WEBVTT - CA Kids Aren't Learning (10/15) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640, you're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:11.910 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. 0:00:12.470 --> 0:00:15.050 John Kobelt Show, how are you? We are on the 0:00:15.130 --> 0:00:18.299 air from now to 6 o'clock. After 6 o'clock, if 0:00:18.340 --> 0:00:21.380 you miss stuff, We've got a podcast, same as the 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.860 radio show, and it's to pick up whatever you didn't hear. 0:00:26.180 --> 0:00:29.290 It is on the iHeartRadio app. It's John Cobell's show 0:00:29.430 --> 0:00:33.730 on demand. And we're also live on X, live on YouTube. 0:00:34.290 --> 0:00:37.010 We had a special show this morning at 11 a.m. 0:00:37.030 --> 0:00:41.650 We did a live stream with former L.A. County Sheriff 0:00:41.810 --> 0:00:46.669 Alex Villanueva. And this race has not gotten much attention. 0:00:46.729 --> 0:00:50.770 It's really been low key. But Alex Villanueva is running 0:00:50.790 --> 0:00:55.330 for sheriff again. He won in 2018, did a great job, 0:00:55.890 --> 0:00:59.330 made all the right enemies, like the L.A. County Board 0:00:59.370 --> 0:01:05.280 of Supervisors, those dolts, and then was defeated in 2022 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.760 by the current sheriff, Robert Luna. Now they're having a rematch, 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:14.960 Luna versus Villanueva. And getting not much coverage at all. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.020 You may have forgotten that there was a race. You 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:20.380 may have forgotten that Villanueva was running again. But, you know, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.740 he had a big following, and he certainly did a 0:01:23.780 --> 0:01:26.170 lot of great things. And we talk about all of 0:01:26.250 --> 0:01:27.690 that in the live stream. 0:01:28.090 --> 0:01:28.390 All right? 0:01:28.450 --> 0:01:32.209 So you go to YouTube or X, and it's already recorded, 0:01:32.370 --> 0:01:34.050 and it'll be there. And whenever you get a chance, 0:01:34.350 --> 0:01:38.090 maybe this weekend, you should watch it. And you definitely 0:01:38.130 --> 0:01:40.509 ought to vote for Alex Villanueva if you live in L.A. 0:01:40.530 --> 0:01:44.750 County and bring him back as sheriff. That would be 0:01:46.140 --> 0:01:49.780 a really, really important thing to do. So, okay, we 0:01:49.820 --> 0:01:53.050 got that there. Now, next hour, we're going to talk 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:57.750 to Karen Bass. What am I doing? We're going to 0:01:57.790 --> 0:02:03.490 talk to Tracy Park, and she's the West Side Councilman. 0:02:03.550 --> 0:02:05.610 And we're going to talk to her about who she 0:02:05.710 --> 0:02:08.530 is voting for, because she has gone public. Is it 0:02:08.570 --> 0:02:11.630 going to be Bass or Nithya Raman? Now, Karen Bass 0:02:11.650 --> 0:02:14.290 will be on our show on Tuesday at 5 o'clock. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:21.400 Tuesday at five o'clock here at the KFI studios. And, uh, it, uh, 0:02:22.020 --> 0:02:24.300 it should be, it should be, uh, quite an afternoon. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.280 So I want you to listen. Uh, and, uh, there's 0:02:28.300 --> 0:02:29.500 going to be no excuses for that. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:30.820 All right. 0:02:31.180 --> 0:02:34.680 Um, so there, there's, uh, there's stories out everywhere today 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:39.079 about these, uh, new California test scores. I don't know 0:02:39.100 --> 0:02:45.910 if you saw this, this baffles me. Uh, Huge numbers 0:02:47.310 --> 0:02:54.680 of kids still are not proficient. Proficient means you do 0:02:54.700 --> 0:02:57.100 the basics, right? You do the basics to get by 0:02:57.139 --> 0:03:02.070 in life. That's what proficient is. And in English and 0:03:02.110 --> 0:03:06.820 math and science... A majority of the students, sometimes big 0:03:06.860 --> 0:03:11.660 majorities of students in California, can't meet that low bar. Now, 0:03:11.700 --> 0:03:14.460 you know how everything's been dumbed down and watered down, right? 