1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: app so much to cover this hour. We're on every 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: day from one until four. There's been a lot of 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 2: stuff today. So if you missed anything in the first 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 2: two hours after four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand, 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 2: it's the podcast same as the radio show, and you 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: could listen to whatever you missed. We're gonna talk now 9 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 2: with Katie Grimes gat oh oh uh. Well before I 10 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: talk to Katie just we do this every day. We 11 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: would like to know. We would like to know what 12 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: the cause of the Palisades fire was. If anybody knows, 13 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 2: if you could call in here, may you know, maybe 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: a news news tip for Deborah. You know Calray Lopez, 15 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 2: our producer, if you know what started the fire. It 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: looks like it's being covered up by the city and 17 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: the La Fire Department. I do not believe after two 18 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 2: and a half months, they don't don't know what the 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 2: cause of the fire is, Okay, and I'm guessing it's 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: one of two things. It's a homeless guy and they 21 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: don't want to admit that, or the fire department screwed 22 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 2: up and did not monitor the remnants of that fireworks 23 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 2: blaze from New Year's Day morning, one of the two 24 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,839 Speaker 2: I think of the top two suspects from what I've read, 25 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 2: So they know by now and they're not telling us, 26 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 2: and I think everybody should know. So if anybody does 27 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: know on the inside, and you want anonymous, anonymously give 28 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: us some information, you know we're going to take it. 29 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 2: We'll give out a Temper's home phone number. 30 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: No, we're not going to do that. You can have 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: a scoop. You can email me. 32 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: Okay, let's get to Katie grimes on now. Because also 33 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: another thing we do not every day, but quite often, 34 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: as we look at gas prices around the country, and 35 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 2: right now, gas goes for two sixty six a gallon 36 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 2: in Mississippi, and there are twenty four states where the 37 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 2: gas is less than three dollars a gallon. There's forty 38 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: two states where gas is less than three twenty five, 39 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 2: and we're at four sixty four. We're at four sixty 40 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 2: four and Massachusetts, I'm sorry, what did I say. Mississippi 41 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: is at two sixty six, So we are almost ninety nine. 42 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 2: We're almost two dollars higher, almost two full dollars higher 43 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 2: than Mississippi. And there's a new study app by a 44 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 2: USC professor Michael Mischi which has found that California's high 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: gas prices are largely self inflicted. All right, now, let's 46 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: get to Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com. 47 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 3: Katie, how are you hi, John, I'm well, thank you. 48 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 2: Tell me tell me about this study. Michael Mischi is 49 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 2: a USC professor. I hope I'm pronouncing his name right. 50 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. What is he found? 51 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, he he's written for us before about the 52 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 3: gas prices, and you know what it costs in California, 53 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 3: particularly by the way, I just paid five dollars and 54 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 3: fifteen cents a gallon day before yesterday, So yeah, we're 55 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 3: pretty bad in Texas to forty five a gallon. So yeah, 56 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 3: that's how bad it is here. So what what especially 57 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:23,679 Speaker 3: niche found over He examined data over fifty years and 58 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 3: found that this is not only self imposed, but it's 59 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 3: he names the factors of course, aggressive environmental policies, costly reporting, 60 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 3: and compliance to regulatory and environmental mandates. You know, it's 61 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:43,119 Speaker 3: all the same garbage we're dealing with today, only on steroids. 62 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 3: Today as opposed to you know what it was thirty 63 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 3: years ago, even fifty years ago, and a. 64 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 2: Tremendous amount of taxes and fees that are tech price 65 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 2: always exactly. 66 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 3: And so I include his list in here of the 67 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 3: sources that he found. The other thing that was so 68 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: interesting is there is yet another study, and this one 69 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:09,119 Speaker 3: comes from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, that reports 70 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 3: the oil and gas industry contributes hundreds of billions of 71 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 3: dollars to the state's economy. And John, think about it 72 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 3: at its reduced capacity right now in California, they're still 73 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 3: contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to our economy through 74 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 3: nice big paychecks to employees, taxes, state, local, as well 75 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 3: as federal. You know, you think about what it would 76 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 3: be like if we ramped up oil and gas extraction 77 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 3: and production in this state the way it was thirty 78 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 3: years ago. Our state would not only be energy independent, 79 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 3: would be selling it to other states. 