1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Michael, did you make up 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 2: that story about Newsom paying for his own bust? 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 3: I wouldn't dare make up such a thing. In fact, 6 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 3: as the story goes, you can read more about it 7 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 3: in this I would say, not a very conservative title, 8 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 3: even though it may be conservative leading Fool's Gold, the radicals, 9 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 3: con artist and traders who killed the California dream and 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 3: now threaten us all. That's a book. That's a book. 11 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: I want, ray, I want somebody who wrote that book. 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: I gotta look some more of that up. He actually 13 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 2: paid money for I guess a bronze bust of his face. 14 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: In his defense, it's a handsome bust. Well, if i'd 15 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 2: pay for my own bust, it's going to be a 16 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: good looking version of me. 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 3: Well, we look forward to touching it every day on 18 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 3: the way into the station. That's a good idea. You 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 3: could just rub it on your way in. All right, 20 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 3: I'll get it. I'm gonna go find that story. That's 21 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 3: what a buffoon he is. What an absolute narcissistic buffoon. Okay, 22 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 3: let's let's move on. 23 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 2: I'm going to continue with the story we were doing 24 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 2: at the very end of last hour. Mahmood Khalil. He 25 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: is that Columbia University graduate student who started one of 26 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 2: the biggest protests against Israel and in support of the 27 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 2: terrorist Hamas group uh and Khalil was arrested and detained 28 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 2: by Ice on Saturday, was going to be deported, and 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 2: he's got a green card and a judge, Jesse Furman 30 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 2: blocked any immediate deportation, and he wants everybody to come 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 2: come to court. Let's get royal or right. I'm really 32 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: flustered by Newsom's bust oaks. ABC News legal analyst, How 33 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 2: are you. I'm fine, Well, I'm not that fine, but 34 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: I'll pretend for a while. If somebody gets a green 35 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: card and they do what Mahmoud Khalil did, and we 36 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 2: saw a lot of it on television, organized a big 37 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 2: noisy protest, Jewish students among others, were blocked from going 38 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 2: to class, they were harassed is I don't know what 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 2: else they have on Khalil, but they're calling him a 40 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: national security threat, and I don't know if that's hyperbole 41 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 2: or they've got a whole dossier on him. But canna 42 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 2: a person with a green card be kicked out just 43 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: for starting these protests and just for potentially violating the 44 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 2: civil rights of some of the American students. 45 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, they probably can in a way. They're a second 46 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: class citizen because technically they're not citizens. They have lawful 47 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: permanent residence status here in America because they've got the 48 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 1: green card. Just like the movie with Andy McDowell and 49 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: who drank too much wine on the airplane? What was 50 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: his name? Depardue? My friends are not good. So here's 51 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: the deal of this guy is I think you know, 52 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 1: he doesn't realize what he's saying. He's saying, well, I'm 53 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: not adding semitic, but I do support Hamas. Support Hamas, 54 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: which is like saying, oh, I don't hate Jewish people, 55 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: but I'm a member of Hitler Youth because Hamas wants 56 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: all Jewish people to be killed. So the big question here, 57 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: John is what's the impact of his immigration status on 58 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: the government's right to object to his speech? And if 59 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: you were a citizen. Supreme Court has repeatedly said for 60 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: decades it's okay to express opinions or anything like I 61 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,519 Speaker 1: like isis or I like accordion, music or you know, 62 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: other wrongheaded notions. But if you are a non citizen, 63 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: then Supreme Court, okay, they're not exactly alike. The Supreme 64 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: Court says that if you're a non citizen, defense have 65 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: brought authority to deport you for membership in subversive groups 66 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: even without evidence of criminal conduct. As a matter of fact, 67 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: only fifteen years ago, the US Supreme Court said, you know, 68 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: even nonviolent support for a terror group is unlawful. So 69 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: in general, the courts have deferred to executive authority when 70 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: it comes to deportation for national security, and they have 71 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: more discretion if somebody is not a citizen. It's kind 72 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: of like the debate you know, we all had after 73 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: nine to eleven. You know, how far are we going 74 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: to go? What about free speech rights and so on? 75 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: But you know, who knows, maybe there's going to be 76 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: sort of a left wing federal immigration judge who looks 77 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: at distance as well, you know, you're just punishing the 78 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: guy for his opinions. But if it works its way up, 79 