1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Can't find a M six forty. You're listening to the 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: Good to have you along with us. 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 3: Day seventeen of the federal government shutdown, and we have 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 3: gone through pay periods for a. 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 2: Lot of different categories of employees. 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 3: There's active duty pay, there's federal workers, there's congressional staff, 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 3: and some of them have different pay periods. But I 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 3: think at this point everybody has missed at least one 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 3: paycheck if they are working but still not getting paid. 11 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 3: The Transportation Safety Administration is feeling the pain, at least 12 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 3: in Oakland, where they are reporting that they are on 13 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 3: rice and beans abs and news correspondent Alex Stone joins us, 14 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 3: kind of dramatic, but if you're living paycheck to paycheck, 15 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 3: I suppose there's no money to buy grocery. 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, lou not making a ton. 17 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: I think when we looked it up, the typical TSA 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: officer makes around twenty four bucks an hour, and living 19 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: in California, that's tough to live off of. And then 20 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: you take away the paycheck and they're hurting you. We've 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: talked as well about the number of FAA and TSA 22 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: officers who have already started. But as time goes on, 23 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: historically in a government shutdown, that people are going to 24 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: begin calling in sick more and more because they can't 25 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: pay for food, or pay their bills, or have childcare, 26 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,559 Speaker 1: pay for gasoline because they're being told they've got to work, 27 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: but they're not getting paid. They missed most of one 28 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: paycheck and in a couple of days whole second paycheck 29 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: will will not go into their direct deposit or however 30 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: they get it. And they just you know, they don't 31 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: make a lot of money to begin with. So their 32 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,559 Speaker 1: union says, this is hard even when they are getting 33 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: paid to make ends meet here in California. But yeah, 34 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: yet in not getting a paycheck. 35 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 4: Families, a lot of our TSO's live paycheck to paycheck, 36 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 4: they have childcare issues. They got to show up at 37 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 4: three o'clock in the morning to fly out the traveling public. 38 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: So now, in their signature blue uniforms at the Oakland Airport, 39 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: TSA officers are lining up after their shifts to get 40 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: food from a food to bring home and it is 41 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: mostly beans, rice, eggs, fresh produce. 42 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: And this is him lining up this week. 43 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 5: Right here. Make sure you guys have some eggs. 44 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 6: Thank you, all right, I'm sure. 45 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: To say you have a good day getting a dozen eggs, 46 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: and then the heading home after a shift. Reggie Young 47 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: runs the Attamita County Community Food Bank. He says, they 48 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: know that they need this help and they're helping them out. 49 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 5: I think one of the big challenges in general with 50 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 5: not being paid is essicially that your whole livelihood is 51 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 5: at risk. 52 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: And he says, look, they know the TSA staff he's 53 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: dealing with, buying medicine for family members, gas, pay the rent. 54 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: They've got to show up in a clean, non wrinkled 55 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: uniform every day. They got to do all that without 56 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: a paycheck, And he says, we. 57 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 5: Want to sure that food is one of the things 58 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 5: that you don't have to worry about. 59 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, So after their shifts, they are lining up like 60 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 1: you would in any shelter and getting food to bring 61 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: home to the family, and the food bank says lou 62 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: that they've got enough food to help out no matter 63 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: how long this shutdown goes on. For that they feel 64 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: like they're good there, I mean to an extent, but 65 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: it won't go on forever. And they feel like they've 66 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: the community has come through for them and the TSA staff, 67 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: they say, this is really tough. They've got careers, that 68 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: they are hard working, that they thought they had a 69 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: good government job, and now even though they're going to 70 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 1: work every day, they're then lining up to get donated 71 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: food from a food bank. And that hurts the ego 72 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: a little bit that they've got to look for help 73 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: and that they're asking for help. 74 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 4: We just don't want this to become a prolonged fight 75 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 4: because we don't know what, we don't know how we're 76 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 4: going to pay to stay in the fight. 