80 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: We would be making a lot of money. 81 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 3: You got it. Yeah, we wouldn't have this what's the 82 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 3: budget deficit? Anywhere from seven billion to seventy five billion. 83 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: I can't keep track, but it's huge. 84 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: It depends what type of Lie Newsome is spinning on 85 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 2: any given day. 86 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 3: Exactly, yes, exactly. The other thing that was so interesting 87 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 3: in Professor Mishi's study is that when he says we're 88 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 3: super highly dependent on oil imports, they're coming from Iraq, Brazil, Guiana, 89 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 3: and Ecuador. The other thing that was so interesting is 90 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty two, California imported five point six percent 91 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 3: of its crude oil five point six percent in eighty 92 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 3: two from foreign sources. Today it's sixty point seven percent. 93 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,239 Speaker 1: Sixty point seven percent. 94 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 3: Wow. And what's so irritating is we are capable of 95 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 3: producing our own. And so I think that these two 96 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 3: studies I squished into one article because I think they're 97 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 3: terribly important. I'm going to stay on top of them. 98 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 3: They're both a couple hundred pages long, so there's. 99 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: More to report. People just don't understand how badly we're 100 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 2: getting screwed, how badly managed this whole situation is. 101 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: You know, I look at it. 102 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 2: You can look online at Triple a dot com. Actually 103 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 2: they have a page gasprices dot Triple a dot com. 104 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 2: They have a state by state gas price chart, and 105 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 2: I look at it all the time. That's right, And 106 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: like I said, twenty four states are less than three 107 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 2: bucks a gallon on average. There's forty two states that 108 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 2: are less than three and a quarter. Then you go 109 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: down to the bottom. In California, we're sitting by ourselves at. 110 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: Four sixty five. 111 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 2: But that's an average, Like you said in Sacramento, it's 112 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 2: five point fifteen, yes, exactly. 113 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 3: And again we're paying higher gas prices than Hawaii, which 114 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 3: has to import one hundred percent of their oil and gas. 115 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is done on purpose. It is 116 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 2: just fanatical, it's irrational, it's stupid and people and the 117 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: biggest complaint people have about California, the number one reason 118 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 2: they move out is the high cost of living. 119 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: Well, everything starts with energy. 120 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: You can't manufacture any products, you can't deliver any products 121 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 2: without having energy. And the energy here is so ridiculously 122 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 2: expensive and for no reason. 123 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 3: No, and as you say, it's artificial, this is being 124 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: done to us, this is being ordered, and it is 125 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 3: killing us. I mean, when you think about the jobs 126 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 3: that would be made available to people, and these are 127 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 3: high paying, good benefit jobs. When you think about the 128 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 3: amount of money that would be flushed right back into 129 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 3: our economy, we're even at our staggering state. Right now, 130 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 3: we're supposed to still be the fifth largest economy in 131 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 3: the world. It really doesn't take into account all the 132 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 3: debt we have also, But I mean, you think about 133 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 3: all of that, even think about things like these companies 134 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 3: are very generous. They give to charitable organizations, They support 135 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,559 Speaker 3: communities and schools. So when they are reduced and moving 136 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 3: out of state, those groups lose money too. 137 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 2: Modern life happens because of oil and gas. You take 138 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 2: away oil and gas, we are living back in the 139 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 2: fifteen hundreds. Yeah, exactly. 140 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 3: Obviously that's where they want us. 141 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 2: Right, and we'd all have incomes like people had in 142 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 2: the fifteen hundreds. We would just be growing some fruits 143 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: and vegetables and raising a couple of chickens and helping 144 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 2: they lay eggs. That life wouldn't be much more than that. 145 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 2: And it just it angers me to no end, this 146 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: constant garbage and nonsense about oil and gas companies. That's 147 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: the lifeline for the modern world is gas and oil. 148 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 2: The modern world simply doesn't exist without it. And for 149 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: us to have to pay four and a half five 150 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 2: bucks a gallon and everyone else is paying two sixty 151 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 2: three dollars a gallon is just unconscionable. 