1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty you're listening to the 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: every day from one until four o'clock and you better 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: be here and if you have an excused absence, you 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 1: then can listen to the podcast after four o'clock John 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show on demand also on the iHeart app. Boy 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: Today is a star studded day coming up after two o'clock, 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,159 Speaker 1: we're going to have Stephen Klubeck on. Stephen Klubeck is 9 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: running for governor as a Democrat, but not the Gavin 10 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: Newsome kind of democrat. Klubec is a very successful businessman 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: and I'll go through what he's accomplished in life later on, 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: but he's definitely someone you ought to listen to. He's 13 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: got really definite strong ideas and it's a far better 14 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: path than what we're on now with the Gavit Dusom 15 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: and possibly Kamala Harris. Oh, by the way, it's a 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: special treat just to set up Steve Kluebeck. Eric, have 17 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 1: the Kamala Harris' latest Word Salid edition ready. We'll play 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,639 Speaker 1: it right before the two o'clock news, because I think 19 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: it's one of her best, and I just want you 20 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: to imagine her for the next four to eight years 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: speaking to us as California governor. And then we'll talk 22 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: to Steve Klubec and make that kind of contrast. And 23 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: after three o'clock Congressman Kevin Kyleie formerly in the California Legislature, 24 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: now he's in Washington, d C. And he is publicly 25 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: asking that the FBI investigate high speed rail because we 26 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: don't have any rail, we don't have any electricity on 27 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: the rail, and we have their trains and nobody's going 28 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: high speed. The whole thing is a complete fraud, sham, 29 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: a disaster. I've been saying for ten years there should 30 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: be criminal investigations here, and there should be criminal investigations 31 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: because when you have thirteen billion dollars disappear and nothing 32 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: to show for it, it means people stole money willingly, knowingly. 33 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to that, but first, I guess 34 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: this was inevitable. The good people in California, seventy percent 35 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: of them past Prop thirty six in November. You remember 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: Prop thirty six. It was going to make theft illegal again, 37 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: make public drug use illegal again, create crimes for Fentanyel 38 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: because actually there weren't many against it, and part of 39 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: the deal was, for example, if you are convicted after 40 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: the third time of a drug crime, you must go 41 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: to prison unless you go to drug treatment. Well, to 42 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: have drug treatment programs to service all the public drug addicts, 43 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: you need money. And it turns out the Democrats and 44 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:52,679 Speaker 1: are not funding any of these programs because they don't 45 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: even want to treat the drug addicts. They don't want 46 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: them in prison, they don't want drug treatment. I guess 47 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:58,839 Speaker 1: they want him to die in the street. I don't know. 48 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: We're going to talk to a republic assimilately in Tom 49 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: Lackey about all this. Tom, Welcome to the show again. 50 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: How are you. 51 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Thank you for having me. 52 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: Explain what the Democrats are not funding so people understand 53 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: what the gap here is in getting this thing fully implemented. 54 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not funding the aspects demanded by Prop thirty six. 55 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: And clearly the governor feels like he knows better than 56 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: all of our California voters because he's completely ignoring the 57 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: voice of the people by not funding these programs associated 58 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: with Prop thirty six. And it was a glaring omission 59 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: that we brought to the attention. I happen to be 60 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 2: on the Budget Committee and brought it to their attention, 61 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: and all they did was dance around my questions. They 62 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 2: were unable to address the specific questions that I had 63 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: posed to them. And we'll continue to push this issue, 64 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 2: but it's clear that they have no intention at this 65 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: point point of funding Prop thirty six. But there's been 66 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: some pushback also by some fellow Democratic colleagues, so I 67 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 2: think we might have a chance to have some positive 68 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 2: energy added to this whole dismissal of Prop thirty six. 69 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 2: I think obviously there was a clear mandate for the 70 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 2: people from the people to accomplish this, and he may 71 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: try to escape it at this point, but I don't 72 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 2: think he's going to be successful in not funding it. 73 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: Why don't they want the drug addicts treated? I don't understand. 