll take the poor before people figure out 182 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: the California economically is a disaster zone. And this is objective. 183 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: This is just look at the available statistics that we 184 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: can all agree on. And you know, John Fleischman wrote 185 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: about about the inflation here in California, the cost of 186 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: a home, the cost of mortgage, the cost of electricity, 187 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: the cost of gas, just for starters. Well, Victor Davis 188 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: Hanson is another writer that I really admire, and he 189 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: put together his own version of the affordability argument. You 190 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,719 Speaker 1: give the government over to Gavin Newsom. Here's what he's 191 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: done in California. So now it's really it's really instructive, 192 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: like almost to write these things down and have a 193 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: list and keep looking at the list. And again we're 194 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: talking about we're talking about look at all fifty states. 195 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: Take away the names of the governors, take away the 196 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: political party. If you're just going to judge all fifty 197 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: states based on their economic numbers, who is the last 198 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 1: guy you would want being president? Okay, so look at California. 199 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: Forget that. It's news. Gas prices highest in the United States, unequivocally. Okay, 200 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: gas taxes highest in the us highest electricity rates, highest 201 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: home prices, fourth, highest home insurance. We have the largest 202 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: debt in the nation two hundred and seventy billion dollars. 203 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: The government's in debt because they haven't funded all the 204 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: state workers benefits that we're going to have to pay someday, 205 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: you know, their pensions and healthcare benefits. The annual budget, 206 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: it ranges from fifteen to seventy billion dollars. We have 207 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: the highest income taxes, the highest state sales tax, the 208 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: highest gas tax, and the top one percent of California 209 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: households pay fifty percent of the state income tax. How 210 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: many times have you heard some idiot politician go, oh, 211 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: the rich have to pay their fair share? Okay, is 212 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: fifty percent high enough? A lot of them have left 213 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:40,479 Speaker 1: the state. We have forty million people who live in California. 214 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: Do you know what percentage get medical? Which is government 215 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: paid healthcare. It's supposed to be healthcare for poor people. 216 00:15:54,240 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: Fifty percent are on medical fifty percent people. Do you 217 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: know how many births are paid for by medical? Fifty percent? 218 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: Fifty percent of all the babies born. Medical has to 219 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: cover the cost. He's got another list. We have the 220 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: largest population of illegal aliens. We have the largest number 221 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: of homeless people. We have the largest number of people 222 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: who fled the state. We have the largest number of 223 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: people born in a foreign country eleven million. That's twenty 224 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: seven percent of the state. So we have all these 225 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: poor well, all these poor people without health insurance who 226 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: are from other countries. Many of them are legal. We 227 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: have the largest number of people living in poverty. We 228 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: have the highest food prices in the continental United States. 229 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 1: The highest food prices on top of the highest electricity, 230 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 1: the highest gas, the highest rent, the highest mortgage payments, 231 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: highest food prices, our infrastructure. Let's just start with the 232 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: roads at the bottom. Worst roads. We're among the five 233 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: worst states in violent crime per person. You'll get the 234 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: whole population divided by the violent crimes. We're among the 235 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: fifth to the five worst. All right, now you've ingested 236 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: all of those lists of statistics. That's pretty clear cut. 237 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: Now go put the name of the guy running the 238 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 1: place for the last seven years, the Gavin news So 239 00:17:53,080 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: what's what's the argument for having to be president? I 240 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: know he's shouting about Trump, insulting Trump, writing Trump insults 241 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: on social media or those uh, those weird those pathetic 242 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: weirdos on his staff are doing it at least well, 243 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 1: Trump's not going to be running. I mean, I mean 244 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: this is he is the worst candidate possible to run 245 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: for president. He's the worst candidate for the Democrats to run, really, 246 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: the worst. There's I could name five other people that 247 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party. If they got elected, probably they'd 248 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: be Okay. This guy is so destructive. I