1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: in till four and then after four o'clock. What you 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: miss something? Maybe you want to hear it again. Let's 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: be optimistic. After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: on the iHeart app. We got two runs of the 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: Moistline coming coming on after three o'clock. And if you 8 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: want to follow us on social media, it's at John 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio. We're going to talk now to Steve Garvey. 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: Steve has been with us a number of times, the 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: former Dodger great who got second place, almost first place 12 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: in the original runoff in March for US Senate, and 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: now he and Adam Schiff are going to duel between 14 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: now November to see who becomes the next US Senator 15 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: from California. And this is Dianne Feinstein's old seat. Let's 16 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: get Steve Garvey on the line and see what he's 17 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: been up to in the last six weeks or so 18 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: since he made it into the finals. See how are you. 19 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 2: Hey, Jahn, I missed you. We had a great street 20 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 2: going there for a while. 21 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: I know well It's good to have you back, and 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: I told you can come on any. 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 2: Time you want, absolutely, Thank you so much. 24 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: What's the state of your campaign here now? It's things 25 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: have been quiet, I think on both sides for the 26 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: last six weeks, regrouping for the November run. So what 27 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: is it that you're doing in the campaign at this moment. 28 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: Well, you know, I mean you chronicled just about you know, 29 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,199 Speaker 2: all of the first five months. You know, the journey 30 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 2: we talked about, you know, got in a little later 31 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 2: than I wanted to, and of course we announced on 32 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 2: October eighth, couldn't pick the worst day. But from that 33 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 2: point on, you know, within the first couple of weeks 34 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 2: we got to ten points in the polls, and then 35 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: thirteen seventeen, and really by by December we were in 36 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 2: solid second place. But we were just getting to that first 37 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 2: level of awareness to let somebody told it was garby 38 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: two point zero. You know, I've had this fifty years 39 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 2: of a great relationship in California and throughout the state 40 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: with the fans, you know, and the people and living here. 41 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 2: But now it's you know, I'm a pitcher so to speak, 42 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 2: you know, talking about real life issues across the living 43 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 2: quality of life talking about California in twenty twenty four 44 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 2: as compared to when I first came here and basically 45 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy and you can remember those times too. I 46 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: mean it was the heartbeat of America. I mean, people 47 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: came here with their new products and young kids endorsed them, 48 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 2: and you know, technology was flying off the charts and aerospace, 49 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden things started to change 50 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: and we got to get it back to when you 51 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: came here with your dream, start a family, grow up business, 52 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 2: had fallen in love with the streat state. 53 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I came out here with thirty years ago. You 54 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: came out here fifty years ago. But even thirty years ago, 55 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: it was so dramatically different. I can't imagine what it 56 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: was like in nineteen seventy three when you showed up. 57 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: What do you think went wrong? I mean, to have 58 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: this place was paradise. This place was an incredible gift, 59 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: and people came here because they fell in love with it. 60 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: I fell in love with it in New Jersey just 61 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: seeing the Rose Bowl Parade or seeing football games being 62 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: broadcast out of San Diego in December. 63 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. 64 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: It was always magical to me what I saw, you know, 65 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: on television, and I came out here thirty years ago 66 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: and it pretty much matched what I thought it was 67 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: going to be. And then we've watched it day by day. 68 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: Go to hell? What do you think happened just in society? 69 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: In politics? What's gone haywire here? 70 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 2: Well? I think, and I say this when I speak 71 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 2: a lot. I mean, you know, back when I started 72 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 2: to get involved in politics was the latter part of 73 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 2: the seventies. You know, when you're young, you're building your 74 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: career and you you're so busy, and you know things 75 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 2: are rowing along which you're not about politics, and all 76 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 2: of a sudden, you start to make a little money, 77 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 2: your family starts to grow, You start to think more 78 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 2: about the politics of leadership and are you going to 79 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 2: be restrained from, like I've always said, reaching for the 80 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 2: moon and if you fall short, you'll be a start 81 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 2: but that chance and I think the biggest change from 82 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 2: then to now. And I was an American dream, you know. 83 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: In September first of nineteen sixty nine, the Dodgers called 84 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 2: me up and I put a Dodger uniform on for 85 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 2: the first time, and my dream came true, I got 86 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 2: to the starting line. Of course, I had a great career, 87 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 2: but it was unlimited. It was unrestricted, it was unregulated. 