1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty you're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Moistline is one eight 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: seven seven moist eighty six. Surely something has set you 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: off and you want e vent one eight seven seven 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: moist eighty six and you can access all the social 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: media at John Cobelt radio dot com. Uh, we were 7 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: given away one thousand dollars in about fifteen minutes. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 2: Good have I done all that? All right? 9 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: Well, that nonsense business um coming soon hopefully on your ballot, 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: would be an initiative that would seriously amend Prop forty seven, 11 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: which is the big disaster in California over the last 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: ten years now. Uh. You know, it was called the 13 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: Safe Neighborhood and Schools Act by that legal genius Kamala Harris, 14 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: and it was anything but So much was turned from 15 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: a felon you to a misdemeanor. So many people either 16 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: were released from jails or never went to jail. So 17 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: many people became addicted to drugs and their bodies are 18 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: piled up on the streets everywhere. So much stuff is 19 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: being stolen every day now, which everyone agrees is due 20 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: to the change in the laws, except Gavin Newsom, and 21 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: we have a tape of him at a telling his 22 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: target story coming up, which you must listen to. And 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: we're going to discuss all of this with Katie Grimes 24 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: from californiaglobe dot com because she's got a story today 25 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: on this Prop. Forty seven amendment, which hopefully we'll get 26 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: on the November twenty twenty four ballot. 27 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 2: Katie, how are. 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 3: You, hey, John, I'm well, thank you. 29 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on with us. Explain this initiative. What 30 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: will this fix on Prop forty seven if we can 31 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: pass it? 32 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: Well, very specifically, again, this was the Safe Streets and 33 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 3: School after us. This the current initiative is called the Homelessness, 34 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 3: Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act. So unlike the bs 35 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 3: that that then Attorney General Kamala Harris gave us this one, 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 3: the title does tell you what it's going to do. 37 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 3: So specifically allows felony charges for possessing certain drugs, especially fentanyl. 38 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 3: I mean, we know that's what's you know, really killing 39 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 3: people on the streets these days, but of course I'm 40 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 3: sure we've got lots of heroin addicts and meth heads 41 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 3: also a homeless population. It increases sentences for other specified 42 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: drug and theft crimes, and increased prison sentences may reduce 43 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 3: savings that currently fund mental health and drug treatment program 44 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 3: So they're actually looking at this as kind of a 45 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 3: whole meaningful thing, not just to throw more drug addicts 46 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 3: in prison at all. 47 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: The prop forty seven who just have to remind people 48 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: in La County was written written by George Gascon, Yes, 49 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: and it was sold as one big lie. I remember 50 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: Jerry Brown was campaigning for it, and we were dissecting 51 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: every speech he gave, all the television commercials. 52 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: It was all lies. 53 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: But it was worked on people partly because all they 54 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,119 Speaker 1: read was that stupid title by Tamila Harris right. 55 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: And all the polling of over the years has shown 56 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 3: that voters who don't sit down with their sample ballot 57 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 3: ahead of time and really read the initiative totally get 58 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 3: caught up and tricked by the ballot title. And it 59 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 3: worked in this case to the detriment of many, many, 60 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 3: many Californians. 61 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: This but I mean that means our democracy here in California. 62 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: Everybody's always preaching about democracy, it's really it's rotted away. 63 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: People don't read stuff, people don't know stuff, and they 64 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: vote for lies pushed by the top politicians in the state. 65 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very frustrating. Unfortunately, going back to the founding 66 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 3: of our country, it usually is about one to two 67 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 3: percent of the population that pays attention enough to give 68 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 3: a hoot and either you know, fight to fight to 69 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 3: save it or you know, fight for democracy, and the 70 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 3: rest of the folks just kind of come along kicking 71 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 3: and screaming. 72 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: So some of the specific changes, and I'm going by 73 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: your story here, it allows felony charges for possessing certain drugs, 74 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: including Sentinel with Yeah, it would upgrade them from misdemeters 75 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: to felonies, right. 