77 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, and pay to stay in the fight just in 78 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: general of gas to get to work and childcare and 79 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: all that. But in testimated just in the Bay area 80 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: around Oakland, they're seventy eight thousand federal workers and the 81 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: food bank is feeding around the three hundred TSA officers 82 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: who are there at Oakland. Now. Many of those are 83 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: federal workers who don't have to go into the office 84 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: right now. If you're the irs here, you don't go 85 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: in most likely, and it's still going to be tough 86 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: without a paycheck, but you're not commuting and we're a 87 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: uniform and having to deal with childcare and all of that. 88 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: But those like the FAA and the TSA who have 89 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: to go in they say it's it's tough, and they're 90 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: seeing it at the Oakland Airport and SFO and no 91 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: doubt Lax and John Wayne and Burbank, everybody's dealing with it. 92 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of the TSA are former military. 93 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 3: That's the way the federal government works with respect to 94 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 3: offering jobs and prioritizing. 95 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 2: So it's a fair story. This this is a. 96 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 3: Shame and these kinds of you know, show voting on 97 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 3: Capitol Hill do affect actual people and their lives. That 98 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 3: has been in the past. Ways for depending on the 99 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 3: bank you used and whoever you had. You know, if 100 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 3: you went with a Navy federal credit or something like that, 101 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 3: banks used to work with you and issue you some 102 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 3: credit if you will. If you had a federal employee, 103 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 3: if you had a federal job and you work for 104 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 3: a period of time, you could demonstrate they'd work for 105 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 3: a certain amount of time. I know that that had 106 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 3: happened with shutdowns in the past. Certainly it's happened with 107 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 3: respect to when the government shut down in Sacramento or 108 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 3: when they would go without a budget in Sacramento staff 109 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 3: would get floated, essentially loans. It doesn't sound like that's 110 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 3: happening this time, or maybe it's just been too long 111 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 3: and since there's no end in sight, maybe banks don't 112 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 3: want to even offer that. 113 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: Well. I think it's a couple of things. 114 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: One is, I'm a member of USAA and you know, 115 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: which is typically for military families, And I have seen 116 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: as I log into my banking app that it says 117 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: that they are giving out they've given out some hundreds 118 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars worth of loans in this moment 119 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: during the shutdown. So there is some of that going 120 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: on depending on what banks somebody has. But there are 121 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: a lot of former military who are in the TSA, 122 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: but there are a lot who were not as well, 123 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,559 Speaker 1: and so they may have Bank of America or Wells 124 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: Fargo or one of those, and it may be a 125 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: little bit tougher to get the banks to play with 126 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: them in that way if it's just a regular consumer bank. 127 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: And again, when you're talking about not making a ton 128 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: of money, there may not be a real strong relationship 129 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: with a bank, and it may just be kind of 130 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: living life and taking care of the kids and then 131 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: going home and they may not have gotten that far. 132 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: So there are some were saying, look that they need 133 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: the help from a food bank. 134 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, and when you mentioned look, TSA have to get 135 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: there at three in the morning, for if you have 136 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 3: to be on a six o'clock flight. These are the 137 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 3: kinds of stories that I think the average American responds to. 138 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 3: And so the goal is what to make the phones 139 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 3: ring at the Congressional or the Senate office. I guess 140 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 3: it would be to put pressure on everybody's senator to 141 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 3: either sign the CR or reopen the government without with 142 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 3: the concessions that the Democrats are. 143 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: Asking for, or find some way to pay some of 144 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: the mandatory workers, the essential workers of TSA, of FAA 145 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: law enforcements already getting paid. But we've said it before, 146 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: but members of Congress they're getting paid right now. I 147 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,359 Speaker 1: imagine if they were lining up to get food now, 148 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: typically they have multiple means of income, and then they 149 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: would probably do okay during this amount of time. But 150 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: imagine if they were in the food line at a 151 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: food bank getting beans and rice, and how different that 152 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: would be. So, yeah, the ts I'd like to see that. Actually, yeah, that. 153 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: Would not just it would be a good image on TV. 154 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, meeting the constituents, but actually needing that food and 155 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: going through that line, it would be a different ballgame. 