WEBVTT - LA's Typhus Outbreak (10/01) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640, you're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:12.290 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640 live everywhere on 0:00:12.310 --> 0:00:14.990 the iHeartRadio app. It is the John Kobelt Show. Hey, 0:00:15.070 --> 0:00:18.489 are you here watching us? We're live streaming. We're live 0:00:18.530 --> 0:00:22.210 on YouTube and live on X. So fire up your 0:00:22.230 --> 0:00:25.320 device and sit back and enjoy watching what we do. 0:00:25.900 --> 0:00:27.980 Live on X, live on YouTube, and. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.830 If you want to subscribe, become a member, youtube.com slash 0:00:33.340 --> 0:00:37.530 at John Kobelt Show. Steve Hilton coming on after 5 o'clock. 0:00:38.530 --> 0:00:40.810 And we've been telling you the last couple of days 0:00:40.990 --> 0:00:47.030 about the typhus outbreak. And now in Wilshire Center, seven 0:00:47.090 --> 0:00:50.800 people got sick and six of them were sent to 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:55.340 the hospital. Last year was a record number of people 0:00:55.740 --> 0:01:01.730 who caught typhus. 220 cases last year, another 109 this year. 0:01:02.210 --> 0:01:04.949 And it comes from the fleas, which sit on the rats, 0:01:05.370 --> 0:01:07.800 and the rats are feasting on all the food at 0:01:07.810 --> 0:01:10.560 the homeless encampments. And we're going to talk now with Dr. 0:01:10.590 --> 0:01:13.660 Jeffrey Klausner, who's a friend of mine and an infectious 0:01:13.700 --> 0:01:17.919 disease specialist, USC Keck School of Medicine. And he's going 0:01:17.940 --> 0:01:23.220 to explain how the whole process works regarding the spread 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.420 of typhus. Dr. Klausner, welcome. How are you? 0:01:27.819 --> 0:01:30.120 All right, good, good, John. Glad to be here with 0:01:30.140 --> 0:01:31.870 you talking about fleaborn typhus. 0:01:32.430 --> 0:01:36.510 Yeah, I was looking up this week the history of 0:01:36.590 --> 0:01:39.350 typhus in the modern world. And this was a big 0:01:39.370 --> 0:01:43.490 deal back in the 1400s and 15 and 1600s. And 0:01:43.790 --> 0:01:46.950 we got a mini comeback here in L.A. So explain 0:01:46.970 --> 0:01:51.520 the process, the whole dynamic of how typhus ends up 0:01:51.660 --> 0:01:52.640 infecting people. 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:59.160 Yeah, so typhus is a disease spread by a bacterium 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:07.190 called Rickettsia. And these Rickettsia bacteria live in small varmints 0:02:07.270 --> 0:02:12.750 like rats, opossum, actually cats, and people let their cats 0:02:12.870 --> 0:02:19.300 outside can catch this bacteria. And then the animals get fleas, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:24.320 and then they... Fleas bite the animal, and then the 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:30.110 fleas get infected, and then they land on humans. And then, 0:02:30.270 --> 0:02:34.930 as you correctly mentioned, when the flea feces kind of 0:02:35.230 --> 0:02:38.890 contaminates the human by humans scratching the flea bites, they 0:02:38.930 --> 0:02:42.250 kind of introduce the flea feces, which has the bacteria 0:02:42.350 --> 0:02:45.500 in there, it gets introduced to the bloodstream. And the 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.140 challenge is that most doctors and most people don't know 0:02:49.180 --> 0:02:51.760 they've necessarily been exposed, so they won't think about it 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.680 if they get sick and start to have fever, hags, 0:02:55.740 --> 0:02:56.160 or rash. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:02.130 This is really disgusting. And what are the symptoms? 