1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty, you're listening to the 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: John Coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: every day from one until four o'clock. John John coblt 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: on demand podcast is posted after four o'clock and that's 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: the same as the radio show. And we had Heralda 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: Rivera on last hour, so you missed that and an 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: even bigger name this hour, Michael Month from KFI News. Yeah, 8 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: Michael's got a story that I'm already pre angered about. 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you bring new stuff that I haven't heard. 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: I do like to pre anger you, to moisten me 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: up for the for the audience. Well, I'm moist I'm 12 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: ready to go here because this affects me. They're they're 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: jacking up the trash collection fees. Well you can tell 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 1: us how much and who's getting who's getting screwed over here. 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: This is in the city of Los Angeles. 16 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: The City of Los Angeles, and basically everybody is going 17 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: to feel this. Whether you own a home, whether you 18 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: are a landlord, whether you're a renter, You're going to 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: see likely an increase at the full city Council gives 20 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: this its approval tomorrow and just to pile on a 21 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: bit here. 22 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 2: I want to put this into the context. 23 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: You may remember last year your sewer fees went up 24 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: and they are doubling over the course of the next 25 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: four years. 26 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 2: So that's for your sewage. So the sewage got doubled. 27 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: It got doubled because they were saying, look, we haven't 28 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: raised the raids since twenty twenty because COVID came along. 29 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: We wanted to keep things calm, and then they panicked 30 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: and had to raise it a whole bunch. It's similar here, 31 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: except worse. They haven't raised the raids on trash collection 32 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: fees in seventeen years, and now the department has been 33 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: operating at a loss, not a few bucks, but nearly 34 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars a year, so extra money has 35 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: to come out of the general fund. They're losing money 36 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: on trash. They're losing money on just about everything they 37 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: do because the story a few weeks ago they were 38 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: losing money on parking tickets, which is nearly impossible. Last 39 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: year I reported how they were losing money on recycling, recycling, trash, 40 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: parking ticket, sewage. Nothing's turning a profit here, and I'll 41 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: let you know before we dive into these fees. We 42 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: know the city has broke. We know the city is 43 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: facing a one billion dollar budget deficit this fiscal year 44 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: that they got to figure out before June thirtieth, and already, 45 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: because I watch every meeting, there are a lot of 46 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: motions flying out there from the various city council members. 47 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 2: How do we find more money? 48 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: Just vague directions to city staff, go find more money 49 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: for us to bring in. This is related to a 50 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: lack of rate increases over seventeen years, so now you're 51 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: getting hit really hard all at once. And it's also 52 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 1: related to that billion dollar budget deficit. So to let 53 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,119 Speaker 1: you know, if this increase is adopted by the full 54 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: city Council tomorrow, the monthly fee for single family homes 55 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: for the solid Resources program as it's known spash collection fee. 56 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: That's what the homeless lead behind on the street. Don't 57 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: I know it all too well living in downtown. Yeah, 58 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: not always solid, unfortunately, sometimes a little slippery. Your rate's 59 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: going to go from thirty six dollars and thirty two 60 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: cents to fifty five dollars and ninety four cents. That's 61 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: a fifty four percent increase. That's a huge increase, and 62 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: if you're a landlord, a multi family residence with three 63 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: or four units will see their monthly rate go from 64 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: twenty four dollars and thirty three cents per month to 65 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: fifty five dollars and ninety four cents, a one hundred 66 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: and thirty percent increase. Thirty percent increase. Absolutely right. Let's 67 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: say that you're just oh wait, wait, I'm sorry, let 68 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: me back that up. This isn't the end. This is 69 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: just more right now, but wait, there's more. That's the 70 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: rates that will go into place starting January one, twenty 71 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: twenty six. 72 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 2: Over the next several years. 