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: I think the US Supreme Court wouldn't have a problem 80 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: with saying, hey, you know, it's just too important. These 81 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: are not citizens and they are really fomenting all sorts 82 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: of opinions and actions, and you know, money talks. As 83 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, the Trump administration has cut hundreds of millions 84 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: of bucks of Johns Hopkins and Columbia and other colleges 85 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: because they didn't protect Jewish students. And of course we 86 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: saw it locally here at bi alma Mater UCLA was 87 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: you know, they had those Palestinian right there between Royce 88 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: Hall and and Powell Library and the quad. Jews were 89 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: not admitted in this in this little area where the 90 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,799 Speaker 1: Palestinians were having their protests and so on. College didn't 91 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: do anything about it. So yeah, I think the short 92 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: answer is that this guy is going to lose if 93 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: the thing goes up the court ladder. 94 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 2: I couldn't believe, you know, growing up as a kid 95 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 2: when the World War two generation was in charge and 96 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: all the memories were fresh, and the Holocaust was so 97 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 2: overwhelmingly horrible, and how often it was talked about the 98 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 2: whole thing, never forget in the Steven Spielberg movie. And 99 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 2: I cannot believe, just maybe thirty years after the Spielberg 100 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: movie and the documentaries, that we had all these major 101 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 2: universities allowing this kind of abuse of Jewish students. I 102 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 2: mean this, this Hamas group was not just rhetoric. They 103 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 2: actually slaughtered thousands of Jewish people simply because they were Jewish. 104 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 2: I just I couldn't believe these universities allowed all this 105 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 2: to happen. 106 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: And I was stunned when you know, the war started 107 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: well a year ago October, so when people just came 108 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 1: out of the woodwork with the most vile language and 109 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: all these anti Semitic attitudes and it's just continuing. I 110 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: think it's really just if you're really woke, really on 111 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: the left, you see the Palestinians as oh, well, you know, 112 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: they're victims of colonization and they're victims of oppressors, and 113 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: so they just lump Israel in with all of the 114 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: other evil tyrants that they want to go against. But 115 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: you know, I think this guy is in some real 116 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: trouble because you just can't get away with supporting terrorist groups. 117 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: The stakes are just too high. You know, the problem 118 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: for the Trump administration might be that he's saying, well, look, 119 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: all I did was it was just speech. It's not 120 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: like I hit anybody over the head. 121 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 2: It's not like I e if it was just speech, 122 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 2: but they really Yeah it was just speak, but they 123 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 2: really did actively block is Jewish students from getting to 124 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: class and harass them physically. 125 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know, it's there is absolutely a basis for 126 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: having a double standard, if you want to call it that, 127 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: because you know, no national security is so important. I mean, 128 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: you know, we can deport people with student visas if 129 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: they get arrested for a dui, even without a conviction. 130 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: You know, immigration has a lot of flexibility if you 131 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: commit marriage fraud, like in the Green Card movie, if 132 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: you don't tell the immigration official about your address change, 133 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: boom out you go. If you commit certain crimes and 134 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: you don't have to necessarily be convicted, it's okay to 135 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: to deport him if the government shows near likely to 136 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: engage in terrorist activities. And so for him to be 137 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: a prime mover and sponsor an organizer of these Columbia 138 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: protests that Randy Semitic and direct support of Hamas, yeah, 139 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: I think he's in deep legal trouble. 140 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 2: So having a green card, being a quote permanent resident, 141 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 2: it's not ironclad. It's not absolute protection that you can 142 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 2: do and say anything you want. 143 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: Exactly right, even though you may have a right to 144 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: stay till you're one hundred and five, you don't have 145 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: the same rights as citizens. And the Supreme Court has 146 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: upheld that all lot. And now that we've got a 147 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: we've probably got a five to four sixty three conservative majority. 148 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: You know, there's done a lot to talk about how 149 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: Amy Cony Barrett is kind of tilting over to the left, 150 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: and boy, if she turns out to be like David Souter, 151 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: that is going to be a real mess. So I 152 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: think the Supreme Court is going to be solid if 153 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: this thing works its way up to the High Court. 