74 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand either. I will tell you that 75 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 2: I've been up here now for ten years, and they're 76 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 2: very good at dancing around answering questions in a direct way, 77 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 2: and they also are kind of comfortable with hypocrisy, and 78 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: so when you have those two elements, it makes difficult, 79 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: it makes it difficult to negotiate, so you can't. 80 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: Have a normal converse. You can't have a normal conversation 81 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: with them. 82 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 2: That's unfortunately a in many circumstances. I don't want to 83 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 2: characterize all Democrats as crazy, because they're not. But some 84 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 2: of them just need to be encouraged to know that 85 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 2: they have the people behind them, and I think we 86 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 2: can get them to move, at least enough of them 87 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 2: to move, because some of them, just like all politics, 88 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: they're not reachable. So most are at least to some degree. 89 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 2: And I think we got to work with these people 90 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 2: because Prop thirty six was clearly a mandate given from 91 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 2: the people, and they're not going to be able to 92 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 2: get away with not funding it. 93 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 1: Was What was the language in Prop thirty six, Like, 94 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: did it set up specific programs? Did it did it 95 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 1: say it require funding? I mean, I mean what's the 96 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: what are the. 97 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 2: Specific funding I mean? And the language of Prop thirty 98 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: six it's very specific in outlining the course of the 99 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 2: legislature in the future, and when you don't fund it, 100 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 2: it can't happen. So it's a clearer dismissal of the 101 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 2: will of the people. So we're able to push this 102 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 2: and we'll continue to do this because we're still early 103 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 2: in the budget process and it's already from the very 104 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: beginning we pointed it out that this is not going 105 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 2: to be successful. 106 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: No, I mean no, there ought to be another reason 107 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: for a major revolt when you have something past seventy 108 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: to thirty and it's a major referendum. This is a 109 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: major issue. All the theft, right, all the crime that 110 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: was allowed to run amok all this time, all the 111 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: suffering going on in the streets, not only the drug addicts, 112 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: but everybody else that had to put up with all 113 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: the aberrant violent behavior of the drug addicts, and then 114 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: the fentanel. Do you have to say anything more about fentanyl? 115 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: I mean, it's killing one hundred thousand Americans a year, 116 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: many of them teenagers. We've had a number of parents 117 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: on this show whose teenagers died of fentinyl poisoning. I mean, 118 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: I it's indisputable that people wanted this changed, and it's 119 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: obvious that they had to fund drug treatment centers as 120 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: an example. 121 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly, the impetus behind Pop forty seven and fifty 122 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 2: seven was that we were being too harsh and punishing 123 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,679 Speaker 2: people that had addictions. And we understand that to a degree, 124 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: but what we've seen is ignoring it and feeding the 125 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 2: problem makes it worse and puts other people in jeopardy. 126 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 2: And so now what we did by proposition thirty six 127 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 2: is say that we're going to mandate treatment and these 128 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,239 Speaker 2: people that have these problems have to be pushed into treatment. 129 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: They're not going to voluntarily take care of it. And 130 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 2: that's what the myth was to forty seven and fifty seven, 131 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: is that people would, just if given the opportunity, would 132 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: take that path that proved to be very mythical and 133 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 2: did not happen. And so I mean, we're trying to 134 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 2: use reason, right, Let's just use reason. 135 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, reason, I know that's well. I had Matt Mayhon 136 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: on the show yesterday. He's the Democratic mayor of San 137 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: Jose and he's going down a similar path as you 138 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: are preaching, in that after three offers of help to 139 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: a homeless person, the next time, you're going to be 140 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: forced into a shelter. And if you don't go, you 141 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: might be arrested and you might go to jail, or 142 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: you'll go before a judge and the judge will direct 143 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: you to some kind of mental health or drug treatment. 