1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome. How are you to 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobalt 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: filling in for Claim Buck today and I want to 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: thank them for giving me the opportunity. I'm normally on Canfine, 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: Los Angeles every afternoon doing a radio show and have 7 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: been out here for a long time and it's really 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: a lot of fun to be able to be on 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: Clay and Bucks network today. And what I wanted to 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 1: talk about, and we've got a lot of material here 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 1: is since Gavin Newsom has become undisputably the top Democratic 12 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: candidate for the twenty twenty eight race, he is. He 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: is a piece of work, and there's a lot of 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: detail that you probably haven't heard about because I don't 15 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: think the national media has covered him very much. And 16 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: when you've probably seen all the video and all the 17 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: news stories, especially on Fox News about what a disaster 18 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: California is, and when you see that kind of coverage, 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: I always wonder, I'm sure you do, it's like, all right, 20 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: are they taking things out of context? Are they cherry picking? 21 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: Is this one isolated block or town. Is it really 22 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: like this in much of the state, And the answer 23 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: is yes. What you're seeing on television the way California 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: is covered, it is that bad, especially if you're in 25 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: the big cities. It cannot be overstated just how difficult 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: life is in places like Los Angeles and Santa Monica 27 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: and in San Francisco. It is a mess. It's a 28 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: mess coming from Gavin Newsom's policies. It is a mess 29 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: coming from local policies, city councils and mayors. It is 30 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: a progressive nightmare out here. And I want to tell 31 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: you just a brief rundown, because whenever you utter in 32 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: a opinion these days, people want to dismiss it, saying, oh, well, 33 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: you're just blank, and they give you a label, Oh 34 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: you're just conservative, or you're just Republican, or you're just 35 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: some kind of hater. And then I always think it's like, no, no, 36 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: this is real life here in California. This is what 37 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: normal people who are not overly political talk about all day. 38 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: This is the only thing non political, non partisan, ordinary 39 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: people talk about. Because life can be really difficult and frustrating. 40 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: And so when I was a kid, I grew up 41 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: in New Jersey, in santlebrig New Jersey. And you know, 42 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: you know the winters in the Northeast, they're long, they're cold, 43 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: sunsets at four point thirty in the afternoon. I'm eight 44 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: years old, and the ray of hope when you're in 45 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: the middle of winter, let's say in December, is I 46 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: turned on the television and I would see late afternoon 47 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: football games from the West Coast. I'd see games from 48 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: Los Angeles games, San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders, and 49 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: I'd see sunshine right because it was three hours earlier. Sunshine, 50 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: people in short sleeves, beautiful women in the stands, and 51 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, wow, this and this is an eight. I thought, well, 52 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: this is magical, this is wonderful. And you know, then 53 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: there was the Rose Parade every year, so it buried 54 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: in my head. It's like, when I grew up, I 55 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: want to go live in California. That was the dream 56 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: because it was so wonderful. And eventually I fast forward, 57 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: maybe about twenty years, my wife and I got to 58 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: move to Los Angeles. I got a job offer from 59 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: KFI back in the nineties, and I thought, well, this 60 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: is exactly where I wanted to be, and we drove 61 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: around our first three weeks here before I went on 62 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: the air, and we went everywhere from the Mexican border 63 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: through San Diego and San Francisco. San Francisco at the time, 64 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: I almost dropped dead because of its beauty. I thought, 65 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: this is the most gorgeous city I've ever seen in 66 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: my life. La was fun and exciting, the beaches, the weather, 67 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: and you know, eventually, well we made a home. We 68 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: made a home here and raised three kids, and then 69 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: about ten years ago everything started going to hell. And 70 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 1: it was gradual. You know, it's first you don't you 71 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: shrug it off, saying, well, all right, they'll take care 72 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: of it. It's a bad policy, bad idea. Let me 73 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: start with the homelessness, because the homelessness has infected and 74 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: overrun the city of Los Angeles, the city of Santa Monica, 75 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: which used to be a jewel, San Francisco, of course, Sacramento. 