156 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: Alex Stone, thanks so much. I appreciate you always. You 157 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: got it. Thanks, Look every great weekend. All right, So 158 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: day seventeen and no movement whatsoever. There's no end insight. 159 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,239 Speaker 7: There's no compromise that anyone can remotely see. Yesterday, Senate 160 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 7: Democrats blocked a government funding bill, blocked a full year 161 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 7: defense funding bill, and they rejected an offer from Majority 162 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 7: leader John Food to give them a standalone vote on 163 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 7: extending the Obamacare subsidies. 164 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 3: All right, So when we come back, let's break that down, 165 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 3: because there is a way out of this. We could 166 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 3: easily get the government reopened tonight or certainly Monday, but 167 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 3: nothing will happen until Monday. 168 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 2: At least. 169 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 3: There's no call for the Senate to even be in 170 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 3: town right now. They've sent everybody home. I'll break it 171 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 3: down for you coming up next. Louke Penrose Info John 172 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 3: Cobelt on the John coblt Show on kf I Am 173 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 3: six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 174 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand. From kfi AM 175 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 8: six forty. 176 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 3: Louke Penrose info, John Coblt on kfi AM six forty. 177 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 6: Well, as everybody knows, it's a lot easier to hire 178 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 6: in your own uniform when you're getting a paycheck rather 179 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 6: than when money is out to you and will eventually 180 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 6: be paid to you. 181 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 2: I love sarcasm. 182 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 3: Talking about the TSA employees at the Oakland Airport, they 183 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 3: lined up at the food bank. The government shut down 184 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 3: day seventeen, so they. 185 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 2: Missed one paid period. 186 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 3: And they lined up report getting rice and beans, eggs, 187 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 3: and some fresh produce. Three hundred TSA employees said that 188 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 3: they live paycheck to paycheck and now are suffering. 189 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 2: The local Labor. 190 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 3: Council estimates that just in the San Francisco Bay Area 191 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 3: there are seventy eight thousand federal workers and many suffering 192 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 3: without paychecks. Well, this is going to be a long 193 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 3: government shutdown, and some federal employees are really going to 194 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 3: take Some are going to. 195 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 2: Be hit harder than others. 196 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 3: Obviously, a TSA employee that makes twenty four dollars an 197 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 3: hour and lives in Los Angeles or in the Bay Area, 198 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 3: or in New York City or in Chicago or some 199 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 3: of the more expensive areas of the country are going 200 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 3: to be hit harder than the TSA agent that is 201 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 3: in Charlotte, North Carolina. 202 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 2: So that's a reality. 203 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 3: By the way, they're also hit harder in their housing 204 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,559 Speaker 3: costs and their taxes. 205 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 2: I mean, that's that goes across the board. 206 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 3: I was a federal employees I was a staffer for 207 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 3: three members of Congress. 208 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 2: And like, if you're if you're if. 209 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,599 Speaker 3: You're a staffer for the member of Congress in Oklahoma, 210 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 3: you're well paid and you're living large in a small 211 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 3: town in Oklahoma. 212 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 2: That's where you live. 213 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 3: If you're a staffer for a member of Congress and 214 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 3: that member of Congress represents Lower Manhattan, I mean, there's 215 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 3: only so much you can get paid. I mean there 216 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 3: are scales depending on the level of seniority and. 217 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 2: What you do. 218 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,199 Speaker 3: Right, if you're chief of staff, you get paid a 219 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,239 Speaker 3: little more than if you're the executive secretary. But nevertheless, 220 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 3: if the congressman is representing Lower Manhattan, you're broke unless 221 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 3: you want to live way the hell out in New Jersey. 222 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 3: So like that's this goes without saying. This is kind of, 223 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 3: uh the way things go. And they do make federal 224 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 3: employees get adjusted for the zones that they live in, 225 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 3: but it ain't much. 226 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 2: And it doesn't really help you all that much. 227 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 3: So it's just hard to be a TSA agent in 228 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 3: the Bay Area all the time. But one paycheck from 229 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 3: the soup kitchen, I think is a little dramatic. So 230 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 3: I don't know who these people are, I don't know 231 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 3: what they're doing. I don't know if this is a stunt. 