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.120 So you know being declared proficient in English and math 0:03:19.190 --> 0:03:26.070 and science does not mean you're this brilliant mathematician going 0:03:26.090 --> 0:03:30.770 to MIT. Although Nithya Raman went to MIT, so maybe 0:03:30.790 --> 0:03:33.340 the standard isn't that high. or you're some kind of 0:03:33.590 --> 0:03:36.870 brilliant orator, or you're, uh, you're, you're going to be 0:03:36.890 --> 0:03:42.390 a scientific prodigy and discover something, uh, that's, that'll change society. 0:03:42.750 --> 0:03:44.730 It just means proficient. Okay. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.240 Somebody gives you a newspaper, a book to read. You 0:03:48.260 --> 0:03:50.500 can read it, right? You give some instructions. You can 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.760 read the instructions. The math is the basic math. It's not, 0:03:54.820 --> 0:04:00.070 not advanced algebra and calculus and all that. And, uh, 0:04:01.660 --> 0:04:04.500 You know, Gavin Newsom has been the governor for the 0:04:04.540 --> 0:04:08.070 last eight years, and so he can set a lot 0:04:08.110 --> 0:04:11.370 of the education policy, or his administration can. 0:04:12.690 --> 0:04:13.170 Guess what? 0:04:15.110 --> 0:04:17.670 Most of the scores are still lower than before the pandemic. 0:04:20.390 --> 0:04:27.469 We are graduating a lot of stupid people. How anybody 0:04:27.529 --> 0:04:30.000 gets through 13 years of school and you can't do 0:04:30.060 --> 0:04:31.700 basic reading and basic math. 0:04:32.250 --> 0:04:35.000 I really can't comprehend this. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.660 I can't comprehend that the way I guess most of 0:04:38.700 --> 0:04:41.280 the kids can't comprehend math and reading. 0:04:41.860 --> 0:04:44.400 How's that possible? How do you go through 13 years? 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.220 What is going on in the schools? 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:52.680 Shouldn't the proficiency rate be 90% since you're just asking 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.500 them to do the basics? How is it not 90%? 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.060 And the thing is, in some categories, it edges up. 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:01.890 It's in the 30s and 40s. 0:05:03.180 --> 0:05:07.640 Anywhere from half to two-thirds of students are not proficient 0:05:08.260 --> 0:05:12.800 in English or math or science. And you're down in 0:05:12.820 --> 0:05:17.300 the 30s. And if it goes up two percentage points, like, whoa, look, 0:05:17.339 --> 0:05:22.460 we've had gains. Maybe you've had gains. You still have 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.460 over 60% of the kids who aren't good at it. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:36.640 Aren't minimally good at it. What goes on? So the 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.440 LA Times had a story that the percent of students 0:05:41.460 --> 0:05:46.580 who are proficient or better increased by half a percentage 0:05:46.670 --> 0:05:50.690 point in the last year. But it's still a minority number. 49.3%. 0:05:50.690 --> 0:05:52.670 So more than half the students. 0:05:56.050 --> 0:05:57.309 Not proficient in English. 0:05:57.570 --> 0:06:02.130 In the whole state. This is not just the disastrous LAUSD. 0:06:03.290 --> 0:06:08.690 It is still two points below 2019. This is where 0:06:08.710 --> 0:06:14.260 Gavin Newsom comes in. Because if Newsom is remembered in 0:06:14.339 --> 0:06:18.119 any way on his gravestone, it's that he shut down 0:06:18.180 --> 0:06:21.280 all the schools for a year and a half, completely panicked, 0:06:21.500 --> 0:06:26.020 did something colossally stupid, and shut the students' brains down 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.640 for a year and a half. And they never caught up. 0:06:31.029 --> 0:06:34.510 They never made it back. That's the kind of brain damage. 