1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on Monday through 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: Friday from one until four o'clock and then after four 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: o'clock whatever you missed John Cobelt' show on demand the 5 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 1: podcast and so you can pick up whatever segments you 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: were not available to hear live. And we are on 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: social media at John Cobelt Radio and we're headed towards 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: thirty five thousand followers. And today's special treat in honor 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: of National Radio Day, Eric is put together a two photos, 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: one from my first job radio job in Canon, Pennsylvania, 11 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty four, and then a photo from today. 12 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: We're actually yesterday. You took it yesterday, right, So this 13 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: is an up to date you can do an up 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: to date analysis of just what forty two years can 15 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: do to somebody if you spent your whole life in radio. 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: So I think I've come out pretty come out. Look 17 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: at okay after all this time, but it's uh, it 18 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: was not easy at the beginning. And you can go 19 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: look at those pictures, uh, and it's it's on X 20 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: and it's on uh where is it on Instagram? Instagram 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: and Facebook all that stuff, all right, I really admire 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 1: There's a few writers I really hold on the upper 23 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: echelon of admiration, and one of them is Joel Kotkin. 24 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: And he is U a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies 25 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: at Chapman University. He's also does h he's a senior 26 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: research fellow at the University of Texas, and he writes 27 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: in a lot of publications, including Spiked online dot com. 28 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: And he's, uh, he's been around a while, and he's 29 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: a Democrat, that's his nature. But he is so appalled 30 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: by Gavin Newsom's existence. He wrote a column today entitled 31 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom the Chameleon who destroyed California. And I let 32 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: me just tell you that Joel Cockin does not write 33 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: incendiary things. He's restrained, analytical. He's a scholar, he's an academic. 34 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: And what he does here is he lays out what 35 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: he's done to California and how very little of this 36 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: is covered by the day to day media for all 37 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: the old tired reasons we always talk about. And he's 38 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: now trying, you know, to do this, this this Twitter 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: thing where he's or his staff, and I don't think 40 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: he can type by himself. His staff puts out these 41 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 1: Trump like announcements and all the syncophants, Oh that's really cool. 42 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: Look at that he's mocking Trump, and it's like a 43 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: bad imitation. It's it's what like a high school kid 44 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: would do. It's really pathetic. I don't know how they 45 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: don't see how pathetic it comes across. But you know, 46 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: in that little bubble, oh wow, look at that he's 47 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: taking it to Trump. He's fighting. And then they had 48 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: their own when they're not imitating Trump Trump, they had 49 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: their own peculiar nastiness. And it's just no way to 50 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: run a state, no way to communicate with with the voters. 51 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: He's got this stupid redistricting idea. But here's what Katkin writes, 52 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom may be saddled with an awful record, but 53 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: the California governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet 54 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: in the race for the presidential nomination in twenty twenty eight. 55 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: How is this possible? And he says the simple answer 56 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: is Newsom might be the ultimate candidate for the attention 57 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: deficit generation. He's a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively, 58 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: not according to facts. But whatever best seems to fit 59 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: the national mood. I'll give you one example here he 60 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: gives several. He was one of his core issues was 61 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: climate change, and as Cockkin writes, but in April, he 62 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: basically fell on his knees before big oil, after two 63 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: companies said they were shutting down the California oil refineries. 64 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: He does something insanely irresponsible and stupid and dangerous, taxing 65 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: and regulating oil refineries out of business. And then when 66 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: they say, fine, we're getting out of here, it's like, oh, 67 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: what did I do? What did I do? What can 68 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: I do for you? We need oil, we need gas 69 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: like a child, he says, after trying to appeal to 70 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: MAGA voters. After Trump's victory, he's back to leting the resistance. 