154 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 2: All right, royal looks, thank you very much for coming on, 155 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 2: do you bet? Thanks? ABC News Legal analyst Trump sent 156 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 2: out this on social media. If you support terrorism, including 157 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence 158 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 2: is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests. You 159 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 2: are not welcome here. And Caroline Levitt, the White House 160 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 2: Press Secretary, said today the group that Khalil organized group 161 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 2: protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed 162 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 2: Jewish American students made them feel unsafe on their own 163 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: college campus, but also distributed pro Hamas propaganda flyers with 164 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 2: the logo of Hamas and their own. Their main purpose 165 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 2: and if you read their mission statement from nineteen eighty 166 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 2: eight and I have their main organizing principle is the 167 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 2: elimination of all Jews and the elimination of Israel entirely. 168 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 2: That's what they live for, that's what they teach all 169 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 2: their children and grandchildren. And this guy should have been 170 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 2: kicked out immediately, staid the Biden administration indulge this crowd, 171 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 2: which you know, the Hitler's and Nazis, has become cheap. 172 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: And everybody throws around Hitler and Nazism all the time 173 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 2: every time they run into something they disagree with. But 174 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 2: this truly was the closest thing I'd ever seen to 175 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 2: the Nazi days in Germany. More coming up, I am 176 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: going to look for further information on Gavin Newsoen paying 177 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 2: money for his own bust own Bronze Bust in San Francisco. 178 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: This is the highest form of narcissism. If you are 179 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,599 Speaker 2: not convinced that this guy's not a looney tune, I 180 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: don't know what to tell you. 181 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 182 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 4: six forty. 183 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's Show, and we're on from one to four 184 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 2: every day and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show 185 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 2: on demand the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. So, 186 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: about twenty minutes ago, my head snapped around. I hear 187 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 2: Michael Monks with an alleged news story that there's a 188 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 2: bronze bust of Gavin Newsom that's been up for years 189 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 2: in San Francisco, and according to a new book, he 190 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 2: paid for it. And I thought no. And Eric saw 191 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 2: the same story and thought it was a parody. Thought 192 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 2: it was an onion piece. Yeah, I saw it on 193 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 2: Twitter last night. I literally thought it was the onion Yeah. 194 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 2: Because it's it seems to be true. This is from 195 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 2: a book by Jed McPhatter and Susan Crabtree. They're political writers. 196 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 2: It's called Fool's Gold. The Radicals, Connor and Traders who 197 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 2: killed the Californian dream and now threatens us all. So 198 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 2: one of the stories they have is that when Newsom 199 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 2: was mayor of California, that was from twenty and four 200 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 2: to twenty eleven, and he put together a memorial to 201 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 2: his time in the city. This this bust of looking 202 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 2: quite handsome, very serious face, chin jutting out head pointed 203 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: up just a bit like he's staring off in the 204 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 2: distance thinking great thoughts, just wearing a casual shirt, form 205 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 2: fitting though around it. It looks tight around his body. 206 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 2: It's an attractive bust and according to the book, it 207 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 2: came from something called Behested payments. Now follow me on this. 208 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 2: Politicians twist arms from their donors and from companies corporations 209 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 2: to make donations to these nonprofits, these fake charities that 210 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 2: the mayors or the governors they influence that their people 211 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 2: are running the charity, so they get to decide where 212 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 2: the money goes. It's a slush fund. It's an enormous 213 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 2: slush fund. And Eric Carcetti was the king of this. 214 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: He would force companies to donate money to his fake charities. 215 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: One of them was called the Mayor's Fund, and they 216 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 2: would do it. Otherwise they wouldn't get approvals for their 217 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 2: business operations, they wouldn't get permits to build buildings. And 218 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: it worked. They raise a lot of money and God 219 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 2: knows where the money goes, right. Well, in this case, 220 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 2: he had two There was a nonprofit which earmarked the 221 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 2: money for the mayoral bust at San Francisco City Hall. 222 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 2: Two companies specifically donated money to the nonprofit. Does this 223 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 2: sound like money laundering? These two companies donated money to 224 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 2: the nonprofit, which would then spend the money to make 225 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 2: the mayoral bust to these two companies, Balboa Cafe Partners 226 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 2: and Plump Jack Management Group. Newsome owns the two companies. 