1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty. You're listening to the 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: one until four and then after four o'clock John Cobelt 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: Show on demand on the iHeart app, and it's a 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: podcast version. It's the same as the radio show. It 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: just goes faster and you can get also get on 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: the iHeart app the Moist line because you can either 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 1: call it directly at eight seven seven Moist eighty six 9 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six and complain and carry on, 10 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: or iHeart app has that talkback features. I think that 11 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: little microphone so you just press that. I assume it'll work. Big. 12 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: Day to day is Debora Mark returns to work with 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: a Golden Mic Award for Best Newscast under fifteen minutes, 14 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: which she got doing the news on our show here. Yes, congratulations, 15 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: thank you. 16 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 2: I appreciate that I posted a picture of myself and 17 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: John Cobalt because he was kind enough to ask me 18 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: to bring it in. It's so funny because other people 19 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: here said, oh my god, you you bought your you 20 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 2: brought your trophy in, and I said, no, it's not 21 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,639 Speaker 2: like that. John asked me to bring it in because 22 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: he's very proud of the work that I do. 23 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: You a serving table, and you went on tour around 24 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: the whole building saying, hey, look at this. 25 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 2: I did not you asked me to bring it in. 26 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 2: But I have to say because I've I've been doing 27 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: news on your show for so many years, and I 28 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 2: was a fill in before that. You have always been 29 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: such an amazing supportive you have coworker, You always have 30 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 2: my back. 31 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: You're going to ruin my image. 32 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 2: You are the one person here at KFI that I 33 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 2: know I can trust implicitly, and that means a lot 34 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 2: in this business. 35 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: It does well, thank you, I mean it, But you're 36 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,919 Speaker 1: gonna well thank you. I know you're going to destroy 37 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: my image. It's okay. I can't have people thinking of 38 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: a nice guy. 39 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 2: He really John Cobelt is a really nice guy. 40 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much. How much you want for. 41 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 2: That, I'll tell you after this show. 42 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Will Sway now. He writes 43 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: for a National Review. And Will did a story on 44 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: Julie Sue and we've mentioned her a number of times 45 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: over the last few years. Julie was the was running 46 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's Labor Department from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one. 47 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: And man, she allowed thirty billion dollars to go out 48 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: the door. This was the COVID unemployment money, and there 49 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: was no checks, no security checks on this, and people 50 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: stole from all over the world. And we're on the 51 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: hook for that thirty billion. Newsom tried to get the 52 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: FEDS to cover it, and they said no. And of 53 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: course Julie Sue gets a promotion for that. She ends 54 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: up being the She ends up being the acting Secretary 55 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: of Labor in the Biden administration, but she can't get 56 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: the permanent position because I guess enough senators have figured 57 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: out what went on here. And that's only part of 58 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: the sins she committed. Let's get Will sway on, Will. 59 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: How are you? 60 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 3: I'm great, John, Thanks for having me and you make 61 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: me follow an award winning broadcaster. 62 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: This is going to be very difficult. Yeah, I know, 63 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: I'm doing the same thing, so you know we'll have 64 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: to struggle together here. Uh So, anyway, Julie Sue, I mean, 65 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: she was an absolute disaster here in California. I didn't 66 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: even think I didn't think even Biden would would give 67 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: her the top job as the Labor Secretary. Come on, 68 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: why is it all our rejecks, he scoops up. 69 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 3: I think it's because Gavin Newsom is brilliant at basically 70 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 3: firing people upward into the White House and getting them 71 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 3: out of California. That's my hypothesis. 72 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: And then these people will sink Biden and then Newsom 73 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: can take over as the next candidate. 74 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 3: I like your thinking. 75 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, so she go through her rich history. 76 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 3: Well, I think that you know, the most important thing 77 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 3: you've already covered, and that is that she was worn 78 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 3: multiple times, So was her were her predecessors in the. 79 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: Department of Labor. 