1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,319 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio 4 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 3: app on from one until four, then after four o'clock 5 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 3: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app and 6 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 3: you can follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio. 7 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 4: Uh. 8 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,159 Speaker 3: By the way, I had to turn off five of 9 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 3: the seven televisions. Why because I came in here and 10 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 3: it was sensory overload. There were seven TVs on seven 11 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 3: different stations, all flashing. 12 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: A lot of it was daytime talk show nonsense. 13 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 5: I told you it's first of all, it's just too 14 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,319 Speaker 5: it's way too distracting for you, even if they were 15 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 5: on shows that you like. 16 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 3: Well, I can't watch seven shows that I like at once. Yeah, 17 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 3: well that's true. 18 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 2: I mean what, I really don't get this. 19 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 6: I don't. 20 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: It's not for you, Well, Fri, it's for who. 21 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 7: Somebody else asked if they can have more. 22 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 2: They asked for seven TVs. 23 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 5: I don't know if they asked for seven. They asked 24 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 5: for more, that's what I heard. 25 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 2: And they ended up with seven. 26 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 5: But you know what you could do right when before 27 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 5: you open your mic, you could turn the TVs off. 28 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 2: Well, that was a project ray and I had to 29 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 2: figure that out. That took about five minutes. 30 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 7: Really just did turn them off. 31 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 3: Yes, I can't recreate what happened, but you know, they 32 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 3: I wish Eric would have gotten I think we ended 33 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 3: up changing all the channels at the same time. 34 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 7: Yeah, I know it is. 35 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 5: Hard to change channels on the TVs, that's for sure. 36 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 7: I just assumed it was easier just turn them off. 37 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 2: I just don't get the quantity here. But let's let's 38 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: move on. 39 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 3: They had they had a killing of a teenager near 40 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 3: Washington Prep High School in South LA back in April, 41 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 3: and it's because in parts security guards I didn't want 42 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 3: to do anything to get in the way of the 43 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 3: fight that was happening. There's a lot of parents who 44 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 3: were angry and scared after that happened, and they're angry 45 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 3: and scared in general because ever since they cut back 46 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: on armed police officers, there's more shootings, there's more stabs, 47 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 3: there's more drugs, there's just a lot more violent trouble 48 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 3: going on at some of the schools. It's a failed experiment. 49 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 3: It's one of the remnants of this well. The original 50 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 3: decision was in twenty twenty that's all you have to know. 51 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 3: Every stupid idea came out of the year twenty twenty. 52 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 3: We're going to talk with Los Angeles School Police Association 53 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 3: president Gilgamazon. Now, Gil Am I saying your last name right? 54 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 6: Yeah, Gomez? Close enough? 55 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 3: That was good, Gomaz, Okay, thanks for coming on here. 56 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 2: What is going on? 57 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 3: I mean, basically, they took in what volunteers off the 58 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 3: street to replace the police. 59 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 6: So you said we were defunded. Sometime around twenty twenty, 60 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 6: they took a quarter of our I'm sorry, one third 61 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 6: of our budget twenty five million dollars. They put it 62 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 6: into a program called BESTAP and they're using a few 63 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 6: million dollars of this BETAP money to hire security guard 64 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 6: companies to provide what's called safe passages. Many of them 65 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 6: wear yellow shirts. Washington High School, there was three of 66 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 6: these beef stapped yellow shirt people, probably good people, that 67 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 6: were supposed to provide safe passages, and multiple fights happened 68 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 6: right in front of them, and one young man, an 69 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 6: eighteen year old young man student, got attacked by like 70 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 6: ten different students beating them, kicking in the head. He 71 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 6: probably would have could have died or at least wind 72 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 6: up with some sort of great bodily injury, and this 73 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 6: kid had a gun on him. He pulled his gun 74 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 6: out and shot an individual. He shot three shots and 75 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 6: killed a fifteen year old child, right in front of 76 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 6: these security guards who they are not trained. They're in 77 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 6: way over their head, they don't even have any authority 78 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 6: to do anything. One of them actually said, I'm not 79 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 6: doing anything. Blah blah blah, called the blah blah blah police, 80 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 6: and ten seconds later, this poor child got killed. Horrible, horrible, 81 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 6: because it's not their fault. They weren't trained, they don't 82 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 6: know how to do the job. They're in way, they're 83 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 6: in way over their heads. 