227 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 2: They donated a combined ten thousand dollars to the ninety 228 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 2: seven thousand dollars bust. So he had his companies that 229 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 2: he owns paid ten grand to have this thing sculpt sculpted. 230 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 2: I've just never heard of this. This is the epitome 231 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 2: of narcissism. 232 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 5: Now. 233 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 2: We talked about this yesterday. He also has has has 234 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 2: squeezed money at a PG and E Pacific as an 235 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 2: electric over the years. Because after PG and E murdered 236 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 2: all those people at the camp with the campfire up 237 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 2: in Paradise eighty four counts of manslaughter. To get out 238 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 2: of the lawsuit how they were in, Newsom made a 239 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 2: deal so the state would fund PG and E. In return, 240 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 2: PG and E had to cough up money for Jennifer 241 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: Newsom's gender justice films. We played a couple of clips yesterday. 242 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 2: They'll give you a headache. The thing is at the 243 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 2: time that the bust was constructed, Newsom admitted that he 244 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 2: thought the whole thing was odd. He pretended he didn't 245 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 2: know that this was going on. He was playing naive. 246 00:14:59,440 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: Quote. 247 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 2: I don't want to call embarrassing, but it's a strange thing. 248 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,479 Speaker 2: I'm just awkward about it. But now the word is out. 249 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 2: What a phony. He paid for part of the bust 250 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 2: and he's pretending it's like, Ah, it's kind of awkward. 251 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 2: It's embarrassing. I mean, a bust for me. I don't 252 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 2: know who authorized this he did. At the time, a 253 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 2: newspaper reported that Newsome supporters had paid for the bust 254 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: with private funds. No, he paid for the bust with 255 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 2: his private funds. That that he that he ran out 256 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 2: of his companies to some nonprofit that actually just paid 257 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 2: the sculptor. She's what a buffoon, I mean, what an 258 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 2: absolute total pomp foon. I mean, are people supposed to 259 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 2: come and worship at the bust? What are they supposed 260 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 2: to do? It's supposed to get on their knees and pray, 261 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 2: pray to his to his face. Oh god, he see 262 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 2: that's that that actually goes to the core. The only 263 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 2: thing he's got going for him are the physical features 264 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 2: he was born with. He does not have a brain 265 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 2: in his head. He's a total sociopath. He has no 266 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 2: conscience at all, and he is one of the great 267 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 2: narcissists of all time. But people are mesmerized by his 268 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 2: hair and his jawline. Tivity too, Tivity two. He love you, 269 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 2: so we come back. We actually have a lot of clips. 270 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 2: We were playing clips last week of his podcast. He's 271 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 2: had three podcasts out now and he can't even keep 272 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 2: up with him and he's talking to all these right 273 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 2: wing guys like Steve Banning of one of Trump's he 274 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 2: managed Trump's first campaign. He's ended up in prison a 275 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 2: couple of times since, I think. And he also talked 276 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 2: to my Savage, the talk show host, and last week 277 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 2: it was Charlie Kirk, who was a conservative activist. There's 278 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 2: more Gavin Newsom audio out there that we can keep 279 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 2: up with, but a couple of things we didn't get to. 280 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 2: One of them was him talking about the French laundry 281 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 2: at Charlie Kirk. We'll play that next. 282 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 283 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 4: six forty. 284 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 2: After four o'clock. You get John Cobelt Show on demand 285 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 2: the podcast and you could listen to what you missed 286 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 2: in the last segment. Thanks to a tip from Michael Monks. 287 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 2: There we found out that yes it's true. There is 288 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:45,719 Speaker 2: a bronze bust of Gavin Newsom in San Francisco that 289 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 2: was erected some years ago and Newsom actually donated money 290 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: to his own bust, and at the time that it 291 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 2: was being constructed, he pretended he didn't know anything about it. 292 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 2: I don't want to call it embarrassing, but it's a 293 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 2: strange thing. I'm just awkward about it. But now the 294 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 2: word is out and he claimed that Newsome supporters paid 295 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 2: for the bust with private funds. Well, actually part of 296 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 2: the money came from two of the companies that knew 297 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 2: some owns. There's a money laundering scam, which is what 298 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 2: all these nonprofits are about. Balboa Cafe partners in plump 299 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 2: Jack Management Group. Plump Jack that's the name of his wine, 300 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 2: and the name always stuck my head, plump Jack, because 301 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 2: I thought it was kind of disgusting. I just did 302 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 2: just the sound plump Jack just bothered me. And there 303 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 2: was one time my wife and I were given a 304 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 2: gift gift basket of wine, and I heard the