144 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: I mean there are some Democrats that are waking up 145 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: and they want to clean up their cities and clean 146 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: up their districts. 147 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, because sympathy only goes so far when you're proven 148 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,599 Speaker 2: time and time again that you're a threat to yourself. 149 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: Someone has to act in your interest. And that's all 150 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: we're trying to do here is to be good stewards 151 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 2: of accountability. 152 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: So you think there are enough Democrats out there who 153 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: will start considering this. It doesn't seem like this should 154 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: be an ideological issue. It just seems obvious. You put 155 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: them into drug treatment, they avoid jail, which is what 156 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: usually gets the Democrats all wigged out. Okay, they're avoiding jail, 157 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: they're going into drug treatment. Drug treatment takes a while. 158 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: You have to fund it, I mean, don't. I really 159 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: don't understand the opposition unless you're in favor of people 160 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: dying in the streets. What possibly could be their opposition 161 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: to this? 162 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to remember at this point it's just 163 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 2: the governor's opposition, right, and so now the work is 164 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: still ahead of us. I'm not saying this is an 165 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 2: easy sell because we have people that are very loyal. 166 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 2: They're more loyal to the governor elected positions, but. 167 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: He's running around renouncing some of the most progressive policies. 168 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: Right he's doing these podcasts with conservative activists, and he's saying, yeah, 169 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: you're right, you know, we shouldn't have men playing women's sports. Yeah, 170 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: we should be enough with the pronouns and this and that. Well, 171 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: I mean, why not this one. This one's got at 172 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: least seventy percent support, probably more in the state. Why 173 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: wouldn't he bend on this? Why would he be against 174 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: drug treatment for these addicts. 175 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 2: You're asking me to defend this guy. That's not I'm 176 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 2: not in the position to do that. 177 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 3: I know. 178 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: I just thought, maybe you hear stuff, maybe you know, 179 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: people talk gossip, like what's wrong with him? Why wouldn't 180 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: he do this? 181 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 2: Well, because it all has to do with the way 182 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: he's trying to package himself right now. And now I 183 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 2: think he's he's focused on things other than just governing California. Yeah, 184 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 2: and so, but he's got to realize that this ignoring 185 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 2: Proposition thirty six is not going to be acceptable. And 186 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 2: it's up to those of us who are in the 187 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 2: legislature to remind everybody, because I think everybody is pretty 188 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 2: much aware of the outcome and the voters will on 189 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 2: this front. And so I have to believe that after 190 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 2: pushing and pushing, that we're going to get this funded 191 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 2: and to what degree, I don't know. It better be 192 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 2: fully funded. 193 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: But. 194 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 2: Still exists that battle will still be a challenge in 195 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 2: the days ahead. 196 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: All Right, Tom, you did good work. Come on the 197 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: show anytime, and if you're not getting any progress, let's 198 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: talk about this again as often as we have to. 199 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. I appreciate you paying attention, and please continue to 200 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 2: do that because the battle is not over, not even close. 201 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 2: But I don't think he's going to get away with 202 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 2: this and it's up to us to push. 203 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: All Right, Tom Lackey, the assemblement, thank you very much. 204 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 2: All right, thank you. 205 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: All right. Just absolutely baffling. Why why wouldn't you fund 206 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: drug treatment programs for people who otherwise would die on 207 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: the street, especially after seventy percent of the state demanded 208 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: it and it passed in that proposition after three chances 209 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: if you're picked up for drug use, then you go 210 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: to jail or you go to drug treatment, but they 211 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: don't fund the drug treat all right, we got more 212 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: coming up. 213 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 214 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 4: six forty. 