0:03:03.730 --> 0:03:04.090 Yeah. 0:03:04.130 --> 0:03:07.690 So, I mean, typically, you know, anywhere from a few 0:03:07.710 --> 0:03:11.240 days to a week or two after infection, people will 0:03:11.250 --> 0:03:14.900 develop a high fever and severe headache. And that's often 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.100 why people end up in the hospital because, you know, 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.859 people are concerned they may have meningitis and go to 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:25.739 the emergency room and they, you know, get admitted to 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.120 the hospital. They may or may not get different kinds 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.260 of tests. They could also have tests that show that 0:03:31.310 --> 0:03:34.910 they have they may have muscle aches because the good 0:03:34.950 --> 0:03:39.190 news is that it is very treatable with an easy 0:03:39.270 --> 0:03:44.450 antibiotic like doxycycline. And as you mentioned, the cases at 0:03:44.510 --> 0:03:49.390 the Wilshire Center and the cases that occurred in Pico Union, 0:03:49.490 --> 0:03:52.210 all those were covered because they got adequately treated. And 0:03:52.430 --> 0:03:53.150 that's good news. 0:03:53.470 --> 0:03:56.890 Now, have they been primarily homeless people living among the 0:03:56.930 --> 0:04:00.230 rats and the fleas? Or can one of us walking 0:04:00.290 --> 0:04:04.310 by on the streets on a shopping trip inadvertently get this? 0:04:04.810 --> 0:04:09.450 Yeah, you know, I mean, LA County DPH has not 0:04:09.490 --> 0:04:15.700 been fully necessarily transparent with the unhoused status of these cases, right? 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.030 They tell us about the geographic area, but I've tried 0:04:19.070 --> 0:04:22.770 to find out, are these unhoused people, housed people? And, 0:04:23.230 --> 0:04:28.290 you know, when I was practicing both at UCLA and elsewhere, 0:04:28.310 --> 0:04:30.650 I mean, we would see cases among, you know, people 0:04:30.670 --> 0:04:33.590 in Santa Monica who had cats, who had cats that 0:04:33.630 --> 0:04:37.870 lived outside, came back inside. So you don't only have 0:04:37.910 --> 0:04:42.880 to be unhoused, living in kind of rat-infested, garbage-strewn areas. 0:04:43.420 --> 0:04:46.100 You can be a person who gets fleas from their 0:04:46.140 --> 0:04:47.279 cat or other pets. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.729 And how, I mean, once you get the treatment, you'll 0:04:51.770 --> 0:04:54.710 be okay in a matter of weeks, I guess? 0:04:55.870 --> 0:04:58.830 Yeah, I mean, actually, I mean, the treatment works pretty quickly. 0:04:58.860 --> 0:05:01.599 So you have a fever and headache, and 24 to 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.979 48 hours, you start to feel a lot better. It's 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.260 a bacterial infection, and that's what antibiotics are good at curing, right? 0:05:08.339 --> 0:05:12.520 Antibiotics don't really work well for viruses or other things, 0:05:12.580 --> 0:05:17.790 but they work very well for bacterial infections like this typhus. So, 0:05:18.150 --> 0:05:20.530 you know, it was dangerous and would kill people in 0:05:20.550 --> 0:05:22.650 the pre-antibiotic era, as you mentioned, the 14, 1500s when 0:05:22.710 --> 0:05:30.099 people were living in crowded, unhygienic conditions. It's become a 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.780 lot more rare, but now we do have good diagnostic tests, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.820 blood tests, PCR tests, and we have good antibiotics. 0:05:37.420 --> 0:05:37.620 Right. 0:05:37.820 --> 0:05:41.430 So, I mean, if we, we apparently are one of the, 0:05:41.450 --> 0:05:44.330 I think we got a prize from some organization for 0:05:44.350 --> 0:05:47.870 being the rattiest city in America or yeah. Orkin, the, 0:05:48.110 --> 0:05:53.070 the pest company ranked LA number one in rats. I mean, 0:05:53.130 --> 0:05:55.250 is there something the government ought to be doing here? 0:05:57.070 --> 0:06:00.309 Yeah, and I've been advocating this for a long time. 0:06:00.370 --> 0:06:05.280 I mean, government has to be doing much better. Trash pickup, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:12.750 having trash bins, regular... you know, clean up in encampment areas. Also, 0:06:12.770 --> 0:06:16.860 you know, encouraging people to, you know, not leave bags 0:06:16.940 --> 0:06:19.960 next to bins. The bins need to be, you know, 0:06:20.620 --> 0:06:24.880 covered up and make it very difficult for rats or 0:06:24.990 --> 0:06:29.190 cats or anything to kind of get in there. And 0:06:29.270 --> 0:06:33.220 as the rat population increases, That's how the flea population 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.280 grows as well. So fewer rats, fewer outdoor cats means 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.820 fewer fleas means less typhus. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.800 Well, we just can't have people living in the streets. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.919 And then, of course, they leave all their food around. 0:06:43.020 --> 0:06:45.680 So it's a big buffet for the rats. And that 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.380 leads to the fleas and the feces and the typhus. 0:06:49.140 --> 0:06:51.520 All right. Well, thank you very much for giving us 0:06:51.540 --> 0:06:55.659 a good primer on typhus. We have a medieval disease 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.200 making a comeback here in L.A. Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, infectious 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.700 disease specialist at USC Keck School of Medicine. Thank you. 0:07:02.730 --> 0:07:04.529 All right. Take care. 0:07:04.610 --> 0:07:04.870 Bye-bye. 0:07:04.890 --> 0:07:07.109 Thanks for coming on. All right. When we come back, 0:07:08.710 --> 0:07:12.490 you ready? You got your– I should have a bucket 0:07:12.530 --> 0:07:15.890 with you. You may gag. That story that I mentioned 0:07:15.910 --> 0:07:19.070 at the end of the show yesterday, Vanity Fair– had 0:07:19.190 --> 0:07:25.290 published another one of these slobfests. What's the term we 0:07:25.310 --> 0:07:29.110 have for it? Tongue bath. The tongue bath, yes. Gavin 0:07:29.130 --> 0:07:32.470 Newsom got a bit of a tongue bath from Joe Hagan. 0:07:32.970 --> 0:07:37.670 It's actually somewhat critical and somewhat of a tongue bath 0:07:37.710 --> 0:07:41.370 at the same time, but it's about Gavin Newsom being 0:07:41.510 --> 0:07:46.350 ready for his shot at the White House. And we 0:07:46.390 --> 0:07:51.470 printed this out. It's 15 pages long. These magazines like 0:07:51.510 --> 0:07:54.710 Vanity Fair and GQ and Esquire, they just love a 0:07:54.750 --> 0:07:59.890 guy like him. We'll talk about this. And, yeah, this 0:07:59.950 --> 0:08:03.030 is not to be discussed during dinner because you'll upchuck. 0:08:03.860 --> 0:08:08.140 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM640. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.800 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt's show. 0:08:16.260 --> 0:08:20.100 Five o'clock comes after Debra's news. Steve Hilton to talk 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.720 about his debate last night with Javier Baccaria, where Baccaria 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.600 had one word as a response to every single issue. 0:08:29.820 --> 0:08:30.080 Trump. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:36.380 That's all he kept saying. It was the weakest, flimsiest 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.040 debate performance I've ever seen. Not that anybody in the 0:08:40.820 --> 0:08:43.480 left-wing media is going to say that, but watch it, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.860 listen to it yourself. He had nothing. He's an empty 0:08:46.900 --> 0:08:50.540 can because he thinks that the Democratic voters are so 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.730 stupid that even though they're unhappy with Newsom's policies and 0:08:53.770 --> 0:08:56.170 he's going to extend them, all he has to do 0:08:56.230 --> 0:09:00.980 is say, Trump, Trump, Trump. And they freeze. And their 0:09:01.050 --> 0:09:04.220 eyes go glassy and they pass out. And when they 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.860 wake up, they'll vote for him. Maybe he's right. Maybe 0:09:07.940 --> 0:09:11.680 we're that far gone. There's so many people who seem 0:09:11.700 --> 0:09:15.360 to be locked in a cult. And then we have 0:09:15.420 --> 0:09:19.290 Gavin Newsom. I saw this yesterday near the end of 0:09:19.330 --> 0:09:21.970 the show. And I've spent some time reading it. And 0:09:22.030 --> 0:09:29.730 I mean literally some time. Because... 15 pages. 