71 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: But here's what he's actually done to the state. Here's 72 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: the resume. This is what's really important, he says. The 73 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: state was once the envy of the world. But now 74 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 1: we have huge wealth concentrated in a few hands, and 75 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: we have half of America's homeless population. We have the 76 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: highest poverty rate in the US, we have the highest 77 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: unemployment rate in the US. And get this statistic, almost 78 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,679 Speaker 1: twenty percent of Californians live in poverty and another third 79 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: live near poverty. Add that up, that's fifty percent. Fifty 80 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: percent of the state lives near or in poverty. Do 81 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: you ever see any of this discussed in any media form? 82 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: How do you have half? It's the biggest state in 83 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: the Union. It's almost forty million people. We have twenty 84 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: million near or in poverty. I saw it the other day. 85 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: Only fifteen percent of the public can afford to buy 86 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: a home. It is the a single worse state Cotkin 87 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: rights for creating above average paying jobs, but it's number 88 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: one for producing below average and low paying jobs. California 89 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: hemorrhaged one point six million above average paying jobs in 90 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: the last decade, more than twice as many as any 91 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: other state. We lost a million six above average paying 92 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: jobs a million six and ten years since two thousand 93 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: and eight. It created five times as many low wage 94 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: jobs as high wage jobs. Few areas have exposed the 95 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: incompetence of Newsoan's economics than energy policy. California now has 96 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: the highest energy prices in the continental United States, thirty 97 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: percent more than the national average because of stupid green policies. 98 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: This has hugely increased day to day living costs for 99 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: poor and working families. Rising energy costs have led that 100 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: traditional blue collar jobs in construction, logistics, and manufacturing have disappeared. 101 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: Even there's no California metro area that ranks in the 102 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: US top ten for well paying blue collar jobs, but 103 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: four cities are in the bottom ten Ventoria, Los Angeles, 104 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: San Jose, and San Diego bottom ten for well paying 105 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: blue collar jobs. On his watch, African Americans and Latinos 106 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: in California perform far worse in terms of income and 107 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: homeownership than the rest of the country. Even immigrants, because 108 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: there's a lack of good jobs and high housing costs, 109 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: are headed elsewhere. In the last decade, Los Angele US 110 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: has lost foreign born residents. They've been going to Houston, Dallas, 111 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: Sportworth in Miami. Migration to California, you, adjusted for population, 112 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: is lower than virtually any other state. I got more 113 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: coming up. This is his record. This is what he's 114 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: done to us, This is what he's done to you. 115 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: And I'm reading every day about a snarky tweet that 116 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: some ahole and his staff sent out, and that's cool. 117 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: Look look at this indictment here. It is comprehensive. There's 118 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: nothing he's touched that hasn't turned to crap. He's destroyed 119 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: the economy with his policies. We've got more coming up. 120 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 121 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: Forty around from one until four o'clock, with the podcast 122 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: posted after four o'clock. We were talking about a piece written 123 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: by Joel Cochin. He's a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies 124 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: at Chapman University, among other things, and he wrote a 125 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: piece for Spiked online dot com Gavin Newsom the chameleon 126 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: who destroyed California, and this is all factual stuff. Either 127 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: he puts his opinion in here. He's a Democrat, but 128 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: his opinion is based on the facts I gave you, 129 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: and I'll just briefly run through them again in case 130 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: you're joining us. We have half of the homeless population 131 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: in the country. We have the highest poverty rate in 132 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: the US. We have the highest unemployment rate in the US. 133 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: If you add up people in poverty and people near poverty, 134 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: that's fifty percent of the state. It is the worst 135 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: state for creating above average paying jobs. We've lost a 136 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: million six above average paying jobs twice as many as 137 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: any other state. Highest energy prices in the continental US 138 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: thirty percent more in the national average. No California Metro 139 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: area ranks in the top ten for well paying blue 140 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: collar jobs four or in the bottom ten. We're losing 141 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: even immigrants. We lost foreign born residents in the past decade. 