215 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at 216 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio. And we are going to have Stephen 217 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: Klubeck on after two o'clock on the show. Stephen Klubeck 218 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: is a very successful businessman and he is running for 219 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: governor as a Democrat in twenty twenty six. And if 220 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: you're not familiar with him, he has had a very 221 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: impressive life, a lot of success, and he's got a 222 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: lot of strong opinions on what needs to be done 223 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: to try to fix the colossal mess that California is in. 224 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: So this is someone you want to listen to. Stephen 225 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: Klubeck coming up after two o'clock. And we just finished 226 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: talking with Tom Lackey. He's a Republican assemblyman the Assembly. 227 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 1: Republicans had an event today with law enforcement leaders vic 228 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: them his rights advocates. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats in 229 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: the legislature are undermining Prop thirty six, one of the 230 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: and it's inexplicable why because more than anything else, the 231 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 1: Democrats hate people going to prison, and they were angry 232 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: with Prop thirty six because prison is an option if 233 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: after three times you're caught for stealing, you go to prison. 234 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: After three times you're caught for drug use, you can 235 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,359 Speaker 1: go to prison. Now. Remember this is after getting three freebies. 236 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: This is the fourth time you've been caught. Then maybe 237 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: you'll go to prison on the drug offenses, or you 238 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: can take rehab. Now, to me, this is a wonderful compromise. 239 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 3: Me. 240 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: I'd throw everybody in prison for ten years the first 241 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: time they stole something. 242 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 3: Me. 243 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: First time you get caught with drugs, it's rehab or prison. 244 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: I'd go Singapore, Saudi Arabia. They don't have these problems. 245 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: There's going to Singapore. No, we don't say when because 246 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: we don't want to say what. But she's terrified because 247 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: odds are she's going to violate some Uh I'm gonna 248 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: keep my mouth shut. Yeah sure, uh so we'll set 249 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: up and go fund me for you. But no, really, 250 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: I am because they're really tough and strict and they 251 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: don't have these problems, and that's all I'm interested in. 252 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: I don't want these problems. I don't want to have 253 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: to worry about being broken into and have things stolen. 254 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: I don't want to play poop p hop scotch. I 255 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: don't want to have to deal with drug addicts laying 256 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: in the road. And that's not an exaggeration. It happened 257 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: even in my neighborhood. They were laying in the road 258 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: at a homeless encampment that nobody wanted to clean up, 259 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: not very far from my house. So I've lived this. 260 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: I don't care anymore, but I'm open to compromise. And 261 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: to me, the fourth time you get caught, yeah, you 262 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: go to jail or you go to drug treatment. Now, 263 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: for some reason, Gavin Newsom, by the way, he is 264 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: so full of horse veces because he's running. He's had 265 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: three of these podcasts meeting with these conservative activist types 266 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: and he's trying to pretend he agrees with them on 267 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: some of the stuff. But you have to stop and 268 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: look at his policies here in California. He hasn't changed 269 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: a single policy. He hasn't moved an inch on a 270 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: single policy. Nobody really gives a crap about the transgender stuff. 271 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: It's kind of annoying, but it doesn't really affect your life. 272 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: Nobody really cares about the pronoun nonsense. It's annoying, but 273 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: it doesn't affect your life. You know what, affects your 274 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: life whether drug addicts are taken off the street for 275 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: good and if they're treated, because that'll keep them off 276 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: the street for good, that don't keep him out to 277 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: jail for good. So part of Prop thirty six is 278 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: you have to fund the treatment, and they just won't. 279 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. San Francisco sheriff's officials said 280 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: they reopened two dormitories at one of the city jails 281 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: because there's an eight percent increase in inmates right because 282 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: they're arresting from Prop thirty six. They have a guy 283 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: named Kunal Mody. He's the new chief of Health, Homelessness, 284 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: and Family Services, and he wrote on x that treatment 285 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: capacity is one of the major challenges. It has a 286 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: program to try to improve conditions on Sixth Street, and 287 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,239 Speaker 1: oh my god, I've been on Sixth Street San Francisco. 288 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: Holy moly, that is an outdoor zoo. I've never seen 289 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: so many drug addicts stumbling in the streets, sent in laddics. 