15 pages 0:09:31.270 --> 0:09:35.530 from Vanity Fair. Yes, it was a slobbering tongue bath. 0:09:35.550 --> 0:09:37.800 You know what's funny? I don't think Steve Hilton got 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.579 15 pages from Vanity Fair. 0:09:41.700 --> 0:09:41.940 No. 0:09:42.980 --> 0:09:48.079 Because he doesn't have hair. That's the biggest issue. A 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.950 guy like Newsom always gets media attention. Guys with hair, 0:09:51.730 --> 0:09:56.110 have it easy. Guys without hair, good luck. And it 0:09:56.140 --> 0:10:01.350 translates to votes. They're a dumb species. So here's the headline. 0:10:02.750 --> 0:10:06.050 Gavin Newsom is ready for his next act. Will Democrats 0:10:06.330 --> 0:10:10.870 ever give him a shot at the White House? Now, 0:10:10.929 --> 0:10:13.190 you know this is the worst-run state in the union. 0:10:13.330 --> 0:10:15.339 Do I have to say that? Do I have to 0:10:15.380 --> 0:10:20.260 go through the laundry list? We have the highest unemployment rate, 0:10:20.740 --> 0:10:24.330 the highest inflation rate, the highest taxes in almost every 0:10:24.370 --> 0:10:30.890 important category, the worst roads, the most fraud in our 0:10:30.929 --> 0:10:39.140 healthcare system, by far the most homelessness, the high-speed rail debacle. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.059 There's a half a dozen off the top of my head. 0:10:41.100 --> 0:10:43.100 I'm not even trying. I'm not even looking at cue 0:10:43.140 --> 0:10:47.179 cards here. And. 0:10:48.980 --> 0:10:53.060 So I'll read you some of Joe Hagan's writing. Gavin 0:10:53.100 --> 0:11:00.050 Newsom knows what you're thinking. Slick, Newsom says, when I 0:11:00.190 --> 0:11:02.950 ask what he assumes people say when his name comes 0:11:03.070 --> 0:11:09.130 up in 2028 speculation. Now here's the part. With his 0:11:09.230 --> 0:11:15.069 dazzling white teeth, open collar, and hair brill cream to 0:11:15.110 --> 0:11:20.260 a silver sheen, it's not a bad guess. And Hagen writes, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:25.620 I had another association in mind. California itself. I have 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:32.240 no idea what that means. California means white teeth, open collar, 0:11:32.700 --> 0:11:36.900 and a lot of Brylcreem in the hair. Okay. And 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:42.040 he visited Newsom at a shopping plaza in Las Vegas. 0:11:43.870 --> 0:11:50.840 And he was campaigning for a Nevada campaign. gubernatorial candidate. 0:11:52.700 --> 0:11:56.680 And he brings up, Hagan brings up, Newsom's biggest impediment 0:11:56.700 --> 0:12:02.090 to any White House design. Nation-leading poverty and income inequality. 0:12:03.910 --> 0:12:08.609 And that pervasive, widespread homelessness you read about. And yes, 0:12:08.830 --> 0:12:10.980 we do have the worst poverty in the state and 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.740 the worst homelessness. I don't really... I'm so sick of 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.120 the phrase income inequality. There are some people who are 0:12:19.210 --> 0:12:22.429 really successful in the world and some people who aren't. 0:12:23.550 --> 0:12:30.230 To acknowledge that, it's not a sin to be successful, 0:12:30.290 --> 0:12:32.880 but the Democrats try to make that a sin that 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.340 you ought to be punished for. And you can't help 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:41.240 it if somebody else... can't make it. If there's a 0:12:41.300 --> 0:12:44.380 guy inventing AI and he makes millions of dollars for 0:12:44.420 --> 0:12:48.160 inventing AI, that's had nothing to do with the poor 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.420 guy laying in the street. Poor guy laying in the 0:12:51.470 --> 0:12:55.870 street decided to go down the path of drugs and 0:12:55.910 --> 0:13:01.950 booze and not get his mental illness treated. No need 0:13:02.030 --> 0:13:03.610 to take a chunk out of the hide of the 0:13:03.650 --> 0:13:07.030 person who didn't get into the drugs and booze and 0:13:07.090 --> 0:13:14.090 actually created a miracle. And everybody, whoever accomplishes anything ought 0:13:14.110 --> 0:13:22.500 to resent that. But one of the reasons we have 0:13:22.540 --> 0:13:25.640 a lot of poverty is everything is so expensive. And 0:13:25.660 --> 0:13:29.250 things are so expensive because the gas prices here are 0:13:29.370 --> 0:13:33.870 so high. The cost of housing is so high because 0:13:33.890 --> 0:13:36.410 there's so much regulation that keeps homes from being built. 