142 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: They're going to Houston, Dallas, Sport Worth in Miami. Even 143 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: with the highest percentage of billionaires in the US, we've 144 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: got these huge budget deficits. And the states that he 145 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: Chris criticizes, Texas and Florida, have large budget surpluses, generate 146 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: more jobs, and have introduced tax cuts. Yeah, Florida and 147 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: Texas budget surpluses, more jobs, tax cuts, comparing, he says, 148 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: compare this to Newsom's bullet train farce. He refuses to 149 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: kill this disastrous high speed rail project, which devours billions 150 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: of dollars of taxpayer dollars billions of taxpayer dollars. Its 151 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: chances of being finished before he grows very old is 152 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: increasingly remote, and Copkin says more far more critical infrastructure 153 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: needs such as roads and water supply, have fallen behind 154 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: the wayside. He quotes a venture capitalist Mark Andresen, who 155 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: said three years ago, compared California to the late decaying 156 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: Roman Empire. And he says the liberal media may ignore 157 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: these issues like they did with Joe Biden's mental deterioration, 158 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: but the rest of the country is not going to 159 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: have the wool pulled over its eyes so easily. And 160 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: he says, people here in California they know something is off. 161 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: Most people, according to UC Burke Paul, say the state 162 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: is headed in the wrong direction by a two to 163 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:08,479 Speaker 1: one margin. Californian see him c Newsom is more concerned 164 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:14,719 Speaker 1: with being president than being a decent governor. Only one 165 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: in three residents than California is a good place to 166 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: achieve the American dream, and an ally time survey found 167 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: that only fifteen percent thought California was a model other 168 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: states should copy. But he blusters on with his nonsense 169 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:41,319 Speaker 1: and lies and stupidity. And now it's mimicking Trump's tweets. 170 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: Now it's violating the California constitution and redrawing the district 171 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: lines because he wants to fight Trump. I mean, he 172 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:55,599 Speaker 1: is a mental patient, a narcissistic ego bag, a manipulative, 173 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: narcissistic psychopath, and he's done real, real deep damage to 174 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: the state. And he's like after Karen Bass didn't prepare 175 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: for the big fire, ran off to Africa instead. It 176 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: is just enraging that he is governor and that she 177 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 1: is mayor for even another hour, another minute. It's unbelievable. 178 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: The massive incompetence, destructive incompetence. Not this kind of laise faire. 179 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: Ah well it doesn't really mean No, this was aggressive incompetence. 180 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: And only can do is have his the weirdos on 181 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: his staff, right, stupid snarky tweets, And we're supposed to go, 182 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: oh wow, look at that. Look how he fights. Oh 183 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 1: that's so clever. Man, you're eight years old. This is 184 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: an embarrassment. You're all gonna get in the car and 185 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: you're gonna pump your five dollar gas and not realize 186 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: just how far the place is gone. Huh, all right, 187 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: more coming up. 188 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI. 189 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: Happy birthday to Ray Lopez, our producer. We had cake. 190 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: It was good cake. And Ray has been working well 191 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: with me and with Ken before that for now twenty 192 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: six years, twenty six years half his life, half his 193 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: life wasted producing this radio show. It's a lot of 194 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: good work he's done. No, he has. This wouldn't exist 195 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: without him. So I want to thank him publicly, because 196 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: you know, I'm accused of never saying nice things, so 197 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: I'm saying something nice that I mean, he has been 198 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: the most important person for this show over the years. 199 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: And happy birthday. I'm getting softer, aren't I? 200 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 2: Just the dad? 201 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a little bit, all right. I was 202 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: talking about how disastrous Newsom has been. I read it 203 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: at Joel cockun article. By the way, go to Spiked 204 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: online dot com and go read it for yourself, because 205 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: I only could give you a piece of it. And 206 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: then I happened to find this bed Death and Beyond. 