76 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 3: And kind of the bottom line, it is increasing the 77 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 3: drug crime and theft penalties, which were the very things 78 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 3: that were decreased by Prop. Forty seven. So in essence, 79 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 3: it's almost overturning Prop. Forty seven, as I put kind 80 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: of snarky in my my title again, to make crime 81 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,679 Speaker 3: illegal again. And that's the whole idea right now. 82 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: That's accurate is because a lot of these acts have 83 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: been in effect legalized. 84 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 3: Exactly, and I've had people argue with me they weren't legalized. 85 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 3: But when you bump a felony down to a misdemeanor, 86 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: and then you even take away a judge's ability to 87 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 3: offer a drug criminal rehabilitation or prison. In essence, it 88 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 3: has no teeth to it. It's almost like just getting 89 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 3: a citation, which most of them just flips the bird 90 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 3: out anyway. 91 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: You know, George Gascon has fourteen thousand prosecutions. He has 92 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: not followed through on fourteen thousand cases presented to him, 93 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: and all those cases are sitting in the computer system 94 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: not being acted on. 95 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 3: Exactly, yeah, exactly. What's very interesting about that is my 96 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 3: district attorney here in Sacramento is the guy that filed 97 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 3: the lawsuit against the City of Sacramento for not following 98 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 3: through on the existing laws still on the books, not 99 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 3: just going after people who were homeless, but the crimes 100 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 3: that they're committing. And so of course Da Gascon all 101 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 3: along could have at least followed through on the crimes 102 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 3: they're committing, if not going after you know, these homeless 103 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 3: meth heads. 104 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, down here in La County, it's bad. I mean, 105 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: it's just anything. There's mentality, and store shelves get cleared out. 106 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: There's more and more shells being locked up behind glass 107 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 1: or plastic cases, and you need to find somebody with 108 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: a key, you know, just to what was I trying to? 109 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: I was in San Francisco trying to buy my son 110 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: some advil. It took me twenty minutes, went into a CVS. 111 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: Honestly got twenty minutes. I kept pressing the little red 112 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: button in the aisle over and over again, and you 113 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: kept hearing a recording on the intercom system attendant needed 114 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 1: in drug aisle, needed in drug. I pressed that like 115 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: six seven times I tended needed in drug. Nobody ever 116 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: showed up, and I'm looking through the glass, and you 117 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: know what, I felt like committing a violent act and 118 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: figured I'd get away with it. I was just going 119 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: to bust the plastic shelves and run out with the advil. 120 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 2: It was so infuriating. 121 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 3: And yeah, my husband, we were at a Walmart in 122 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 3: Amador County, of all places, not a lot of crime 123 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 3: in Amador County, but all of the socks and underwear 124 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 3: were locked up behind plastic doors. 125 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 2: Well, vagrants underwear. 126 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: Vagrants need fresh underwear. You know that's part of it. Okay, Now, 127 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: how is this going to get on the ballot? Because 128 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: I know we're planning to do signature gathering as soon 129 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: as we can get everything together. Is there enough money 130 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: to do enough signature gathering to get this on the 131 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: ballot or should we be begging for wealthy people to donate? 132 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 3: Well, I think begging wealthy people to donate is a 133 00:07:55,640 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 3: fantastic idea. They have more than two hundred and fifty 134 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 3: thousand signatures for sure. I was told yesterday, but it 135 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 3: hadn't been finalized. They were knocking on the door of 136 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 3: three hundred thousand. So that's great because five hundred and 137 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 3: forty six, six hundred and fifty one signatures are needed 138 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: by the end of April. I think they'll be able 139 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 3: to do it, but yes, any contributions to help collect those. 140 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 3: And then the DA that I've been talking to gave 141 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 3: me some Sacramento locations to sign and then updated it. 142 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 3: It was mostly northern California though, Calusa County, Shasta County, 143 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 3: Sutter County. So what I'll do is try to find 144 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 3: signing locations in your neck of the woods and shoot 145 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 3: those to you. 146 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, can you? Yes? 147 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: Give it to Ray, give us like a constant updated 148 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: list and I'll read them every day so we can 149 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: get this done. Because I think more than anything else 150 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: in the last ten years. This initiative Prop. Forty seven 151 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: just destroyed the quality of life here in California, and 152 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: the public wasn't aware what it was going to do 153 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: because they were lied to by Around Newsom, Kamala Harris. 