88 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 2: You could reach for the moon. And I think what's 89 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: happened over time is there's been this suppression and it 90 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 2: starts with the economy, and then it goes to being 91 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: hesitant to go out in the streets, and it's almost 92 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 2: a socialistic control of making people all equally independent on government. 93 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: And I remember the times I used to introduce President 94 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 2: Eagan during his campaign and we had some quiet moments 95 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: and I said, to miss President, what really matters to you? 96 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: And he looked at me, and you know, he had 97 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 2: this paternal presence, and he said, Toby Steven Stephen. He said, 98 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: it's God. He said, it's lower taxes, it's smaller government 99 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 2: and letting people drink, letting people create, letting people, you know, 100 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 2: try this and try that. And I think what's happened 101 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 2: over time is we haven't had the opportunity or the 102 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,799 Speaker 2: time that we could do those types of things because 103 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 2: we've been suppressed. Eighty eight percent of California's right now 104 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 2: break even or lose money every month because of the economy. 105 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 2: That should never happen. Regulations me out of Sacramento that 106 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 2: all of a sudden caused businesses to rethink if they 107 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 2: can grow or if they can exist. You look at 108 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 2: the streets, the climb on the streets, and good men 109 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: and women, police officers and shares are doing a great job. 110 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 2: But they only get them to where they check them 111 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 2: in at the station, and then all of a sudden, 112 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 2: they look up when they're doing the paperwork and the 113 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 2: criminal goes out the back door. These hopeless people, the 114 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:31,239 Speaker 2: homeless that are on the streets. 115 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: Let me talk about the homeless a second, because the 116 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: other day you probably saw the California State Auditor said, 117 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: we have spent twenty four billion dollars, Gavin Newsom, twenty 118 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: four billion dollars in the last six years on homelessness. 119 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: It's gotten a lot worse and he cannot find where 120 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: the money went. They don't know where any of the 121 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 1: twenty four billion where it ended up. 122 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's a failure of leadership. And I said 123 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: right from the beginning, there's a few policies that we 124 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 2: formulated with my campaign have grown true. And one of 125 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 2: them is when I get back to Washington, one of 126 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 2: the first things I'll do is do a federal audit 127 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 2: on what happened to the money in California where did 128 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,559 Speaker 2: it go to? And the state audit it talks about 129 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: this agency and that agency, and about a prominent agency 130 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: I think it's California Coalition agency. Coalition for Homelessness stopped 131 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 2: tracking where the money went in twenty twenty one because 132 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 2: they couldn't figure out where it was going. How can 133 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: you spend that much money? Remember when we talked about 134 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 2: a million, Now we're talking about billions, and in a 135 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,119 Speaker 2: decade or two we'll always be talking about trillions. Where 136 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 2: has this money gone? Because what happened between twenty thirteen 137 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 2: and today is that homelessness grew fifty six percent and 138 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 2: then the last well just last year alone, they grew 139 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 2: fifteen percent. We're arguably thirty thirty five percent of the 140 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 2: homeless in America. Yeah that happened in California. 141 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, we're twelve percent of the population. And 142 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: you know what you know? In fact, can you hang on? 143 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: I want to talk more about this stuff because there 144 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: are so many, so many categories where we're number one 145 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: nationally and it's what makes life impossible, and it just 146 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: seems hardly anybody. I mean normal people talk about it, 147 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 1: but nobody in public and government talks about it. And 148 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: we're going to continue with Steve Garvey here, who's running 149 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: for Senate against Adam Schiff. This is Diane Feinstein's old seat, 150 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: and he's in the finals against Shift. And we'll discuss 151 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: things further when we come back. 152 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 153 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:50,479 Speaker 3: six forty. 154 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: We continue talking to Steve Garvey. He's the former Dodger 155 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 1: great running as a Republican against Adam Shift, the Democrat 156 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: to the next US Senator, to fill Diane Feinstein's old sea. 157 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: Let's get Steve back on here. Steve, let me just 158 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: to continue our conversation. We're first in unemployment, we're first, 159 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: and homeless, we're first in people on welfare, We're first. 