1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 2: Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day from 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 2: one until four o'clock. After four o'clock John Cobelt Show 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app, and you could hear 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 2: what you missed last hour. We spent a lot of time. 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 2: Karen Bass made an appearance on Alex Michaelson's CNN show. 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: He's got a new show on CNN at nine o'clock 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: weeknights called The Story Is, and Karen was Karen Bass 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: was on that. We played a number of clips and 11 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 2: we gave you a roadmap on how to decipher her 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 2: customer service responses. So you might want to hear that 13 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 2: on the website coming up now tonight when you download 14 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 2: the podcast. Tonight, I'm going to be on with attorney 15 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: Lisa Bloom, So tune into CNN Alex Michaelson The Story Is. 16 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: I'll be on nine o'clock tonight. Now let's turn to 17 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton is the top candidate in either 18 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: party for governor next year. You know we're going to 19 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 2: have we're going to have a primary in June, and 20 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 2: then the top two go on to the main event 21 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: in November, and right now he's first. He's even ahead 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: of missus potato head Katie Porter after she flamed that 23 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 2: on television a few weeks ago. If you're not familiar 24 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: with him, he was on Fox News for six years, 25 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 2: hosting a show called The Next Revolution, and he's been 26 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 2: an entrepreneur and he's also worked for the former UK 27 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: Prime Minister David Cameron is his head of strategy. He's 28 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: published a book called Cali Failure, Reversing the Ruin of 29 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 2: America's worst run state. He's got a compelling message. Let's 30 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: get Steve Hilton on. How are you, Steve? I'm very well. 31 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: It's great to be on with you, and I'm very excited. 32 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: Alex is saving the big Guns for week two of 33 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: his new show, and you'll be on tonight. That's fantastic. 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Steve. For the people who maybe 35 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: don't watch Fox and are all that's familiar with you, 36 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: why are you running for governor? 37 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: So we move as people can tell, I'm not originally 38 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: from around he I was born in England. My parents 39 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: are Hungarian. They were refugees from communism, so that sense 40 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: of freedom and the price that people are going to 41 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: prepare to pay for freedom. Very deep in me, I 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 1: know what it means to have freedom taken away. Communism 43 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: wasn't something that is a theoretical thing I read about 44 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: in the books. It happened to my family, and so 45 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: we grew up as immigrants in England and worked hard. 46 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 1: I got to Oxford University, as you mentioned, started a 47 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: number of businesses, ended up working to help David Cameron 48 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: get elected, worked in ten Downing Street as leading our 49 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: domestic reform program. Then we moved here in twenty twelve 50 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: to America, to California. This is the home of freedom, 51 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: where it should be. That's how I think of California, 52 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: the greatest on earth. It's the greatest state in the 53 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: greatest nation on earth. I'm a proud American now, My wife, 54 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: my two sons were all Americans. So proud to be here. 55 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: And honestly, the truth is that over all the years 56 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: of being here and hosting my show on Fox, most 57 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: of my career, I've actually been a doer, not a talker. 58 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: And as I was there, you know, it's a wonderful platform. 59 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: Of course, an honor to be able to speak to 60 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: America from my platform at Fox, but I just wanted 61 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: to really I hank it for just getting back to 62 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: doing things. And the thing that really breaks my heart 63 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: is what these people have done to our state, to California. 64 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: And you were just listening just before, just for all 65 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: the top of the hour, just the unbelievable list of 66 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: ways in which they've made us the worst performing state 67 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: in the country. It's actually staggering how comprehensively they've failed. 