290 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: They're all bent over and they're wobbling, and they block 291 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: all the lanes of traffic. We got stuck in traffic 292 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: on Sixth Street a couple of years ago, absolutely terrified. 293 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: But he said, we ran out of shelter and treatment 294 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: big capacity every day and it was hard to get 295 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 1: them to complete their treatment programs because of the lack 296 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: of money, the lack of personnel. At the same time, 297 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: there's a study published in a medical journal, the Journal 298 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 1: of a jama I forgot what that stands for, but 299 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: it's a big medical journal, and one of the findings 300 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:34,719 Speaker 1: was that many drug addicts twenty percent told the researchers 301 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: they're actively seeking drug treatment and couldn't get it. These 302 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: are the people who want to get off the drugs, 303 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 1: who want treatment, and they're all frustrated. The respondents say, 304 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 1: I'm showing up where they tell me to show up, 305 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,959 Speaker 1: calling where they tell me to call, and then they 306 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: only get turned away. And only seven percent of lifetime 307 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: only seven percent of drug addicts said they were received treatment. 308 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 1: And for some reason, the state the county never wants 309 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: to build and fund and staff the treatment centers. Actually, 310 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: to be fair, part of Prop forty seven was to 311 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: create treatment, but they never funded it, they never built it. 312 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: And I don't understand this. Why is Gavin Newsom against 313 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 1: funding drug treatment for homeless people. Any person with common 314 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 1: sense knows that dealing with drug addicts and mental patients 315 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: in the street is very difficult to get them to 316 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: do what you want them to do. So you got 317 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: to have a hammer. That's why I had Matt Mayhonah 318 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: on the show yesterday in San Jose. He's a Democrat, 319 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: but he's willing to use the hammer if necessary. Fourth 320 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: time you get approached about your homelessness, you have to 321 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 1: go into shelter or you're going to be arrested and 322 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: then sent for a judge, and the judge will decide 323 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 1: whether you go to jail or you go to some 324 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: kind of treatment situation. You got to do that with 325 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: the mental patience. You got to do that with a 326 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: drug addicts. You got to do that with the homeless period. 327 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: You have to force them eventually and you give him 328 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: a choice jail or the treatment. But you have to 329 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: build the treatment centers and fund them. That's what the 330 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: tax money should go for. If you're paying for cradle 331 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: the grave, illegal illegal alien health care, how about paying 332 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: for all the American citizens that are whacked out on 333 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: these drugs. Oh man, that's right. Newsom is such a 334 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: gold plated phony to the bone. He's such a fake. 335 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 1: I don't believe all these freaking podcasts he's doing all 336 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: this nonsense where he's giggling like a teenager. Actually change 337 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 1: one of your failing destructive policies. All right, Remember Steve 338 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: Klubeck coming up after two o'clock. He's running for governor 339 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: as a Democrat, and he's got some pretty uh specific 340 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,880 Speaker 1: ideas and what ought to be done in the state. 341 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from kf I 342 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 4: Am sixty. 343 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,199 Speaker 1: After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 344 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: iHeart App. All right, as I've been telling you, I 345 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: have Stephen Klubeck coming on after two o'clock. Stephen Klubeck 346 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: at a very successful businessman here in California. He's running 347 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: for governor as a Democrat. He has a lot of 348 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: strong opinions on how to clean up the California mess. 349 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: Quite different from a progressive like Gavin Newsom. Stephen Klubec 350 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 1: is coming on after two o'clock. You're gonna want to 351 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: You're going to want to hear him. And next segment, 352 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: in order to provide a contrast with another leading candidate 353 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: for governor, we're gonna run the We played this a 354 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: couple of days ago, Kamala Harris's latest public appearance and 355 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: about dorrit Us. It's about to rid Us and the 356 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: oscars and the Oscars, n ai Right and affordable housing, 357 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: and she tied it all together beautifully. If you haven't 358 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: heard this, you'll enjoy it. Now. We've been discussing what 359 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: we had. We had Tom Lackey on