0:06:35.290 --> 0:06:37.310 And maybe he wanted to drag all the kids down 0:06:37.350 --> 0:06:41.360 to his IQ level, to his SAT score level, his 0:06:41.460 --> 0:06:45.800 IQ being 93, his SAT scores being 960. If that 0:06:45.820 --> 0:06:49.680 was the plan to, maybe that's the plan on why they, yeah, 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.600 it probably is what the plan is. You know how 0:06:51.620 --> 0:06:56.280 they don't want standardized testing? They want equity. Equity means 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.820 they want everyone's kids to be the same type of stupid. Remember, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:06.850 they were trying to get rid of those enriched education 0:07:06.910 --> 0:07:11.810 tracks where really smart students can take classes at an advanced, 0:07:11.890 --> 0:07:15.690 more rapid level, and all the woke people wanted to 0:07:15.730 --> 0:07:20.040 shut that down. because they wanted everybody at the same mediocre, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.860 stupid level. Really, that's what it was. And Newsom, I guess, 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.700 was part of that crowd, and he pulled it off. 0:07:25.740 --> 0:07:28.700 He shut down the schools. Permanent brain damage ensued. 0:07:29.100 --> 0:07:29.620 We come back. 0:07:29.940 --> 0:07:32.740 I'll give you some of the specific numbers in the categories. 0:07:32.900 --> 0:07:34.500 And it is. 0:07:34.810 --> 0:07:38.310 Really, oh, my goodness. I mean, some of these numbers. 0:07:40.010 --> 0:07:42.170 You know, if I was the governor, these numbers are 0:07:42.210 --> 0:07:45.150 so embarrassing. I would do something to suppress these numbers. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:50.840 I'm surprised they publicized these things. This is just absurd 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.860 that it's this bad. But, you know, it might be 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.550 a point or half a point better than last year 0:07:56.930 --> 0:07:59.630 so that the headlines scream some kind of crazy success. 0:08:00.250 --> 0:08:02.570 Huh? I'll tell you about it when we come back. 0:08:03.390 --> 0:08:08.230 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM640. 0:08:09.770 --> 0:08:13.040 Tracy Park coming on the show at 4 o'clock to 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.930 talk about who she's voting for, Bass or Rahman. It's 0:08:18.130 --> 0:08:22.530 a very, very difficult, painful decision. If you want to 0:08:22.550 --> 0:08:24.720 make that decision, you don't have to. It's a free country. 0:08:25.300 --> 0:08:34.060 I was telling you about these horrible, horrible scores in English, math, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.850 and science in the state of California. And this goes 0:08:38.929 --> 0:08:41.069 on every year. This has gone on every year ever 0:08:41.130 --> 0:08:43.850 since I moved out here in the 90s. Every year 0:08:43.870 --> 0:08:46.610 is the same story. And it's just fascinating. We spend 0:08:47.270 --> 0:08:53.870 more money than any other state per pupil. In fact, 0:08:53.910 --> 0:08:57.170 the states who spend a relatively low amount of money, 0:08:58.100 --> 0:08:59.720 there are a few of them do really great. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:00.880 They're at the top. 0:09:02.059 --> 0:09:06.980 We're always down with Mississippi and Louisiana and Alabama. You know, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:11.910 the states everybody makes fun of here. In fact, I 0:09:11.950 --> 0:09:16.310 believe it's Mississippi has surged ahead of us. New York 0:09:16.350 --> 0:09:18.530 Times did a big story, and I started telling people that, 0:09:18.550 --> 0:09:20.750 and they were scoffing. No, it can't be. No, it 0:09:20.790 --> 0:09:21.110 can't be. 0:09:21.170 --> 0:09:22.609 I sent them the article. It's like, yeah. 0:09:23.950 --> 0:09:27.450 Yeah, they found a better way to teach kids how 0:09:27.470 --> 0:09:34.390 to read than what we're doing here. You know, education 0:09:35.530 --> 0:09:43.000 takes up a bigger percentage of our collective budgets. Per pupil, 0:09:43.460 --> 