68 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: And seeing all that, I just thought, you know what, 69 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: I can't stand by. This state has been so great 70 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: for me. I've taught at Stanford University, started a business here, 71 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: and made my life here, raised my family here. I really, 72 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,119 Speaker 1: you know, I've got all this experience that's relevant, business experience, 73 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: government reform experience, and media platform. I think it's time 74 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: I stepped up, and I gradually came to the realization 75 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: I don't just want to write policy papers and write 76 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: books about how California needs to be turned around. I 77 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: actually want to lead the fight myself. And so that's 78 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: why I got in the race a couple of months ago, 79 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: in the end of April, and I'm really loving the 80 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: energy out there. I think people are so sick of it. 81 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 1: They're so sick of what's going on. It's beyond just 82 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: Republican Democrat now just regular people who've just been crushed 83 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: because at the end of all this, this was it 84 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: fifteen years now of one party rule. This state has 85 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: become a place totally corrupt, totally corrupt system, and it's 86 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: a system that where the rich get richer, but regular 87 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: working people gets crewed. And I'm fired up to fix it. 88 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: And that's why I'm doing it, because I know what 89 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: it's like to struggle. Right, I was a small business owner. 90 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: What they're doing to small businesses in our state is 91 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: a crime. Just people are just trying to do the 92 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: right thing and run a business and serve their community 93 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: and create a few jobs, and they're being crushed at 94 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: every turn and just found it trying to make ends 95 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 1: meeting being completely destroyed by the gas prices and the 96 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: taxes and the nonsense that everyone has to put up with. 97 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: It's time for change, and I'm excited. I think we're 98 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: going to do it next year. I really do. Yeah. 99 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 2: I mean, there's a climate is ripe. I mean for 100 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: a massive change. Just off the top of my head. 101 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 2: The other day, I came up with nineteen major issues 102 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 2: that Newsom has made much worse in the state. Each 103 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 2: one of them alone is a crisis. And the energy 104 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 2: is so we pick two dollars more per gallon than Texas, 105 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: for example, the electricity rates are sixty seventy percent higher 106 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 2: than the national average. What are you going to do? 107 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 2: What are you going to do about that? 108 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: Well, well, here's the thing. First of all, it's your 109 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: the highest gas iron in Hawaii. We have abundant oil 110 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: and gas for in California, and we have abundant oil 111 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 1: and gas reserves that cannot only be used to fuel 112 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,679 Speaker 1: our cars and trucks, but to fuel our power stations. 113 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: And that's how it's connected. So we say, what are 114 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: you going to do about it? I'm going to reverse 115 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: the crazy climate policies that have given us the highest 116 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: gas prices and the highest electric builds. Let's go through 117 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: it with gas prices. It's not just the gas tax. 118 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: People are from talk about that. Actually, as a governor, 119 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: there's not you know, on my own, I won't be 120 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: able to do too much about that. What I can 121 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: really deal with is the regulations because that comes through 122 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: the executive branch carb the California Air Resources Board, number one, 123 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 1: the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, number two, the cap and 124 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: Trade system, number three, the refinery regulations, and number four 125 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: closing down California oil and gas production. So we used 126 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: to produce most of the oil that we use here 127 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: in California in state. Now we're importing most of it. 128 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: Eighty percent, nearly is import on giants, supertankers coming halfway 129 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: around the world from places like Iraq. It's insane. It's 130 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: pushing up the price. It's not even helping their climate goals. 131 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: It doesn't even help the environment. It's insane. It's just 132 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: hurting working people. So that's the point. You're going to 133 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: reverse all that, and we get to my pledge, which 134 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: is the target three dollar gas, which you know, you 135 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: say that to people around the country, they think, what's 136 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: so good about that? That's why everyone else pays, But 137 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: of course here it's you know, nirvanna. But that's what 138 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: we can do if we reverse the climate policies and 139 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: on electric bills, it's the same principle. We end the 140 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: insane obsession with windmills and solar farms, unreliable, expensive energy. Instead, 141 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: we kill the windmills, we stop the solar subsidies, and 142 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:51,239 Speaker 1: we use California natural gas to power our electric grid 143 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: because it's affordable and reliable, and in the long term 144 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: we use that as a bridge to nuclear power that 145 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: takes longer to come on stream. Is the amazing fact, 146 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: right now, we could pretty