84 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 2: You're quoted is saying some of these people are former prisoners. 85 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. 86 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 6: You know, a couple months ago, one of these individuals 87 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 6: from a group called Baby Brothers Against Banging You probably 88 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 6: a very good program, you know, in their own right. 89 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 6: He comes to a board meeting and said he did 90 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 6: twenty years of a thirty the life sentence and now 91 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 6: he's out, and now he's working on campuses, walking around unescorted, 92 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 6: trying to help kids. Tell him to go to class. 93 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 6: I mean, it's one thing for him to work with 94 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 6: a police officer or administrator or something like that. But 95 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,559 Speaker 6: just given a radio and allowed to be walking around 96 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 6: campus unescorted is ridiculous. But they get away with it 97 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 6: because they are not LA unified employees. They are a subcontract. 98 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 6: So if they're a subcontract, the district does not incur 99 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 6: any liabilities. 100 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 3: So they think, oh well, yeah, test that out with 101 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 3: a lawsuit. All right, So they slashed the police budget 102 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 3: by a third. You end up with more shootings, more stabbings, 103 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 3: more drugs, more incidents. Overall. 104 00:04:58,960 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: This is a disaster. 105 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 3: I mean, doesn't the experiment. 106 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 6: The experiment failed right now as we speak, Fairfax High School. 107 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 6: If you drop by there, you'll see multiple police cars 108 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 6: there right now because an individual was caught selling drugs 109 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 6: and once they didn't administrate a search, he had a 110 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 6: loaded semi automatic handgun on his person right now as 111 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 6: we speak. This is ridiculous. 112 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: And who thinks this is a good idea? 113 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 3: Anybody left in the school administration or on the school 114 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 3: board who thinks this is all working out? 115 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:30,239 Speaker 2: Fine? 116 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 6: You know what? You can hear some of them sound 117 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 6: like they're doubling down, like, well, maybe these groups aren't 118 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 6: implemented properly. We need to help them somehow. It's kind 119 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 6: of hard to admit that you made a mistake, but 120 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 6: we have to. And if we don't admit that we 121 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 6: made a mistake and we don't try to rectify the problem, 122 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 6: more children will end up being shot, beaten, or worse. 123 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: Is it true? The crime went up two hundred percent. 124 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 6: Violent crime at two hundred percent on and around campuses, 125 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 6: and that's only the crime that was reported. Because now 126 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 6: you have less people willing to report crime because they 127 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 6: don't want to. They don't want their schools to sound 128 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 6: like that they're overly violent because the police are gone. 129 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: Sentinel Sentinel deaths have gone way up. 130 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 6: Fentannel death very sad, very sad. It's it's uh, it's 131 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 6: the latest trend right now, and it trickle down to 132 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 6: the young kids. And kids are dying, some of them 133 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 6: on our campus. 134 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 2: I don't I don't get this. 135 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 3: You've got shooting, stabbings, gang fights on campus and nobody 136 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 3: in the administration wants to bring the police. I mean, 137 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 3: not enough people in the administration want to bring the 138 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: police back. I don't understand. They want the kids to die. 139 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 6: You know, point fingers. At the UTLA Teachers Union, they 140 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 6: trained a group of young students to push. I've seen 141 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 6: them being trained at UTLA headquarters to push to defund 142 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 6: the police. And they're the shield and the spear of 143 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 6: the teachers union to push to defund the police. To 144 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 6: ask them, ask the utile A president why they don't 145 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 6: want police on campus. 146 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 3: So the teachers Union doesn't want it. The administrators do. 147 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 6: The union does not want what. 148 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: The teachers are. The union is made up of teachers. 149 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 6: Yes, the teachers do not have control. The union has controlled. 