1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the Klay Travis 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. And I'm John Cobelt from KFI Radio 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, filling in today and happy to do it. 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: And I want to thank Clay and Buck and everybody 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: connected with the show for letting me have this opportunity. 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: And we're going to keep rolling along here. We've talked 8 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: a lot in the first two hours about Gavin Newsom 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: and the disaster that California has become under his rule. 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,959 Speaker 1: Another disaster is Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota. And 11 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: this story took years to build, finally became a criminal case, 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: a set of criminal cases, just in the last year, 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: and now is exploded sky high because nobody can believe 14 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: the extent of the fraud. And you've probably heard it's 15 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: the Somali immigrant community was able to access billions and 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: billions of dollars of tax money and they created all 17 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: kinds of fake nonprofits, fake charities. These nonprofits are the 18 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: scourge of the country. It's a scourge here in California 19 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: and in Minnesota. And yesterday, well just over the weekend, 20 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: I should say Nick Shirley, a young independent journalist, released 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: a forty two minute tape where in one day he 22 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: went to a series of these daycare centers that were 23 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: funded by Minnesota taxpayers. It was one hundred and ten 24 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: million dollars of funding, and he showed that every single 25 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: one of them were phoning. Sometimes they were just signs 26 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: outside a doorway on the side of a lot of 27 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: them were industrial buildings, warehouse style buildings, windows blacked out, 28 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: no employees, no children being taken care of, and it's 29 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: just boosted this story to an even higher level. Khalil 30 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: from Newstation, which is a great cable TV news operation, 31 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: is coming on with us now to tell us the latest. Joe, 32 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: how are you, hey good? 33 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 2: How are you doing? Good? To be with you? 34 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: I'm all right, So what's going on? Ever since this 35 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: new video was released, it's got one hundred and sixteen 36 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: million views on x Yeah. 37 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 2: It really made an impression, obviously, and I think, you know, 38 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 2: for those who may not have been paying attention before, 39 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 2: I think this recent video just added another layer to 40 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: some of the allegations that we've been reporting on that 41 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 2: several others have already been reporting on and it got 42 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: the attention of the vice president and they have the 43 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 2: I director and several other high profile officials. What's different 44 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 2: this time you referenced it? Here is this video particularly 45 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: focused on childcare centers, and if you go watch for 46 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 2: those who haven't seen this video, this young independent journalist 47 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 2: essentially is going from childcare center to childcare center and 48 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 2: these places have individually gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars, 49 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 2: if not upwards of one million dollars each every single 50 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 2: year in Minnesota tax payer money. And you go there, 51 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: this guy goes there and each one he can't find 52 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 2: any children. There are no hallmarks of what you would 53 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 2: expect at a childcare center. You know, you'd think of plays, 54 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 2: gates or things like that. Outside There's none of that. 55 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 2: So you know, the question becomes, are these actual legit 56 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 2: childcare centers or you know, are these fronts for fraud? 57 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 2: So that's the newest iteration of it, and again getting 58 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 2: a ton of attention. 59 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: Beyond that. 60 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: You know, there have been already credible allegations and many 61 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 2: actual prosecutions proven fraud where we had like hundreds of 62 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: millions of dollars, some of it back in COVID that 63 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 2: were supposed to go for food assistance for needy people 64 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 2: in Minnesota that was diverted. In other cases, it was 65 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 2: medicaid fraud that has been prosecuted under this administration. And 66 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: we should also mention on Finis too that there were 67 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 2: you know, several dozen people within the Somali community prosecuted, investigated, 68 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 2: tried under the Biden administrations Department of Justice and FBI 69 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: as well. So you know, these allegations, these stories are 70 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 2: not brand new. Some of them go back again to 71 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 2: COVID and people had been held accountable in twenty one, 72 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, but right now what we're seeing is 73 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: a continuation of it. And I think Governor Tim Walls 74 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: all of this has happened under his administration. He's obviously 75 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: going to have to answer for this at some point. 