160 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: In gas taxes, we're first. In gas prices, we're first, 161 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: and electricity prices. I could go on, but I think 162 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: you get the point. I mean, what it's a total 163 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: it's a total white down, total collapse. 164 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 2: Here of being California. What's and I think that's you know, 165 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 2: that's something that who would have ever thought that? Right? Yeah, 166 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 2: this great straight and stayed in all its twelve and 167 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 2: our natural resources. And the one thing, the first thing 168 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 2: you said was we're first in jobless. How can that happen? 169 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 2: You know, you hear the administration talking we just gained 170 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty thousand jobs last month. Not in 171 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 2: California because you know, well, first of all, he's quickly 172 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 2: an education. We lost eighteen thousand students over the last 173 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 2: three years during COVID because they they weren't educated properly 174 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 2: and they didn't go to school, which means fast forward 175 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 2: five years, ten years, the workforce no longer is able 176 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 2: to produce at the level that includes being developing and 177 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 2: innovative and things like that. But this state, we've got 178 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: to de regularly. We've got to open things up, you know, 179 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: just as the country needs to have more oil leases 180 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 2: and more fracking and let our energy flow so that 181 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 2: we have you know, affordability in our energy. But you know, John, 182 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 2: it really gets down to the leadership. And I think the 183 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 2: one thing that I've been saying lately is, you know, 184 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 2: my opponents and now its shift have a ceiling. Their 185 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 2: current politicians, they answer to their party. They vote ninety 186 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 2: seven ninety eight percent of the time down party lines 187 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 2: because they want to keep a job. You want to 188 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 2: honor the party. I'm here to honor the people. You know, 189 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 2: I'm not running for a job. I'm running for the people. 190 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 2: And that's why I think I have political courage to 191 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 2: do and make the decisions that are good for all 192 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 2: the people. And when you do that, when you don't 193 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 2: have politicians that get in the ways of working with 194 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 2: each other, it's just like, I'm going to be a 195 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 2: one term senator. Davi Us, Oh, you'll be alamed by 196 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 2: Do you really think that I'm going to be alamed up? 197 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 2: Do you really think that when I go back to Washington, 198 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 2: people aren't going to want to work with me because 199 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 2: I owe no one and I have a clean slate 200 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 2: so I can work with the other side to be 201 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 2: able to do it's best for my state and their 202 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 2: state in the country. I mean, this is leadership, This 203 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 2: is what we need. 204 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: I think it's freeing not to worry about re election. 205 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: I mean you can really say and do what you 206 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: feel and not worry necessarily how it's going to play 207 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 1: in the next election cycle. I think he could really 208 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: be your own man without that def. 209 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 2: I think people that know me and watch. I mean, 210 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 2: how many of us go to work with thirty thousand 211 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 2: people who get to judge every day and root and 212 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 2: bood cheer. But they see who you are, They see 213 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 2: your DNA and they see your passion, your commitment. I mean, 214 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 2: you go to work every day, thousands of people listen 215 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,839 Speaker 2: to you, They get their information to you, and you're 216 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 2: fair and you're honest to both sides. But you have 217 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 2: your opinion suit just as I do. And I think 218 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 2: that's the key to be fair and honest. Two days 219 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 2: ago we were up at the Huber Institute, and we've 220 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 2: been there a couple of times now and talk with 221 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 2: Condolisa Rice and got a chance to meet General Madison 222 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: and Pederal Elis and talk to them. In the bottom line, 223 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 2: we've never been in more danger than we are now. 224 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: We also never have a better opportunity to turn the 225 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 2: state of the country around by people starting to do 226 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 2: things together again. We the people doing things for the 227 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 2: good of the state and the country. And I talked 228 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 2: about civility. There's a wonderful book called the Loss of Stability? 229 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 2: Where is It Gone? Where is it Gone? When you 230 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: walk down the street and somebody's coming the other way, 231 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 2: and you say it, well, and they look the other way. Well, 232 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 2: let's say hi back, all right, it's a respect for 233 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,439 Speaker 2: each other. We live in this country. I gave his 234 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 2: life free will and choice. Let's use it so the 235 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 2: better of our society. But let's start getting leadership that's 236 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 2: going to make good decisions that will allow people to 237 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 2: reach for the moon again and start to be able 238 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 2: to go out to eat a couple of times more 239 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 2: a month. Right, and know that eggs aren't one hundred 240 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 2: percent more than they were two years ago. And when 241 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 2: I go to the gas station this afternoon and I 242 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 2: see people getting ten dollars for the gas instead of 243 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 2: ten gallons because they just can't afford it. They're trying 244 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 2: to think how far can I go this weekend? And 245 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 2: what about I mean sports, Dear to me, I use sports. 