150 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 3: Well, it's enough teachers gathered together, they can force these 151 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 3: union leaders out. 152 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 2: They just never do. 153 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 6: You sound like you're stearring something up right now? 154 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, no, they're cowardly. I've heard that all 155 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 3: my life. All it's not the union, it's the teachers. No, 156 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 3: it's the teachers. It's their union. And they're the ones 157 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 3: who voted these people in and by extension they approve 158 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 3: of their policies. 159 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 2: And I don't know that the teachers don't want. 160 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 6: To die program. 161 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 2: What's that? 162 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 6: Yes, it sounds like they should go into your program. 163 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I rarely hear. 164 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 3: The only time I hear from teachers going well, you know, 165 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 3: we're not all what you say, Okay, we're not all 166 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 3: what you say, but there's not enough of you who 167 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 3: are courageous enough to tell these union leaders to go 168 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 3: to hell and get out of town. 169 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: I mean, I can't. 170 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 3: I cannot believe this because it's nothing worse than murders 171 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 3: and stabbings and sentinel deaths and gang fights. 172 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: That's it. 173 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 3: You've hit the limit on all the damage you can do. 174 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 6: From union president to whatever union president for UTLA is listening, Yes, 175 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 6: we need to refund our police department. We need to 176 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 6: get back into the business of protecting children so that 177 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 6: children could go to feel safe enough to go to school, 178 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 6: study and graduate. That's the way it works. 179 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 2: How much did they cut? 180 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 6: How much did they cut? A third of our budget 181 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 6: was twenty five million dollars. And in this visa program 182 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 6: they actually now there's they got funded again. So there's 183 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 6: over fifty million dollars in this program. And so these 184 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 6: little impromptu security companies know that there's money to be 185 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 6: made if they just get a little company together, go 186 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 6: through the procurement process with the LA Unified School District. 187 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 6: I believe some them have good intentions, but intentions that 188 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 6: does not keep people safe. 189 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 3: No, no, if a guy has a gun, your good 190 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 3: intentions is not going to stop the bullet. 191 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 6: You know, the road to hell is paid. 192 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 3: Yes, but that's one of the truest statements ever. 193 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 2: All right, well, Gil, this is eye opening. Thank you 194 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 2: for coming on. 195 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 3: This is Los Angeles School Police Association President Gil Gamez, 196 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 3: and you heard him. A third of the police budget 197 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 3: was cut for the school campuses and now crime, violent 198 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,599 Speaker 3: crime is up two hundred per fentanyl, fentanyl death stabbings, 199 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 3: multiple gang fight shootings, everything. What an absurd experiment this 200 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 3: has been. Thanks Gil for coming on with us. 201 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 2: Oh, we'll continue. 202 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 3: Tebram Gee, why do people, if they get a few 203 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 3: dollars take their kids to private schools in LA? 204 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 2: I can't imagine why. 205 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 206 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 8: six forty. 207 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 3: Coming up in what about ten to fifteen minutes, we're 208 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 3: going to have John Coopaul from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. 209 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 3: He was in the courtroom yesterday when the California Supreme 210 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 3: Court heard the case as to whether we can get 211 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,439 Speaker 3: to vote in November to block statewide tax increases. There 212 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 3: is a proposition that has gotten enough signatures to make 213 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 3: the ballot in November, and if it makes the ballot 214 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 3: and passes, then whenever the legislature and the governor pass 215 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 3: a tax, a state tax, we can veto it or 216 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 3: approve it, it goes to the public vote. 217 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 2: And Newsom and. 218 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 3: The legislature is so panicked by this that they tried 219 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 3: to pre empt the case by going directly to the 220 00:10:55,400 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 3: cal California Supreme Court to say in advance, this is unconstitutional. 221 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 3: You can't have the public voting on statewide tax increases, 222 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 3: and it's preposterous. John Coopaul is going to explain all 223 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 3: this coming up, but I'm hoping that they at least 224 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 3: let us vote on this, and you know, if the 225 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 3: court wants to clean up a detail here or there 226 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 3: after the fact, but it's our right to vote on taxes. 