76 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: This is indefensible, though I can't imagine that he I'm 77 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: sure he'll make a lot of sputtering noises, but there's 78 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: no way to deny this existence. Because what Nick Sureley 79 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: did is showed you the daycare centers and showed that 80 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: the buildings were empty and there was no playground equipment, 81 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: and that there were no kids and there were no 82 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: workers simply signs in a lot of the cases with 83 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: locked doors. 84 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah. And you know what the governor's 85 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 2: office has told us is that he is aware of 86 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 2: this stuff, that he has been investigating it, and that, 87 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 2: in fact, one of the child centers that was featured 88 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: in the video had actually already been shut down under 89 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 2: Tim Wall's administration. I don't think that that fully accounts 90 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: for the fact that this allegedly has been happening for 91 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 2: several years now and has continued to happen and even now. 92 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 2: I mean, if one of those centers was closed because 93 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 2: of fraud, that's that's wonderful. But there are still several 94 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: others that have been shown in that video that seemingly 95 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 2: are operational, that have been getting millions and millions of dollars, 96 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 2: you know, on an annual basis in Minnesota state funds. 97 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 2: Those are taxpayer dollars. So you know what we're seeing 98 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 2: right now is the state legislature is doing investigations into that, 99 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 2: trying to rain in some of that fraud. We're seeing 100 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 2: here in Congress from DC or on that the House 101 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 2: Oversight Committee says they're going to take this up. The chairman, 102 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 2: James Comer says they may even bring in officials from 103 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 2: Minnesota and subpoena them and do investigations, potentially do depositions 104 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 2: with these folks. So you know, there there is some 105 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 2: action now that seemingly is happening now that probably should 106 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 2: have been recognized and should have been happening more than 107 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 2: it was. You know, even in the earlier stages of this. 108 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: There's something comical about this though. I mean, nine billion 109 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: dollars out the door, and suddenly it's like, well, we 110 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: had no idea, We're shocked. This is outrageous. Didn't any 111 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: Minnesota employees ever visit a child care facility? I mean, 112 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: we're talking about one of these licensed for ninety nine kids. 113 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: Don't you send an inspector there, you know, a child 114 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: services worker just to make sure that the kids are 115 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: all healthy and they're not being beaten and they're being 116 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: fed to decent food. I mean, isn't that routine for 117 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: the government employees to provide on the scene oversight? And 118 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: they were to have learned immediately late because the doors 119 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: were all locked and the windows were blacked out. 120 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the big The big question is the how right, 121 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 2: that's the big question. How did this happen for so 122 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: long and seemingly fly under the radar. How long have 123 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: these schools been open? That's a question that the new 124 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 2: video even did not answer. That we were trying to 125 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 2: look into at NewsNation ourselves, you know, how for so 126 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 2: long was was no one aware that these these centers 127 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 2: were opening and we're getting funneled taxpayer dollars when they 128 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 2: again seemingly allegedly, you know, we're afront for some kind 129 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 2: of fraud allegation. And again I go back to the 130 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 2: fact that you know, the COVID era schemes, many of 131 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 2: them were uncovered and were and you had seventy eight 132 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 2: people that were investigated and prosecuted and indicted under the 133 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 2: Biden DOJ. Presumably at that point state officials might have 134 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 2: had their their you know, ears perk up a bit 135 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 2: and say, okay, maybe we need to also, you know, 136 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 2: look at I don't know some of the other allegations 137 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 2: of fraud. It's not that there has been silence there. 138 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 2: There have been people reportedly at least over the last year, 139 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 2: that have been really raising questions about some of these 140 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 2: childcare centers. And and for whatever reason, only one that 141 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 2: that we know about has been sort of you know, 142 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 2: cracked down and closed and the others are open. 143 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: So how has this. 144 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 2: Been going on for so long when there have been 145 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 2: signed obviously, and then. 146 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 1: The irony is though that there wasn't anything to shut 147 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: down or there was nothing to close, right, yeah, because 148 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: it was empty, without employees and without children. It was 149 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: it was just storefronts and addresses. I guess, uh that 150 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: was you know, the address was on the forum, so 151 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: you knew where to send the check. 