76 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: And it's a policy from the top on down where 77 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: most of the homeless are not people quote down on 78 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: their luck, who lost their job a couple of weeks 79 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: ago and can't make a rent payment. Most of them 80 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: are are drug addicts, just raised drug addicts. The rest 81 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: of them are mental patients. It's as if they opened 82 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: a mental institution and let everybody run free. Now, the 83 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: drug addiction can make you mentally ill. The mentally ill 84 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: people turned to drugs, so it mixes together. I saw 85 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: a UCLA study where three quarters of the homeless they 86 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: estimated were mentally ill and three quarters were drug addicts. 87 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: Well that's one hundred and fifty percent of the homeless. 88 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: So that's what's going on. And you can't fix most 89 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: of them, at least not by I don't know, opening 90 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: up a retail store clinic on the street. All these 91 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: people need intensive treatment. They need to be in beds, 92 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: they need to be locked up, they need long term therapy, 93 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: they need to be on medications. And instead, the official 94 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: policy of Gavin Newsom is is housing first, and it's 95 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: the same thing with Karen Basterbor Los Angeles. Housing first, 96 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: which means nothing is done for their addictions, nothing is 97 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: done for their mental illness. They have thrown billions of 98 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 1: dollars to build apartments and all kinds of shelters, except 99 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: all you're doing is you're taking the crazy person or 100 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: the addicted person, and you're putting them inside and then 101 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: they wander out during the day to buy their drugs 102 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: and to act crazy. And let me tell you, these 103 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: people are terrifying. My wife and I have been chased 104 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 1: by people with sticks running down the street screaming. We 105 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: have been chased in our car. We have witnessed people 106 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: just You'll be walking down the street, just going to 107 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: the drug store, the grocery store, and somebody will drop 108 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: their pants and defecate right in front of you. These 109 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: are not anomalies. You go to Hollywood, you go to Venice, 110 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: you go to places that used to be the tourism 111 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: capitals of America, and it's mind boggling what's allowed. And 112 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: everybody calls and everybody complains, and they have a new policy. 113 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: No matter who you call, they don't respond. They don't 114 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: answer the phone, they don't answer the email, they don't 115 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: answer the door. They don't care because I don't know. 116 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: I think so many people have checked out that they 117 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: know they're all going to get re elected. It is 118 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: the strangest phenomenon. I noticed things starting to change. Like 119 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: I said, about ten years ago, I also noticed how 120 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: things changed with people responding to issues and taking action, 121 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: and it was about the time the smartphone came out. 122 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: And I actually think people are so absorbed by their 123 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: smartphones and so absorbed by being on the internet and 124 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: scrolling social media and scrolling texting that they have kind 125 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: of lost connection with their neighborhood and their town and 126 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: they're just letting things happen. They've given up on forcing 127 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: a Gavenusemmer or Karen Bass to do anything about it. 128 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, on the housing first, it's 129 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: extremely expensive, it takes an extremely long time, and there's 130 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: very little housing that's built. Most of the homeless money 131 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: is stolen. And I'll explain that to you coming up 132 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: in a few minutes. It is and there's one party rule. 133 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: We've had a democratic governor now ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger, 134 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:42,239 Speaker 1: so it's about fifteen sixteen years. We've got super majorities 135 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: in the Assembly, supermajorities in the state legislature. We have 136 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: a city council that's entirely democratic. We've got a mayor 137 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: that's entirely democratic. And that's all we've had as mayor 138 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: for twenty five years in La and so they the 139 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: same thing with the Board of Supervisors that runs La County. 140 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: It's five to nothing Democratic women. And there is no 141 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: Republican party here. There's nothing, there's no resistance. There's a 142 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,599 Speaker 1: handful of legislators in the Assembly. There's a hand and 143 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: I it's the Republican out here. Republicans out here are 144 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: completely inept, completely feeble, impotent. There might be one or 145 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: two guys. And so we're locked down. And during COVID 146 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: we were literally locked down. We had the worst COVID 147 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: shutdown rules in the whole country. And so it is 148 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: what you're seeing in the national news. And Gavin Newsom 149 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: is behind it all. And I told a friend of 150 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: mine the other day, old friend who normally votes Democratic. 