227 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 3: And I apparently this is polling well. The idea of 228 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 3: giving the voters the final say, I don't understand, and 229 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 3: nobody can explain to me why most of the public 230 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 3: is against much of the nonsense coming out of Sacramento. 231 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 3: Then why do they have this better than seventy percent 232 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 3: super majority that leans themmocratic. 233 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 2: How does that work been going on for years? 234 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 3: The progressive Democrats have this outsized power pushing ideas that 235 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 3: few people actually agree with. And two of those ideas 236 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 3: we've just talked about in the last half hour. And 237 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 3: I guess it is just a lack of courage or 238 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 3: lack of energy on the part of normal people to 239 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 3: rise up and say enough of this crap. I mean, 240 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 3: you just heard, you just heard Gilgemez, he's the LA 241 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 3: School Police Association president. And after that stupid nervous breakdown 242 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 3: that everybody had in twenty twenty, we defunded the LA 243 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 3: School Police. What a nightmare many LA school campuses are. 244 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 3: But God, the carnage. I'll tell you how bad the 245 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 3: carnage has been. At the end of the twenty nineteen 246 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 3: school year, there were twenty three hundred incidents on LA 247 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 3: campuses of fighting or physical aggression. After they defunded the 248 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 3: police and replaced them with security guards in yellow shirts, 249 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 3: the number of violent incidents doubled. It's almost forty six hundred. 250 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 3: So went from twenty three hundred to forty six hundred 251 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 3: in four years. The only changes they slashed the police 252 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 3: budget by a third, defund the police, get the cops 253 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 3: off the campuses, okay, have adding more shootings than ever before, 254 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 3: more stabbings than ever before, more fighting, gang fighting, mayhem, 255 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 3: terror going on. Not to mention drugs. Fentanyl crime went 256 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 3: up two hundred percent hundred after they defunded the police. 257 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 3: What an ft up policy? 258 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 2: This is? 259 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 3: What an incredibly stupid, ridiculous policy. 260 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 6: This is. 261 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 3: And it's led by the teachers' union. They got a 262 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: whack job named cessantly Mayar Cruz who pushes this nonsense 263 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 3: leading the union. They've got idiot board members, an idiot superintendent. 264 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: How do you double the number of physical violence incidents 265 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 3: in four years after defunding the police. 266 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 2: Why would you do this? And they hired these. 267 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 3: Security agencies, And these security agencies are hiring former convicts 268 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 3: convicted of violent crimes. That's the security. But they're given 269 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 3: these yellow shirts. What's with yellow shirts? Ambassador vests instead 270 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 3: of armed police. This will never work anywhere. It's an 271 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 3: incredibly stupid, failed progressive idea. And look how many kids 272 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 3: have been shot at, stabbed at, beat up? Who wants that? 273 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 3: And when the parents complain they're told to shut up? 274 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 2: Boy boy? Oh you know? 275 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 3: And like I said the other day, most of the 276 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 3: kids do not meet math and reading comprehension levels. Most 277 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 3: of them are not proficient in math and reading. But 278 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 3: they are getting shot and stabbed in record numbers to 279 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 3: complete complete failure. And you know there should be no 280 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 3: debate anymore, no debate, Just tell these people to shut 281 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 3: up and move out. Get out, get out of town, 282 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 3: get out of the city, get out. All right, we 283 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 3: come back, John Coopaul, Gavin Newsome. You know, mister democracy 284 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 3: doesn't think the California public has the right to vote 285 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 3: on tax issues. Really, that's what the man saving democracy thinks. 286 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 3: So he took a case to the Supreme Court in 287 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 3: advance of the vote, not after the vote goes through, 288 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 3: in advance of the vote. This is a referendum that 289 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 3: could be on the ballot in November that allows us 290 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 3: the final say on a statewide tax increase after the 291 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 3: legislature and the governor. We could say no, and Newsom says, 292 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 3: I can't have that. We'll talk to John Coopaul from 293 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 3: Howard Jars Taxpayers Association because he was there for the case. 294 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 295 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 8: six forty. 