152 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and if you open a business you've 153 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: been in a childcare center, you have to license it 154 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 2: with the states. So you know, it's not as if 155 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 2: the state doesn't know you know, where these places are 156 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 2: or the names of the or the owners. You know. Again, 157 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 2: all of that is very well publicly documented, so you 158 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 2: know it is at some point there you know, it's 159 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 2: got to the accountability again. We did get a response 160 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 2: from the governor's office that he said, well, we are 161 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 2: cracking down on this, but it just seems like there's 162 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 2: been a lot of this going on and very few 163 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 2: of these places have actually gotten the accountability that you 164 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 2: would hope. 165 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: All right, Joe, thanks for coming on with us, of course, 166 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: going to be with you Joe Khalil with the News 167 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: Nation cable TV news channel on your system. I really 168 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: you should really look at Nick Shirley's video. This is 169 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: a case where people read news stories and this was 170 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: covered maybe in Minnesota some but it was just the 171 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: New York Times maybe two weeks ago, three weeks ago 172 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: that did a front page story and it finally blew 173 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: up into national attention. But I have noticed the way 174 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 1: people process stories. A print story, he doesn't have an 175 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: earthshaking effect. It does, you know inside Washington and New 176 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: York City in those circles, political circles, media circles. But 177 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: to get the whole country to notice, there has to 178 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: be some visuals. And with one hundred and sixteen million 179 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: people watching Nick Shirley's video, you realize that is like 180 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: Super Bowl sized numbers that he got with a forty 181 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,599 Speaker 1: two minute video. And it was shot I guess, with 182 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: his iPhone. And there's no staff, I mean, there's no 183 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: CBS or NBC network, no CNN, no New York Times. 184 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: It's one guy, I think, with a selfie stick pointing 185 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 1: a camera as he's doing these interviews. And he had 186 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: another man with him who had done a lot of 187 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: the legwork to get the records from the state government website. 188 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: And if I could, I'm trying to think of his name. 189 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: First name was Dave So's. He was an older, gray 190 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: haired guy, and Dave was obsessed with digging up the 191 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: records on the internet. And so you were able to 192 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: follow in the video how much each of these childcare 193 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: sites received from the government. And then they started interviewing 194 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: random people who occasionally would walk in and out. I'll 195 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: tell you more about that when we come back, because 196 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: it was some of this stuff was funny because there 197 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: was run ins with these little Somalian immigrant ladies who 198 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: I guess had jobs there, and they really freaked out 199 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: when Nick Shirley started asking questions. We'll continue. John Cobelt 200 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: from CAFI Radio filling in today on the Clay Travis 201 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show. 202 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 203 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 3: six forty. 204 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: All right, more of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 205 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,599 Speaker 1: John Coblt filling in today from CAMFI Radio in Los Angeles, 206 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: and we were just talking with Joe Coleil from NewsNation, 207 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: a reporter there on the Minnesota scandal involving the billions 208 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 1: of dollars that were stolen by these Somali migrants in 209 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: these nonprofit organizations took the money for childcare centers to 210 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: feed children, and none of these programs existed. I was 211 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: just looking, Oh, well, let me tell you about this 212 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: headline first, because this just came out. I don't want 213 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: to New York Post has it on their front page. 214 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security announced they're launching door to door 215 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: searches for legal aliens at fraud sites in Minneapolis. It 216 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 1: just started this morning. DHS on the ground in Minneapolis 217 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: going door to door, according to a post on x 218 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,959 Speaker 1: by DHS, and it showed a video of two agents 219 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: entering the Nicolt tobacco and vape shop in Burnsville, seventeen 220 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: miles south of Minneapolis. And the Homeland Security also wrote 221 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: that the American people deserve answers on how their tax 222 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: money is being used and arrests when abuse is found. 