80 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 3: That our Unemployment Office, the Employment Development Division as it's 81 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: called here nomenclaturally, was liable to all kinds of fraud, 82 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 3: and she ignored this this, As you know, she regarded 83 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 3: any kind of criticism of the Unemployment Office as coming 84 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 3: from her right, that is, people who wanted to deprive 85 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 3: Californians who had a legitimate claim on welfare receipts welfare benefits, 86 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 3: rather that this was an attempt to limit those people's 87 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 3: access to these unemployment benefits. But really what it showed 88 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 3: was that there were all kinds of openings all of 89 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 3: liabilities in our unemployment distributions, and she ignored these. And 90 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 3: then when the COVID dollars hit and the international scammers, 91 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 3: i mean international crime gangs, jumped in on this and 92 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 3: scooped up, as you point out, about thirty billion dollars 93 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 3: plus or maybe thirty three billion, could be upwards of 94 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:52,239 Speaker 3: fifty billion dollars. 95 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: So she didn't believe that there was such a thing 96 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: as an international gang of scammers. I just wonder what 97 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: are the conversations in her office. Somebody must have come 98 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: in and said, Julie, we're getting hosed here. There's billions 99 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: going out the door, and share her reply is, well, 100 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: that's the right wing talking point. 101 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 3: Well, yes, almost after eleven billion dollars went missing, almost 102 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 3: immediately she stood up and said, look, nobody could have 103 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 3: seen this coming. But of course, her own auditor, the 104 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 3: state's own auditor, had warned the Department of Labor for 105 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 3: a decade that this was a problem, and she simply 106 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 3: chose to ignore it for ideological reasons. So I can't 107 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 3: say what the conversations were like. I can imagine what 108 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 3: they're like now. Thank god she's not here, is what 109 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 3: they're saying, and thank God. She's now in a position 110 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 3: to do us a favor, which I think is really 111 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 3: why you've asked me to be here this afternoon. 112 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: And what's the favor. 113 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 3: Well, the favor is that now that she has become 114 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 3: Joe Biden's acting Secretary of Labor, she's issued a new 115 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 3: guidance memo in which she says that California and other 116 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 3: states that lost COVID money don't have to pay it back. 117 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 3: The federal taxpayers will pick up the check as long 118 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 3: as the state affirms that it did the best it 119 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 3: could to try to reclaim all these lost billions. So 120 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 3: Julie Sue loses thirty billion, gets into in California, then 121 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 3: gets into the Biden administration, and forgives herself for having 122 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 3: lost thirty billion dollars. 123 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: Has that happened? 124 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:25,799 Speaker 3: Nobody's going to have to pay nothing. 125 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: So this is the proposal. 126 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 3: Oh, it's not a proposal. It's an actual Department of 127 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 3: Labor guidance. You can read it at the Department of Labor. 128 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 3: But it's interesting how this came out. If you have 129 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 3: thirty seconds, i'll tell you California was fifteen months late 130 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 3: filing its constitutionally required financial forms for the year twenty 131 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 3: twenty two, fifteen months late. So when that document finally 132 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 3: hit on a Friday afternoon, March fifteenth, just a couple 133 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 3: of weeks ago at four or fifteen pm, when you know, 134 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 3: because you're a journalist, that's when you try to hide 135 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 3: news journalists and readers. They released this information, and buried 136 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 3: in this financial document was a note from the auditor 137 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 3: in California saying, look, I can't really get a good 138 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 3: fix on our finances because there's this deal going on 139 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 3: between the Department of Labor in Washington and our own 140 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 3: Department of Labor here in the state over this obligation 141 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 3: we have to repay thirty three billion dollars. And it 142 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 3: cites this memo that Julie Sue has crafted in her 143 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 3: current position as the evidence that this money might be 144 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 3: forgiven and if it does, it will improve California's financial outlook. 145 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 3: So it's buried in the document, literally at page one 146 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 3: hundred and eighty six of a very complicated financial doct I. 147 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: And yeah, and the language as I've been reading it 148 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: today is really complicated. It's actually hard to make out 149 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: exactly what this was, which is a bad sign. But 150 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: You're right. It's about Julie Sue giving yourself an absolution 151 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: for all the crimes she committed here, that's right. 