much provide all our electric 147 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: needs at a far lower cost just with the current 148 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: gas fired power stations that we have installed. We don't 149 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: even need to build new ones because the current gas 150 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: fired powerstations in California are deliberately being run a ten 151 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: to fifteen percent of their capacity. They're just serving as 152 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: backup wind and solar because that's what these climate lunatics 153 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: are obsessed with. And so we could just get rid 154 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: of all that use the existing power stations we've got. 155 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: We've got all the natural gas we need here in California. Again, 156 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: we are on natural gas is even worse than oil. 157 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: We are importing ninety percent of our natural gas. None 158 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,319 Speaker 1: of it makes sense. So it's just common sense policies 159 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: that prioritize affordable, reliable gas and electric and then we 160 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 1: can get things back on track. And by the way, 161 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: it's the same story on all of the different policy areas. 162 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: I've done a lot of work on this. I started 163 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: at plus the organization Golden Together, three or so years ago. 164 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: I've been traveling the state, meeting people, businesses every part 165 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: of our state and working on the solutions and the 166 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: plans to fix our business climate, the schools, deal with crime, 167 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: all of these issues. It's not complicated. We just need 168 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: to do what we did before the Democrats took over 169 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: and ruined our state. 170 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 2: Hang on, Steve, you can stay a little while here, yes, please, Okay? 171 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 2: Good Steve Hilton. He's the top candidate running for governor. 172 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 2: He's a Republican and he's leading all Republicans and Democrats 173 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 2: as we head towards the primary in June. And more 174 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 2: with Steve coming up when we come back. 175 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 176 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 3: six forty. 177 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 2: Kfire. Let's continue now talking with Steve Hilton. He is 178 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 2: the leading candidate for governor in California as we head 179 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 2: to the primary in June. He's Republican, but he's on 180 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 2: top of all the other Republicans and Democrats. And Steve 181 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 2: for six years had a show on Fox News called 182 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 2: The Next Revolution. He's entrepreneurs, started many businesses and He's 183 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 2: also formerly was the head of strategy for UK Prime 184 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 2: Minister David Cameron. Has written a book called calif Failure, 185 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 2: Reversing the Ruin of America's worst run State, and he's 186 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 2: right about that. Steve, you're back here. How about how 187 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 2: about the homeless thing. We got one hundred and eighty 188 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 2: seven thousand homeless people, I mean here in LA it's 189 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 2: over seventy thousand, and half of them are in the 190 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 2: streets and it has created an awful quality of life. 191 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 2: Everybody is scared, especially in the dark, and regardless of 192 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 2: how they spin the crime numbers, people are afraid because 193 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 2: of all the homeless zombies that walk around. What can 194 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 2: you do about it? I mean, Newsom's wasted tens of 195 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 2: billions of dollars and he doesn't know he doesn't even 196 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 2: know where the money way. 197 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: Of course, because okay, this is the point. They don't 198 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: care about results and outcomes. This is the kind of 199 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: what you get after fifteen years of one party or 200 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: longer in terms of the state legislatures, like thirty years, 201 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: they get to the point where they assume they're going 202 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: to be in power forever. They can do what they want. 203 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: They don't care about outcomes and results. They announce things 204 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: and then they just move on and the media covers 205 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: it and there's never any follow up. So you saw 206 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: with homelessness. I don't know how many times he's announced 207 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: his plan to end homelessness. What's that like? You know, 208 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: we're now in the twenty second year of Gavin Newsom's 209 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: plan to end homelessness since when he was mayor of 210 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: San Francisco. It's another example of two things. First of all, 211 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: the corrupt machine that you've got with these Democrats, because 212 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: all those billions of dollars, where's that actually gone? As 213 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: the money has been spent. But homelessness gets worse, it 214 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 1: goes to the homeless industrial complex. What do we mean 215 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: by that? It's the collection of crony developers who get 216 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: paid a fortune for building these apartments. They call it 217 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: permanent supportive housing where they put homeless people who have 218 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: still drug addicts and still addicted to alcohol, so they 219 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: can't function properly and they end up back on the streets. 