246 00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 2: You know, all our kids, we've taken them to tournaments 247 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 2: all through the years and so forth. You know, that's 248 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 2: the great joy of families is watching their children develop 249 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 2: on andlett view and now the family, the whole family 250 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 2: can't go anywhere it can't afford to go. 251 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: Now that you know, you're right, I mean, that's what 252 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: I'm noticing every day is a lot of the little 253 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: things in life are very difficult to deal with. Because 254 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: you know, the gas is I paid. I paid five 255 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: to eighty nine for a gallon gas yesterday, you know, 256 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: and one of our listeners called in from Iowa and 257 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: said his gas is two ninety nine. Now, how can 258 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: it be two ninety nine in Iowa and five eighty 259 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: nine here? What's going on? 260 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 2: Well, because we went from sixty seventy billion dollars surplus 261 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: to a sixty seventy billion dollar deficit. And that's what 262 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 2: that's sled leadership, where the leadership puts the burden on 263 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 2: the people instead of working together for the good of 264 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: the people. And it's you know, all areas of southern California, 265 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 2: our Latino community, nobody works harder than them. They get 266 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: up early, they stayed late. They're great family people. They've 267 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 2: been great supporters of why we work together a number 268 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 2: of things. They want their children to go to school 269 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 2: and get it good education because they want to they 270 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 2: want them to be the future leaders. And education. We 271 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 2: spent two hours at the Institute on education and what 272 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 2: needs to be done. We need to get engage parents 273 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 2: with committed teachers to school boards who put children first, 274 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 2: and that the politics and bureaucracy, let's lear kid and 275 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 2: when those dreams come true, they are the next leaders 276 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 2: of this country. Whether it's the Latino community, the Asian community, 277 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 2: you know, all the fibers of California that when they 278 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 2: work together, they make it the greatest state in the 279 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 2: fifth best country in the world. 280 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: Steve, I got it, ron I got to do the news. 281 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: Thank you for godming on and talking about all this. 282 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: And you got a website, but don't you get to 283 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: tell people about your website. 284 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 2: Steve Garvey dot com. And we've had just tremendous support. 285 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 2: We thank everybody, but it's eight warnings. You know, this 286 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 2: is the second game of the double patter, and we're 287 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 2: going to win. 288 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: This, all right. Steve Garvey running for US Senator as 289 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: a Republican against Adam Schiff the Democrat in November. More 290 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: coming up, Oh, when we come back the carey. Jean Pierre, 291 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: the spokesholists for Joe Biden, got into it with a 292 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: Fox reporter over Biden's story about his uncle Bosey getting 293 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: eaten by cannibals and Papua New Guinea back in World 294 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: War Two. He told that story twice and it's not true, 295 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: and so Peter Doocey from Fox challenged the Press secretary 296 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: about it. We're gonna and there's even more. This has 297 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: become like an international story. We'll I'll tell you when 298 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: we come back. 299 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 300 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 3: six forty. 301 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: Next hour, we're gonna have two runs of the Moist Line, 302 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: and then coming up right after the three o'clock news, 303 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk with Max Kennedy. He is one of 304 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: the children of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Max Kennedy 305 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: is the brother of RFK Junior, who's rooting for president. 306 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: But Max is here to talk about something else, something 307 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: more important. If you live in La County, it's h 308 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: he's endorsing. He's endorsing Nathan Hockman to replace George Gascone. 309 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: Max Kennedy and his sister Rory Kennedy are really upset 310 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: with the way the crime has gone insane here in 311 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County, and he is throwing his support and 312 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: Rory Kennedy as well, throwing her support behind Gascone's opponent. 313 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: Now doesn't need to be said about the long democratic 314 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: ties Kennedy family has, but they're going against Gascone because 315 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: I don't think this crime thing is a political issue 316 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 1: at all. I think every normal decent person in La 317 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: County realizes that this experiment is insane, absolutely insane, a 318 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: social experiment that has failed, and the main perpetrator is Gascone. 