73 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: It's going to go up eighteen percent the following year, 74 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: eighteen percent the year on top of this. So I 75 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: thought they were phasing this in over the course of year. No, no, no, no, 76 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: they fifty more. So by twenty nine, twenty thirty fiscal year, 77 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: you will see in a single family home sixty five 78 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: dollars in ninety three cents a month. That's up from 79 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: thirty so it's almost doubling that. That's a bunch of 80 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: criminal and that's about the time that your sewer bill 81 00:03:58,600 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: is going to be doubled as well. 82 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm gonna bring my sewage in. 83 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: We're talking about you should dump that somewhere at say Hull, 84 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: I think protest, but they probably wouldn't even notice. So 85 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: there's seven hundred and forty three thousand households in LA 86 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy three thousand residences that receive a 87 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: bulky item collection services like apartments. So that's that's me. 88 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: I'm a renter. That's the fee that I'll see go up. Yeah, rent, 89 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: We're all getting hit exactly. So basically they're saying, look, 90 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: we haven't raised this in a long time. We need 91 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: the money because this city government's been subsidizing the trash 92 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: department La san as it's known Sanitation for two hundred 93 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: and thirty million dollars. That's eighty nine million more than 94 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: they did the year before. So it keeps getting worse 95 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: and they think this. 96 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 2: And how come this garbage all over the place? You 97 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 2: know much? How much? Well, you know how much trash 98 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 2: there is on the streets. 99 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,479 Speaker 1: I see it every morning driving from the Fashion district 100 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: to Burbank to come up here and hear you talk 101 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: about these issues, and the sidewalks are covered in trash. 102 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: Oh my god, Santa Monica Boulevard on the west side. 103 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: It's just disgusting. It's atrocious. There' so much track, it's 104 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: absolutely covered in trash. Now there is another component of this. 105 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: You're going to hear more about it, not just from 106 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: us here at KFI. Because of a state law, they 107 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: got to let everybody know that this is coming, so 108 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: they'll get a notification. But they've also been told the department, 109 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: you got to go out on a big time marketing 110 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: campaign and let people know this is coming and why 111 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: it's coming, and because we wildly overspent, because we gave 112 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: huge contract increases to all the union workers, because we're 113 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: all corrupted. Stupid staff salaries are a part of it. Yeah, 114 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: the increase in labor is another reason why this department, 115 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: like like the santit, like the sewage department, has gone 116 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: over budget recently. You're absolutely right. Why do they do 117 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: nothing for seventeen years and then hit us with one 118 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: huge whack and then they're going to whack us again 119 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: and again and again over the next few years. It 120 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: might have been out of the goodness of their hearts, 121 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: and then it just around. It was what we heard 122 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: over the last year with the sewage debate. 123 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 2: Was COVID happen. 124 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: We wanted to take it easy on people, you know, 125 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: we didn't want any more money coming out of their pockets, 126 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: so we're not going to do anything. But then it 127 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: catches up. Yeah, and that's kind of what happened with 128 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: these fees as well. So they've been subsidizing this department 129 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars for this. We're talking a 130 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: billion dollar budget defic this's a big chunk of that. 131 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: So they've got excising it, but they keep giving huge 132 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: contract increases to the unions and then complain they have 133 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: to subsidize it. I mean, they got everything backwards as 134 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: they try to figure out how to close this one 135 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: billion dollar hole. And I think we're going to hear 136 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: from the Mare on this on the twenty first of 137 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 1: this month, so that's coming up on her plan for 138 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:36,799 Speaker 1: the budget. 139 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, we might hear that these. 140 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: Raises so many employees are expecting might have to be 141 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: dialed back or delayed. Well, they should be. There's no money, 142 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: they're broke, or they'll be laid off. I was gonna 143 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 1: ask you, are they get either it gonna be any 144 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: cuts or is it just going to gouging us We've 145 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: already heard city administrator Matzebo say there could be thousands 146 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: of layoffs in the city of Los Angeles. You know what, 147 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: if we don't eat, there's no garbage and there's no sewage. 148 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, let's pooping. Less food means less waste. We 149 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 2: should just stop eating. That's what they want. They wants 150 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 2: to stop eating and die. 151 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: That's right, Michael, you're just full of bad news to 152 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: happy to bring it to you. Every time you come 153 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: in here. It's just one thing after another. Well, thank 154 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: you very much. Always a pleasure. There you go, Michael Monks. 