0:09:51.100 we're number one. And after 13 years, more than half 0:09:51.140 --> 0:09:55.569 the kids don't know poop. And this is, we always 0:09:55.610 --> 0:09:58.569 talk about a lot of rackets, right? We talk about 0:09:58.590 --> 0:10:05.270 the homeless industry. racket, high-speed rail racket, the education racket 0:10:05.460 --> 0:10:11.000 dwarfs it all. What the teachers, the teachers' unions get 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.700 for the teachers, and I'm not just blaming this on 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.360 the unions. I blame it on the teachers themselves, the individuals. Yes, 0:10:17.420 --> 0:10:22.189 your kid's a nice third-grade teacher. Most of these teachers 0:10:22.270 --> 0:10:27.570 now are radical lunatics. They're very politically aggressive. 0:10:29.070 --> 0:10:30.850 They're greedy. And they don't give. 0:10:30.750 --> 0:10:32.790 A crap about your kid if your kid goes to 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.380 public school. This is not 1962 anymore. They don't care, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:42.020 this generation of teachers. They just want theirs. I mean, 0:10:42.140 --> 0:10:44.000 you'd think they'd all be embarrassed and resign. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:45.959 Here are the numbers. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:57.510 English. Percentage of students proficient or better, 49%, which means 51% 0:10:58.110 --> 0:11:03.610 of students in California, not proficient, not good, not acceptable, 0:11:03.690 --> 0:11:10.530 not minimally good. Math, only 38% proficient, 62% not proficient, 0:11:11.170 --> 0:11:11.550 not good. 0:11:11.590 --> 0:11:11.660 Wow. 0:11:20.010 --> 0:11:20.450 Science. 0:11:22.730 --> 0:11:28.220 Science, only 36% proficient. 0:11:28.220 --> 0:11:34.480 64% not proficient. Well, what do they do all day? 0:11:38.660 --> 0:11:41.130 And by the way, all these scores are worse than 2019. 0:11:41.110 --> 0:11:41.550 Once Newsom.... 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.820 Had his hysterical panic attack over COVID and shut everything 0:11:48.860 --> 0:11:51.160 down for a year and a half because the teachers 0:11:51.220 --> 0:11:52.660 and the unions were demanding it. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.160 They're still not back. Everybody went back to school. What 0:12:00.179 --> 0:12:02.760 was it? September 2021? It is now October of 2026. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.059 Five full years, and all the scores are lower than 2019, 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:18.230 seven years ago. You know how people in education and 0:12:18.290 --> 0:12:24.410 politics and media prattle on about educating black children? 0:12:25.590 --> 0:12:26.650 What a horrible. 0:12:26.350 --> 0:12:32.120 Job California teachers do. The proficiency rate for black students, 0:12:32.220 --> 0:12:35.120 only 33% for English. Two-thirds. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.520 Two-thirds not proficient. 21% for math. 0:12:38.540 --> 0:12:45.380 That means 80% can't do basic math? among black students 0:12:46.660 --> 0:12:54.230 and 20% for science. So 80% can't do the science. Well, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:13:01.930 what are they doing here? Chronic absenteeism, which means you 0:13:01.970 --> 0:13:06.350 miss at least 10% of school. That's almost one fifth 0:13:06.370 --> 0:13:11.240 of all students. They don't even show up anymore. Wow. 0:13:13.190 --> 0:13:15.770 They ought to arrest the parents. Your kids aren't showing 0:13:15.850 --> 0:13:19.640 up 18% of the time. That's child abuse. You're doing 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:27.540 brain damage. You're doing Newsom-style brain damage. And I go on, 0:13:27.580 --> 0:13:30.780 but I don't want to inundate you with a billion numbers. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.130 You got the point here. More than half the kids, 0:13:35.830 --> 0:13:39.130 and in some cases almost two-thirds of the kids, can't 0:13:39.170 --> 0:13:43.599 do basic math, can't do basic English, Can't do basic science. 