151 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: I said, look, I'm not telling you to vote for Republican. 152 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm just saying you got to find another Democrat. You 153 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: do not want Gavin Newsom. You do not want him 154 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: running the country. You've got to live here every day 155 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: to understand just what a disaster that would be. I 156 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: will play you when we come back a clip of 157 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom so you could get a little window into 158 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: his character and see how quickly he will lie. And 159 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: he will change his lie two or three times in 160 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: the middle of a conversation. They'll say anything to get 161 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: out of a conversation, to gain the upper hand, to 162 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: make a point, and it's actually fascinating. It has to 163 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: do with the famous Palisades fire. Also, later on in 164 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: the show, we're gonna have Katie Grimes on californiaglobe dot com. 165 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: Katie has this website and it's filled the breach because 166 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: you may have wondered, as I was telling you about 167 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: the decay of California, well where's the media covering this? Well, 168 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: on a local basis, they don't scattered stories here and 169 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: there if something egregious happens, but they don't cover it. 170 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: They run protection for everybody in the legislature, for Newsom, 171 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: for Karen Bass by simply not covering it. It's fascinating. 172 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: It's not that they're biased with all their coverage. There 173 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: is no coverage. It just doesn't exist, and so a 174 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: lot of people don't know the depth of what's going 175 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: on and how much money has been stolen. You'd think 176 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: Tim Watson Minnesota is a story, and we're going to 177 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: get to that later as well. Gavin Newsom absolutely dwarfsome, 178 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: so we'll talk about all that coming up again. I 179 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: wanted to thank Clay and Buck for letting me fill 180 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: in today. I'm John Cobelt from KFI and Los Angeles 181 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: on the Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 182 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 183 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 2: six forty. 184 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 185 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: I'm John Cobel from CAFEI in Los Angeles, filling in 186 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: today and to take you through the next few hours. 187 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,719 Speaker 1: And since I'm here in Los Angeles and have been 188 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 1: out here for over thirty years, I thought i'd try 189 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: to help you understand the Gavenusom phenomenon. Since in many polls, 190 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: most polls, he's the leading Democratic candidate to be president. 191 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: And you see him, and he's always dressed in a 192 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: beautiful shiny suit, and he's got great hair, and he's 193 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: got a strong chin and can seem very affable. But 194 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: the state is a disaster here, and I just if 195 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: you haven't researched much about him or really delved into him, 196 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,599 Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you the first morning. Don't go 197 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: near this one. No matter what party you are, a Democrat, Republican, independent, whatever, 198 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: do not put this guy in charge of the country. 199 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: And I want to show you his character. Here. This 200 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: is a clip from the Palisades fire. I think everybody 201 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: knows about that. And there was a woman and let 202 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: me get her name here, it's Rachel Darvish. She's driving 203 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: around looking at the devastation in her old neighborhood where 204 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: her old house used to be, and just and she 205 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: was with a Sky News reporter, like Rachel was given 206 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: the Sky News reporter a tour of the neighborhood. And 207 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: just by chance, they happened on the block where Gavin 208 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: Newsom was, you know, with some of his staff members. 209 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: And Newsom was literally walking across the street, and Rachel 210 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 1: Darvish jumped out of the car and ran up to Newsom, 211 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: and Newsom was really startled. Rachel wanted to know what 212 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: he was going to do about the fire and making 213 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: sure it doesn't happen again because Rachel's daughter's school had 214 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: burned to the ground. And listen to the excuse that 215 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: Newsome gives as to why he can't talk to her 216 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: right now, and then listen how he changes his story, like. 217 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 3: Cut one, Governor, you got a second governor, Governor, I 218 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 3: live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school. 219 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: Governor please tell me what you're gonna do. But I'm 220 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: not gonna hurt of my promise. 