conversation 305 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 2: over the phone. The woman at the wine shop said, well, 306 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 2: what kind of wines do you want? And the lady 307 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 2: recommended a plump Jack wine. And I heard this and 308 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 2: I started waving my arms. I go, no, no, no, 309 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 2: my wife goes Newsome's winery. We're not buying a bottle 310 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 2: of Newsome line here, no way, that's not a gift. 311 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 2: He is just such a pretentious phony, as was proved 312 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 2: during the famous French laundry incident, which really is what 313 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 2: it really supercharged his recall. There was a recall effort 314 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,719 Speaker 2: against him and it was floundering, and then French laundry happened, 315 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 2: and that if you remember, since this, I think yesterday 316 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 2: was the fifth anniversary of COVID when they first announced it. 317 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 2: So to celebrate the fifth anniversary of COVID, we thought 318 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 2: we'd play you the clip from his recent podcast with 319 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk where he starts talking about French laundry. If 320 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 2: you remember, he was photographed with about a dozen other 321 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 2: people after all of us were under a severe lockdown. 322 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 2: He was in an enclosed room drinking and eating nobody 323 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 2: wearing mask masks everyone sitting on top of each other, 324 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 2: and Charlie Kirk and he had a discussion. 325 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 5: We live in these filter bubbles. We're talking to ourselves. 326 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 5: We're in the sort of yeah, it's Newsmax one, American News, Fox, 327 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 5: and then it gets into all the stuff that you 328 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 5: guys are doing and everybody else, And meanwhile, I'm safe 329 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 5: over here at MSNBC and CNN, reading the New York Times, 330 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 5: feeling really great about things and having a nice glass 331 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 5: of chardonnay, listening to Rachel Maddow, self medicating and just. 332 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 2: Going yes, yes, Fress laundry, Yeah, the French. 333 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 5: That's of course the only place I eat. And you know, 334 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 5: give me a great stakeout in the whole thing where 335 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 5: I should have been at Applebee's. I get Applebee's America. 336 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 5: I read that. 337 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 2: Come on, and here's a guy who makes. 338 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 5: Twenty five times more money than I do and sitting 339 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 5: here with it with a jacket, and I'm sitting here 340 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 5: with it. And you control the fifth largest economy on 341 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 5: the milling Well, we don't control the people control the 342 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 5: fifth largest economy. And by the way, proud that you know. 343 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 2: It's a three point. 344 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 5: Any population one last year of population went up last year. 345 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 2: Because of the illegal border. We'll talk about later. 346 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: We got on the thing. 347 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 5: That's just factually and true, and that, by the way, 348 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 5: three hundred and ninety four National Guard that I put 349 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 5: down at the border six years ago, you should be 350 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 5: championing that. As governor, three hundred ninety four we have 351 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 5: down at the border. We've been focused on defend. I've 352 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 5: been working out anyway, you're you're getting somewhere compliments to stay. 353 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 2: No, yeah, I was going back to you're talking about 354 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 2: your your wine and French launder. 355 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 5: Yes, that was talking about the importance of of of 356 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 5: Never Well, I can't help you with the reservation such 357 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 5: I've been with this whole stick. 358 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 2: I got to do very nice. 359 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 5: By the way, we couldn't have this conversation with that conversation. 360 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 5: Dumbest bonehead, move my life, okay, own it, move on, 361 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 5: grow up. 362 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 2: And I'm trying that you talking to you, I'd be 363 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 2: talking to myself. 364 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 5: I'm just looking. I'm staring looking right you and the 365 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 5: eyes as I say that, just to get your reaction. 366 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 2: No one's ever going to move on. That'll hang around 367 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 2: his neck forever. It should because it was so traumatizing 368 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 2: for most people to be locked up in the house, 369 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 2: and we weren't allowed. People weren't allowed to say goodbye 370 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 2: to their dying grandparents because we were so locked down. 371 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 2: And he says, yeah, I get it. I should have 372 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 2: got to Applebee's. No, no, no, we couldn't go to Applebee's. 373 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 2: We couldn't go to In and Out. We can go anywhere. 374 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 2: Move on, grow up. Thousands of restaurants closed permanently because 375 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 2: of him, and now five years later he's yucking it 376 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 2: up as if he's the victim. Yeah, I own it. 377 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 2: I was boneheaded thing to do. Grow up, Move on, 378 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 2: grow up, move on, grow up. Hearing him talk, he's 379 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 2: like he's like a teenager. 