319 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: I mean, he was the co writer of Prop forty seven, 320 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 1: so it's he also is the DA up in San Francisco. 321 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: So we have a lot of evidence to convict Gascone 322 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: as being one of the primary forces, if not the 323 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: primary force, in the degradation of our day to day life. 324 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: And we're going to talk with Max Kennedy coming up 325 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: after three o'clock. Okay, this is a whot. We told 326 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: you about this yesterday. So they're they're letting Biden go 327 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: and campaign. He has a tightly scripted speech, except you know, 328 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: he goes off on his own and he starts telling 329 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: stories that never happened. 330 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 2: You know. 331 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: One of the famous ones is going on the Amtrak 332 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: train and being congratulated for his million mile achievement by 333 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: a train conductor who, at the time Biden reached that goal, 334 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 1: had already died. Yesterday twice two separate appearances. He started 335 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: talking about his uncle Ambrose Finnegan, claiming he was eaten 336 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: by cannibals in New Guinea during World War Two. Here's 337 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: what he said. At one stop, he got shot down 338 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: in an area where there were a lot of cannibals 339 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: at the time. They never recovered his body, but the 340 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: government back when I went down there and checked and 341 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: found some parts of the plane. Then a few hours 342 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: later he told steel workers in Pittsburgh that uncle Bosey 343 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: had gotten shot down in New Guinea and they never 344 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: found the body because there used to be there were 345 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: a lot of cannibals for real, and that part of 346 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: New Guinea. Now he ended up getting, uh, he ended 347 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: up getting some people in New Guinea pissed off. The 348 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: University of Papua New Guinea, Michael Cabourni is a lecturer 349 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: in political science, and he said, implying your uncle jumps 350 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: out of the plane and somehow we think it's a 351 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: good meal is unacceptable. They just wouldn't need any white 352 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: men that fell from the sky. We're now going to 353 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: play you a clip of Fox News. Is Peter Doocey 354 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: who takes on Carine Jean Pierre that don't be press 355 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: secretary for Biden, and they get into it over Biden's 356 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: fake story about his uncle getting eaten by cannibals. So 357 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: play cut number three. 358 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 4: Whyce President Biden saying that his uncle Bosey was eaten 359 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 4: by cannibals? 360 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 5: So you know, I answered this question yesterday. I believe 361 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 5: I've seen some clips on your network about me answering 362 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,959 Speaker 5: this question. I don't have much to say beyond what 363 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 5: I said to some of your colleagues. Look, I was there. 364 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 5: I think you traveled with us too, Dependsylvan. I'm not 365 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 5: sure if you were there. At the memorial in Scranton, 366 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 5: the President had a emotional and I think a symbolic moment. 367 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 5: He had an opportunity as president to honor his uncle 368 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 5: service in uniform. He had an opportunity to be there 369 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:36,439 Speaker 5: as president to to you know, to speak toy of 370 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 5: his uncle. And not just his uncle, but many US 371 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 5: service members that put their lives on the line on 372 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 5: behalf of this country. So his uncle who lost his 373 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 5: life with a military partner, he was on crash in 374 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 5: the Pacific after taking off near New Guinea. 375 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 3: The price. 376 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,199 Speaker 5: The President highlighted his uncle's story, as he made the 377 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 5: case for honoring our sacred commitment to equip those we 378 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 5: stand into war and take care of them and their 379 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 5: families when they come home. And as he iterted, the 380 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 5: last thing American veterans are, or the last thing Americans 381 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 5: should be called for suckers and losers, and that is 382 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 5: those types of words should not come from a commander 383 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 5: in chief as we have in the past, and we 384 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 5: should actually be lifting up American veterans and honoring them. 385 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 5: And that's what you. 386 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 1: Saw from this president, and I agree. 387 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 4: Second Lieutenant Ambrose Jay Finegan was a war hero. But 388 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 4: Depentaon says, for unknown reasons, the plane was forced to 389 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 4: Digeny Ocean. Both engines failed at low altitude. Why is 390 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 4: President Biden saying he was shot down. There's no evidence 391 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 4: of that. And why is he saying that his uncle 392 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 4: was eaten by cannibals. 