223 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen it, one hundred and sixteen 224 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: million people have already watched this local young journalist named 225 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: Nick Shirley, who just in an afternoon walking around with 226 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: another local man, they found all these empty childcare centers 227 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: that collectively were taking one hundred and ten million dollars 228 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: in government money, many of it federal government money, and 229 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 1: absolutely nobody there. What they would run into is occasionally 230 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 1: some Somali migrant women. I wouldn't call them employees. I 231 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: don't know who they were, but some of them were 232 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: inside the empty offices. They didn't they weren't doing any work. 233 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: But maybe they were, you know, collecting the money of 234 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: filling out paperwork. I'm not sure, but they were resting 235 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: traditional Somali garb, and they would become enraged when Nick 236 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: and Dave would approach them and ask them questions and 237 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: just start screaming at them, like hysterically. And another person 238 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: screaming at him was a white woman with a severe 239 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: looking with those heavy, dark rimmed glasses, and she showed 240 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: up with her phone. And don't you love the way 241 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: people use their phones as weapons. They try to intimidate 242 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: you and frighten you by pointing a camera at you. 243 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: And I've never understood that because Nick and Dave weren't 244 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: doing anything. They were standing out. They weren't even they 245 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: weren't on the property, they weren't inside somebody's office. They're 246 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: standing in a parking lot. And she's screaming. Ice. Ice 247 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: obviously's screeching don't let them in, don't let them in. 248 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: I said, what, I absolu, crazy woman. It's amazing how 249 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: many mentally deranged people are walking around. How they got 250 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: aware of what Nick was doing? I don't know, but 251 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: I marvel. I mean, even in its desiccated state. We 252 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: added up all the employees of all the major networks, 253 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: all the local stations in Minneapolis, all the major newspapers, magazines, 254 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: internet news sites, everything, and you stacked up their budget 255 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: and the number of employees and all the resources they have. 256 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: And then look at Nick, Shirley and Dave and their 257 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: selfie stick camera and a little tiny toy microphone he 258 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: was holding. What do people do all day at all 259 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: these newspapers and television stations? What do they do? And 260 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: it shows you the tremendous amount of not just bias, 261 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: but intentional lack of reporting. This is the biggest story 262 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: that Minnesota's had in a long time, with a governor 263 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: who was running for vice president, and it had been 264 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: going on for years and people were afraid that if 265 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: you investigate Somali's you'd be called racist. That's the beginning 266 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: and end of the story. That's what the fear was, 267 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: they'd be called racist, so there was no coverage being done. 268 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: All right, we got more coming up. I'm going to 269 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: do one more rundown of all the worst, all the 270 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: categories where California is the highest, the most, or the worst, 271 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: and they're all bad categories. That continues on the Klay 272 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Coblt. 273 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 274 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 3: six forty. 275 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: Hello. 276 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 4: John, This is Ron from Mesa, Arizona. I heard your 277 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 4: name on the radio this morning and I kept saying 278 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 4: John Cobelt, co Belt, co Belt. And I remember I 279 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 4: left California in twenty fourteen to come to Arizona to 280 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 4: help my mother, and you were my daily fix. And 281 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 4: after I got here and saw the prices, I never 282 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 4: went back to California. I miss it. 283 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: I really do. Oh thank you, Ron. Yes, we have 284 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: a lot of California refugees around the around the country. 285 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: We got this from Cameron too. What a great surprise 286 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: to turn on Buck and Clay in here. John. He 287 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: is the best, he is. What a nice surprise. Good job, John, 288 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 1: We love you. Oh thank you very much. Cameron' from 289 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: New York City too. I can't tell you how many 290 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: people have fled California. Actually I can, but I don't 291 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 1: have the exact number in my I believe I saw 292 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: the other day that about two million plus people have 293 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: fled California since the year two thousand and last twenty 294 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: five years, two million people fled, largely replaced by illegal aliens, 295 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: no joke, And so a lot of them were conservative 296 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: to middle of the road voters, Republican independent voters. And 297 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: when they started fleeing, and maybe that was the plan, 298 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: that's when Democrats started winning elections by lopsided margins and 299 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: started getting these super majorities in California in the Assembly 300 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: and in the state Senate. By the way, did I 301 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: mention who I am here? It's John Cobelt. Okay. If 302 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: I radio filling in on, they play Travis and Buck 303 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: Sexton show. Sometimes I just go off and it takes 304 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: me ten minutes. But you know, I told everybody formattox 305 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: is not my strong point in any event. 