296 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 3: We're on every day from one until four and if 297 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 3: you miss it, go for the podcast post it after 298 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 3: four o'clock John Cobilt's show on demand. One story we've 299 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 3: been following the last few days and really forever in 300 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 3: a way, is the California Supreme Court has a case 301 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 3: before it now as to whether we can vote in 302 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 3: November to block state taxes that are passed by the 303 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 3: legislature and the governor. The Democrats have a super majority 304 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 3: in the legislature, so they can pass any increase they want. 305 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 3: Newsom can sign anything he wants. What do we do? 306 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 3: The rest of us are victimized. So there's a ballot 307 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 3: initiative and it's got enough signatures it should be on 308 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 3: in November. That says, well has to go for one 309 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 3: more review before the voters, and the voters have to 310 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,239 Speaker 3: finally approve it or not approve it. 311 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 2: And new sub. 312 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,360 Speaker 3: Administration is having a fit saying that's not constitutional. So 313 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 3: it's before the Supreme Court to get the decision before November. 314 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 3: And let's go to John Coopaul from the Howard Jarvis 315 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 3: Taxpayers Association, Because John, you said you were going to 316 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 3: be in the courtroom to watch this. 317 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: I was in the courtroom. I was sitting at the 318 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 1: council table. I did not present the case myself. We 319 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: had a very excellent attorney for the name of Tom 320 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: Hilltech who presented the case to an outstanding job. And 321 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: I think the take and we don't know. It's very 322 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,479 Speaker 1: difficult to predict what a court is going to do, 323 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: but I think we were very encouraged by the questions 324 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 1: that the justices ask of the attorney for the Legislature 325 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: and the governor. I think to ask the court to 326 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: remove a duly qualified initiative from the ballot is really 327 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 1: a bridge too far. I think the court understands the 328 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: gravity of that request, and underlying it all is the 329 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: rather weak argument that they have to take it off 330 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: the ballot. They argue that it is somehow an impermissible 331 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: revision of the Constitution rather than just an amendment, and 332 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: all the case law really counters that theory. So I 333 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: think this was throwing something up against the wall to 334 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: see if it sticks. I'm encouraged. Again, I'm not going 335 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 1: to make a prediction, but I was encouraged by the 336 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: fact that I think all the justice is at one point, 337 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: we're asking good questions of both sides. So if my 338 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: take on this is if the court rules on the 339 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: law and the facts of this case, we should easily win. 340 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: Now again that comes to the big caveat, But I think, 341 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: I think we can look forward to having the Taxpayer 342 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: Protection and Government Accountability Act on the ballot in November. 343 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 1: And I think one of the reasons that the governor 344 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,439 Speaker 1: and the legislature are so nervous is because they know 345 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: how popular it will be. 346 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 2: How popular is it? Have you done polling on it? 347 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 1: We've done all kinds of polling. One of the keystone 348 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: protections is the ability of voters to approve or reject 349 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: any state wide tax increase. Remember, you know, one provision 350 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,239 Speaker 1: of Proposition thirteen back in nineteen seventy eight was to 351 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 1: require that a statewide tax get a two thirds vote 352 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: of each house of the legislature. And for many years, 353 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: for decades, that was a sufficient enough protection because we 354 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: had some fiscal conservatives in the legislature. Well we don't anymore. 355 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: Well we do, but not. The other side has a 356 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: super duper majority, as I call it, and so they 357 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: are able to ramrod through very unpopular taxes. And of course, 358 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 1: the granddaddy of all unpopular taxes was the gas tax. 359 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: Does anyone believe that had the gas tax been submitted 360 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: to the voters that they would have approved it. Absolutely not. 361 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 1: So this is just one more check on a supermajority 362 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: in the legislature, and it is completely consistent with the 363 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 1: powers of direct democracy that we've had since the early 364 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: nineteen hundred. 