0:13:37.170 --> 0:13:41.980 And he's responsible for this. So when Hagan brings up 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:48.030 the nation leading poverty and all the homelessness, Newsom's reply is, 0:13:48.790 --> 0:13:54.030 I get all that. And that's it. This is similar 0:13:54.070 --> 0:13:56.590 to Becerra. He just blurted out a phrase, I get 0:13:56.630 --> 0:13:59.709 all that. And then he goes on to say, look, 0:13:59.730 --> 0:14:02.600 there's a whole industry that's been created to attack our state. 0:14:03.059 --> 0:14:06.260 And it's pretty ironic. We're the tentpole of the U.S. economy. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.220 You see, he doesn't address anything. You're paying $ 6. 50 for 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:16.450 a gallon of gas, and the last $ 2. 50 are his taxes. 0:14:19.390 --> 0:14:21.870 And he just says, yeah, I get all that, and 0:14:21.890 --> 0:14:24.190 changes the subject. And then he goes, think about where 0:14:24.230 --> 0:14:27.570 Donald Trump would be today if he didn't have California 0:14:28.430 --> 0:14:32.160 to attack. And he said, it's the only thing holding 0:14:32.220 --> 0:14:38.820 up GDP growth. Which is false, but you just say things, right? 0:14:39.180 --> 0:14:40.800 And the writer isn't going to be able to check 0:14:41.420 --> 0:14:47.310 if there's any truth to that. Actually, the economy here, 0:14:48.670 --> 0:14:51.530 outside of AI, which Newsom has nothing to do with, 0:14:52.570 --> 0:14:55.960 is not in great shape. Going back to the highest 0:14:56.020 --> 0:15:00.520 unemployment rate, highest inflation rate, highest poverty rate. He says 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.220 both at the same time. He gets that we have 0:15:03.540 --> 0:15:08.720 high rates of bad economic indexes and then says, oh, look, 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:09.820 we're the tentpole of the U.S. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:10.200 Economy. 0:15:10.500 --> 0:15:13.460 No, you have concentrated in AI, and he wants to 0:15:13.500 --> 0:15:16.580 take credit for AI. He wants to take credit for 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.720 the tech industry, which was around for decades before he 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:25.380 went into office, obviously. We got more on this nonsense 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.860 when we come back. Oh, got a little bit about Jennifer... 0:15:30.710 --> 0:15:31.670 Jennifer Newsom, too. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:39.370 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:15:41.590 --> 0:15:45.610 John Kobelt Show, KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk radio. 0:15:45.710 --> 0:15:49.190 We continue. You want to hear the podcast tonight after 0:15:49.190 --> 0:15:51.500 6 o'clock. Anything you missed in the show will be 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:56.620 on the podcast. Go to the iHeartRadio app. John Kobelt 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.500 Show on demand. We are live streaming on X and YouTube. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.910 If you want to watch the video, live stream on 0:16:03.030 --> 0:16:06.940 X and YouTube right now. And to subscribe, become a member, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.540 youtube.com slash at John Cobell Show. Steve Hilton will be 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.100 on the show by phone coming up after 5 o'clock, 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:19.220 just after Debra's news. And we are now slogging through 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:23.880 this tongue bath from Joe Hagan of Vanity Fair on 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:28.350 Gavin Newsom. All these magazines have to have the same 0:16:28.430 --> 0:16:33.080 cliched story every election cycle about whoever their new cover 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:40.800 boy is. And now it's Newsom. And it's a curious 0:16:41.180 --> 0:16:45.970 column because Hagan will point out some of the disastrous 0:16:46.010 --> 0:16:49.210 things going on in the state and get Newsom's response. 