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We've got a podcast 314 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app and it is to service all 315 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: the Californians who have fled and they've gone to all 316 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: the obvious states Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and everywherewhere else 317 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: and it's a shame, but it wears you down. And 318 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a list. And this is 319 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,199 Speaker 1: on Gavin Newsom over the last eight years, and then 320 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: before that, Jerry Brown was the governor for eight years, 321 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: and this is what they collectively created. During one of 322 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: the commercial breaks just this morning, I tried to think 323 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: off the top of my head all the categories that 324 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: California performs the worst in negative categories where they have 325 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: the highest whatever or the most whatever. Do you know, 326 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: we have the worst inflation in the whole country, and 327 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:52,199 Speaker 1: it's even worse than that in Los Angeles County. At 328 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 1: the same time. We have the highest unemployment rate. The 329 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: nation's unemployment rate is about four point four percent in California, 330 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: it's five point six in La County, five point nine. 331 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: We're if the nation had the numbers we did, you'd 332 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: see people screaming in the streets. Yet much of the 333 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: country is doing quite well. Constant criticism leveled at Trump, 334 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: constant nonsense. It's California that's in the dumper. Five point 335 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 1: six percent statewide unemployment five to nine in La County. 336 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: Listen to this. We have the highest income tax. You know, 337 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: the income tax on the wealthy is like thirteen to 338 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: fourteen percent. And you may be saying, well, those are 339 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: wealthy people. I don't care. We also have the highest 340 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 1: income tax on middle class people as well. Everyone thinks 341 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: it's just loaded on the rich tech bros in northern California, 342 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 1: and it is, but the middle class really gets soaked badly. 343 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: Only Oregon is near the top with us. We have 344 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: the highest gas tax. I told you gas is averaging 345 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: almost four point thirty a gallon. We have the highest 346 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: sales tax. We got the triple crown, highest income, highest 347 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 1: highest sales. There's people packing up right now. You can 348 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: hear them as I go through this list. As I 349 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: talked extensively earlier in the show, we have the most homeless, 350 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: do you know? We have a one hundred and ninety 351 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: thousand homeless people, one hundred ninety thousand, and we have 352 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: seventy thousand in LA County and about forty five thousand 353 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: in LA City. And let me tell you what they 354 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: do with homeless numbers. This may shock you, but they 355 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: lie about them. Because Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, 356 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: came out and claimed to have this new program and 357 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: we've reduced homelessness by three percent, five percent, you know, 358 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: some little single digit number, and released all those statistics. 359 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: They do a point in time count, that's what they 360 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: call it, where they actually walk through the streets and 361 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: alleys and count the bodies laying around one, two three. 362 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: So they put out their numbers, and then the RAND 363 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 1: Corporation did their own count and they took three of 364 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: the of the sections with the highest homelessness, like Venice, Hollywood, 365 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 1: and they found out that Karen Pass had undercounted by 366 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: forty percent. So she releases a set of numbers and 367 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: then a private research group, a think tank says, I 368 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 1: don't know why do we count of ourselves and you 369 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: missed by forty percent in one of the districts. They 370 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: just make stuff up. It's like the made up crime 371 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: numbers in Washington, d C. Probably heard about that the 372 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: other day when they didn't want Trump to barge into Washington. Oh, look, 373 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: the crime is actually down. No books were cooked. The 374 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: police lied, well, books are cooked. In La the mayor 375 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 1: lies we have the most illegal Ali said, Oh boy, 376 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: I forgot that one, and this is one of the biggest. 377 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: Can't believe it took me two and a half hours 378 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: to get here. Do you know we spend no kidding, 379 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: thirteen billion dollars a year on illegal alien healthcare. If 380 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: you make it into California from any one of the 381 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: two hundred countries in the world, you get across that border, 382 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: your first foot, you step here, you have guaranteed health 383 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 1: care until the day you die. No kidding, he knew. 384 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom just started this last year and he said 385 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: it was going to cost six billion, and it turned 386 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: out to cost more than double that. It's at thirteen billion. 