152 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: Why do people put up with this stuff in the state? 153 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 4: What is it? 154 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: There's so much stupid stuff put up with me? 155 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I guess it hasn't gotten bad enough. 156 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 3: I mean, when you think about the hundreds of thousands 157 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 3: of jobs that the oil and gas is currently supporting, 158 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 3: and how much more, and you look around at all 159 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 3: the people not working living on the streets, you just 160 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 3: think life could be so much better in California the 161 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 3: way you and I remember it. 162 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, not that long ago either, No, it wasn't. 163 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: No, I'm not. 164 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 2: I mean, I can't believe you just take all the 165 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 2: oil that comes through on imports and Iraq gives us 166 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 2: twenty one percent of our import oil a rock. 167 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: How is that? 168 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 2: Because because news always carries on as if this is 169 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 2: some moral crusade against the oil and gas companies, he's 170 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 2: taking twenty one percent of the imported oil from a 171 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 2: terrace nation that financed all the mayhem in the Middle East. 172 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 3: Exactly, I know, I know what. Yeah, when you look 173 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 3: at what we're sitting on, it should it should be 174 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 3: mandatory that we tap our own resource before we buy 175 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 3: anything out of the state or out of the country. 176 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 2: All right, Well keep this up, all right, because I'm 177 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 2: gonna keep doing a lot more on this as well. Again, 178 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 2: this is the stuff people don't know. Michael Mischi, USC 179 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: professor has done this study on the on the price 180 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 2: of gasoline. Why do we pay so much? It's almost 181 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 2: entirely self inflicted by the California government. All Right, Katie Grimes, 182 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 2: californiaglobe dot com, go read her story there. 183 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: Talk with you again soon. 184 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 3: Thanks, John. 185 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: All Right, we come back. 186 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 2: Los Angeles has a billion dollar budget deficit because of 187 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 2: the stupidity. We really have some of the dumbest, the 188 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 2: dumbest politicians in the country, maybe the world. And it 189 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 2: starts with Newsom in Karen Bass. They knew months ago 190 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: there's gonna be a huge budget deficit, and they completely 191 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 2: ignored all the warning signs. And now there's an emergency. 192 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 2: And now it looks like Karen Bass is going to 193 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 2: do the Elon Musk dance. They're gonna have to lay 194 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 2: off thousands of government why because we're broke, just like 195 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 2: the federal government. Bass is Trump, Who's going to play 196 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: the role of Elon Musk and do the cutting. 197 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 198 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: Forty coming up after three point thirty. 199 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: Lunatic anarchists are setting fire to Tesla's because we're laying 200 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 2: off deadbeat government workers. I like to remind people that 201 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 2: ninety four percent of government workers were not even showing 202 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: up to the office regularly. 203 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: All right. 204 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 2: These people didn't care about their jobs enough to go 205 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 2: to the office every day, ninety four percent. So why 206 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 2: do you give a crap? If they got laid off? 207 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 2: You show up, don't you. And on top of that, 208 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 2: they're using your money, that's that's their paycheck. Is your 209 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: money not to show up? And they're getting rid of 210 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 2: the education department or at least as much as the 211 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 2: law allows. 212 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: And why not? 213 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just looking at test scores across the country. 214 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 2: Do you don't like seventy percent of more than seventy 215 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 2: percent of fourth graders don't meet minimal reading and math proficiency. 216 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 2: Seventy percent of fourth graders. What does this education department do? 217 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 2: What does all the money do? Can they walk out 218 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:25,319 Speaker 2: of school? 219 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 1: We have a lot, We. 220 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,559 Speaker 2: Have millions and millions, tens of millions of kids graduating 221 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 2: and they're illiterate. And enumerate, which means they can't do math. 222 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 2: So I don't understand. 