154 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: These are a bunch of professional, sociopathic liars who knew 155 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 1: what was going to happen, and they don't care. This 156 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: is what they wanted for some sick question. 157 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 3: It sure is well because I remember they rule by fear. 158 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 3: They can't rule by policy, and you know, what's the 159 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 3: good of the For the good of the people, they 160 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 3: have to rule by fear, and this is certainly one 161 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 3: way to do it. 162 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 2: Can you hang on for another segment? 163 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, because I want to play the Gavin Newsom clip 164 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: telling his target story to the mayors. I'm just playing 165 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: part of it. And and because you wrote you wrote 166 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: wrote a great piece today analyzing it, and we'll get 167 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: to that next. 168 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 169 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 4: six forty. 170 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: Ray Lopez, our producer, sent me this last night and 171 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't stop staring at it. Somebody got 172 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: a hold of a zoom call between Gavin Newsom and 173 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: it looks like seven mayors. I assume they're all mayors 174 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: political people. The Zoom call was about the mental health proposition. 175 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: I guess proposition one. They want us to borrow six 176 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: billion dollars and then they're going to finally give drug 177 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: treatment and mental health treatment. 178 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 2: If you believe this. 179 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: Ed he Knewsom is on the call and the clip 180 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: we have we just took about half his story. He 181 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: is telling them about going to target and seeing somebody 182 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: steal stuff right in front of him, and he turns 183 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: to the clerk and wants to know why the clerk 184 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:35,719 Speaker 1: isn't doing something about it. 185 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 2: Play the clip about this and he comes back. 186 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 5: He picks it up and he's walking out as we're 187 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 5: checking out. The woman says, oh, he's just walking out. 188 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 5: He won't pay for that. I said, why are you 189 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 5: stopping him? She goes, Oh, the governor swear I got 190 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 5: true story. My mom's great. The governor lowered the threshold. 191 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 5: There's no there's no accountability. I said, that's just not true. 192 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 5: She got. I said, we have the tenth toughest nine 193 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 5: undre and fifty dollars, the tenth toughest in America. She 194 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 5: didn't even know what I was talking about. By the way, 195 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 5: it's the tenth toughest in America. To look it up. 196 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 5: No one gives a damn all right, And I said, 197 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,319 Speaker 5: it's just not true. There's still stopped. He said, well, 198 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 5: we don't stop them because of the government. And then 199 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 5: she goes She looks at me twice, and then she 200 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 5: freaks out. She calls everyone over, wants to take photos. 201 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 5: I'm like, no, I'm not taking a photo. We having 202 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 5: a conversation. Where's your manager? 203 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: How are you. 204 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 5: Blaming the governor? And it was, you know, three hundred 205 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 5: and eighty dollars later, and I was like, why am 206 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 5: I spending three hundred and eighty dollars? Everyone can walk 207 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 5: the hell right out. Not fair, not riant. 208 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my targets. 209 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm gonna go. 210 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: Ahead and get I get us started. 211 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 5: I know that Mayor Gloria and Mayor Breed are. 212 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 2: We can stop it here. 213 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: So he actually had the feeling, so he claims that 214 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: why am I paying three hundred and eighty dollars? I 215 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: could walk right out. Everybody's had that feeling. This has 216 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 1: been going on for years. It's as a prop forty 217 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: seven and there's no prosecutions and all the policies that 218 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: he has promoted. Let's get Katie Grimes back on from 219 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: California Globe. Is he in an alternate universe? 220 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 2: Is he serious? 221 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 3: Yeah? A, so I said, there's kind of one of 222 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 3: two scenarios going on here. One he's lying about ever 223 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 3: shopping at a Target store, which I tend to go 224 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 3: with number one. Two, he's such an elitist that he 225 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 3: has no idea that the bills he signs into law, 226 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 3: all the executive orders he's issued, the policies he supports 227 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 3: affect crime in our state. He can't possibly be that 228 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 3: clueless to tell that story. I mean, just unbelievable. 