393 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:47,880 Speaker 1: That is a bad way to go. 394 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 5: He lost his life. It's not look, we should not 395 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 5: make jokes about it the way. 396 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 1: I mean your. 397 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 5: Last line is for a laugh, it's for or of 398 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 5: a funny statement. And he takes this very seriously. His uncle, 399 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 5: who served and protected this country lost his life. 400 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: Of serving and that should matter. It's not. You have a. 401 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 5: President that lifts up our US troops are American veterans 402 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 5: every day, who thinks about them, who actually thinks they're 403 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 5: all heroes, and they are. And you have a former 404 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 5: president who disrespects that, who doesn't honor that said it 405 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 5: as president suckers or losers, that's what he said. That 406 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 5: complain I think you're missing the point. The point is 407 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 5: you have a president that lifts up American veterans, who 408 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 5: lifts up our US service members, and that's what matters. 409 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 5: He understands how critical and how important it is to 410 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 5: be commander in chief. 411 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 1: Where do you go to school to do that? Why 412 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 1: would somebody want to do that? That is great, That's 413 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 1: one of the best. All Right, We've got Moore coming up, 414 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: and then Max Kennedy is going to be on with 415 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: us after three o'clock. Robert Kennedy's son, Robert Kennedy, you 416 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: know who was the famous senator from New York, assassinated 417 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty eight by Sir 418 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: Hans Sir han Well. Max Kennedy has experienced as an 419 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,199 Speaker 1: assistant DA in Philadelphia and he and his sister Rory 420 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: are very upset with Gascone for obvious reasons, and he 421 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: would like he would like Gascone out, and he is 422 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: supporting Nathan Hockman the opponent. And we'll get into all 423 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: that coming up. After three o'clock. 424 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 425 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 3: six forty. 426 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: We've got one more Biden clip to play because it 427 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: happened today. Roll it short been. 428 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 6: Important for him products. I'm explorting for their product. 429 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 1: We don't know he's talking about importing foreign products. And 430 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: I don't know what part two of that line is. 431 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: And we're looking at it online and nobody could nobody 432 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: can decode it. But play it one more time. 433 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 6: There been of important foreign products. I'm explorting for their products. 434 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, really sharp sharp brain he's got there in Uh. 435 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: You know it's great. And as I mentioned right before 436 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: the right before the news, we're gonna have Max Kennedy on. 437 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: Max Kennedy is one of Senator Robert Kennedy's sons. He 438 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: and his sister Rory. Uh. Today was part of an 439 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: event with Nathan Hockman, and they endorse and support Nathan 440 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,880 Speaker 1: Hockman for DA of La County against George Gascone and 441 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: Max Kennedy has a background in this business. He was 442 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 1: an assistant DA in Philadelphia, and of course his father 443 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: was killed here in Los Angeles by Sir Hans. Sir 444 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: Han and Max Kennedy has a lot to say about 445 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:22,360 Speaker 1: people getting out on parole. We have actually a fascinating 446 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: side by side test case between two completely different philosophies. 447 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: One is George Gascone. In La anything goes, nobody's arrested, 448 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: or few are arrested. If they get arrested, very few 449 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: are kept on bail. Even if they're kept on bail 450 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: and prosecuted, they're not sentenced or they're not sentenced to 451 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 1: anything significant. And if they end up getting sentenced, they 452 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: get let out early. So there's not much in the 453 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: way of arrests. If you do have an arrest, there's 454 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: not much in the way of jail time. There's no bail. 455 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: Often they get out immediately. Then if you get prosecuted, 456 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: and often you don't, you go to jail for a 457 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: little while, prison for a little while. And what do 458 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: we have. We have rampant crime in our faces every 459 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: day and we know this. We can see it with 460 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: our own eyes. Then you have Orange County, which has 461 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: Todd Spitzer. Todd Spitzer is the district attorney, and he's 462 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: running an ad campaign saying that crime doesn't pay in 463 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: Orange County. Exactly. I saw a bus. A bus went 464 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: by me today. I was waiting to make a left 465 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: turn and a bus passed right in front and it said, 466 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: we prosecute an Orange County. So what do you have? 467 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: Will you have a list of the ten safest cities 468 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: in the state. According to a home security company called 469 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: safe Wise, out of the ten safest cities, seven of 470 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: them are in Orange County. Seven of the ten safest 471 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: cities in the state of California are in Orange County. 