0:16:49.250 --> 0:16:51.850 And Newsom just dismisses it with something like, I get 0:16:51.870 --> 0:16:56.660 all that. Like Hagan brought up. the highest poverty in 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.150 the nation, and the homelessness. I get all that. And 0:17:00.190 --> 0:17:03.290 then he switches subjects, and Hagan doesn't follow up. This 0:17:03.390 --> 0:17:09.490 is like the cancer in journalism, is they act like stenographers. 0:17:10.010 --> 0:17:14.180 They throw out a question, which really requires extensive follow-up 0:17:14.220 --> 0:17:18.140 and discussion, and instead somebody like Newsom does what Baccaria 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.179 did last night. Just blows it off with a few words, 0:17:21.220 --> 0:17:26.610 a bumper sticker. Yeah, I get all that. Here's some more. 0:17:28.190 --> 0:17:33.690 Hagen writes that he, all right, so Newsom's in Nevada 0:17:36.410 --> 0:17:41.760 and submitting himself to this Vanity Fair interview under fluorescent 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.880 lights in an empty back room of a local ministry. 0:17:45.500 --> 0:17:51.139 He comes across as loose and playful, parrying like a 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:59.540 political athlete, part salesman, Part jocular bro. With just enough 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.540 comic self-deprecation to make the whole souffle rise. 0:18:07.410 --> 0:18:08.170 That's funny. 0:18:09.390 --> 0:18:17.010 The whole souffle. I guess Joe Hagen's souffle was rising. Earlier, 0:18:17.070 --> 0:18:19.850 he was presented, oh, listen to this. He was presented 0:18:19.890 --> 0:18:23.669 with a baseball jersey by the local politicians, and Newsom 0:18:23.710 --> 0:18:28.530 pretended to unbutton and remove his shirt for a quick change, saying, 0:18:28.690 --> 0:18:37.359 I've been working out, inspiring squeals and wolf whistles. I 0:18:37.380 --> 0:18:39.639 know Newsom gets you going, so I just thought I'd 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.120 give you a little titillation there. I never said that. 0:18:42.220 --> 0:18:44.139 I just said he's an attractive man. 0:18:44.700 --> 0:18:47.550 Well, yay. He is. Does he make your souffle rise? 0:18:47.590 --> 0:18:51.900 No, he doesn't. 0:18:52.619 --> 0:18:57.820 Now, guess who Newsom's political hero is. In fact, he 0:18:57.900 --> 0:19:06.090 is taken to imitating this hero's physical quirks. For example, 0:19:06.530 --> 0:19:09.970 the writer noticed while Newsom talks that He has this 0:19:10.050 --> 0:19:14.270 hand gesture, the thumb resting on a bent forefinger to 0:19:14.350 --> 0:19:18.730 emphasize a point. So take your forefinger, put your thumb there, right? 0:19:20.450 --> 0:19:25.300 And that's Bill Clinton's move. I knew it was Bill Clinton. 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:25.669 I knew it. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:26.080 You did? 0:19:26.260 --> 0:19:27.359 Yes, and I was going to say it, but I 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.100 didn't want to interrupt you. I was waiting for you 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:29.640 to stop. 0:19:29.660 --> 0:19:31.300 I knew it. 0:19:31.859 --> 0:19:33.910 I want you to interrupt me. That's why you're here, 0:19:34.290 --> 0:19:34.929 to interrupt me. 0:19:34.970 --> 0:19:37.430 Well, you were talking. I was going to say something 0:19:37.470 --> 0:19:39.320 in mid-sentence. I was waiting for you to end the sentence, 0:19:39.340 --> 0:19:40.379 and I was going to say, I get it. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.480 It's Bill Clinton. Okay, you win the prize. 0:19:43.500 --> 0:19:43.820 Thank you. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.070 I'll give you another $ 10. I'm very competitive. Okay, you 0:19:46.109 --> 0:19:46.850 heard that, Eric. 0:19:46.890 --> 0:19:50.169 He's giving me another $ 10. 0:19:48.869 --> 0:19:52.280 Now, here's what Clinton... what Newsom says. I watch videos 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.540 of Clinton. This is really sad. I seek his counsel, 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.390 his advice, even in his absence. I do that. I've 0:19:59.410 --> 0:20:04.250 been a student of his from day one. See, there 0:20:04.330 --> 0:20:10.649 is no there there. He's doing a Clinton imitation. And 0:20:10.710 --> 0:20:15.270 then he says they have an actual relationship. That Clinton 0:20:15.930 --> 0:20:18.980 talks to him late at night about strategy and ideas. 