221 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 2: I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically 222 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 2: answer the question of what we can do for you 223 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: and your daughter? 224 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 3: Can I hear it? 225 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it? 226 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: Fun I'm sorry, can I there's literally I've tried five times. 227 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: That's why I'm walking around to make that I'm the 228 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: president not taking your call because it's not going through. 229 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: Why I have to get self service, Let's get it, 230 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: let's get it. I want to be here when you 231 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: call the President. I appreciate it. 232 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 3: I'm doing that right now, and to immediately get reimbursements, 233 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 3: individual assistance. 234 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: And to help God Devis look at I'm so sorry, 235 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: especially for your daughter. I have four kids. Everyone who 236 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: went to school there, they lost their homes. They lost 237 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: two homes because they were living in one and building another. Kevin, 238 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: please tell me, tell me what are you going to 239 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: do with the president. 240 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 3: Right now, we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild. 241 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: Is there no water in the hydrants? Governor? 242 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 3: That's all? 243 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: Literally? Is it going to be different next time? That 244 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: has to be has to be of course, what. 245 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 3: Are you going to do all the hydrants? 246 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: I would fill them up personally, you know that. Literally 247 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: I would fill up the hugrants myself, but would you 248 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: do them? I would do whatever I can, but you're not. 249 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: I see the Do you know there's water dripping over there? 250 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: Governor there's water coming out there? You can use it. 251 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I'm going to make the call to 252 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: address everything I can right now, including making sure people 253 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: to make sure you can I have an opportunity to 254 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: at least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing. 255 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: Did somebody have a contract? Can I have your contact now? 256 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: When she first ran up to him, he said, I'm 257 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: literally talking to Joe Biden right now. Well he wasn't 258 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: literally talking to him. He made that up. And then 259 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: he said, well, I've been trying to call five times, 260 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: and then it's like, well I can't get a cell 261 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: signal here. So when we come back, we'll talk more 262 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: about He's a shape shifter and you heard a great 263 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: example of that there. This is John Cobelt filling in 264 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: on the Milke Travis at Buck Sexton show. 265 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 266 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 2: six forty. 267 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: Welcome back, Hi there to the Clay Travis and Buck 268 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. I'm John Cobel to your guest host for 269 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: the day from KFI and Los Angeles have a daily 270 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: radio show in the afternoon. And we've been talking about 271 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, because I've lived out 272 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: here for over thirty years, and I explained earlier on 273 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 1: that I came here having seen California through a television 274 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: screen thinking it was paradise, and I got here and 275 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: it actually was. And then over the last ten years 276 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: everything has just gone to hell. The place has rotted out. 277 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: It's not an exaggeration what you hear, it's it's it's accurate. 278 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: If anything, it's underplayed. And at the top of the 279 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: food chain is Gavin Newsom, the governor. And he's been 280 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: governor for a long time now. He can't weasel out 281 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: and say it with somebody else's problem. He's been the 282 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: governor for seven years next year's his last eight years. 283 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: Before that, he was lieutenant governor. Eight years before that, 284 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: he was the mayor of San Francisco. And his character 285 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: is not existent. And I played a clip in the 286 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: last segment to demonstrate it, and I'm going to go 287 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: over like step by step. Here this woman, Rachel Dervish, 288 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: runs up to him. She's a distraught, very upset mother 289 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 1: in the Palisades. This is right in the midst of 290 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: fire week. Her home is burned down, her kid, her 291 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: daughter's school is burned down, and there's this reporter from 292 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: Sky News in London following her around as she goes 293 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: through the neighborhood. They're driving in a car. By coincidence, 294 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is on the block crossing the street. She 295 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: jumps out. Sky News follows her and gets this conversation 296 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: that we played and says, you know, he says, She says, Governor, 297 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: you know, can you do something? And his first line, 298 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 1: I'm literally talking to Joe Biden right now. And he 299 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: used the word literally and she immediately picked up that 300 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: he was lying and said, well, let me talk to him. Oh, 301 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: he wasn't literally talking to anybody. He was holding a 302 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: disconnected phone. There was no Joe Biden on the other end. 303 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: By the way, what are the odds that if he 304 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,679 Speaker 1: actually got through to Joe Biden, Biden would have been 305 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: awake to answer it. So he's not talking to Biden. 