at start of 360 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: the show, the Republican Assemblyman, because the Republicans have got 361 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: together and put on a press event to say, hey, 362 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: the drug treatment is not getting funded. That's the part 363 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: of Prop thirty six that's really important. If we're going 364 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 1: to if you want to avoid having public drug addicts 365 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: end up in jail or prison, then you've got to 366 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: treat them, and that's what Prop thirty six said the 367 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: state has to do well. Gavin Newsom doesn't want to 368 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: treat the drug addicts, so he and the Democrats and 369 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 1: Sacramento are not budgeting for it. You know, they're preparing 370 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: a new budget and there's nothing in there about the 371 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 1: drug treatment that's necessary. And this is a long running issue. 372 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: I want to tie this into another story in Sam Bernardino, 373 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the Sheriff Shannon Dickis has 374 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: been speaking out publicly and they send out press releases 375 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: on people who have been arrested for what used to 376 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: be petty crimes that carried no consequences. This is during 377 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: the PROP forty seven era. For example, here's a guy 378 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: who had a pocketful of stolen merchandise, a shopping cart 379 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 1: full of lacquer somebody else had from a hardware store, 380 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 1: or a few handfuls of lottery tickets, several bottles of liquor. 381 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: And this is the kind of stuff that routinely was 382 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 1: being stolen dozens of times every day in San Bernardino. 383 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: Now they're getting arrested, and now they're being taken to jail, 384 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: and now they're being charged with crimes and can face 385 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: a real jail or prison sentence, because Shannon Dicka says 386 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: he wants everyone to know that the thieves aren't going 387 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: to get away with it anymore. It used to be 388 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: you got little or no jail time. And he's got 389 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:26,479 Speaker 1: one story here where Stater Brothers, which is a popular 390 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: chain up in the San Bernardino area. You might a 391 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: store might have one shoplifter, but they'll hit the store 392 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 1: seven times a day, or or twenty people might come 393 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: in in a single day. So you've either got a 394 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: large number of people coming in and stealing stuff or 395 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: one guy stealing over and over and over again, and 396 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: they couldn't do anything to stop him because every time 397 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: he stopped him, the cops should let him go, maybe 398 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: write an appearance ticket because there's no jail time to follow. Recently, 399 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: Dick has announced that there were two San Bernardino residents, 400 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: one age forty three and the other age fifty four. 401 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: Now you are a loser among losers if you're fifty 402 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: four years old and you're stealing stuff from a home depot. 403 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: They stole the lacquer, they put it into a cart 404 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 1: and rolled it out of the store without paying. They 405 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: were women, Well, women do home improvement, right, they were 406 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: doing a rebuilding project. Seriously, I do some stuff around 407 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: the house. 408 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 3: You know. 409 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 1: Do you roll out of a home depot with a 410 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: pile of stolen goods? 411 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:53,719 Speaker 3: Well? 412 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: No, I pay for things? Oh you pay for things? Well, 413 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: what did citizen? You are? I am? Oh so? And 414 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: guess what. Both of them had several theft convictions. Maybe 415 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 1: they were doing this all their lives. When you're fifty 416 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: four and you're still doing it. It's because that's your job. 417 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: That's how you get paid every day. So they were 418 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: booked into jail and because normally you just get a 419 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: citation and told hey, promise to appear in court. Yeah, yeah, 420 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: we'll appear in court. Sure. And there's an interesting point 421 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: in this San Bernardino Soun's story. Brian Rochus wrote it, 422 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: when you take these people off the street, you're actually 423 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: solving three different problems. Because when you have a vagrant, 424 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: the vagrant steals. Why does he steal so he could 425 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: buy drugs. So if you take them off the street 426 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: and put him in jail or give him drug treatment, 427 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: jail is the deterrent. Drug treatment solved the drug problem. 