mean, I 249 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 1: can't think of a governor that has this record, ever 250 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: had this right, I mean right now. Obviously he stands 251 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: by himself. There's no other state like California. When it 252 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: comes to all these categories. They listened and these are 253 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: all really important categories. This is not esoteric, obscure kind 254 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: of states say, this is all the stuff that's really 255 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 1: important to us, right, nothing more important than whether we 256 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: can afford to live in our house, US or apartment, 257 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: whether we can afford food or gas or electricity. Top 258 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: of the charts. Now, there's got to be about almost 259 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty twenty five governors, right, there's about 260 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: forty five to fifty US senators. There's a couple one 261 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: hundred congress people. There's all kinds of business leaders who 262 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: are Democrats. Why this guy. Why what I mean's he's 263 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 1: unbelievably overwhelmingly incompetent. He's blown it in every category. What's 264 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: the up arrow here? What's the success story here since 265 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: he took over? Just look at it objectively. Pretend he's 266 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: not a Democrat. Pretend his name is a Gavin Newsom. 267 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: Just look at the list of things I just read 268 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: to you, and every one of these is true. So 269 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: we'll see. Okay, we've got more coming up on the 270 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show. 271 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels from KFI Am six. 272 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: Forty on every day from one to four, and if 273 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: you miss something, you go to the podcast John Cobelt's 274 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: Show on demand on the iHeart app, and we released 275 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: that after four o'clock. Good Follow us at John Cobelt Radio, 276 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 1: on social media at John Cobelt Radio, and on YouTube. 277 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 1: We're putting out longer form videos YouTube dot com, slash 278 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: at John Cobelt Show. YouTube dot com slash at John 279 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show. This terrorist group they arrested four people. This 280 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: is described as a left wing anti government group that 281 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: was out in the Mojave Desert. They got arrested in 282 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: Lucerne Valley near twenty nine palms and out in the 283 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: desert they were making and testing bombs and it was 284 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: a terror plot and they were aiming for New Year's 285 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: Eve here in Los Angeles as soon as midnight hit, 286 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: going to be five locations where these these bombs would 287 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: go off. They were complicated pipe bombs from what the 288 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: reports say, and as Saley said, the plot was organized, sophisticated, 289 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: and extremely violent. They belonged to something called Turtle Island 290 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: Liberation Front, which sounds like a weird name. But somebody 291 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: was explaining what the phrase Turtle Island means. And I'll, 292 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: by the way, what it originally means and what this 293 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: group are doing is two different things. Turtle Island is 294 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: a name for Earth or North America. Some American Indian 295 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: tribes use it to describe the whole North American continent. 296 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: It's based on Indian folklore passed from one generation to 297 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: the next. And the Turtle Islands creation story is one 298 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: of the great tales that is told. It was first 299 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: recorded by the Europeans in the sixteen hundreds, and they 300 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: believe that the Lenape tribe believe that before creation there 301 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 1: was nothing, an empty dark space. But in this emptiness, 302 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: there existed a spirit of their creator, and eventually I 303 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:36,959 Speaker 1: won't go through the whole thing, but it leads to 304 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: Turtle Island or Earth being formed, or in some interpretations, 305 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 1: North America. And it seems like if you were going 306 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: to describe these these these protest groups, these terrorist groups, 307 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: you know they are against all the colonialists, all the invaders. 