220 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: But the developers get paid seven hundred thousand, eight hundred thousand. 221 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 1: Now in the Bay Area, they're talking a million dollars 222 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: for each of these apartments. So that's a racket. And secondly, 223 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: the nonprofits, the homelessness nonprofits. I was on the streets 224 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: with someone who's a real nonprofit funded by actual charitable 225 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: donations and part of the faith community, trying to get 226 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: people off drugs on the streets in Los Angeles and Venice. Actually, 227 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: he was telling me that you got homeless nonprofits funded 228 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 1: by all this government money. They're running over a million 229 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: dollars a year. The people who run these nonprofits. It's disgusting. 230 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: So that's one thing. It shows you the corruption. But 231 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: the second point it illustrates is the solution is just 232 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: common sense and there's a three point plan. And Number one, 233 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: you have to enforce the law. It's illegal to live 234 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: and camp on the streets. It's always been illegal. There 235 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 1: is no reason we've had to put up with this 236 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: all along. It's the first prior to you've got to 237 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: get people off the streets. As governor, if local politicians 238 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: won't enforce the law, I will. We have state law 239 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: enforcement resources. We are going to get people off the streets. 240 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: If they're on the streets, you can't do anything to 241 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 1: help them. Number two, you have to get people off 242 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: drugs and alcohol, and you have to make that happen. 243 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: You have to make it mandatory. Gather you some just 244 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 1: veto the bill which would have had what they call 245 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: sober housing. So the condition of getting the housing is 246 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: that you've got to take part in an abstinence program 247 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: that gets you off drugs. He just vetoed it can't. 248 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: They've got this ideology they call it housing first, that 249 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: you could get the housing and then you don't have 250 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 1: to get anything else. No, you have to get How 251 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: can you possibly get people have their lives back on 252 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: track if they're still addicted to drugs and alcohol going 253 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: back to the streets to buy drugs. To Number two 254 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 1: is you've got to require abstinence and number three you've 255 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: got to have mental health treatment because over eighty percent 256 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: of the people on the streets also have some with 257 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: mental health problem. Unbelievably, Gavin Newsome in his Proposition one 258 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: ballot initiative last year that he touted as the solution 259 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: to all this, actually cut funding for counties mental health 260 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: services to transfer the money into the crony developer's pocket 261 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: through affordable housing whatever they call it. And so that's 262 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: the third priority. Restore funding for mental health services so 263 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: we can get people the treatment they need. That's the 264 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: way to do it. Enforce the law, dragging out alcohol 265 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: addiction treatment, mental health provision restored, and then we can 266 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: solve the problem. We shouldn't have any homelessness. It's just unacceptable, 267 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: and as governor, I just won't accept it. 268 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 2: Why do you think they have these policies? Obviously a 269 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 2: lot of it's just corruption. They're just stealing the money. 270 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 2: But the outcomes so awful. Why do they want this? 271 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: No, it's exactly it defies beliefs. Well, that funny enough, 272 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: That's actually what sort of what I was trying to 273 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: in this book that I wrote. I'm not really sort 274 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: of you know, the book was months ago. I'm now 275 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: running for governor. But but what I tried to do 276 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: in the book was explain how it's gone wrong. The 277 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: book's called Calor Failure, Reversing the Ruin of America's Worst 278 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: Foreign State. And what I was trying to explain was, like, 279 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: this is not normal, the fact that they've failed on 280 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: everything all at the same time, Like this the worst 281 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: results on everything in the country. And the real explanation 282 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: is it's not just oh, they're Democrats and so they 283 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing. It's deeper than that. There's 284 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: an ideology, a kind of sick ideology actually that's driving this, 285 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: because they push these policies that make no sense. And 286 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: so for this particular issue of homelessness, it comes under 287 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,479 Speaker 1: the category of what I call in the book compassion 288 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: isn't So they think it's compassionate, but what they're really 289 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: doing is taking the appearance of compassion and wanting to 290 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: seem compassionate and turning that into an obsessive ideological fixation 291 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: with never telling people what to do. Oh, you can't 292 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: move people off the street. That's cruel. They're choosing to 293 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: live like that. They have their rights. It's mean to 294 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: put to force people to do anything. If you force 295 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: people to get into drug treatment, that's against their you know, desires, 296 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: and you can't that's cruel. No, it's the opposite. 