223 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: Oh, you can't cut the education department. Of course you can. 224 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: It doesn't do any good. 225 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 2: What only twenty eight percent of the kids in this 226 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 2: country in fourth grade can do minimum don't have minimum 227 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 2: proficiency at math and reading. He all right, so talk 228 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 2: more about that. The I told you California is bankrupt. 229 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 2: Los Angeles is bankrupt. They're a billion dollars a billion 230 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 2: dollar deficit for the coming fiscal year and there could 231 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 2: be thousands of layoffs. The city administrative officer for Matt 232 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 2: Zebo said that Karen Bass's proposed budget, they're going to 233 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 2: release that April twenty first, in a month. There's gonna 234 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 2: be a lot of cost cutting, severe revenue declines, rising costs. 235 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 2: One of the rising costs lawsuits. So many people sue 236 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 2: the city, and the city settles for lots of money. 237 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,679 Speaker 2: The city almost never goes to court to fight the lawsuits. 238 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 2: And people claim that they're tripping on sidewalks and trees 239 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 2: are landing on their heads, and well, you know, the 240 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 2: infrastructure sucks in this city. So they thought they saved 241 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 2: the money by not spending it on infrastructure until it 242 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 2: collapses enough that people get hurt and they sue, and 243 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 2: then you know, the cops. Every once in a while 244 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,439 Speaker 2: you have one or two cops going nuts and juries 245 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 2: stupidly give the victim an excessive amount of money. There's 246 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 2: no printing press that a city has. You can do 247 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 2: that with the federal government. They can create money out 248 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 2: of thin air, and they do by the trillions. 249 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: City can't do that. So when you. 250 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 2: Give millions of dollars to some alleged victim, you're just 251 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 2: screwed over all the taxpayers. We didn't We had nothing 252 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 2: to do with it. We weren't out getting into some 253 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 2: kind of shooting match with a cop. I'm eight o'clock 254 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 2: at night. I'm sitting in my in my den watching 255 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 2: watching television. I don't know what the You know, the 256 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 2: people who end up getting shot almost never are good people. 257 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 2: They're bad guys that cops may have overreacted to in 258 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 2: the eyes of the jury, but that's it. They're not 259 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: really most of them are not really victims. 260 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 3: Well. 261 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 2: Plus, you know, they've driven so much business out of 262 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 2: the city and out of the state. So many retail shops, 263 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 2: so many restaurants have closed starting with COVID, the George 264 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 2: Floyd Riots, the the excessive taxes and regulation that. 265 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: They have. 266 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 2: They're missing three hundred million dollars in tax revenue. Their 267 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 2: reserve fund is half depleted. They gave away too much 268 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 2: in terms of salary and pensions. They made every bad 269 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 2: decision you could make. Karen Bass has one of these capabilities. 270 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: I've seen. 271 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 2: I've worked for people like this. Every decision they make 272 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 2: is wrong. I don't know how they do it. But 273 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 2: no matter what, Karen Bass gave away too much money 274 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 2: to the unions, salaries, benefits, police fire. See, you got 275 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 2: to spend more money on the fire department, But it 276 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 2: doesn't mean you keep increasing everybody's salary and pension. It 277 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 2: means you spend the money on hiring more firefighters and 278 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 2: more engines, and more mechanics to fix the engines. That's 279 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 2: what the increase is supposed to be. Instead they just 280 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 2: turn it into raises. Well, that's wonderful to get the 281 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 2: firefighters a raise, but it doesn't increase fire coverage. It 282 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 2: doesn't increase fire response. Same thing with teaching. Giving more 283 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 2: money to teachers doesn't increase the percentage of kids who 284 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 2: are proficient in math and reading. It just gives the 285 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 2: teachers more money. People don't get that, oh, we're going 286 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 2: to spend more money on education, We're going to spend 287 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 2: more money on the foot Well, it depends what you 288 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 2: spend it on. If it's just salary increases, it's not 289 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 2: going to change anything. So they're telling the unions that 290 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 2: something's got to be done. There's got to be give backs. 291 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 2: The unions are telling them to go to go screw themselves. 