0:20:19.220 --> 0:20:22.199 You think they talk about the women they've screwed in 0:20:22.220 --> 0:20:26.199 their offices? I don't know, John. I mean, because Newsom 0:20:26.340 --> 0:20:29.699 was screwing women in the mayor's office. And we know 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:33.370 what Clinton did, right? And he says, he calls me 0:20:33.410 --> 0:20:37.260 late at night. This is Gavin talking. wanting to talk 0:20:37.300 --> 0:20:40.120 about it, and he goes, I've been thinking nonstop about this. 0:20:40.510 --> 0:20:45.710 I think you represent what they fear. What they, I guess, 0:20:45.730 --> 0:20:50.790 meaning Republicans. Newsom says he's very mindful of that. If 0:20:50.830 --> 0:20:53.710 there's a problem to be solved, there's no greater problem 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:57.240 solver than Bill Clinton, in my mind. Master of his craft. 0:20:57.580 --> 0:20:58.300 Next level. 0:20:59.660 --> 0:20:59.900 Wow. 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.919 So while the writer is slobbering on Newsom, Newsom is 0:21:03.940 --> 0:21:07.389 slobbering on Clinton. We got a threesome going here. By 0:21:07.410 --> 0:21:11.170 the way, that's a new verbal tick that Newsom has. 0:21:11.310 --> 0:21:15.970 I count three next level quotes in this story. Everybody 0:21:15.990 --> 0:21:22.910 is next level. And then they switch to talking about 0:21:22.950 --> 0:21:26.889 the DSA. Now listen to this double speak. Newsom claims 0:21:26.950 --> 0:21:29.890 so much of what the DSA is promoting, I'm like 0:21:30.020 --> 0:21:33.350 been there, done that. And he's talking about he passed 0:21:33.369 --> 0:21:36.410 the most progressive rent control in America. I'm the biggest 0:21:36.530 --> 0:21:41.050 climate champion. But I'm not anti-business. Well, yeah, you are. 0:21:42.170 --> 0:21:44.950 I think you closed tens of thousands of businesses during 0:21:45.369 --> 0:21:53.000 your stupid COVID lockdown. And then he claims the DSA 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.520 is just full of slogans, that there's not much to them. 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:03.570 So he simultaneously said he's already– passed and embraced DSA 0:22:03.609 --> 0:22:06.850 policies at the same time saying that the DSA really 0:22:06.910 --> 0:22:10.040 stands for nothing. He did that all in one paragraph 0:22:10.170 --> 0:22:13.580 and the writer either didn't catch it or didn't want 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.780 to pursue it and explain it to the readers. It's 0:22:16.820 --> 0:22:21.270 like he, I know if you really go line by line, 0:22:21.530 --> 0:22:24.350 he often is on both sides of the issue at 0:22:24.369 --> 0:22:28.490 the same time. And nobody ever calls him on it. 0:22:30.740 --> 0:22:35.620 Then he's described here as being decked out in six feet, 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:39.680 three inches of a blue suit as he's signing a bill. 0:22:40.460 --> 0:22:46.420 I mean, Hagan's souffle was about to pop, I think. 0:22:47.770 --> 0:22:52.490 That's a pretty high souffle. But then he starts talking 0:22:52.530 --> 0:22:55.350 about where he breaks with the DSA crowd, and that's 0:22:55.530 --> 0:22:58.330 on taxing billionaires, right? He's not into the billionaire tax. 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:04.080 I don't begrudge other people's success. You know, he's worth 0:23:04.340 --> 0:23:07.280 about $ 30 million. He has an annual income of $ 2 million, 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:12.110 most of it from his wine operations. Now, you should 0:23:12.170 --> 0:23:16.469 know is that 10 out of his first 11 business 0:23:16.530 --> 0:23:20.750 ventures were financed by the billionaire Getty family. He's done 0:23:20.810 --> 0:23:24.030 very little on his own, but his dad was a 0:23:24.050 --> 0:23:29.230 close business associate of the him like a son. In fact, 0:23:29.250 --> 0:23:31.389 they treated him better than they did the Getty children. 