306 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 1: And then he changed the story. Well, I've tried to 307 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: call five times. Five times. Oh, I thought you were 308 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: literally talking. And then well, I'm trying to get cell service, 309 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 1: so you're not. You did you weren't literally talking to him. 310 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: He isn't on the phone. You didn't try to call 311 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 1: five times because you don't have cell service. You can 312 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: just look at the phone. You're not going to keep 313 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,719 Speaker 1: dialing and dialing if you've got the no cell service 314 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,880 Speaker 1: icon at the top of the phone. In fact, you'd 315 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 1: be getting in a car and driving downhill where there 316 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: is cell service. He was just making it up on 317 00:19:54,359 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: the fly. This is what he does. I'll give you 318 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: another example, also connected to the fire. At various times 319 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: when he spoke of the fire, he lied and said 320 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: it was climate change. Well, then we discovered it was 321 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: an arsonist that set the original fire. Oh well, then 322 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: he lied and said he had pre deployed fire trucks 323 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: one hundred and ten of them throughout the mountain range 324 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: across Los Angeles. He didn't deploy any that would be zero. 325 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: He gives specific numbers. Liked I called five times, Joe Buden, 326 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: I put out one hundred and ten fire trucks. There 327 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: were zero fire trucks. It wasn't climate change. It was 328 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: a crazy arsonist. None of the fires start out here 329 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: in California because of climate change. Zero. They start primarily 330 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: because of lightning. Arson or this is a big cat 331 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: that has sparked the worst fires. Power lines fall down, 332 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 1: electrical equipment starts sparking because the major power companies out here, 333 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: Pged in southern California Edison, don't maintain their wires, their poles. 334 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: They're transformers. Some of this stuff is one hundred years old, 335 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: so it falls apart, it falls over in the wind, 336 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: and it starts huge blazes. It's always electric companies. And 337 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: if it's not that, it's arsonust And if it's not that, 338 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: it's lightning strikes, dry lightning in the summer out here, 339 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: it's like a desert phenomenon. Dry air comes in from 340 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: the desert and sparks the lightning. That's what starts vast 341 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: majority of the fires. And there was the third life. Okay, 342 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: he said it was climate change. Then he said it 343 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: he pre deployed fire trucks, and then he said, well 344 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: he really they had nothing to do with it because 345 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: it wasn't on state land. Well, weeks later we found 346 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: out it did start on state land. It started on 347 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: state land on the night of January first. This was 348 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: called the Lockman fire. This is a week before the 349 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: Big Palisades Fire. And the LA Fire Department showed up 350 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: and put it out on New Year's Day morning, and 351 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: then within hours Newsom's Parks Department set down representatives to 352 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 1: stop the fire department from mopping up. When a fire 353 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: department mops up, they have to tamp down all the hotspots. 354 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: There were hot rocks, there were hot tree stumps, that 355 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: was smoldering, smoke coming out of the ground. You know, 356 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: the root system is still very hot. And these employees 357 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: from the State Parks Department, and there's video and photos 358 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: of this, basically chased the LA Fire Department off the 359 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: state land. And you're probably saying, now, why would they 360 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: do that. They did it because they didn't want the 361 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: firefighters stomping on the milk vetch plant. The milk vetch plant. Seriously, 362 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,719 Speaker 1: there's a Latin name for it, the astrologus plant. And 363 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: there are now text messages memos where the fire the 364 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: Parks employees are telling the LA Fire Department basically get 365 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 1: off the land. The fire department wanted to bring in 366 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: a bulldozer to cut a fire break, and they wanted 367 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: to put out all the smoldering. They said, no, you 368 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: can't do that. You will tear up the milk vetch plant. 