365 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 3: Well, it seems like a debate over whether something is 366 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 3: an amendment or revision. That's quite esoteric, and I don't 367 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 3: want to get into it here, but I don't know 368 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 3: exactly how you slice those two words so thinly that 369 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 3: you can make an argument that one is more more 370 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 3: serious than the other. 371 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 1: One is clearly more serious one. Generally speaking, a revision 372 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: would be like a wholesale rewriting of the whole constitution. 373 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: That would clearly be a revision. Or or if you 374 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: said we're going to abolish the judiciary and give all 375 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: judicial power through the legislature, that would be a fundamental 376 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 1: restructuring of our system of government. The tax Payer Protection 377 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: Act doesn't do that because the power to legislate is 378 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,239 Speaker 1: a shared power between the people and the legislature, So 379 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: there's no shift of power. It's just because the legislative 380 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: power is one power, but it is a shared power. 381 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 3: Right because they've always been able to put on the 382 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 3: ballot a tax for voter approval, or to repeal a tax, 383 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 3: which happened not that long ago. So the idea of 384 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 3: people voting on taxes directly at the ballot box, there's 385 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 3: very recent examples of that. I mean, we just had 386 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 3: an attented gas tax repeal, and we did repeal Schwarzenegger 387 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 3: taxes I think twenty ten or so we did. 388 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:07,479 Speaker 1: We did so. In fact, the area of taxation is 389 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: one of the most common areas that is addressed by initiative, 390 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 1: referendum and recall. So so in fact, recall some people 391 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,959 Speaker 1: have been recalled because of votes on tax issues. So 392 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: you know, it is it was a stretch for them. 393 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 3: To bring so we do someone was doing is they 394 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 3: were exaggerating what was going on here by turning an 395 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 3: amendment into a revision, when a revision would have to 396 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 3: have far more serious consequences than what this is attempting 397 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 3: to do. 398 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: That is absolutely true. And the other thing is I 399 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: just think this lawsuit was ill advised from a political perspective, 400 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: because I think it gives the optics are bad. These 401 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: are the same people who claim they want to protect democracy. 402 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: They're always talking about we have to protect democracy, and 403 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: yet this effort, this lawsuit, is an effort to prevent 404 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: the voters of the state of California from voting on 405 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 1: a duly qualified initiative. I would say that somewhat hypocritical. 406 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 3: Now, it sounded like a couple of the judges said, 407 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 3: because there's there's a number of provisions and this is 408 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 3: not the time to get into all of them. But 409 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 3: it made it sound like, well, maybe after the vote, 410 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 3: we could strike this provision or that provision. You see 411 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 3: that likely to happen, that if this thing passes, maybe 412 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 3: they'll do a piecemeal attack on it. 413 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: That I think they may analyze it on an individual basis, 414 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 1: But where would be fine with that, because we believe 415 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: that when they're even when they're analyzed separately, that it 416 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: would survive. For example, there was a big discussion over 417 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: fees versus taxes. Again, we don't want to get into 418 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: the weeds on that one, but we're comfortable with what 419 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: the What the Taxpayer Protection Act does is not nearly 420 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: so draconian as is being argued by groups like the 421 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: League of californ the Cities, And in fact, after this 422 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: thing passes, we're more than one to go into court 423 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: and say all these things that they claim, this parade 424 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: of horribles and end of Western civilization, it's just not true. 425 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: So even if the court would indicate, they're going to 426 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: keep it on the ballot, but we're going to reserve 427 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: the right to address these provisions later. That's fine with 428 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: us because we're comfortable enough with the clarity and what 429 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: this does that even if they wait till later, we'll 430 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: still win, all right. 431 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:33,719 Speaker 3: John, Good work, John Coopaul Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, and 432 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 3: the decision should come win. 433 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: Sometime in June. The earlier the better because we really 434 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: have to ramp up the campaign. 435 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, hopefully it'll be on the ballot November. 