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:37.580 And so he got all these free businesses. And then 0:23:37.619 --> 0:23:42.920 he goes, well, I'm a small businessman. So he doesn't 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:48.229 feel like he should begrudge other people's success. I just 0:23:48.250 --> 0:23:50.649 don't feel that. I'd be faking that. That's inauthentic of 0:23:50.710 --> 0:23:54.580 me to say. That's what frustrates me about my party. 0:23:54.660 --> 0:23:58.260 I'm a small business person. I intimately appreciate the risk-taking 0:23:58.540 --> 0:24:01.600 and contribution of businesses. He never took a risk. How 0:24:01.660 --> 0:24:04.900 many of us could end up with a net worth 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:07.560 of millions of dollars if they had the Getty family 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:16.130 backing 10 of our first 11 businesses? Do you know 0:24:16.650 --> 0:24:22.820 who his hero was growing up? Sylvester Stallone. The first 0:24:22.900 --> 0:24:25.639 Rocky movie. He set up a boxing ring in his 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:30.619 backyard and had neighborhood matches. He was an amateur magician 0:24:30.740 --> 0:24:35.340 as a kid. He called himself the Great Gavini. Stop 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:38.720 not making this up. Do you remember? This is a 0:24:38.740 --> 0:24:41.169 long time ago. Do you remember a show in the 1980s, 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:41.919 Remington Steele? 0:24:42.109 --> 0:24:42.330 Yes. 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.750 Pierce Brosnan? Yeah. He bases his clothes and hairstyle. I 0:24:46.770 --> 0:24:51.780 was going to say his hairstyle. Yes. Yes! That's where 0:24:51.820 --> 0:24:52.560 it comes from. 0:24:52.700 --> 0:24:53.100 Okay. 0:24:53.220 --> 0:24:56.840 So it's not Pat Riley. No, although it's the same era. 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:02.680 That's fair. Yeah. It was Pierce Brosnan, who I think 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:03.850 later became a James Bond. 0:25:04.109 --> 0:25:04.909 Yes. 0:25:05.190 --> 0:25:09.830 And Brosnan played a charming con man. See the connections here? 0:25:11.010 --> 0:25:15.070 And he seems to have kept the look for life. 0:25:16.250 --> 0:25:20.720 So he's still indulging in his Remington Steele fantasy. And 0:25:20.740 --> 0:25:24.700 let's see, he was born in 67. So he was 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:29.500 like in his 20s, late teens, early 20s. You know, 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:33.840 when you kind of develop your fashion sense and your identity. 0:25:34.580 --> 0:25:37.980 And so he looked at Pierce Brosnan and he kept it. 0:25:38.380 --> 0:25:40.180 All right. 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:48.070 Wasn't he also a fan of Camelot? Remember the Kimberly, 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:48.770 what is her name? 0:25:48.910 --> 0:25:52.350 Oh, Kimberly Guilfoyle. Yeah, her. That was the spread they did. 0:25:52.390 --> 0:25:53.310 In Vanity Fair, right? 0:25:53.350 --> 0:25:57.310 Yes, in Vanity Fair. That's right. Back in 2004, where 0:25:57.330 --> 0:25:59.410 they did their. 0:25:59.590 --> 0:26:01.760 JFK and Jackie Kennedy. 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:04.859 Jackie Kennedy. Yeah, they did an imitation of them. And 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:06.480 you know where they did it was in one of 0:26:06.500 --> 0:26:11.600 the Getty family homes. He's such a fraud. He inhabits 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:17.120 these different personas. There is no real Gavin Newsom in there. Okay, 0:26:17.940 --> 0:26:24.460 when we come back, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps. 0:26:25.650 --> 0:26:28.010 Pete Hegseth, we got to play a bit of a 0:26:28.050 --> 0:26:31.490 speech that he gave on his vision for the military 0:26:31.930 --> 0:26:35.310 going into the future. No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps. 0:26:37.190 --> 0:26:41.660 You're listening to John Kobeltz On Demand from KFI AM 640. 0:26:41.660 --> 0:26:50.220 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Kobeltz Show. 0:26:51.109 --> 0:26:55.729