297 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 2: It's some kind of it seems like some kind of 298 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,119 Speaker 2: the streets. It seems like some kind of sick religion. 299 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 2: Where were there sacrifice the other thing. 300 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: I mean, yes, and actually I would have I mean, 301 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: it's all like that. Client I mean, on the brievious topic, 302 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: we're discussing the gas and electric stuff that doesn't make 303 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: any sense. On what planet does it make sense to 304 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: import oil from halfway around the world when we have 305 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: it here in California. It doesn't. But the reason they're 306 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: doing it is because they're ideologues and they're obsessed with 307 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: what I call client Again, in my book, I go 308 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: through all these different things that each chapters are different. 309 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: Isn't an ideological pathological idea, ideology? And and there it's climatism. 310 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: They've elevated or sunk, depending how you want to look 311 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: at it, the idea of climate change and fighting climate 312 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: change into this all consuming nutty religion where it doesn't 313 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: matter what happens in the real world as long as 314 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: you look as if you're fighting, you're a sort of 315 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: climate warrior. And it's just it really is. It's pathological. 316 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: It does not make sense. You think, well, why would 317 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: any normal person do this? There's no justification. They're not normal. 318 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: They're ideologues. And that's why I'm actually very confident in 319 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: that netime. You asked the question earlier, how is it 320 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: that we keep voting for these people? I think that 321 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: really is going to change. Next to you, because we're 322 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: going to have They've never really faced a candidate like me, 323 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: who really knows their policy, who has had lots of 324 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: media experience. I've got business experience. I cannot wait to 325 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: take them apart. They have not a leg to stand on, 326 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: they have no case to make to be given another 327 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,479 Speaker 1: four years of power. They failed on every front, and 328 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: I'm so looking forward for taking them apart and leading 329 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: the change that we need in this state. 330 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 2: I want you to come back soon. I want you 331 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 2: to come in studio and we can have any longer conversation. 332 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 2: All right, Steve Hill, top candidate running for governor right now, 333 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 2: number one Republican had of all the Democrats and the 334 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: other Republicans. Steve, We'll get together soon. Thank you. 335 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 336 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 3: six forty. 337 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 2: Every day. We do the show from one until four. 338 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 2: No excuse if you miss some of it. You can 339 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 2: hear it on the app After four o'clock it gets 340 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,400 Speaker 2: posted John Cobelt's Show on demand. It's the same as 341 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 2: the radio show, and we've had quite a program so far. 342 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 2: We spent most of the first hour on Karen Bass 343 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 2: appearing on Alex Michaelson's The Story Is show now on 344 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 2: CNN and we dissected her all her audio clips as 345 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 2: she gave a series of bland customer service responses. None 346 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 2: of the fired anger you hear her spewing when allegal 347 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 2: aliens are getting rounded up by Trump. This was flat, colorless, undetailed, 348 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 2: saying the obvious. The buck stops here. And this all 349 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 2: comes after we discovered last week that firefighters up in 350 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 2: the Palisades saw that there was a hot spot after 351 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 2: the New Year's Day fire. They said there was hot rocks, 352 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 2: hot tree stumps, smoldering smoke coming out of the ground, 353 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 2: and they told the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, we ought 354 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 2: to stay here and put this out, and he said no. 355 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 2: Hoses rolled up, Let's go, they protested. They pushed back, 356 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 2: he goes, no, let's go, and then that was it 357 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 2: and nothing was heard about it ever again until I 358 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 2: guess last Thursday, when the Times got these text messages 359 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 2: and the firefighters relayed their real time thoughts from that day. Unbelievable. 