207 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: My wife is still in mourning that Bedbath and Beyond 208 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: closed all their stores. Now it's not something that means 209 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: a lot to me, although I spent a lot of 210 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: time going with her and carrying enormous amounts of stuff 211 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: back to the car, But she said it was the 212 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: all time best store for getting supplies and furnishings for 213 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: the home, all right, And honestly, not a week goes 214 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: by where she doesn't mourn that it went bankrupt and 215 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: closed and it still existed the name did anyway online, 216 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: but now there is new management. Mark Marcus Lamonis is 217 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: executive chairman of bet Beth and Beyond, and he's announcing 218 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: that they are coming back, and they've opened one store 219 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: and they're going to open more across America. They're going 220 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: to bring the brand back and they're going to be 221 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: following along with what they used to do and make 222 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: it better and all that. But he made it clear 223 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: that the one place they will not open, that they 224 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: will not operate a store is in California. It's the 225 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: only state that's off limits, according to Lamonas, and he 226 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: said it's overregulation and the exorbitant overhead costs in the state. 227 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: He says this decision is not about politics, it's about reality. 228 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive and 229 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: risky environments for businesses in America. It's a system that 230 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep the 231 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers. And 232 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: all the statistics prove that true. Hundreds of businesses have 233 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: left the state, thousands and thousands of jobs, and nobody 234 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: wants to start a business out here. He's far from 235 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: the first one to say this. Now. If you're the 236 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: governor and you hear that, and your state is suffering 237 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: financially right, highest unemployment rate, highest poverty rate, half the 238 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: state in or near poverty, half the homeless people in 239 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: the state, most unaffordable state for housing. You hear all 240 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 1: this and you're thinking, Wow, this guy may be opening 241 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: in the other forty nine states, but not my state. 242 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: What can I do about it? What have I done? 243 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: What can I do? Listen to that. I told you 244 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: that his press office is now full of these snarky 245 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: jerks who just write. They're a bunch of a holes 246 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: and they write nasty things all day and they don't 247 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what the subject is. So the press 248 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: office put on after their bankruptcy and closure of every store. 249 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,439 Speaker 1: Like most Americans, we thought bed, bath, and Beyond no 250 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: longer existed. We wish them well in their efforts to 251 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: become relevant again as they try to open a second store. 252 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: What Newsom and his staff are a bunch of jackasses. No, 253 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: you call them up and say, hey, you're coming back. 254 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: You got the financing, you got a great brand name. 255 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: He used to be a big I mean my wife 256 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: and her friends. As far as I know adored this 257 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: place like no other. Let's just say they wouldn't agree 258 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: with the snarky jerk at in Newsom's press office. Wow, 259 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 1: And that that line right there encapsulates everything that's wrong 260 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 1: with those people. They're nasty, arrogant whack jobs. And they 261 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: go through here in this story. Other corporations that have 262 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 1: left Tesla's, Chevron, Charles Schwab, and they've been leaving for years. 263 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: In fact, Yeah, here's what Ross Allen had, a spokesperson 264 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: for Chevron, said when they announced they were moving to Houston. 265 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: We believe California policy makers have produced have pursued policies 266 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: that raise costs and consumer prices, creating a hardship for 267 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: all Californians, especially those who can at least afford it. Now, 268 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,360 Speaker 1: going back to Lamnas Marcus Lamonis, the head of Bed 269 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,640 Speaker 1: Bath and Beyond, he says the result has been higher taxes, 270 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: higher fees, higher wages than many businesses. These businesses cannot 271 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: sustain it, endless regulations that strain growth even when the 272 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: state announces a budget surplus. It's built on the backs 273 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: of ordinary citizens who are paying too much, and businesses 274 00:19:53,400 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: are squeezed until they break. So if you're Californian and 275 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: you want to shop at bed Bath and Beyond, you're 276 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: gonna have to order online. Other states will end up 277 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: getting these shops opening up. Lamona said, California system makes 278 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: it nearly impossible for businesses to succeed, and I won't 279 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: put our company, our employees, or our customers in that position. 280 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: And instead, all you're reading about is how Newsom wants 281 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: to redraw the congressional districts to make it nearly impossible 282 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 1: for Republicans to win any congressional seats. They're allowed four, 283 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: but the other forty eight are going to be Democratic. 284 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: Of his scheme goes through Am I insane? I mean really? 285 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: Am I insane? Or is this all insane? Nobody covers it. 286 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels, a man from KFI AM sixty. 