232 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 3: The idea that seventeen days ago the TSA agent was 233 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 3: well fed and seventeen days later they're on rice and 234 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 3: beans is a little dramatic, but nevertheless, it's going to 235 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 3: be on television and then people will get their hearts 236 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 3: tugged at. And this is the way government shutdowns usually go. 237 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 3: Now I'm impressed that we're seventeen days into it. All 238 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 3: the other federal shutdowns that I've experienced as a tax 239 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 3: payer or experienced as a federal employee, the Republicans always 240 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 3: wound up caving because they eventually find some woman in 241 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 3: Baltimore with four children. No one knows where the husband is. 242 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 3: He's never on TV, only the woman, and she's like 243 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 3: just some person that works at the Department of Transportation, 244 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 3: or she's a janitor that works in the Cannon House 245 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 3: office building and she's starving to death, and that's probably 246 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 3: eight days into the federal shutdown. She's starving to death 247 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 3: and all the kids are starving to death. It's lay 248 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 3: Miss Roblet in Baltimore, and that's the show. And that 249 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 3: show goes on sixty minutes that Sunday, and by Monday 250 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 3: at six o'clock, the Republican's cave. That's the way all 251 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 3: federal shutdowns have gone in my experience, going all the 252 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 3: way back to the nineties and President Clinton through President Obama. 253 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 2: And this time nobody's caving. 254 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 3: But there is a way out, and there's an easy 255 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 3: way out. And really it's up to five Democrats, five 256 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 3: Democrat senators. 257 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 2: Listen to the here's the story on the option. There's 258 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 2: no end in sight. 259 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 7: There's no compromise that anyone can remotely see. Yesterday, Senate 260 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 7: Democrats blocked eight government funding bill, blocked a full year 261 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 7: defense funding bill, and they rejected an offer from Majority 262 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 7: Leader John Foon to give them a standalone vote on 263 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 7: extending the Obamacare subsidies. 264 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 2: So this is what you're hearing. As soon as the 265 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 2: government was shut down. 266 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 3: Everybody was going to die, said the Democrats in the Senate, 267 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 3: and then they pulled back and said, people's premiums are 268 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 3: going to double. No one's going to have insurance. And 269 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 3: then days went by and we were still alive and 270 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 3: we still had healthcare. But the threat that, oh, these 271 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 3: Obama ACA subsidies they're going to double. People's premiums are 272 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 3: going to double. It's just going to be horrible out there. 273 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 3: And the Republican Senate leader called the bluff. And by 274 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 3: the way, as this was happening, there are fifty three 275 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 3: Republicans in the United States Senate. 276 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 2: There are one hundred senators. You need sixty votes to 277 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 2: end debate and call the vote. 278 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 3: You only need fifty plus one to win, but you 279 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 3: need sixty to end debate. That's a Senate rule and 280 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 3: it's been there since like nineteen seventeen, so it requires sixty. 281 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 3: It required three fifths of the Senate. There weren't fifty, 282 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 3: weren't one hundred senators in nineteen seventeen, but it requires 283 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 3: three fifths of the Senate to end debate because the 284 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 3: Senate is an open debate body and call. 285 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 2: The question as it's called. It's called cloture. There you go. 286 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 3: Now you know more political science than half the faculty 287 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 3: of the Political science department at UCLA and the entire 288 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 3: faculty at USC. But they need sixty votes. They're only 289 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 3: fifty three Republicans. They already peeled off two. They peeled 290 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 3: off the Democrats senator from Pennsylvania Feederman, and peeled off 291 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 3: an independent senator, so they're now at fifty five. 292 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 2: So it only takes five Democrats and that's it. And 293 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 2: all they have to do is sign off. 294 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 3: On September thirtieth life, So the federal budget that existed, 295 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 3: the way the life was going, every federal department, every agency, 296 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 3: all the funding, literally the way the government was running 297 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 3: on September thirtieth is the way it will be right now. 298 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 3: If five US Senators sign off. It's called the Continuing 299 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 3: Resolution a CR, and it does exactly what. 300 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 2: It sounds like it does. 301 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 3: It's a resolution to continue to just keep everything going 302 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 3: the way it was going. 303 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 2: Everybody gets paid what they got paid. They don't get 304 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 2: a raise, but they don't get their pay cut. 305 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 3: There's nothing gets cut, nothing ends, nothing begins, no new 306 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 3: laws are passed, nothing happens. Everything is like it was 307 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 3: when you woke up on September thirtieth. 