155 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: Kfi new is about the exorbitant garbage collection fees, and 156 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: they're increased by fifty four percent. And if you have 157 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: a single family home, if you live in a multi 158 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: family building, it's going up one hundred and thirty percent. 159 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 2: And that's just for this year, and then there's gonna. 160 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: Be double double digit increases next year, and the year 161 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: after that and the year after that. Is because they're 162 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: incompetent and corrupt. They're a bunch of stupid thieves. Well, 163 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: speaking of incompetent and stupid, Kamala Harris, according to a 164 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: New York Times profile, is leaning more towards running for governor. 165 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: They're running for president. So it looks like if you 166 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: haven't heard, you're gonna hear the Derritas tape and you 167 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: listen to this and you tell me with a straight face, 168 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: you look me in the eye and tell me you're 169 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: going to vote for her for governor. 170 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 2: And we're also going to go through this profile as well. 171 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 172 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 3: six forty. 173 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: You want to see me on video my wife debris Zara, No, 174 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: what's your name? Well, it's Deborah co Belt Live. She 175 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: also goes by Debrah's our co belt But Deborah. 176 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 2: Cobelt Live, What did I just missed? Nothing? Me forgetting 177 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 2: my wife's name. Nothing? Good? Yeah, I know. Don't tell her. 178 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 2: I hope she's not listening. No, she's on a plane 179 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 2: right now. It's a good thing. 180 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 4: Okay. 181 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: She's got a video podcast, Debor coblt Live interviews all 182 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: kinds of fascinating people. And then there's me And so 183 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: I was on this week and we've already recorded it 184 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: and it's on YouTube. 185 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 2: You can all hear the audio on the iHeart app. 186 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: And we talked about the Trump tariffs, and a lot 187 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: going on in Los Angeles. 188 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 2: So there you go. 189 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: Deborah Cobet live on YouTube. All right, Kamala Harris, I'm 190 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: going to be tracking this for you people. Now, we're 191 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 1: doing our part. We have put three potential hubinatorial candidates 192 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 1: on the air already, and it's a year and a 193 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: half before the election, but we've had the Riverside County Sheriff, 194 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: Chad Bianco on several times and he's running. We had 195 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: Steve Klubeck on, a Democrat businessman, billionaire, he's running. And 196 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: just yesterday we had a possible candidate, Jake Steinfeld, the 197 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: fitness icon entrepreneur, and he got burned out in the 198 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: Palisades fire. He may be running. Apparently he got a real, 199 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: a real warm reaction from the KFI audience who tracked 200 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: him down online in various ways, and they really enjoyed 201 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: his time with us yesterday. 202 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 2: And then we have. 203 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. And Kamala Harris is sitting home with nothing 204 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 1: to do. And this is what makes me nervous. 205 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 2: Is that. 206 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: This lady's going to get really bored. And she's used 207 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: to running for something. I mean, she's been in an 208 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: elected office for twenty two years. She's the attorney general, senator, 209 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: vice president. You know, she did things in San Francisco. 210 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: She was the da there rightsident and briefly was president. 211 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: In Joe Biden's mind. 212 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 4: She announces that she's running. Are you going to reach 213 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 4: out to her? 214 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: Of course, we reach out to everybody. They often don't 215 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: reach back. But you know, if she you know, if 216 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: she comes on, I'll play the Dorito's tape. 217 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 4: What if she comes in person, I'll. 218 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 2: Play the Dorito's tap. You will, yes, and I'll say, 219 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 2: explain this. 220 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 4: And then is Eric going to be doing those drops gladly? 221 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: Oh? 222 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay. She doesn't get preferential. 223 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I don't. I don't do I'm not 224 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: too phased. I don't do kiss ups. I mean, I'll 225 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: be polite. I'm always polite. See that's the thing. Hey, 226 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: you shook Gascon's hand. I shook Gascon's hand and gave 227 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: him a warm invitation to do the whole show, the 228 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: whole three hours. 229 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 4: I turned me down. 230 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 2: I didn't offer that to anybody else. 231 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 4: She's going to turn you down. 232 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 2: Well. 233 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: Her closest allies say she's leaning against another presidential run. 234 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: She's leaning more towards a campaign for governor. She can't 235 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: run for both. She's going to pick one or the other. 