229 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 2: There's so many parts to this. 230 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: Because he immediately turns to the clerk and says, why 231 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: didn't you stop him? 232 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, why didn't Newsom stop him? 233 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: The guy knows that there no laws are enforced, and 234 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: that's why he can't all things. 235 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know, and yeah, we've all witnessed that, 236 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 3: and it is kind of stunning seeing how brazen some 237 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 3: of these people are. But that's what I'm saying. If 238 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 3: this really happened, and I doubt it happened, to him, 239 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 3: I suspect someone told him this story. 240 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't it really. I'm not a conspiracy person, but 241 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: it just doesn't sit right. I don't see him standing 242 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 1: in the line. And also, how the hell do you 243 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: buy three hundred and eighty dollars worth of stuff at Target? 244 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 3: See, that's what I said earlier. There is no you know, 245 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 3: I'm a mom, My kids have gone through college. I 246 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 3: spent a lot of money at Target, even in one 247 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 3: stop a couple of times, you know, helped somebody move 248 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 3: or by all the house stuff. It's rare you spend 249 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 3: three hundred and eighty dollars at a Target. Well take 250 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 3: caryot So no, no, anyway, it's the whole story is 251 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 3: just it's insane. But I think, bottom line, we'll take 252 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 3: it at face value. He claims it's happened. 253 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: All right, let's say it happened. He's turing her that 254 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: we're the tenth toughest in the state. What does that mean, 255 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: tenth toughest whatever? 256 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 2: He thinks. 257 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: The law is people are running around like crazy all 258 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: day and night stealing things and there's no consequences, right, 259 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: But we're. 260 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 3: The tenth toughest in the country, meaning our nine hundred 261 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 3: and fifty dollars limit is pretty tough, which is garbage. 262 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 3: And again, and I put in the article and I 263 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 3: took a screen caption of it. He was one of 264 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 3: the early early supporters. His name was on Prop forty 265 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 3: seven proudly. And that's why I realised what it did 266 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 3: to the state. 267 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: In other states, even if their threshold is higher, they 268 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: enforced the law in Texas. Third time you're caught, you're 269 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: going to jail. Here, you can steal the nine point 270 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: fifty four different ways every day and never end up 271 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: going to jail. That's not true in the other states 272 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: that might have higher thresholds. 273 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 3: Exactly, And that's why Gavin Newsom always tells one tenth 274 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 3: of the actual story. So, yeah, we could have dissected 275 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 3: this even more. 276 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 2: But I also thought it was funny. 277 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: You pointed out all the mayors in this case, and 278 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: I was looking at their names. Locke Dawson, she's a 279 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: woman mayor a Riverside. There's Jerry Dyer from Fresno, Matt 280 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: Mahon from San Jose. 281 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 2: Man. Are they laughing hard at this? 282 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 5: Yeah? 283 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 3: I know it was awkward. 284 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: You would have thought Robin Williams was doing one of 285 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: his old routines, the way they were laughing. 286 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 3: No, yeah, exactly, and the other thing. And part of 287 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 3: the reason I wondered why they were laughing so hard 288 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 3: when he says swear to God, true story. I thought 289 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 3: he was maybe trying to be Joe Biden's mini me. 290 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the catchphrase. That's Biden's catchphrase. All right, Katie, 291 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 1: good talking with you. Good stuff you had today in 292 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: the California Globe dot com. Everybody should go read that 293 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: every day. Thanks Katie, I'll talk to you soon. All right, 294 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: Katie Grimes coming up. And this is part of the 295 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: deal too. They just the huge disconnect. We're constantly getting 296 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: scolded by the media and scolded by the Gavin Newsom 297 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: types in Biden's crowd. That really, the economy is great, 298 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: it's really wonderful, and inflation is going down. And I've 299 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: got the statistics here in a dozen categories. How much 300 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: did prices increase over the last four years between twenty 301 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: nineteen and twenty twenty three in California, not averaged out 302 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: along across the country, but in California, what are the 303 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: price increases by percentage? And I have yeah, about twelve 304 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: or more categories and that's the thing about inflation. Once 305 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: it goes up, it never goes back. Just because the 306 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: rate of inflation is going down doesn't mean any prices 307 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: are reversing. 