292 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 2: We don't have much of a savings account left. And 293 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 2: of course the big elephant is all the money wasted 294 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 2: on the homeless. I am so pissed that every drug 295 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 2: addict and every mental patient that wandered into Los Angeles 296 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 2: laid on the streets roomed neighborhoods. They spent all day 297 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 2: with needles in their arms, snorting meth, leaving their feces 298 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 2: on the sidewalk. They bankrupt the city. The homeless have 299 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 2: bankrupted the city. They spent a billion three, a billion 300 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 2: four in homelessness. If you just got rid of the 301 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 2: homeless programs, we'd be in the black and you'd have 302 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 2: the same amount of homeless. The homeless start seventeen thousand 303 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 2: fires a year. 304 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: What are we doing? 305 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 2: More than half the fires are from homeless people, and 306 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 2: you have this whole industry of criminal nonprofits who get 307 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 2: these grants and they run off with the money and 308 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 2: the homeless. 309 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: Situation doesn't change. What is this going to stop? 310 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 2: And now they're bankrupt, what are they gonna want taxes? 311 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 2: And now they're gonna te to do the elon musk Dos. 312 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 2: You're gonna see thousands of people brutal cuts no different 313 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 2: than what they're doing in. 314 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 5: Washington and John, when those people are cut, they're going 315 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 5: to be pissed. So if any of them work for 316 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 5: the mayor, I wonder if we're going to hear some 317 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 5: some details about what really went on behind closed doors 318 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 5: when the fire broke out. 319 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be great, and you could you could 320 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 2: send your information to Debor I deputize you. If nothing 321 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 2: as the investigative report. John doesn't read his emails, so 322 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 2: don't boy, don't email to me, email to Debbor. 323 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: She reads her emails composibly. 324 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 2: Yes, sometimes, No, we want we want background information on 325 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 2: what's the cause of the fire. There's people who know, obviously, 326 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 2: and we want to know what's going on in Karen 327 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 2: Bass's office. All right, you're gonna get fired anyway, So 328 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 2: I want not to be a hero. 329 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 5: John Watching wants snitches. 330 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, stitches, that's right. So you know we're gonna have 331 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 2: a snitch hotline. You come right, We'll have a snitch 332 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 2: chair here. We'll have like a Snitch of the day. 333 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 2: You come in and you tell us the truth. What's 334 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 2: going on with there? With Oh? 335 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 1: Absolutely? Okay, Well well. 336 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:18,360 Speaker 2: Well we'll have like a like a snitching co host. Yeah, 337 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 2: snitches get the co host for an hour, as long 338 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 2: as they. 339 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 5: Spill all the dirt, as long as it's true. I mean, 340 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 5: how are you gonna vet that person or people? 341 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: It has to be true. 342 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, we don't do fake news around here. 343 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: John, We don't know, we don't. 344 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 2: Okay, you're tough. Uh, we come back, Alex Stone, ABC News. Uh, 345 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 2: you've got Tesla cars being set on fire. 346 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: Uh. 347 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 2: And and Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general says these are 348 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 2: domestic terrorists, and they're actually filing charges against these terrorists. 349 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: This is for Elon Musk. 350 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 2: Cutting government workers because the federal government is. 351 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: Out of money. 352 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 2: So when Karen Bass cuts thousands of workers because LA's 353 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 2: out of money, what's what's gonna happen. What are the 354 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 2: are these anarchists going to blow up? What are they 355 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 2: going to blow up? 356 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: Here? 357 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 2: They're gonna go after Karen Bass the way they're going 358 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 2: after Musk. 359 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 360 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 4: six forty. 361 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 2: If you can follow us at John Colebelt Radio on 362 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 2: all social media. Let's go to Alex Stone now ABC News. 363 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 2: There has been a string of attacks on Tesla vehicles 364 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 2: and Tesla dealerships, cars getting set on fire, Molotov cocktails 365 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 2: being used to destroy some of the vehicles, and Alex 366 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 2: Stone for ABC has details what's going on? Hey, they're John, Yeah, 367 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 2: So that the FBI is trying to figure out if 368 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 2: the attacks on mainly Tesla lots. It's been lots collision centers, 369 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 2: at charging stations and parking lots, but but a lot 370 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 2: of them on lots nationwide, if they're linked in some 371 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 2: coordinated way, or if they're being done individually by people 372 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 2: who feel like they need to