360 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 2: I mean, many heads ought to roll over this. This 361 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 2: is unconscionable. This is so wrong, This is so wrong. 362 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 2: This is where the fire restarted, and they were there 363 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 2: and they knew that hotspots get blown up into fires. 364 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 2: When you had the Santa Ana winds blowing blowing, they 365 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 2: knew that. They just went home and that's that's what 366 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,120 Speaker 2: the fire. Not only a firefighter personnel, but but the management, 367 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 2: the officials, the chiefs, everybody stood down. She of course 368 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 2: ran off to Africa. Kristin Crowley, I don't know if 369 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 2: she knew about it or not, doesn't matter. They nobody 370 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 2: did their job. That's what's galling. Nobody even tried to 371 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 2: do their job. So that and then two o'clock hour, 372 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 2: well you just heard. We had Steve Hilton Nott, who's 373 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 2: the leading Republican Canadaate, and I thought I had a 374 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 2: very compelling message, so we spent a half hour with him, 375 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 2: and that's on the podcast as well. Gavin Newsom is 376 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 2: really on a media tour to uh because she's running 377 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 2: for president. It still won't publicly admit it. Kristen Welker 378 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 2: is the host of Meet the Press on NBC and 379 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 2: she just assumes Newsome is running for president no matter 380 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 2: what he says. Listen to this clip. I'm going to 381 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 2: play cut eight first, asking why he wants to be president. 382 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 4: You said you'll make a decision about whether to run 383 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 4: for president after the midterms. Why do governor, Let me 384 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 4: ask you, why do you want to be president? 385 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 5: I don't. I'm not suggesting I am. I'm saying I 386 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 5: have a. 387 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 6: Response to someone talked about it, and. 388 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 5: I hate when I nothing. 389 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 6: I dislike more than the politician that sits there and 390 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 6: lies to you. 391 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 5: And we all just sit there rolling our eyes. Go 392 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 5: and give me a break. 393 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 2: Stop, stop to stop right there? 394 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 1: Wait? 395 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 2: What whoa? 396 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 7: Whoa? 397 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 6: After tomorrow, when he announces that he's running for president, 398 00:21:58,400 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 6: you need to play that clip. 399 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 2: He doesn't hate any more than a politician that sits 400 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 2: there and lies to you. 401 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 7: And he just said then he doesn't. Oh, we can't 402 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 7: make this stuff though. 403 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 2: He's absolutely shameless. Can you play that last line again, Mario? 404 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 6: I dislike more than the politician that sits there and 405 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 6: lies to you, and we all just sit there, rolling 406 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 6: our eyes, going, give me a break. So as it 407 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 6: relates to that, there's nothing on the right. I'm focused 408 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 6: on Prop fifty. I'm focusing on fair, free elections and 409 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 6: to the extent fate the future. 410 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 5: There's an alignment. You have a big enough why, you 411 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 5: have a what and a how. 412 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 6: You need a moment, and that moment presents itself in 413 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 6: a year, year and a half, we'll see what happens. 414 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 7: That's very poetic. 415 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 2: What the hell does all that mean? There's a what 416 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 2: and a why and how moment, and there's a moment there. 417 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 2: If I can find the moment, I'll run up and 418 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 2: need it. Oh man, she kept going. Christian Welker asked Newshom, Well, 419 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 2: what is your why? 420 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 4: If you're thinking about it, that why must be forming. 421 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 7: No, well, if you decide to run, why would you want. 422 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 1: To do it? Well? 423 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 6: I haven't decided, and I appreciate the persistence is their. 424 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 5: Licenss and I respect it. 425 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 6: I think, whoever runs, And this is just my objective 426 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 6: belief subjective, but I hope it's objective for a lot 427 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 6: of Americans. 428 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 2: Wait, wait, stop there, it's my objective belief. No, it's 429 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 2: my subjective belief, but I hope it's my objective belief. 430 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 2: See when he's this is his Achilles hill, heel or 431 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 2: his glass draw? How everyone a phrase it? He cannot 432 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 2: myntaneously answer questions, but he. 433 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 6: Keeps talking because, for whatever reason, he thinks the more 434 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,479 Speaker 6: he says, the smarter he's going to sound. 