387 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 1: And then he said, oh, we have this bad budget deficit. 388 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: The budget deficit for this coming year is eighteen billion. 389 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: Dollars and illegal alien healthcare is almost three quarters of it. 390 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: From birth to death. You go to the emergency rooms 391 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: in California, it is filled with illegal migrants. Filled. In fact, 392 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: a lot of people go, I'm not gonna I'm gonna 393 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: go to the emergency room. I'll just stay at home 394 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: and die because who wants to sit in a three 395 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: hour line? And I'm not making this stuff up. It's true. 396 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: I've seen it. So we've got legal alien healthcare. Now, 397 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: how is this going to play when he runs as 398 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: a national candidate? I mean, Trump demolished Biden and Kamala Harris. 399 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: There were two big issues, inflation and immigration. And after 400 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: being told for years you know this story, Biden kept claiming, well, 401 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: I need Congress to pass a law. Trump did it 402 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: in what about eight minutes. Porters completely shut. And now 403 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is going to come and say, well, I'm 404 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: giving a legal aliens free healthcare, I mean absolutely free. 405 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 1: The hell? How do you run on that? We have 406 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: the highest housing prices you hear the new trendy line 407 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: of the day is affordability. Homes are more costly here 408 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: than anywhere else. Why because it's very difficult to build homes. 409 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 1: There is so much environmental regulation and nonsense that developers 410 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 1: often just give up. The only way to lower housing 411 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: prices anywhere is to is to build more housing. It 412 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 1: is the purest supply and demand industry. Right, if you 413 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: have one hundred houses with ninety eight people, you're gonna 414 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: the seller is going to be able to dictate the price. No, 415 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: the buyer's going to dictate the price. But you know, 416 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: if you have one hundred and fifty people, what's going 417 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,479 Speaker 1: to happen here? The seller dict dictates the price. So 418 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 1: we have the highest housing prices, we have the highest 419 00:25:54,680 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 1: rental prices. California schools are thirtieth, but in the cities 420 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: we have dozens and dozens of schools that are the 421 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: absolute worst. California roads forty eighth place. A quarter of 422 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: the roads in poor condition. Now, when you pay taxes, 423 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: what do you want? 424 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 2: Right? 425 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: You're paying the highest taxes, highest gas, highest sales, right, 426 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: highest income. What do you want? You want smooth roads? 427 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: We don't have that. Okay, a quarter from poor. And 428 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: then you want a school system, most of them are bad, 429 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,239 Speaker 1: below average to disastrous. Do you want a police department, Well, 430 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: in La, our police department is almost well, it's been defunded. 431 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: They successfully defunded the police in Los Angeles. We have 432 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: we're supposed to have ten thousand. We have eight thousand. 433 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: The Olympics are coming and we really need twelve thousand, 434 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: so we're one third short. It's true. Oh the fire department, 435 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: which nobody knew until we had the Big Palisades fire. 436 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: Do you know we have half a fire department half 437 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: a fire department. You're supposed to have like two firefighters 438 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: for every thousand residents some formula like that. We have 439 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: less than one firefighter. We have zero point nine. We're 440 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: supposed to have two. We have zero point nine. So 441 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: we have fifty percent of a fire department. In case 442 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: you're wondering why that one of the many reasons why 443 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: the fire got out of control. We don't have the bodies. 444 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: And there were forty fire trucks that were busted on 445 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,719 Speaker 1: the day of the big fire broken. Why weren't they fixed? 446 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: We don't have the mechanics, We don't have the firefighters. 447 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: We don't have the mechanics, we don't have the fire trucks. 448 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: We don't have we have two thirds of a police department. 449 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: And when you pay these kinds of taxes you want police, fire, schools, roads, right, 450 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: those are the big ones. We got none of that. 451 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: We got roads that look like they're from Afghanistan. We've 452 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 1: got but illegal aliens get free healthcare. US residents don't 453 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: get cradle to grave free healthcare. Right. That's what constantly 454 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: the fight is about in Washington, d C. Trying to 455 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: ensure everybody. But in California, no problem. Any foreigner comes 456 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: stumbling in here. And by the way, you're it's hard 457 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: to deport people here, as you saw, because you have 458 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: these sanctuary city sanctuary state nonsense, and the local politicians 459 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: deploy shock troops to interfere with ice and they start riots. 