go out and express 373 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 2: themselves and their anger against elon Musk and they hear 374 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 2: what's been going on elsewhere in the country and then 375 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 2: they do it as well. It's all been really crude, 376 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 2: and even the molotov cocktails have been like beer bottles 377 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 2: filled from inside of a pizza restaurant, so it hasn't 378 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 2: been all that sophisticated. But in Las Vegas, the Joint 379 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 2: Terrorism Task Force is looking into one. Earlier this week, 380 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 2: two forty four in the morning, somebody dressed all in 381 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 2: black at a Tesla collision center in Vegas shot a 382 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 2: gun into several of the vehicles in the parking lot, 383 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 2: then used molotov cocktails to set two of the cars 384 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 2: on fire. Five were damaged, but two totally destroyed, and 385 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 2: they rode on the wall of the building. Resist and 386 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 2: Vegas police saying this was a targeted attack against a 387 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 2: Tesla facility and while they don't have enough evidence to 388 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 2: call it terrorism. Agpam Bondi has said it clearly was 389 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 2: domestic terrorism, but the FBI saying, well, they haven't determined 390 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 2: that yet. There are legal things that have to be 391 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 2: determined before they can just come out and say this 392 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 2: is terrorism. And it makes it goes up a lot 393 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: from vandalism to then saying terrorism for what kind of 394 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 2: case it would be. But the FBI Special Agent in 395 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 2: charge in Vegas saying it does have the earmarks as 396 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 2: being that. It certainly has some of the hallmarks that 397 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,959 Speaker 2: we might think so. In Kansas City polic two Tesla 398 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 2: cyber trucks were set on fire. Earlier this month, shots 399 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 2: were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon. South Carolina 400 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 2: guy's been arrested for vandalizing a charging station. He had 401 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 2: molotov cocktails outside of a pizza restaurant and the ATF 402 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 2: found a three page letter he had with anti government beliefs. 403 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 2: Charging stations in Massachusetts have been set on fire, and 404 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 2: firefighters say. 405 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: The fires are relatively small. 406 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 2: However, again involving seven of them, there was quite a 407 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 2: bit of smoke that was coming off of it. And 408 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 2: John now there's a call for big protests at Tesla's 409 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 2: showrooms next week, a day of action. The group is 410 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 2: calling for them to be peaceful, but once they say, 411 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 2: bigger than what anybody has seen at Tesla, and the 412 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 2: White House is saying, and this about everything. 413 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 6: Now we've seen despicable and unacceptable violence taking place across 414 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 6: our country at Tesla dealerships against workers, employees, and also 415 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 6: innocent Americans who drive these vehicles. 416 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 2: And then President Trump last week he was essentially doing 417 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 2: that commercial outside the White House for Tesla's, with Elon 418 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: Musk calling them amazing and that he was buying one 419 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 2: and the greatest thing ever. He was asked about them 420 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 2: and about the vandals and what they're doing, he called 421 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 2: the vandals garbage. 422 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 4: You do it to Tesla, and you do it to 423 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 4: any company, We're gonna catch you, and you're gonna you're 424 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 4: gonna go through hell. 425 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,479 Speaker 2: And there are some less violent protests that are going on, 426 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 2: people putting stickers over the Tesla logo on their car 427 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 2: to make a point. Some are selling them, and then 428 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 2: you have this whole other customer base buying them right now, 429 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: and it's kind of a one eighty here of those 430 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 2: who you know everywhere in California for environmental reasons, and 431 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 2: now people are ditching those and selling them, with numbers 432 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,959 Speaker 2: of used Tesla's being available have now shot up. And 433 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 2: then you've got those who support Elon Musk and President 434 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 2: Trump who are now who were probably you know, pickup 435 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 2: truck crowd wasn't they weren't going to go electric, now 436 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 2: going to buy them. But Tessa stock down nine weeks 437 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 2: in a row. Their sales are down considerably, But we'll 438 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 2: see where it all shakes out. 439 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: In the end. 440 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,239 Speaker 2: Is there any information as to whether this is an 441 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 2: organized group, who it is, and who's funding them. No? Nothing, 442 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: I mean there's not a lot of funding that goes 443 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 2: into it, at least in the vandalism part of it. 444 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 