308 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: I guess they want all the peoples of North America, 309 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 1: who are now mostly Europeans and other people who've migrated 310 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: here to get off, to get out. And the Turtle 311 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: Island Liberation Front. This is a radical faction called Order 312 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:23,719 Speaker 1: of the Black Lotus. A one FBI spokesperson called the 313 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: faction a violent, homegrown anti government group. Now where they 314 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: were going to blow up what they were going to 315 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: blow up It was supposed to be around businesses, logistics centers, 316 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: something similar to what Amazon might have, you know, where 317 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: packages are sent off to destinations. Didn't say any specifically 318 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: about Amazon. The people involved include two women, Audrey i 319 00:23:55,520 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: Leen Carol and Tina Lai or Tina Lay. Two men, 320 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: Zachary Aaron Page and Dante Gaffield, and they've been jar 321 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: charged with various crimes. They were going to plant backpacks 322 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: with these improvised explosive devices IEDs, targeting two companies at 323 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: five locations. They all were going to go off at 324 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: midnight on New Year's Eve, complex pipe bombs, and what 325 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: they found is instructions how to manufacture them, how to 326 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: assemble them, and instructions that had to leave evidence to 327 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: avoid leaving evidence behind. And they tracked the group since 328 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: November all the way to December twelfth, when then they 329 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 1: went to a location the FBI did near twenty nine 330 00:24:52,200 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 1: Palms and found them with their bomb making materials, intervened, 331 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: arrested everyone, and you know, obviously the investigation was continuing. 332 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: They found a lot of ingredients to make the bombs 333 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: and PVC pipe glass bottles. These could be used to 334 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: make the IEDs or the Molotov cocktails, and that would 335 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,360 Speaker 1: have been New Year's Eve at midnight, but they got 336 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: to It looks like somebody shared the plans with the FBI, 337 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: somebody maybe connected to the group or aware of the group, 338 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: And the group says they post well, the FBI says 339 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 1: that the group posts content that advocates for violence against 340 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 1: US officials and they are against peaceful protests. They want 341 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 1: people to rise up and fight back. It looks like 342 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: they also arrested somebody in the New Orleans area connected 343 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: to the investigation. And this was the FBI, L A 344 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 1: p D. Sheriff's Department, Palm Springs Police, San Bernardino County 345 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department. So all those organizations work together. And when 346 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,439 Speaker 1: I first heard New Year's Eve, I thought the bombs 347 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: were supposed to go off, maybe at celebration sites all 348 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: over the area. And did you hear that in Paris 349 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: they're canceling the New Year's Eve celebrations along the chances. 350 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: They've had so many Islamic terrorist activities and crime that 351 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: they're not chanceing it. So New or His Eve is 352 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: canceled along the chancelse in Paris, which is just a 353 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: terrible thing. I mean this, this Islamic terrorist invasion is 354 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: all over the world now, and with Christmas and Hanukkah. Uh, well, 355 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: Potica is here, Christmas is just days away. Uh. This this, 356 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: this is this is what what they attack. You know 357 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: that how many times we had attacks at Christmas festivals 358 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: in Germany by these Islamic terrorists. It's like the season 359 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: now to celebrate religious holidays. He's become the season for 360 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 1: Islamic terrorism and everybody's got to be on alert. Oh 361 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: and then you had you had the shooting, terrible shooting 362 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: down in Australia and Sydney. We had all those people 363 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: shot and killed Jewish people celebrating on the first night 364 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: of Hanukah. It's all over the place. I mean, you know, 365 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: I'm telling you all cultures are not compatible with each other. 366 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: I don't believe we could all live together. I think 367 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 1: there's a reason that there were always separate nations, separate cultures, 368 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: borders on land, and I think that's the only only 369 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: way to go because this chaos is spreading all over 370 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 1: the place, and it really comes down to who are 371 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 1: you letting into the country, Because you let one person 372 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 1: in two, three, five, and soon you have a group 373 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: and they've organized and they don't like your way of 374 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 1: life and they want to kill everybody. And the only 375 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: way to police it is to have extremely strict immigration laws. 376 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: I don't see any other way around it. 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That's the address to subscribe YouTube dot com 386 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: slash at John Cobelt Show, and it's at John Cobelt 387 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: Radio for all the other social media platforms. So follow 388 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: up to on CNN Alex Michaelson's new show, The Story Is, 389 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: and we talked a lot about the exchange I had 390 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: with our Vita Martin, who's a civil rights attorney, and 391 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: we were talking about Gavin Newsom and how he got 392 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: shunned by the Trump administration when we went to Washington, 393 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: d C. Trying to allegedly get to fire rebuild money. 