236 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: She has hired CIA, the Creative Artists Agency, to gauge 237 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: interest in speaking engagements, speaking engagements and a potential book 238 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: probably pictures only. 239 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 5: UH. 240 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: They have held preliminary talks with universities about establishing a 241 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: policy institute. A policy institute. The reporters for The Times 242 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: to more than three dozen of her advisor's former aides, 243 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: allies and friends. And she's standing at a crossroads. They 244 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: say she's still processing her loss. Well, I want to 245 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: help with the processing for all of us, the concept 246 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris being president, the process of Kamala Harris 247 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: being governor, which somehow scares me more. Let's let's play 248 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:33,959 Speaker 1: a clip from earlier this year. She's at some tech conference. 249 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 1: She's up on stage with a guy and she starts 250 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: talking about Dorito's. 251 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 6: So we did DoorDash because I wanted Dorito's. 252 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 4: And it was they were about the red carpet. 253 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 2: Part was a bob starting. Nobody wanted to leave to 254 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 2: go to the grocery. 255 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 6: Store, so it was door dash. 256 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 7: And I'm thinking about this about so I was willing 257 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 7: to give up whatever might be the tracking. 258 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 6: Of Kamala Harris's. 259 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 7: Particular fondness for not show chief Dorito's for. 260 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 4: The sake of getting. 261 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 5: A big bag of Dorito's as I watched the oscars. 262 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 2: That's behavior and that's right. 263 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 7: But here's the thing, at what point do we also 264 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 7: uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And. 265 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 2: You can debate with me if it should be a right. 266 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 2: I think it should to. 267 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 5: Expect that the innovation would also be weighted in terms 268 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 5: of solving their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving 269 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 5: for Dorito's. 270 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 7: But about whatever. And I know the work is happening 271 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 7: around the scientific discoveries, for example, to cure long standing diseases. 272 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 6: But I'm gonna throw out another one, and you all again, 273 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 6: please get back to me information you have. I would 274 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 6: love it if there. 275 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 7: Would be an investment of resources and solving the affordable 276 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 7: housing issue in America. 277 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 4: Like help me with it, Help me with that. 278 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 2: I don't know that. 279 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 7: Any big vcs are gonna fund it, because they're gonna 280 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 7: have to figure out where the money is in that, 281 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 7: but I'm telling you it would really be helpful and. 282 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 6: If I do, and I bring up them the consumer, 283 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 6: because I wonder how much of the trajectory of it 284 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 6: all the innovation is being fueled by what the consumer 285 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 6: not only desires in terms of again, and I'm simplifying 286 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 6: it obviously my craving for a certain brand of potato chips, 287 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 6: corn chip, But what part of it is about getting enough. 288 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 7: Information in front of the consumer to know these other 289 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 7: really big problems you're dealing with might also be solved 290 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 7: by this technology. And if you demand it, if we 291 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 7: agree that the business model is based on consumer demand, 292 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 7: that there might actually be more resources going into some 293 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 7: of those things. 294 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the next governor of the state of California. 295 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: Do we played that with three or four times? It 296 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: never makes any sense. I keep thinking, you know, if 297 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: I hear it again and again, I'm gonna follow it 298 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: next time. 299 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 2: Wow, it reminds me. 300 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 4: You know, of the show Severance. You know, how are 301 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 4: you talking about that? Off there? 302 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 2: Such a good show and how people. 303 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 4: Are just you know, they just they can just. 304 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 2: Go on go along. 305 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: They're good company people. And we have good Californians here, 306 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: progressive Californians. And wow, see I I am so baffled 307 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: why people vote for her. There's lots of people out 308 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: there with similar views. She clearly has no idea what's 309 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: going on in the world. I mean, she's just I 310 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: don't know if she's drunk or high or what. But 311 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: that's a classic. So if she's gonna run, we're going 312 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: to keep playing that thing and hopefully we'll reach enough 313 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: people that you'll consider someone else, anyone else that is 314 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: not good for our future. There not good for the state, 315 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: whatever that is. 316 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 317 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 3: six forty. 