308 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 2: That's all the CR does. 309 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 3: It keeps the government running while Democrats and Republicans can 310 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 3: debate and argue and jump up and down and scream 311 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 3: over whatever it is you want to argue about Medicare 312 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 3: for the aliens, Obamacare, premium doubling, ACA, whatever bah babl like. 313 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 3: Everything can be debated, but the government has to be opened. 314 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 3: And that's what Senator Thun, the Republican leader, has offered. 315 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 3: He even offered a vote. He said, look, I'll offer 316 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 3: you a clean vote just on the Obamacare provisions so 317 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 3: that we'll all be on record on. 318 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 2: Whether we want Americans premiums to double. 319 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 3: The ron Obamacare will offer you that, and Democrats still 320 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 3: said no, and we only need five. My prediction is 321 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 3: we'll get those five rather quickly, as soon as they 322 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 3: see the TSA agents up in San Francisco eating rice 323 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 3: and beans. Louke Penrose in for John Campbell, excuse me, 324 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 3: in for John Cobelt onkf I. 325 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 326 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 8: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM 327 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 8: six forty. 328 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 3: It's the John Cobelt Show. Loup Penrose in for John 329 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 3: Cobelt this week. Good to have you along with us. 330 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 2: Baffles me. How people say they live paycheck to paycheck. 331 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 2: They probably go out and buy a new car every 332 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 2: three to five years. I've got one truck fifteen years old. 333 00:16:58,320 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep it until I die. 334 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, But are you making what the TSA 335 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 3: agents in Oakland are making? 336 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 8: Okay, now you're boring the crap on it me and 337 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 8: I'm pulling asleep. 338 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 2: I know what this host is so boring. 339 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 3: He haint a damn thing wrong with eating beans and 340 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,639 Speaker 3: rydes And sometimes all you got in live are beans 341 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 3: and rides and Jesus Christ. 342 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. 343 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 3: So, Scott Wiener, the Senator from San Francisco, is not 344 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 3: waiting for Nancy Pelosi to retire. 345 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 2: He's done waiting. Remember Speaker Pelosi, she was in the 346 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 2: news this week. Shut up. 347 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, she got in trouble with a reporter there and 348 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 3: lost her temper, And apparently that was enough for Senator 349 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 3: Scott Wiener to reconsider. 350 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 2: His political plans. 351 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 3: Just to bring you up to speed, there is a 352 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 3: new January sixth Commission being convened by Republicans. They say 353 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 3: Nanty Pelosi was really the problem on January sixth, and 354 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 3: the reporter went. 355 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 9: After Congress on Pelosi, are you at all concerned that 356 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 9: the new. 357 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 2: January sixth committee will find you liable to that day? 358 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 9: Why did you refuse the national guard on January sixth? 359 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 2: Shut up? I did not refuse the national guard. The 360 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 2: president didn't send it. Why are you coming here with 361 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: Republican talking points as if you're a serious journal The 362 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 2: American people want to know. We still have questions? Thank you? 363 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 3: Oh no, So that little exchange, apparently, according to sources, 364 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,719 Speaker 3: is was it enough for Senator Scott Wiener. 365 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 2: Now we hear from Senator Scott Wiener a lot. 366 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 3: He's author of a lot of progressive legislation out of Sacramento. 367 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 2: It gets signed into law all the time. 368 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 3: And he wants to be in Congress, and he is representative. 369 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 3: That's Pelosi's his seat, and he's termed out. I don't 370 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 3: know when his term ends, but at some point he 371 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 3: can't be a state senator anymore, and apparently he wants 372 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 3: to go to Congress. So sources say that he is 373 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 3: running in twenty twenty six, even if he has the 374 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 3: primary Speaker Pelosi shut up. 375 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's true. So that's going to be interesting. 376 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 3: San Francisco's state senator previously said he would wait for 377 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 3: Pelosi to retire from Congress, but now he's done some 378 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 3: internal polling and it shows that his time is now 379 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 3: and that her stars faded. 380 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 2: And he's progressive, far more progressive than she is. 381 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 3: If you can imagine that Scott Wiener is to He's 382 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 3: certainly to the left of Speaker Pelosi. But today Pelosi 383 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 3: would be considered a moderate in Sacramento terms. 384 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 2: For the party, the Democrats. 