380 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 1: Now. 381 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 2: Really he is the maturity level of a seventeen year old. 382 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: And he. 383 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 2: I remember when they locked down outdoor dining here in 384 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 2: La outdoor dining. Oh well, he locked it down too 385 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 2: from the state. But La did it on its own 386 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 2: when there was a resurgence a year and a half later. 387 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 2: And now I put so many people out of work 388 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 2: and so many people out of business. And now years 389 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 2: later it's uh, I'll move on, grow up, move on, 390 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 2: grow up. That that's right, Move on, grow up. What 391 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 2: I lose it? And then he said, yeah, yeah, I 392 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 2: should have gone to Appleby's. The issue wasn't the restaurant 393 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 2: you went to. The issue was that To this day, 394 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 2: I wonder he was he and his staff were giving 395 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 2: out all these fear warnings. Everybody in government was doing it. 396 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 2: And the thing I thought of it wasn't so much. 397 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 2: Oh he goes to a fancy restaurant. It was like, 398 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 2: why isn't he afraid? Why is he comfortable with twelve 399 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 2: other people jammed into a tight, warm room. How come 400 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 2: they were all relaxed about it, they were drinking, they 401 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 2: were having a good time. Oh, it was a bunch 402 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 2: of healthcare lobbyists too in there. And I'm thinking that's 403 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 2: just because even the people who felt it was an 404 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 2: overreaction and unnecessary, I think we if we ever found 405 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 2: ourselves in a crowded situation in an enclosed room, we 406 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,719 Speaker 2: were all a little nervous about it, a little uptight 407 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 2: about it. Not comfortable enough to spend three hours with 408 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 2: everybody on time. They're practically sitting in each other's laps. 409 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 2: And I was wondering, It's like, how come and they 410 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 2: were in the healthcare industry, some of these people, and 411 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 2: I thought, did they get an advance did they get 412 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 2: a rush vaccine? Did they get was there an early 413 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 2: testing uh supply of vaccine that they got a hold of. 414 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,959 Speaker 2: And that's why they could all sit there comfortably because 415 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 2: the lobbyists, we're with the healthcare industry. Maybe they had connections. 416 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 2: Maybe the reason Newsom was called so comfortable as he 417 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 2: got a vaccine well in advance of everybody else. Because 418 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 2: if he's scaring us, he shut down our schools for 419 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 2: a year and a half. So if it was so 420 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 2: scary and so deadly, why weren't you afraid? If I 421 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 2: ever get on that podcast with him, that's my French 422 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 2: lunching question, why weren't you afraid? You told us all 423 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 2: to be terrified? All right? More coming up? Oh, here's another. 424 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,919 Speaker 2: There's some study has come out. One of the worst 425 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 2: things that Newsome did to the restaurant industry since he 426 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 2: shut everything down, was the twenty dollars minimum wage law. 427 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 2: And just in your head, guess how many fast food 428 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 2: jobs have been lost since they put it into effect. 429 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 2: It was signed in September twenty twenty three, so it's 430 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: a year and a half. Guess how many jobs were lost. 431 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 2: I'll tell you Next. 432 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 433 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,479 Speaker 2: After Michael Monks three o'clock news, we're going to talk 434 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 2: to Alex Stone from ABC Southwest Airlines. I took Southwest 435 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 2: Airlines twice over the weekend and they're changing their whole method. 436 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 2: People adore Southwest. I'd never have I'll explain, but they're 437 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 2: adding bag fees, they're allowing seat assignments, so you can't 438 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 2: just walk in there and get a front row seat anymore. 439 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 2: They're gonna act like all the other airlines. Alex, and 440 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 2: we'll talk about it coming up after three o'clock. Gavin 441 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 2: Newsome and the Progressive Democrats really went to the matt 442 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 2: insisting that the fast food unions be appeased and force 443 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 2: on fast food companies twenty dollars an hour minimum wages, 444 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 2: and they lied about the beneficial effects. What happened is 445 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 2: exactly what many predicted. Sixteen thousand fast food jobs have 446 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 2: disappeared in a year and a half, sixteen thousand, and 447 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 2: fast food prices are up fourteen and a half percent. 448 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 2: Who lost their jobs four people? Four people take fast 449 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 2: food jobs and the idiot progressives who had like zero 450 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 2: economic sense destroy those people's livelihoods and made it more expensive, 451 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,679 Speaker 2: seriously hurting the business owners who are largely middle class. 