318 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four, and then 319 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: after four o'clock. Joined the millions who download the podcast 320 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: John Cobelts Show on demand same as the radio show. 321 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: It gets posted after four o'clock on the iHeart app. 322 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: There are two things that the Devor and I try 323 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: to remember to mention every day, just as little reminders, 324 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: because you know how the media covers the news, something 325 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: very important and then it fades away. Number one, what 326 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: started the fire in the Palisades. I haven't told us. 327 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: It's over three months now. They know they won't tell us. 328 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 1: They hope it goes away. Jake Steinfeld talked about that 329 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: yesterday we might be running for governor. And you know, 330 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: he's the fitness guru who lives in the Palisades, and 331 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: he said in now news coverage is gone, and we're 332 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: all still suffering without homes here, and that's the nature 333 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: of life. Unfortunately, the cause of the fire still hasn't 334 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 1: been I was going to say it's been determined. I 335 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: know it has. They just won't tell us. Second thing, 336 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 1: price of gas here in California. 337 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 2: Everybody got used to this. Today. 338 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: The average price in California is four dollars and ninety 339 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: two cents. In Mississippi it's two dollars and seventy three cents, 340 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 1: two dollars and seventy three cents. And there are still 341 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: forty three states that are selling gas for under three forty. 342 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: Even New York State, which has big population, very progressive government, 343 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: their gas is only three twelve and we're at four 344 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: ninety two and nobody does anything about it. It doesn't 345 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,239 Speaker 1: seem to harm anyone politically, but we're going to keep 346 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: reminding you that you're being played for a bunch of suckers. 347 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 2: Gas should not cost four two. 348 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 4: I would say it was. It should be a prerequisite 349 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 4: for anybody to be governor of California. The first thing 350 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 4: that they have to do, and they have to do this, 351 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 4: is that they have to get these gas prices lowered. 352 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 4: They have to do that before before that they win. 353 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 4: So we can so we can trust them, say. 354 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 1: We're we're in the introductory phase of these interviews, you know, 355 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 1: like I said, we had Chad Bianco on, we had 356 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: Steve Klubeck on for the Democrats side, we had Jake 357 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: Steinfeldnal although he's not officially running yet, and just to 358 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: get to know them and get their background stories, their bio, 359 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: the general feel of what they are like. But next round, 360 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: just that that's gonna be one of the main questions. 361 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: How do we get the gas prices down four ninety two. 362 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 4: That affects everybody. 363 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, and remember there's the big sixty five cent per 364 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 1: gallon increase coming because those those vultures on the UH, 365 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: on the California Air Resources Board CARB they've already passed 366 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: a low carbon fuel standard whatever the hell that is. 367 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: Sixty five cents extra per gallon, sixty five cents, it's 368 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: gonna happen this year. So that four ninety two is 369 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 1: going to be over five dollars and fifty cents. 370 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 4: How do we allow this? 371 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: Boy, that is the biggest question. How do we allow this? 372 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:45,640 Speaker 1: Why do we allow this? Nobody else? Everybody there's there's 373 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: seventeen states under three bucks, and we're we're pushing five 374 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: and we're gonna blow past five fifty. 375 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 4: I think you're right. We get used to this and 376 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 4: then people just forget. They're onto the next thing. 377 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: I don't know everybody. Everybody must be like Kamala Harris, 378 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 1: drunk or high now. I mean, no wonder she's so popular. 379 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 1: Everybody's stoned. Everybody's smoking the same weed. On the federal front, 380 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 1: regarding this, the Trump administration is targeting California. They're gonna 381 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: do this nationwide, but there's a lot of this is 382 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 1: aimed to California. Trump has directed the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, 383 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: to identify and stop the enforcement of state laws that 384 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: address climate change. This is what the President wrote in 385 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: an executive order yesterday. 