152 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 3: And I got to say that I would not have 153 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 3: discovered this word not for my own staff. You said 154 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 3: I worked for National Review. I actually write for them, 155 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 3: but my day job is I am president of the 156 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 3: California Policy Center. And it was my financial staff who 157 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 3: pointed out this thing that I would never have even seen. 158 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 3: It's buried right before a bunch of spreadsheets, and right 159 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 3: at the end of it, as I say, one hundred 160 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 3: and eighty six pages of goblins, and it really truly is. 161 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 3: And you know, kudos to my colleagues and my friend 162 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 3: Mark Joffey at Cato, John Morlock. Now I sound like 163 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 3: an Academy Award winner, but all these people, truly were 164 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 3: the guys who read through this document said this is 165 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 3: what we need to pay attention to. 166 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: Well, and there's there's nobody who can stop this. Huh, 167 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: this this thirty billion dollar forgiveness clause. Julie Sue just 168 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,719 Speaker 1: declares it and and she's she forgives herself and then 169 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: that's it. 170 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 3: Well, that that would appear to be the deal, but 171 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 3: you I know you've had Kevin Kylie, a congressman from 172 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 3: Play County up north, on your show a few times. 173 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 3: Kevin is an assembly member in the state Assembly when 174 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 3: Julie Sue was at her worst in that year twenty 175 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 3: twenty twenty twenty one, and he has led the fight, 176 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 3: I would argue, even from the House, which has no 177 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 3: Senate confirmation power. He's in the House, but he has 178 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 3: really led the fight against Julie Sue's nomination to become 179 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 3: the real Secretary of Labor. That's why she's saddled with 180 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 3: this acting title because the Senate won't confirmer, and the 181 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 3: Senate won't confirmer because Kevin Kyley is on a one 182 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 3: man campaign to just really let the country know what's 183 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 3: at stake if Julie Sue becomes fully empowered. But you 184 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 3: know this is right now locked up in federal courts 185 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 3: who say that Biden can keep her in the office 186 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 3: as long as possible. But I do believe this will 187 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 3: lead to hearings. This particular provision is so obviously self 188 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 3: dealing that you know, you have all these other taxpayers 189 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 3: who are in states that paid their debt they paid 190 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 3: back to the federal government loans from the covid era 191 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 3: but not California. And this is just so obviously self dealing. 192 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 3: I hope to god it gets the light of day 193 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 3: in the Senate. 194 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: Yeah well, I mean that's why we wanted to have 195 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: you on here to explain this. I mean, this is 196 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: this is astonishing that she can she can forgive herself. 197 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: I mean, it just doesn't seem right, right that the 198 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: instinct in my gut is no, that can't be. 199 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 3: You're right, It is such an obvious conflict of interest 200 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 3: that it would seem to confound almost our contradict almost 201 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 3: every law we've got in the books about what real 202 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 3: small are republican small d democratic government is supposed to 203 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 3: be about. But this is clearly a way for Newsom, 204 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 3: who has tried to let this thing slide before. Let's 205 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 3: not forget the first thing that Newsom did when he 206 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 3: when it became clear this money was gone, was refused 207 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 3: to pay back the loans out of the general fund 208 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 3: because he wanted to claim that he had one hundred 209 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 3: billion dollars surplus that he could spend on a bunch 210 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 3: of other stuff. We'll all remember that from twenty twenty two. Yeah, right, 211 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 3: But he would not pay this back, and so what 212 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 3: happens next is that triggers an automatic increase in your 213 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 3: in federal employment payroll taxes. So any California business paying 214 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 3: payroll was suddenly hit with this new searcharge about a 215 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 3: year and a half ago because Newsom wouldn't pay this 216 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 3: debt off. Well, this is Newsom's way of getting California 217 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 3: out from under that, and that is to have Julie 218 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 3: Sue simply forgive Julie Sue. 219 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: This is breathtaking. I mean in its dishonesty and brazeness. 220 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: It's just I mean, I shouldn't be shocked by this crowd, 221 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: but wow, that is dead is unbelievable. 222 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 3: When that's your assessment, John, then I get really scared 223 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 3: because you've seen some stuff. 224 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,959 Speaker 1: This number always stood out to me. Thirty billion dollars 225 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: for one program that and it easily could have been stopped. 226 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: I mean, they gave they gave money to Scott Peterson 227 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 1: while he was on death row at San Quentin. He 228 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: got a check. All right, I gotta go good time, 229 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, I gotta get one. Will thanks for 230 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: coming on, Will swing from he writes for the National Review, 231 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: among other things. 