435 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 2: And maybe Eventually he'll run into an answer or or 436 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 2: the question will forget what the question was. Continue with that. 437 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 6: I think whoever runs, and this is just my objective belief, subjective, 438 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 6: but I hope it's objective for a lot of Americans. 439 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 5: It reminds me of little of Isaiah. You need to 440 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 5: be a repair of the breach spiritually and physically. But 441 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 5: it's not just about restoration. 442 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 6: Forces a restoration, it's also forces a transformation. And what 443 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 6: I mean by that is, what are the trend lines 444 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 6: that define the future? You know, I'm here, I'm We're 445 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 6: in the future business. I'm here in California. Future happens 446 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 6: here first, where America is coming, attraction on artificial intelligence, fusion, 447 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 6: quantum robotics, nuclear space. California dominates in every critical category. 448 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 6: I worry about the future work. I worry about the 449 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 6: announcement from Amazon. I worry about earnings going up, profits skyrocking, 450 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 6: and headcount going down, meaning less and less people having 451 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 6: access and opportunities. I think whoever runs has to paint 452 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,479 Speaker 6: a vision for the future, a journey that we can 453 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 6: be on together. That's not just about growth, but about inclusion, 454 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 6: issues of debt and entitlement, issues around energy, and I 455 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 6: still believe in climate issues. 456 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 5: All those issues need. 457 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,120 Speaker 6: To be front center eventually for whoever is a nominee 458 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 6: of our party. 459 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 2: Oh my god, what's bigger than a word salad? I 460 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 2: mean that was the whole farm he threw in there. 461 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 7: What about my gas prices? 462 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 2: I get right? What about the gas prices? What about 463 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 2: the electricity prices? He's talking about all this high tech 464 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 2: stuff for robotics and quantum physics and quantum computing, whatever 465 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 2: the hell he was saying that people can't buy food 466 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 2: and make it through the week. They don't have enough 467 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 2: to fill their with gas. They have ordinary jobs. If 468 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 2: they have those jobs that were leaders in, that's great. 469 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 2: You're getting well into the six figures. I mean a 470 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 2: couple of years ago, the average Facebook engineer was making 471 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 2: three hundred and eight ninety eight thousand dollars and it's 472 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 2: probably a lot more than that now. They were they 473 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 2: were There were people I think at Meta being hired, 474 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 2: you know, for the AI revolution, and they were getting 475 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 2: baseball sized contracts like they were sho hee otani. Yeah, 476 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 2: they were. They were getting tens of millions of dollars 477 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: for long term contracts. Those people are going to do 478 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 2: fine with all this AI, robotics, quantum computing explosion that's coming. 479 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 2: None of that is going to help a guy in 480 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 2: a two bedroom house in the suburbs who's got to 481 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: pay five bucks a gallon for gas and whose electricity 482 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:02,439 Speaker 2: is double that of a lot of states. All right, 483 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 2: I got another, I got another whopper coming up. Meet 484 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,719 Speaker 2: the Press, Kristen, Welcome. We'll play this in the next segment. 485 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 2: Newsom asked if he misled people about Biden. Remember Newsom 486 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 2: was the last guy insisting that Biden was not s Nile. 487 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 2: We'll play this one when we come back. Also after 488 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 2: three o'clock, Joel Pollock, he is gonna come on with 489 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 2: us because there's a new media outlet that's gonna be 490 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 2: opening up in California, the California Post. This is gonna 491 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 2: be a sister publication of the New York Post, and 492 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 2: he's the opinion editor of the California Post. It's not 493 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 2: online yet, it will be very soon. We're going to 494 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,719 Speaker 2: talk to Joel about that and also talk about Newsom 495 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 2: as well. 496 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 497 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 3: six forty. 498 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 2: John Cobell Show, and we have Joel Pollack coming on. 499 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 2: Joel Pollack is the new opinion editor of the California Post. 500 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 2: What is the California Post. Well, it's the sister publication 501 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 2: of the New York Post. It is not online yet 502 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 2: but will be soon early twenty twenty six, and it 503 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 2: will be a New York I imagine we last Joel, 504 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 2: a New York Post style daily newspaper online that will 505 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 2: be going after what's happening in California from here to Sacramento. 