386 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 2: Excuse me. 387 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: Many states have enacted, or in the process of enacting 388 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: burdensome an ideologically motivated climate change or energy policies that 389 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: threaten American energy dominance and our economic and national security. 390 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 1: And this is me talking drive gas over five dollars 391 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: a gallon in many areas here in California, He wrote, 392 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: these state laws and policies are fundamentally irreconcilable with my 393 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: administration's objective to unleash American energy. They should not stand, 394 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,959 Speaker 1: and they plan to repeal or weaken more than two 395 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: dozen environmental regulations. And according to the La Times, this 396 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: could deliver a direct blow to causes close to the 397 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 1: heart of Californians, not my heart, including electric vehicle initiatives 398 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: such as the requirement that we all drive electric cars 399 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: in nine and a half years. That's not close to 400 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: my heart. Paying five dollars a gallon for gas and 401 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: then five point fifty and six dollars, that's not close 402 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: to my heart. The order specifically is aimed at California's 403 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: cap and trade program, and I don't have the time 404 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: to explain it other than to tell you it is 405 00:21:52,040 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 1: a complicated system that taxes oil and gas refineries and 406 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: the cost is passed one hundred percent to us. It's 407 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:09,120 Speaker 1: a huge tax. It's disguised as something called a cap 408 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: and trade program. It is a big tax placed on 409 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,199 Speaker 1: the oil refiners. Shows up at the pump in the 410 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: form of your inflated gas price. So if he's taken 411 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: aim at that, great. California punishes carbon use by adopting 412 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: impossible caps on the amount of carbon businesses may use, 413 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: and then the businesses have to pay large sums to 414 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: trade carbon credits. Blah blah blah. It's not worth explaining. 415 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 1: It screws you, screws me, it screws all of us. 416 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: That's why one of the reasons we're paying five dollars 417 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: a gallon soon to be over five point fifty a gallon. 418 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: Now there's somebody squawking, someone named Maggie Culter, an attorney 419 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 1: with the Climate Law Institute. By the way, we've had 420 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: no effect on the climate, none at all, zero effect. 421 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: In fact, the fires that have raged in California all 422 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 1: these years have wiped out decades worth of climate change savings, 423 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: if you want to call it that. So this is 424 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: all nonsense, it's all bs. And the executive order might 425 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: affect California's ability to set tailpipe emission standards and affect 426 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:26,919 Speaker 1: its effort to transition to electric vehicle electric vehicles. Good good, good. 427 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: The Trump administration is already moving to block one of 428 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: the laws. Let me see here. Oh yeah, the transition 429 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: to electric vehicles. Trump administration wants to block that law. 430 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: The order gives Pambindi sixty days to compile a list 431 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: of state climate laws and submit to the report to 432 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: the President regarding actions taken. Now this, Maggie Culter of 433 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: the Climate Law Institute says, it's not really something that 434 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: Trump or the Attorney General can do. You want to 435 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 1: stop the enforcement of state law, you have to go 436 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,640 Speaker 1: to court. That's the jurisdiction of the court. I don't 437 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: care what laws he violates. I don't care whose jurisdiction 438 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: it is. I'm sick of paying five dollars a gallon 439 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,959 Speaker 1: when people back east are paying two seventy five. I'm 440 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: absolutely fed up with this. It's had no effect on 441 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: the climate. It's like everything else in this state. It's 442 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: a big grift. It's theft. They're stealing the money. I 443 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 1: don't care if Trump sends in the National Guard to 444 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: drag NEWSEO naked out of his office. 445 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 2: I really don't care. 446 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: I don't care if norms are broken, laws are broken. 447 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to me anymore. It's been twenty years 448 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: of paying two dollars more gallon than any other state. 449 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: And haven't you had enough? It's had no effect on 450 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,479 Speaker 1: the climate. Don't be a dope, no effect on the climate. 451 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: Don't be a child. 452 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 2: I'm trying to do my part. You're not doing anything. 453 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: So so so sick of all this stuff, sick of 454 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: the compost bags in the grocery stores. 455 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 4: Have you heard of those Trader Jet Trader Joe's reusable 456 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 4: toad bags canvas that people are spending hours in line for? 457 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 2: And did you see what they're selling for online online? Yeah? 458 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 4: One eBay. I think it's just like almost a thousand dollars. 459 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, almost one thousand dollars in. 460 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 4: The right mind. I mean, I'm sorry, you know that 461 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 4: I like reusable bags. I'm not even going to buy. 462 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 4: I mean, no offense, but I'm not interested. 