460 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: Those riots that we had in June here were started 461 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: by these taxpayer funded pro illegal alien organizations that Karen 462 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: Bass would hold press conferences with. All right, we'll wrap up. 463 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: Coming up next, John Cobelt from KFI Radio in for 464 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 465 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 3: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM 466 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 3: six forty. 467 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: Welcome final segment here on the Clay Travis and Buck 468 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. I'm John Cobelt from KFI Radio, and thank 469 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: thanks again to play and Buck and everyone connected to 470 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: the show for letting me fill in today. It's really 471 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: been a good time. I want to close with one 472 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,719 Speaker 1: more incredibly stupid idea that is floating around in California 473 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: and that may turn some people on the idea of 474 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: a wealth tax on billionaires. The hatred that some people 475 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: have for billionaires is actually mind boggling to me. I 476 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: don't think most people hate billionaires, but certainly the loudest 477 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: progressive elements have created this hysteria against the And when 478 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: I hear people making comments, I always ask him. It's like, well, 479 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: do you buy products from Amazon? Well? Yeah, Well if 480 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: a guy like Jeff Bezos invents Amazon and then you know, 481 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: puts in decades of his life into building this company 482 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: which provides a service that clearly billions of people want 483 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: to use. First of all, it's a little hypocritical, hypocritical 484 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: to be using it yourself. Secondly, what do you care? 485 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: You didn't think of the idea, you didn't build the 486 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: company he did. Remember those famous photos of Bezos sitting 487 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: in a garage with a vinyl sign on the back 488 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,719 Speaker 1: wall that said Amazon. He's got a card table in 489 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: front of him and a computer. He built it literally 490 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: from the back of a garage, and look what it 491 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: is today. And I always want to say to people, 492 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 1: but I don't want to be mean and cruel. It's like, well, 493 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: what did you do today the day he was sitting 494 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: in that garage? You know, back in the mid nineties, 495 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: as Amazon was chest it was embryonic and its size, 496 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: What did you do that day? And what did you 497 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: do the day after that? The same thing with Elon Musk. 498 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: It's like Elon Musk sends sends rockets into space, he 499 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: builds the only electric car that anybody seems to want. 500 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: He's coming up with brain trips that might allow paralyzed 501 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,239 Speaker 1: people to walk again, What did you do today? It's 502 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 1: a free country. You could do what you want. You 503 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: want to sit all day and drink beer, have at it. 504 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: But then you start shaking your fist at billionaires. Makes 505 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: me absolutely crazy, because I am I am. I do 506 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: remember a day when people admired those who accomplish stuff 507 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: instead of wanting to steal from them. And here's what 508 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: the unions in California want to do. They want to 509 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: put a ballot initiative to tag billionaires five percent of 510 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: their assets five percent. And this is all their stockholdings 511 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 1: on paper, what they call unrealized gains. It's not stocks 512 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: that they cash out, it's what the stock is worth 513 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: on paper. And then you have to pay the tax. 514 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: Of course, you know the next day you could drop 515 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: thirty percent. Oh well, you've already had to pay the tax, 516 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: and it would be a tax on all your bank accounts, 517 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: all your real estate, all your possessions, your artwork, your cars, everything, 518 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: And that's what the California unions want. And then the 519 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: billionaires are saying, well, then we're moving out of California. 520 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: And the reply is, oh no, you're not. Oh yeah, 521 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: they will a lot of very wealthy people already moved 522 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: out of California. And then you have no revenue to 523 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: run the state. Then the state truly collapses because half 524 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: the revenue text revenue in California income, half of it 525 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: comes from the top one percent. All right, we are 526 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: done here. John Cobalt, CAFI Radio in for play Travis 527 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton. Thank you for having me. Hey, you've 528 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 1: been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can 529 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: always hear the show live on KFI AM six forty 530 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and 531 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 1: of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.