452 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 2: One of the stupidest talking points from union leaders, amplified 453 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 2: by the moron cheerleaders in the media, is that while 454 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 2: you're going after multi billion dollar corporations, most of the 455 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 2: franchises are owned by middle class people, local business people 456 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 2: and their families. McDonald's doesn't own. They license out their 457 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 2: name and their system to the franchise. You have to 458 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 2: pay McDonald's for the franchise license, and then you run 459 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 2: the business on your own, but you have to follow 460 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 2: McDonald's rules. But when there's a twenty dollars an hour 461 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 2: minimum wage, it's the business owner, the local guy, the 462 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 2: middle class guy who gets it in the pants, not McDonald's. 463 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 2: By the way, all these all these numbers I'm giving 464 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 2: you is from the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 465 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 2: They have a quarterly census of employment and wages, and 466 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 2: we're down sixteen thousand jobs since September of twenty twenty three. 467 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 2: It officially went into effect April of twenty twenty four, 468 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 2: We've lost fourteen thousand since then. So as soon as 469 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 2: the law was passed, restaurant owners started letting people go, 470 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 2: and then when it went into effect then it was 471 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 2: an avalanche. So well, we're talking only a year, not 472 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 2: even a year fourteen thousand. The data comes from good 473 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 2: sources because it includes mandatory reporting from all the fast 474 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 2: food establishments, and it covers the first six months since 475 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 2: the law went into effect, and I've got the month 476 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,719 Speaker 2: by month breakout here. In September twenty twenty three, there 477 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 2: were five hundred and seventy thousand fast food jobs. By 478 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 2: January it was down to five hundred and sixty three. 479 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 2: Now it's down or as of September it was down 480 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 2: a five hundred and fifty four thousand. And as part 481 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 2: of the and again this was all to the unions. 482 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: The unions paid big bribes to Newsom and the progressive legislators, 483 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 2: so those bastards just bend over and do whatever the 484 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 2: union asks for. The union wanted a fast Food Council 485 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 2: to regulate conditions for fast food workers, except they have 486 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 2: hardly done anything. It was supposed to be made of 487 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 2: business owners, workers and union reps, and they have had 488 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 2: a couple of meetings and three staff members have been 489 00:30:54,520 --> 00:31:00,959 Speaker 2: hired and that's it in a year. What they wanted. 490 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 2: They have these things in Europe they want the unions 491 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 2: wanted a state council, which they would have the government 492 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 2: mediate negotiations between fast food workers and business owners. I 493 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 2: have never and I've never encountered this until I came 494 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 2: to California. I think we all know that years ago. 495 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 2: I mean when I was in high school, people a 496 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 2: lot of my friends had fast food jobs and you 497 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: just worked at them in the summer, you worked weekends 498 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 2: during a school year, you put somebodey away to pay 499 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 2: for college. Never did anybody think they were going to 500 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 2: be lifetime jobs. Never this idea of a living wage 501 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 2: shoveling fast food, shaking the fry basket, flipping burgers. The 502 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 2: unions eventually are going to cost all these people, and 503 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 2: a lot of them are legal aliens, They're going to 504 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 2: cost them all their jobs because it's all going to 505 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,719 Speaker 2: be automated. I've gone into a number of places. 506 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: Now. 507 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 2: You just walk up to a kiosk. You've probably seen this. 508 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 2: You just ask for your order and they'll have machines 509 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 2: in the back making the fries, making the burgers. You 510 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 2: can easily automate that system because the food is not complicated. Right, 511 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 2: Flip a burger on one side, flip it on the 512 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 2: other side, lower the fries into the hot oil, pull 513 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 2: it up. That's it, and there's like one person there 514 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 2: carrying out the food to the counter. But you see, 515 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 2: the the union doesn't really care about the workers. The 516 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 2: union cares about the dues they get from the workers. 517 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 2: They don't care about the industry, how many burgers and 518 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 2: fries are sold, whether all these stores open or closed, 519 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 2: just as long as they get their big cut in 520 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 2: union dues. They pay themselves six figure salaries, and they 521 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 2: live fat, and by time this whole thing collapses, they'll 522 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 2: have made their money. All Right, we come back, it's 523 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 2: going to be Alex Stone Southwest Airline. The days of 524 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 2: Southwest Airlines being unique are over. They're gonna be like 525 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 2: every other, every other stupid airline. No more free bags, 526 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,959 Speaker 2: no more pick your own seat. I have not had 527 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 2: a lot of good experiences on Southwest. 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