369 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,199 Speaker 1: It's an endangered plant. Why am I explaining all this 370 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: because six days later in that exact spot, the winds 371 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: started blowing on January seventh, whipped up the smoldering fire 372 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: and turned it into the big one, turned it into 373 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: the huge blaze that we all watched or experienced for 374 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 1: a week. And it was because his state employees were 375 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: following state policy not to destroy the milkvetch plant, and 376 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: they actually kicked out the Los Angeles Fire Department. And 377 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: then he went around saying, well, the state had nothing 378 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: to do with it. The state was the cause of 379 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 1: the huge Palisates fire hit policies under his administration. And 380 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: the new tactic now as all these bombshells come out 381 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: is everybody runs in highs. Nobody even bothers to deny 382 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: things anymore. Nobody contests the story anymore. They just shut 383 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: down and the beating out. And here in California at least, 384 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: and the national media too, is so compliant because he's 385 00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: the great Hope. They don't question anything. Again, very similar 386 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: to the Tim Waltz situation. They knew that story was 387 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 1: going on with the fraud for seven years. There were 388 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: employees reporting it. There were occasionally scattered news stories, but 389 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: nobody followed up, and so for seven years all the 390 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: money could be looted in Minnesota under Tim Waltz's nose. 391 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 1: Here is the same thing. There's tremendously damaging information and 392 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: it's coming from a civil lawsuit filed by thousands of 393 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades residents and their attorneys are now subpoenaing records, 394 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: getting testimony, and now we're finding out what the real 395 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: story is. The Palisades burned down, six thousand plus homes 396 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: burned for the sake of the milkvetch plant because the 397 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: first fire was you could put out easily. And this 398 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,919 Speaker 1: is what's astonishing about what's going on going on and 399 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 1: how badly it's covered in the news media. And believe me, 400 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: a lot of people when they see Gavin Knewsome primping 401 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: and preening around think it physically ill. It's how cool? 402 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: Were you kidding? And this is just story. I told 403 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: you it was just about that disaster in the Palisades. Oh, 404 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: by the way, just as a personal thing. I live 405 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:33,199 Speaker 1: about three miles from the fire, and that week we 406 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 1: had no power, we had no water, and I wanted 407 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: to go to a hotel with my wife and we 408 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: have a bunch of pets and we but my wife 409 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: wanted to stay because she knew the looters would come 410 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: and steal all our stuff. And at first I thought 411 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: that was an overreaction. It turned out she was right. 412 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: Seven homes in her neighborhood got looted because it was 413 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: completely dark. There was no electricity whatsoever, and we had 414 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 1: baseball bats all over the house, and my wife is 415 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: walking around pacing around the baseball bat, and so was I. 416 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: In case a bad guy got in and seven homes 417 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: were looted, we put up a lot of flashlights all 418 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: over the place to make it look like we were home, 419 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: and we had to hire a guy. We had to 420 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: hire an ex marine who stood in front of the 421 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: house with a loaded gun. He showed us his loaded 422 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 1: pistol and he said, I see him, I shoot him, 423 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: I kill him. That's what we resorted to. We had 424 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: to hire it. Was somebody's electrician in the neighborhood who 425 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 1: used to be a marine, and he had a gun. 426 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: And I remember after I left the guy in front 427 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 1: of the house to go to the hardware store to 428 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: get flashlights, I thought, Wow, total breakdown of government. There's 429 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: no fire, there's no police, there's no electricity, there's no water, 430 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: there's no nothing. It was. It was a total breakdown 431 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: of civilization. And I felt like I never felt in 432 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: my life, right. I mean, we'll all grow up. It's like, well, 433 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: somebody's gonna take care of us, right. The police will 434 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: show up, the fire department will show up, the government 435 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 1: will take care of things, you know, the mommy and 436 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: daddy they'll come. No, there was nothing. It was every 437 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: man for himself. You had to find a guy who 438 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: owned a gun and hire him to stand in front 439 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: of your house. And my son said, well, what if 440 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: what if he shoots and kills somebody. It's like, I 441 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: don't want to know. I don't want to be shot 442 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: and killed. That's up to him to make make