385 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 3: So that's going to be an interesting little fight because 386 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 3: Newsom and Pelosi are related, I mean literally related, and 387 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 3: there's a lot of Democrat money required to win a 388 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 3: San Francisco congressional seat. And Pelosi not a small player 389 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 3: in the fundraising world. 390 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 2: Her father was. 391 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 3: The mayor of Baltimore. I mean, that's how far back 392 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 3: these political families go. But I have a few predictions. 393 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 3: I think that is right. I think Scott Wiener will 394 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 3: challenge Nancy Pelosi and beat her in a primary, and 395 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 3: I think in twenty twenty six Wiener will be the congressman. 396 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 2: That's my prediction. 397 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 3: Frankly, I'd rather have Nancy Pelosi around because it's just 398 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 3: a lot more fun when she does things like that, 399 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 3: and we get to put it on TV and put 400 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 3: it on the radio, and it helps paint the picture 401 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 3: of this aging, crabby, mean spirited Democrat leadership in Sacramento. 402 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 3: But I think that that will happen. I have a 403 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 3: couple of predictions. I'm gonna run these by you. It's Friday, 404 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 3: so I'm gonna throw out these predictions. 405 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 2: Again. 406 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 3: These are not things I want to happen, but as 407 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,959 Speaker 3: a political science major, these are things that I study 408 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 3: and my analytical eye tells me that they're going to happen. 409 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 3: I think Wiener challenges Pelosi. I think she thinks I 410 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 3: can kick this little guy to the curb, and she 411 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 3: is wrong, and he beatz her and she he moves 412 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 3: on to become the congress member for San Francisco and 413 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 3: an unceremonious ending to Nancy Pelos's career. I think PROMP 414 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 3: fifty will pass. I think it will be approved by voters, 415 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 3: but I don't think Democrats will pick up the five 416 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 3: seats that Prop fifty allows for them to have ease 417 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 3: in picking up. Remember, there's two things going on here. 418 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 3: Prop fifty allows Democrats to cheat. It allows politicians, Democrat 419 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 3: politicians to redraw the congressional boundaries in California temporarily and 420 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 3: in between two censuses. The congressional lines are redrawn every 421 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 3: ten years. Anyway, they have to be, because the census 422 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 3: gives us a different number. We don't know are there 423 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 3: more Californians or less Californians. By law, there has to 424 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 3: be a portionment. There has to be a Congression representative 425 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 3: for everybody. 426 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 2: And it has to be equal. Right now, it's seven 427 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one thousand Californians are represented by each 428 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 2: member of Congress. When I started working in Congress in 429 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 2: two thousand and two, it was six hundred and forty 430 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 2: six forty. What do you know about that? 431 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, so California grew from two thousand and two to 432 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 3: two thousand and twenty, and we are now declining, so 433 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 3: we're losing seats. So we will see if that number 434 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 3: of residents of California goes down or stabilize a seven 435 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 3: seventy and then you divide up whatever you know, thirty 436 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 3: eight million Californians divided by seven hundred and seventy thousand, 437 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 3: and that's how you figure out the number of congressional 438 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 3: seats there are, and that's how you start. And then 439 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 3: you draw lines and you try and keep them community whole, city, hole, community. 440 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 2: Like, agriculture, whole like. 441 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 3: You try the best you can to keep communities together. Well, 442 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 3: the Democrats are changing all that and literally drawing congressional 443 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 3: lines on purpose to capture where more or registered Democrats live, 444 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 3: to make it a more likely Democrat seat, to give 445 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,239 Speaker 3: a Democrat candidate in that congressional district and advantage. And 446 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 3: they're unabashit about this. They're not hiding the fact that 447 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 3: they're doing that on purpose. They're saying it's because Donald 448 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 3: Trump is a dictator, and that's the rationale. So they 449 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 3: need to cheat to stop all of America from being 450 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 3: led by a dictator for the remainder of Trump's urn 451 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 3: And so that's what Prop fifty is all about. I 452 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 3: think it'll pass, but I don't think the redrawn congressional 453 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 3: lines that will now favor Democrats will result in a 454 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 3: Democrat congress person in those districts. So I don't think 455 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 3: the Democrats will pick up five seats in the twenty 456 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 3: twenty six mid term election. 457 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 2: I do believe. 