0:13:44.740 --> 0:13:47.940 And that's at all the grade levels. They test kids, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.680 you know, fourth grade, eighth grade, 11th grade. They graduate. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:57.160 Don't know stuff. In case you wonder why the voting 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.739 patterns are the way they are in the state. No 0:13:59.820 --> 0:14:06.630 state has elects stupider politicians. But then it's very reflective 0:14:06.670 --> 0:14:10.309 of the voting base because apparently millions come through the 0:14:10.350 --> 0:14:15.250 public school systems in California and never really get educated. 0:14:15.470 --> 0:14:17.690 But you know what? They can scroll TikTok and watch 0:14:17.710 --> 0:14:18.689 the videos. That they're good at. 0:14:18.870 --> 0:14:22.979 Proficiency rate for watching videos on TikTok, 97.6%. 0:14:22.980 --> 0:14:27.900 No, that's not a real statistic. 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:34.920 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:14:37.130 --> 0:14:41.260 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio, John Kobelt Show. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.540 We are on until 6 o'clock after 6, John Kobelt 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:50.060 Show on demand. Here is a list of programming notes 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.960 for you. Karen Bass, here in studio Tuesday, October 20th 0:14:53.980 --> 0:14:54.580 at 5 o'clock. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:58.720 Thank you. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:04.460 Karen Bass, Tuesday, October 20th, next Tuesday. Alex Villanueva, I 0:15:04.500 --> 0:15:07.880 did a live stream with him. The replay's on YouTube 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.590 right now. Is it on X or just YouTube? 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.990 No, it's on both. It's on YouTube and X. All right. 0:15:12.030 --> 0:15:14.950 So you want to, he's running for, to be LA 0:15:14.970 --> 0:15:18.550 County Sheriff again. He was there for four years. Then 0:15:18.610 --> 0:15:21.330 Robert Luna beat him in 2022. Now he and Luna 0:15:21.370 --> 0:15:24.550 having a rematch. That was a really, really interesting interview 0:15:24.590 --> 0:15:27.390 with him. And you ought to vote for him too. Oh, 0:15:27.450 --> 0:15:28.090 and he curses. 0:15:28.130 --> 0:15:28.350 Yes. 0:15:29.050 --> 0:15:31.390 Sit through the show until you find the curse word. 0:15:32.290 --> 0:15:34.270 You know, I jumped a little bit and then I thought, oh, 0:15:34.710 --> 0:15:35.250 we're on the radio. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.600 No, we were on YouTube. That's why he could do it. 0:15:39.660 --> 0:15:40.080 That's right. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.420 We're not on the radio. You can do anything if 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.420 you're not on the radio. You can talk like a 0:15:45.420 --> 0:15:51.400 normal person. Moist line is 877-MOIST-86, 877-MOIST-86 is the talkback feature. 0:15:51.470 --> 0:15:54.130 And that's tomorrow. We're going to do the moist line. 0:15:58.410 --> 0:16:01.010 You know, the guy who started us on the road. 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:06.040 to excessively high gas prices was not Gavin Newsom was 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:12.930 not Jerry Brown. It was Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, he, 0:16:13.090 --> 0:16:15.090 he made a bunch of promises when he first ran 0:16:15.110 --> 0:16:18.630 and it was really exciting. And then he kind of 0:16:18.690 --> 0:16:23.370 swerved off the road and started jacking up taxes or 0:16:23.930 --> 0:16:28.980 signing laws that would eventually create new taxes. And I, I, 0:16:29.060 --> 0:16:35.340 this is really, They had a California Economic Summit the 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.080 last few days at the Long Beach Convention Center. It 0:16:38.140 --> 0:16:41.480 may still be going on today because it's the 20th 0:16:41.540 --> 0:16:48.680 anniversary of the California Global Warming Solutions Act, which Schwarzenegger 0:16:48.740 --> 0:16:53.910 signed in 2006. May I point out that everything California 0:16:53.930 --> 0:16:57.390 has done in 20 years, which has been mostly to 0:16:57.450 --> 0:17:01.790 cost us a lot more money, in energy and gas 0:17:02.500 --> 0:17:06.560 and oil has had no effect on the world's climate. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:06.860 None. 0:17:07.140 --> 0:17:13.419 Zero. It is the biggest whiff, the biggest swing and 0:17:13.460 --> 0:17:14.899 a miss imaginable. 0:17:15.609 --> 0:17:18.770 And what's fascinating is, even though they had no effect 0:17:18.850 --> 0:17:22.450 on the climate and they cost people thousands and thousands 0:17:22.490 --> 0:17:25.630 and thousands of dollars over the last 20 years, Newsom 0:17:25.710 --> 0:17:29.040 and Schwarzenegger go around, they're now on some kind of... 0:17:30.070 --> 0:17:34.190 put on some kind of victory dance at the convention 0:17:34.230 --> 0:17:39.439 center to congratulate themselves at each other. Schwarzenegger for starting 0:17:39.460 --> 0:17:40.840 this and Newsom for following through. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:45.100 Now, that's nuts. It had no effect. 0:17:46.020 --> 0:17:50.840 Because California, as big as it is, is too tiny 0:17:50.859 --> 0:17:56.020 a spot to matter. We're 40 million people out of 0:17:56.020 --> 0:18:04.970 8 billion? So we have no effect. And China and 0:18:05.090 --> 0:18:13.250 India have been busy pumping away with burning coal, big 0:18:13.330 --> 0:18:19.170 factory smokestacks, totally overwhelming, any little pipsqueak thing we do. 0:18:21.619 --> 0:18:22.760 All it did was cost us money. 0:18:24.900 --> 0:18:28.040 The law required greenhouse gas emissions to be cut. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:30.120 Significantly. 0:18:31.490 --> 0:18:33.629 But it has created, well, you want to know how 0:18:33.650 --> 0:18:36.609 much gas is? You know, you might want to, when 0:18:36.650 --> 0:18:38.889 you fill up your tank, I have to fill up 0:18:38.910 --> 0:18:43.230 my tank on the way home. By the way, I 0:18:43.270 --> 0:18:46.170 can't stand gas stations that have a $ 100 cap on 0:18:46.190 --> 0:18:48.510 their credit card. Do you have any of those? 0:18:49.430 --> 0:18:51.310 I don't know, because it doesn't cost me $ 100 to 0:18:52.350 --> 0:18:53.970 fill my car. What do you have, a little tiny 0:18:54.020 --> 0:18:57.500 toy car? Yes, I have a small car. You can't 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.800 get to $ 100? 0:18:58.770 --> 0:18:59.070 No. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.750 Well, maybe psychologically that's a better place to go to 85. 0:19:02.750 --> 0:19:05.810 Oh, well, uh, if, if I find a pump that 0:19:05.850 --> 0:19:13.129 doesn't have a credit card cap, I get to one 20, $ 120. 0:19:11.869 --> 0:19:14.810 But my stupid station closest to me has a cap 0:19:14.869 --> 0:19:17.969 at a hundred. And so you either have to go 0:19:18.010 --> 0:19:22.320 with less than a full tank or got to pull 0:19:22.380 --> 0:19:27.080 out the pump, pull out the, well, pull out the hose, 0:19:27.140 --> 0:19:29.919 put it back on the pump. get the credit card out, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.369 and reboot the whole process and have two separate purchases. 0:19:35.010 --> 0:19:37.270 A pain in the neck. And I'm already pissed off. 0:19:37.150 --> 0:19:39.590 That I hit $ 100, and the $ 100 didn't get me 0:19:39.609 --> 0:19:44.290 a full tank. Because the price of gas now in California, 0:19:45.330 --> 0:19:46.689 just for regular, is $ 6. 23. 0:19:49.730 --> 0:19:57.550 Whereas the national average is $ 4. 33. 0:19:54.670 --> 0:19:56.530 And I was driving in, I was listening to a 0:19:56.590 --> 0:20:00.709 business show on Fox Business driving in. And they were 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.760 talking about inflation, gas prices, how that is going to 0:20:04.780 --> 0:20:08.800 affect the elections because it may sink a lot of Republicans. 