his 443 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: own judgment. And this is this is what we were 444 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: reduced to. And that sounds like a once in a 445 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: lifetime outrageous story, but there's many versions of this going 446 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: on every day throughout the state and LA just to 447 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: complete collapse in ordinary government. Tell you more about this 448 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: when we come back in the next hour. We're gonna 449 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: have Katie Grimes on from California Globe and she's got 450 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: a long term kind of global perception of what Gavin 451 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: Newsom has been to the state because she covers him 452 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: every day. And you're listening, I'm John Cobelt from CAFI 453 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: Radio in LA, and you're listening to the Klay, Travis 454 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show. 455 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 456 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 2: six forty. 457 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: Good morning. 458 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 3: This is Brian from Orange County, California, and I just 459 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 3: want to say I am pleasantly surprised to be hearing 460 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 3: John cole Belt's voice on the radio this morning on 461 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 3: the John and Buck segment as I often listen to 462 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 3: him in the afternoon drives on KFI. So thank you 463 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 3: so much and nice hearing a familiar local voice. Keep 464 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 3: it up, John, and happy happy New Year. 465 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: That's really nice. Yeah. John Cobelt here from KFI and 466 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: LA filling in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. We 467 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: got another one from Debbie. 468 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:06,959 Speaker 2: John Colebelt, congratulations for filling them on clan Buck. Very exciting, 469 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: happy to hear from you. 470 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: This is Debbie from Long Beach. Wow, nice voice. Thank you, Debbi. 471 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: It's good to be here. And we're going to be 472 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: continuing on for a couple of more hours. So I 473 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: was just telling you the fire story, the Palas State's 474 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: fire story, and just the incessant incompetence, and on top 475 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: of them, on top of the line the caven Newsom 476 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: does as governor of the state. There's just the practical 477 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: day to day living. And I just off the top 478 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: of my head during a commercial break, wrote down I'm 479 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: not going to read them all here, but I wrote 480 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: down like a dozen categories where California is the worst 481 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: or the highest or the most, and all the categories 482 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: are bad category. And that's just off the top of 483 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: my head. I'll give you one example, which we talk 484 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: about all the time. We have the highest gas taxes 485 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: in the state by far. There's the Triple A has 486 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: a state by state fuel price. It's a ranking and 487 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: it tells you the cheapest all the way to the 488 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: most expensive. You know, how much California gas goes for 489 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: average is four twenty nine a gallon. Many places it's 490 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: five dollars a gallon in other states. I'm looking here 491 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma it's two twenty three. The average Colorado is 492 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: two thirty eight. Texas is two forty. And you might say, well, 493 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: you know, that's a left wing democratic state. What do 494 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: you expect, except it's way more than the other left 495 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: wing Democratics states. That's the thing. We stand by ourselves. 496 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: I mean, we're at four to twenty nine. New York's 497 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: only three h four. Where's Massachusetts go? Massachusetts is two 498 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: ninety six. Massachusetts is in the twos New Jersey I 499 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: used to live there. That's a very high tax state. 500 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: That's two eighty four. So this is I'm talking to 501 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: the daily grind of just trying to exist here. And 502 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: this absolutely crushes the lower and middle class in this state. 503 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: So it's it's not just as lying, it's just like, 504 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: why would you do this? And you know what all 505 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: the taxes are for. It's the climate change obsession, which 506 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: is another big racket. There's several big rackets in this state, 507 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: again along the lines of the Somalian racket in Minnesota. 508 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: It's billions and billions of dollars, and later on I'll 509 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: tell you about all all the different rackets that go 510 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: on here. And we're going to talk to Katie grimesnext 511 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: from californiaglobe dot com and she'll give you her assessment 512 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 1: of Gavin Newsom as a national political figure and a 513 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: possible president. I'm really happy to be here, John Coblt 514 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: from CAFI, Los Angeles, here on the Clay Travis and 515 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. Hey, you've been listening to the John 516 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 517 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm 518 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand 519 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app