232 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 233 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 4: six forty. 234 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: Well, hard to believe, but it took twenty four days 235 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: for the La County Registrar's office to count all the 236 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 1: votes in the March fifth primary election. Twenty five days, 237 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: you believe this, And finally they did, and we've got 238 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: the final numbers with Gascone and Adam Schiff, and Gascone 239 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: ended up with twenty five percent of the vote and 240 00:12:54,920 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: that's about his approval rating. And then Nathan Hackman was 241 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: second at sixteen and he might say, oh, that's bad, 242 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 1: he's nine points behind. No, Actually, Hakman is going to 243 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: get all the non gas going support, well not all 244 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: of it, but most of it because Hawkman has got 245 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: a poll that his campaign did of eight hundred and 246 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: sixty one people that he did a few weeks ago 247 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: and found that he's poised to beat Gascon by a 248 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: two to one margin come November. Except everybody's go out, 249 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 1: has to go out and vote. Now, you're going to 250 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: get a lot of propaganda from the liars at the 251 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 1: La Times and a lot of lazy TV stories in 252 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 1: the media. But trust me, Oh you don't have to 253 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: trust me. Use your own eyes. You know things are worse. 254 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: You know, you don't feel the way you did five 255 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: years ago. It's visceral. You see it, your friends tell 256 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: you about it, you read it in the local, next 257 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: door app or whatever source of local information you have. 258 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot worse, and there's a there's 259 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: a lot more crime. You know, the criminals are getting 260 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: spun through the system rapidly. Now. Nathan Hockman is going 261 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: to use every lever he has to slow it down 262 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: and stop it. And there's a lot a district attorney 263 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: can do. As we found out, there's a tremendous amount 264 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: of discretion. Gascone uses his discretion for evil and it 265 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: leads to a lot of suffering for normal people. The criminals, 266 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: of course, they celebrate and they cheer. I mean, he 267 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: actually had a an audio clip of a guy celebrating 268 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: that Gascone was a prisoner, celebrating that Gascone was the 269 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: district attorney. It's gonna be it's gonna be a massive change, 270 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: but we had you know, everyone has to keep focused 271 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: and vote properly in November. Gascone, you know, could could 272 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: easily get about forty percent U and maybe a little more. 273 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: But I fifty nine percent of the people in Los 274 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: Angeles County feel less safe than they did four years ago. 275 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: Only nine percent feel more safe. And I don't know 276 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: where those nine percent are. Maybe they live in gated communities. 277 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: But fifty nine percent feel less safe. His approval rating 278 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: is about twenty five percent. No candidate survives public opinion 279 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: like that. We just have to translate the public opinion, 280 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: the public feelings, the public knowledge into actual votes. There 281 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: was an oddity. Did you notice that there were two 282 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: There were two races for US Senate, one to fill 283 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: out the last two months of the year and one 284 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: to fill out the full six year term. And something 285 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: odd happened. Now we had to call I think the 286 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: day of the primary to find because I thought out 287 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: the remainder of the term meant whoever won in the 288 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: March primary would fill out the remainder of this year 289 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: as US Senator. And we found out quickly before we 290 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: went on the air that it wasn't true that the 291 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: remainder of the term is just to fill out November 292 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: and December of twenty twenty four, and then the six 293 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: year term starts in January of twenty twenty five. Well, 294 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: the final vote total, Adam Shift won by twenty eight 295 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: thousand votes. I'm sorry, Adam Shift won by less than 296 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: five thousand votes over Steve Garvey. So Shift is first, 297 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: Garvey second. This is for the full term starting in 298 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. But in the separate race, Garvey won 299 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: the race to be senator for two months by almost 300 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand votes. Now that's just coming out of 301 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,360 Speaker 1: the primary. I guess there's going to be two separate Yeah, 302 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: there'll be two separate elections in November, one for the 303 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 1: final two months and one for the full six year term. 304 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: But isn't it odd that Shift would win by five 305 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: thousand votes for six years Garvy? Though, when you reduce 306 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: it to two months, people, he won by three hundred 307 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: thousand votes, which says to me there's something there to 308 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: build on that. There are a lot of people who 309 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: liked the idea of Steve Garvey being senator. It was 310 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: almost like, you know, I'm not really voting against him. 311 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,640 Speaker 1: Here's a consolation prize. I'll vote for him for two 312 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: months then have Shift takeover in January. We got to 313 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: give him something. He seems like a good guy. It's 314 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: that kind of feeling that can that can be built 315 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 1: on depending on how Garvy runs the campaign, because that's 316 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: a significant number of votes. In this case, We've got 317 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: more coming up. 318 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 319 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 320 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,439 Speaker 1: We're on from one until four, and then after four 321 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. 322 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: You could listen to what you missed. Conway is coming 323 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: up at four o'clock. The el Segunder Times just posted 324 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: some something minutes ago. How many drought stories did you 325 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:33,239 Speaker 1: read during I forgot what the whole was like. The 326 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 1: wet weather has been the last two years, but the 327 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: five years before that, just hundreds of drought stories. Remember 328 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 1: it was to the point where we couldn't water our lawns. 329 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: We were supposed to take five minute showers. They told 330 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: us to have a radio and a timer and listen 331 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: to either one song on the radio or set a 332 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: five minute timer, and at the end of the song 333 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: or when the timer went off, you're supposed to exit 334 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: the shower and end cleaning your body. That's all the 335 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: hygiene you're allowed for the day. Well, and there's all 336 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: these terrible drought restrictions and they jacked up the price 337 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: of water. Well, guess what happened in the last two years. 338 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: In the last two years, we've had the wettest back 339 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: to back rain seasons in Los Angeles history, second wettest, 340 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: the second wettest. The wettest period was eighteen eighty eight 341 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: to eighteen ninety and they got a total of fifty 342 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: four inches of rain. Now they look at the weather 343 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: season running from October through September, so October of twenty 344 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: twenty two through September of twenty twenty four, and we're 345 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: at fifty two point four to six inches. We get 346 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 1: another inch and a half of rain between now and 347 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: September thirty and we are going to break the record. 348 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: We're just an inch and a half. Eighteen eighty eight 349 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: to eighteen ninety was fifty four inches, and so far 350 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: with six months left in this two year timeframe, we're 351 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: at fifty two and a half. According to one weather official. 352 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 1: We're obviously way way, way above normal for two years 353 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: in a row for a dry climate like Los Angeles area. 354 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: It's huge. Now, how much of this rain did they capture? 355 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 1: How much are sitting in reservoirs or sitting in storage areas, 356 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: and how much was allowed to run off into the 357 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 1: ocean or sent off into the ocean, because that's the 358 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: thing they carped at us about the drought, complain that 359 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: we are using too much water. And you know, there 360 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: was a story last week and I think I still 361 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: have it is that's it's farming. Well, we've talked about 362 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: this for years, how farming uses an extraordinary amount of water. 363 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: But there are certain crops that use an excessive amount 364 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: of water, and they are grown, obviously for profit, but 365 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: the profit comes from overseas sales, it's not from American use. 366 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: It's one thing to say, yeah, they're making a big 367 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: profit selling food to Americans. But the almonds, for example, 368 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: the almonds use eleven percent of the state's entire water 369 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: supply eleven percent, and three quarters of the almonds go 370 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: to China. And so everybody should deeply, deeply resent and 371 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: fight back the ideas that we have to conserve, that 372 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: we can't water our lawn, that we can't wash our 373 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: car in the driveway, that we have to take five 374 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: minute showers, it's all nonsense. In fact, there are a 375 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: number of crops that take a lot of water and 376 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: they can be replaced by less water intensive crops. So 377 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: it's by choice that they plant these heavy water intensive crops, 378 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 1: and it's by choice that they sell the almonds, for example, 379 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: overseas to make their profit. But it's not us using 380 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: an unfair share of water. So all the punitive measures 381 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: that water companies and governments have taken against us are nonsense. 