2: It's keying of vehicles. It is spray painting words on one. 445 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 2: I wonder if the organism, if there's an organization, has 446 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: a battle plan and strategy. That's what the FBI is 447 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 2: trying to figure out right now. They don't seem to 448 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 2: see anything linking these together. It seems more like people 449 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 2: who are saying, you know, that's a good idea, and 450 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 2: that's a good idea that they heard what went on 451 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, and then somebody in Vegas does it, and 452 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 2: then somebody. But so they're looking into it. It's individual copycats. Yeah, 453 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: I mean, at this point it seems and again it's 454 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 2: all the guy in South Carolina was outside of a 455 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 2: pizza restaurant and it was very crude, these molotas cocktails 456 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 2: that were made out of I believe beer bottles from 457 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 2: inside the restaurant. People people get this upset over government 458 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: workers getting laid off. Yeah, apparently, what are they going 459 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 2: to do in La once Karen Bass starts laying off thousands. Oh, 460 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 2: it sounds like the layoffs are definitely coming. Yeah, we 461 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 2: heard yesterday because all levels of government are broke. Yeah, yeah, 462 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 2: that's the It's. 463 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: Gonna go on for quite a while. 464 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 2: All right, Alex, very good, Thank you, you got it? 465 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 2: Think jod all right, Alex Stone, ABC News. I imagine 466 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 2: there are some left wing anarchist groups that might be 467 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 2: behind some of the violence. Uh, you know, they they 468 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,199 Speaker 2: were they were involved with the George Floyd riots, they 469 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 2: were involved with all those Antifa protests. Could be the 470 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 2: same characters, could be new characters. Uh, there's there's a 471 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 2: lot of people. I don't know what snaps if it 472 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 2: is just one off guys, there's a lot of mentally 473 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 2: ill people running around. Huh you got to blow up 474 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 2: a tesla because government workers are getting laid off? Really 475 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 2: that it doesn't happen when everyone else gets laid off. Right, 476 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 2: We lost millions of jobs in the last twenty five 477 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 2: years to China. I don't remember any violent protests over that. 478 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 2: Why government workers, who most of them don't even show 479 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 2: up for work, and when they do show up for work, 480 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 2: is what do they do. 481 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 1: What do they do? What's the big benefit we're getting? 482 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: We come back. 483 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 2: Can I talk about State Senator Tony Strickland. We're gonna 484 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 2: have him on the show tomorrow. But he had a 485 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 2: bill that got squashed by the state Senate today. 486 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: Is really radical. 487 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 2: It was about defunding high speed rail and giving the 488 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 2: money to lower the gas tax in this state. Guess 489 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 2: what the Senate the Senate's response to that idea was. 490 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 2: We'll tell you about it coming up. 491 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty. 492 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show, Conway's up in minutes. 493 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 2: Voiceline last call for the moist line eight seven seven 494 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 2: mois dandy six. We have vacancies eight seven seven moist 495 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 2: eighty six. First time in a few weeks. Let's get 496 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 2: back into this. You can also use the talkback feature 497 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app, and we'll play it tomorrow twice 498 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 2: in the three o'clock hour, including at this time. 499 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: And and what else? What else is on the whiteboard? 500 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: And what else is on the whiteboard? Oh? 501 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,960 Speaker 2: Follow uh, follow us at John Cobelt Radio and all 502 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 2: social media. 503 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: All right, did all my proper announcements. Uh, all right. 504 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 2: State Senator Tony Strickland from Huntington Beach, the Republican. He 505 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 2: has this bill. This is really simple. Defund high speed rail, 506 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 2: use the money to reduce the gas tax. 507 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 1: What did the Senate say? No? 508 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 2: Senate Democrats rejected this idea again, Defund high speed rail, 509 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 2: use the money to lower the gas tax. They will 510 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 2: not do it, even after spending seventeen billion dollars on 511 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 2: high speed rail and it doesn't exist after seventeen years. 512 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 2: They are so corrupt. They are such a bunch of criminals. 513 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 2: I wish nothing but bad things to happen to them 514 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 2: because they're thieves. They should they all these legislators ought 515 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 2: to be in a prison cell. They should reopen those 516 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 2: prisons that Newsom closed and put the Assembly and State Senate, 517 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 2: all the offending members who vote down, who vote down 518 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 2: this bill, they should be locked up. Strickland says, we've 519 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 2: been wasting billions of hard working families dollars on a 520 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 2: train everybody knows will not be built. 