394 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: He wants thirty four billion. And what I said on 395 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: the show at the time was, well, if I was 396 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: in the Trump administration, why would I give this guy 397 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: any money? Because he admitted he blew twenty four billion 398 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: dollars in homeless money. He doesn't know what happened to it, 399 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: can't account for it or its effectiveness, and and other 400 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: categories where he's blown billions of dollars and our Vita 401 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: Martin just flat out wouldn't believe it. She said, those 402 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: facts aren't facts, This is not true. And this caused 403 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: a huge reaction once we put did this thing online 404 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: and just just hundreds of thousands of people have now 405 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: viewed the have now viewed the exchange, and a lot 406 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: of commentary on it. Next day, I went to chet 407 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: GPT and you know, when you ask chet GPT a question, 408 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: you get slightly you get the same answer to do 409 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: it more than once, but depending on how you worry, 410 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: you get slight variations. So a friend of mine he 411 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 1: went to chat GPT too and asked this question, does 412 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: Newsom know where the twenty four billion for homelessness went? 413 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: All right? And chet GPT's answer was a flat out no, 414 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: because our Vietna Martin just would just didn't believe that. 415 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: He actually didn't know where the money went, and admitted 416 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: that he didn't know where the money went. He admits 417 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: it because he knows politically, he's bulletproof that nobody in 418 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: California will will ever vote him out of office. They 419 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: never have and they never will. In fact, he runs 420 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: for president as the Democratic nominee. He'll win California probably 421 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: three to one, So he could admit that he blew 422 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: twenty four billion dollars on a program, a massive program 423 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: that didn't work, and he knows he blew it, but hey, 424 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: so what, you suckers are still going to vote for me. 425 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,959 Speaker 1: So chant GPT rights. No. Governor Newsom does not have 426 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: a clear accounting of where all the twenty four billion 427 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: dollars spent on homelessness went. As a major twenty twenty 428 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: four state audit found California lacks consistent tracking and outcome 429 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: data for its nuest programs. Yeah, this is an audit 430 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: from the news of Administration into the twenty four billion. 431 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: This is leading to questions about effectiveness despite increased homelessness numbers. 432 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: When the state allocated funds for various initiatives like Project 433 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: home Key, it failed to establish reliable systems to monitor 434 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: costs and results. This stuff is basic, by the way, 435 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: when you have a massive program that gives out billions 436 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: systems to monitor costs and results, you have to have 437 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: that sketched out on day one. They never bothered Key 438 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: audit findings. And this is April twenty twenty four inadequate tracking. 439 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: The state wasn't consistently monitoring the costs and outcomes of 440 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: its vast homelessness initiatives. Increased homelessness despite billions spent. From 441 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three, the number of people 442 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 1: homeless rose significantly limited effectiveness. The audit found that only 443 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: a few of the assessed programs were likely cost effective, 444 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: with no reliable way to know which work best. By 445 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: the way they got all their information from about eight 446 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: nine ten news media reports and information from the governor's 447 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 1: own office. Newsom's response bullet point number one. Newsom acknowledged 448 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: the audits findings, stating it wasn't a surprise, so he 449 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: admitted it and admitted he wasn't a surprise. So he 450 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: knew for quite some time that the twenty four billion 451 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: they were shoveling out was doing no good. Because he 452 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: has eyes, he can see Sacramento, the bodies piling up 453 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: in the streets, some of them dead. Newsom also vetoed 454 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: a bill that would have created a centralized tracking system 455 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 1: for homelessness, so he voted against tracking the money. He 456 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: not only spent the money, he knew the money was 457 00:33:54,520 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: getting wasted and vetoed a bill that would track it. 458 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: This is gonna be a great presidential campaign. Boy. I 459 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 1: just hope it's democratics democratic opponents knock him out in 460 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: the first two months. Now here's an update from the 461 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 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