428 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: Treatment solves the theft problem. Right, if you're not using drugs, 429 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: you don't have to. And if you're off the drugs, 430 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: you might be able to figure out how to get 431 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: a job. You might be able to figure out how 432 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 1: to navigate the system and get some kind of temporary shelter, 433 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: and after you start working a while, you could pay rent. 434 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: You see, But you have to get off the drugs 435 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: because that's scrambling your brain. So the drug treatment to 436 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: me is the central component of this because then the 437 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: drug addict avoids jail. The drug addict doesn't need to steal, 438 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: his mind clears up, so he can go to work, 439 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: he could get temporary shelter, he could eventually rent his 440 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: own apartment. But the first thing that has to be 441 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: done is his brain has to be has to go 442 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 1: through a flush, and he has to go through the 443 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 1: treatment so he's not addicted anymore. To me, this is 444 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: the one thing out of the whole, this whole complicated issue, 445 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: and it's not that complicated, is fund the drug treatment. 446 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: And here you have Shannon Dickas explaining, here's how it works, 447 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 1: here's what they do. They're stealing this stuff for the 448 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 1: drug money, so get them off the drugs. And they're 449 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: using all the drugs because they're addicted and they can't 450 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: control themselves anymore. So of course they're going to steal stuff. 451 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: Legalizing drug use, legalizing theft. What is that done. It's 452 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: made everybody miserable. We're all crazy now. And Gavin Newsom 453 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: won't won't fund it. You know what he is funding 454 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: though today this came out. California has to borrow three 455 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 1: and a half billion dollars they've run out of money 456 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: in the medicaid program. It's called medical here. This is 457 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 1: the state's program for poor people, largely federally funded. But 458 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: we've run out of the money because California decided to 459 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 1: give medicaid to illegal aliens. They're spending nine and a 460 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: half billion dollars to provide medical to illegal aliens, and 461 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: eight and a half out of the nine and a 462 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: half billion is coming from the States General fund. So 463 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: we're paying for illegal aliens to get medical care. And 464 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: they claim they don't have any money for the drug 465 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: treatment of the attics dying in the streets. Now they 466 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: want a loan. They want a loan. They blow three 467 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars a year. We have the highest taxes 468 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: in the country, and Gavin Newsome wants to Alan to 469 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: bail out his illegal alien health fund. We'll be doing 470 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: more on that one too. We come back, Kamala Harris. Yes, 471 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: we're having Steve Klubec on after two o'clock. He's running 472 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: for governor. Very successful businessman and you'll want to hear 473 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: him talk about his ideas for cleaning up the mess. 474 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: But I wanted a contrast with another leading candidate for 475 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: Governor Kamala Harris because she made an appearance the other day. 476 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: Maybe you heard it, maybe you missed it. But I 477 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: can't stop. I mean I can't. I could listen to 478 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: this thing every day. It's another Word Salad special. 479 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 480 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 4: six forty. 481 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 1: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social 482 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: media John Cobelt Radio. We're trying to get to twenty 483 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: five thousand followers. So let's get to it, all right. 484 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: We have a real Kennedy for governor coming on. He 485 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: is Stephen Klubeck, a very successful businessman who I will 486 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: give you a rundown of in just a couple of minutes. 487 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 1: I kind of won't almost want to introduce him now, 488 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: so when he comes on right after Deverish two o'clock news, 489 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: he and I can get right into the meat of 490 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: the conversation. But what I want to do first is 491 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: Klubec is running against possibly Kamala Harris if she decides 492 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: to get in the race. And I think people's attention 493 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: spans and their memories are very short, so I think 494 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: you have to remember what it would be like if 495 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: we actually had to hear her speak every day, if 496 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,719 Speaker 1: she was the governor for four to eight years, if 497 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: this was a reality. Now she was on stage, she 498 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: was getting interviewed, and it was at some I guess 499 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: business conference. I'm not sure what it was. There's a 500 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: whole circuit right here, you go. And and so she's 501 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: sitting up on stage there and she starts talking about 502 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: being hungry for Dorito's on Oscar night, So play the clip. 503 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 3: So we did DoorDash because I'm wanted Dorito's. And it 504 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 3: was they were about the red carpet. 