0:20:09.810 --> 0:20:13.570 Trump's approval rating on how he's handling inflation is down 0:20:13.630 --> 0:20:17.270 to 27%. And it is a disaster for a lot 0:20:17.310 --> 0:20:21.890 of people. And, you know, it is the war. which 0:20:21.950 --> 0:20:23.640 are supposed to be over in four to six weeks, 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.680 and it is the tariffs and the high gas prices 0:20:26.740 --> 0:20:27.640 nobody wants to pay. 0:20:28.340 --> 0:20:29.879 And he can go around. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.520 Saying, hey, it's a small price to pay to get 0:20:32.580 --> 0:20:39.030 rid of Iran's nuclear capabilities. Well, I think you decommissioned 0:20:39.050 --> 0:20:43.510 their nuclear capabilities back in, I don't know, what was it, April, May? 0:20:45.710 --> 0:20:49.560 And people don't care. They don't care about Iran's nuclear capabilities. 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.869 They care that the price of gas, in most of 0:20:52.890 --> 0:20:54.929 the country is 433. 0:20:54.930 --> 0:20:58.050 Here it's $. 0:20:57.930 --> 0:21:01.470 2 higher, but people don't make any voting decisions based 0:21:01.690 --> 0:21:04.700 on paying two extra dollars. And I know I've brought 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.429 this up like many times and I'm still baffled by it. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:13.700 So with everything that Trump has done, the average price 0:21:13.740 --> 0:21:18.929 of gas is 433, but in California for regular, it's 623. 0:21:18.930 --> 0:21:23.420 So it's almost two bucks more. Diesel is $ 8. 45. That's 0:21:23.460 --> 0:21:31.980 almost $ 3 more than a state like North Carolina. And diesel, 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.160 all the delivery trucks, all the big rigs, the semi trucks, 0:21:36.180 --> 0:21:38.980 they all run on that. So that drives up the 0:21:39.020 --> 0:21:41.920 cost of food. Anyway, so I'm listening to this little 0:21:41.980 --> 0:21:45.760 economic discussion on the Business Channel. And they're talking about 0:21:45.859 --> 0:21:51.440 how gas prices decide every election. If they're way too high, 0:21:51.780 --> 0:21:55.220 potentially they can't. If they're way too high, the sitting 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:59.119 party in power loses, period. If a president is up 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:00.719 for re-election, loses. 0:22:01.780 --> 0:22:05.470 Like Jimmy Carter did. Trump is going. 0:22:06.770 --> 0:22:10.330 To get beat up badly and have to deal with 0:22:10.369 --> 0:22:12.950 investigations for the next two years because the price of 0:22:12.970 --> 0:22:13.690 gas is so high. 0:22:14.109 --> 0:22:17.109 Now, remember, the rest of the country is revolting over $ 4. 0:22:16.830 --> 0:22:17.230 33 billion. 0:22:18.650 --> 0:22:19.389 A gallon gas. 0:22:20.730 --> 0:22:23.870 And in this idiotic state, we're paying an extra two 0:22:23.910 --> 0:22:26.609 bucks and nobody's revolting against the California government. 0:22:26.690 --> 0:22:26.990 Nobody. 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:32.300 The same people are all voting the same way like 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:38.879 they have for about 20 years now. Gavin Newsom's global 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:42.629 warming nonsense is as big a failure as Schwarzenegger's was. 0:22:43.590 --> 0:22:47.320 It has not affected the climate at all. Because it's 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.540 impossible to affect the climate with just California. 0:22:51.859 --> 0:22:52.580 Impossible. 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:58.510 It was an idiotic idea. And Schwarzenegger, I don't know. 0:22:58.530 --> 0:23:03.689 You know, he's 80 now, too. You can see 80 0:23:03.690 --> 0:23:07.730 is about the upper limit before public figures go senile. 0:23:08.369 --> 0:23:11.560 Is Schwarzenegger still going around claiming that this global warming 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:12.260 bill was great? 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:15.609 Well, of course it's great. He's worth it. He's literally 0:23:15.630 --> 0:23:17.330 worth a billion dollars. So what does he care? 