521 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: That's the thing. 522 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 2: They know this is not going to be built, and 523 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 2: they're spending it anyway. 524 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: Because they don't think there's any consequence. 525 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: And he says Newsom and the Democrats have raised gas 526 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 2: prices every year for the last four years, and the 527 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 2: tax falls disproportionately on hard working families living paycheck to paycheck. 528 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 2: They know, they know that the poor in the middle class, 529 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 2: it's a bigger. 530 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: Hit to them. 531 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 2: Tony Strickland's going to come on our show tomorrow after 532 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 2: three o'clock to talk about all this and conways. 533 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 7: He know, we'll talk to Alex Stone from ABC News 534 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 7: about everybody burning up these Tesla's. Did you see that 535 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 7: Tim Walls was rooting for the demise of Tesla? He said, 536 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 7: he said, he put it on his phone. He gets 537 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 7: an extra charge every time the stock drops. 538 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: He's such an idiot. 539 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 7: He's rooting for the demise of an American car company. 540 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, which employs how many thousand, thousands and thousands of workers? 541 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 2: And how many people have Tesla in their four win 542 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 2: case in Minnesota? In Minnesota? Yeah, he is a complete warron. 543 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 2: It's like somebody dropped him on his head. Seems odd. 544 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 2: Eric scar the Duke of Sports, is coming on with us. 545 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 7: You might know that man, right talk about March madness 546 00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 7: that's going on right now. 547 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, there is, there's Marsh Yeah, it's not mad yet, 548 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: but it's getting there. 549 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 7: Dollar General and other stores we'll talk about the man. 550 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 7: It seems like every store is going out of business, 551 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 7: even the stores that sell crap are going out. 552 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: Of It's unbelievable. 553 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 2: People don't even have nothing to buy crap. 554 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: That's right, right, people don't have one. 555 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 7: You know those I think those stores, you know, like 556 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 7: Dollar General and you know the ninety nine Cents Store, 557 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 7: I think those are like hoarders warehouses. You know, if 558 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 7: you love collecting cheap stuff, you go there to buy 559 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 7: and you hoard it. Yeah, but I like that Dollar General. 560 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 7: I enjoy walking over there. Yeah, the Dollar King as well. 561 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 7: Do you ever go into a nice store or a 562 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 7: nice restaurant. I like the prices of that. The nice restaurants, 563 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 7: they're really expensive. Jim Jim Taylor's coming on, Well, le's 564 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 7: I'm gonna be in the San Juan Capistrano parade, So 565 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 7: buzz on down there. 566 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: Look at the parade. 567 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 7: It's the my second time, but it's the I think 568 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 7: it's the eighty fifth or sixty fifth annual. If you're 569 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 7: been then there that parade, not to the parade, you know, 570 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 7: I'm really bummed because one of my favorite parades was 571 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 7: the Palisades. You were in that one year a few times. Yeah, 572 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 7: and that's not gonna happen. Obviously they're going to have it, 573 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 7: but I don't know where. Oh good, they should have it. Yeah, 574 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 7: there's a lot of people in the Palisades that want 575 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,479 Speaker 7: to good get just get back to normal. Get back 576 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 7: to normal from any small way. 577 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, that's a great idea. 578 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 7: And then we also have Dean Sharp coming on with 579 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 7: us as well, so we got almost too much show, 580 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 7: you know, almost too much. Yeah, and then Moe's not 581 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 7: in tonight, but Twala's taken over for him and that 582 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 7: guy's great. All right, yeah, all right. Last on his 583 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 7: guy You and Towada. Last on his Guys the Radiary, 584 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 7: What does that make you? A cheap order? We got 585 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 7: Conway to X think dog right go. 586 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 2: Krozier has the news live on the KFI twenty four 587 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 2: hour Newsroom. 588 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been. 589 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 2: Listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always 590 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 2: hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from 591 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 2: one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of 592 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 2: course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.