382 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: They're garbage. They're just abusing us. The farming industry is 383 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 1: the one that's taking the water, and it just seems 384 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 1: like we should get our allotment first without any restrictions, 385 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: and then let the farming companies do the best they can. Again, 386 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: it's not vital necessarily to the food we eat, not 387 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: if they're blowing eleven percent of the water supply and almonds, 388 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 1: and three quarters of that goes to China. So I'm 389 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: going to look more at this story. It just came 390 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: out a few minutes ago, but you know, it's likely 391 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: that by time September comes, we'll have had the wettest 392 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 1: two year period in the history of Los Angeles. 393 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 2: John, remember when I told you that I'm I'm going 394 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 2: to take a couple of weeks, I'm going to go 395 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 2: I'm going to take a vacation. That's why I've been 396 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 2: kind of freaked out about flying. Well, and then I 397 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 2: told you who was going to be filling in for me? Yes, well, 398 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 2: Robin Bertolucci, our boss just came in and she has 399 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 2: a different a different plan. So we have we have 400 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 2: a different coach, we have a different anchor. 401 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,199 Speaker 1: What is this leading up to? 402 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 2: Well, so I'm going to introduce my fill in for you. 403 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,360 Speaker 1: Uh oh yeah, uh oh. I got to pick my stomach. 404 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: What who's this? What is this? Identify yourself? 405 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 3: Hello, it's me. 406 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 5: It's your wife who's sick. It doesn't sound very good, 407 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 5: but they chose me. 408 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 2: She's going to be filling it for me for two weeks. 409 00:23:54,880 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 1: No fool, no, no, are you serious? 410 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 5: Yeah, what is your problem? Like, I've never done this before? 411 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:08,360 Speaker 1: Hey, you might. 412 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 2: You might like it so much that I may not 413 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 2: becoming back. 414 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 1: You've been you've been well, at least it's another debora here, exactly. 415 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 2: You won't be messing up the name. 416 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 6: No, no, no, oh, hell though you can have him during 417 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 6: the day, absolutely not. But you know, And finally everybody's 418 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 6: scratching her hand. But they're like, look, she's gonna screw 419 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 6: up everybody's name anyway, just throwing the other Deeborra, the 420 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 6: other Debra. 421 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: She's been definitely sick for five days, I know. So 422 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: I mean, if you sound like this, you're not gonna 423 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: be able to do it. She'll be better. Are you 424 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: a serious? 425 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 3: Wait? 426 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: When? Yeah? 427 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 3: Well serious? 428 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 5: When teb? When do you leave the should? 429 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 6: Uh? 430 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 2: Well, I will not be on the air next week 431 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 2: or the following week. 432 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 433 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 2: Is that okay with you? 434 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 7: Are you? 435 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 2: I know you do a podcast. I mean you're really busy. 436 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 5: So I told them it's fine, Just what to do 437 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 5: I have to get like familiar with you? 438 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 3: Question? 439 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: So well, I was told that you're going to come 440 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 2: in tomorrow and you're gonna train. 441 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: With me. 442 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,959 Speaker 5: Tomorrow. Is not a good idea idea I'm still not 443 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 5: feeling gry. But if I could commit at the end 444 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 5: of the week, John, calm down. 445 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the calendar here, John, Yes, yes, yes. 446 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 5: Well thank you. But the only thing sometimes you say stuff. 447 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 5: Sometimes when you say stuff, it pisses me off. 448 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: So well, that's what I mean. You're gonna you're gonna 449 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna be reacting everything I do here. 450 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, well it's only two weeks, so don't worry 451 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 5: about it anyway. 452 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: It'll be fun, all right, sure, all. 453 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 5: Right, we'll talk about it when you come home. 454 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 2: All right, John, are you really that gullible? Deborah? Let's 455 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 2: do it. 456 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 5: April fool, April. 457 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,880 Speaker 1: Fool you you you you know. I vascillated. 458 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 6: I did. 459 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: I didn't believe. At first I believed it, and then 460 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,239 Speaker 1: I didn't, and then I went back to believing it 461 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 1: because you guys kept selling it, and then. 462 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 3: You should come in. 463 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 2: That would be kind of funny. We could do the 464 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 2: news together one day and terrorize John. 465 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 5: We really should, I swear to God him, just go 466 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 5: back and forth and he'll be like, what the hell 467 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 5: is going on? 468 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:42,199 Speaker 3: You know? 469 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 5: When John starts out on the radio. I had this 470 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 5: little character that I would do, and her name was 471 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 5: gretam Alone, and John didn't know for years, and I 472 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 5: would call in as a caller as gretam Alone. 