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:29.139 Now, when we come back, here's a new thing to 0:23:29.180 --> 0:23:29.720 be scared of. 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:35.790 Electric vehicles. Electric vehicles, if they get caught in a flood. 0:23:37.550 --> 0:23:37.950 Yeah, I know. 0:23:39.210 --> 0:23:44.110 I know. You're already pre-frightened. No, because I don't have 0:23:44.130 --> 0:23:49.609 an electric vehicle. Don't get one. I'm not. And if 0:23:49.670 --> 0:23:50.770 you have an electric vehicle. 0:23:51.630 --> 0:23:52.389 El Nino. 0:23:52.470 --> 0:23:55.060 El Nino. All the heavy rains. I don't know what 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:56.540 to tell you. Go park your car on the roof. 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.060 Don't be driving in the rain. 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:02.280 Because if it, especially if it gets submerged, if flood, 0:24:02.380 --> 0:24:04.359 if your car gets flooded, I'll tell you all about it, 0:24:04.380 --> 0:24:05.979 but there can be a big boom. 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:14.330 You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:24:15.070 --> 0:24:18.910 KFI and six 40 more stimulating talk radio, John co 0:24:18.930 --> 0:24:22.830 belt show. And, uh, we're going to have, uh, Oh, Oh, 0:24:22.869 --> 0:24:27.590 look at this. We're 96 subscribers from 9,000 on YouTube. 0:24:27.690 --> 0:24:29.850 Wow. Look at that. We want to get to 10,000. 0:24:29.830 --> 0:24:34.650 Hey, we can probably close that gap today. 96 subscribers 0:24:35.270 --> 0:24:38.629 from 9,000 on YouTube. All right, let's get to 10,000. 0:24:38.630 --> 0:24:41.100 You can watch us live on YouTube right now, as 0:24:41.170 --> 0:24:44.879 well as X, uh, you go to youtube.com slash at 0:24:44.940 --> 0:24:47.330 John cobelt show. You can subscribe and become a member 0:24:47.390 --> 0:24:50.030 youtube.com slash at John cobelt show. 0:24:50.810 --> 0:24:51.030 All right. 0:24:51.690 --> 0:24:55.330 Now we, uh, the idiots here in California buy more 0:24:55.430 --> 0:25:02.920 electric vehicles than anywhere else. Uh, although that, uh, that 0:25:02.980 --> 0:25:06.649 rate of sale, the rate of sales is dropping. Um, 0:25:08.619 --> 0:25:11.820 Most other states don't do this, and we all know 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:16.109 the reasons EVs are not practical for most people. A 0:25:16.130 --> 0:25:19.450 lot of wealthy people on the west side of town. 0:25:19.470 --> 0:25:23.469 A lot of guys have Teslas, and you know they 0:25:23.530 --> 0:25:30.459 have those Tesla Cybertrucks? That is the most obnoxious vehicle. 0:25:31.540 --> 0:25:33.500 And I'm not like this. I'm obviously not one of 0:25:33.540 --> 0:25:36.720 those people that I hate rich people and I'm not 0:25:36.780 --> 0:25:40.490 becoming a DSA member. But there is something obnoxious about 0:25:41.130 --> 0:25:43.860 Cybertrucks that make me look at the driver and say, 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:45.140 what kind of a-hole is this guy? 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:51.379 I hate those, too. I do. And they're so ugly. 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:56.139 And they're not selling well. I read that Musk has 0:25:56.180 --> 0:25:59.419 only hit 13% of his goal. You know, when you're 0:25:59.460 --> 0:26:01.600 typing the thing, you get some kind of pronouncement, how 0:26:01.619 --> 0:26:02.500 many we're just going to sell. 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:04.659 I mean, you have to have a humongous garage to 0:26:04.700 --> 0:26:08.270 have one of those things. It's just... They're obnoxious. 0:26:08.530 --> 0:26:10.730 They are obnoxious. It makes me dislike the driver. And 0:26:10.750 --> 0:26:15.700 that's really unfair. Makes me feel like a socialist. But 0:26:15.740 --> 0:26:18.240 I guess everybody's got a little streak. I have all 0:26:18.260 --> 0:26:19.280 kinds of streaks. Oh, I know. 0:26:19.340 --> 0:26:22.959 Yeah. My list, you know. 0:26:23.140 --> 0:26:23.530 I know. 0:26:23.550 --> 0:26:26.030