463 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 2: That's a pair of shoes there, Yes, exactly. You can't. 464 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: You can't wear a Trader Joe's bag. No, you're right, 465 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: it's not a burken bag though, it's. 466 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 4: Just a canvas. It's nice. I mean, they're they're beautiful colors, 467 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 4: they're pastel. 468 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 2: But what do they sell for? 469 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: A Trader Joe n two dollars and ninety nine cents. Yes, 470 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: and they're going for almost a thousand. Yes, you know, 471 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 1: you know what. I was dropped on the wrong planet, don't. 472 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: I don't understand what's going on. So they'll pay a 473 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 1: thousand dollars for a Trader Joe's bag, and they're paying 474 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: five dollars a gallon for gas and they want to 475 00:25:59,040 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 1: vote for Kamala Harris. 476 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 4: There you go, and this is California. 477 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 2: I gotta get out of here. 478 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: I'm going bye bye, coming up after three o'clock. Bill 479 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: a Sale one of the I can count on the 480 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: number of sane people on one hand in California government. 481 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 2: He's one of them. 482 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,880 Speaker 1: Who's the assemblyman from rivers the Riverside in an Empire 483 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: area up until maybe a week ago. He is now 484 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: Trump's US attorney for the Los Angeles District, and he 485 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: is going to go after the homeless, homeless industrial complex 486 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: as we like to call it, all the corruption and 487 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: theft going on at the government agencies and the nonprofits 488 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: in LA City and County. 489 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: He'll be on after three o'clock to talk about it. 490 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 491 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 3: sixty I. 492 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 2: AM six forty more stimulating talk radio. Bill A. 493 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: Sale, the new US attorney for the Los Angeles District, 494 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: recently nominated by Trump. He's gonna get confirmed by the Senate, 495 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: but he's already on the job, and he's putting together 496 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: this multi agency task force to go after all the 497 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 1: corruption and theft in the Los Angeles City and County 498 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: homeless industry. Bill Saley, that's first thing he did in 499 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: his first week. And he's put this agency together and 500 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 1: task force together, and we are going to talk to 501 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: him about it and other things coming up. 502 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 2: After three o'clock. 503 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: Boy, I heard this clip and I thought, I thought, 504 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: is this We're going to time warp? Is this twenty twenty? 505 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper was hosting a town hall for Bernie Sanders. 506 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: Audience members came up to the mic to ask Bernie 507 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: a question. And this is a Democratic activist about to 508 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 1: ask Bernie something about Senator Bernie Sanders. 509 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 2: I want to introduce Grace Thomas. He's a local civil 510 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 2: rights attorney. She's a Democrat. Right, say then pronouns? Actually 511 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 2: thank you, thieve Senators. It's theay them pronouns and Cooper goes, oh, 512 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 2: they say them pronouns actually, thank you? Oh? 513 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: Instead of him saying, who gives a crap? What does 514 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: that matter? What is it with you people? In your pronouns? 515 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 2: Stop it? 516 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: And then she asked a question, how are the Democrats 517 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: gonna get men to vote for them again? Young men 518 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: to vote for them again? Well, let's start with that. 519 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: Young men don't want to hear about pronouns. Believe me, 520 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: I've I know hundreds of young men. I got three sons, 521 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: and I've met hundreds of their friends. Men don't want 522 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: to hear about pronouns. So you might want to drop 523 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: that act real fast if you really want to get guys. 524 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: It is not a coincidence. Guys don't want to talk 525 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: about pronouns. They don't want to think about pronouns, and 526 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: they don't want to be corrected about them. And Anderson 527 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: Cooper is a weenie. Oh bill a sale coming up 528 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: next to US attorney newly appointed by Donald Trump, and 529 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: he's going after all the fraud. This is the Homelessness, 530 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: Fraud and Corruption Task Force, prosecutors from the FBI, the IRS, 531 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: Housing in urban Development and it's centers in part around 532 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: the audit that showed there were there was almost two 533 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: and a half billion dollars. I'm homeless, funding unaccounted for 534 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: just in La County. Where is the money, what did 535 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: it go for? Who are the culprits, the suspects, the perpetrators. Well, 536 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Bill Sale, he's just getting started. 537 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 538 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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