473 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: I forgot oh yeah, John, yes, and drove Ken crazy 474 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: because I can imagine, you know, little. 475 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 5: Wait wait, and little gretam Alone was an old lady 476 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 5: and Ken kind of thought she was very sweet, and 477 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 5: she she's a little personality of her own. Little gretam 478 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 5: Alone and. 479 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: He usually figured out fake characters, like fake voices people 480 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: would call in with, but he didn't figure you out. 481 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 5: Wow, that's awesome it you didn't figure it out either. 482 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: No, I didn't figure it out. I haven't figured you 483 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: out yet. 484 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 2: No, thank you for playing. And you know, Deborah, I 485 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 2: have to say I have to give the credit to 486 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 2: your wife because she said somebody needs to do an 487 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 2: April Fool's joke. So literally we came up with this concoction. 488 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 2: Literally like three minutes. 489 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: You two should be banned from speaking with each other. 490 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: That is not a good combination for me. 491 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 6: While Robin is running down the hallway. 492 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, it was a bigger April fool joke on her. 493 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 5: Well, honestly, I think you could have. You could do worse. 494 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,239 Speaker 5: So maybe one. 495 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: Oh actually that's a's a actually an intriguing idea. 496 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, hey everybody by feel better, Thank you, 497 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 5: bye bye. 498 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: She has been wiped out since last Thursday. She can 499 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: get out of bed till seven o'clock on seven. 500 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, she sounds like she said. 501 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, took a COVID test though was negative. 502 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, everybody, stick, I mean to be perfectly 503 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 2: honest with you. I'm fighting a cold too. I mean, 504 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 2: I'm not contagious. I don't have COVID, so don't I 505 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 2: don't want anybody here worrying. 506 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,360 Speaker 1: But it's it's just tell Conway. 507 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 2: I'm going to stay away from Conway. 508 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: He'll be hiding in his house for a week. 509 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbelts on demand from KFI AM six. 510 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: Forty Conway coming up in minutes. Well, there's a there's 511 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: a there's a story. You know. It may be that 512 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: you are not allowed to fire white guys because they're white. 513 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: It's hard to believe, but there was a big lawsuit 514 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: in North Carolina and that's what that's what. The judges 515 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: decided that a white man can't be fired for being white. 516 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 1: And that's been going on. Happened to David Daval. David 517 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: Daval was a senior vice president at no Vent Health, 518 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: which is a big medical group in North Carolina, multi 519 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: billion dollar operation. Senior vice president got fired in July 520 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and everybody was shocked because he had no 521 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: record of any criticism on his performance, no reason for 522 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: his termination. But his duties were given to two women, 523 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: one black, one white. And then when a permanent replacement 524 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: was hired. All three finalists were black women, and they 525 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: found through the lawsuit no Vent was deeply interested in 526 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: the demographic makeup of its workforce. They had told Daval 527 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: that he was being let go because Navante was going 528 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: in a different direction, but his old boss told the 529 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: corporate recruiter a few months later he'd be happy to 530 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: hire mister Duval again, that he was only let go 531 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: because Novant wanted a different point of view, a different flare, 532 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: all those buzzwords, basically to cover up racism. And it 533 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: wasn't just Duval. Deval supervisor went from having seven white 534 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: males directly reporting to him in twenty eighteen down to 535 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: two in twenty nineteen, one in twenty twenty and twenty 536 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: twenty one zero. In other words, seven white guys were 537 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: fired or reassigned and replaced with other demographics. So the 538 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: jury heard from ten witnesses, looked at one hundred exhibits, 539 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: and they found that Novent had unfairly discriminated against David 540 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: Dval because of his race and sex. He was a 541 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: white man, and he was awarded two point three million 542 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: dollars in back pay, and then another one point one 543 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,959 Speaker 1: million dollars in lieu of reinstatement. So he ended up 544 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: with a three point four million dollar package. And according 545 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: to the appeals court panel, there was more than sufficient 546 