458 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 3: That Senator Alex Padia will decide, and depending on how 459 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 3: fifty turns out, will decide that the Senate sucks. I'm 460 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 3: in the minority here, I'm Democrat from California. We don't 461 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 3: know how to be in the minority whenever. I've never 462 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 3: been in the minority in my life, and it's no 463 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 3: fun being in the minority, and I can't get anything done, 464 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 3: and I'm just not a very good senator. So I'm 465 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 3: gonna go back to California and be governor because that's 466 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:17,199 Speaker 3: just a lot easier. 467 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 2: And then I can be governor. And I think that's 468 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. 469 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,719 Speaker 3: I think Padilla will and he can run as a 470 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 3: sitting senator because his term isn't up for another two years, 471 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 3: so he can run and he will either vacate the 472 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 3: seat or he'll just run as senator and he'll win 473 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 3: and he'll be the governor. 474 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 2: He'll be Governor Alex Padia. 475 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 3: And then after he's sworn in as governor, the governor 476 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 3: then has two choices. He can call a special election 477 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 3: for the Senate seat for forty five days, or he 478 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 3: can appoint newly elected governor Alex Padia will appoint Gavin. 479 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 2: Newsom to serve the remainder of his Senate see. 480 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 3: That's my prediction and how Newsom will get away with 481 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 3: it because he's not a person of color. He's a 482 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 3: white male and Democrats hate white men in Senate seats, 483 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: so he'll just say, look, I think that this goes 484 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 3: against you my lifelong work of diversity. But I'm only 485 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 3: going to serve out the remainder of Padilla's term. I'm 486 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 3: only going to fill fulfill the goals of my good friend, 487 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 3: Senator Alex Padias. 488 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 2: I'm only just a placeholder. 489 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 3: I'll give up that seat and give it back to 490 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 3: the people of California. I'm just gonna be here for 491 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 3: two years, and that will give Newsom the two year 492 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 3: separation from his failure in California that he needs to 493 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 3: be a player on the world stage. And finally, my 494 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 3: last prediction is that Katie Porter will drop out of 495 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 3: the race and teach a law class on workplace harassment. 496 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 3: Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt. I'm the John Cobelt 497 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 3: Show on KFI AM six forty. 498 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Kobe on demand from KFI AM 499 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 8: six forty. 500 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 3: The John Cobelt Show. Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt 501 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 3: all this past week. Thank you for allowing me to 502 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 3: sit in for John. I just got word that on Monday, 503 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 3: California State Assembly Member Carl Demyle will be filling in 504 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 3: for John Cobelt with the latest on Prop fifty and 505 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 3: everything else. Longtime friend Carl Demyo and one of the 506 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 3: strongest voices for sanity and common sense up in Sacramento, 507 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 3: and no stranger to KFI and the John Cobelt audience. 508 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 3: So my good friend and yours, Carl Demio in on Monday. 509 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,479 Speaker 3: Jack in the Box is selling Del Taco one hundred 510 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 3: and fifteen million dollars for five hundred. 511 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 2: And fifty restaurants. I think that's cheap. I'm a big 512 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 2: fan of Del Taco. 513 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 3: I don't prefer Taco Bell, even though that Glenn Bell 514 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 3: is my neighbor in Big Bear. 515 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 2: I don't. There's nothing there that I like. 516 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 3: Taco Bell is a good food, but Del Taco for me, 517 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 3: is great. 518 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 2: It's just the perfect price point. It's the perfect amount 519 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 2: of everything, it's the perfect amount of taste, and they 520 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 2: got everything I like. 521 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 3: But Jack in the Box is trying to strengthen its 522 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 3: brand and it doesn't need Del Taco anymore. 523 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 9: Yes, Jack in the Box is selling its entire Dell 524 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 9: Taco chain for one hundred and fifteen million dollars. 525 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 2: The Hamburger brand inked the deal with one of. 526 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 9: Its California based franchisees, Yadav Enterprises. The group currently owns 527 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 9: three hundred and ten restaurant locations that include Jack in 528 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 9: the Box, Denny's, Tgi Fridays, Taco Cabana, and Nick the Greek. 529 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 2: Well, it's a real portfolio got going on. 530 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 3: So the story isn't that Jack in the Box is 531 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 3: trying to strengthen its brand and it's selling off Del Taco. 532 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 2: The story is this Yadav Enterprises. 533 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 3: So Yadav Enterprises bought all of the Del Tacos. 