472 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County has zero. Can you imagine that we've 473 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: got fifty eight counties in the state, and I believe 474 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:18,479 Speaker 1: Orange County has a little over three million people. So 475 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: it's it's I don't know what, eight percent of the population, 476 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: eight percent of the population, seventy percent of the top 477 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: ten safest cities. Gee, which way do you think works better? 478 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: George Gascone's way or Todd Spitzer's way. Wouldn't you like 479 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,679 Speaker 1: the crime rate to be like it is in Orange County. 480 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: If you live in La County, wouldn't you like that? 481 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: So how about we try Todd Spitzer's way. We've given 482 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: George Gascon He's run. Are you happy? Do you feel good? 483 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: Some of the individual cities, Well, the number one city 484 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: is Rancho of Santa Margarita. Number two is at least 485 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: of via Hoo. Number three you are Belinda, number four, 486 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: Laguna Negal, number five Mission via Ho. Look, yeah we 487 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: got you got the top five. There, number six Lake Forest, 488 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: and then there's Lincoln, Poway and Rockland. And then number 489 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,719 Speaker 1: ten is from Orange County and that's Irvine. Wow, how 490 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: about that? There is so little crime in Orange County 491 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: that Irvine comes in uh as number six in the 492 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: county and number ten in the state, actually number seven 493 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: in the county, number ten in this how about that? 494 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: Other southern California cities in the top twenty include San Clemente, 495 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: also from Orange County, and in the Inland Empire, Murrieta, Fontana, 496 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: and Menafee and safe Why says it compiles the rankings 497 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: by using the most up to date FBI data statistics 498 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: on violent crime, property crime, gun violence, package staffed which 499 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: is a crime. So there you go. There's an ad 500 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: campaign that lives up to its hype. Crime does not 501 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: pay an Orange County that's what the billboards say. I 502 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: sought myself and I said, said Todd Spitzer, we still 503 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: prosecute in Orange County just because LA is very lenient 504 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: on people who steal. We're going to prosecute you to 505 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: the fullest extent of the law. And I ask you again, 506 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: which way do you want to live? Really? Which way 507 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: do you want to live? Why can't we have seven 508 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: of the top ten safest cities. Why can't Los Angeles 509 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: be one of those cities? If you prosecute criminals, you 510 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 1: get a lot closer. What else are you going to 511 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: do with them? If you don't prosecute them, then what then? 512 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: Then we just accept all the theft every day. That's 513 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: what I would understand. This is pretty much a zero 514 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: of some game. Every time you put a bad guy 515 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: in jail on that day, that week, that year, he 516 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: can't commit another crime. His crime rate goes to zero. 517 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: When you release him, he starts committing crime. We don't 518 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: know this. Of all the people to have sympathy for, 519 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: why would you have sympathy for criminals that I don't 520 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: understand it. There's a lot of people who are in 521 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: bad straits one way or the other. They don't have 522 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: much money, they might have a job, they've got emotional problems, 523 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: they've got, you know, their sicknesses, They've had terrible things 524 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: happen to them. That's not their fault. You have compassion 525 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: for those people who have difficulties, maybe sometimes outside their control. 526 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 1: They're victims of fate in some way. Why would you 527 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: have compassion for guys who wake up in the morning 528 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: and openly want to steal. I saw a criminal talking 529 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: about this on television the other day, and he basically says, 530 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: you do it because it pays off pretty well. That's 531 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: why you do it. That being in a regular job 532 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: doesn't pay that well, it's not that interesting. Committing crimes 533 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: all day. That's an adrenaline rush. That's a high. That's 534 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: why he does it, and he gets paid better. I 535 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,959 Speaker 1: actually said this. I saw it on camera. All right, 536 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: we come back. We're going to talk with Max Kennedy. 537 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: Max Kennedy and his sister Rory, they're children of Robert F. Kennedy, 538 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: the Senator, and they stood and supported Nathan Hackman today 539 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: outside the Hall of Justice. Downtown Nathan Hockman for a 540 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: District attorney in Los Angeles County. Max Kennedy has served 541 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: as an assistant DA in Philadelphia, and he is upset 542 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: with a lot of Gascon policies and he thinks time 543 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: is up for Gascon. And even though he's a Democrat 544 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: and I guess is normally expected to vote for a 545 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: guy like Gascon, he is not. He's going to go 546 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: with the independent here, Nathan Hackman, We'll talk with Max 547 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: Kennedy coming up next, and we got two rounds in 548 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: the moistline as well. John Cobelt Show, KFI AM six forty. Hey, 549 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 550 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 551 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 552 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.