308 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 2: That's not happening, and I'll give you the details about it. 309 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 310 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 4: six forty. 311 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:08,199 Speaker 1: I mentioned right before Debor's news that Orange County Register 312 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,439 Speaker 1: and all the other local papers outside of the elsigungdo 313 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: Times because they don't print stuff like this, because this 314 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: is news that normal people want to learn. The La 315 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: Times and its dying gasps has four categories you can 316 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:28,719 Speaker 1: read almost every day about climate change, COVID, race or 317 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 1: gender issues. Those are the four main categories. But the 318 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,199 Speaker 1: stuff you deal with day to day, like all the 319 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 1: exorbitant prices you encounter at the grocery store. 320 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 2: Nah, I don't have anything on that. 321 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: We're just told that the economy is doing better than 322 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: people think, and people are really stupid, dirty peasants and 323 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: they don't understand. Okay, here's what nobody in the media understands, 324 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 1: and nobody in politics seems to understand. Because you can 325 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 1: never have any public criticism of a president. It's policies 326 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: right when the president is democratic, there shall be no criticism. 327 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: You just say, all you people are wrong. You people 328 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: are ignorant and stupid. You don't know what you're talking about. 329 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: We have statistics here. Well, here's some statistics for you 330 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 1: that you never see. How much? How much did prices 331 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: go up in about a dozen categories in the state 332 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: of California over the past five years from twenty nineteen 333 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: to twenty twenty three. Well, electricity is up sixty percent. 334 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: Sixty percent. You notice that in your electricity bill, even 335 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: when we. 336 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 6: Don't use electricity. Yeah, I'm not kidding you. We could 337 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 6: be gone two weeks and then our bill shows that 338 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 6: it's gone up and we're not even there. 339 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 2: I am convinced they penalize you when you don't use. 340 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 6: There's something funky going on. 341 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 2: No, I agree with you. But sixty percent. 342 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: And by the way, our electricity costs, I know, up 343 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: until a couple of years ago, we're seventy percent higher 344 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: than the national average before these increases. Natural gas is 345 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: up fifty nine percent, fifty nine percent. And by the way, 346 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 1: we're sitting on an enormous amount of natural gas here 347 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: in the state. But Gavin Newsom's progressive administration won't allow 348 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: anybody to touch it. 349 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 2: But that's okay. 350 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 1: You want to pay seventy sixty percent more for electuousity? 351 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: I thought, I thought solar and wind ow, that's cheap, 352 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: that'll bring down the cost. 353 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 2: Guess not. 354 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 5: Huh? 355 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 2: Oh was that another lie? 356 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: Another scam used cars? I am bought one of those 357 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: in a while. But it's up thirty six percent, which 358 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,959 Speaker 1: is thousands of dollars. The price of gas up thirty 359 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: three percent. But even that doesn't tell the whole story, 360 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 1: because I went traveling some in the past couple of months, 361 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: and prices are in the twos in states around the 362 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 1: country in the twos, and in my neighborhood this morning 363 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: was four fifty nine. 364 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 6: Yeah, isn't that crazy that it's still in the fours? 365 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 6: I mean after I mean, I remember when it first hit, 366 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,719 Speaker 6: you know, five, and we thought, okay, fine, it's going 367 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 6: to be that way for a while. And now I 368 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 6: thought the other day when I filled up my car 369 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 6: that it was I think it was four fifty nine 370 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 6: something like that. There's no talk of it ever going 371 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 6: back down to the twos or even the threes. 372 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: My wife was shocked because she had spent a few 373 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 1: days in Florida, and she said the gas was two 374 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: dollars eighty one cents. This weekend we drove up to 375 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: the Bay Area, stopped off Interstate five, five seventeen. 376 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 2: Ridiculous. 