534 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 2: All of the five hundred and fifty restaurant in one deal. 535 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 3: Del Taco's second largest Mexican American quick serve restaurant chain 536 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 3: by units. Did you know that they're like everywhere, They're 537 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:15,239 Speaker 3: like the Starbucks of Mexican drive through food is with 538 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 3: respect to the chain, They're in fifteen states. So I 539 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,360 Speaker 3: root for Del Taco because I think the food is good. 540 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 3: But you had to have enterprises. The CEO is a 541 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 3: Neil Yadav and he worked at Jack in the Box 542 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 3: as a kid. This is an incredible story. Right now, 543 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 3: you'd have Aneil of your da have enterprises. Owns three 544 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 3: hundred restaurants. He has El poy Loco, he's got TGI Friday, 545 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 3: he got He's franchise, has known all of them. But 546 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 3: he's got a couple of Tji Fridays. He's got a 547 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 3: bunch of Denny's. He's got Taco Cabana. He's got Nick 548 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 3: the Greek and used to work for Jack in the 549 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 3: Box and apparently knew who to call and said, you 550 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 3: know what, all those del tacos. 551 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 2: And so he. 552 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 3: Went from having three hundred restaurants now he's got eight 553 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty restaurants. 554 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 2: Wow, you'dof ceo. 555 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 9: At seventeen, he started as a Jack in the Box 556 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,239 Speaker 9: fry cook. He made manager in eighteen months, and then 557 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 9: he bought his first store back in nineteen eighty nine. 558 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an American story. You can't do that anywhere else. 559 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 3: Only in America can you do that? Only in America 560 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 3: can you work the French fry counter at Jack in 561 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 3: the box, become the manager, buy a store. 562 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 2: And it's not easy to do, because I tried to 563 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 2: do it. 564 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 3: I worked at Burger King and I realized, Wow, you 565 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 3: can make some money with these things because I worked 566 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 3: for a restaurant group. So we were a franchise, but 567 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 3: the owner owned like eight of them, like he had 568 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 3: a territory. 569 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 2: And that's the way that world works. 570 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 3: The Burger King corporation allowed you with territory, and they 571 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 3: won't allow other people to buy into your tear. They 572 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,239 Speaker 3: give you the first right if they're going to put 573 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 3: a new Burger King up, so you can't invade the territory. 574 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 2: But the guy had like eight. 575 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 3: Burger Kings and he was making bank driving around in 576 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 3: his Mercedes Benz and it was a nice guy. I 577 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 3: just didn't think he was a titan of industry, if 578 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But he had more money 579 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 3: than I did, and I said, well, there might be 580 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 3: might this might not be a bad thing to do. 581 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 3: And I looked into a Burger King franchise of my 582 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 3: own this many years ago, and I couldn't because where 583 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 3: I didn't. I don't want to buy one way out, 584 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 3: you know, in Barstow, I wanted to buy where I 585 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 3: live and that already had a territory, and believe it 586 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 3: or not, it was well maybe I shouldn't say the name, 587 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 3: but the guy that owned the burger king rights to 588 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 3: where I lived was once the mayor of Anaheim. 589 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 2: I'll leave it at that. So I never did it, 590 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 2: but I always wanted to do it. 591 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 3: This guy that now owns Del Taco, he was working 592 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 3: at Jack in the Box, became a manager, bought a franchise, 593 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 3: then went off to the races and assembled three hundred restaurants, 594 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 3: and now just bought all five hundred and fifty Dell Tacos. 595 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 3: Absolutely unbelievable. That is an American story. I love it, 596 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 3: love it, love it. So it can be done. You 597 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 3: can become rich starting as a French fry guy at 598 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 3: any of these stores. Well, we'll see if he makes 599 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 3: any changes. It seems to me that if Jack in 600 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 3: the Box is selling it and one hundred and fifteen 601 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 3: million dollars does seem low, then changes need to be made. 602 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 2: So I'm not optimistic. 603 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 3: I still regard that Double Dell cheeseburger as one of 604 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 3: the best cheeseburgers out there. 605 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 2: In the case of the Ys are real good and 606 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 2: Jack in the Box I wish I wish them well too. 607 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 2: I think the Ultimate cheeseburger is the best thing going. 608 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 2: Lou Penrose. 609 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 3: If of John Coblt on KFI AM six forty live 610 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 3: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 611 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobelt Show podcast. 612 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 613 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 614 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.