287 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: Thompson for Conway in moments. Today is an anniversary. It 288 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: is the thirty sixth anniversary of Eric and Lyle Menendez 289 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: blowing their parents' heads off. Yes and tomorrow possible reward 290 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: they could be on the verge of getting paroled. Eric 291 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: and Lyle has spent thirty five years in prison for 292 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: killing Jose and Kitty and now, after all this time, 293 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: it turns out life in prison does not mean life 294 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: in prison. Apparently the TikTok girls have convinced the system 295 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: that it's wrong to put away two guys who blew 296 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: their parents heads off and then partied for months afterwards 297 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: and never had to explain if life was so terrible, 298 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: and I'm sure it was, why didn't you just walk 299 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: out the door, And why did you do that to 300 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: mom who's crawling away on her hands and knees. Why'd 301 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: you do that for time to get out? And they're 302 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: only in their fifties. And imagine the amount of money 303 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: they're going to make. Whoop, more television shows, more Netflix 304 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: streaming specials, more one on one interviews with major television anchors, 305 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: maybe personal appearances, maybe a line of merchandise. If the 306 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: parole board recommends either or both for a parole and uh, 307 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: one brother is getting his hearing tomorrow and the other 308 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: on Friday down in San Diego, then it goes to 309 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: America's sweetheart, Gavin Newsom, who's gonna have ninety days to 310 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: accept or reject the parole grant. And they also have 311 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: the attorney's garrigos, asked Newsom, to consider clemency just and 312 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: the sentence just in one stroke of the pen. So 313 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is going to let these two psychopathic narcissistic monsters. 314 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: But then again, Newsom himself is a narcissistic psychopath, so 315 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: he'll probably find some common grant as he goes through 316 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: the case. 317 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 3: A Mark Thompson, you had me at psychopathic narcissistic monster. 318 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, Yeah, yeah, very very cool. 319 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 3: We've got a big show. John Colebelt, I know you're 320 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 3: out of here, You're going to go. I don't know 321 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 3: what you do with your You're a state, the co Belt, 322 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 3: a state where you live there. 323 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: I just spread out and turned the radio on. That's right. 324 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: What else would I do with my life? 325 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 3: So there's a the lawsuit, we'll talk about it. You know, 326 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 3: didn't you know that when there was a back and 327 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 3: forth between Chief Crowley and Mayor bast that I thought 328 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,399 Speaker 3: somehow this is going to spill all over everybody. 329 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, I mean it was clear what was 330 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: going on at the time. That's what you get for 331 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: telling the truth. Yeah, you get fired. No, I mean 332 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: you always get in trouble for telling the truth. 333 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 3: You want to tow the party line. I mean, you know, 334 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 3: from from LA to Washington, that is the deal, right, 335 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 3: and if you don't toe the party line, you know, 336 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 3: under the next bus. 337 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's not what they told us in school. 338 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: That's right, that's honest. 339 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 3: That's true. 340 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 1: Turns out that's a joke. No points for. 341 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 3: Honesty anymore, although she may get money for honesty in 342 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 3: the in the end, right, I mean you she'll get money. 343 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 3: The city is no strain your settlements, so I think 344 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 3: it'll probably happen. Anyway, we'll start with that. We're going 345 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 3: to talk to Foosh today, who is a you know, 346 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 3: recovering from that incredible oh yeah, car wreck so well 347 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 3: from his hospital bed that and more. It's a it's 348 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 3: a pack show. It's also hot as hell out there, man, 349 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 3: I know, and it's only I think tomorrow is going 350 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 3: to be worse. That's what I was reading. 351 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: Worse. Yeah, how hot can it get? Is there a 352 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: limit to how hot the earth can get? I guess 353 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna find out, aren't we? Apparently not? Yeah? 354 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 3: Anyway, good times, so all right, a lot of exciting. Yeah, 355 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 3: So it's the Conway Show. Conway returns Monday, but we'll 356 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 3: do the show today. 357 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: Mark Thompson in for Conway Minutes, Michael Krazier live in 358 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: the Can'tfi twenty four hour news room. Hey, you've been 359 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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