436 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 3: All right, Thanks for coming on again with us to 437 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 3: explain all that you bet, John, take care all right, 438 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 3: John Coopaul, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. One of the few 439 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 3: public organizations fighting for normal people to preserve our money 440 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 3: that we earn. We've got more coming up. 441 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 442 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 8: six forty. 443 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 3: We've got Wade Stern coming on with us after three o'clock. 444 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 3: He's President of the Federated University Police Officers Association. A 445 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,199 Speaker 3: lot of police officials on these on the show today 446 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 3: because there's all kinds of stupid progressive insanity going on. Now, 447 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 3: you've got forty four people who were occupying and vandalizing 448 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 3: the buildings at UCLA during their stupid riot supporting Hamas. 449 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 3: They had all kinds of tools and guide books and 450 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 3: a lot of material. And George Gascones so far not 451 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 3: finding any felony charges against anyone. And Wade Stern is 452 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 3: going to talk about that. He's again president of Federated 453 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 3: University Police Officers Association. 454 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 2: All right, So that's coming up after three o'clock. All right. 455 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 3: When I see a story like this, I can't resists. 456 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 3: The ten most obese states in America, Where would you 457 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,959 Speaker 3: find the highest percentage of fat people in the United States? 458 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 3: Any guesses here? Alabama? Alabama, Jabarah. What do you think 459 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 3: you were looking for the highest percentage of obese people. 460 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 7: I would say Louisiana. 461 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 3: Louisiana, You guys are pretty good. Alabama is number six, 462 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 3: and I is he number six, no number seven, and 463 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 3: Louisiana is number three. 464 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 2: W huh. 465 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 3: Forty percent of people in Louisiana are obese, not just a. 466 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 2: Little over it. 467 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 3: It's that southern its it's fried everything right in Alabama, 468 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 3: it's about thirty eight percent. So that's number now the 469 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 3: number one most obese state you go to this day. 470 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 3: You look around, it's like, oh my god, look at 471 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 3: West Virginia is number one. 472 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 4: I'm going to West Virginia in September. Are you take 473 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 4: some video and bring it back? I definitely will. Now 474 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 4: West Virginia the fat of state in the Union. Oklahoma 475 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 4: is second. By the way, they're all around forty percent. 476 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 4: These are minor statistical differences, and I don't even know 477 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 4: how they can. You know, they'll say it's forty one 478 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 4: point three percent. I don't know how you get to 479 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 4: that number. 480 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 3: So whatever, the methodology is, West Virginia's first, Oklahoma second, 481 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 3: Louisiana third, Mississippi is fourth, then Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Delaware, 482 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,719 Speaker 3: and Kentucky. Almost entirely midwest and south, with the exception 483 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 3: of Delaware. The UH thirty five percent of adults in 484 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 3: twenty two states were obese. 485 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 2: Now they have an official. 486 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 3: They have official statistical method it's that body mass index. 487 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 2: Do you know your body. 488 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 5: Mass indecks I do not, and nor do I want to. Well, 489 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 5: I don't even weigh myself anymore. 490 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 3: I saw a chart and they equate body mass index 491 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 3: to you know, your height and weight, and I thought 492 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 3: it was a little it was it was harsh for 493 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 3: too many people. Yeah, so I'm not sure forty. Then again, 494 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 3: you go out into public places outside of like outside 495 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 3: of Los Angeles, and you see, you know, the people 496 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 3: at the shopping malls or Las Vegas. The buffet table 497 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 3: can't always told me the buffet lines at Las Vegas. 498 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 8: I know. 499 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 5: Well, what about on cruise ships people people act like 500 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 5: they've never had a meal before. 501 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 2: Three ships sank last year just because of obesity. 502 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 6: You know that. 503 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 7: No, I did not. 504 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 3: It's true. It's always Americans. American cruise ships. Ship goes 505 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 3: right down, usually day two. They all have their first 506 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 3: dinner right that morning's. 507 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 7: Well, and then they lode up on the desserts. 508 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: That ship is gone by morning. 