505 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: Part was about starting. 506 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 3: Nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store, 507 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 3: so it was door dash and I'm and I'm thinking 508 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 3: about this about so I was willing to give up 509 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 3: whatever might be the tracking of Kamala Harris's particular, I 510 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 3: fondness for Nacho cheese Dorito's for the sake of getting 511 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 3: a big bag of Dorito's as I watched the oscars. 512 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: That's behavior and that's right. 513 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 3: But here's the thing. At what point do we also 514 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 3: uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And. 515 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: You can debate with me if it should be a right. 516 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 3: I think it should to expect that the innovation would 517 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 3: also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems, 518 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 3: which are beyond my craving for Dorito's but about whatever. 519 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 3: And I know the work is happening around, you know, 520 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 3: the scientific discoveries, for example, to cure longstanding diseases. 521 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw out. 522 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 3: Another one and you all again, please get back to 523 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 3: me any information you have. I would love it if 524 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 3: there would be an investment of resources and solving the 525 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 3: affordable housing issue in America, like, help you with them, 526 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 3: help me with that, help you do what. I don't 527 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 3: know that any big vcs are gonna fund it, cause 528 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 3: they're gonna have to figure out where the money is 529 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 3: in that. 530 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: But I'm telling you. 531 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 3: It would really be helpful. 532 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: And and I do. 533 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 3: And I bring up them the consumer, because I wonder 534 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 3: how much of the trajectory of it all, the innovation 535 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 3: is being fueled by what the consumer not only desires 536 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 3: in terms of again, and I'm simplifying it obviously my 537 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 3: craving for a certain brand of potato chip corn chip, 538 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 3: But what part of it is about getting enough information 539 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 3: in front of the consumer to know these other really 540 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 3: big problems you're dealing with might also be solved by 541 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 3: this technology. And if you demand it, if we agree 542 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 3: that the business model is based on consumer demand, that 543 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 3: there might actually be more resources going into some of 544 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 3: those things. 545 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: That was stunning. That is a stunning performance. There should 546 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 1: be an award for that. I gotta believe she was 547 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: stoned out of her mind. That was all. That was 548 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: one sentence. I forgot what the We didn't hear the question, 549 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: but that was one response there from Dorito's to AI 550 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: affordable housing curing diseases, asking venture capitalists to figure out 551 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: where the money is and affordable housing, here's a clue. 552 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: If they're not building it, it means there isn't any 553 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: money in it. It means the cost of build, buying 554 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: the land and building the structures do not allow for 555 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: a profit that's worth the effort. So there you go. 556 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: I can answer your question. I can help you out 557 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: there now. I just want you to contrast that little 558 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: monologue there with our next guest right after Debora's new 559 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 1: Steve Klubeck. Steve has been conducting hundreds of meetings around 560 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: California with business leaders and lawmakers and venture capitalists and politicians, Democrats, Republicans, 561 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 1: union people, farm workers, everybody, and trying to come up 562 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: with a better way for California. He's a Democrat, very 563 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: successful businessman, has turned around a lot of the businesses 564 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: that were in serious trouble. I've seen his name in 565 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 1: a number of news stories about good notorial candidates, but 566 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 1: I don't know much about him, So I figured you 567 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: didn't know much about him, So we're all going to 568 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 1: talk to him together. Coming up next Deborah Mark Live 569 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: and the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been 570 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 1: listening to The John Covelt Show podcast. You can always 571 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,960 Speaker 1: hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from 572 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 573 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.