506 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 2: And this state needs something like a New York Post 507 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 2: attitude desperately from somebody of the media, because everybody else 508 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 2: is just a kiss ass. So we'll get to that. 509 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 2: I got one more clip and this is one of 510 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 2: my favorites here. Kristen Welker on Meet the Press had 511 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom on and she pressed him on whether he 512 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 2: misled people about Biden's senility. Listen to this clip. It's 513 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 2: about a minute, but pay attention to the end. 514 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 4: Did you legitimately believe that he was capable of serving 515 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 4: as president until January of twenty twenty nine. 516 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 517 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 6: I think my focus was frankly situational. It was making 518 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 6: sure Donald Trump didn't get back into office to experience 519 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 6: everything that we're experiencing today, And there was no interaction 520 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 6: I had that suggested otherwise. 521 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 4: What do you say to Americans listen who feel misled 522 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 4: by you and other. 523 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 5: Talk despect He decided. 524 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 4: About the mental acuity of President Biden that they wish 525 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 4: you'd sound of the alarm sooner to give way for 526 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 4: open convention. 527 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 6: I'm not going to substitute myself for someone else or 528 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 6: for popular opinion. 529 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 5: I'm going to express my relationship to. 530 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 6: My truth with the present former president of the United States, 531 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 6: including at the end of his term quite literally in December, 532 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 6: which was a masterclass of foreign policy and domestic policy, 533 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 6: which I will never forget as we walk through not 534 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 6: just the election, but we're walking through the world we're 535 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 6: living in. There was nothing to suggest what you just 536 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 6: said or or others have suggested in terms of my interaction. 537 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 5: That's all I can be accountable for. 538 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 2: What did he say about truth? Mario Ca'd find that 539 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 2: line again. I don't know what that means. This is 540 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 2: very Kamala Harris, Like this whole interview, Just what we 541 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 2: needed is a male Kamala Harris from California. Measure what 542 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 2: everybody in the country thinks with these two. Play that again. 543 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 2: Can you never experience I'm not. 544 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 6: Going to substitute myself for someone else? What that me 545 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 6: or for popular opinion? I'm going to wait for us there. 546 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 2: I'm not going to substitute myself for someone else or 547 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 2: for popular opinion. 548 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 7: No idea. 549 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 2: That is like throwing scrabble words up in the air 550 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 2: and they all fall down and you get a random 551 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 2: sentence out of him. We'll play it again, well, was 552 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 2: the next thing? 553 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 5: Or for popular opinion? 554 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 6: I'm going to express my relationship to my truth with 555 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 6: the present former president the United States. 556 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:20,719 Speaker 2: Stop stop, I'm going to express my relationship my truth, 557 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 2: my relationship to my truth or. 558 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,719 Speaker 7: Was it my truth to my relationship? 559 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 2: You back that up again. 560 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 6: I'm going to express my relationship to my truth the former. 561 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:38,479 Speaker 2: Presidentity, my relationship to my truth with the former president 562 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 2: of the United States. What could that possibly mean? What 563 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 2: was he speaking in code to somebody? 564 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 7: What does he like to say? Deflect, deflate, conflate? But 565 00:31:54,360 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 7: I don't know cross, But it makes no sense. 566 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 2: Is I don't know what the point of what he 567 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 2: was saying is or was I just gives me a headache. Yeah, 568 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 2: it's gonna be very exciting him running for president. I 569 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 2: hope he and Kamal will run. 570 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 7: I think they're going to be on the ticket together. 571 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 2: When we come back, Joel Pollock's coming on. Joel Pollack 572 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 2: worked for Breitbart for years and he is now the 573 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 2: opinion editor for the California Post, which is the New 574 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 2: York sister publication, which is coming online very soon, and 575 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 2: boy is it needed in this media waste land here 576 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 2: in California. We'll talk to Joel coming up in minute. Hey, 577 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 578 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 579 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 580 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.