509 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 7: The midnight BFE. 510 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 9: I was out of buffet in Texas over the weekend. Yeah, 511 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 9: a brunch buffet. Yeah, and the amount of people I 512 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,479 Speaker 9: saw going back for thirds and fourths and fifths. 513 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 7: It's free food. Yeah, that's what happens. 514 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 9: I mean, listen, Hey, the brunch was twenty nine dollars 515 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 9: a pop, so that's that's pretty cheap. 516 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 5: Oh you okay, but when it's free on these cruises, 517 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 5: well yeah. 518 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 2: I don't know. Two things. 519 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 3: If I overa even slightly, I really feel nauseous. I 520 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 3: feel sick. I feel like I want to up chuck 521 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 3: the whole meal. I don't understand how you fit like 522 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 3: your third or fourth or fifth serving with that. 523 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 7: A bite here, a bite there. 524 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 2: Really uncomfortable. 525 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 3: Secondly, you see these people and they have a really 526 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 3: hard time moving around and fitting into spaces. How long 527 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 3: do you want to put up with that? See these 528 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 3: guys with their their neck rolls. 529 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 7: It's a struggle for some people. John, Oh it's not 530 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 7: it is, Oh, it is. 531 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 2: It is too much. 532 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 5: Because you know what, do you know how if you're 533 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 5: I don't know if you've ever dieted, but you doesn't 534 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 5: matter how much you exercise. You have to reduce your 535 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 5: caloric intake so much to lose a pound two pounds. 536 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 5: So people are fifty seventy five, one hundred pounds overweight. 537 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 7: It's a lot of work. 538 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 2: You think, John's counting calories never come on? 539 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 7: No, But I don't red meat. No, I don't think 540 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 7: he does. 541 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 5: But I don't know if he ever has, you know, 542 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 5: before we knew him, I don't know. 543 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,719 Speaker 3: No, never, never. I don't pay I don't pay attention 544 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 3: to numbers. There's something weird how the society is hung 545 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 3: up on all their body numbers and that they have. 546 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 5: Okay, but if your genes don't fit you, you don't 547 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 5: have to go on a scale. 548 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 2: You know, you know, that's what I'm saying. You can tell, yes, Oh, 549 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 2: I know. 550 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 3: If I'm up five pounds, I can tell, I can 551 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 3: tell it. I do so I don't need I don't 552 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 3: need to do a statistical analysis. And I always tell people, 553 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 3: And it's funny, how many how much resistance I get 554 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 3: when I say this, I go move more, eat less. 555 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 7: Yes, that's it, that's right. That is the recipe. 556 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 5: You have to exercise more and eat less. You can't 557 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 5: just exercise, you have to eat. 558 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 3: You don't have to bother yourself with all kinds of exotic, 559 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 3: weirdo diets. You don't need. You don't need ozempic, you 560 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 3: don't need drugs, you don't need all kinds of complex 561 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 3: statistical analysis. 562 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 7: The way I eat and forget the bacon. 563 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 2: Hold your horses on that one. Really, I would rather. 564 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'd rather just fall over dead than spend 565 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 3: my life raising on That's it. That's where I'm going. 566 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 3: In fact, I'm jumping. Somebody starts serving me Vegan food 567 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 3: right out the window. 568 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 2: Big splat. All right when we come. 569 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 3: Back, Uh, we cannot get We were just telling you 570 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 3: how the stupid asses that run the Los Angeles Unified 571 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 3: School District will not hire cops. They're happier with all 572 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 3: the shootings and stabbings on campus, well on UCLA. They're 573 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 3: apparently happy with rioters and vandals and people supporting terrorists 574 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 3: and Gascon. So far, no felonies I'm aware of against 575 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 3: these people. I mean, I saw the rioting with my 576 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 3: own eyes. I don't understand. Wade Stern, president of the 577 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 3: Federated University Police Officers Association, that union is calling on 578 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 3: the DA George Gascon to fire file felony charges. Good 579 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 3: luck with that, Debrah Mark Live in the KFI twenty 580 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 3: four hour newsren Hey, you've been listening to the John 581 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 3: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 582 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 3: on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm 583 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 3: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand 584 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app.