377 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: In the same week she paid two to eighty one 378 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: in Florida, five seventeen in California. 379 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 6: And how come this doesn't ever change? All these stupid excuses. 380 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 6: I don't want to hear them anymore. 381 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,680 Speaker 1: No, and they tell you the rate of inflation is 382 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: going down, and it makes you think prices are going down. No, 383 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: it's just the rate of increase is slowing up. If 384 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 1: it's slowing up, I just assumed that they are lying 385 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: all the time. Price to groceries twenty seven percent on average. 386 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: For groceries, the prices are unrecognizable. I walk out with 387 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: one bag and it could be eighty one hundred dollars 388 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: and I got almost nothing in there. And there's certain 389 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 1: food categories. It's far more than twenty seven percent. Dining out, 390 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 1: we've talked about this, right, Yes, I went out to 391 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: dinner with somebody last night at a restaurant I hadn't 392 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 1: been to in a couple of years, and I swear 393 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: the price is doubled. 394 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 6: And did they tack on all those extra fees that 395 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 6: a lot of these restaurants on the West Side do. 396 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 2: I won't go to that one that you told. 397 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 6: There's others as well. That one is preposterous, but there's other. 398 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 2: Lies they too. 399 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: Actually, I told you this off the air, that there's 400 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: this one restaurant not far from where I live, and 401 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: Debort tipped me off. She went to the same restaurant 402 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: and they put in an eighteen percent service charge, and 403 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: it's listed on the menu as an eighteen percent service 404 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: charge before you put the tip, right, So you know. 405 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 6: What happens is your servers aren't getting tipped, or they're 406 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,199 Speaker 6: going to get two percent if you want to live, 407 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 6: if you want to leave, twenty percent or whatever, right, And. 408 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 1: That eighteen percent is not going to the server exactly, 409 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: it's going to wherever. 410 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 2: You know what charge? 411 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 6: You know what I would rather them instead of twenty 412 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 6: dollars for a pizza, charge twenty one and then don't 413 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,360 Speaker 6: add those stupid taxes. 414 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 2: No. 415 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: I went into that place the other day and I 416 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 1: sat down, I was by myself. I just wanted to 417 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: get a quick lunch and I saw that on the menu, 418 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: and I remembered what you told me, and I got up, 419 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: I walked out the back door. I just left left 420 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: the menu there and just disappeared. 421 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 6: Now the trick is, if you really want to go there. 422 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: Do takeout right that? Yeah, they did, that's right. Takeout 423 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: and dining out is our twenty three percent higher. Higher, 424 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 1: housing is twenty percent HighRes higher. What's wrong with me? 425 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 1: Recreation is up seventeen percent, new cars up sixteen percent, 426 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: medical care up fourteen percent, clothing is up nine percent. 427 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 2: Nothing is going down. They have a list here. 428 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: Of one, two, three, four, five, sixty seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, 429 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 1: fourteen categories everything. All the graph bars are pointing to 430 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: the right. Nothing points to the left. In fact, on average, 431 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: prices are nineteen percent higher than they were four years 432 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: ago because you had you know, eight percent inflation, and 433 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: then six percent and then plus three and then plus 434 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 1: three and so that's all cumulative. It compounds on itself, 435 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: like interest on a loan. And uh, this is true 436 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: all around the country, because I just saw one of 437 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: the networks had Joe Biden's economic approval rating is thirty 438 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: five percent, and it has been stuck there for over 439 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: a year, and they go, why is that. Don't they 440 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: know that the gross domestic product is off? You know, 441 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: nobody cares about your statistics. All I know is I 442 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: go to the grocery store and it's thirty percent more 443 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 1: for groceries. All I know is the addish of pasta 444 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: at a local restaurant is practically doubled in price. And 445 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: I know that the government printed a lot of money 446 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: and barred a lot of money and ran up trillions 447 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: of dollars of extra debt that they shoved out into 448 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: the economy. And that's what drives up prices. If you 449 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: spend five minutes on a high school economics class, that's 450 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: what they teach you. If there's too much money in 451 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: an economy chasing too few goods, the price of it 452 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: goes up. People have extra money, they start spending it. 453 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: They're bidding against each other. It drives up the price. 