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: evidence for a reasonable jury to determine that Deval's race, sex, 547 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: or both motivated Duvant to fire him. Navant's arguments to 548 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: the contrary are unconvincing, unconvincing. So there you go. A 549 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: white guy gets unfairly fired for his skin color, goes 550 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: to court and wins because I think it's obvious that 551 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: you can't do that, and a lot of companies have 552 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: been doing this stuff and getting away with it. And 553 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: what you have to do is fight back. When the 554 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: law says no discrimination based on color, it means no 555 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: discrimination based on color, period, doesn't matter what the color is. 556 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: So David Duval gets almost three and a half million 557 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: dollars in compensation. 558 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 8: Conways, here, hey, now, hey, now, Steve Gregory is coming on. 559 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 8: There was a huge bust and the undercover bust involving 560 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 8: the l A. Sheriff's Department. They're cyber crimes and we're 561 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 8: gonna talk to him about that. But that's a big deal, 562 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 8: big major deal going on. And then Michael monks. You know, 563 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 8: the local reporter here, the union says the fast food 564 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 8: owners can afford the minimum wage hike, but the fast 565 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 8: food owners say, not so fast food. And then Billy Ray, 566 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 8: a one of the most sought after writers and directors 567 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 8: in Hollywood, you wrote that, you know one of your 568 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 8: favorite movies, that was that one with the the He 569 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 8: was on the ship and they captain I what was 570 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 8: the name of it, Captain what was it, Captain Phillips, 571 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 8: Captain Phillips. 572 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: Oh, I remember that movie? Yeah, great, wrote that. He 573 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: wrote that. Yeah, he's up for an oscar John. That's 574 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: a big deal. I've known I've known this guy since 575 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,479 Speaker 1: I was in third grade. Is that right? Well, one, 576 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: if you made it, that's right. Yeah, but he's coming 577 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: on my show, how about that? That's right, that's right. 578 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: You showed him. But I remember what he got me 579 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: in third grade. 580 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 8: I took him my two friends, Matt McDaniel and Billy 581 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 8: ray and I took him both the Disneyland for my 582 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 8: third grade birth old eight or nine years old. Yeah, 583 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 8: and those are my two best friends. And now look 584 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 8: and now look at him. He's uh, you know, he's 585 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 8: kicking ass in the movie business. And I'm listening to 586 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 8: uh Deborah Mark and your wife to April Fool's pranks. 587 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: Some people get farther in life. That's you know where 588 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,360 Speaker 1: she's going on vacation. She's going to do bai I know, 589 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: does she not read newspapers? She I told her she's 590 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: likely to get in prison there there there, that's not America. No. 591 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: I said, look, you get arrested, you're calling here first, 592 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 1: and don't drink, don't don't do anything right, don't talk 593 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: back to anybody. 594 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 8: Do talk back right? And now where are those uh 595 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 8: you know, uh something to cover yoursel that's right, throw 596 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 8: throw something over, respect their their culture. 597 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's what my dad always said. It's 598 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: not likely that she's going to get through that. But 599 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 1: she's going to the Maltves. I mean that's on their 600 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: way there. 601 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 8: I get that, but to go through Dubaios, she's not 602 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 8: getting the Maldives. 603 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: Don't have to worry about that part. Dig dong with you. 604 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: By the way, Happy April Fools, thank you, and we've 605 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 1: got well at Ashley Ashley Johnson's right, remember yeah, don't 606 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: actually Johnson live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. 607 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 7: A raise in a minimum wage. I'm Ashley Johnson live 608 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 7: from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Economic scholars say 609 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 7: the new twenty dollars an hour minimum wage for fast 610 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 7: food workers is a good thing, with. 611 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 9: The workers who sling whoppers, Big Max and Frappuccino is 612 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 9: getting a pay raise. Some restaurant industry leaders have predicted 613 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 9: severe price hikes and mass layoffs, but the Roosevelt Institutes 614 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 9: Ali Bustamante says fast food restaurants have been increasing prices 615 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 9: for ten years to shore profit margins. 616 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,320 Speaker 1: This increase in markups has really largely led to an 617 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 1: increased buffer in the profits that businesses are taking home. 618 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 9: You see Berkeley economics professor Michael Wrights as minimum wage 619 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 9: raises lead to increased pay for low wage workers, and 620 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 9: price hikes are so minimal consumers hardly notice. 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