454 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 455 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 4: six forty. 456 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: Tim Conway is coming up at minutes. Conway will be 457 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: here in just a few minutes. And we just went 458 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: through the all the price increases here in California for 459 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: the last five years, and I couldn't believe it. But 460 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: the New York Times I just glanced over during the 461 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: commercial break and they have a front page story on 462 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: their website about how Biden takes aim at grocery chains 463 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: over food prices. And this is what's funny, because the 464 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,239 Speaker 1: prices are so high for the last five years. They 465 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,439 Speaker 1: they're now they're they're campaigning, and they got to blame 466 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: somebody for it, and the Biden administration. These progressives never 467 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: take responsibility for anything they've done. So Biden is now 468 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: or what's left of Biden, is accusing stores of overcharging 469 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: shoppers because costs are so high and they're not going down, 470 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: and it's affecting people's votes. Like I said, he's got 471 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: a thirty five percent approval rating on the economy, and 472 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: normally the economy is overwhelmingly the issue people, although this 473 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: year it's running neck and neck with illegal aliens over 474 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: the border. Last week, Biden gave a speech and he 475 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 1: said there's too many corporations in America ripping people off, 476 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrink flation. You know, that's 477 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: when they shrink the size of the box and charge 478 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: you at the same price. The thing is a free 479 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: market is supposed to take care of price gougers. 480 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 2: Do they not? 481 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: I know that if I'm shopping for gas and I 482 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: do this, I've got one station my neighborhood, they might 483 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: be charging, you know, four fifty nine at one pump 484 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: and four seventy nine down the block. So I go 485 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: to the four to fifty nine pump, And I've got 486 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: two grocery stores, and there is a difference in their prices. 487 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: One of them costs more, but it's close to me. 488 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: One of them is a little farther away and it's cheaper. 489 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 1: And then I just make the calculation. Do I feel 490 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 1: like driving to the farther one and getting the paper stuff, 491 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: or do I want to do this quick and I'll 492 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: pay the extra couple of dollars for today. But what 493 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: keeps you wanting to go to the cheaper store is 494 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: the competition. And that's what I don't understand. They know 495 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 1: this is capitalism. 496 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 2: This is a. 497 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: Fluid market, and if somebody's price is out of line 498 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: and they have competitors, they're going to have to lower 499 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: the price because people are very price sensitive at this time, 500 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: and they'll go. 501 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 2: With the with the cheaper, the cheaper store. 502 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: So I look, I know the corporations are all greedy 503 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: and they do try to take as much money as 504 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: they can. But that's why a free market is a 505 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: self correcting mechanism. Unless you're telling me that all the 506 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: grocery store CEOs are on a conference call and they 507 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: set the prices every Monday morning, which I don't think 508 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 1: is going on. Economic research, according to The New York Times, 509 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: suggests that the cost of eggs, milk, and other staples, 510 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: because that's what people buy most often, play an outsized 511 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: role in shaping Americans' views of inflation. That's really important 512 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: because you're buying eggs, milk, and everything meat every week, 513 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: maybe every few days, furniture and electronics. Maybe those prices 514 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: haven't gone up as much or the inflation rates coming down. 515 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: But how many times do you buy a television, how 516 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: many times do you buy a sofa? You go years 517 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: between those purchases. You go days between food purchases. One 518 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: of the biggest chunks of your weekly paycheck is it's 519 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: your groceries. Now, imagine how poor people are dealing with 520 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: thirty percent plus increases in food when their food is 521 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: a big percentage of their meager paycheck, and they are 522 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: not buying sofas, and they're not buying televisions because they 523 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: can't like eggs, milk and other staples went up eleven 524 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: percent in twenty twenty two and five percent last year. 525 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: That's sixteen percent, and that's compounded and it hasn't gone 526 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: down since. And so Biden is saying, no, no, it's 527 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: the grocery stores. No, no, no, no, it was your 528 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: economic management now in twenty twenty four, after this has 529 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: been going on for several years. No, no, no, it's 530 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: it's the greedy court. Look, there's plenty of grocery store change. 531 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: They're fighting tooth and nail. I'm a look what Costco does, 532 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: Look what Walmart does. It's just total wise all right, conways, 533 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: Hey now, hey, no, well it rained. I guess everyone 534 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: is aware of that. 535 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 7: And then we have the same puddles in the same 536 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 7: area every time it rains for the last forty years 537 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 7: in California, the one oh one near downtown flooded, seal 538 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 7: beach problem, sill Mar problem, Long Beach problem. I know 539 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 7: where they all are because they've all been around for 540 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 7: thirty years. And you would think somebody would fix them 541 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 7: over thirty years. I can take you on a tour 542 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 7: of the six spots that flood every time it rains, 543 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 7: and I can drive you directly to each. 544 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 2: One of them. 545 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: That that would be without a map, without ways. That's 546 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: an exciting tour, that's right, that's right. I can take 547 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: you to the five and Silmar. 548 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 7: I can take you where it floods in Long Beach, 549 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 7: where the one O one always floods and they don't 550 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 7: do anything about it. 551 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 2: Conway's flooded freeways tour, but you know it. 552 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: But how many places flood in Orange County on a 553 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 1: regular basis? 554 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, that's right, zero zero. 555 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 7: I don't know what they're doing down there, but we 556 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,959 Speaker 7: need to drive some of our best guys down there 557 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 7: and look around. 558 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 2: Our best guys. 559 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what how many guys we got, Yeah, 560 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: I don't We got our best guys. 561 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 7: But you don't hear like lacan Yata or whe does 562 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 7: a Krozier? Where do you live? And I have Claremont. 563 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 7: There's no flooding in Claremont, right that I know. Yeah, 564 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 7: And if there was, they'd fix it and it wouldn't happen. 565 00:30:58,560 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 2: This next year. 566 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: That's right, right, there's no flooding in Beverly Hills. No, 567 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: there's no flooding in play people wouldn't allow that. 568 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 2: That's right. 569 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 7: There's no flooding in Santa Monica. It's just you know, 570 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 7: the people. It's the areas that don't have any influence 571 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 7: and they constantly get ignored. Sillmour Long Beach. I'm still 572 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 7: surprised with Seal Beach though. Seal Beach get gets flooded 573 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 7: like every three weeks and nobody and there's some very expensive, billion, 574 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 7: multimillion dollar homes down there, and they don't put up 575 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 7: a wall or anything down that's odd. 576 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 2: It's pouring over the flood maps. Yes, that's right, that's right. 577 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 7: Well, it's wild to turn on the news and that 578 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 7: newscasts could have been from nineteen seventy eight where all 579 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 7: the flooding was. 580 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 2: I grew up here. I know where they are. 581 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 7: I could take you to the five Freeware that floods 582 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 7: every time there's nine drops. 583 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: I've never seen you so animated that I didn't know 584 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 1: it would be weather. It's unbelievable. Then nobody fixes anything 585 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: around here. You know, Look, if we had a flood 586 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: in the bathroom every time it rained. Then people around 587 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: here would get really pissed off, right, and they do 588 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: something about it. 589 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 7: Maybe there's not enough people pissed off. That's why I 590 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 7: gotta be pissed. 591 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,360 Speaker 2: That's right. You gotta channel all that. That's right. That 592 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 2: in a Kaleena's three notes, what's that? I don't know? 593 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: It says here she's coming on and Dean Sharp on Thursday. Okay, 594 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: I like that guy, very good. Uh, thank you. 595 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 2: Conway's next, And and somebody has COVID around here. I 596 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 2: heard Eric Skuar. 597 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,959 Speaker 1: Great, Yeah, he was here Monday. I'm jumping out the window. 598 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: Probably had it Monday here. Bye, we got Crozier, whose 599 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: disease free at the moment. Hey, you've been listening to 600 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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